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Monthly Archives: September 2009

GO GREEN

Are you an Internet addict but also want to save the planet? Why not use the ‘green Internet search engine’ Forestle! They use their advertising revenue to protect endangered rainforest regions in order to fight global warming and keep the world’s most precious ecosystems intact. All of their income (minus administrative costs) is donated to [...]

THE FOURTH PLINTH

British artist Antony Gormley was commissioned to create an art work for the famous ‘Fourth Plinth’ on Trafalgar Square in London, which was built in 1841 to display an equestrian statue before the funds ran out, leaving it empty ever since. Since 1998, various artists such as Rachel Whiteread or Thomas Schütte have been commissioned [...]

PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE MOMENT

This new Rizzoli publication curated by Ken Miller gathers over 20 photographers whose work focuses on capturing a moment rather than on elaborate lighting setups or controlled, manufactured scenarios.  Shoot documents the influence of an older generation of art photographers such as the legendary Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans and expands on a younger generation [...]

THE TRIPPING POINT

News from Melville House Publishing: “Wise-guy lexicographer Paul Dickson, a consulting editor at Merriam-Webster, has long held the record for collecting the “Most Synonyms” for any term in the English language. He made the Guinness Book of World Records with 2,231 terms meaning “drunk”—beating out no less than Benjamin Franklin, who published his own list [...]

A WORLD IN PATTERNS

Our beloved Dries van Noten was awarded the 2009 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion by The Couture Council of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Praise from Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at FIT: “Dries fits this time – he is special as you can wear [...]

THE LONG GOODBYE

After 20 years of existence and more than a full year on the road promoting their current album The Slip, Nine Inch Nails will play tonight their supposedly final show ever. Trent Reznor, the cover star of our quite possibly least popular issue so far, mono.kultur #03, has announced that he will still be releasing [...]

STEVE JOBS BACK IN JOB(S)

The heavily rumored Steve Jobs aka the BIG BIG BIG rescue-man for the Apple-Macintosh fans we all are is not going to step down entirely but is back on stage.
Check out his health status here!

15 MINUTE PORTRAITS

Ah what the hell, why not – here are some more or less recent portraits for various publications from the mono.graphie department.

Tilda Swinton / 2009 / Editorial / Published in mono.kultur [Cover] / Berlin
The thoroughly wonderful Tilda Swinton is hardly in need of an introduction. The Scottish actress seems equally comfortable appearing in mainstream Hollywood [...]

ALTE HASEN VI

Tonight, September 8, 2009, 7 pm:
Sixth edition of KW’s Alte Hasen series – Paul Maenz in conversation with Renate Wiehager
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

POST BERLIN PUBLISHING WEEKEND

We’re going a little exhausted into this week, after a weekend of books, magazines, and more books. It was fun! Let’s do it again! Here are some impressions from the publishing fairs at Miss Read and Unter dem Motto.
Oh, and there was someone else who liked it – we’re on a blog about genetics and [...]