Could hardly wait for this Monday to come around to share this excellent song and video: Lykke Li with “I Follow Rivers”. The video, directed…
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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…
View More Hipstamatic – In A Berlin Minute (Week 39)MusicMonday: Girls Can Be Cute (Best Coast, She & Him, ‘Allo Darlin)
With all the tough girls and the mysterious girls and the sex-you-up girls, I thought it’d be nice to feature a few cute, or even…
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Tacheles – In A Berlin Minute (Week 38)
A few days ago a guy* I know in Philadelphia (US) posted on Facebook an article from a UK paper about Tacheles, an art collective…
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MusicMonday: Favorite Songs of 2010
This is the last time, I’ll milk some of these songs for a Music Monday posting. Out of the 90 songs I had collected for…
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Maueropfer / Wall Victims – In A Berlin Minute (Week 37)
From 1961 until 1989 at least 136 people died directly because of the Berlin Wall and border area. These people are referred to as “Todesopfer…
View More Maueropfer / Wall Victims – In A Berlin Minute (Week 37)MusicMonday: Dance Songs
Just got through a rather intense work phase and now could really use a good night of dancing. But because I’m too tired to go…
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Praha – Prague – In A Berlin Minute (Week 36)
For our fifteenth (15th!!!) wedding anniversary Scott and I went on a super-spontaneous super-short 24-hour trip to Prague, where neither of us had been before.…
View More Praha – Prague – In A Berlin Minute (Week 36)Thanks, Genius… and Elizabeth Gilbert… and TED
Every once in a while I treat myself to watching a video from the “A Taste of TED Talks” podcast collection. Today, while trying to…
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Happy New Year (In Photo and Video)
Because I knew a few people were going to send me holiday cards this year, including ShooterHatesYou (who had announced on his vlog that he…
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MusicMonday: Favorite Songs of 4th 1/4 of 2010
Here is the list for my mix CD of favorite songs from the last three months of 2010. As usual there were more favorites than…
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Snow Country – In A Berlin Minute (Week 35)
The Christmas holidays I spent with my family in the country north-west of Hamburg: the Haseldorfer Marsch. On the 25th we all went for a walk…
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Christmas Market – In A Berlin Minute (Week 34)
The Christmas Markets (Weihnachtsmärkte) around Alexanderplatz offer all the usual gifts, foods and atmosphere… and a few more surprising thrills… Happy Holidays, Everyone! – Luci…
View More Christmas Market – In A Berlin Minute (Week 34)MusicMonday: Poly Styrene – “Black Christmas”
Just heard this very dark and quite catchy Christmas song and had to recommend it to you immediately: “Black Christmas” by Poly Styrene (singer of…
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Caitlin revisits Bremen – In A Berlin Minute (Week 33)
Caitlin revisits Bremen – In A Berlin Minute (Week 33) from Luci Westphal on Vimeo. This week my friend Caitlin Cassaro from Brooklyn visited me…
View More Caitlin revisits Bremen – In A Berlin Minute (Week 33)MusicMonday: jj – “Let Them” and “Let Go”
The new single by Swedish band jj (Joakim Benon and Elin Kastlander) “Let Them” doesn’t have a video yet, but you can download it for…
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