Pergamon

True, I have been killing a lot of beers & Cuba Libre's at Daniel & Jürgen's Billiard Club "Küh" on Sophienstrasse, but I am trying to fit in some "drier" experiences to keep my remaining brain cells from forming a frat house. Today I picked up my year-long membership to all of Berlin's national museums. With my student card it cost a total of 20 euro! for a whole year! 40 is the normal price. If you are a museum buff you're lucky, as I suspect you will be getting a lot of museum videos from me over the next few months. For the rest of you, I will hopefully have some hot footage to post from the Chromatics show this Thursday.

My first stop was the world famous Pergamon on Museum Island. It was very interesting for me as a Museum Studies student to explore such a high-of-caliber institution. The recreations of Babylonian, Greek, & Turkish altars & walls were overwhelmingly large and lifelike. The tapestry collection was very well presented in the lowest of light conditions. Unfortunately, I found it really difficult to see past all of the conservation and exhibit strategies and simply appreciate the collection. Their recording-hygrothermographs were really more interesting to me! As were their strategies for presenting text. Simple yet effective black lettering on clear acrylic postioned approximately 2 cm from the wall. This gave the text a natural drop-shadow and, I suppose as a bonus to the museum, was difficult to photograph. The abundant use of high-quality scale models was great. It was especially effective when juxtapositioned with the colossal recreation of the Pergamon altar.

Anyway, the following video is from today's visit. I tried to include shots of visitors and of the overall museum rooms when possible, as the low-def video my camera records can not do the artifacts, some of which were +3000 years old, or the recreations justice.

The shots of the statues and busts at the end of the video were from the Hellenistic Art section; my favourite area in the Pergamon.
I saw it fit to included a peppy soundtrack from Berlin's duo sensation "Stereo Total" to liven up the content. Classical music seemed a little too obvious, but really, neither classical or electronic-pop were around back then. The oldest music I could think of which fit was Vulcan folk music, but I don't have any on my laptop.

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Pergamon

Coming Soon:

Chromatics (yikes! she's hot!) live at Roter Salon