This will be my last blog post for awhile. Tomorrow I leave Berlin and begin my wanderings around Europe. For the next few weeks I will have nothing electronic with me; I’ll just bring some clothes, my passport, my wallet, my train pass, a toothbrush, and of course a towel.
(”A towel is about the most […]
I went to a soccer game at the Olympic Stadium. The fans for the Berlin team cheered loudly for the entire game. I got to the game a couple minutes after kickoff, and I could hear the fans from outside the stadium. I felt like I was part of something grand while I was in […]
I have finished my final project titled Amsterdam. I’d recommend that you watch the video before reading the rest of this post. The video will play by itself, and there is no controller. The file is 25 MB, so it should load relatively quickly over most Internet connections. Also, while the video loads, the web […]
Hollywood’s special effects have jaded me. When I watch an action movie with a high speed car chase or a sci-fi movie with aliens the special effects do not impress me. Since I am so used to seeing Hollywood effects, I need to remember that video art, avant garde cinema, and other non-Hollywood non-narrative genres […]
Berlin has a history that I find impossible to ignore. There is a line of bricks across the city that lies where the Berlin wall used to stand. There is a holocaust memorial that spreads out over a block. There are bullet holes in the buildings from the second world war. I cannot ignore these […]
Yesterday we heard a talk by Jan Edler of realities:united about urban screens. He discussed projects his company has realized. Today we heard a talk by Mirjam Struppek who studies urban screens. Both Edler and Struppek use urban screens for artistic purposes and not for advertising, although the majority of urban screens in the world […]
As I flew to Berlin from Amsterdam, I saw Amsterdam from the airplane window.
Now I am in Berlin. It is so windy here that when I lean into the wind I don’t fall over. After spending one day here, three words come to mind: old, intricate, and oxidized.
Today I took a wonderful walk through the […]