The paper graffti is such a neat idea! Do you have any stencil graffti in Germany? I have not seen it around me, but my friend John (bboy_johnny) has some pictures of on his website on stencils he has done around my old college campus.
There is a very neat work of (I think it is stencil) graffiti on a wall on my way to university of a little girl sitting. It is particularly effective because the wall is under a bridge - I will take a picture of it next time I am walking by!
Whoops, I wanted to send John to this post so that he could see the Berlin Graffti, but I didn't realize you had it locked. Do you think you can unlock it, or add him as a friend?
oh! i am jealous of your graffitti. we just have lots of lame ass tags here :( it makes me really sad, especially when they do it in the subway stations - which do not need art modification! grrrr. i really wish i could see urban art like that in stockholm!
we have a lot of those hipsters. i like to go to a cafe where many of them are. sometimes they are annoyingly elite and stare, so i ignore them (the cafe has huge cups of tea and really yummy grilled cheese sandwiches and a quiet dark downstairs). i hardly consider myself a hipster, but i do like to sport stylish clothes once in a while ;) i'm often afraid that i give off the impression of being interesting when truly i'm terribly dull.
i've never been to berlin. it's interesting to see bits of it from a resident's view.
You have substance! And you are definitely truly cool, but not hip, at least not by my definition of the word that I tried to explain in yiskah's journal yesterday. "Hip", for me, sounds like Bravo magazine style (à la Das hippe Girl trägt sexy Hot Pants für ihren smarten Dreamboy).
It's fine to wear the right shoes, clothes, hair etc at the right place and enjoy it. The people who get on my nerves are those who think that these things replace the need to have a personality or interesting thoughts, and who get their satisfaction mostly out of observing others and deeming them unworthy and stylistically inferior.
Please keep walking around Berlin smiling with glee!
And I was at said flea market at Boxhagener Platz just last Saturday! I did not notice anybody with silver shoes, though.
It's a question of definition then. :) Most things can be excused with substance and reading Die Zeit.
(And if being hip has to do with dreaming of and swooning over Bauhaus furniture, as suggested by someone in yiskah's hipness thread, then I am hip, too!)
I don't think I've been to Kastanienallee yet... I've been embarrassingly passive since I moved to Berlin, not seeing nearly as much as I planned (but Boxhagener Platz is comfortably close to where I live).
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Do you have any stencil graffti in Germany? I have not seen it around me, but my friend John (bboy_johnny) has some pictures of on his website on stencils he has done around my old college campus.
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I'm curious to see that picture, by the way!
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we have a lot of those hipsters. i like to go to a cafe where many of them are. sometimes they are annoyingly elite and stare, so i ignore them (the cafe has huge cups of tea and really yummy grilled cheese sandwiches and a quiet dark downstairs). i hardly consider myself a hipster, but i do like to sport stylish clothes once in a while ;) i'm often afraid that i give off the impression of being interesting when truly i'm terribly dull.
i've never been to berlin. it's interesting to see bits of it from a resident's view.
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And you don't seem dull in your journal, but judging by your pictures, you do have a lot of cool clothes :)
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I would like to go there again someday soon!
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And you should! Even though it is prettiest in the summer.
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You have substance! And you are definitely truly cool, but not hip, at least not by my
definition of the word that I tried to explain in yiskah's journal yesterday.
"Hip", for me, sounds like Bravo magazine style (à la Das hippe Girl trägt sexy Hot Pants für ihren smarten Dreamboy).
It's fine to wear the right shoes, clothes, hair etc at the right place and enjoy it. The people who get on my nerves are those who think that these things replace the need to have a personality or interesting thoughts, and who get their satisfaction mostly out of observing others and deeming them unworthy and stylistically inferior.
Please keep walking around Berlin smiling with glee!
And I was at said flea market at Boxhagener Platz just last Saturday! I did not notice anybody with silver shoes, though.
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Most things can be excused with substance and reading Die Zeit.
(And if being hip has to do with dreaming of and swooning over Bauhaus furniture, as suggested by someone in yiskah's hipness thread, then I am hip, too!)
I don't think I've been to Kastanienallee yet... I've been embarrassingly passive since I moved to Berlin, not seeing nearly as much as I planned (but Boxhagener Platz is comfortably close to where I live).
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