nanila: wrong side of the mirror (me: wrong side of the mirror)
Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote2014-04-07 09:53 pm

Photo assignment responses 2: Frascati again

Request #17: Something orange. This person fit the bill in multiple shades thereof.


Request #24: Something rainbow. These earrings in a shop window caught my eye.


Request #25: Something that makes me smile. I always like it when people make the effort to beautify something that is inherently quite functional and usually ugly, like a shop security shutter.
sunflowerinrain: Singing at the National Railway Museum (Default)

[personal profile] sunflowerinrain 2014-04-08 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
I love the shutter painting. Reminds me of Genova and the shock of realising that those decorative architraves, columns, and statues were painted on the sides of buildings, even warehouses.
sunflowerinrain: Singing at the National Railway Museum (Default)

[personal profile] sunflowerinrain 2014-04-09 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
It's worth many visits, indeed.

She might also like Angouleme, near here. It's a mediaeval hill city with many elegant later additions and it is also the international centre for graphic novels/comics. Several of the more modern buildings have paintings up the sides; the little local trains are decorated, too.

http://www.angouleme.fr/spip.php?article498