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Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg.

You can now watch Blade Runner 2049 on Netflix. I watched it last week and found it an unexpectedly good movie.

I had never watched the original Blade Runner, but now I had become curious about that one. Last I watched Blade Runner with our own cult actor Rutger Hauer.

What a great film! I understand now why Rutger Hauer got his reputation from this movie. His acting blows away even Harrison Ford as main character of the movie.

After at least twenty years I re-watched The Addams Family (it's on Netflix now). It is still a remarkable and original movie, with its goth culture and nonchalant black humor. Morticia Addams played by Angelica Huston; probably her Magnum Opus.

I guess the movie has become a classic.

Greek photographer Antonis Damolis.

I am a little bit into gardening these days. The guy helping us is also a photographer (and he likes The Velvet Underground).

We talked about how we liked wild flowers in the garden. He referred to Piet Oudolf, who I found out is a very famous Dutch garden designer. I had never heard of him.

We talked more. The gardener told me to look at Oudolf's High Line project in New York. For the abandoned High Line, Oudolf designed a " wild" garden with a natural look.

This reminded me again of the photographer Joel Sternfeld, who in 2000 made wonderful pictures of the High Line. His pictures were influential in the decision to repurpose the High Line after it was abandoned and turn it into a park. The park for which Oudolf was a co-designer.

Here's Sternfeld talking about his work in 2000.

https://youtu.be/lNzr7g8FQgk