Ghost Bikes – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 85)
Ghost Bikes can be found all over Brooklyn, New York City and most of the world. They are memorials to bicyclists who have been killed on the street. A bike, painted white, gets…
My Friends’ RESIST Signs – In Another Minute (Week 354)
Over the last few weeks, I have seen a lot of the resist signs my friends held up at protests and marches around the world. This week’s 1-minute video is a collection of…
Crazy Horse Memorial (South Dakota) – In Another Minute (Week 247)
Crazy Horse Memorial, near Custer, South Dakota, is a huge work-in-progress mountain sculpture of Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse… riding a horse. A similar creative endeavor to the four presidents’ faces on Mount Rushmore…
Meet Günter Westphal (Visual + Social Artist) – In A Minute Portrait (Week 240)
Most people know Günter Westphal from Hamburg, Germany, as a photographer, a social artist and an activist in the Münzviertel neighborhood (in St. Georg, Hamburg). He also happens to be my father. When…
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site (Atlanta) – In Another Minute (Week 82)
The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia (established in 1980) includes King’s boyhood home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church (he and his father had been pastors there), the Civil Rights Walk, a Gandhi…
“All God’s Children” – Germany Premiere – In A Berlin Minute (Week 55)
Big week for me: our 70-minute documentary All God’s Children premiered in Germany. It’s played all over the US and Canada already – and in parts on Dutch television. But this was the first time…
David Hasselhoff sings at the wall to save the East Side Gallery
Today David Hasselhoff came to Berlin to support the East Side Gallery – a stretch of the former wall, which has become both an outdoor art gallery and a memorial ever since about…
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…
