The world through the eyes of Luis Ramon Marin

In the first decades of the 20th century, the world was looking similarly as our world looks today: a contrast between new and old, between high-tech and countryside. Of course, the costumes are different , as are the terms of comparisons - zeppelins vs. supersonics. But still, we are with one foot in the modernity and the other in the supermodernity.

My thoughts after the photography exhibition from Instituto Cervantes, by Luis Ramon Marin. The style is very close of what I am thinking myself about photography: use the lenses to register carefully the reality - the photos from the Spanish Civil War are a testimony of life and history - with its colourful human mosaic in a black-and-white universe. 

No free concert for today

No free concert for today at the Philharmoniker. We arrived 5 minutes before 13.00 and there were already 1.600 persons inside and more than 100 outside waiting for a chance to be accepted in. I was sad and angry but ended up in a small Swiss fast food in the area and bought tickets to see the new entry movie in the Berlin cinemas, Lebanon. 

And this never ending rain...

TimeMap Berlin

This time, I will suggest a different trip across Berlin.
There are four time options: 1869 - 1893 - 1926 - 1957.
Up to you to make the choice. The final discovery: the history of the places and streets.
I am terribly sorry, but was not prepared to take some pictures. Maybe a next time.
Anyway, a(nother) smart idea to promote the city and raise the interest in its history.

Jonathan Franzen, lecture about birds

My week-end was very social, with lots of human interactions. Will reconnect with myself soon and will start writing and posting more photos and words.

One of the intellectual news of the last two days, is Jonathan Franzen's lecture about birds. A lecture held party in a very sophisticated and elitist German.

Bis bald!

New pictures from the Festival of Lights

Today, I checked the Festival of Lights in Gendarmenmarkt

and near Zoologische Garten:

Curious, of course, about other locations.

5. ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

Kino Babylon Mitte is hosting from 14 to 17 October 5. ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. For the competition of the best poetic movies were sent more than 900 films from 71 countries, from films to children to horror and erotic films. The new elements of this 5th edition: the increased role of the poets in presenting directly their works to the filmmakers, the presentation of the results of the collaboration between Israeli filmmakers and German poets and the works of students from German film schools in transforming the words of poems into images.

I have been today evening at the opening of the exhibition of the Dutch artists eddie d, Matt Hulse and Pim Zwier "Public Poetry Matters", a visual protests against the anti-poetic trends of current politics (case-study, the artists' country).

Movies from Uruguay

In the period 11-25 October (one movie the week, every Monday, from 20 o'clock), Kino Babylon Mitte is hosting several contemporary movies from Uruguay, under the organization of Instituto Cervantes Berlin. Can you mention one single movie from this Latin American country? Let's say "Whisky"...Ready for the tour?