http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/05/21/on-the-city-patterns-project-may-21-special-berlin-edition/ The Gay Recluse: Observation, philosophy and other notes on the beauty and dissonance of life in the city Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/05/21/on-the-city-patterns-project-may-21-special-berlin-edition/#comment-634 Thu, 22 May 2008 18:20:53 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.wordpress.com/?p=1237#comment-634 awesome orange tiles! i love! and the vertical orientation must have been quite design-forward at the time.

]]> http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/05/21/on-the-city-patterns-project-may-21-special-berlin-edition/#comment-633 Thu, 22 May 2008 17:02:33 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.wordpress.com/?p=1237#comment-633 Thanks, Jeff. It’s definitely true that Berlin is pleasantly underpopulated in comparison to New York and London and other metropolitan giants. There are many trees and you can almost always hear the birds singing.

]]> http://thegayrecluse.com/2008/05/21/on-the-city-patterns-project-may-21-special-berlin-edition/#comment-632 Thu, 22 May 2008 13:28:25 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.wordpress.com/?p=1237#comment-632 Greetings…anyone can see from those subterranean tiles that the Gay Recluse trip to Berlin was a fruitful one. Did you happen upon any of the handsome wandering sausage-sellers, like a New York hot-dog cart with legs instead of wheels? About those tiles: it’s impossible to be sure, but that deep-orange glaze probably results from uranium oxide in the glaze, which would make those walls geiger-counter radioactive. Population control?
All best, Jeff

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