Non random sampling episode two.
Posted: December 13, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Berlin, Kreuzberg, neukölln, video Leave a comment »Honestly, I just don’t know what to say. I think I don’t know much.
Sometimes I walk around my neighborhood and some of the sometimes I take my camera. Document the world around me. History repeating itself. Edited for the exciting parts.
I must admit I’m a touch overwhelmed. Just trying to be quiet…trying to listen and see.
I’m writing this with all my might trying to keep it strait, like I don’t want to hear what I have to say, so let’s keep it short, shall we?
I took some video and kept my mind off of other things with editing it around until I found it half interesting.
But it’s not, really.
Reminds me of the trash bag in American Beauty. Pretty cliche shit.
Oh, well. I have nothing else right now to add.
Berlin non-random sampling
Posted: December 2, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Berlin, culture shock, Kreuzberg, market, neukölln, turkish, video Leave a comment »A moving slideshow. Almost everything but the digger and the barking dogs taken near Schönleinstrasse. At least mostly pretty near.
Don’t know how the digger got in there, but I like it.
East-West exchange
Posted: November 5, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Berlin, Berlin Wall, culture shock, Deutsches Demokratisches Republik, Die Berliner Mauer, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Kreuzberg, neukölln, Ossis and Wessis, photos, travel writing Leave a comment »
I’m only on the other side of the river and up the street from where I used to live–maybe a mile and a half away from the old place–of course, twenty some years ago that would have been quite an extreme move.
I’d have had to dig a tunnel out of a fake wall in my cellar, or rig a special compartment under the back seat of an automobile and get an innocent old lady to drive me, or sew together a hot air balloon out of bedsheets, or something.
It would have been epic…if my plot didn’t get exposed and I got shot.
Nowadays, I just hired three Iraqis lads to hump it down the old 4 flights of stairs, load it up in their truck, drive it a few kilometers and hump it up the new 4 flights of stairs. Read the rest of this entry »
Lazy Kreuzberg Saturday: Canals, Crows and Bocci Ball
Posted: April 23, 2011 Filed under: Lost in Berlin | Tags: Berlin, Kreuzberg, photos Comments Off
Breakfast finished, we had vague intentions. Not a cloud in the big sky. Every leaf in the city bursting forth in green. 75 degrees on the dot.
“How ’bout we just wander around?”
“Sounds good to me.”
So we did. And not much more. Ate some falafel. Drank a few beers. Wandered further.
Apparently the whole city had the same idea. Kreuzberg at least was out in force. Fields of faces following the burning star like sunflowers. Fragrant clouds from grills wafting. Music and happy conversation in the air. The clack of Bocci balls. The clink of spoons and plates from cafes. Waves lapping at the canal banks.
Even the crows were goofing off. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
