today and tomorrow

Today I finally had the time to visit the new adidas concept store No.74 in Berlin. Its name is quite self explanatory … its location is in the Torstrasse 74. At the moment they only have the adidas Y-3 spring summer collection, in May and June they will have selection of adidas Originals. From July on, they will have a wider product range with limited editions and special items related to Berlin. You may also expect a China like market shop interior in the coming months, hence the olympics. Definitely a new spot on my Berlin tour.

For those of you who want to come and visit Berlin there is this new website called berlin.unlike. You can find addresses of bars, shops, clubs, … etc, but also events; it’s an ongoing collection of course. You can add all this info to your own tour. It’s dead simple, you don’t have to register, you can start right away with adding the things you want to visit.  Your tour will get it’s own unique id, you may not forget to bookmark it when you want to add anything later (go to your tour and click on settings on the right). You can share your tour with anyone and browse it on your mobile phone, hé it’s hooked up with google maps. Here is mine. Very neat!

The Hoffmann Collection (Sammlung Hoffmann) is a private modern art collection here in Berlin. Erika and Rolf Hoffmann started to collect art back in 1968; although she says that they didn’t decided to do so, it just happend over the years. They moved to East Berlin in 1995 and opened their private home to the public in 1997. The appartment is over 1800 m² and is spread over 3 floors in an old sewing-machine factory. The photo shows the living room, most rooms look more like a normal gallery though. You can visit a part of the collection by appointment on Saturdays.

‘Ground Control’ by Ahmet Öğüt, 400 sqm of asphalt. You can experience this installation yourself at the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art.

The Boros Collection is a private art collection in Berlin, located in a huge WWII air-raid bunker. On top of it, they have build this penthouse. Unfortunatly I couldn’t find better photos, but I guess you can imagine that this is an unique project and living space.

‘Berlin: Symphony of a Great City‘ is a silent film shot in 1927 and directed by Walter Ruttmann. It’s an amazing time document, spread over 5 acts. You can find all on YouTube: Act1 - Part1, Act1 - Part2, Act2, Act3 - Part1, Act3 - Part2, Act4 - Part1, Act4 - Part2 and Act5.

Touchdown after a few days off; batteries recharged.
Touchdown at Tempelhof, the best airport in the world.

So if you are planning to visit Berlin and you want to know how the benches of every single metro station look like, then you have to visit this website!
found @ Riesenmachine

This is the low budget music video ‘Feuerland’ by Justus Köhncke, shot at the Berlin Zoo Aquarium. The track will be released on Kompakt soon and will also be on his forthcoming album ‘Safe And Sound’.

Tehran, Vancouver and Berlin. Those are the destinations of these 3 flights leaving from Heathrow. It’s part of the ‘Spoors‘ photos by Robert Davies. My track picture isn’t as cool.
again found @ VVORK