I’m not sure how many more of these updates I will do the same day; I seem to be spending almost as much time editing the photos and writing the text as I spend going out.
The following are pictures taken on Kurfürstendamm on the way to the Museum für Fotografie.
This was an interesting juxtaposition of old and new.
But, before we go on to the cultural part of our program, here’s something really classy.
These are pictures from the front of the museum of photograpy. I don’t have any pictures from inside the museum because—you guessed it—they don’t allow photos inside! Most of it is devoted to the work of Helmut Newton and his wife June (whose photographs are under the pseudonym “Alice Springs”). Even if I could have taken pictures, I probably couldn’t post them because most of his stuff is definitely NSFW.
This picture is near Mehringdamm, where I stopped for lunch at Curry 36. I’m not sure what the big attraction of currywurst is; it’s sausage sliced up with catsup and curry powder. It was OK, but I can pretty much take it or leave it.
After lunch, I headed over to the Berlinische Galerie, a museum for modern art, photography, and architecture. You have to pay 2€ for a pass that lets you take photos, and you have to sign an agreement that you will not use the photos for commercial purposes. That’s not a problem here, as I don’t intend to sell any of these pictures. The first picture that follows is not part of the gallery, but at a building next door. The letters on the sidewalk outside the museum seem to be suggestive of words, but not real words.
The interior of the place is very striking; it’s pretty much an artwork in and of itself.
I really liked the fence and the shape of the building (just down the street from the Berlinische Galerie).
These last two pictures are from Adenaurplatz; the man is Konrad Adenaur, first chancellor of Germany after World War 2.
The lines between the two are pretty blurred today. Here are some signs with typefaces that struck my eye. The first one is a typeface I don’t think I have seen before. The script just looks very elegant.
Worst photoshopping job ever.
This is an ad for Green Week; the text reads “Experience the Range Variety”
The subscripted dot really seems to draw your attention.
Finally, today’s typography failure. Notice the letters A and Ä in the sign? Some of them have crossbars, some of them don’t.
