What I did today (The Bench, The Spiderweb, An Out-of-place Acorn, Gentrification and The Trashcan Love Story.)
Posted: September 21, 2010 Filed under: Lost in Berlin, Nadja and Andrew's Great Adventure | Tags: Berlin, gentrification, Kreuzberg, Landwehr Kanal, Love story, Trashcan Leave a comment »Unless you’re more stoned than you’re ever been in your life, you should watch this as fast as you can. Best is to click through at a brisk pace in which case it appears more like a film…yes, that is exactly how you should view it. Any slower and it could be fatal.
If you do happen to be stoned…hey, turn on your favorite music and watch it…relax, it takes a minute. Dude!
[Note pertaining to "Gentrification": The sticker is an imitation/sarcastic spoof of and against a marketing campaign made by the city of Berlin. A typical real poster (supposed "actual" Berliner replys to a questionair asking them to fill in the blank) might read "Be colorful. Be creative. Be openminded. Be Berlin..." or some other such fine saying. This one reads:
"Be owned
Be real estate investement company
Be gentrificator
Be Berlin"
A sticker, made by a actual real Berliner. I take exception despite being a newcomer cause I will never own anything worth shit in my life (unless you count my typewriter, my velvet painting and my fancy suits which I hold to be worth quite alot.)
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