Gas lamps in Wrocław

Hello everyone! That’s my first note, so it probably wouldn’t be very good. Firstly I want to tell that Ela have talent! Your photos are amazing. I want to write about nice tourist attraction. That’s the story like from ,,The Little Prince”. At the Ostrow Tumski are 90 still in-service gas lamps and real lighthouse-keeper fires it every day lights street lamps. That Wroclaw’s gas lamps first appeared in 1843 in ,,The Golden Goose” restaurant and it was second in Poland. I think it’s worth to see lamps after dark, because it’s make really amazing atmosphere. It’s al most like time travel.

I would love to know what do you think about lighthouse-keeper work? It’s a nice job?

Photos from:

http://byway.pl/details.aspx?guid=7d783811-b734-4923-a702-17c778ae50a2
http://www.knajpy.wroclaw.pl/index.php/pl/artykuy/218-czym-wrocaw-moe-nas-jeszcze-zaskoczy
To know more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_lamp
http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/lighting.htm

Wrocław Fountain!

Hi everybody :)
This time I want to tell You about one of the most beutifull places in Wrocław - it's Wrocław Fountain near Hala Stulecia.
Why this fountain is so speciall? Because it isn't only fired water but also light and music. This compilation give incredible impression! This fountain is one of several such projects in the wrold. The water is fired at a height of about 40 meters and there is also nearly 300 different types of water jets and 3 nozzles fire.
The spectacles are everyday every hour from 9.00 to 22.00. What is more, at the weekend You can watch a special spectacles - images are casted by the projector onto the screen water. I think it is a place when You can feel like in a fairytail. So I invite You to visit this amazing fountain!!

Murals in Wrocław

Murals in Wrocław

Attention – this note can be a little boring for native city dwellers ;)

Have you ever noticed (or counted) how many big paintings on building walls is in Wrocław ? I’m not from Wrocław and I remember that when I first came here I was under the impression of local murals.

Murals are in common sense recognized as a “big graffiti”. They are big-scale art works made on huge surfaces, usually on outdoor walls of buildings. Murals came from Mexico – this city is believed as a cradle of contemporary murals. Paintings was made also in other Latin America countries in 20’s and 30’s. Their aim was to picture national culture, history and social changes. There are known political murals e.g. in Belfast, where was concentrated riots caused by conflict in Northern Ireland. Present-day leader of murals is French city Lyon, where creates art-group Cité de la Création. Their murals beautifies town and aesthetically fills city space, cheats observer with help of perspective tricks or daubed architectonic elements.

In Wrocław we can find a lot of murals trough all the city, many of them is located in downtown. Murals in Wrocław was made by many respected street artist from all over the world (they usually use pseudonyms ) - DEM (Italy), BLU (Italy), Escif (Spain), Erica il Cane (Italy), FRM-kid (Poland), Jiem (France/Canada), M-City (Poland), Mudwig (Great Britain), Otecki (Poland), Remed (France, Sickboy (Great Britain) ,Vova Vorotniov (Ukraine), ZBK (Poland), Zosen (Spain).

Paintings comes into being from different initiatives, for example some of them were made as collaboration artists with BWA Wrocław. However, some of them is illegal.

You can see murals at this adresses:

Wyspa Słodowa 7

Cybulskiego 10

Cybulskiego 15

Dubois 5

Ptasia 22

Jedności Narodowej 110

Chrobrego 21

Jagiellończyka 33

Żeromskiego 53

Daszyńskiego 22

Wyszyńskiego 66

Górnickiego 20

Nowowiejska 20/22

Jana Pawła II

Nabycińska

Św. Antoniego 24b

Here are my pictures of murals in Nasypowa street and Borowska street.

Photography

Hi there.

So I was thinking what should I write about in my second note and I've figured out that I'll post some of my photoghraphs instead. Some of them are digital, some analog, some both ;-) I've chose them pretty randomly, all were taken somewhere between 2007-2009. I used to take lots of pictures and I found it extremely interesting and amusing... But since it requires from me loads of free time I've decided I'll take a break and maybe go back to making photographs in the future. Hope you enjoy them.

OLEJNICA

Hi!
I would like to present to you a peaceful village Olejnica. It's located 47 km from Leszno.



It’s known of her beauty and quiet and fresh air. There is also huge forest where you can walk
for hours, and large lake which is perfect for hot summer days.
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The most interesting thing about

Olejnica is that AWF facility is located

in there, students from major

Tourism and Recreation from AWF

Wrocław and students from other

academy from Wrocław go to Olejnica on

the camp.





It’s a place of all sort of trainings! You can jogging, bike, windsurfing, walking ang many others
.
Olejnica is a place where you can it healthy.

Fresh eggs, milk, vegetables, friuts, mushrooms are available every day!

It’s a wonderful place to spend some quality time with you’re friends or family so I recommend

Olejnica for all of you!