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Monthly Archives: June 2011

POINTER IN BERLIN

Pointer in Berlin this July.
Opening Party, July 6, 7pm
Pointer
Münzstrasse 7
10178 Berlin Mitte

BLESS AND PAM AT CRAFT VICTORIA

The innovative design studio BLESS have teamed up with another innovative design studio PAM for a collaborative exhibition at Craft Victoria as part of the State of Design Festival. The exhibition sees the long windows that line Craft Victoria’s main gallery transformed with a new iteration of the BLESS product N°38 Windowgarden.
BLESS No 38 Windowgarden
16 June – 30 [...]

PET PEOPLE

Miranda July and Mike Mills are two great people and both very talented artists who love animals. There’s a dog in Beginners and a cat in The Future. Here’s an animal related list of links from Mike Mills’ website:
sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html
ponttokamera.net/index_e.htm
oregonhumane.org/petcam.asp
farmsanctuary.org
dogsforthedeaf.org
worldwildlife.org
aspca.org
petfinder.org
Portrait: Alexi Wasser

FREE ON BAIL

China has released artist Ai Weiwei after more than two-and-a-half months of detention, state media announced.

Unerzählt bleibt die Geschichte der abgewandten Gesichter

Two weeks back, a few of us had this semi-serious discussion about whether or not art should generally make you think about your own mortality, whether it should sort of transport you to a place that’s indeed a bit closer to that terminal breath – or not. Obviously, we didn’t come to a conclusion that [...]

POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE

This art project starts the other way around than most projects. Instead of waiting for things to happen and capturing them, Postcards from the Future takes imaginary images and then tries to make them happen in exactly that way. It worked a couple of times already. The last section of the project set in Brussels [...]

Sanctuary

Sternberg Press is about to launch the new book of Brian Dillon!
Sanctuary is a fiction set in the ruins of a Modernist building on the outskirts of a city in Northern Europe. The structure, a Catholic seminary built in the 1960s and abandoned twenty years later, embodies the failure of certain ambitions: architectural, civic, and [...]

ENGLISH RIVIERA

With overcast skies in Berlin these days, why not start off the week with a little reminder of what summer should be all about. Hence David Wilson’s rather tasty video for Metronomy’s rather groovy new single The Bay, from their rather excellent new album English Riviera. Strangely enough, two things come to mind: This is [...]

TODAY’S LEVITATION

A super-charming blog by Japanese photographer Yowayowa, photographing herself suspended in the air on a daily basis. There’s worse you could do with your free time. (Discovered via the indispensable It’s Nice That)

WEEKEND TIP: 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN

Despite being the neighborhood most discussed on the media (as well as here and there) by its sudden invasion of youngsters who are bringing along with them new bars, coffee shops, shops and all sorts of business, Neukölln still feels like the right place to live. Contrary to Kreuzberg, where one can clearly feel the impact [...]