From Babia
polska
My always obsession...
Blasphemy in Warsaw
There's a new cafe in Warsaw called "Madonna." It uses images of Mary and Jesus as decorations, and it's driving the fundamentalist Catholics crazy. Just look at the list of blasphemies they're committing:
- The figure of Our Lady invites you for drinks among vulgar neon signs.
- Rosaries hang on vodka bottles.
- Blasphemous images depict Our Lady smoking cigarettes.
- The face of actor Keanu Reeves was placed in the image of the Sacred Heart of the Lord.
- The face of singer Rihanna was substituted for Mary's face.
- There are statues of Mary on the tables with a QR code for the customer to download the menu.
- There is a confessional in the restaurant where you can take photos.
The horrors!
Just look at the pictures:
It's unbelievable.
The price of democracy can be steep for fundamentalists.
Hel
Polish Mass
Warszawa Centralna
Looking at some old pictures, I found a shot of Warszawa Centralna train station from about 2002. It was an exterior night shot, and there was little indication of what the station looked like inside. What it looks like now is vaguely similar, but there have been so many renovations and little additions that it doesn't look like the Warsawa Centralna I remember from the mid-90s.
So I turned to Google: "warszawa centralna lata 90." Instantly, there popped up a picture that looked almost just like it did in the mid-90s. According to the credits, it's from 1991, but the only real difference I see is in the ticket windows: the numbers were blue as I recall.
But that mass of people in front of the ticket window, those lines that were not lines, that bundle of confusion -- that is identical. How many times did I stand there stressing about getting a ticket on time, stressing about getting a ticket with reserved seating (I rode back to Krakow many times on a "standing" ticket, which meant I had to try my best luck at finding an empty seat), stressing about whether I was actually in the line or not, and once, stressing about the amount of money I had (did I have enough to get me back to my humble village?) -- just stressing.
Roadside Chapels, Chyzne, 2004
Reworking Pictures from 2013
Church
Revisiting Krakow Shot
Views of Nowy Targ
