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Monthly Archives: November 2010

A PAEAN TO BOOKS

Saturday, November 13, 2010

If you are a book lover or any other print ephemera collector or you simply like to admire pretty stuff from early days, you probably already know about ‘A Journey Around my Skull’. This blog offers the best book covers’ art selection I’ve seen online so far, as well as a very rich documentation of [...]

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MOTTO BROOKLYN

Friday, November 12, 2010

Straight after the New York Art Book Fair, our friends at Motto just moved a little further up to open their temporary store in Brooklyn, with a rare selection of European and non-European goodies. An absolute must if you’re craving for more art books and magazine and other weird printed matter. Or interesting talks about [...]

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MAP LOVING

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Lots of people love maps. Me too. Not so much the BVG public transport map or the Falk street map for Berlin but as soon as I get to London I’m getting excited of their counter pieces, the tube map or the A to Z. In the internet there’s a lot of map related going [...]

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ONAO & SIWA

Thursday, November 11, 2010

ONAO – Japanese paper is mystery.
Pictured -
SIWA lunch bag
Material: Soft Naoron
Size: H180 x W200 x D95mm

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SALON POPULAIRE

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

In a series of monthly evenings, Florian Wüst seeks to contextualize SALON POPULAIRE spatially: by showing and commenting on selected film references and excerpts, he reflects on the history and the present of West Berlin – as the ‘storefront of the free West’, as a site for the squatting movements of the early 1980s, as [...]

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MONA FOMA 2011

Monday, November 8, 2010

MONA stands for the Museum of Old and New Art and MONA FOMA stands for the MONA Festival of Music and Art and it’s called MOFO for short. If you find yourself at the end and other side of the world this summer (yes, it’s summer in January here!) you may be very interested in [...]

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Nan Goldin’s Berlin

Sunday, November 7, 2010

When watching Nan Goldin’s canonical slideshow The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, I have always been struck  hard by her photos from Berlin, where she traveled to on several extended trips throughout the 80s, 90s, and 00s (including a year-long trip in 1991 financed by the DAAD). The subliminal quality of the city in those decades [...]

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THE LIST OF LISTS

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Some say that we have a compulsive obsession with numbering things (5 / 25 / …), so it’s maybe not all that surprising that we really like lists as well – especially when they’re as absurd and entertaining as some of the lists, well, almost all of them, really, compiled by our friends at McSweeney’s. [...]

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SOUNDS OF SILENCE

Saturday, November 6, 2010

I suppose a military veterans’ charity is the last kind of institution you would expect to subvert pop culture, but this is Britain, after all, so there: 2 minutes of silence at Number One of the British Charts, anyone? Sounds like a great idea to me – wouldn’t silence beating Rihanna to dethroning Cheryl Cole [...]

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CHEERS

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Call it firewater, a highball, a chaser, or one for the road – this interview will leave you thirsty for more…

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