Even though Chris & I were not present in Berlin last week, we still had some RUN FFM flavor in the German capital thanks to our guys Blaksta & Shahri Almighty, who I’m sure teared up the whole city, just as they did the night before they left while pulling an all-nighter. That’s how we do!!!

Our first print publication centering around family business!

Wall of DURKL.

Special YOSOY x RUN FFM collaboration :)

Jack at MADE for the ALL GONE book launch.

Proof: The special MADE lamps.

Jeff Staple & Busy P were spinning for this event, so I have to say, I’m a lil jealous because of that. Also because of all the ill things that were on display. Here’s the video recap.

I assume Shahri pulled a Dwight Howard fot that one. Respect!!

Of course. Who doesn’t?!??

UPDATE: They were reppin’ RUN FFM real hard as this pic from the WeSC party proves again (by fammivedere.com)

Thanks for those cool pics, guys. While they were mostly running around the Bright Tradeshow and some parties, the homie Simon, who lives in Berlin by now (and you know that alreadyyy when you follow this blog closely enough), was making his moves around Bread&Butter and gave me his BBB package. Thanks to you, too.

These paper edition glasses of the ones, that this French dude named Jay from BLACKRAINBOW MAGAZINE wears, are the best!!!

We’ll see each other in Berlin in summer, when we’ll hopefully be able to finally make it. :)

And by the way, you should tune in tonight at 21:00 for the RADIO SOULTRAIN – *Late Night Special* radio show on Radio X (91,8 FM in the FFM area or via stream) as Jaksta (or Mango Jack if you want) will be part of the show along with DJ Steph, DJ Lunis, AirFussOne, Rumble & MoDee. Hopefully this time it will be as legendary as the first edition of it.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Yesterday I was chilling at my man Simon‘s crib, because he left to his training camp in Austria today. A few days ago he alreadyyy told me about this Frank Zander version of Duck Sauce‘s Barbra Steisand, but I forgot to check, so he showed it to me last night finally. It’s great on so many levels, don’t you think?

Our conversation then went on on the people that are in the official video for Barbra Streisand and in the end I showed Simon the original sample of the song, which is from Hallo Bimmelbahn (1973) by German band Nighttrain (that was later on first covered by Boney M in 1979). Since he was surprised and liked it that much, I’m hoping it’ll do the same for you.

So much for my music post this week. :)

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

To finally put an end on the Berlin posts I’m gonna show you, what I picked up during my stay there and we’ll move on with some more fun in the next few days, aight? :)

I really didn’t want to buy sneakers this time, but I didn’t know that the Air Jordan IX were 50% off at NIKETOWN, so I just had to.

Notice the “athletisch” on there :) Does anybody know what these other languages are??

There’s also something German on the right shoe: “anmutig”.

I also only noticed this glitter stuff, when I opened them at home. Funny. It somehow reminds me of the floor in the first modern busses we got in Frankfurt back in the 90s, because I was so amazed by it back then as a little kid.

Then, I also got me a shirt at the Civilist store by P.A.M., which is an Australian brand that I didn’t know of before, but I immediately fell for this design.

The backside.

At Firmament I discovered this Stüssy beanie, that perfectly goes along with the warm-up suit of my basketball team. I also got me some matching socks in other stores, but I will save them for our last game this year and rock them in Kronberg on Dec, 19th.

Gloves. This was a huge success, because last winter I didn’t have any gloves anymore. Don’t know, where they vanished, but I’m good for this year. And they were quiet helpful alreadyyy for the first snowball fights.

More shoes?? Yes, but little ones that I found at OVERKILL. This are the Tiffany Dunks and some Air Jordan I’s.

Here they are together with their big brother.

If you are in Berlin, I definitely recommend to check out the area around Torstraße. You will find SOTO, Firmament, Civilist, No.74, WOOD WOOD there among others. They even have this little cards to help you get around. OVERKILL was really some kind of overkill, because they had some dope stuff on display, so I most definitely recommend to go there, too. It’s in Kreuzberg.

Until next time, Berlin.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

OK, maybe I’ll continue with some more Berlin-realted posts for a minute. But for a special reason.

About a month ago, hypebeast.tv posted this very nice video about the new creative space in Berlin: MADE. I already mentioned it in my last Berlin post, when I talked about meeting Phil-G., who is one of the people responsible for this unique project. The others are Nico Zeh, Tadi Rock & Luise Biesalski.

But more specifically this video also gives us an impression of their second event called ‘Typographic Ballet’ that featured Ebon Heath & rapper Talib Kweli both from Brooklyn.

If you did pay attention to the music in the background, great! And if you did not, you should just check again, because I could listen to it ALLLLLLLLL day. It is beautifully done by Frankfurt located producer Crada (@the_real_crada), who also was part of this event and who did some tracks for internationally known artists The LOX, KiD CuDi, Drake & Nneka featuring NaS. His latest production is for L.A. rapper Jay Rock. Here’s the video for the song, that is also part of Jay Rock’s upcoming mixtape ‘Black Friday’. You can listen to the other tracks on his SoundCloud profile.

I’m hoping to listen to a lot more good stuff from this kid. Keep it up!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Allright, here we go for the last write-up of my Berlin trip. On Thursday, Simon and me stopped by SOTO to check out the opening of their exhibition “Lonely Fruit” containing photographs by Alastair Philip Wiper, that are showing the isolation of a person, an animal or an object in their surroundings – sometimes lost and confused, sometimes tranquil and at peace – but always with a wink.

We had to be quiet early, because we had tickets for a show in the Friedrichstadtpalast that evening, but check Phil-G.‘s pics for prove that the place was packed later on.

There were also some photographs hanging in the showrooms.

Above you see Omer & Phil-G. of SOTO in conversations and I have to say they are really good hosts. After I introduced myself and gave them our stickers, Phil-G. immediately placed one on this bench kind of thing here.

That’s me with Phil-G. He used to work for BBB (Bread & Butter Berlin), but has now moved on as co-founder of SOTO and MADE (a cool project to offer space, possibilities and a forum to creative minds), plus he also blogs for Highsnobiety and hails from Frankfurt. Was really cool to meet him finally.

And that’s me with Omer, who also co-founded SOTO and founded ArtSchoolVets, a very well-known German blog, that also offers cool fashion items in cooperation with different designers in their store. It’s really worth to check that out. It was also really great to be able to meet him. Oh, and how could it be any different: He’s also from Frankfurt. Ajaklaaaaaaaaa. :)

As I already mentioned above, we had to rush over to Friedrichstadtpalast for the show YMA.

It is really hard to desribe this show with words – it offers everything… music, dancing, acrobatics, lights, fire, water and even some worldly wisdoms in between – so check out the trailer. With over 100 performers this show is by the way bigger than any Las Vegas production. Anywayz, highly recommended…!!!

Also the venue is kinda crazy. The Friedrichstadtpalast is the world’s biggest theatre stage and was built in 1984 by the regime of the German Democratic Republic. I also think, that with all the stage mechanics it also offers all possibilities for directors, you could think of.

On my last day there, we had lunch in the Funkturm Restaurant…

…55 meters above Berlin. Unfortunately, the weather sucked, so the view was not as great as it could have been, but…

… the food was really good.

As it was everywhere during my stay in Berlin. I had a fun time, big thank you to Simon for hosting me and I’m already looking forward to my next trip to that city.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

OK, so on Tuesday we went to check out some other stores. This time near Kudamm and in Kreuzberg. First stop was at the CLVII Store.

First thing to pop into your eyes are the subway maps of Berlin & Paris on their walls.

Second thing were those crazy adidas x Jeremy Scott sneakers once again.

CLVII Store, Meinekestraße 5, 10719 Berlin – www.clvii-berlin.com
open Mon – Sat 11:00-20:00

solebox is located not far away and that store is well known in Germany – also because the owner Hikmet is an internationally known sneaker head.

Besides dope sneakers you’ll find some BBC & Ice Cream shirts…

… or solebox toothbrushs. :)

solebox, Nürnbergerstrasse 16, 10789 Berlin, Germany – www.solebox.com

NIKETOWN is also right around the corner and I just couldn’t say no to some new Jordans for 80€.

NIKETOWN, Tauentzienstraße 7, 10789 Berlin, Germany – www.nike.de

A short subway ride got me to OVERKILL located in Kreuzberg.

As soon as I saw this doorknob, I knew that was my kind of store.

And hands down, it was the store I really liked the most here in Berlin.

Check out that Storm Trooper with the beanie LOL.

They even had a NIKE Hyperdunk Marty McFly sneaker on display.

More awesomeness follows, when you walk upstairs…

.. with these old adidas kicks…

… and all of these things: the boom boxes, the giant PUMA sneaker, those Darth Vader & Storm Trooper figures, …

I had to get me two pairs of those little sneakers, the Jordan I & the Tiffany Dunks.

OVERKILL, Köpenicker Str. 195 a, 10997 Berlin, Germany – www.overkillshop.com
open Mon – Sat 11:00-20:00

Another sticker sighting.

I then ended the day with shooting some hoops, so a big thank you to the BERLIN BASKETS and especially Tobi, Marco & Holger.

And the only thing blogworthy from yesterday (Wednesday), but it absolutely is, was the dinner: Lecker Hähnchen @ Henne in Kreuzberg. Make sure to make your reservations in advance.

Henne, Alt Berliner Wirtshaus, Leuschnerdamm 25, 10999 Berlin, Germany – www.henne-berlin.de

Today, we are off to the opening of the Alastair Philip Wiper exhibition @ SOTO & the YMA show at Friedrichstadtpalast.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Tachchen.

So I arrived in Berlin after having no sleep the night before, because we had to celebrate our first win of the season, and went with Simon, who now lives in Berlin, diiiiiirectly on the Touristenverarsche-Tour and to the Kurt Krömer Benefizgala in the evening.

On Monday, we made our way downtown again, but this time to check out some stores.

We got off at Alexanderplatz and there were some cool streetart pieces.

First stop was the WOOD WOOD store.

As you can see, you can get lots of different styles & items in there, while wood is also a large part of the store.

I really liked that scarf :)

WOOD WOOD, Rochstraße 4, 10178 Berlin, Germany – woodwood.de
open Mon – Sat 12:00-20:00

Down the street, we spotted the BBB Headquaters right next to the adidas Originals store. I’m actually also thinking about going to the next BBB in January. We’ll see…

We also went into the store…

… and I immediately got me a new hoodie. :)

NOOOT!!! I didn’t buy it, but Jeremy Scott is really going all out…! Do you like the look…??

adidas Originals, Münzstr. 13 -15, 10178 Berlin, Germany – www.adidas.de

Check out the sneaker wall at the KICKZ Store.

KICKZ, Münzstraße 20, 10178 Berlin, Germany – www.kickz.com

Next stop was STAB, where you have a good sneaker-to-clothing ratio in my eyes.

We loved this piece of art here. Also check out those little Jeremy Scott adidas sneaker for kids. :)

STAB, Gipsstraße 23, 10119 Berlin, Germany – www.stickabush.com
Mon – Fri 12:00-20:00 & Sat 11:00-19:00

Then, I was finally able to go to SOTO after I got me their SOpreme shirt earlier this year. By the way, you can really tell, when you are getting closer to the store. :)

That’s the front. Unfortunately, it was already dark.

The atmosphere in the store was cool and very laid-back, so you can feel really comfortable there.

We’ll go back there on Thursday to check out the opening of the Alastair Philip Wiper exhibition.

SOTO, Torstraße 72, 10119 Berlin, Germany – blog.sotostore.com
open Mon – Fri 12:00-20:00 & Sat 11:00-20:00

Right next door is No.74. The carry exclusive adidas items, but unfortunately I was not allowed to take any pics.

No.74, Torstraße 74, 10119 Berlin, Germany – www.no74-berlin.com
open Mon – Sat 12:00-20:00

After that it was time to eat and we found something dope on Torstraße: Shawarma, Hummus & Haloumi…!

Two corners away you’ll find the Firmament store in their new location. They got really exclusive stuff by OriginaFake, Head Porter Plus, Acronym, Visvim and so on.

In the entrance area they are showcasing the new Nike x Undercover Gyakusou International Running Association collection.

You can also get some Japanese magazines there, while I got myself a new Stüssy beanie. And no, they don’t make ‘Gas-/Wasserinstallationen’, if some krayzie person on the street should tell you that LOL.

Simon also found this book called ‘Take Ivy’ that contains photographs of men and their clothes shot on the Ivy campuses. It was originally published in Japan in 1965 and started the “Ivy Style” fashion among students in Tokyo. And as Simon told me not much has changed on the campuses fashionwise in all those years. And if somebody should know about that, it’s him, but I won’t drop the H-bomb now. :)

Firmament, Linienstrasse 40, 10119 Berlin, Germany – www.am-firmament.com
open Mon – Sat 12:00-20:00

Last visit was at the Civilist store.

They also carry a wide range of different brands and I also found a shirt by Australian brand PAM that I had to get.

Civilist, Brunnenstraße 13, 10119 Berlin, Germany – www.civilistberlin.com
open Mon – Sat 12:00-20:00

If you happen to be in Berlin, I can only advice you to check out these stores, also because in that area you’ll find some cool other things while you are walking around.

Anywayz, I’m still here for a while, so more love from Berlin soon, when I show you what we are doing today.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

I was kinda quiet the last few days, but you’ll hear a lot of me next week, because I’m going to be in LITTLE BIG BERLIN.

(Meaning you should also watch this cute clip right here. Hehehe.)

Everybody in Berlin, let’s link up…!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

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Hey, homeboy Simon just sent me this video and I don’t know what to make out of it really… Other than, we like you. We do!!! Maybe you just need to come to Frankfurt, tomo dachi!

Andi / @theballatician

After having seen the SOpreme shirt by SOTO at the In Heaven Part 2 party in Frankfurt, I had to get it, too. And after having read a comment on the availability under the pic on their Facebook page, I got on the phone, Phil-G answered and a few days later I had it. Thanks, guys!

To get the pun on the shirt: It was released as part of the Supreme Book launch at SOTO and came with every book back then.

And it was very OK to also include the first issue of the Highsnobiety Magazine. Thank you very much!

Unfortunately, I haven’t been to Berlin since SOTO opened, but I only heard good things about the store and I think we’ll be hearing a lot from them in the future, too. Check this post by trendzeta to get an insight. I’ll check it out the next time I’m in Berlin for sure:

SOTO Store, Torstraße 72, Berlin, Germany – www.sotostore.com
open Mon – Fri 12:00-20:00 & Sat 11:00-20:00

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to make you aware of some shopping opportunities today.

First of all, Freebase Sneakers posted a pic one hour ago of the backstock of the NIKE Air Pegasus 89 Berlin (Quickstrike release), that arrived at their store today. So, if you missed your chance head over to their store (Peterstr. 2, 60313 Frankfurt/Main – open: Mon-Fri: 11-20h, Sat: 11-18h), call them (+49 69 13376255) or try it online (www.freebase-sneakers.com) and grab your pair for 119,90€.

Then, KICKZ.com did the incredibly and set the price for the Air Jordan 3 True Blues as part of their Advent calender special for today only at 99,90€ . Surprisingly, as they have still many “good” sizes to offer.

And last but not least, we can now offer you the comforts of our own online shop, where you can exclusively get the WE RUN FFM T-Shirt at. We offer two colorways and free shipping for your order in Germany. Price is 35€.

You also can get to our shop at any time by clicking on the little image on top of the right side.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

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Last year around August I went to Berlin for the extra casting of Tarantinos newest upcoming flick Inglorious Basterds a remake of an italian late 70s cult movie titled Quel maledetto treno blindato (aka.  The Inglorious Bastards).  Since I have never been to the Studio Babelsberg I just wanted to go to see how it looks like and also take the pictures and headshots for the role of a german soldier, I didnt get picked so sadly you wont see me in the movie but you can watch the trailer here plus I’ve upped a few pictures from the trip.

This is where I arrived, the airport Berlin Tegel.

Took the Bus to Bahnhof Zoo and from there I took the train to Babelsberg its not really far away from Berlin about a 10 to 15min trainride from the Babelsberg station you can walk to the studios in about 10 minutes or wait for a bus to take you there, sadly that day no bus came so it was a little workout for me haha.

Wow good thing I was there early because I took those pictures just after my pictures were taken I was kinda shocked how long the line was after I got out of the building everyone wanted to be in a Tarantino movie and this was just the first casting they scheduled a second one a week later I wonder how many of those faces you might see in the actual movie haha.

Afterwards I went back to Berlin to get some food and check out a few stores near the Kurfürstendamm, its a popular area for shoppers some expensive shops but also some of the usual, didnt have much time since I was not planning to stay and had to catch my flight back home.

A few breakdancers performing for the people.

Do you notice the different sign on the stoplight ? I think those were only used in parts of Berlin and the formerly eastern germany.

Alright back to the airport, can’t wait to watch Inglorious Basterds later this year seems to be a very good movie. Quentin Tarantino actually prepared a sequel to it already maybe I get the chance to be an extra in this one haha ;-).

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