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Monthly Archives: December 2010

THE YEAR IN SOUND

THE YEAR IN PRINT

In case you happen to be a magazine addict like us, there is a nice little round-up of the year over at magCulture, one of our favourite print blogs, with an accurate reflection on this much-loved medium experiencing its own digital revolution, once again. And even more looking back from a slightly more American perspective [...]

BOOKSTORE OF THE MONTH: LIBRAIRIE YVON LAMBERT, PARIS

We’ve been complaining a little recently about French bookstores not liking mono.kultur all that much because of its size, so to be fair it’s high time we slightly readjust this statement, because of course, there are a few wonderful stores in France. In fact, one of the very first stores abroad to carry mono.kultur was [...]

INSIDE THE HEAD-CRATE

McSweeney’s Issue 36 is out and I’m the proud owner of a 275-cubic-inch full-color head-crate that comes with eight booklets and lots of little bits and pieces with new incredible stories. I’m especially excited to find out about Tim Heidecker’s (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) contribution. Another great package from the US [...]

HAPPY ENDINGS

And in just in case you’re still wondering what to do at the end of the year, we just received the following invitation by our friends at the sadly now closed (but soon to reappear, so don’t be upset) Appartement, where we already celebrated a few mono.klubs in the past. So now we know what [...]

Real Wall Post

By embedding USB-sticks into walls Aram Bartholl started an anonymous offline peer-to-peer network. Many of you may still remember the book exchange shelves of pre-internet hostels, or even came across Bücherwald a paper based ancestor of Bartholl’s digital Dead Drops. And similar to its online predecessors posting on a real world wall is all about [...]

Phil Collins

My favorite moments at exhibitions are those little clicks that go off inside you, those giddy shudders that come when an artist or work hits just the right conceptual or formal groove. I had one looking at Jack Goldstein’s The Pull in The Pictures Generation; it hit me seeing when I first encountered the Provoke photographers [...]

A WHITE CHRISTMAS

Hoping your Christmas was wonderful whether white or red!

WITH MY MIND ON MY MONEY AND MY MONEY ON MY MIND

Again, merry xmas!

ADVENTSKALENDER 24.12.2010