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Monthly Archives: July 2010

RETURN TO MADISON AVENUE

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Mad Men is back in style, and how nice is that? 13 more episodes of sheer goodness, thank you.

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BUCH ARM

Monday, July 26, 2010

The Buch Arm is a device for rearranging your library and an extension to your bookshelf.  It was originally designed for the Goethe-Institut New York by Manuel Raeder, ifau and Jesko Fezer. New, appropriated versions are available now to potentially purchase for your mono.kultur library and bookshelf by contacting either Manuel Raeder or ifau.

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CREATIVE CRISIS

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Remember Downtown 81? Well, it looks like Basquiat’s love interest from that movie, former fashion model Anna Schroeder, isn’t doing too well these days…

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NEW LIGHTS

Friday, July 23, 2010

Sometimes there are bands that you just don’t want to change – for me, Interpol is such a band, my perfect aggregation of what independent rock should sound like. So I’m happy to hear that the teaser track from their forthcoming album, called, erm, Interpol, picks up exactly where they left off with 2007′ brilliant [...]

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SOUND & STUDIES

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Until the end of August famous Karl-Marx-Allee will change into a venue for versatile acoustic experiences. Between Strausberger Platz and Frankfurter Tor gallery im namen des raumes, the artists collective Berg26 and Max Schneider host a series of sound-art projects on the occasion of 1. World Listening Day.
Especially the piece by Bjørn Melhus, Treehouse #2, [...]

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HERE & TODAY

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Today marks the first anniversary of mono.blog – yes, indeed: We posted our very first entry on July 21st, 2009. At the time, it was a bit of an experiment to share a little more of our activities and interests beyond the limits of mono.kultur. We thought we’d give it a year to see whether [...]

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THIS WEEK

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

So, this week seems to be loaded with nice events worth paying a visit and with such a nice weather there’s no excuse to stay in.
Today, BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), an one-night event where several artists will be presenting their work, with a beamer, of course! The event will showcase works from more then [...]

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POPCORN VS DOG

Sunday, July 18, 2010

In the first chapter of his latest book Eating Animals, American author and vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer lists reasons why it would be quite ethical to eat dogs. At the end of the chapter he lists a classic Filipino recipe for ‘Stewed Dog, Wedding Style’. In today’s Observer Food Monthly’s vegetarian special, Foer is among [...]

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Best of Cities

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Many people do not know which city they like best. And some have not even been there, yet. Ever since Rome was abandoned as the top city, people just could not know. For a while Paris was the best town, then again London and even New York. Lately, Berlin has been a favourite among Australians [...]

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PLINK, PLANK, PLUNK!

Friday, July 16, 2010

The drummer, performer, artist and composer Sven-Åke Johansson, one of the legendary protagonists of free improvised music, will be performing next Wednesday at Kunstwerke Berlin. As a drummer Johansson defined the European Free Jazz with E.M.T. and the duo with Alexander von Schlippenbach. In the 1970s he began to record his ideas for performances in [...]

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