The Roll of the Ball

Old Game

So, what's with the ball? There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of sports and games that are played with balls (and by balls I mean rolling sphere-like bodies like the one shown in the picture) which evolve from a wide variety of unrelated cultural backgrounds. How many man-hours have been spent globally in watching all kinds and sizes of balls just rolling around? The oldest known ballgame is allegedly de Ulama, a version of the Mesoamerican ballgame (of death) whose roots extended back to at least the 2nd millennium BC. And there must have been quite lot of rolling long before that. That makes me wonder, is it just the simplicity of the most beautifully perfect shape in nature, that adapts to every gaming purpose and environment? Or is there something hard-wired into our genes that makes it impossible to take our minds off the roll of the ball? Just like a kitten to a yarn hank.

PostApocalyptic conversations

The Tin Man

Not very far from the university campus I once attended, existed (or perhaps it still exists) this strange and slightly surreal playground. Though located in a pretty busy sector of the city, it always looked awfully lonely. These are the photographs of the day I tried to portray its solitude.

Conversations

Tea Party

Concentrating?

As you can see those are some pretty odd looking figures. Are they supposed to be hens? I only assumed they were birds because I think that nose of theirs is really a beak. I hope at least some zombie children visit this place on a regular basis.

Foosballer

Old and lonely Foosball player somewhere in Mexico

A while ago I bumped into this old Foosball table while visiting one of  the numerous quasi-ghost-towns in Mexico, where most men have left to find money elsewhere. I thought this scene reflected the abandonment of the place.