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This city is a magnificent giant playground and even if the fun we have doing one thing is sometimes as big as the frustration about missing another, we love to live here after all. But what does ‘here’ actually mean? What is ‘your’ Berlin? I realize more and more that people tend to stay within their districts. Forgetting about the big Metropolis around them they seem to be so immerged into the little village we call „Kiez“.
This is what we realized when we prepared ourself for the Amble experience, a brand new iPhone App by Louis Vuitton that helps you create little walking tours through your city and tagging your favorite places with photos, videos and comments.
Our friends are so attached to their Kiezes that they never go anywhere else. That’s why we kidnapped them from their neighborhoods and went on walking tours through Mitte and Friedrichshain documenting all the new things they discovered so that we can share their experience with our readers. Stay tuned for the whole tours and make yourself acquainted with Amble with Louis Vuitton.
by Claudio
on October 3rd, 2011
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How will the future of your city look like? Are we going to live in giant auto-sufficient and closed malls. Are we going to go back to nature cultivating tomatoes and salad on our rooftops? Will there still be an offline communication? Will there still be normal streets, playgrounds, parks and everything that makes our city unique? Or will Europe become one giant city? A neverending concrete desert without a single tree in sight? These are a few of the questions the event series and online project smart urban stage tries to investigate. Starting last year in May here in Berlin it now will find its grand finale this month with the last smart urban stage in Frankfurt. We are looking forward to go there to find out which are the best and most innovative ideas from eleven European metropolises. Check out the smart urban stage website to find out more and watch a sweet little teaser video after the jump to get the feeling for the project.
Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Claudio
on September 12th, 2011
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photo: Bierlos on flickr
Madhouse Berlin: Therapy session nr. 7
You carnivorous maggots in human form, you insatiable grasshoppers with legs instead of wings and eyes instead of aerials. Your chewing tools are brutal as they devour this town in which we live. Your greed is eating away our stores, our work, our flats. Where we would be undemanding, you want to tear the last fling of flesh from the ribcage of this town… Your illness is the megalomania. The type-size 42 on your newspaper will soon be telling you, that without another Alexa, a bigger O2World, and a higher hotel bunker you won’t be happy any more with Berlin. Your god’s names are MAXI, MEGA or SUPER. I call you the Insatiables.
Read on in German for more superlatives.
by Claudio
on May 31st, 2011
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Berlin is the city of the invisible homeless. Thousands of people are living on the street and are probably more than happy that they survived once again the harsh winter. Just yesterday night I went around with somebody coming from a small village in South Germany and we spoke about how people in Berlin trained themselves to become less empathic every day about the tragedy of other people. Perhaps this is just the normal way to deal with it. But still I wish I will always feel something when seeing somebody suffering. Like when I had this encounter a year ago.
by Claudio
on March 28th, 2011
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photo: glamcanyon
If Berlin were a person and would rent a room somewhere this room would become a greasy sticky messy hole. Not because Berlin looks messy or gross. It’s something going on inside its head that can’t decide if it should keep something or throw it away. That’s why there is so much trash going on in this city. Good trash as well of course. But there is also an incredible silly amount of nonsense trash. Trash that even the artsy trash loving Berliners can’t stand anymore. Once in a while I think we should definitely call the exterminator.
by Claudio
on March 2nd, 2011
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The unevitable finally had been done. Done by the help of a massive police appearance. The house in the Liebigstrasse 14 in Friedrichshain, which has been occupied since 1990 has been evicted. And just another relict of the post wall time had to give way to the economic interests of the house owners – we don’t forget that Friedrichshain has developed being one of the favourite living areas for young well situated New-Berliners. More after the jump.
Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Suz
on February 2nd, 2011
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Superfertile
And again we had a little trip into the world of print publications. Suz and I wrote three little columns on different topics for the daily fashion week newspaper of BerlinFashion.TV. I had the chance to write about the topic Men and gave some insides about the new approach to male jewellery. You can find the text (in German) after the jump. Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Claudio
on January 22nd, 2011
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The zero-years are over. Now it’s official: we can’t deny the third millennium. But what happened to Berlin in this past ten years. Was there an evolution from the Love-Parade to the Hate-Façade-city? Are we all just complaining about the Southern aliens invading our promised land? And where did all the Jews go? Oh no, sorry! That was an other chapter of German problems… But still mother gentrification is eating. And a lot of places lost their natural charm in the last ten years. Nonetheless I still believe that the magic of Berlin will preserve. In a way Berlin will always be like a Klaus Nomi performance. Bizarre, beautiful, tantalising and fucked up. And we will live in the myth of Berlin going down the drain, and living, loving and dying with it. As good as possible. New Year’s kisses to everyone. Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Claudio
on December 31st, 2010
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In Berlin you might actually end up having a casual conversation with a world renowned rock star about the different flavours of Bionade at a small underground party where another popular artist of notable fame will put on a DJ set like she don’t even give a shit.
by Frank
on December 23rd, 2010
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Berlin is the only city where a funeral is held for the closing of a club and lightning up memorial candles for it doesn’t seem totally inappropriate or even blasphemous. The funeral for the Bar 25 last Sunday was a real emotional moment for a lot of people. I remebered beeing very very emotional last year, but that is a too long story for this little blog. Seeing the complete area empty was a shocking experience and strangely magic at the same time. After the jump you’ll find a really nice picture of our co-author Jens titled “The last dance” which he shot at the bar closing in September. Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Claudio
on November 4th, 2010
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