This time of year is dominated by ‘best of’- lists, which is unfortunate and hugely annoying, but NPR’s list of songs in 2013 actually reminded me of one thing I really enjoyed this year: Jay-Z’s video shoot at Pace Gallery. I know, I know, it wasn’t something that [more]
I want to pack my things and move out into more interesting times. To see my conceptions shatter, to find out where the rebels live. Conformity here makes me want to sleep. Lots unsatisfied, circling around themselves, lingering in space, waiting to be loved. Nothing to cry for, [more]
I often ask my parents for advice. They’ve known me since, well, always and they often do a great job. But what they totally fail with is predicting my future. They tend to draw from their own experiences, and honestly, those are outdated. The circumstances of my generation [more]
Apparently, the Swiss don’t like their national anthem anymore. Pointing to the verse “Betet, freie Schweizer, betet!”, they dub it “too religious, over-ornate and antiquated”. They say it is “stylistically unwieldy” and they emphasize the argument by quoting words such as “Alpenfirn”, “Strahlenmeer”, “Sternenheer”, “Nebelflor” and “Abendglühn”. They [more]
As mentioned yesterday, there was this idea to focus on the radial streets of Berlin. As main theme for the International Building Exhibition that was planned for 2020. To focus on the radials: radically. Look at this playground in Müllerstraße, hidden behind a parkhouse, will it fit into [more]
Dear fuenfnullzwei.de/60pages, I am a proud Muslim from a family with a rather long tradition of religious scholars. I have read about the history of Jews in Germany and how they were able to adapt to German life in the 18th and 19th century through a process of [more]
I guess it’s tempting that every time you have a group/collective/society you look back and think of them as creative geniuses who were also great pals and just hung out a lot. That of course very very rarely was the case. But of course we’d like to think [more]
According to a recent poll, Gravity is the least Liberated Film ever made, and possibly the worst movie of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnm8O1I9XGY
Walk into Hunter College of the City University of New York on the Upper East Side, here, and you’re bombarded with more sites, smells, and sounds than 42nd Street-Times Square during rush hour. Serving more than 20’000 students, and part of a university system (CUNY) that serves some 270’000 students, Hunter College [more]
Here comes another surprising picture from Müllerstraße. You remember: this radical radial powerline, heading towards Mitte. No comment on this house, just respect.
A friend invited to a conspirative meeting with strangers (where I bumped into 60pages-fellow Simon), so I joined in for a pinot noir. And how refreshing it felt: straight-talking to people, unknown to me to that minute, cutting the crap. We plowed through the topics – the definition [more]
Friday evening, seven o’clock, hectic times in one of Germany’s biggest organic food stores. I had just won a fight with a preppy couple in quilted jackets over the last hulled wheat bread with sesame seeds. Triumphantly, I walked on and steered my way through tons of trolleys [more]
Later-generation Holocaust films are no longer driven to document the entirety of the atrocity, rather they seek the “devil in the details.” The 2007 Austrian film, Die Fälscher (2008 Oscar, Best Foreign-Language Film), did just this by taking the perspective of a rather limited population of camp inmates: [more]
The journalist is the scriptwriter answering to the specific political bias of the paycheck. The film adaptation goes further to revise any inconsistencies in the original broadcast.
It’s rare that I manage to arrange a spontaneous meet with someone. I barely dare ask my friends anymore because the probability of success is so low. So when it actually works out, it’s unequivocally a positive surprise. Wednesday night was one of those surprises. I didn’t have [more]
Today I bought a Yahrtzeit candle. The place where I usually get them didn’t have any left. (Yes, you read that right, “them”. I could just buy them in bulk, but I won’t.) So the owner explained the way to a different shop. “And then you get to [more]
Die Kamera meines Iphone ist mit mikroskopisch kleinen Fuseln verunreinigt, glaubte ich. Tatsächlich sind es rosa Vögel. Reisen mit, fliegen neben her, überqueren den Atlantik, zehntausend Meter über Eisschollen.
It’s been said that time is moving in circles and every age brings new challenges. When you’re old, people around you die and you get introduced to the finitude of life, as it gets emptier and emptier around you. When you’re my age, life is about creating new [more]
Kreuzberg vor zwei Stunden. Ich bin auf dem Weg in die Uferhallen, dicke Nebelschwaden über der Schlesischen Straße. Was als Performance zu Sex-Arbeit angekündigt ist, entpuppt sich als öffentlicher bzw. halb-geheimer und trotzdem irgendwie öffentlicher Live-Stream-Chat. Die Frau der Stunde kniet auf einer inszenierten Matratze – im Video [more]
Lately I seem to be surrounded by cokeheads. In the train, in bars, even in work related places. You recognize them from afar: Their galvanizing body movements, like the ministry of silly walks on speed. The constant fiddling with their noses – sniffing, puffing, snorting. The stray gaze [more]
(Not to be confused with “A People’s Guide to Peoples”, about the screenwriter and director David Webb Peoples.) So there are all these categories we try to put people in. Some of them have historical origins, some don’t. Most of them are pretty useless now – devoid of [more]
Today is my last post for 60 Pages, and it feels like the end of basketball season in high school: you’re relieved you don’t have to go to practice anymore, but then you feel a little empty when you walk by the gym, hungry for a ball in [more]
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