Menagerie / Menażeria #7

[aletheiafelinea]

A random Menagerie out of the blue. Rules as usual - language of the description indicates the language of the link's content.

Menażeria z Nienacka. Zasady jak zwykle - język opisu określa język zawartości linku.

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[dieastra]

Someone is drawing floor plans of TV series apartments? Why do I not know about this? I adore floor plans! I actually once drew one for Neal's apartment in "White Collar" - I have to look if she has that one too! Thank you so much for that link!

The one wit the Doctor Who locations is also nice. I love this kind of pictures. I always planned to do my own, going back to childhood places. One of these days...

[aletheiafelinea]

Aw, if I knew you didn't know them, I'd tell you earlier! :D

I always planned to do my own
You should. :) The guy had a neat idea with filming locations, but I like all sorts of compositions like these - after war vs now, ages ago vs modern, and so on.

[dieastra]

Yes, this is how I know it too. Old vs. new. Interesting to see that some houses are still the same after decades. But trees have grown and the cars have changed.

The problem is finding good pictures from the past. In GDR times, they were very tiny, only 7x10 cm. I looked through them once but did not find many recognizable landmarks in the background.

I also like pictures that show old houses that were falling apart and now have been renovated and look nice again. My love for architecture coming through again! When I was flying to Birmingham in January, there was a nice exhibition at the airport about Görlitz (Zgorzelec). It was so sad seeing all those houses as they were in the Seventies, nobody living in them anymore, the roof had holes etc. Whole streets looked like this. And now they all look so nice again.

[aletheiafelinea]

The problem is finding good pictures from the past.
Yeah, new can be always taken, but with old - if there's none, there's none. That's why I firmly support taking pics of even 'uninteresting' things. They won't be so in future. :)

It was so sad seeing all those houses as they were in the Seventies, nobody living in them anymore, the roof had holes etc. Whole streets looked like this. And now they all look so nice again.
Fortune was kind for them. It's so sad when an old house is being taken down for good to make room for a new one. Sure, the new one may be exciting, useful and all, but still...

[dieastra]

For the same reason I insist in taking pictures of us when my friends and I are travelling together. Usually when we all sit around the table, eating ;) It annoys them but in a few years it will be a great reminder what fun we had and how young we looked.

As a child, I didn't like my father taking those family pictures where everyone stood in a half circle, I found them boring and stiff. But now I like to look at them, the hair, the clothes. Reminders of the past.