Prose readings 2011 (Prozas lasījumi 2011) in Satori

Here is what was above me in my previous photo

Lined up...

... scales in the Central Market of Riga waiting to be put to a good use.

Marupe council house

Marupe is an urban continuity of Riga. MARUPE is made up from two words - Mar and Upe. Upe means "a river" (because there is a river Marupite going through it). Mar means Māra - the highest Baltic (female) deity. It is not clear if it is linked to Marry through Crusaders.

Pay in and Pay out machines

Technological unemployment.

It will hit all of us one day. Robots took over manufacturing in last century. They are taking over service industry at the time of writing. When there will be no jobs, there will be no money for us spend and no one will be able to use any products and services.

Tradition

Novus is a game invented in Latvia. Nowadays not very popular due to aggressive marketing of pool. One public place you can still play it is the club/bar PIENS.

GOVCAMP

Last Saturday I participated in GOVCAMP event and presented www.tirgus-kaiminiem.lv - LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) for Latvia. There were many other interesting propositions in response to economic slump in Latvia.

Butterflies

The autumn takes away most insect including butterflies. You can find some of them wondering about all year round in New Riga Theatre (Jaunais Rīgas Teātris) coffee shop.

Rīgas 28. vidusskola

The biology classroom in Riga 28th Secondary school is full of indoor plants. This is Hoya carnosa.

Indoor palm tree

Spice shopping centre is one of the largest in Riga and it is growing despite economic decline. They recently opened furniture shop (it is a whole another building) and are preparing to construct high rise office building. Click here for presentation.

Second floor

Or third? My son is 8, he is much shorter than I am (as you can imagine) and because of that he was able to notice that "2" in reflection looks rather like "3".