Day 4 in Berlin and I headed to see some of the exhibitions that were a plenty.. Firstly checking in at the Deutsche Guggenheim to see Agathe Snow - All Access World show.  This took a while to get into as by its very nature was overloading.. The vast walls covered in collages and the floor filled with movable statues or monuments, once you started to interact with the pieces it seemed to become less intense and easier to digest..  Here are a couple of photos..






Here is a link to the Guggenheim...
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Visited Stattbad Galerie today.. Miss understanding lead to me getting locked into their gallery space.. not a bad place to be locked in as it is a disused swimming pool which made for great photo opportunity.. Shame that I did not get to see an exhibition in the space as I can only imagine how good this would work..  

Other than that I checked out studio spaces and galleries around Berlin.. Reynold Reynolds work Secrets Trilogy... Worth having a look as he has a special way with film making ...
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Today has been eventful after taking advice to visit an old listening station of the Americans called Teufelsberg.. The place is deserted and covered in graffiti, it has an end of the world air about the place with everything destroyed.  Access was by a small hole in one of the fences then just a case of carefully finding your way through the run down buildings and wreckage that lies everywhere...

Later in the day I also checked Turmkunst which is a building taken over by some street artists w...
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Arrived mid afternoon and by the time I was settled it was early eve.. Set out to get lost in the city which is not hard considering the size of Berlin.. Great evening seeing some of the sights and taking some night photos... Here are a couple of tasty ones..





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 It was about this time last year that I stumbled across this site about Sau Paulo and how the governor there is cleaning up the city and has taken drastic measures to do so.  He has removed all advertising from the city which as you can see from yourself in this link has had a dramatic effect of the feel to the city, I can only imagine how it must feel.

http://weburbanist.com/2010/03/06/clean-city-sao-paulo-scrubbed-of-outdoor-ads/

I have been interested ever since in the link between advertis...
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