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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Preview Each Other Clean

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Live Preview to Iron & Wine’s forthcoming studio album Kiss Each Other Clean scheduled for January 25th. Indie-folk friends will have come across Sam Beam’s beard and his mesmerizing ‘tunes’.
Full album in a 70 minutes performance presented by NPR & WNYC.
(Unfortunately the video can only be linked to, but it’s a nice and clean publishing [...]

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A VIRUS IN THE CITY

Saturday, January 8, 2011

French-Israeli artist Absalon (1964-1993) died before realizing his radical ‘life project’, his six Cellules (cells). To be located in the cities of Paris, Zurich, New York, Tel Aviv, Frankfurt/Main, and Tokyo, these minimal homes incorporated a monastic spirit while referencing Le Corbusier’s idea of a ‘machine for living’. Meticulously planned, each cell was designed around [...]

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Virgin Pacific

Friday, January 7, 2011

Baltimore, yes, but also Brooklyn.  There is a rapidly expanding techno scene here, lo-fi and DIY and young and fun, with a huge local support base. Before we dive headfirst into Magick Mountain’s warm minimalism or Gatekeeper’s pulsing horror house, let’s first take a look at Camilla Padgitt-Coles‘ wonderful new video for Virgin Pacific, the [...]

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FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS

Friday, January 7, 2011

The new found- photographs calendar collection for 2011 has recently been released.
“A picture needs memories to be an image. These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them.  found-photographs.com wants to be the home for lost photos – [...]

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LESSONS IN DESIGN: FITZGERALD REVISITED

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Anyone who has ever set foot into a German bookstore can testify that aesthetically, they can be a nasty affair. Apart from the odd exception, German book jackets tend to be nothing short of appalling, especially when compared to some of our European and American peers.
Such as the venerable house of Penguin who have frequently [...]

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More From Bmore

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

… another year, and yet another reason to move to Baltimore: Wye Oak.

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20/20

Monday, January 3, 2011

Finding a pair of glasses, sun or otherwise, can be a huge pain in the arse, in case you’re not too inspired by aerodynamic, bendy, flimsy things that are supposed to make you look, well, modern, presumably, as in aerodynamic, bendy, flimsy. Anyway, personally, I always thought that glasses in the past looked so much [...]

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THE NEW YEAR IN FRIENDS

Saturday, January 1, 2011

And here’s our recommendation for 2011… Have a great new year, everyone.
All our best,
mono.kultur

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THE YEAR IN BOOKS

Saturday, January 1, 2011

At the beginning of 2010, we prompted the lucky recipients of our mono.kalender with a greeting card to read more. Today I realized, bizarrely enough, that my reading list was the only new year’s resolution that I actually put into action, while successfullly ignoring bigger challenges. It also made me realize that fulfilling resolutions feels [...]

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