Streets of Milan

Posted on 15/05/2018 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Streets of Milan

Appdikted @Mimi Berlin is trying to capture the graphic identity of Milan, Italy by collecting images of the sidewalk, a patchwork in concrete.

More cities on this blog pictured by Appdikted

Children’s Bicycles in Amsterdam

Posted on 30/03/2018 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Children’s Bicycles in Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, just like in any other city, bicycles aren’t pretty. Bikes are used every day and they need to be kept outside because nobody has a shed, and only a few get to live on a ground floor. Children’s Bicycles are also kept outside, mostly locked with a thick, fat chain so they won’t get stolen.

Photo Essay

Appdikted @mimiberlin has been keeping his eye out for these colorful mini bikettes. <click that link to see more images taken earlier

See more city images Appdikted HERE on Mimi’s blog

Children’s Bicycles in Amsterdam Photo Series

Posted on 10/07/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Children’s Bicycles in Amsterdam Photo Series

In Amsterdam there are a lot of bicycles to be found on the street. This photo series, by Appdikted, shows some children’s bikes. They are locked with big fat chain locks, And, just the same, as the adult bicycles: always parked in a sloppy way.

Children’s Bicycles in Amsterdam by Appdikted @Mimi Berlin

See more city images Appdikted HERE on Mimi’s blog

Hungarian Cubes by Katharina Roters

Posted on 22/10/2015 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Hungarian Cubes by Katharina Roters

Subversive ornaments in socialism. Collective and private expression, conformity and subtle subversion: The “Magyar Kocka” and its ornamentation.

photography by by Katharina Roters via park books

Flipping through Frankie Magazine we stumbled upon these photo’s by Katharina Roters.
She made a photo essay on altered “Magyar Kocka, or Hungarian Cube, a standardized type of residential house in Hungary that dates back to the 1920s. It was designed as a radically functional single-family home for Budapest’s suburbs and housing projects, but it became closely identified with the postwar communist era, when many villages were rebuilt with uniform rows of single-family homes, and the Hungarian Cube—often renamed the Kádár Kocka, after Hungary’s communist president, János Kádár, became ubiquitous. Edited and with photographs by Katharina Roters. With texts by Hannes Böhringer, Endre Prakfalvi, Zsolt Szijártó and József Szolnoki” (read more uchicago.edu)

Hungarian Cubes,1st edition, 2014, Text English and German. Hardback 172 pages, 123 color illustrations, 22 x 25 cm, ISBN 978-3-906027-43-2 (images via/buy at park books)

Introducing: Amazing Dog Faces by Rex Dieter

Posted on 09/02/2014 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Introducing: Amazing Dog Faces. It took a while but Mimi Berlin’s Rex Dieter, whom we all know of the amazing Friday Night Party Night series, has found the courage and inspiration, for yet an other photo essay. Yes, you guessed right: Every Saturday, one full year long, Rex will treat us to a portrait of an amazing dog face. Here’s number one: a Miniature Bull Terrier photographed by Landon Nordeman (posted yesterday morning on Mimi Berlin’s Fanpage on FaceBook)

Thank You very much Rex Dieter, for this marvelous idea! xoxo Mimi

See the Amazing Dog faces Page HERE

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Posted on 28/12/2013 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

This year, in May 2013, King Willem Alexander was crowned King of The Netherlands. Wilhelmina was his great grandmother. Rex Dieter found images so we can see with our own eyes what life was like for European Royalty in the 19th and 20th Century. One thing we can say; it was a lot different and very “royal” indeed !

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Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial power. (knowledge via wikipedia)

Queen Wilhelmina (1880-1962), resolute monarch

Wilhelmina was the daughter of Willem III and Queen Emma. She was ten when her father died – his tenure had done little to enhance the popularity of the monarchy. While she succeeded to the title in 1890, her mother served as regent until she came of age in 1898. Wilhelmina had a keen a sense of decorum. She was stiff and formal, resolute and upright. A strong personality who managed to restore a certain significance and popularity to the monarchy. Inclined to act and opine robustly and on impulse, cabinet ministers were occasionally required to put her in her place. When German troops invaded the Netherlands at the start of the Second World War in 1940, Wilhelmina fled along with the government to London. She was in her element there when she spoke to the Dutch people on Radio Orange. When she told the nation in her posh Dutch voice to Knock the Kraut on the head!, she raised morale in the occupied Netherlands. Queen Wilhelmina abdicated in 1948 and withdrew from public life. (knowledge via Rijsmuseum)