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This is another Brandenburg Tor, this time made out of nanoblocks. With its brushy brethren, it resides in my kitchen – a fun reminder of Berlin’s number one tourist attraction. I ordered it June 1, 2014 (Thanks Amazon for reminding me) – and my distinct memory of building it is that it took me […] Back in 2012 I bought a new couch – getting rid of the two couches that had come to dominate my living room while being simultaneously ugly and decrepit. With a new couch came the need for a coffee table – and I can tell you that I spent a great deal of time […] There was roughly a period of time that I was an Apple person. It started with an iPod in the mid 2000s, followed by an iPhone – I remember PapaScott showing off his iPhone at a WEBMU event and I had to have one. So I eventually got one. Then I bought a MacBook, […] I rarely like authentic imitations of famous landmarks – rather I prefer things that take the mickey out of serious real life objects – it took me years in Weimar before I found the perfect trinket (object of art) to represent the city. That’s an object for another day. This is an object that […] This cute piece of art, featuring the dramatic glass dome over the Friedrichstraße S-Bahn station and a tram. The fox is not normally seen in this environment, but I suppose that it might be seen there today. I wouldn’t know since I haven’t been near there in a long time. I bought this last […] Last fall I ran across Volta Press and their amazingly beautiful Letterpress Maps of Berlin neighborhoods – so I bought my neighborhood, Schöneberg. This striking map, framed, is in my hallway, at eye-level, so I see it multiple times daily. At least once I day I stop to admire it and to look at […] I realized that, theoretically, today I am flying back from a weekend in London. In an alternative universe, had I not travelled to London, I would have headed to the north side of Berlin for a Berlin Flamingos Baseball Game against the Hamburg Stealers. For reasons that I’d rather not explain too clearly, I […] Easter Sunday morning, I went for my usual constitutional, slipping out my front door just before 06:00, into the quiet of nearly empty streets. According to my phone, I walked about 10,600 steps in about 82 minutes, with 4% of this counting as “running” – whatever that means. Translations of Mut […] Since I’ve been spending more time at home, I’ve been spending more time looking at my things – and I realize now that I actually have very little representing the Berlin that I live in. “With New Eyes” is a notable exception: back on October 29, 2011, I took a tour of Berlin’s hot […] |
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