Urban fashion for garbage bins

In Cluj-Napoa even the garbage bins are fashionable! This is the autumn collection, that relies on colorful ties and combination of materials, to be worn even in the direst conditions. I even wonder why Milan is considered the center of the fashion industry!

A worker's idea of art

The history museum is under renovation and the workers feel free to make their contribution. This was the site that awaited for me one morning on the way to my office, a cute intervention on a large gypsum model decorating the hall.

Transylvanian artistic kitsch II

The greatest attraction are the Gypsy palaces. they exist in various places in Transylvania (an entire neighborhood in Huedin, these two twin buildings in Campia Turzii, the so-called "Villa Iţi" from Turda (on sale for half a year and nobody dares buy it for an awesome contemporary art gallery!), the king's palace and the emperor's palace in Sibiu, etc. the newly rich Gypsies, most of them left for "business" in western Europe, started building these residences in the 1990s. Some remain unfinished and uninhabited to this day.

From time to time there are the elections, as silly as everywhere but maybe sometimes more kitsch and in the same time more inventive. the two ads are just two examples from the campaign in June 2008 in Aiud. Ion Dumitrel, boldly gazing at the shy and the Orthodox church reflected in the shop front, ran under the slogan "power.decision.trust". Duma Emilian, a retired old man running as independent for local town councilor, organized his campaign the best he could.


Old buildings are pure art treasures. these photos were taking during the transformation of an old army building in a history museum in Targu Mures:

Very useful indication in the abandoned rooms, pointing to the airport, the zoo, and best of all, the communist room for "political and educational activities".

a once important note (though I wonder in which context): "Postpone other reasons"

An important pottery center in the region also displayed these two historical plates: one with the socialist national coat of arms and the second with an episode from 1601, when Mihai Viteazu, a local ruler who wanted to conquer and rule together all three medieval Romanian states, ended up with his head severed.

Pure urban confusion in Cluj-Napoca.

and the hairy shopping trolley in one of the expensive food stores in town.

Bontida

Beauties on sale during the cultural days of Bontida organized in august at the homonym castle in Transylvania, near Cluj. The courtyard of the Banffy Palace was dedicated to the market. A nice antiquity market, in fact rather a flo market and an unintentional art center. I almost married a gypsy from asking about the price of something.


art among the ruins

the posh phone

the living coat hanger

the holy spirit