Amsterdam: Seen on the Street

Here are a few not quite random photos from the streets of Amsterdam, as seen on a recent visit.


A hard and soft pattern, seen inside the grounds of the MOCO museum.


A pillar at the local art college.


An unauthorized poster on the back of the "T" in the big tourist-magnet IAMSTERDAM installation, next to the Rijksmuseum. The words (on a simulated Nutella jar) translate to "I do not like monoculture."


Tiles on a wall somewhere along the street.


In the window at the Rubber Duck Shop of Amsterdam.


These recycling containers serve the people from several blocks nearby. Their deceptively small street-level receptacles conceal a much larger container underground, which is emptied by a truck that lifts the whole thing out of the earth. I didn't get a good look at how it's done, but it seemed pretty interesting.