From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 19:05:40 +0000 (+0300) Subject: drafts, timisoara: Almost done, need to process the photos X-Git-Tag: v0.11~61 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9147f518084fc07d10b0e55bfb30c1bea8a47c26;p=thetarpit.git drafts, timisoara: Almost done, need to process the photos --- diff --git a/drafts/000-timisoara.markdown b/drafts/000-timisoara.markdown index e6ede6e..efd48b4 100644 --- a/drafts/000-timisoara.markdown +++ b/drafts/000-timisoara.markdown @@ -1,19 +1,19 @@ --- postid: 08f title: Temeschwar -date: May 10, 2019 +date: May 11, 2019 author: Lucian Mogoșanu tags: in-the-flesh ---

*Now with moar bigger, longer and uncutter.*

-Moving (that is, our fine asses) from the Ottoman slash Phanariot -outskirts of the heart of Bükreş to the Österreichien outskirts of -Темишвар took only a tad over ten hours, via post-modern[^1] CFR. Below, -the reader can admire a view of the town as seen when arriving from all -directions towards the centre -- or the other way around, whichever you -prefer. +Moving (that is, our fine asses) from the Ottoman slash Phanariote +outskirts of the heart of [Bükreş][bucharest] to the +[Österreich][austria]-Ungarischen outskirts of Темишвар took only a tad +over ten hours, via post-modern[^1] CFR. Below, the reader can admire a +view of the town as seen when arriving from all directions towards the +centre -- or the other way around, whichever you prefer. TODO: DSC_0332 @@ -85,17 +85,104 @@ above being the prologue. TODO: DSC_0260 -TOADD: stuff written on walls +TODO: DSC_0329 -TOADD: architecture +Above: we get lost in your beautiful. Below: Ion Sulea. -TOADD: trams +TODO: DSC_0453 -TOADD: doors +TODO: DSC_0454 -TOADD: statuettes +Above: eyes; and hands. Below: surreal stuff. -OUTRO: challange +TODO: DSC_0460 + +TODO: DSC_0567 + +TODO: DSC_0553 + +Above: place for sighing. Below: weird stuff. + +TODO: DSC_0591 + +Up next: we take a look at the variety of architectural designs +Timișoara has on display. Below: a church of sorts. + +TODO: DSC_0268 + +TODO: DSC_0280 + +TODO: DSC_0456 + +Above: just some buildings, right? Below: narațiune în râmă. + +TODO: DSC_0513 + +TODO: DSC_0514 + +Above: tune in to 88.8 FM! Below: one hell of a coloured building. + +TODO: DSC_0540 + +Now, for a short intermission -- below, rare sighting of a +tram. Timișoara public transportation is, much like the one in +Bucharest, destined entirely to locals[^2] and entirely absent when you +actually need it. Fortunately for whoever's visiting, the town's +walkable when they're not in a hurry, and when they are there are taxis +aplenty. + +TODO: DSC_0563 + +Up next: the doors. Well, I mean, not *the* doors, but certainly the +ones I've photographed. Below: a door leading into thin air. + +TODO: DSC_0509 + +TODO: DSC_0566 + +Above: door leading into nameless alley. Below: someone's being a +smart-ass. + +TODO: DSC_0583 + +TODO: DSC_0597 + +Above: a tough one. Up next: statuettes, one more peculiar than the +other. Below: she-wolf with baby human wolflings, looking at a tree. + +TODO: DSC_0271 + +TODO: DSC_0511 + +Above, one of the baby wolflings, now grown into a man, leading his +people, the Romanians, to great success! Below: Adam, holding his +favourite woman; followed by Eve and her favourite snake. + +TODO: DSC_0326 + +TODO: DSC_0537 + +TODO: DSC_0524 + +Above: child, accompanied by manouche jazz orchestra. Below: "I'm +[the slime][the-slime] oozing out of your TV set". + +TODO: DSC_0547 + +TODO: DSC_0586 + +Above: I've no fuckin' idea. + +Below, an epilogue: nonchallange. + +TODO: DSC_0622 + +Just in case you're thinking this was the actual "uncut" version, I'll +have you know that the almost fifty photos above were selected out of a +set of more than three hundred. This being said, I'm pretty sure that I +haven't seen quite the half of it, and this doesn't even include the +things I've seen and haven't photographed, such as the stuff at the Art +Museum. But I'm already out of space, so until next time... [^1]: "Post-modern" here means the following: modernity being over, then so are its means and fundamental characteristics, and thusly so are @@ -115,8 +202,19 @@ OUTRO: challange big town in Romania, as far as Romanian towns go) other than by plane, give me a good slapping. +[^2]: How else do you explain the facts that a. tickets are only sold as + electronic cards that b. can only be purchased using a valid + national ID; c. aren't provided upfront, but after a bunch of days; + and d. are only available at one of a few select locations that + e.g. don't include the train station. + + Of course, tickets *aren't* available for purchase in the tram + itself, because who the fuck would want to do that. + +[bucharest]: /posts/y05/07f-bucharest-ii.html [sinaia-tren]: /posts/y05/08d-sinaia.html#selection-282.0-282.3 [btcbase-1911470]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-06#1911470 [allcomers]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=allcomers [democracy]: http://trilema.com/2016/sensitivity-human-rights-democracy/ -[dictionar-banacean]: http://trilema.com/2019/diccionariul-banacean-de-lucruri-fapte-si-locuri-imdepartate-si-inportante/ +[the-slime]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-sREpqDiUo +[austria]: http://trilema.com/2019/diccionariul-banacean-de-lucruri-fapte-si-locuri-imdepartate-si-inportante/#selection-50.0-50.1