Jeremy HildrethTag Archives: Vilnius
Are you legible?
Just as a writer bears ultimate responsibility for being understood, “If you’re a place, it’s up to you to present yourself legibly,” to make sure people can get your story.
This is some of the advice I give in a casual but insightful essay that Thinkingplace have published in their quarterly. I use examples from my [...]
The problem with first impressions
…is that you don’t know what you don’t know, sometimes, when you’re looking at something.
Take, for example, this scene in Vilnius (where I am delighted to be living for the summer), which I photographed while jogging today.
It is a normal scene, a bit of urban decay, some concrete blight. Very common around here. You might [...]
The loveable quirkiness of northeastern Europe
Yesterday was the national day of the Republic of Uzupis, the SoHo (NYC, as opposed to Soho, London) of Vilnius, Lithuania. I didn’t make it to Christiania – I’ve still never been to Copenhagen! – before they dismantled it, but I imagine this as a gentrified and more philosophically grounded version of the Danish self-declared [...]
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