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stencil stumbling

August 30, 2009 | Bureaucracy 23, 3175 | 4:12

lucy and me were curious about the treasure hunt the prototypen set up at their awesome annual betriebsausflug in the forest outside of berlin. we staggered through sticks and bushes, from one enciphered hint to the next and eventually found the treasure…

…so the prize we won is a street art stencil of us, based on a photo shot the next morning, hungover and quite spaced out.

really cool! thanks prototypen!

moonstruck droid

August 10, 2009 | Bureaucracy 3, 3175 | 11:51

just got my brandnew htc hero ‘iphone killer’ smartfone. it’s really impressive to me, being used to 8 years of ericsson candybar type cellfones. a totally new experience to have navigation and cloud access wherever i go. i love the android OS and the countless applications that exist for it already. i already got a favorite: google sky map - moving the phone around the nightsky it shows names of planets, stars, and constellations. a must have for the romantic beatnik geek!

ruling the wasteland…

August 6, 2009 | Confusion 72, 3175 | 16:39

…and maintaining order. fluxInterceptor Suzuki RV 50.

beatific borderline

August 2, 2009 | Confusion 68, 3175 | 22:37

You may upbraid me a damn romantic hippie after reading this, but I have thought about this quite often and i experience evidence about it almost every day. I’ve been living in Berlin for almost 10 years now and no matter how my personal attitude and maturity may have changed along the way, there’s always been a place in this city that had an almost magic touch for me: the Mauerpark.

It used to be a dehumanizing death strip, separating and restraining people from their natural freedom, feared and shunned by many. Now, 20 years after the infamous Berlin wall tumbled down with the collapse of the cold war world order, the scar in the middle of the city has become a place for human beings to gather in peace and happiness, escape from their allday lives, to contemplate, communicate and enjoy themselves and each other.

It’s not quite a beautiful park compared to the many other *real* ones in Berlin, a rather bleak open field with a few trees, framed by a sports stadium and a bunch of run-down unaestetic storage spaces. Nonetheless it’s completely crowded every weekend during the flea market and people do barbecues in the mild evenings or spend their freetime playing boules with friends and strangers alike, much like in other parks.

Anyhow I have experienced so many countless special moments in that space, be it the most beautiful vanilla sky sunsets or amazing midnight fullmoons, far the best and deepest conversations, the funniest laughs, the most spontaneous random gatherings, moments of tranquility, solitude, sadness and lust for life. The intensity of these moments has always been kind of special in the Mauerpark compared to other places in Berlin - I am not really able to tell why.

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