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Monthly Archives: September 2010

ARCHITECTURAL HANGOVERS #02: CABRINI-GREEN

Monday, September 20, 2010

‘These are the laws of entropy; ‘There is no way back,’ like Adonis used to say down in Chicago’s Cabrini Green,’ says Cyprien Gaillard in our current issue, referring to a neighborhood in northern Chicago which became synonymous with the failure of public housing.
Formerly known as ‘Little Hell,’ the site of the Cabrini-Green public housing [...]

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Big in Japan

Sunday, September 19, 2010

If you can’t go to Japan right now but are still looking for a Japanese moment, then you could consider heading for Berlin-Marzahn and find your way into the ‘Gardens of the World’ to become completely captured by the autumnal light making your eyes dance in the beauty of shades, shapes and colours.

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RIGHT NOW

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Despite its crappy name, this is actually a great market – and you can check it out today!

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LESS RISK, MORE FUN

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Today, quite a few people in Berlin gathered to make a strong statement against governmental plans, or deals, to extend nuclear-powerstations’ lifespans.
So, Angie, keep in mind for whom you do the job and who ensures yours. Shut those dirty oldies down. Especially interesting: in 2005, no 7% of the world’s energy consumption were produced by [...]

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Elad Lassry

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based photographer Elad Lassry creates carefully crafted still lifes and publicity shots that are soothingly flat and blank, filled with eerily familiar typologies of colors, shapes, and subjects. They are a testament to how inured we have become to the cumulative miasma of advertising’s generic visuals – they are the Pop response to Cindy [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: PRO QM

Friday, September 17, 2010

As any independent magazine maker will tell you, there are two crucial and incredibly frustrating elements to publishing that are pretty difficult to square: funding and distribution. Once you get a little insight into distribution, you realize how an absurd, wasteful and rigid system is essentially leading to tons and tons of paper ending up [...]

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DEAR YOU

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Just in case you came to us here at mono.blog because you saw these nifty three posters by Miranda July mentioned in this week’s venerable ZeitMagazin, and would like to find out more, then, well, you’re kind of in the right place but not really. So why don’t you just click here and let us [...]

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EVERYONE FOREVER NOW

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Not long a go I got to know better the work of Everynone, a production studio divided between L.A. and New York, about whom doesn’t seem to be much information around. The video Words, made for radiolab’s episode with the same name – Words –, reached a huge audience through Vimeo, and using any promotional [...]

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WHEN JAZZ MET MACINTOSH

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Let’s assume that electronica has come a long way when producers start forming trios and quartets. Ever since Jan Jelinek started looting the jazz treasure box with his seminal Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, jazz and experimental electronics have become quite friendly while no one was looking, spawning an as yet unnamed sub genre. After his contribution to the [...]

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POSTSCRIPT: MONO.KLUB #29 WITH TILDA SWINTON

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Dear Friends,
thank you all so much for joining us last night at the wonderful German premiere of I Am Love – and our apologies to the many, many people who did not manage to get tickets anymore. Who would have thought that a grand cinema such as Kino International would sell out this fast for [...]

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