I've been lost, I've been confused.. I tried to find my way in this world. Sometimes my view is a bit cynical. Overall I believe I have overcome all those dark moments in my life and things are looking positive and I am ready to set sail on a brighter future out of the darkness. To love is hard work, and sometimes hard work has to hurt but in the end I think it's worth the pain. So love hard when there is love to be had.
I needed a little pick me up doodle before I go into this next coming week while simultaneously telling myself I don’t need to have everything in my life figured out right now. Hopefully this motivational koala is helpful to some of you guys too.
German photographer Peter Ortner has spent seven years documenting 500 bus stops across former Soviet countries, including a triangular pavilion, a winged shelter and several colorful mosaic designs.
Ortner visited seven former-Soviet territories including Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, The Crimea Peninsula, Ukraine and Moldova to create the Back in the USSR photo series. Unlike the grey concrete buildings often associated with socialist architecture built throughout the 20th century, Ortner found an eclectic, colourful micro-architecture that emerged on the roadside.
Described as “jewels”, the bus stops allowed the architects to experiment free from the pressures of socialist Moscow. “This underlines the autonomy of the republics and ostensibly goes against the centralism of Moscow,” said Ortner. “It seems as if a little free space for architecture opened up here, in the face of all centralist planning.”
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