The Heimweh Safari
(New York)
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Heimweh is homesickness. This blog is about (me trying to) getting rid of it.
tags: cultural differences, homesickness, survival in NYC
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Hi, I'm from Vienna/Austria, stranded in NYC because I embarked on a graduate program in design criticism. Any homesick European around? If so, join me at my blog: http://theheimwehsafari.wordpress.com/
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You’re never alone
Posted on 22/01/2011
The hot chocolate comes in a generic white bowl. It is sweet and thick and comforting. It doesn’t give you a rush, quite the opposite. The hasty gourmand is likely to suffer a...
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Woanders is auch Scheiße
Posted on 11/01/2011
I found this postcard—an ad for a German publishing house—last summer and wanted to post it months ago. Back home for christmas, I found it again, so here it is. “Woanders...
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Alone with People, on the Lower East Side
Posted on 22/11/2010
Alone with People, on the Lower East Side. Love this post from the New York Portraits photo blog. Here’s what Kitty, the author, has to say: It’s a common paradox of life in the...
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Enlightening
Posted on 17/11/2010
It’s hard to believe that you don’t see shades but actual bulbs going on and off, when looking at Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light installation in Madison Square...
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Paris vs New York
Posted on 30/10/2010
Just found this. No actually, my wonderful friend Avinash found it for me. Love it, love it, love it. 3 points for New York and, if I could, another 3 for Paris.
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The fear of being uncool
Posted on 26/10/2010
“For every person who visits a private house, there may be 10,000 who only view it as a picture”, Dustin Hoffman’s voice-over says in a movie about photographer Julius...
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Händler Johann
Posted on 13/10/2010
Lo and behold! Trader Joe’s is German. It’s a subsidiary of the German discount store Aldi. Here’s what the German news magazine Spiegel has to say about it (scroll down...
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What I like
Posted on 13/09/2010
Back in NY, after three months in my lovely home country. Interestingly, I am not (yet) very homesick. Quite the contrary, after one week in the city, I’m getting used to it and...
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