Angels above Berlin.

What an incredible day to be in Berlin. This is just one of the performances earlier today, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Along the former border between the Brandenburger Gate and Potsdamer Platz living angels have settled on the city’s rooftops.

Wings spread wide, they observe the faraway human life down on the ground, they observe events in Berlin on the twentieth anniversary of the day the wall came down:
A silent encounter, a silent circle of angels.

A poetic image for the peaceful reunion of a once-divided city.

A performance installation by Theater Anu and Bartel’s living statues.

Official Angel above Berlin site

(via 2009 jahre mauerfall)

Street With A View.

This makes me really, really happy.




On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more...

STREET WITH A VIEW: a project by Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley

(via Brooklyn Museum)

p.s. The chicken is from Milwaukee!