It’s Sunday. Time to relax with the Sunday paper, and time to take a leisurely look at some photo essays…
The first was brought to my attention by kyburg, and is titled, “The Berlin Reunion”. It illustrates a performance by the Royal de Luxe street theatre company of Franch for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and depicts the reunion of two gigantic marionettes, Big Giant and Little Giantess. These puppets are just spectactular, and the photography is wonderful. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by “land and sea monsters”. The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult – but successful – expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart.
The second was brought to my attention by Otto Yamamoto on Facebook, and presents some 12 old advertisements that are downright creepy in their messages. It makes one realized either how enlightened, or at least hypersensitized, we are these days. They also highlight how our attitudes are changing: remember that when Roman Polanski was charged, he was sentenced to 48 days in jail, and ran away to escape that. Nowadays…. As I said, our attitudes change. Then again, perhaps some of these photos explain a lot about why we are where we are these days.
