Around Berlin

View from room at Generator Hostel	Bedirhan and Sara are pooped	End of Embassy Row on Unter Den Linden	Brandenburg Gate (little blurry)
Bedirhan and Sara doing their best Hansel and Gretel impersonation while en route to the Reichstag.	View of the design mall	Refuge in the city	Pretty sweet park seats
Kenshin advertisement for awesome comics store in U-Bahn	Cool rail station in mid-street	Soul on the streets	Picturesque S-Bahn (above ground rail) by night
Bedirhan, Brad, and Yoda find that ska is alive and thriving in Berlin	Houses across from Pergamon	Street performer in front of the Berliner Dom	Crossing the bridge from Museumsinsel to Hackenscher Market.
Bedirhan purchased a gas mask right off the street	Yoda takes in a drink	Gummi Bears? Actually, it's a condom ad. One of many that we came across.	Prenzlauer Berg, the Bear, and soccer
Soccer fields (turf!) and a soccer stadium in Prenzlauer Berg	Vitra Design Museum. Nice hardwood ceiling	A couple of the mini chairs for sale at the Vitra	More chairs
Can you image paying $170 for a chair that fits in the palm of your hand?	Berry trees in front of the Vitra	More berry trees	Bedirhan and a berry tree
Bedirhan pounding the streets	What is that on Bedirhan's head?	Balconies of Prenzlauer Berg	More balconies, this time from below
Sara, Bedirhan, and the Babylonian jeweler. And what's	No one gives a shit about Berliner currywurst	Rows of houses in Prenzlauer Berg	JFK in Berlin.
What JFK is really all about. Pretty cool.	On the walkway to the Bauhaus Museum.	Bauhaus floors. I want floors like these.	I still want floors like these.
I will always want floors like these.	Bauhaus with the entrance reflection and Bedirhan	4 of the 16 Bauhaus roof towers.	Charlottenburg palace
Charlottenburg greenery and interesting architecture	With all of the lack of American tourists, we still find an American cafe in Charlottenburg. Had MGD neon and Ben and Jerry's signs. Who'd of guessed?

Buddy Bears

README: Description of the Buddy Bears	Bedirhan, Yoda, and the Care Bears	How fitting. French design to represent America.	Balloons, bears, berlin. What more could you want?
Yoda checks out the bear scene.	And Yoda says, "Pick your nose for the bear you will, yes."	Yoda just drives bears crazy at his touch!	Serbian bear is symbolic of recent war.
The Moldovian bear knows where he's from!

Hackescher Market and Shopping

Retro lighting is in!	Retro antique stores rock!	Now that's a store basement. . . Beach lounging and designs	The other side of the basement. Wish I had a room like that.
Sara gives the sly over the shoulder look	Awesome basement store lighting	Inverted red star mission. Who wants to buy me this mat?	Hackescher Market
And the tram goes right over Hackescher market	Dom's at Hackescher. Who would have guessed?	Peering into Dom's	Only the coolest stores have Atari, toy commandos, Voltron (not pictured), not to mention some of the sweetest clothes on the market.
NOFX rocks!	East Berlin is everywhere!	Storefront of EastBerlin. Great clothing shop.	Naked storm troopers?!?!? Never did get to go in this shop.
Naked storm troopers that skateboard??!?!?!? Yoda can't believe his eyes!	Storm troopers invade the Brandenburg Tor.	I guess this just shows that, no matter where you are, you can always find a mini mart	Great graffiti like this abound in Berlin
The horse that sara always wanted	Peering into one of the courtyards of Hackenscher Hofe	One of the courtyards of shops in Hackenscher Hofe

Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie: Where the tension of the Cold War was fiercest	Brad at the actual checkpoint	Checkpoint museum entrance. Red stars abound.	On the streets of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum
Pieces of the wall on the Checkpoint Museum	Brad and the museum Beetle	What remains of the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie	And now we know why the Berlin wall came down
Yoda in the wall	Yoda was appreciated at Checkpoint Charlie	Many have wondered how this hole in the wall came to pass	But we all know that it was Yoda - the peace-bringing wrecking ball

Jewish Museum

Jewish Museum	Brad outside the museum	Scale museum layout	README: Daniel Libeskind
Multi-floor open space	Artwork of Peter Grumbacher. There are many stories such as these in the basement underground entrance into the Museum.	README: Story of Peter Grumbacher (Part 1)	README: Story of Peter Grumbacher (Part 2)
Closeup of Peter Grumbacher's art	README: What happened to the German Jews?	README: Axis of the Holocaust	README: Holocaust Tower
Inside the tower. Daylight at the top - several stories up.	Bedirhan in the tower - Flashed	Looking up a wall of the tower	README: Garden of Exile
Sara down a row	Bedirhan down a row	Garden as Bedirhan turns	In the middle of the garden
A Column and its tree	Trees above garden	Sara outside in the garden with museum behind her	README: Memory Void
Faces	Full memory void space	Solitary faces	Reflection space outside of the memory void
This tree had lots of mini flat screen panels all throughout its boughs. Each of the panels was filled with an apple. Every once in awhile you would see a hand pop into the screen and pick one of the apples. Pretty funky.	Seal of Joseph Cannstadt. Jew of Frankfurt, 1583.	Ancient Torah window	Painting depicting studies
README: The Greatest Good	Painting depicting debate or conversement	Painting of Jewish lute player	Actual lute
Wooden school table. Carvings are of the hebrew alphabet.	Jewish tombstones from 13th century	README: Tombstones (goes with the next 2 pictures)	Blessing Hands on tombstone
Ritual hand washing on tombstone	README: Prejudice legislation in the 13th century	README: Story of Rabbi Meir	Lizardish torah reader.
README: Jewish Zodiac symbols	Jewish Zodiac symbols	README: Synagoga and Ecclesia	Statues of Synagoga and Ecclesia

Pergamon Museum

Here's what the outside of the pergamon currently looks like. Now that's construction.	...And, what it looked like prior to the beginning of construction.	Yoda greeted at the gate (flashed).	Yoda greeted at the gate (not flashed).
Yoda pays homage to Ishtar	Amazing mosaic side of gate	Yoda ponders ancient matters on his ride to Babylon	Leaving the gate
Procession to the gate (shot from the 2nd windows in the previous picture)	Doors and corner of ornate room	Another side of the room	And yet another view of the room
Large turquise alter	Large turquise alter	Intricateness of the alter	Brilliant red room
Red room through an decorative wooden window	Ceiling of room next to red room	Great ancient Wall	The end of a great ancient wall
A horse at the great ancient wall. Isn't the horse well preserved?	Yoda knows what it's like to be a rocklike protector.	Closeup: Yoda knows what it's like to be a rocklike protector.	Ancient watchers

Picasso Museum

After about a mile of walking we make it to Schloss CharlottenBurg. Bedirhan let's his feelings be known to the Picasso Museum.

Stairwell of the Picasso Museum

Ceiling Picasso Museum

Brad's favorite Picasso painting

Sony Center

The ceiling of the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz	Yoda wants a piece of that Sony action	Brad, Bedirhan, and Yoda at the Sony Center	Brad and Sara at the Sony Center
Bedirhan admires the Sony Center