Another pic of the Lego-Brücke:
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We have two now…
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Details about local cuisine please.
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or at least where to get a currywurst!
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And döner kebab!
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Sounds like a single point of failure…
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A “situation” at my old highschool, but so far it’s not clear what is actually going on.
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Update: False alarm.
Incidentally, today is exam day. Or was scheduled, anyway.
By the way, none of the photos in the linked source actually show the school, just some of the surrounding area.
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Basically next door:
English page:
https://knife-solingen.de/inhalt
The are a couple of interesting lectures, maybe I’ll go.
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They were there, right in front of the entrance.
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Yes and yes. Glad I did!
Giovanni Sartori and Luca Munaretto of Fusina Feraro (www.fusinaferaro.com) talked about Historical European Swordmaking and recreating a medieval sword from scratch, i.e starting with making the right charcoal and building a furnace, see their homepage. They also put everything in a historic context, from trade routes (for raw materials, semifinished products, finished products), the various specialist crafts involved, medieval mass production, politics, economics, and whatnot.
Very interesting Q&A after the session, and a travel tip for when I’m next in Trentino.
Apparently, at one point swordsmiths from Solingen “loaned” the prestigious Andrea Ferrara of Belluno to sell swords in bulk to Scotland.
Sartori and Munaretto will be at the Klingenmuseum in December, making a sword (duh), so that’s a date.
Peter Johnson (https://swordreflections.com, Albion Swords Peter Johnsson) talked about Design and Dynamics of the Sword, and that was even better.
The Q&A literally went on until the venue kicked us out because they were closing.
ETA:
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Gonna set my alarm clock for tonight.
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I just watched *Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities)” the other day. I was listening to a podcast of Wenders talking about Perfect Days and wanted to watch some of his movies I’d always wanted to but not got around to.
I can’t help but find Wuppertal in that film, in the context of an investigation into road movies as an American concept from a German perspective as either heavy handed, or really funny but delivered with a very straight face. Am I very wrong?
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Honestly, I’d have to rewatch it first in order to answer this properly (it’s been a while) and I am so not in the mood for a Wim Wenders movie right now. Well, maybe Der Stand der Dinge or Hammett.
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I want to watch both versions of Hammett.
Are both available?
Both? As far a I know there is the version released by the studio and (incomplete) video recordings from the cutting room (in bad quality). The Filmmuseum München restored those and assembled it in a sort-of director’s cut with storyboards filling in the missing bits ten years ago (or thereabouts). I haven’t seen it, only read about it. My guess is that this version falls under ‘fair use for academic purposes’ (or something like that) and won’t see a release for the general public for decades because reasons copyright nonsense.
What I’d really like to “see” is the “radio play” version of the script they made at one point during the production -?with Sam Shepard und Gene Hackman. Allegedly the full audio track plus storyboard, but no idea which version of the script they used for it. The mystery continues!
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I do like odds and ends but… I recently found out that the five hour print of Apocalypse Now was on the Internet Archive. This was exciting until I put it on and saw the quality. No way I’m spending five hours watching that.
I remember it was available on DVD from a fanzine/website I bought a few curiosities from ages ago. I thought I’d missed it. I don’t think I actually missed much.
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