Berlin im Licht

I had to get rid about a lot of digital waste that has taken control over my blog, but now it´s clean, and WordPress has been updated.
So, here´s some new stuff from the Festival of Lights. I just took a short look at it, since too many people with tripods were out there, fighting for the best places to shoot anything illuminated.

Clock Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1737kb (Quicktime required) Click here if you prefer to view the Fullscreen Flash version.

Projection at the face of the Berlin Dome during the Festival of Lights in October, advertising a light bulb manufacturer. A self portrait.

Berlin Dome with projection Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1747kb (Quicktime required) Click here if you prefer to view the Fullscreen Flash version.

Spring has come to Berlin. Everywhere you go, the building sites are filled up with life. The city gets ready for the WM2006.

Cherry and Palace Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 2521kb (Quicktime required) No Quicktime ? Click here to view Fullscreen JAVA movie.

Building Site Alexanderplatz Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 2198kb (Quicktime required) No Quicktime ? Click here to view Fullscreen JAVA movie.

Morning Newspaper Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 2005kb (Quicktime required) No Quicktime ? Click here to view Fullscreen JAVA movie.

A house, completely built of ice. Shortly before christmas, it was standing for one week near the Potsdamer Platz. Low temperatures speeded up its dissolution. Also published at panoramas.dk.

Ein Haus aus Eis – errichtet von einer namhaften Bank zu Werbezwecken – zierte bis zum 24.12. den ehemaligen Ballon-Startplatz am Potsdamer Platz. Die eher laue Witterung führte zu vorzeitigen Auflösungserscheinungen. Dieses Panorama wurde auch auf panoramas.dk veröffentlicht.

Icehouse Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1911kb (Quicktime required) No Quicktime ? Click here to view Fullscreen JAVA movie.

The autumn has come. A view of the Friedrichshain Parc.

Autumn in Friedrichshain Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 2829kb (Quicktime required)

For one week, several places and buildings of the city were illuminated. Thousands of (mostly amateur) photographers walked through the nightly Berlin, and tried to get the best shot. A similar meeting took place in the twenties of the last century. It was called “Berlin im Licht”.

Festival of Lights 1 Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 865kb (Quicktime required)

Festival of Lights 2 Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1509kb (Quicktime required)

Ok, this is not Berlin. It´s Venice, and the people you see here are part of the Panotools meeting, where panoramic photographers from many countrys met, to share their knowledge. Beside the informational thing, we had a lot of fun, so nevertheless this is a Berlin related blog, I will post some more Venice impressions in a few days. Instead of nice and romantic views, I show you parts of my way from the meeting to the hotel by night.

Panotools Venice Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1578kb (Quicktime required)

Panotools Venice 2 Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 2487kb (Quicktime required)

Venice in the dark 1 Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1155kb (Quicktime required)

Venice in the dark 2 Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1604kb (Quicktime required)

Since 10th may, another place of controversy has gone public: The Holocaust Memorial, a field of more than 2700 concrete blocks, arranged in a wavy grid pattern. What does it mean ? Peter Eisenman, the architect, says: “Nothing!”. Well, if all comes from nothing, this may be the right answer. During the two hours that I´ve been there, pieces of all possible opinions about this monument reached my ear.

Holocaust Memorial I Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1333kb (Quicktime required)

Holocaust Memorial II Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1051kb (Quicktime required)

Same procedure as every year.

1st may in Kreuzberg 2 Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 1782kb (Quicktime required)

1st may in Kreuzberg Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 3007kb (Quicktime required)

A further place of the controversy: The inofficial memorial for the victims of the Berlin Wall. More than 1000 crosses cover the space between a (barely) reconstructed piece of the former dead stripe at Checkpoint Charlie. Probably the whole thing must be removed shortly.

Inofficial Memorial Click image to view the Fullscreen QTVR movie. Size: 2926kb (Quicktime required)