Berlin part 2

These are photos from last August when I visited Josh in Berlin.   If you follow this thing you know about my love affair with Berlin and that I attended a huge anti-nuclear energy protest with Josh that weekend.  You also know that I suck at taking caring of things and doing things in a timely fashion.  So you won't be surprised when you notice that the pictures have deteriorated to the point where you can barely decipher them.  It's like...the real life hipster app.  Anyone interested in replicating the effects should wait 10 months to develop their disposable camera, in hopes of saving 20 bucks by developing in the states versus in Paris, and then let the camera go through the security xrays at the airport, essentially destroying the film you were so excited to develop.  So without further ado, here are the 10 pictures that semi-survived.

Here they have taped the police off 

This was a group of clowns that followed the police around.  They played ring-around-the-rosy, encircling the police, and other little games that were quite hilarious to watch, and made the police look like fools.  It was uncomfortable to watch the police squirm and feel helpless.  They couldn't do much with so many people watching, but were clearly annoyed and emasculated...which is generally how cops make everyone else feel, so that was an interesting dynamic to watch.
The kids were probably around 14-20 and apparently they show up at a lot of events like this for this sole purpose.  I believe they are squatters, if I remember correctly, so they don't really have much to lose.  Cool kids.  So silly, yet so political.  I really like that in Berlin police are for the most part kept in their place.  What with their history people are not that into any measures that infringe on their privacy, including cameras and any other big brother nonsense.  I'm into it.  Fuck the new California driver's license.

From inside the main train station

Outside the station

So Epic

For the win :)

I just talked to Josh and he informed me that we won!  Germany will soon become the first country in the world that gets rid of nuclear energy.  Awesome.