Berlin photographer Christoph Schieder’s father-in-law Lothar passed away almost a year ago. Since then, his apartment has been emptied, painted, and renovated. Schieder pulled out pictures he had taken of the apartment when Lothar lived there and then took shots from the same angles as they look now. The visual effect is sad, as if the personality of the place has been wiped clean.
That may be true of the apartment, but Lothar will live on in the memories of his family members and friends -and in pictures. There is another way to look at the apartment. Stripping an apartment of all its personal touches in this manner opens up an entirely new palette for the next occupant to personalize and make it his home. It’s the circle of housing. See the complete series at Schieder’s blog. Thanks, Özi!
(Images credit: Christoph Schieder)
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With the "67" thing I think he's trying to suggest that people in the UK will talk a load of (to foreigners) incomprehensible bollocks, then conclude with "and Bob's your uncle" as if that makes everything hunky-dory. He forgets that the whole phrase is "Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt", and that "fanny" in the UK means something entirely different than it does in the US (as a kid, when I first heard the phrase, "sit on your big, fat fanny", I nearly died of shock and laughter).
As for "Texan English": shoot 'em, and when you can't shoot 'em, hang 'em, then hang 'em again and when you can't hang 'em or otherwise pretend to have a criminal justice system worthy of the name, and you've already tried to sue them for messin with Texas, claim "Houston" was the first word said on the moon, all the while not knowing that it actually refers to this place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Renfrewshire