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Monthly Archives: June 2011

CHINESE WHISPERS 16

IT’S AN APP

Dear Friends,
while we’re busy promoting our current issue as well as already putting the finishing touches to our next, we have not forgotten that we still have a promise to keep: on the back cover of our issue #26 featuring Manfred Eicher of ECM Records, we hinted at an app for iPad ‘coming soon’. Soon [...]

CHASE THE TEARS

The ever brilliant Portishead are embarking on a mini-tour of festivals starting tomorrow at, bizarrely, Hurricane Festival in Germany. As ever, mighty London is lucky recipient of the highlight of the tour, in form of the Portishead-curated All Tomorrows Parties festival, featuring the likes of Grinderman, Beach House and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Oh, and [...]

SOME DWARFS DIDN’T START SMALL

In case you haven’t heard of Peter Dinklage he’s well worth checking out. I first saw him in Tom DiCillio’s 1995 film Living in Oblivion, one of my all time favourites which I’ve watched about 30 times by now. Over the years Dinklage popped up in all kinds of good films, most famously maybe as [...]

Bollard Spotting

Just came across a heavily street-wise book on the typology of bollards, posts and such: those meaningful obstacles which ensure flatland is used one way, not another. Author Helmut Höge presents his remarkable collection and observations which offer a striking new angle to the politics of space. A must read for retired leapfrog enthusiasts and [...]

RUTH TUT GUT

“Ruth tut gut” – a shop for ladies only, made to make you happy!!!
Welcome to the pink paradise… full of fashion and jewelry!
Where?
Revaler Strasse 13, 10245 Berlin-Friedrichshain
(entrance through the window!)
When?
Tuesday – Friday, 1 – 8 pm, Saturday 1 – 7 pm
Not in Berlin?
Check out Ruth’s online shop!

YES I KNOW

Eerily wonderful: Eric Epstein’s latest video for the The Memory Tapes’ Yes I Know. Post production at its best.

YOUR FUTURE

I have a strange fascination and fondness of all things mystical like star signs and oracles (all with a longing to want to know what my future might hold?) so it comes really as little surprise that I’ve recently signed up to get forecasts of my future from the fabulous Miranda July of mono.kultur #16.
“This is [...]

CHINESE WHISPERS #15

Gushing? Us?

It’s Summer

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