Thanks to the EU, its super easy to hop around within Europe. After a brief trip in London, it was back to Berlin. I always always always leave Berlin feeling really inspired and refreshed. It’s like a charging station for me. For example, i even managed to dream up an entire movie concept in my sleep. (Any hollywood execs, feel free to holla!)
It’s like Steven Vogel said on his blog, there’s something about New Yorkers and Berlin. I think there’s also something about Berliner’s always being down on Berlin and everyone else in the world being in love with their city. That’s a similar mentality I have with New York. I hate it here yet there is no where else I can possibly be. So there you have it. Maybe that’s what Berlin and NY has in common. Steven’s new book has just dropped (not yet in US) and it’s really really good. Quite an accomplishment. Nice to see our culture professionally documented like this and all the different perspectives to Street Culture are very interesting. It could very well be the most times the word “street” appears in one book in all of printed history.
This is something they should bring to New York if it were at all possible. Public bikes. They have these bikes all over the city. Its pretty cool. You register yourself with your cell phone and credit card. Then whenever you see one and need a ride, you call the # on the side of the bike and it unlocks for you and you take it for a spin for pennies. When you’re done, you call again to lock it back up and away you go. It’s like Bike 2.0. These bikes are all paid for by DB which is Germany’s main transporation company. C’mon MTA…someone step up and do this.
Also picked up these Super Team 33 New Balance’s. I always saw these around online and never thought much about them. But when you actually hold them in your hands, its quite amazing. The fabrication is dope…as well as the packaging. Thanks to Hikmet at Solebox!!
I was lucky enough in my short trip to meet up with some Berlin friends. Steven, Bianca, new transplanted Allen from AKA. And also reconnect with some old aquaintences Marly and wife Maren. Marly runs the Nort Berlin store but is at heart a computer programming terrorist. Him and his company Movement come up with some pretty sick shit like HypeDiss and Talkety. Check it out for yourself. It’s like if the crew from The Matrix were sneakerheads.
It’s nice to see someone else showing some love to the Pagani Zonda…all my buddies either give me shit about LOVING that car or ask me what kind of car it is because they have never seen them…if only they were street legal in the US…keep writing good posts I definitely enjoy reading em
Thats funny man, I got the same photo of that Cathedral in Berlin a few weeks back. Certainly an inspirational city:
http://www.derestricted.com/berlin47.html