(someone sent this to me a while ago, and im still thinking of it, so i thought id post it)
ok, so my tumblr has now devolved into little more than self-indulgence for my severe berlinomania. god i miss that place! the following is from a recent guardian article about car burnings in the german capital and other left-wing efforts to stave off gentrification…
“A recent meeting at SO36 discussed non-violent ways to keep out “unwanted” residents. Erwin Riedmann, a sociologist, proposed an “uglification strategy” – to “go around wearing a ripped vest and hang food in Lidl bags from the balcony so that it looks like you don’t have a fridge”. The suggestion drew laughs, but is a strategy being adopted.
An “anti-schicki micki” website, esregnetkaviar.de (it’s raining caviar), offers the following tips to make a neighbourhood unattractive for newcomers: “Don’t repair broken windows; put foreign names on the doorbell, and install satellite dishes.”“
“Berlin is not a rich city, so the scene is not at all about money or society or status,” says Slimane. “People just don’t have those values. Everyone here is creating, so there is a very different rhythm. It’s a very free territory.”
“The exasperating thing about Emma Goldman is that she makes herself so indispensable to her audiences that it is always tragic when she leaves; the amazing thing about her is that her inspiration seems never to falter. Life takes on an intenser quality when she is present; there is something cosmic in the air, a feeling of worlds in the making…” — Margaret Anderson” — It’s not so much that I love Emma Goldman (which I do). It’s that: this is how friends should always talk about each other.
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andy warhol athlete polaroids now showing at danziger projects
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“facebook came up with a new “status cloud” application that shows you the most commonly used words in all your status updates throughout your facebook history. what are my top 4 words? “love, Berlin, sooo, happy.” hahahaha that pretty much sums my life up.” — email i got from sam this morning
i heart pet architecutre
(cf good interview with the guys from atelier bow wow: http://www.archinect.com/features/article.php?id=56468_0_23_0_C)
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“Der Sommer kam und Berlin war der schönste Platz auf Erden. Wir hatten das Gefühl im Mittelpunkt der Welt zu stehn. Dort wo sich endlich was bewegte. Und wir bewegten uns mit.” —
Goodbye Lenin (via utahrd)
The summer came, and Berlin was the best place on earth. We had the feeling we were at the center of the world, somewhere where something was finally HAPPENING. And we were happening with it.
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hipster: dead end of western civilzation -
yes, im reading adbusters back issues….
(also: why the hipster must die @ http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/features/4840/why-the-hipster-must-die)