i'm pretty far behind on this blog but i plan to fill everything out as time permits.
Oh, also! here's my address in Halle, Germany (*corrected on October 20th, 09)
Andru Okun
Dittenberger Str. 6
06114 Halle/Saale
Germany
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hitchiking to Lyon from Grenoble was easy enough. we got there nearly as fast as we would have by train and for 100% less money. the trains in France, while very efficent, are super exspensive. A one hour train ride from Grenoble to Lyon was 20 euro. the highway toll-roads are very exspensive, along with the price of gas, so it is unfortunatley difficult to manuever around France without money. it's sad that the trains are becoming only for rich people. there is basically a monopoly on transportation. however, France has a good reputation for friendly drivers willing to pick up people on the side of the road.
we got dropped off pretty much right in the city-center. we were so hapy because the trip seemed so easy to make. then, we went as far in the wrong direction i think we went the whole trip, taking the bus way the hell outside of the city and then walking a few miles until we called our main dude Julien and realized we totally misunderstood where to go and we could have walked their quite easily from the city-center.
Julien was our host for four days. such a good guy. he's another contact given to me by Ryan. he books shows in Lyon. he was real intelligent and well-spoken and friendly, cooking for us when we got in, providing really good conversation about DIY and politics, and giving us free-reign of his apartment for the duration of our stay. he also had a real good record collection.
the hospitality we have recieved has been kind of unbelievable. i'm really greatful to play a small part in such a network/community. i'm not sure what the right word is but it's something special to show up in all these different cities and find people to connect with, either over punkrock, art, the love of travelling, or just gaining new experiences and meeting new people. really awesome.
hanging out with Julien was a treat. drinking beers in the park at night on the tailend of summer. he also took us to hang out at the radio show he and a bunch of other kids do. they all get together and play records and the broadcast goes throughout the whole city over the airwaves. pretty rad. we also went to a noise show at the DIY spot where Julien books shows. it was really cool to see the space. they pretty much had it made. the building the space was in was real close to the metro and surrounded by buildings so there was noone to get mad at night when things were loud. they also had plenty of room, a bar, and even a ticketbooth.
how cool is this?!
this is probabally one of the best interventions i've seen made in terms of urban navigation. nevermind stairs, build slides.
of course, this was part a childrens playground along the waterfront in the city. but the entrance of the slide was on level with the street and i like to imagine these slides just being another suggestion for movement rather then a recreational implement.
standing in front of part of a Barry Mcgee installation. an important artist to me for a really long time...
Agnes Verda's shack made of film reels...
unbeknownst to me before getting to Lyon, there is a fairly big art biennale going on entitled "spectacle of the everyday". and it was free! well, for students with students id. really awesome that this is available for people in that way. europe seems a lot better about stuff like that and more concerned with culturally orientated programs in general.
i didn't even know Lyon had a biennale for art. it's fairly young, i suppose, this being the tenth so far. i haven't gotten around to writing about the biennale in Venice yet. i plan to do that first before i really address the one in Lyon. so most of images won't make it onto this blog until then. later later later
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