I ate some great food on this trip, some of which I’ve already mentioned, but I thought I would pull it together here for future reference: House of Small Wonder: Japanese and French plates, usually in a jewel-box location in the Hackescher Markt but temporarily relocated to the courtyard of the beautiful former Jewish Girls’Continue reading “Friday Favorites: Berlin Restaurants”
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KMRU
Birgit and I went to the Roter Salon at the Volksbühne last night to hear Joseph Kamaru perform his electronic mixes of ambient and instrumental sounds. It was in many ways an extension of our Forest Listening experiment. It was an intense, continuous listening experience for about an hour, and both Birgit and I feltContinue reading “KMRU”
Sunny Morning in the Tiergarten
The old hunting grounds of the princes of Brandenburg. This is by the tea house in the English Garden.
Forest Listening
My colleague Birgit and I are working on a book about the promise (and problems) of monitoring forests from space. So, we’re spending a lot of time thinking about forests, reading stories about them, looking at maps of them, viewing art about them, and…listening to them? Birgit recently did a project with her students andContinue reading “Forest Listening”
Franziskanerkloster Ruine
Right across from my hotel in Alexanderplatz sat the oldest building in Berlin: the remains of a Franciscan monastery from the 13th century that was the first outpost/settlement of the town by the Margrave of Brandenburg. There was a roughly simultaneous settlement on the nearby island in the Spree River that is now Museum Island,Continue reading “Franziskanerkloster Ruine”
Ceramics Saturdays: Ru Ware
Ru ware is the rarest of the products of the Five Great Kilns of the Song Dynasty: only about 90 examples are still extant, and on the even rarer occasions they come up for auction, they fetch millions of dollars apiece. They were thrown only at a single kiln site in Henan for a periodContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Ru Ware”
Friday Favorites: Anthem Playlist
I realized that each year I have a few songs that I listen to so often that they become anthems for the year–like “Love Runs Out” by OneRepublic, which I must have listened to at least 100 times in 2018 preparing for the K-pop style dance performance we put on for my birthday that year.Continue reading “Friday Favorites: Anthem Playlist”
SOFI
Yummy bakery on the beautiful Sophienstraße.
Museum für Naturkunde
I went to a really interesting panel here tonight called “Mapping Co-Habitation,” but the stars of the show were the incredible brachiosaurus fossil that loomed over us and this beautiful little archaeopteryx above, who had his own chapel-like viewing room. They apparently usually have AR (augmented reality) headsets that let you view the brachiosaurus andContinue reading “Museum für Naturkunde”
Sunny Fall Day in Berlin
The weather is supposed to be nice through the weekend!
The Rookery 