The Ink Shot archive

From 7 May 2012 until 7 December 2021 The Ink Shot was the blog of Marcus Baumgart, an itinerant café writer, designer of buildings, animal-lover and day-by-day battling creative. This blog celebrates the practice of writing in cafés, writing fiction and non-fiction and being creative in general.

Marcus struggles to motivate without the happy white noise of lively conversation and hissing espresso machines.

 
 

 
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The sheer exuberance of life

I found this image and I was blown away by the way it captured the sheer exuberance of  life being lived and debated in a café. The title of the picture is "Discussing the war in a Paris café". ​I am not sure which war the caption refers to, but overall the image captures something that I love about café culture.

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