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The second instalment in my Video Week is Kinetic by Klesha Production. This incredible video, shot in Berlin, employs a technique called Cinemagraph, which I’m sure I could read a lot about if I googled it but I don’t want to take the magic and mystery away. Kinetic [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/29653744 w=500&h=281]
I find that getting other people’s perspectives on Berlin, whether in the form of blog posts, newspaper articles or videos, helps me to discover new things in the city and keeps me looking at familiar spots with fresh eyes. On the weekend I spent a couple of hours trawling Vimeo for Berlin content and I’d like […]
Almost three weeks ago now, on his 66th birthday, David Bowie surprised everyone by releasing a new song – Where Are We Now? – a melancholy tune that reflects on his time living in Berlin in the 1970s. Following the new single’s release my social media feeds were abuzz with (mainly positive) reactions and Berlin […]
Real Scenes – Berlin by Resident Advisor, like a previous Sunday Documentary post, Children of Berlin, explores the explosion of Techno in Berlin after the fall of the wall. People who lived through and shaped the development of the Techno scene in Berlin discuss the factors that led to the city becoming the go-to destination […]
I don’t know much about the German music scene but I’ve heard the name Cro, so when the video for Einmal um die Welt (Once Around The World, for English speakers) popped up as a YouTube suggestion I decided to give it a click. And I’m glad I did. The catchy blend of Rap and […]
I’ve had First Aid Kit – Hard Believer bouncing around in my head since I saw the band walking around the DDR Museum in Berlin yesterday afternoon. Sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg are from Stockholm, though you wouldn’t know they’re Swedish to hear them sing or talk. It’s almost as if they are channelling the […]
In today’s Sunday Documentary, Lost Worlds – Hitler’s Supercity, I return to a subject covered in two previous documentaries posted here – Hitler’s Henchmen – Speer – The Architect and Hitler’s Hidden City – Hitler’s unrealised plans for Welthauptstadt Germania as drawn up by Albert Speer. From around the 15-minute mark there is a very […]
I was more than a little surprised to hear Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Find The Time playing as I walked along the aisles in Kaiser’s the other day. I guess someone must have picked up on the line ‘Or to move to Kreuzberg and escape into the night’ and decided it would be […]
My latest Ohrwurm is Foals – My Number. Foals made a big impression in the UK in 2008 with their debut album Antidotes but it left me cold. Their latest single, the catchy and upbeat My Number has caught my attention though. My Number is taken from Foals’ third studio album, Holy Fire, which will […]
I love this Berlin am Abend video on Gilly’s Playground shot on a snowy Saturday evening in Berlin. Gilly made the video of typical Berlin sights and scenes to show off the Hauptstadt and I think it looks like a great advert for the city. Look out for the bit at 28 seconds where the ‘Soviet […]
