Crazy Pink Pipe has a sibling! by jyokota

Crazy Pink Pipe has a sibling!

Follow the blue pipe . . . to get to the Biomarkt (organic grocery store). Can you see it twisting its way through the city?

Original post of "crazy pink pipe":
http://365project.org/jyokota/365/2013-02-22

And, as Berliner @Synke explained to me, "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."
Fun capture -- so unusual!
March 9th, 2013  
Love it! What a fun structure.
March 9th, 2013  
Oh, so this one has a purpose? I looked at the pink pipe photos and it seemed to be a mystery pipe. I think both are quite fun, and if they lead us somewhere good then I like it even more.
March 10th, 2013  
@anwan, I added in the explanation that @Synke gave me in the pink pipe photo. Seems they all have a construction area pipe purpose but for me, this one had personal purpose! I have only seen these pipes in one other place outside of Berlin (a blue one in Frankfurt near the Opera house) so these are quintessential Berlin for me!
March 10th, 2013  
@taffy @pflaume -- thanks! I've decided my 365 should definitely include fun photos to share. I always smile when I see these pipes around the city.
March 10th, 2013  
since your initial photo I see pink and blue pipes everywhere around Berlin now ;) trying to figure out why some are pink and some blue. thought the newer ones are all blue until I saw a pink one being set up in the center on Friday. maybe the color is just depending on the manufacturing company ;) wondering if we ever find the true answer :)
March 10th, 2013  
@synke -- I was going to Mauerparkmarkt and to Tiergarten Straße de 17 Juni markt today to buy a bicycle (mine is in Munich) but it's schnee, schnee, schnee! Do they still have markets on days like this?

I went to ITB at Messe yesterday -- have you gone?
March 10th, 2013  
i know...I just looked out the window wondering where all the white stuff is coming from! they probably would still have Mauerpark flea market going on I think but not sure. I wouldn't bike. i was out last night and streets were really icy and slipery....you will not know where those parts are under the snow. I was went to see the ITB on Thursday. felt like a little trip around the world ;)
March 10th, 2013  
Terrific shot, Junko. Such a livid splash of colour chopping its way across a dull, grey cityscape.
March 10th, 2013  
Wow, so interesting how the pipe snakes through the streets! Great capture.
March 10th, 2013  
Seriously amazing!
March 10th, 2013  
Wow...so do the pipes have to keep operating to stop the city from sinking?
March 11th, 2013  
Nice to see bright color in an urban setting.
March 11th, 2013  
Fun shot - love the colour and the line the pipe makes through the shot.
March 11th, 2013  
Hi Junko! I'm your push partner this week. Looking through your album, I really like your eye for composition! You have a way of seeing things around you and finding the photo in it! So my challenge for you for this week, is to push that natural sense of composition. When you take a picture of something, make yourself find a second and a third way to take that same subject....pushing your "norms". Hope that's clear :-)
March 12th, 2013  
I assume this is an art installation of some kind. Sure makes one wonder. Oh.. now I read the explanation! How interesting!
March 12th, 2013  
I love this! "Junko presents the pipes of the world..."
March 13th, 2013  
@m9f9l -- I had such fun doing this! Indeed, you pushed me into a new way of "seeing" things I might have normally walked past in order to create new ways of composing.

Here's the original: http://365project.org/jyokota/365/2013-03-13

Alternate #1 at http://365project.org/jyokota/365/2013-03-14

Alternate#2 at: http://365project.org/jyokota/challenges-and/2013-03-14

Thanks again for the challenge!
March 16th, 2013  
@steampowered -- it does make me curious why a city that embraces and defines itself through metallic/glass/tech landscape chooses bright blue and pink for its pipes!

@ruthmouch @judis @dulciknit @danielwsc -- yes, amazing colors, and "snakes its way through the city" is exactly what it does! I did find the "end" to one of them in a river, though. I wondered if it was the source or the outlet.

@lynnb -- ha! that is a question for @synke as she seems to know more about this than I do!

@roadshow -- more and more to come, no doubt! I've been working on capturing the yellow pipes that I'm now calling the "nieces and nephews" of the crazy pink and blue pipes.
March 16th, 2013  
@lynnb No, not that serious. just tp prevent construction sides from drowning in groundwater. construction sides of bigger buildings usually go some stories underground as well ;)
March 16th, 2013  
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