Glitter Illusions for Babies in Berlin Mitte

This bike stands in the not yet 'developed' Postfuhramt.  A beautiful 19th century post office that could house many horse-drawn postal wagons. Occasionally one can still hear the clip clop of (tourist) horse-drawn carriages on the cobbled streets of Mitte.

After 1989 a space-time of creativity arose. Bicycles were the dominant mode of transport in the area.

Once the old houses of the East where made trendy, people came from everywhere to live the life of a permanent party. The parties led to a lot of offspring and money flowed from the West to boost the project. With an influx of families and the associated capital the streets and footpaths were populated with inner city SUVs and family vans to cart the family and all its gear around the inner city. Many areas are like a big 24/7 creche now. A lot of cars are squeezing into the small streets and footpaths. The rest of the streetscape seems an endless row of child care, child speech therapist, child psychologist and child psychiatrist.

"Childhood" is a modern development: Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood (1962)

Human Tracks navigating the Earth - Etched in Stone

Updates on human locomotion - our bipedal evolution goes back 345,000 years and more, the oldest ever dated.

Three fossilized trackways of human footprints, discovered by a nameless 'amateur' in 2003 have now been confirmed to be that of Homo heidelbergensis. Possibly the direct predecessor of the Neanderthaler. Their fossilized human trackway was embedded in the volcanic ash of the Roccamonfina volcano in southern Italy. (image) "The track makers had a fully bipedal (two-footed) and free-standing gait and used their arms only for support or to regain balance in very steep areas." They are the oldest known tracks made by fully bipedal humanity . We know, that they used ochre and threw spears around in Schöningen.de. They also lived with European lions, mammoths and Irish elk.

We walked upright for 340,000 years,
but only relied on propelling ourselves by internal combustion for the last 200 years.
The last ride on Peak oil will only be a blink in history.

Engraved footprint (mundoes: Image, image ) by the Eora people, Sydney tell the story of our continuous wandering the Earth. Footprints on rock, whether as fossil or as artifact inform narratives about navigating the planet. The Sydney area has thousands of prehistoric Aboriginal rock engravings (petroglyphs), on soft Hawkesbury sandstone. These cultured/encoded land-scapes are unique. Today, many mounting-bikes mark and crack the the signed Earth in 'protected' National Parks. The engravings, the landscape, the story and bipedal ambiance is for ever consumed.

Images: Rockengravings 'mundoes'/footprints/tracks of the Eora people, Sydney