No guarentee on this one!
It looks pretty good if you consider the prices.
Just 2 minuts from the SBahn stopp Westend. Which might seem far out but is actually not because with the Ringbahn you can reach pretty much any part of Berlin – so if you are on a budget you might wanna check it out! Sleepcheaphostel.com
“Berlin Night Light Stories”
presents Kieran Behan and Heike Jänichen with Audio Support by C.love and Dirty Guy Lovis Leo Freitag 27.03.
| START: 19:00 | @ HOF 96 | TORSTRASSE 96 | 10119 BERLIN |
The newest and funky art happening addition to HOF96, “Berlin Night Light Stories“ will open its doors this Friday at 19:00. The two talkative and stunning makers Sara Aeon, the swedish hat and clothing designer, and her right hand Gabriela Oh!, the artist and creative director, who newly founded “Social Wonders“ together, have as a goal with this event, to create a platform for fascinating, stunning yet affordable art in hospitable and classy surroundings.
This Friday is their event premiere at Hof96, and for the initial evening, they have chosen the young and upcoming photographer Kieran Behan to show photographs matching to the theme Berlin Night Light Stories. As well as recently well-reviewed Photographer Heike Jänichen, who showed photographs at Hof96 in The beginning of 2009.
This evening she showsa whole other creative side or herself exhibiting bizarre yet captivating drawings, taken from the past 8 years of her New Year’s calendar series. The audio entertainment upstairs in the gallery will be coverd by Lovis Leonardo from the Dirty Guys crew, who has been spinning turntables all over berlin for quite some time, and downstairs in the “Tiny Disco“ your ears and behinds will be tantralized by miss C.love.
The concept is quite simple.
Being bored with exhibitions in over-architected spaces where one piece of art cost as much as 5 months rent, they ladies want to create an opportunity for the “poor yet sexy“ generation to be able to enjoy art not only at posh and fancy galleries, but also on ones own walls. During the evening the guests will be able to accuire not only drinks from the charming and lovable António at the bar, but also to buy the pieces in the exhibition, which will be affordable to everyone, and not dependent of the thickness of your wallet 
It`s sunday – and the shows are still going on however I am ready to close this Fashion Week. There will be some more posts coming in the next few days with pictures/ videos from the shows but for now have a look at some impressions! Above you see Lena Gercke Germany`s next old former future no maybe not anymore best almost ever Topmodel.
Allein Allein from Polarkreis 18 performed live at the Eastpak Show – Eastpak always has one Topmodel + one Topact and bags!
Oops! First row views from the second row at Becks Fashion Experience …
Problem solved!
Not quite naked I bet she had a Becks beer after that walk 
Backstage at Becks Fashion Experience
After the Becks show – on the way to the bathroom – we had a little look into the Models area and had some green healthy soup with some of the models and of course champagne Eating that soup made me not wanna be a model thinking about having to eat this all the time. The soup was nice no doubt about that but always?
This Friday January 16th @ Grüner Salon – Starting time 20:00 highly recommended for a lot of fun and a hell of a good time – those girls are worth seeing!
Spreading the gospel of country music to people who don’t even know they like country, six girls from four different nations formed the band The Runaway Brides in 2006 and have laughed, cried, and sang together ever since. Take a punk rock drummer and pair her with a classical violist; add a jazz singer playing a stand-up bass, a bluegrass mandolin player from Kentucky and two loudmouth divas with voices like single malt whisky and you have The Runaway Brides. This ain’t your average country band.
DDR Disco. A Tape revival with Täter & Ostbrot, two former cassette DJs. This thursday january 15th. Presented to you by BEASTNATION.
Behind the scenes.
Asia. Finally. We did a shooting for BERLIN LOVES YOU in HONG KONG. On january first we had the chance to take Violet the model Harry C and his assistant + Crew through Hong Kong and take a great couple of shots. Harry C is one of the upcoming chinese photographers who – amongst Berlin Loves You shoots for interntaional brands or international celebrities like Kate Moss and lots of Asian celebrities. Harry, thanks again for your time and the great pictures – which will be published on the Berlin Loves You Webpage in a bit. Hong Kong is a crazy city and I loved being there and doing a shoot for Berlin Loves You.
Dinner "Rice in a Pot" after the shoot with the crew.
So here it is – finally a really cold and white winter in Berlin. Reminds us of how close the east and the cold Russia really is. I am posting some pictures of our friend Jürgen Gässler who is a photographer in Berlin and has been here longer then the most of us – how does 30 years sound?! Check out his webpage: Cityslang.
Last week we had the honour to attend an awards ceremony at the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz, in the Sony Center buildings. A friend, Luca, was due to receive an award for his work on technological innovation in the film industry. Luca created an online marketplace for film-makers and film festival organizers, and when he had told me about that project several weeks earlier my first thought had been: Who needs that?
Obviously this reaction is ample testimony of my ignorance when it comes to film-making. Because as it turns out, there is an urgent need for such a marketplace indeed. With more than 800 annual film festivals around the world and thousands and thousands of directors trying to get an audience, the process of placing the right films at the appropriate festivals so far has been a nightmare. No more, because with Luca’s website, film-makers get access to a comprehensive festival calendar, including all prerequisites: formats, deadlines, festival topics, legal issues – everything. On the other hand, festival organizers won’t have to browse throught hundreds of DVDs and accompanying leaflets sent in by hapless directors anymore since much of their applications will be done and previewed online from now on.
Prosecco and hors d’oeuvres were served as a small crowd gathered for the ceremony. As was befitting for a proper German award, His Excellency the Kultur-Staatsminister would be handing over the prizes – and as was befitting, too, a substantial amount of money would change hands on that occasion. 25.000 Euro to Luca, 25.000 more to another team and their project. The location at Sony Center was a proper stage for this as well; from the 4th floor you look down right into the yard which from up there looks quite a bit like a giant modern Amphitheater. All very posh.
So on it went. Speeches were held, respect was paid, and as my companions Marco and Flip dozed off into their Prosecco-induced stupor, it was me who had to point out the essential goodness of this evening. Because as both the Kultur-Staatsminister and Luca underlined, this award here was pretty unique in the world. In the film industry, most non-experts follow only the actors’ or directors’ awards, but in the shadow of those, I was surprised to learn that it’s German companies that are habitually being showered with high-ranking accolades for technical innovation. In other words: Right there, we were witnessing a ceremony that, in a niche that most movie-goers overlook, fosters some rather significant developments on the bigger picture. Developments that seem to be a lot more substantial than what some over-hyped startups in the Berlin “cool” scene are churning out.
And what’s more: Our much-maligned political and cultural establishment with all its detachment and formality seems to be supporting the right thing here, not only with words but with tangible assets and funds!
All this I pointed out to my somewhat sluggish fellows. So it was a happy crowd that, after the ceremony, walked over to celebrate in style at the Ritz Carlton bar (my choice). Luca placed his award certificate, indicating the sum of 25.000 Euros, on the table so that proper credit was established. After midnight, we went home with the good feeling that Berlin even allows for some poshness where poshness is due – and that this wasn’t all bad.
Not bad at all, in fact.
Here in Berlin, Sundays are about leisure, relaxation, and fun. If you’re not still tripping the light fantastic at Panorama Bar or nursing a hangover over Sunday brunch, chances are you’re probably headed to the flea market. With dozens of markets scattered throughout the city, you probably won’t have to go far to partake in this Berlin Sunday tradition.
Flohmarkt am Mauerpark is a busy, sprawling market located next to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark in Prenzlauer Berg. Bargain hunters and fashionistas alike gather here each week to peruse the seemingly endless rows of tents, kiosks, and tables. Though the variety of things for sale is impressive, it’s the huge numbers of items that can be really striking: Hundreds of rubber office stamps, boxes upon boxes of Japanese slippers, rows of tacky landscape paintings, dozens of chandeliers, towers of old reading glasses, and zippers in every size, shape and color imaginable.
Looking for some GDR-era furniture to give your flat a touch of East German chic? There are enough white plastic chairs, glass coffee tables, and geometric light fixtures to decorate every trendy dive bar in Friedrichahin. In need of that perfect one-of-a-kind t-shirt to show the world how impossibly cool yet casual you are? There is no shortage of colorful silk screened delights at the Flohmarkt. Even if you don’t know what you’re looking for… you’ll probably find three of them at the flea market.
You can find more information about the Flohmarkt am Mauerpark at www.mauerparkmarkt.de
