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…
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…
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…
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…
David Hasselhoff tries to save the Berlin Wall – In A Berlin Minute (Week 151)
On Sunday March 17th David Hasselhoff came to Berlin and joined an estimated 7000 people to protest the East Side Gallery being chopped up to make way for luxury condos and a bridge….
Occupy Wall Street – Protest march is coming – October 5, 2011 (2 of 3)
On October 5th, I joined tens of thousands of people and went to the financial district of Manhattan to say “enough is enough”. I was also there to record video and take photos….
Flash Mob – Die In – In A Berlin Minute (Week 50)
On April 12th at 6:30pm a German-wide flash Mob called “Die In – Fukushima Wahnt!” took place. Flashmob is an unusual and often pointless-seeming activity that is done by a group of people in a public…
