Hipstamatic – In A Berlin Minute (Week 39)
Hipstamatic was declared one of the iPhone apps of the year 2010. It instantly adds effects to digital iPhone photos to make them look like they were taken with an old leaky camera with plastic…
Prenzlauer Berg – In A Berlin Minute (Week 162)
Prenzlauer Berg (Prenzlau Hill – or Prenzlau Slope as I like to call it in reference to the very similar Park Slope in Brooklyn that we’ve been calling home since 2001) is a…
forgetters at Schokoladen – In A Berlin Minute (Week 54)
forgetters at Schokoladen – In A Berlin Minute (Week 54) This past week, Brooklyn band forgetters played at Schokoladen and gave me just the right reason to finally check out (and film) this former squat and staple…
Silvester / New Year’s Eve 2011 – In A Berlin Minute (Week 36 Bonus Clip)
The most exciting way to spend New Year’s Eve must be to join the masses celebrating with fireworks, drinks and friends out on the streets of Berlin (or other major German cities). Because…
East Side Gallery (The Wall Art) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 95)
This 1-minute video is only intended to give a quick impression of the East Side Gallery – an outdoor gallery of 105 official images painted on a 1.3 km section of the Berlin…
Holocaust Memorial – In A Berlin Minute (Week 22)
The official name of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is “Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas” (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe). The Holocaust Memorial was designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold and officially inaugurated…
World Cup 2014 – In A Berlin Minute (Week 216)
The FIFA World Cup 2014 started on June 12th in Brazil. And just in time, Scott and I arrived in Berlin, Germany, to watch and celebrate with friends and strangers all over the…
Berlin Churches of the 1989 Peaceful Revolution / Kirchen der Friedlichen Revolution – In A Berlin Minute (Week 126)
In days like these, when there are so many uprisings that are answered by violence, I thought it would be a good idea to focus on a positive aspect in German history: The…
