I already ran this on Facebook, but felt it was worthy of the repost. This is me loving Germany. Why? Because the dude at the subway platform bodega will sell you an icy cold pilsner.

Crack it for you.

And you can head off into the night drinking on the subway like it’s one big bar car. Nobody even looks at you funny. So yeah, they may not be the friendliest, and they definitely got the whole world war concept pretty fucked up, but when it comes down to good ol fashioned quality of life, the Germans have it on lock! Prost!

Thanks to my homie Oli Tielsch from Monster, I also had the change to hit up the opening of the Nike SB pop-up shop while I was in Berlin. Oli was launching his super rad NYC issue and SB was showing Alex Flach’s sick shots of the German SB team tours to Cairo, Dubai, Capetown, and Tokyo. I bumped into both Gigi Ruf and Chris Haslam there on the totally random tip, which just made me think yet again “fuck it really is a super small world.” Peep the rest of my pics at RadCollector.

I just had the opportunity to travel back to the hinterland and have a gang of good stories to share but it seemed appropriate to start with a quick shot of my very first visit to the HighSnob Headquarters in Mitte, Berlin. On the real, I’m about to put in for a transfer – you should see their interns!! Peace to Omer, David and Phil G! Dankeshoen homies!!!