„quadratisch. praktisch. gut.”

apparently all the other classes had an organized trip to the Ritter factory except us. Jessica wanted to get gifts for all her chocolate-lover friends and i thought it would be a lot more colorful than touring a brewery, at least.

apparently we still missed out on the chocolate museum. we thought a factory tour was something else that would cost more money. either way, we found a pretty kick ass art exhibit. natürlich, it was based on squares.

[rotating sphere made of squares]

yeah, yeah, squares are the easy way out. there's tons of stuff from fore like Malevich and what not, but i still enjoyed it immensely. every time you turned your head there it seemed like there was a composition of geometric shapes; formed from squares, though not necessarily making squares.

i also got really slack on my editing because of all the black and white. i think i need to take a break from the blog photos and do some serious work on ones to send as postcards.

[painting with angles based on π]

the squareishness reminded me of M.C. Escher and how mathematical he was. note: my references on similarities between things are very vague, just a product from my train of thought. you can see how far that has gotten me. *rolls eyes at self*

the chocolate shop at Ritter was no Willie Wonka experience, but all the colors were fun. if you're not familiar with Ritter Sport, all the chocolate bars are in squares and the different kinds are distinguished by different colors. my favourite: dark chocolate with hazelnuts. though, i decided i would buy something new from the factory. check this out, white chocolate filled with peach and passion fruit jogurt. crazy sweet. almost an overload.

[inbetween the museum and the chocolate shop]

also, check out the building in the album. pretty freaking amazing. i know, TONS of squares. everywhere. when does one call it over-thematic? i guess the squares are so square that they go with anything. okay okay, i'll stop.

on the walk back to the bus stop there was a random comical fountain. enjoy.