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Monthly Archives: December 2010

OH, THE SEA.

Christmas, by the sea.
And a song almost impossible to find around these days.
Image via Alexandre Moleiro flickr.

ADVENTSKALENDER 19.12.2010

Sleeping in Dubai

While I was sleeping a garden grew up outside my window: bright flowers and soft irrigation pipes sprouted up out of the desert. It wasn’t there yesterday. While I was sleeping they brushed the beaches, glazed the cakes with gold leaf and mixed cement for the glittering monuments.
They fed the fish, rays and sharks so [...]

ADVENTSKALENDER 18.12.2010

R.I.P. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

Legendary Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, has died. Van Vliet’s work influenced virtually every strain of avant-garde rock that followed. Would have made an amazing mono.kultur interviewee.

LAST MINUTE PRESSIES PT 2

It’s very hard to find presents for very creative persons or those who have no interests at all. Here’s a suggestion that simply must excite absolutely everybody!
Product Name: Risograph. Developer: Riso Kagaku Corporation. Description: a cross between a photocopier and a silk-screen printer. Application area: Creating instant art or publishing your own multi coloured [...]

LAST MINUTE PRESSIES PT 1

On the 17th day of Adventskalender it’s about time to think about presents for the loved ones. Here’s one that would be a bummer if you had to bring it back to the shop.
Name: Archipod. Developer: Chris Sneesby. Material: fibreglass and timber (environmentally friendly). Available since: 2010. Good present for: family members who don’t want [...]

ADVENTSKALENDER 17.12.2010

ADVENTSKALENDER 16.12.2010

A GUIDING LIGHT

Tonight at 10:00 pm is the Berlin premiere of A Guiding Light, a short film by artists Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle at Babylon cinema.For A Guiding Light, Gillick and Vidokle invited artists Boško Blagojevi?, Noah Brehmer, Nadja Frank, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and Danna Vajda, critic Tim Griffin, and curators Anna Colin, and Shama [...]