May 6 – A little bit of culture
Today, I took a trip to Winterthur with some friends to go to the fotomuseum winterthur. Check it out at www.fotomuseum.ch It was easy to tell as soon as I stepped off of the train that it was a museum town. There was more thought put into the design of everything from buildings to bus shelters than elsewhere. It was so great to get some culture and to be intellectually prodded. We got to see 3 exhibitions: portraits by Rineke Dijkstra, portraits by Helmar Lerski (including Metamorphosen des Gesichts (Metamorphosis)), and a collection called The Dream of Myself, The Dream of the World, which was an exploration of self-identities and false-identities.
The only detail that I’ll go into here is Lerski’s exhibition, which was actually photographed in the 1930s. He took 140 photos of a labourer and it’s said that, through changing the lighting and effects, he was able to make no two photos look like the same individual. It was really unique, although I thought that the other exhibits were even better.
The postcards that they sold there were the kind of postcards that you buy for yourself and that you would never actually send because you enjoy them so much. I bought 7 postcards, I think, and that was after restraining myself. Most of them are black and white, with a very somber mood, although there are a few exceptions (see pic of “Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, Paris, 1950”)
We went grocery shopping in Winterthur, because everything in St. Gallen was going to be closed by the time we got back. The really funny part was that, for some time, I was carrying a zucchini in my purse! It reminded me of the Sex and the City episode where Carrie is on jury duty and the man sitting next to her pulled a mango out of his suitcase!
I finally got to try some Spruengli chocolate, which is supposed to be THE best in Switzerland. It was about the same price as Godiva, but even Lindt chocolate here is cheap (under 1.50 CHF per bar), so this was relatively very expensive. However, with my experience in chocolate sampling, I can say that it was the best dark chocolate I’ve ever had.
The only detail that I’ll go into here is Lerski’s exhibition, which was actually photographed in the 1930s. He took 140 photos of a labourer and it’s said that, through changing the lighting and effects, he was able to make no two photos look like the same individual. It was really unique, although I thought that the other exhibits were even better.
The postcards that they sold there were the kind of postcards that you buy for yourself and that you would never actually send because you enjoy them so much. I bought 7 postcards, I think, and that was after restraining myself. Most of them are black and white, with a very somber mood, although there are a few exceptions (see pic of “Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, Paris, 1950”)
We went grocery shopping in Winterthur, because everything in St. Gallen was going to be closed by the time we got back. The really funny part was that, for some time, I was carrying a zucchini in my purse! It reminded me of the Sex and the City episode where Carrie is on jury duty and the man sitting next to her pulled a mango out of his suitcase!
I finally got to try some Spruengli chocolate, which is supposed to be THE best in Switzerland. It was about the same price as Godiva, but even Lindt chocolate here is cheap (under 1.50 CHF per bar), so this was relatively very expensive. However, with my experience in chocolate sampling, I can say that it was the best dark chocolate I’ve ever had.
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