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Monthly Archives: April 2010

BLAKE VS. DEATH METAL

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

In case you didn’t know it already: There’s a fine line between William Blake quotes and Death Metal lyrics…; the same goes for good and bad book trailers, I guess.

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IN OUR MAILBOX

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Well, what a nice mail we received. A compliment so sweet it almost makes us blush.

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TREME THEME

Sunday, April 25, 2010

As you might have noticed, we are all big fans of TV series The Wire, so it’s with great anticipation we see the return of Wire’s mastermind David Simon with his new series Treme, examining New Orleans after the Katrina hurricane, intertwining the city’s great musical history with its current desolate state and the effects [...]

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PA/PER VIEW

Saturday, April 24, 2010

It’s the last two days of the excellent Pa/per View magazine fair at Wiels institute in Bruxelles, so if you happen to be in the area, it should make for a great Saturday or Sunday afternoon out. See some impressions here.

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THIS MAGAZINE STINKS…

Thursday, April 22, 2010

…says magCulture, one of our favourite magazine blogs, in a disappointingly harsh review. Sorry to hear it, but we’re not here to please – but to raise questions, to get answers, to give space to differing opinions and experiences. From there on, make of it what you will. Personally, working on this issue for a [...]

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CIVILISATION

Thursday, April 22, 2010

‘Civilisation’ is a video mural by artist Marco Brambilla, created as a permanent installation for the Standard Hotel in New York. It is a collage of film references, containing 300 looped HD clips layered into a single tableaux on a digital canvass of 1920 x 7500 pixels. It is viewed from inside the elevators according [...]

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Twain Today

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Again, mono.kultur is too late: 100 years ago Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain died. But even if this time bug has prevented a full length interview with a brilliant American pop writer, his witty dialogues are remembered, even in awful German language places. Would the creator of Mississippi Mainstream like the grassroots nature of [...]

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DON’T YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS?

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

It’s been two years since the last episode of The Wire aired. Produced by HBO and set in Baltimore, it was described by many people as “the world’s best television series ever”. Even by those who generally never watch television because the standards of tv shows are usually so low.
The blog The Wire Re-Up on [...]

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IT’S NICE THAT…

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

…our new issue seems to be getting some attention, even before hitting the stores. Even one of our favourite design blogs, It’s Nice That, wrote a nice little preview.

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FASSBINDER, HERZOG, AND THE FUTURE

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Oh, the glories of email threads. After sending a friend a link to MoMA’s recent screening of World on a Wire, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s mindblowing Euro-70’s sci-fi epic (filmed by mono.kultur favorite Michael Ballhaus), he immediately responded with Plastic Bag, a short film by Ramin Bahrani. The story of a existentially-minded plastic bag trying to [...]

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