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Monthly Archives: July 2011

MONO.KULTUR #28 SOUNDBITE 03

Coming back from the printers next week: mono.kultur #28.

CRANK POWERED AM/FM RADIO

If things go pear-shaped in the current economic climate and you can’t even afford batteries, at least you’ll be able to tune into this crank-powered radio. The Bamboo SAFE AM/FM radio by Lexon uses a dynamo powered by a crank – 2 minutes of cranking for 30 minutes of listening!

AI WEIWEI IN NEW YORK

Oh, the speed of the internet. A condition of Ai Weiwei’s recent release from Chinese custody was his silence on Twitter and the blogs, but the Chinese government said nothing about this new Google+ (at least for now). Seemingly in conjunction with a wonderful new show just opened at the Asia Society Museum  in New [...]

Summer is not over

What used to be the music video, became online experiments, often powered by Google technology.
Check out Ok Go’s latest, from mono.kultur with Love. (Chrome Users only, sorry.)

THE NEW TESTAMENT

Wait, there is a new garlic testament?

FILMS TO LOOK FORWARD TO

RUNNING ON EMPTY

There have been numerous photography series on cities such as Tokyo or Los Angeles without people, but to see a video of car-struck LA without cars… Painstakingly assembled by Ross Ching. (via Ignant)

TREE OF CODES

This has been out for some time apparently, but I just came across it today – I’ve always been wondering why novels so rarely make better use of the medium they are relying on: paper. And it’s so refreshing to see when someone does. Amazing.

KING OF REMIX PART 02

Radiohead are back with the second installment of their remix-series of King of Limbs – and they are so good, we can’t help posting them again.

ALL ABOUT THE SEASONS

Winter and summer park bridges and a season change dress – the theme is present in nearly all of Anouk Vogel’s designs who’s a landscape architect born in Switzerland. The dress was created in collaboration with fashion designer Mattijs van Bergen and is made of bicycle inner tubes that function as vases.

SEASON CHANGE
Commissioned by the Architecture [...]