Bruxello Blogando

Technopolis

Alan Hope — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:08:35 +0000

Big shiny balls

Alan Hope — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:32:46 +0000

Believe it or not, despite the way it impinges on our skyline, it’s illegal to use photos of the Atomium without permission, and the payment of some royalties to the owners of the rights to the image of the big shiny balls.

Well fuck that, quite frankly. They didn’t ask my permission to put it where I can’t help but see it, so if I should happen to be pointing my camera at the sky int the north of Brussels and accidentally capture the image, it’s hardly my fault.

More here.

Graffiti at the tram stop

Alan Hope — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:26:21 +0000

The tram stop De Wand, not far from Heizel, was last year given over entirely to graffiti artists. Not taggers, who have no art in them, but proper graffiti artists. It’s a huge panorama of, on the one side, techy sort of sci-fi stuff, and on the other, a monster Japanese manga-ish look.

More here.

Space heater

Alan Hope — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:13:55 +0000

Spotted on Meiserplein:

complete with thermostat. It’s actually an elaborate tarpaulin advertising hoarding.

The label reads: “Good isolation prevents you heating for everyone”.

Eye-catching, and a worthy message. But how will it affect the accident rate at the notorious Meiser?

Think local

Alan Hope — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:05:29 +0000

I only had seconds to snap this car pulling away from outside the house.

It’s a real company.

One nice thing …

Alan Hope — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:13:56 +0000

… about Groot-Bijgaarden:

His field is right by the tram terminus, with the motorway going overhead a little way off. It may be the windiest spot on earth. G-B is a shithole, but at least I only have to go there twice a week. And I don’t have to stand in a field.

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Alan Hope — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:08:30 +0000

Found in a shop in Evere:

Yes, it does say what you think it says:

Going to ruin

Alan Hope — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:03:29 +0000

This week’s Flanders Today will include a review I wrote of an exhibition currently running at Bozar, Reality as Ruin. The page features a rather lovely, ethereal photo (from 1853) of some guys hanging about inside the Acropolis. Here are a couple of photos we couldn’t find space for, also from the exhibition.

Chaos rocks Belgium

Alan Hope — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:02:12 +0000

Pandaemonium

Alan Hope — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:39:47 +0000