It might seem like a bundle of contradictions, the lifestyle of the well-to-do Prenzlauer Berg crowd. There are the big cars (that I keep going on about) and the big-time consumption on the one hand and there is the organic food and the waste separation on the other green-thumbed extremity. Plus there is the image of P-Berg as being the biggest breeding ground [...] Continue Reading…
Wer kennt es nicht, das bunte Treiben im Mauerpark mit der weltberühmten Karaoke-Show des Iren Joe, dem quirligen Flohmarkt, den off-road Straßenmusikanten. Und wer wollte dies nicht erhalten, zumal an einem Ort, wo Geschichte (nicht nur mit Sprühdosen) geschrieben wurde? Der Mauerpark verbindet den ehemals westlichen Wedding mit dem einst östlichen Prenzlauer Berg und so in mehrer Hinsicht zwei unterschiedliche Welten, in [...] Continue Reading…
Da schlendere ich doch so beim Sonntagsspaziergang mit meiner Weggefährtin – Sonne satt, alles nett – von der Großen Hamburger in die recht romantische Sophienstraße, als mein Blick auf eines dieser dicken Geländefahrzeuge am Wegesrand fällt, der man hie und da in Mitte gewahr wird. Am Seitenstreifen, die Parkbucht sprengend, prangt ein glänzend schwarzer Range Rover Marke Extrabreit! Ein ungewöhnlich auffälliges Exemplar.
Folglich [...] Continue Reading…
Guggenheim go home: BMWs urbanes Großprojekt mit der Guggenheim Stiftung, das Future Lab, sollte als Zwischen -nutzer die letzte Brache an der Spree beziehen. Aber sie hatten die Rechnung ohne den autonomen Kreuzberger gemacht, der dem Autobauer einen Strich durch ebensolche zog. Das Curvy Grundstück an der Ecke zur Schlesischen sollte die neue Heimat der Auto- und Museumsmilliardäre werden. Eine Kohlefaserstruktur war [...] Continue Reading…
“You can do it when you B&Q it” used to run a popular slogan for the UK DIY chain. At the moment it seems that BMW can’t B&Q it. Finalise the setting up of a temporary Future Lab, that is. The car maker was due to open a carbon-firbe structure housing the lab, designed by a Japanese architectural firm, on May 24 [...] Continue Reading…
Billboard size Grafitti in Berlin – OTA-Berlin
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Todays pictures a huge billboard sized face at the corner of Holzmarktstraße. and Michaelbrücke in Berlin Friedrichshain / Kreuzberg.
They were sent by a Dutch tourist who stayed at OTA-Berlin serviced apartments last [...] Continue Reading…
For this entry expect some shameless name-dropping, plenty of movers and shakers and a cast of comedians. The background story goes as follows: years ago I worked with a Jewish film director in London, a BBC veteran specialised in Human Rights and Holocaust documentaries. He always joked “If you want a miserable night in just put one of my films on”.
Whenever in [...] Continue Reading…
You know the psychological game whereby your focus determines what you see and how this object of attention or desire mulitplies before your eyes. Lately I seem to notice an increasing number of little colourful ‘Fix it again Tonys’ on Torstraße or thereabouts
‘Fix it again Tony’ was the term an L. A. mechanic used for the Fiat brand when I visited the [...] Continue Reading…
Europe’s 3rd largest low-cost carrier Air Berlin has said losses widened last year with German state taxes and fuel expenses meant declining margins along with the political unrest in North Africa with the concomitant decline in tourists visiting the region.
German low-cost carrier Air Berlin was thrown a financial life-line in the form of a 30% outright purchase of its shares plus a [...] Continue Reading…
As U2′s Los Angeles performed Belfast yearnings for religious and income neutral postcodes go, there are places ‘where the streets have no name’. This seems true not only in Utopia but elsewhere, too. Namely in New York City. Who doesn’t know the NYC grid, after all?!
As a student I did a bike-messenger stint in Manhattan, so tourists would frequently ask me for [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Todays picture shows almost copied or an artists version of famous people like Marilyn Monroe and a Beck’s Beer advertisement as painted on the wall of a small market in Prenzlauer Berg. Also a [...] Continue Reading…
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