Trebević Mountain Polka (Sarajevo notebook II).
Catching up on last month’s visit to Sarajevo, here’s a four-minute high speed stroll down the 1984 Olympic bobsled run on Trebević Mountain. Apologies for the bumpiness, but I imagine that an actual...
View ArticleSarajevo pics, Part deux
As usual, summer’s flying by. On the road too much, with way too much piling up at home. I finally got around to some more pics from last month’s trip to Sarajevo; another few dozen posted on my flickr...
View ArticleMichael Jackson meets Christopher Reeve?
An odd morph that oddly works. At Sarajevo’s Olympic Stadium, 28-Jun-2011. Sarajevo 091, originally uploaded by pirano.
View ArticleThings you’ll find in the basement of Sarajevo’s Academy of Fine Arts
Here’s a quick clip of the basement level storage room at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, shot through a gate. Like a rat, I’m naturally drawn and attracted to these sorts of spaces. Anyone...
View ArticleSarajevo Tunnel Museum (Sarajevo Notebook III)
Here’s a quick stroll through the 25 meters or so that remains of the what locals dubbed Sarajevo’s Tunnel of Hope. During the beginning of Sarajevo’s three-year siege, the city was entirely cut off by...
View ArticleBeggars
It was just as I decided against buying some pens made from large bullet shell casings that I felt a slight tug on my shirt. It came from a gaunt woman with very long straight jet black hair and...
View ArticleSarajevo Siege + 20: Fifteen photos
Time flies. Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the beginning of the siege on Sarajevo. Not a day passes that I don’t think about my visit there last year. Even then it was difficult to imagine that...
View ArticlePoppies and Shrapnel (Pic de Jour)
This is was taken at what is left of Dom Policije Vranjače, a former Club/vacation home for police officers, in the hills south of Sarajevo. Not a day passes that I don’t think about my visit to the...
View ArticleSarajevo Olympic Bobsled Run, 30 Years Later
The 22nd Winter Olympic Games officially get underway today, just one day shy of the 30th anniversary of the opening of the 1984 Games in Sarajevo. Above, a shot of what the bobsled run looks like...
View ArticleSarajevo and the Great War’s 100th Anniversary
Today’s Pic du Jour was taken in Sarajevo’s Ciglane district two years ago today; somehow I let the date and the anniversary it marked pass by at the time without much fanfare. The day marked 98 years...
View ArticleVidblog for June/July 2011
Since August has almost wound down and I’ll be away for most of the next three weeks, there’s no time like the present for my second vidblog, combining bit and pieces from June and July 2011. Shots...
View ArticleSarajevo Notebook I – Time Lapses
I’ve wanted to visit Sarajevo since I was about six, when I first read in our home encyclopedia about how World War I started in this Yugoslav city, one that would host the Winter Olympic Games 70...
View ArticleTrebević Mountain Polka (Sarajevo notebook II).
Catching up on last month’s visit to Sarajevo, here’s a four-minute high speed stroll down the 1984 Olympic bobsled run on Trebević Mountain. Apologies for the bumpiness, but I imagine that an actual...
View ArticlePoppies and Shrapnel (Pic de Jour)
This is was taken at what is left of Dom Policije Vranjače, a former Club/vacation home for police officers, in the hills south of Sarajevo. Not a day passes that I don’t think about my visit to the...
View ArticleSarajevo Olympic Bobsled Run, 30 Years Later
The 22nd Winter Olympic Games officially get underway today, just one day shy of the 30th anniversary of the opening of the 1984 Games in Sarajevo. Above, a shot of what the bobsled run looks like...
View ArticleSarajevo and the Great War’s 100th Anniversary
Today’s Pic du Jour was taken in Sarajevo’s Ciglane district two years ago today; somehow I let the date and the anniversary it marked pass by at the time without much fanfare. The day marked 98 years...
View ArticleSarajevo Station
Sarajevo main station, 01 July 2011. The post Sarajevo Station appeared first on PIRAN CAFÉ.
View ArticleCiglane District, Sarajevo
Apartment living, Sarajevo style. The post Ciglane District, Sarajevo appeared first on PIRAN CAFÉ.
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Multicultural Man Builds the World: Post-War Sculpture in Sarajevo
And a 250-second time lapse tour of the Bosnian capital. The post Multicultural Man Builds the World: Post-War Sculpture in Sarajevo appeared first on PIRAN CAFÉ.
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The Ali-Pasha Mosque, a Beggar, Shelled Buildings, and the Turkish Quarter –...
A two-minute series of 17 time lapse scenes from the Bosnian capital. The post The Ali-Pasha Mosque, a Beggar, Shelled Buildings, and the Turkish Quarter – a Time Lapse Tour of Sarajevo appeared first...
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