If you didn’t think about working the following weekend (6th – 7th December, 2008) — well here is your chance to hack away anyway!

We hereby invite you to the first DevHouseBerlin!

The idea is to hack and work away on whatever it is you’re working on and to show people what it is that you’re doing and why it’s so super awesome. It’s not required to be a geek to come, but a strong affinity for computers and software should be helpful when you spend the weekend in an office with a bunch of crazy people.

The location is Boxhagener Strasse 119, Berlin-Friedrichshain. Right around the corner from Frankfurter Tor/Warschauer Strasse. More information on our Wiki!

ENCOUNTER OF THE 3RD DIMENSION
Freitag, 14.November ab 19:00
ATM Gallery, Brunnenstr.24, Berlin-Mitte

Looks like a sweet place for all people who love to read.

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I discovered some new music for myself tonight – the radio had it playing somewhere. :-)

The band is called Jazzanova (from Berlin, of course) with a song called “So far from home” (ft. Phonte). Been listening to all the samples on iTunes and Myspace and so far it’s pretty cool, easy going, Jazz-Soul-Freestyle, great lyrics. So good I had to google the lyrics from the radio for half an hour before I figured out the band name and the album.

If you want to peak, check out the review on okayplayer, they also have a little mp3 player which has the very same song in it which I heard tonight. More music is on Jazzanova’s myspace.

When:
18th/19th October, 2008

Where:
Deutsche Telekom AG
Hauptstadtrepräsentanz
Französische Straße 33a-c
10117 Berlin
Deutschland

More infos!

Guten Morgen Berlin, Du kannst so haesslich sein, so dreckig, so grau
Du kannst so schoen schrecklich sein, Deine Naechte fressen mich auf
Es wird fuer mich wohl das beste sein, ich geh nach Hause und schlaf mich aus
Und waehrend ich durch die Strassen laufe, wird langsam schwarz zu blau
Ich bin kaputt und reib mir aus, meinen Augen, Deinen Staub
Du bist nicht schoen, und das weisst Du auch – Dein Panorama versaut
Du siehst nicht mal schoen von weitem aus, doch die Sonne geht gerade auf
Und ich weiss ob ich will oder nicht, dass ich Dich zum Atmen brauch’

Die neue Berlin-Hymne von Peter Fox? Auf jeden Fall ein schickes Album.

Aside from a few bits of sunshine every now and then, the weather in Berlin has been rather grey and cold the last two weeks. Season it with a bit of rain every now and then and you know what we are up to over here.

And this is why I embrace and appreciate color and art of all forms even more right now, then I sometimes do over the rest of the year. And though I cannot complain about the weather this summer in the States, I must admit that art on the street is probably the number one thing I missed (Aside from friends, of course!) when I was away from Berlin.