You know you're in Berlin . . . when you see the crazy pink pipe! It runs all throughout the Potsdamer Platz area, and other areas in town as well. My friend, Naomi, dubbed it by this name during her month in Berlin as Poet in Residence. We kept asking around about its purpose, color, etc. but nobody seemed to know why it exists, why it's pink, and why we even cared.
I photographed it from various angles, but this one seemed to capture the "crazy" part of its nickname.
I saw this in my news feed and knew exactley where you are! Welcome to Berlin.
The pipes are always located around bigger construction sides because Berlin is built on sand. They are used to pump down the ground water to avoid the construction sides from drowning. I think in the beginning they were ordinary colored pipes until the grafitti artists to over making them into art. Now the set up pink pipes to make it look prettier and artsy.
@richardcreese@taffy@mara19500@marie65@jodimuli@lynnb@tishpics@peterdegraaff -- many thanks for your comments! I was going for an interesting POV, which I'm sure if you'd been an actual observer of my photographing this, you would have laughed at all the angles I had to get into myself in order to capture various POVs.
@synke -- So THAT's what all those pipes are for! That makes sense, because of all the construction going on and the cranes about a block away from here. Well, all the Berliners I had asked before just shrugged their shoulders like it wasn't important. Really glad you informed me (and us since other 365ers can now know.) They are fun and artsy, and I imagine I'll keep photographing them from various locations while here.
They have blue pipes near the Alte Oper in Frankfurt . . . but I've never seen them in Munich.
@peterdegraaff -- if only you knew how unable I am to "contort" well, it would explain the ungracefulness with which I take photos. @vankrey -- I laugh at the notion of "industrial Junko" because you know it's entirely what I'm NOT. Or have not been. But Germany is filled with Industrial design so photograph it, I will. Taffy and others encouraged me to try more b&w so that will be part of my industrial challenge.
Yes! I recently got back from Germany and this pipe http://365project.org/raggleroo/365/2013-03-31 was sooo annoying we followed it. Really wanted to know what it was for and why! Great POV. Also you seemed to have a better sky view them me :) x
April 6th, 2013
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The pipes are always located around bigger construction sides because Berlin is built on sand. They are used to pump down the ground water to avoid the construction sides from drowning. I think in the beginning they were ordinary colored pipes until the grafitti artists to over making them into art. Now the set up pink pipes to make it look prettier and artsy.
@prochownia -- special thanks for the FAV!
@synke -- So THAT's what all those pipes are for! That makes sense, because of all the construction going on and the cranes about a block away from here. Well, all the Berliners I had asked before just shrugged their shoulders like it wasn't important. Really glad you informed me (and us since other 365ers can now know.) They are fun and artsy, and I imagine I'll keep photographing them from various locations while here.
They have blue pipes near the Alte Oper in Frankfurt . . . but I've never seen them in Munich.
@vankrey -- I laugh at the notion of "industrial Junko" because you know it's entirely what I'm NOT. Or have not been. But Germany is filled with Industrial design so photograph it, I will. Taffy and others encouraged me to try more b&w so that will be part of my industrial challenge.