Expowurm

When I visited the Bauhaus, I passed this installation on the way from the train station:

It's called the "Expowurm," and if I had to guess, I would say it was for displaying projects. There was, unfortunately, no literature or people hanging around. It was some sort of membrane stretched over a wooden frame.

The interior could feasibly house temporary exhibits. Though the construction itself may well be a temporary exhibit. It's definitely not secure, because I wiggled up through one of the openings in the bottom to look around inside, because the doors (plain glass doors on each end) were locked.



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Location: Campus at Dessau, Germany
Designers: Presumably students at the Bauhaus

Mark goes on an adventure

Mark got his tongue pierced in Berlin at Trendline Piercing Studio. This link goes to a video of it, but it doesn't show anything graphic, just his facial expressions, because I didn't want to be all up in Tamara's grill with my camera while she was poking Mark in the face with sharp things.

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Trains through Germany

The train ride from Berlin to Dessau was through some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen. Rolling hills, fields, and trees. Maybe I thought it was so beautiful because it was like South Carolina plus. The train stops were interesting, because from what I gathered, their m.o. for expansion of train traffic is not to add onto the old station, but to build a new one right beside it. In some areas there were six or seven stations, boarded up and in various states of decay, all beside and across from one another.



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Bauhaus - Meg Chandler

I took a train from Berlin to Dessau on Friday 13 to visit the Bauhaus. The train ride was the most beautiful I've ever experienced, and I met a nice couple who spoke about 20 words of English between the two of them and offered me bananas and crackers (must've thought I had the stomach flu).
The Bauhaus is a very short walk from the train station (on Gropiusstrasse, appropriately), and I got and understood directions, leaving me feeling nothing short of world traveler extraordinaire. A fair amount of these are already up on my Flickr gallery, but some I will repeat because I like them that much.Student dormitories.The dorms reflected in the buildings across the street.Everything, down to the light fixtures and door handles, was designed for the school.The building after WWII bombings.Gropius also designed houses for some of the professors, a few blocks down the road.A model of one of the houses, which were, I suppose, technically duplexes.
No kitchen cabinets -- I don't think Walter Gropius cooked much.