Berlin Graffiti, episode two
Posted: June 26, 2011 Filed under: Lost in Berlin | Tags: Berlin, culture shock, Germany, Graffiti, History, humor, photos, politics 2 Comments »
Untenstehend, is another random sampling of Berlin graffiti for your viewing pleasure. Also, I give my broader theory about the graffiti in Berlin. I’ll get to that…but first I want to warn viewers: A Black-and-White, adult-audience CSD surprise lurks at the end of the slide show.
Not to mention, this episode is rather epic. 6o some pictures, all from yesterday…many of them even rather beautiful. I hadn’t even set out to take graffiti pictures, we simply went wandering about, but new work was everywhere I looked, and it was all so fragile and transient…and really, all this was just from shooting as we walked. Anyway…on with the theory.
Berlin Sunday lost and found
Posted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Lost in Berlin | Tags: Berlin, photos Leave a comment »
Viola, a bunch of stuff I found wandering around today. Nothing of huge import…Green Ducks, my spirit emerging from a bag of coffee, stormy skys and sunny skys, and some shoes hanging over a phone line.
The shoes may be important, however, if I understand the hanging shoe thing correctly…some guy named Brad Downey really wants to buy some crack.
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Berlin Diner en blanc, 2011
Posted: June 13, 2011 Filed under: Lost in Berlin | Tags: Berlin, culture shock, Diner en Blanc, Gendarmenmarkt Leave a comment »
Now, I have never taken part in a flashmob…something about the whole idea, while theoretically maybe interesting, practically they appear rather douchbaggish…but a flashmob with the goal of eating? Now that’s an idea.
So we met at the arranged staging point, all dressed in white as we were, and with our picnic all packed up. As the appointed hour struck we all moved to converge on Berlin’s Gendarm Market Square. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunny day at Wannsee
Posted: June 12, 2011 Filed under: Lost in Berlin | Tags: Berlin, photos, wannsee 1 Comment »
“Pack up your swim-trunks…and your little sister…cause today we’re going to Wannsee…”
A translation of a popular German song from the early 20th Century, a song that, still today, every German knows. Strandbad Wannsee was the Berlin lake-version of Coney Island, or say , Blackpool, where the masses went to splash in the sea on hot summer days. Read the rest of this entry »
