> Said the guy on the market. “He’s thinking “If I take another step, I’m going to fall off the pinth….”” Johannes Gutenberg living dangerously.
This would appear to be the Moguntian equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Take your favourite book and squish it in the wet concrete. Keeps your hands from…
> “Here I am, working my butt off and the boss just sits there reading the bloody newspaper. I think I’ll join the union” “Sod him. He should consider himself…
> If you wanted to go get home by bus on Tuesday evening, you were pretty much stuffed, with one of the major traffic axes being monopolised by a student…
> ..Milennium. The boy hisself, as flash as a rat with a gold tooth, on his very own pedestal in his eponymous square. So doesn’t time just fly? Thanks for…
> The Druckladen – Printshop – is a reconstruction of Gutenberg’s original workshop providing a “hands on” experience for anyone who wants to get their fingers dirty.
> Mme Professor over at fishandchips got in first, of course, but she supposedly lives just around the corner. So it’s nice to see you back on your pedestal, looking…
> I don’t normally PhotoShop, but these endless grey skies are getting on my wick….. What DOES, of course, brighten up everyone’s lives is the fact that Johannes G…
> by the horns. Or the chin. Maybe they’re billygoats after all. In which case this is all a lot of bull…. Another in the series of carvings on the…
> Excellent educational stuff spread around outside the Gutenberg Museum. BIG chunks of wood with individual letters carved out in mirror typeface, with the printing surface stained black to simulate…
>Yet another sculpture dedicated to Gutenburg and his printing press. This one is near the ruined church of St Christopher in the centre of town.
>These rough hewn letters stand in the courtyard to the shop attached to the Gutenburg Museum .
>This installation is outside the Gutenberg Museum. It is one of a series of large panels that show imprints from various old typeset plates. I’m ashamed to say that I…
>..and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, I baptise thee Johannes. Gutenberg, that is. This is St Christopher’s in the centre of Mainz, first documented in 893 as…
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