ROUNDOGRAPHY – only in east berlin
in case you think the color in these pictures is manipulated, it is not. i just upped the contrast a bit as they were shot under a dark, gloomy sky. the buildings really are all gray and drab, in east berlin. so, to spice things up a bit, enter the roundographs, conveniently printed onto a sleeve that fits your satellite dish like a glove. print the picture of little junior, and you got yourself a kid glove roundograph…
do you live in a boring building? perhaps you should consider sticking a roundograph of the kids on your satellite dish. or maybe one of your pet lions…
berlin’s ethnic diversity is reflected by parabolic antennas, in the eastern part of the city
some prefer roundographs of landscapes, while others display logos of all kinds. soccer team logos are frequent.
this roundograph obviously betrays nostalgia for the deutsche mark, which was one of the world’s strongest currencies, before being replaced by one of the world’s wobbliest…
a typically mediterranean landscape tells tales of migration, while the family cat looks out from another, more modest roundograph.
on the right, no roundographs. on the left roundographs. you do the math.
i’d published a few of these before HERE, but i wanted to give roundography a page of its own. what do i think of it? it’s a terrible idea.
watching television, i mean.
but if you really must watch television, and if you can’t agree with your neighbors on putting a large, communal satellite dish on the roof of the (ugly) building and have to get you on bolt-on device to put on the balcony, well, hell, why not roundograph it?
photographs taken in east berlin in june 2012.
alessandro ciapanna
I’ve never seen these photo covers on dishes here. Dishes aren’t as common here as cable, though. I would have to have my schnauzers on mine if I had one, but I don’t even have cable. Too busy playing with my kids and schnauzers!
maybe you could get a fake one
thanks
What a strange thing. Never seen, never heard of, before you showed them to me. Thanks.
that’s what i’m there for
but, really: i’d never seen this either, anywhere. so i just had to put it out there – thanks, bente
Nunca había visto nada igual! Increíble!, abrazos
yo tampoco, y me encanto’
gracias, manoli
Very original way to brighten up the austere architecture.
my thoughts exactly – thanks
Um, Wow! I don’t know if I love them or hate them?! Mostly, I detest TV so have never had the need for a dish (or cable). But there’s something about this ordinarily ugly turned beautiful landscape that is alluring. All that harsh, stone-cold architecture has become something of an art form. Interesting!!
thank you. i agree with you on everything you say
You are not kidding me, are you? People have actually blown up pictures and pasted them onto satellite dishes? Wow . . . I would say, “I wonder what they’ll think of next,” but frankly I’m a little scared of what that might be!
kid you i certainly do not.
i am assuming that some photo lab in the area is offering the service. and when one is up, the neighbors start asking, then a photoblogger notices and posts it, and then it snowballs frome there…
before you know it, cara, ad with any good luck, roundography will no longer be limited to east berlin…
thank you
Luckily, where I live satellite dishes are obsolete!
All the more reason for me to visit berlin. This seems to be a fun place, creativity is in the air in berlin.
the creativity is just all over. in surprising ways and places.
thank you
Loved the pix. No tv for me, so no disk. Oy!
thanks – no tv for me either