We set out early...
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Despite a late Friday night talking all sorts of nonsense with Roberto, I was excited for my first trip to Berlin...
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First we saw a little chunk of the wall...
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We spent the late morning in the Holocaust Memorial, which was heavy and beautiful in the December sun...
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Kids played hide and seek among the stones.
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Then we got together with our friends Zoe...
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and Jens...
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for lunch and then cake and big bowls of coffee at Jens' photo studio. He unwrapped some of his new work to show us...
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Jens has been working for several years making long-exposure (think HOURS) photos using available light in near-darkness (or in the light of a television turned on in a dark room). Meaning: he sets up a camera in a room and opens the shutter, then leaves. The light accumulates over the time the shutter is open, so he ends up with basically all the light from a long period of time condensed into one frame. Go to
www.komossa.tv to see for yourself. (All things blog related: our first Brooklyn apartment is the last shot in the NY Television series).
I encouraged Zoe to keep her chin up about her PhD disertation...
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(over our heads is Jen's photo of mailboxes in Finland, taken at night)
I took a picture of his kitchen because I have a thing for water bottles...
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and his skylight because I have a thing for sky...
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It turns out this banana tag you see all over Berlin is made by a relative of Jens...
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Berlin = Party People Pumpin' They Fist Like This
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Berlin = Party People Pumpin' They Fist Like This
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This trip was our warm-up. Wednesday the games begin.
Next stop: PARIS!