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Monthly Archives: December 2009

ANTIPODEAN

Sunday, December 20, 2009

While everybody in the Northern Hemisphere is worried about what else they can put on to feel warmer, our editor Sarah is on her way to Australia right now, where she can expect problems of the opposite kind: What else could I take off – it’s over 30 degrees!
There are some funny Australians who can [...]

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The Nor’easter

Saturday, December 19, 2009

And it’s here. Possibly one of the 10 biggest winter storms on record. The long-johns are out, the parka is prepped. The only solace I’ve found is in this Andrew Moore photo, because no matter how bad New York or Berlin gets, someplace in Russia has got it worse. The upshot is, they have indoor [...]

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WINTER

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Dammit, it’s cold now in Berlin. Minus 10° and sinking…
Photography by kvr

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Listen Up

Friday, December 18, 2009

Since our new calendar for 2010 isn’t really suited to make daily plans, why don’t you check out TeuxDeux and get a bit more organized? It even features a “someday bucket” (as in “finally do an interview with Vincent Gallo, one that’s just as incredibly awesome as the one Sir David Michael conducted for the [...]

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MERRY, HAPPY… AND A HAPPY…

Thursday, December 17, 2009

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

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PLANS FOR THE NEXT DECADE

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

We’ve already been getting some requests whether we produced another mono.kalender for next year – so yes, we have. The image is from the summer collection of mono.gramm. For a good start into the next decade, it’s available as of now, for free with any order for as long as stocks last. If you subscribe [...]

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ONE HELL OF A SKATE VIDEO

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

There are other ways to get fit than what Men’s Health suggests and they are much more fun! This Official Promo Video for UNKLE’s Heaven is part of a 2007 skate video called Fully Flared that Spike Jonze worked on with Ty Evans. Make sure you watch it all the way through, it gets really [...]

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THE CHANGING VALUES OF MALES

Monday, December 14, 2009

After we heard and wrote yesterday that Men’s Health had used the headlines from October 2007 for their current issue, it turns out they’ve been doing it for years! This is just too good… It seems like us men are just obsessed with the same concerns over the years (sex, money and sixpacks, non surprisingly). [...]

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HURT FEELINGS

Monday, December 14, 2009

It’s sad and official: There won’t be a third season of Flight of the Conchords.
Bret, Jemaine and James (co-creator/director) said “we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won’t [...]

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THE VIRTUAL COLLECTION

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Bored? Tired of endlessly clicking through FFFFOUND! or  Tumblr image blogs? Head over to Coudal Partners’ The Museum of Online Museums. A treasure trove of online collections and exhibits, MoOM has links for everyone’s left-field ephemera obsessions: vintage VCRs, movie title screens, Philip K. Dick book covers…. perfect for contextualized, narrowly-defined inspiration.
And if its one [...]

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