Yesterday.. or today, was the International Launch of Diablo 3 with special launch events in major cities around the globe. Thousands of people waited (many hours) in line for a copy of one of the most anticipated games in 2012.
And of course, Blizzard Entertainment developers were on-site, in Berlin, Lead Content Designer Kevin Martens and Lead Programmer Jason Regier answered questions and signed posters and copies of the game.
The German Premiere of Men in Black 3 was held today at O2 World in Berlin with Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Nicole Scherzinger and director Barry Sonnenfeld and with 7,000 tickets sold, it was the biggest German premiere in 3D ever.
Even a LEGO figure needs a bath once in a while.
Today, the biggest figures from Berlin’s LEGOLAND Discovery Centre were transported to a car wash center near Ostbahnhof for a little cleaning session.
Berlin kids were invited to grab a sponge and a brush and, with a little help, scrub the dirt and the dust from the figures.
Today, Berlin’s Spinner-Brücke (eng. idiots bridge) celebrated the start of the season and every biker in Berlin and Brandenburg was present. The bridge and the same-named restaurant, located near the AVUS, a former inner city car racing track, is a famous meeting place for everyone and everything on two wheels and every year on May 1st, about 30.000 biker come together to talk about bikes, beer and babes.
But not only on May 1st, throughout the whole summer, on every weekend, the bridge is filled with people and an interesting location for everyone who is interested in motorbikes and a hefty meal.
Flash mobs are pretty popular in Berlin and every time, they get stranger. Peter Pink, an artist living in Berlin, organized a potato-flash-mob in front of a Mc Donald’s branch in Berlin Neukölln.
People were asked to make their own Potatoes (download the images for pink glasses, arms, signs and building instructions) and to set them free on the sidewalk in front of Mc Donalds.
The Sony Center – Potsdamer Platz was filled with screams from the excited audience today at the German Premiere of the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Lucky One after Zac Efron together with Taylor Schilling and Nicholas Sparks himself left their cars to walk the red carpet in Berlin.
The Movie, directed by Scott Hicks, is about Logan Thibault (Zac Efron), a U.S. Marine who returns to Colorado from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive—a photograph he found of a woman (Beth (Taylor Schilling)) he doesn’t even know. After his return from Iraq, lost after his near death experiences, he walks to Louisiana from Colorado to find this woman who he credits for saving him.
Nicholas Sparks is now a worldwide phenomenon, his 18 books reached more than $80-million in sales, seven of them were turned into Hollywood movies.
Sir Elton Junk performed a special show yesterday in front of the Mauerpark in Berlin. Now you might say “wait a minute, is this supposed to be Elton John? He doesn’t even look like him!”. Sure he does, if you take a closer look, you will see that they both have the same haircut!
The “robot” is a creation of Kolja Kugler, a native Berlin “Metal”-Artist. One of his most recognized works of this time is “The Lost Tribe of Mig”- project, an immense installation in the city center of a Mig 21 fighter plan flying out of a four-story building. Also a pretty famous, his “Afreakean Bass Player“, a life-sized robot driven by pneumatics which is capable of playing a bass guitar with a real band.
Today was international pillow fights day and cities around the world celebrated this day with a massive pillow fight flashmobs on famous places and landmarks.
As you can see, in Berlin, the flashmob was held right in front of the Brandenburg Gate and about one thousand people of all ages fought a merciless war with their pillows, big and small, even though the weather was pretty cold and rainy.
More than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries worldwide switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2011 alone, sending a powerful message for action on climate change. In 2012, a new record was set, with 150 countries and territories across 6,494 towns and cities around the world.
In Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate, the Television Tower and the Red City Hall went completely dark for one hour from 8:30pm – 9:30pm on Saturday 31.03.2012. As part of the event, a map of the world was created by the WWF, using hundreds of colored-paper-surrounded tealights in front of the Brandenburg Gate. In addition, lanterns designed like the earth were handed out to the audience.
The original German version of Jim Steinman’s and Michael Kunze’s hit-musical Tanz der Vampire is performing in Berlin right now and the Theater des Westens invited everyone to an open day with a special look behind the scenes. People had the chance to watch a rehearsal, discover the stage or meet the cast.
Interesting but heavily crowded, thousands of people tried to get a look of the interesting areas, while some parts of the theater were completely empty, I also skipped the stage due to a 2h waiting line.
