Someday I'll write something meaningful about this photo, because I never post photos that don't have any story behind them.
For now, go help Karam and his family. He's a guy just like me, except much younger + he's unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time of history: https://gofund.me/7c433301
📋 Rozkład jazdy na dziś! O 12.00 zapraszamy was serdecznie na wspólne przygotowywanie banerów solidarnościowych. O 14.00 wleci pyszny obiadek, a zaraz po nim, czyli o 15.00, zbierzemy się żeby posłuchać wykładu Aleksandry Herzyk „Dlaczego popieram Palestynę?“.
👏🏻 O 18.00 koniecznie bądźcie z nami - poskandujemy razem dla Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego! Potrzebujemy waszej energii!
👥️ A jeśli możecie zostać z nami dłużej, to po solidemie wpadnijcie na wiec otwarty dla nowych osób! Wprowadzimy was w realia okupacji Collegium Broscianum, będzie można zadać nam pytania i po prostu spędzić z nami chwilę ✌🏻
@RiversideBryan that picture was such a lottery I can't even. I saw that doggo while walking through a crowded area, and shot from the hip blindly. Didn't even look at the live view, lol.
@ponda w sprawie akademików protestuje Koło Młodych Inicjatywy Pracowniczej, my jesteśmy innym kolektywem, ale popieramy się wzajemnie :) Teraz na UJ są dwie okupacje (Kamionka i my)
(I have a personal rule of not taking photos of people based on what they're wearing, especially when it's about such a weak premise as matching clothes. But I'm sloooooowly getting better at finding stronger reasons to break this rule)
Dyrektorem artystycznym Narodowego Starego Teatru w Krakowie został Jakub Skrzywanek (rocznik 1992), reżyser m.in. "Śmierci Jana Pawła II" (Teatr Polski w Poznaniu), "Opowieści niemoralnych" i "Mein Kampf" (Teatr Powszechny w Warszawie). Czy Stary Teatr czeka upragniona rewolucja?
During my long May weekend in Kraków I had a rare occasion to grab a few beers with my remote teammates. We finished the evening early, but two of us decided we're not done and went for a late night walk.
Half an hour before the alcohol prohibition (yup, it's a thing in this one city in Poland!) we bought a few beers and started sipping them illegally in one of the local parks.
And guess what? Well, my teammate had a skateboard. And I had my fastest lens on my camera.
So, what happened next? Well, around 2am somewhere in the center of Kraków one IT nerd started testing his old skateboard skills. The other IT nerd sat on the ground and started stress-testing his Viltrox f/1.4 lens and an ISO setting well above 20k.
My lovely friend successfully landed a few jumps.
I missed a lot of frames because focusing late at night is hard, but a few serviceable frames happened as well.
So yeah. 90% of people will stop to look at my boring touristy snapshots and move on. I'm more excited about this spontaneous drunk session in extreme lighting conditions. 🤷
I just bought a book “Strong Female Character” by Fern Brady & it’s a good preparation for “#Diversity in Tech” session on Thursday at #RIPE88 : it “ is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.” #ActuallyAutistic#feminism#books#Krakow#neurodiversity
@llPK I must admit I did not know her as a comedian, I only picket up the book because the title & the description resonated with me.. now I will look up her comedy acts , as a supplement to the book ;-)
The third face of Nowa Huta in Kraków, perhaps the most surprising to me, is the "natural" one.
It takes about 50 metres of detour from the usual urban area to discover a huge grassy meadow, often frequented by locals to sunbathe and relax. It was so calm and silent my jaw dropped and I couldn't pick it up. The only thing that reminded me I was in one of most populous parts of Kraków was that thermal power plant in the horizon.
My peanut Warsaw brain keeps yapping: how come a housing estate hasn't been built here yet?
Nowa Huta in Kraków (that industrial-ish one I guess)
The other face of Nowa Huta begins as soon as socrealism is abandoned and modernism gets to be all the rage (which is somewhere between late 1950s and 1970s I guess?). I'll be honest though: I know very little about architecture and I may have made factual errors in the previous sentence. All I know is that I'm attracted like a moth to lines, patterns and geometry.
Also, in a weird way that style evokes specific images in my head. I have some kind of synthwave-like nostalgic feelings about Poland as seen by my parents in 1970s and 1980s. All of which is of course fake because I'm not forgetting who ruled the country at that time.
Built from the ground-up as a separate city to settle workers employed in the newly built steelworks (it's even in the name, which literally means 'the new steelworks'). Designed as a poster city for Soviet propagandists. Huge, industrial, pompous. These days it's one of the most populous parts of Kraków, even though it completely didn't feel that way during my long weekend visit.
I barely scratched the surface, as severe planning mistakes were made on my end. Plus I don't like taking cliche postcard photos in harsh light. But I managed to see three different faces of this place and that counts I guess.
We start with the socrealistic face. The one that dates back to 1950s and truly feels different than whatever my peanut Warsaw brain assumed Kraków to be.