It's a rather popular architectural motif, particularly of course in coastal and riverside cities. I wonder if there ever has been a historical study of the wave in architecture. Here are a few random examples from Europe: Dessauerstraße, Hemshof Ludwigshafen,...
In June 2023 massive wildfires in Canada caused air pollution in New York to a scale not known to New Yorkers. Besides the serious health issues the smoke-filled air causes, it also tinted the whole city in a curious sepia like color. The remarkable images, the New...
"Tides" (alternative title "The Colony") is a sci-fi movie from 2021 about a post-apocalyptic world at the moment the first human communities are about to re-settle again. The only territory suitable is a coastal strip that is covered by tides twice a day. The area is...
A street in the city of Bonn with the Rhine river in the background, January 2024.
Ryan Goslings 2014 movie "Lost River" is most of all a portrait of urban decay and our fascination with decay in a broader sense. The film juxtaposes the stylized display of bodily mutilation and destruction in a Grand Guignol style cabaret on the one side and the at...
2019 Japanese anime movie "Children of the Sea" (original title: 海獣の子供, which translates roughly as "Children of Sea Monsters") is set in a fictitious island in the Okinawa region of Japan. The movie directed by Ayumu Watanabe puts a lot of effort into creating the...
Kota Ezawa (*1969)Flood, 2011, from the gallery website by FRAENKEL Gallery.
In an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 2023, contemporary British artist Emma Stibbon exhibited her own wood carving "Collapsed Whaling Station" alongside a selection of works from the Royal Academy collection. All art works depict extreme weather events...
In a comic book by French authors Benoit Sokal and Francois Schuiten from 2022, an ancient maritime myth is picked up in a comic format. The story is about a small community of refugees who once settled on the back of a giant whale floating in the ocean. The animal is...
In times like these, what the world needs is good humor and good counseling. And this company apparently offers both. Because if you name your business consulting company after a city that spectacularly sank into the sea as a punishment for the hubris of it's...
