Urban exploration – Scientific observation – The invisible city – Psychogeography – Conceptual art 

That is what we are promised, and that is what we get.  It doesn’t really matter which person the blog belongs to as Rotterdam is the star.  Rotterdam is the subject matter.  The artist sets out to paint a picture of her and, in a glorious, splattering way, he succeeds.  He brings Rotterdam to life and she speaks to us.

He writes about cryptoforests and rooftop human sacrifices.  Agoraphobia and taxonomies of invisibility.  We play Psychogeography bingo.  We learn how to create spam poetry.  Heady stuff, in every sense of the word.

                                     Pyramids

His writing is glorious.  I am a native English speaker and writer, but I despair of ever being able to write with the verve that colours everything we read on this site.  Perhaps it is the fact that he is writing in someone else’s language that gives the words he chooses a kind of hypnotic strangeness.  But his words perfectly complement the beauty of the pictures he uses.  He shows us a mundane beauty, reflecting and then creating liminal places within the urban landscape.  And it’s not just the way he frames the shot, or how he presents the pictures within his blog, but it is his feel for colour that I enjoy the most.  Urban Adventure in Rotterdam. Go there! 

(All images reproduced courtesy of the owner, Urban Adventure in Rotterdam)