Category Archives: Cities

Weekend – NY Style

New York, United States

After my little ~3000 km road trip starting in Chicago I finally arrived in New York to spend the weekend here …
I started the weekend with a nice little walk from 103rd down to Battery Park passing by almost all important sights in Manhatten …
continued with a long walk through Brooklyn and some more time in Manhatten on Saturday …
and finished up with a Yankees game (I happened to pass by and luckely got one of the returned tickets, they actually lost against the team of the previous city on my trip, the Toronto Blue Jays), a Bronx walk today and dinner at 6th&53rd today …
Queens and Staten Island will have to wait until next time I guess …

But as most people would agree, it’s a nice city … even though I was not too overwhelmed after seeing Chicago and Toronto before … ;)

btw … it was just approx. 53.300 people in the Yankee arena.

Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective

Berlin

This weekend I’ve been to the National Gallery in Berlin to visit the ‘Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective’ which is on these days …
Hiroshi Sugimoto is a japanese photographer who does mostly black’n’white shots!
Quite some nice pictures he has done … I guess I liked the ‘Conceptual Forms’, the ‘Lightning Fields’ and the long-time exposure ‘Theaters’ the most!

Have a look at his webpage here: www.sugimotohiroshi.com

Science Night and The LHC Express

Berlin, CERN, DESY

Yesterday (June 14th 2008) I was guide in the LHC Express at the Science Night in Berlin.
The LHC Express was a pimped city train (S-Bahn) that was circling the city ring from about 16h00 till 1h00. After my three hours shift, explaining the LHC and it’s connected experiments as well as the physics behind all this to the visitors/public, I had problems speaking …
With some minor issues/problems/difficulties I still think it was a big success.

Links in German: Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, S-Bahn

Photo Half Marathon

Berlin

Today was another of these supposed to be relaxing Sundays, which didn’t work out exactly as expected … well, we took part in a Photo Half Marathon organised by friends!
The task is to shoot pictures on twelve topics (also following one major topic) in about six hours.
The topics where handed out in three groups of four with two hours in between and at different places in Berlin. Which made the whole thing a bit stressful sometimes … and we paid our teamname (“Auf den letzten Drücker”/”In the last moment”) tribute by showing up last on all checkpoints :-)

The topics where following German advertising slogans (therefore translating doesn’t make much sense), whereas the brands in parenthesis where not given and the overall topic was “Powered by Emotion” (another advertising slogan, SAT1) :

  1. Du bist Deutschland (Bundesregierung)
  2. Wer hat’s erfunden? (Ricola)
  3. Isch habe gar keine Auto! (Nescafe)
  4. Eine Perle der Natur (Krombacher)
  5. Bin ich schon drin? (AOL)
  6. Weil ich es mir Wert bin (L’Oreal)
  7. Medizin deines Lebens (Asperin)
  8. Ist der neu? (Perwoll)
  9. Nicht nur sauber sondern rein (Ariel)
  10. Auf diese Steine können Sie bauen (Schwäbisch Hall)
  11. Wohnst du noch oder lebst du schon? (IKEA)
  12. Zukunft bewegen (Deutsche Bahn)

Thanks and Cheers to the organisers
In case we win ;-) pictures will follow!

My new baby!

Berlin, Bowling

As every Sunday I went to the bowling lanes today.
But this time I brought my new baby!
Its got nice curves, roughly twelve labs, a serial number and goes by the name of T-Zone, Brunswick.
But enough jokes … my new bowling ball (incl. bag and extra equipment) is one piece of the fine selection of presents I got for my birthday, roughly a week ago. I went to the store yesterday and today I gave it a first shot in four games with an average of 166.75 points.
With only about a quarter of a point under this year’s average its been a good start.
Looking forward for more :-)

Thanks to all the ones taking part in this present!
And of course also big thanks to all the others for their presents!