Berlin: a certain style
Jun. 20th, 2006 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus
Edit: Two of these photos were taken in Neukolln, the subject of my new Wired piece, Going Tribal in Berlin's "Neubeca".
imomusEdit: Two of these photos were taken in Neukolln, the subject of my new Wired piece, Going Tribal in Berlin's "Neubeca".
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Date: 2006-06-20 08:07 am (UTC)There's just nothing going on. The city doesn't feel engaged in anything, art, politics, anything. More than anything else, it seems to be striving to be as completely boring and normal as the south and north bay suburbs. The east bay and sac still seem ok.
In the final analysis though, I judge a city by how I feel in it. If a city can't make me feel undereducated and uncool, then it's got nothing going.
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Date: 2006-06-20 12:11 pm (UTC)http://www.zombietime.com/world_naked_bike_ride_2006/
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Date: 2006-06-21 05:48 am (UTC)I felt like a whole cloth rip off of momus, but the only part of the city I enjoyed this time was chinatown. Even if chinatown is grubbing for the tourist dollar, it feels a 100% nicer a sales pitch than the haight, the wharf, market square or even the castro.
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Date: 2006-06-21 06:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-21 08:34 am (UTC)The public and commercial space of SF is mostly comprised of "tourist zones", especially if the castro now qualifies as a tourist zone. If there is some special magic to living in the $1000 a month apartments that border a small green space, it can be had much cheaper in a city like berlin, without having to deal with the myriad and very scary homeless, and the 10 trillion cars of san francisco.
Maybe the city can't thrive without a successful NFL team.