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JanPBtest
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Dr. Stefan Banach
Stefan Banach's resting place in Lviv (at the Lychakiv Cemetery). Filmed in July 2022.
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S-Bahn Friedrichstrasse to Lehrter Stadtbahnhof
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This is what crossing the Berlin Wall by the S-Bahn looked like. Also, if you like the sound of the classic ET 165 train engines, here is the relevant nostalgia in stereo :-) Filmed in late November 1989, soon after the fall of the wall, but nothing has changed here yet except the border guard booths are empty. There would normally be there a guy in uniform, usually surgically attached to his b...
A random walk more or less by the Berlin Wall (June-July 1989)
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A slightly corrected and lengthened version of a video posted previously at: th-cam.com/video/C1zE5pFSTHc/w-d-xo.html This is a somewhat tedious assemblage - the original footage is not good enough to edit well as it was a quick stab meant only as an initial exploration. It's still interesting, if you've been there it may bring some memories. If you are into silly optical effects, grab a pair o...
Train ride from Martigny to Chamonix (February 2019)
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While staying in Lausanne, we went to Chamonix for a day trip. The idea was to go to the Aiguille du Midi but it was fogged over while, unexpectedly, the train ride turned out to be a series of gorgeous wintry scenes. In fact, winter helps a bit because tree leaves do not block the view as much!
Tower Clocks Museum in Gdańsk.
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Tower Clocks Museum at St. Catherine's in Gdańsk. Its Pulsar Clock was not operating that say so I didn't include it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_clock Use good quality headphones or speakers (bass). The clock descriptions are shown only briefly, use the freeze-frame if you want to read them.
"Vertigo" opening credits in MuseScore
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For some reason I decided to type Bernard Herrmann's score for "Vertigo Prelude" (aka. opening credits music for the Alfred Hitchcock film) into MuseScore. It's a free sheet music typesetting program with instrument sounds built in. Playing such scores through MuseScore does not yield the results equivalent to a symphony orchestra but it's still a very interesting exercise, esp. with its abilit...
Palace of Fine Arts
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Late October 2020 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Camera: GoPro MAX on the #270Pro Backpack stick (carbon fibre, about 3 m long).
Mussel Rock Saturday
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Yet Another Mussel Rock day. This is my first test of a 360-degree camera (GoPro MAX). It's much better than a standard helmet cam but the GoPro MAX's two fish-eye lenses are unfortunately slightly offset which makes nearby objects appear broken near the stitch line (e.g. my helmet or the paraglider lines). I think I'm going to switch to the Insta360 ONE X camera whose lenses are aligned exactly.
Around Lauterbrunnen
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Random scenes :-) The red Sulwald cable tram is designed to hold max. 8 people or 1 cow.
The Golden Gate Bridge projection
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A bit of GoPro MAX silliness: the TimeWarp 360 mode. There was some traffic on the bridge which made the ride less smooth than I'd have liked but nobody's perfect.
Aerial tram transport
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This is the freight aerial tram between Stechelberg and Mürren in Switzerland. I think it's the steepest one in the country. Here we can see how it can transport an object that doesn't fit in the cabin.
Nefertiti at Ägyptisches Museum in 2002
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Nefertiti at Ägyptisches Museum in 2002
Waiting for the postal bus 101 in Beatenberg
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Waiting for the postal bus 101 in Beatenberg
Torrey Pines glider port in April 1989 (hang gliding, no paragliding yet)
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Torrey Pines glider port in April 1989 (hang gliding, no paragliding yet)
Today Berlin is only one big shithole.
Don't be fooled there are more walls that went up but they are invisible but visa's are international walls no different than the Berlin wall.
That gold coloured glass covered building was once the site of the royal palace. There was minor damage to it in 1945, but the Soviets tore it down. The glass covered building was torn down after reunification, and the exterior style was rebuilt on three walls.
My grandmother visited Berlin in the late 70s. She recently caught the travel bug and was recovering from the loss of my grandfather. She commented that Berlin would be reunited one day, and she would be around long enough to see it. She passed away in 1996.
Those East German soldiers are cute.
Where are all the Muslims and Africans?
Imagine walling in your people… How sick is that, so they don’t escape from your regime… so good the wall came down! Berlin has been through lots of hardship
The Berlin Wall showed how completely, totally and utterly bankrupt communism was. A failed ideology, that kept millions of people as prisoners in their own country for 28 years. The only place for communism, is in the rubbish bin of history. End of story. Full stop. Period. Forever, and for All Time.
I remember travelling to Steinstücken (Berlin) in about October 1987. I don't remember the bus, but I do remember walking back along Causeway, I seeing a very memorable piece of graffiti:" build bridges, not walls". What an amazing experience, but sad.
the section at potsdamer, the graffitti shows exactley the way i as an american feel about and explain to short sighted american youth on those two sides. communist/nazi, same thing at the end of the day. both authoritarian and both totalitarian. freedom and liberty are the best way to go, sure it means people can say things you dont like, but hey thats part of it. think someones ideas are wrong, challenge them civilly. daylight is the best dissinfectant to bad ideas.
I've visited Berlin in October of 2024. The city's transformation is simply astounding! I've visited many of the sites shown in this video. Potsdam Platz alone has been completely transformed! Brandenburg Gate is completely opened up and now a major tourist and gathering spot! Many Commie Bloc neighbourhoods in the former East Berlin have been completely transformed into very nice places to live. The city hasn't forgotten its past. Many sites have well preserved sections of the former wall, some with small museums and visitors' centres. And you're always reminded where the wall used to be from the narrow strip of paving stones that line the former border between the two cities. When I saw the wall coming down on live TV in my basement apartment back in 1989, it all seemed like a wild dream. I wasn't sure I would ever see this in my lifetime. It made my visit to Berlin all the more fulfilling.
What's the old guy saying to the spray-painter?
The last summer of the DDR as we knew it.
I was in Berlin one month ago, didn´t had much time for sight seeing but I was at the Brandenburg gate and to think that in less than 35 years it would not be possible for me to walk underneath it like today was quite chilling idea. I am from post-socialist country myself also from city that is on the borders which would be closed off during the era but novadays it is just a forest. In Berlin you can actually see and feel the division.
You know your country's policy is bad if you have to wall your citizens in from escaping.
I hate soviets, they ruined so many lives and nations. And they keep doing so.
The East: = in another world: so close & even far' allthesame
These videos are one of the reasons why I sometimes feel like having missed out on so much interesting stuff due to being born in the year 2000. What would I give to have the chance to live one day in the late 80s, visit the Berlin Wall and capture everything on tape, with the added experience of being able to digitize the tapes over 3 decades later and upload them to TH-cam, a platform which would have resembled science-fiction during the late 80s.
I have the same feeling about visiting some cities in Europe pre-WWII. Or going to Venice around the year 1610 and meet Claudio Monteverdi 🙂BTW, the interesting thing is that when I think back of that time, it seems like the non-existence of the web, cell phones, etc., made absolutely no difference. It's like those inventions that seem to occupy so much of our attention are really a very, very thin layer. And the fact that those tapes are still playable with practically no dropouts is a testament to Japanese engineering (Canon in this case)!
Now I know that you did not zoom in on pi^2/6 = sum 1/n^2 on the Berlin wall by accident ;-)
Haha, yes! But it was a bit unexpected. The day before I filmed Banach's grave I went to the Szkocka Cafe where the Polish mathematicians in Lviv in the 1930s would congregate and think about problems. They kept a notebook at that cafe and a facsimile copy of it is there today (the cafe still exists). So I ordered a cappuccino and a cheesecake (never mind Putin and air raid sirens almost every day, to which nobody ever paid any attention BTW) and started reading. Fascinating, with several foreign guests writing in their questions: von Neumann, Fréchet, others I forget, also some locals who later became famous in America: Ulam, Eilenberg, etc. There were usually prizes promised to whoever solves the given problem. Neumann's entry was something about measure theory and he first defines some "mass" function in those terms. And below he added: "Preis: eine Flasche Whisky vom Masse > 0" 🙂
14:43 Euler would have been pleased to see this!
ICH WILL MEINE DDR ZURÜCK !!
Geh zum Arzt. Wer eine Mauer braucht damit niemand abhaut, der hat fertig. Und du bist mit Sicherheit keine 10 Jahre alt gewesen als die Wiedervereinigung war, aber hier so einen Müll posten.
@@rognvaldr5607 Aha du stehst als auf Messermorde, Gruppenvergewaltigungen, Massenmigration usw. Du solltest zum Arzt gehen.
Did the ADL fund this wall?
Crazy to think that just 4 months later, that Wall would come down and East Germany would cease to exist.
Even the road sign in the first 3 seconds of the video seems very DDR...
Those crosses with names on them. Killing someone just for trying to go to the other side of town. Crazy. I don't get how building a wall to imprison people shows your system is good.
An interesting point but this sort of thing is really common, even today. When you asked some expert or politician in 1980s "how is this wall proving the superiority of communism", he'd just look at you the way adults look at a child asking "where was I before I was born" or something like that. And today there are plenty of examples of similar obvious truths you cannot mention in a polite company 🙂
Кадры прям бальзам на душу!
East Berlin looked so much cleaner and neater and quieter in this film.
I've explained many times why it looks that way. Here is a Reader's Digest version: the entire wall installation was _inside_ East Berlin. (Obviously the western Allies would have never allowed this kind of installation on their territory.) So the strip of land near the wall even on the western side belonged to East and could not be cleaned or developed by the West. Even the western police could not set foot there.
@@JanPBtest Oh I know that, but the rest of the city. It was objectively much less wealthy, this isn't in doubt, and yet it seemed much more peaceful place to be, at least from the film. While I was in Germany in the early 90s, I never went to Berlin, so I don't have first hand experience. But West Berlin seemed like a noisy mess, like a lot of Western cities in the 1980s. London and Madrid, which I do have first hand experience of, were relatively filthy and full of poverty, although Madrid was rapidly taking advantage of EU infrastructure money.l
@@dididahdahdidit Not enough room to explain it here but Berlin was nothing like London or Madrid in this sense.
Stupid wall. Stupid people have built stupid wall.
‘More or less’. It either is or it isn’t!
Die beiden haben einen Kühlschrank festgenommen, der flüchten wollte
To KaDeWe, no doubt
Well. The Russians are,allways has been ,and allways will be , a morbidly suspicious people . soldiers and towers everywhere!
Das damalige Berlin war einfach cooler,interessanter, einmalig.... Heute 2024 ist Berlin eine verdreckte Müllhalde voll von unmöglichen Kreaturen... die eigentlich nicht hier sein sollten ☝️ Schade
Fun fact Guy is still standing there complaining about bad art
Back in the 80s the wall was such a part of the world that we thought it would be there forever. Never dreamed it would come down. Thankfully it did!
Ven everything vas verboten in East Germany.
Prawie nic sie nie zmienilo, idealny przyklad jak w kilkadziesiat lat zrujnować kraj HEHEHHEHEHEHEHE
15:49 were you flirting with her?
Haha! Must have been that stupid bright red blinking LED on the camera front. Seriously: someone commented here few months ago that he recognised her! She was a waitress at one of the Europa Center cafes.
@@JanPBtestNice, and where she is now days?
Very cool footage, thank you for uploading this to TH-cam. It's weird looking at (moving) pictures from places back in time. I get a weird feeling whenever i look back at pictures i took in Ukraine before the full scale war. Won't ever be the same again. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
One has a (totally wrong) tendency of think of the past as "fuzzy" and "black and white" but the truth is even the most distant past was _exactly_ like today in terms of the "looks". It's almost shocking, for example, to see the colour photographs done by Sergei Prokudin-Gorski around the year 1915: they look like they were taken yesterday! I visited Ukraine (Lviv) 2 years ago, a fantastic city. There were sirens almost every day but nobody seemed to pay attention to them. The cafes there are like straight from Vienna, very VERY elegant.
Я в это время служил в са в СССР два года. Мой одноклассник попал во флот и служил 3 года. Пропаганда СССР работала. Все или почти все верили, то что только в СССР есть свобода а в США и в Европе угнетение рабочего класса.
Very interesting. I remember it as yesterday. Exciting was it, and in some way i miss it.
Yes, I know what you mean... Of course it depends which side of the wall you were living in.
Deutschstan now
14:44 sum_{n=1}^inf 1/n^2 = pi^2/6 the solution to the basel problem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_problem
zeta(2) 🙂
so weird seing germans in these commie uniform doing commie drills, they look like theyre being held hostage when they do it somehow.
What a stupid looking march
Graffiti guy: "Ja dann machen sie das mal nach!" ahahah, beautiful how he argues politey
Fascinating. A little too much on the viewing platforms in West Berlin; what a contrast between the filth and graffiti on the Western sectors compared to the DDR. Visited both many times in the 1980s.....
@@TheRichardSpearman This is because the scenes you are seeing here were meant only as a test, the plan was to film it all properly the following year, the odd wall zigzags, the exclaves, the "wire" segments, etc. The little changes few months later interfered 🙂 Also keep in mind that _both sides_ of the wall were in the east, physically. This meant the western gov't was not allowed to do anything there, even western police could not set foot there. The eastern guards were not allowed on the western side either, so it was up for grabs to the graffiters and odd quasi-legal visitors. And on the eastern side they'd simply arrest you for defacing the wall.
@@JanPBtest True, except that occasionally the Grenztruppen ventured to the "western" side of the barrier, and detailed graffiti artists etc and returned then to the DDR.
9:40 Gunboats on the Spree instead of river cruises.... yeah times sure have changed!
VERY INTERESTING MOVIE .Thank you
I remember a story my mom told me, she took a trip to East Berlin in 1987 with her friends and my grand-pa and almost got arrested because on a hot summer’s day, she cooled her feet in a water fountain. Think that says enough about the regime that ruled there, today many East-Germans say was better than what we’re living in.
Everything in East Germany looks clean and orderly (but like it belongs in the late 50's more than the 80's), then the recordings from the west is nothing but trash everywhere, endless vandalism, poor infrastructure, people throwing cigarettes and trash where they stand and depressing ugly grafitti. Not a great look for democracy when it makes a military dictatorship appear preferable. It's a good thing they wanted the Coca Cola and Blue Jeans so badly or the wall had never fallen.