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Computerspielemuseum: Berlin’s Computer Game Museum Is As Cool As It Sounds

by Eric Limer | 5:05 pm, August 30th

The Video Game Museum of Berin is undergoing a beautiful, video game history renaissance. Opened in the late 1990′s, it went through a rough patch and had to be closed by by 2000. Lucky for you, for us, and especially for everyone in Berlin, the museum reopened in a new location early this year and is doing better than ever.

Its exhibits, which include a wide breadth of video game related topics, include the world’s very first home video game console, 50 portable and handheld consoles as well as exhibits devoted to the social aspects of gaming as well as its darker sides, violence and addiction. The museum is very smartly designed and pops with a certain retro-flair, the kind you can only get when you’re staring a Pong cabinet in the face.

Read on after the break for a look inside.

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The title pretty much says it all

German Hotel Looks Like That Scene From Inception

by Jamie Frevele | 11:35 am, December 29th

This hotel in Berlin is not falling over (or folding). It’s actually built like that on purpose. Billed as the first hotel in Europe specifically designed for musicians, the Nhow Hotel features state-of-the-art recording studios and guitars. The interior design, by Karim Rashid, has been described as “an amusement park for lovers of glossy, hyper design.”

(via Jetsetta via Neatorama)

There Is a Big Lebowski-Themed Bar in Berlin

by Robert Quigley | 12:59 pm, September 2nd



We knew The Big Lebowski was one of the cultiest cult movies there is, but this is a new level of devotion: There’s a bar in Berlin called “Lebowski” which is inspired by the movie.

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Haunting Photos Bring World War II Roaring Into Modern Day

by Robert Quigley | 8:59 am, July 30th

Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov is a master of a technique called, alternatively, perspective-matching photography or the fancier computational rephotography, which consists of precisely matching the points-of-view of vintage and modern photographs and exploring what happens where they merge. Since last year, Larenkov has been assembling a series of such photos on World War II: As the photo above shows, the point of combination can be quite haunting.

Some Photoshop whizzes have criticized Larenkov’s work on the grounds that the mergers are too jarring in their contrasts and could be executed with greater smoothness on his part, but, in the absence of an explanation of his work, I think that’s kind of the point: It clearly takes a great deal of patience and technical aptitude to create these photos, and the harshness of imposing war and its devastation on pristine modern European cities works better when it’s not too slick.

Below, a few more choice photos:

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German Children Win Legal Right to be Loud

by Robert Quigley | 3:15 pm, February 18th

In a ruling that is sure to inspire whippersnappers, rapscallions, ne’er-do-wells, and tow-headed rascals worldwide, German children have won the legal right to be noisy, thanks to a recent amendment to Berlin’s city statutes.

Berlin has stiff — some would say absurdly rigid — laws regarding noise pollution. According to the BBC, “hundreds of complaints are made each year about noise levels in kindergartens and children’s playgrounds.” But thanks to this new and progressive law, kindergarteners and playground-players are no longer criminals.

They do, however, have to obey the “official quiet time at night and all day Sunday.”

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