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Monthly Archives: March 2010

MONO.PUNKT #10: LEIPZIG

The ever-growing Leipzig book fair is coming up, and our friends at Spector Books have organized a one-day additional space dedicated to alternative publishing at Leipzig’s Centraltheater this Saturday, from 12h to 22h. The day will be accompanied by several talks about bookmaking, with the inevitable highlight in form of a reading by none other [...]

WARPED PASSAGES

After having turned 20 last year, Warp records seems to be on some kind of a serious roll right now: First there was this crazy epic one, then this (an amazingly wild jazz album really), and now this one which turns out to be so much better than expected. Maybe that’s because Jamie decided to [...]

LEAD AWARDS 2010

Last night saw the opening of the exhibition accompanying the annual Lead Awards at the grand Deichtorhallen in Germany’s media capital Hamburg, evaluating the best of German editorial design, photography and advertising. The refreshing aspect of the Lead Awards is that, unlike with other design awards, one cannot enter the competition with usually fairly hefty [...]

BLASTOMAT AT MMX

Tonight in Berlin, our friends at the temporary D.I.Y art space MMX are celebrating the launch of their second exhibition. MMX is a trashed-out house in Linienstraße which has been roughly renovated to house several white-walled exhibition rooms. A lively crowd can normally be found wandering about the space on Friday nights, drinking cheap beer [...]

A PROPHET

Today marks the cinema release of French crime epic A Prophet in Germany. The gripping thriller, for lack of a better word, by Jacques Audiard was nominated at the Oscars for Best Foreign Feature, and won the Grand Prix at the prestigious Cannes Festival last year, and deservedly so. A kind of upside down coming-of-age [...]

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Again, it is Apple Macintosh that put goosebumps into my skin today. Because after having thought about the iPad not more then an hour or two, these guys made me do it again. The once punk-rock-on-silicium dream of being different whilst also knowing it turns out to lead into a blind alley of thoughts like I’m-nothing-without-a-soon-achieved-world-supremacy or [...]

BRAND SPACE

I fell over this architecture project and hurt myself.

GONJASUFISM

In case you ever wondered what a black Tom Waits might sound like, enter Gonjasufi, whose seriously amazing debut album A Sufi and a Killer was released today by Warp Records. Not meaning to be racist, but how come our black friends can make even religious music sound cool? Sheer genius, methinks.

AI WEIWEI IN THE HALL OF FAME

The venerable Tate Modern in London just confirmed rumours that our cover star Ai Weiwei has been commissioned as the 11th artist ever to show in the giant Turbine Hall at London’s South Bank this autumn. It’s something akin to winning the Oscar and another giant step in Weiwei’s mysterious career, which only really began [...]

POSSIBILITIES UNLIMITED

Now that Sam Mendes will direct the next James Bond movie, nobody would be very surprised to hear that Wes Anderson will direct the next Spiderman. Some guys made an attempt to get Anderson’s attention on that subject by shooting a spoof in the typical quirky Anderson look and feel. It probably won’t happen but [...]