Saturday, May 12, 2012
Scumbled Duck
From a bit ago: my photo of a worked-over wall in Christiania, the 'free town' and pot-haven in Copenhagen. Christiana apparently 'seceded' from the rest of the Danish capital forty years ago, and the ultra-tolerant Danes have allowed it to continue as a somewhat irregular urban redoubt ever since. At its center Christiania is one giant pot market, full of picnic tables and merchants selling spliffs, marijuana t-shirts, and hash brownies. Pot illegal in Denmark but Danish cops mostly turn a blind eye. The whole area is also a shrine to street art and art installations, plus home to any number of slackers, rebels, stoners. And this bird.