The Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale (2/10 – 2/20/11), is such a big, layered event that it’s impossible to participate in everything or even…
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“In A Berlin Minute” now on Facebook
Yesterday I finally created a Facebook Page for my weekly web series “In A Berlin Minute”. I debated for a while if I really needed…
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Urban Birds – In A Berlin Minute (Week 40)
Birds, birds, birds. Berlin is full of them. They’re eating, fighting, mating, sleeping – like all Berliners. They just don’t have to go to work,…
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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…
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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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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…
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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.…
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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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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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Thanksgiving In Brooklyn – In A Berlin Minute (Week 31)
Thanksgiving in Brooklyn – In A Berlin Minute (Week 31) from Luci Westphal on Vimeo. For the second year in a row we had the…
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TV Tower (Fernsehturm) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 29)
TV Tower / Fernsehturm – In A Berlin Minute (Week 29) from Luci Westphal on Vimeo. Usually I try to shoot fresh footage during the…
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Book Burning Memorial – In A Berlin Minute (Week 27)
In May 1933 students burnt the works of hundreds of authors on a square in Berlin (and throughout Germany). In 1994/95 a memorial called “Bibliothek” (library) conceived by Micha Ullman was built within what is today called Bebelplatz.
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Museumsinsel – In A Berlin Minute (Week 23)
The Museumsinsel Berlin is an island on the Spree river, which hosts currently five museums and also the Berliner Dom. Because the latter does not show up…
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Porkfish Animation & Alex Brüel Flagstad & Agnes Obel
As expected, since moving to Berlin I’ve met some really cool creative people. Also not very surprising, they come from all over the world –…
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Museum für Naturkunde – In A Berlin Minute (Week 13)
Museum für Naturkunde – In A Berlin Minute (Week 13) Das Museum für Naturkunde Berlin… how is your German coming along? That’s right, it’s the natural…
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Pavement – In A Berlin Minute (Week 3)
So the night finally arrived: Pavement played in Berlin! I had bought the tickets for the show long before I booked my flight to Berlin…
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