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Monthly Archives: February 2010

MASSIVE COMEBACK

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Massive Attack’s Heligoland, named after a few remote German islands, has been on heavy rotation at the studio recently – having never been a great fan of theirs, their first album after a 7 year hiatus is actually really enjoyable. I was particularly pleased by the return of Martina Topley-Bird, who used to be the [...]

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A WOMAN WITH TASTE

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Leanne Shapton is the author of the book Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry which I have mentioned here before. She recently started writing a column titled We Three Things for T (New York Times Style Magazine). She has contributed for [...]

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100 Years of Technical Existence

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Max Bense would have turned 100 years earlier this week. Even if his reconstructive post-war modernism does not appeal to today’s postmodern mainstream, and there is not a single hit on wired.com, Max Bense’s work is still worth a glimpse. That’s why the Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) has put up an exhibition [...]

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TURN YOUR RADIO ON

Friday, February 12, 2010

Tonight the exhibition Sounds / Radio – Art – New Music, curated by Marius Babias, Gaby Hartel, Frank Kaspar, and Katrin Klingan, opens at n.b.k. in Berlin:
During the age of the historical avant-gardes, the arts formed a mutually enriching synthesis before the separation and specialization into individual disciplines set in during the 1930s. Radio was [...]

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GOD BLESS THE QUEEN

Friday, February 12, 2010
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HOW MANY INDEED?

Thursday, February 11, 2010

A nod of the head from across the pond. Thanks, we like you, too.

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DARK & STORMY

Thursday, February 11, 2010

So the promised snow has finally arrived, nixing my plan to catch the Ooga Booga installation at the Swiss Institute before it closes this Saturday. Instead, I’m home, doing what I love most on dark, stormy nights…. catching up on some photography. Whether you’re trapped in frigid, snowy Berlin, or frigid, snowy New York (or [...]

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‘Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.’ The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

I’ve recently come across something to increase ‘the limits of my universe’, well, especially in regards to my foreign language skills anyway. I’ve discovered earworms mbt® Rapid Languages. earworms are not totally new – they’ve been around for about a year now. They are a revolutionary accelerated learning technique developed by Berlitz and music is [...]

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THANK YOU FOR WAITING

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

And yes, we’re terribly late with our, erm, winter issue, but it will come soon – we have all the ingredients waiting, as you can see above. And no, we’re not going to tell you what this is. You’ll find out soon enough.

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GO WITH THE FLOE

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Even though it’s probably way safer to stay inside and just read about Walking In Ice, you should really come down to Motto Mitte tonight (see below) and check out Sam’s reading. Here’s a review I wrote about And yet, and yet… when I first discovered his little publishing enterprise:
Fittingly enough, the first little piece [...]

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