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Eastern train station
Train station are tresholds - or passages - people come and go, continuously, they move between different worlds.
Keleti (Eastern train station) and its sourroundings is one of the dark and sometimes surrealistic places of Budapest. It is a place where you can change money with Arabs - if you wanna do that .... and it is not cosidered to be safe around here. There used to be a great fleah market just behind the station, which was supposed to be closed down last year. It was so funny, as at the antrance of the market a huge sign said: "it is forbidden to out your goods on the ground" - and just behind the sign you saw ca. 50 meter long various used staff - packed naturally on the ground. At the entrance, right next to the sign, there were policemena and women keeping the feel of security... in the market you may be able to buy back your stoled bike, or bike-seats, but like on any other flea-market, you could get all kinds of shit. I was there last year, ehen they were about to close it, and many vendors had put up papers saying - we will be selling our stuff a corner aways from here, and they also tried to protest against the clsoure of the market.
Its a multi-cultural place, and opposite to it is a traditionally Jewish area, e.g. the famous "Nefelejcs street", where the protagonist of Faithlessness by Imre Kertész returns back from Auschwitz, and in the end of that street the Bethlen square synagogue, a former center of undergound Zionism, and the location where Marom has been founded, and organized its first festival, on the 1st December 2001.
Some parts have been renovated and it is eclectic.
At the moment Metro 4 is buing built here. The photo was taken in a dark tunnel, next to a surrealistic butcher shop and some shop where you can order your own grave...there is quite a lot of street art around here lately.
Keleti (Eastern train station) and its sourroundings is one of the dark and sometimes surrealistic places of Budapest. It is a place where you can change money with Arabs - if you wanna do that .... and it is not cosidered to be safe around here. There used to be a great fleah market just behind the station, which was supposed to be closed down last year. It was so funny, as at the antrance of the market a huge sign said: "it is forbidden to out your goods on the ground" - and just behind the sign you saw ca. 50 meter long various used staff - packed naturally on the ground. At the entrance, right next to the sign, there were policemena and women keeping the feel of security... in the market you may be able to buy back your stoled bike, or bike-seats, but like on any other flea-market, you could get all kinds of shit. I was there last year, ehen they were about to close it, and many vendors had put up papers saying - we will be selling our stuff a corner aways from here, and they also tried to protest against the clsoure of the market.
Its a multi-cultural place, and opposite to it is a traditionally Jewish area, e.g. the famous "Nefelejcs street", where the protagonist of Faithlessness by Imre Kertész returns back from Auschwitz, and in the end of that street the Bethlen square synagogue, a former center of undergound Zionism, and the location where Marom has been founded, and organized its first festival, on the 1st December 2001.
Some parts have been renovated and it is eclectic.
At the moment Metro 4 is buing built here. The photo was taken in a dark tunnel, next to a surrealistic butcher shop and some shop where you can order your own grave...there is quite a lot of street art around here lately.
Imaginary courses - in times of crisis
One of them would be a course on "Small region usury" the other one is "Crisis communicator course". The crisis communicators' task is to be able to talk about the crisis, so that no one understands it, but everyone believes in it. He needs to go on most of the media in peek time and talk as much as possible about the crisis with the least content of information. After finishing the course you will become fluent in proving fact of crisis even with two contradicting arguments. Only politicans or their relatives can apply for the course....(a course of the IMF)
On the usury course you can learn how to blackmail small villages, how to use weapons, and if u wanna apply you should not read the Bible...is supposed to be also a course of the IMF.
The photo represents the yard of a poor house.
On the usury course you can learn how to blackmail small villages, how to use weapons, and if u wanna apply you should not read the Bible...is supposed to be also a course of the IMF.
The photo represents the yard of a poor house.
Fake advertisments - a kind of subvertisment
The changes of advertisments that I mentioned before are called "subvertisments"
These I am not sure to count in this category...
They are funny texts, that look like advertisments, but they are selling useless staff.
I found many of them in the Jewish district lately...The first one above tries to sell us some hernia ... it even has a small photo of it.
The second one above says: "Money for sale" - Hungarian, foreign and Japanese ....
"Bokros-package"
I dont remember if I had mentioned the young guys putting out posters, for "you be the prime minister" after Gyurcsány has resigned ...
here is an other reaction to the political circus we are experiencing in the last 15 years in Hungary...
Lajos Bokros was the finance minister of the Horn-government between 1995-96 and became infamous for his so called "Bokros-package" - as a result of which he is still today the most unpopular Hungarian politician. The package was the strongest economical constraint-plan after the changes in Hungary.
Now that Ferenc Gyurcsány has resigned from being prime minister of Hungary some people wanted to nominate Lajos Bokros to be the ney prime minister (as a nominee of MDF middle right conservative party)
The sticker is on Király street, on a phone cell.
Other candidates were also related to Bokros, just like György Surányi, who was a co-author of the Bokros-package, anno and is currently chair of the Hungarian National Bank. One of my acquiantences, a middle aged businessman, with a relatively stronger Jewish identity, raised to me the nomination of Mr. Surányi as a problem, since he is Jewish, and a Jews cannot be the prime ministers ... good old fears, and it show a lot about how Jews and Hungarian think about politics and jewish identity.... I find his argument strange, just as, when he was telling me, that he does not eat Chicken-paprika with sourcream, but only because he does not like it, and not because it is not kosher :)
here is an other reaction to the political circus we are experiencing in the last 15 years in Hungary...
Lajos Bokros was the finance minister of the Horn-government between 1995-96 and became infamous for his so called "Bokros-package" - as a result of which he is still today the most unpopular Hungarian politician. The package was the strongest economical constraint-plan after the changes in Hungary.
Now that Ferenc Gyurcsány has resigned from being prime minister of Hungary some people wanted to nominate Lajos Bokros to be the ney prime minister (as a nominee of MDF middle right conservative party)
The sticker is on Király street, on a phone cell.
Other candidates were also related to Bokros, just like György Surányi, who was a co-author of the Bokros-package, anno and is currently chair of the Hungarian National Bank. One of my acquiantences, a middle aged businessman, with a relatively stronger Jewish identity, raised to me the nomination of Mr. Surányi as a problem, since he is Jewish, and a Jews cannot be the prime ministers ... good old fears, and it show a lot about how Jews and Hungarian think about politics and jewish identity.... I find his argument strange, just as, when he was telling me, that he does not eat Chicken-paprika with sourcream, but only because he does not like it, and not because it is not kosher :)
By the way Bokros was also the director of the CEU universtiy, which is one of the few places where you can study in a really progressive environment...
his moustache is real!!! See the Hungarian moustache contest of the New York Hungarian Institute here There use to be really funny videos about it, I jsut cant find it now :)
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