More Window Photos

A small suite of windows showing off in Amsterdam.

Get your painted-wooden-shoes-in-the-form-of-comfy-slippers or dildos at one of the city's ubiquitous souvenir shops . . . or perhaps a windmill or an S & M figurine. Variety is not an issue.

This was a unique dollshop (among other things). It reminded me of J. F. Sebastian's workshop in Blade Runner.

While every window arguably is its own type garden, this one represents the more literal version. 

How many Mao dressed-like-your-dad statues have you seen? The details in the chair and the cigarette and the baggy skin beneath the eyes make this more interesting than one might initially believe.

 

Aliens in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a cool place on many levels. I enjoy the leaning architecture particularly. In the U.S. we'd probably have endless lawsuits from new owners who didn't realize their houses lean that much. The new, generally, doesn't match the old's quirkiness and charm. But that's not to say that there are not exceptions. I caught this visiting space alien in a window of a new structure not far from the train station. I was an alien, of course, from just over an ocean, rather than a galaxy or two. But we shared a moment . . .

Dickinson vs. Graffiti

To make a prairie                                 

it takes a clover                                        

and one bee,  

One clover,                          

and a bee,

And revery, 

The revery alone

will do,

If bees are few.

The juxtaposition of Emily's poem with the modern shout-out art below might seem too contrived if created in a piece of prose . . . but in Amsterdam so many things that seem fantastic to the imagination can be found incarnate.