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Monthly Archives: August 2011

BACK TO THE HANDMADE — THE MAKERS

Few hours ago Erik Spiekermann was ironically praising the great return to the handmade when commenting this news, about the poor woman who bought a wooden iPad for $180… believing it was for real! But despite the irony directed to this specific and unbelievable case, there seems to be something going on regarding handmade products [...]

MONO.NETZ #04: MONO.KONSUM

Dear Friends,
today is kind of a special day for us: yes, it’s autumn, and yes, this is not right, but we’re not so bothered today, because today we can finally announce our latest adventure in the digital world, our brand new and awfully pretty online store www.mono-konsum.com.
See, about two – or was it three? – [...]

Missing someone is like what the wind feels like to itself

More things to do when summer is letting you down: Get Mark Leidner’s incredible book of aphorisms entitled the angel in the dream of our hangover, out now via Sator. Here’s three of them: 1) anything worth doing is worth taking your lifetime to do; 2) a question mark, like a glassblown exclamation point, takes [...]

bestiary

What do you do when summer is letting you down? Going on a hunt for the perfect bedside book seems rather appropriate in such circumstances and ‘The bedside book of Beasts’ is almost too perfect of a trophy. Graeme Gibson’s collection of poems, images, stories and facts is helping to forget the autumnal reality outside [...]

NANO ORIGAMI

What is there to say about someone who will spend 10 hours on creating a 9mm flower out of paper? Someone like Anja Markiewicz, who has obviously taken the virtues of the Japanese Origami very close to her heart. It’s not for nothing her Flickr Page is called ‘Faltsucht’ – or ‘Folding Addiction’, where she [...]

DOES SHE LOVE ME DOES SHE LOVE ME NOT

With the elections coming up and Berlin being once again flooded with posters that couldn’t be any more meaningless and vague, time to mention another widespread political message which started cropping up here and there over the past few monts: the Berlin Loves You Not stickers. No less vague but apparently with no unclear target: [...]

In defence of self-consciousness

Two good wholesome productive uses for self-consciousness:

Laughs: this is juuuust what my last kiss looked like; and
Good writing: self-consciousness can be lucid and acute, and can get to the heart of important invisible things. This article by Edwin Dobb is kindof about kissing, but it also tries to give an account of modern romance between [...]

YOU HAVE TO SMASH THEM UP

Destructive transmutation in the penumbra of the new Olympic Stadium on the tenth anniversary of the most influential destructive event of the 21st Century. Scrap Club takes place by a site that has probably seen the most destruction and rebuilding done in London since World War II. These grounds shall now also bear the fall [...]

IMPROV EVERYWHERE

I stumbled across the brilliant theatre group of sorts, Improv Everywhere, the other day and was pretty amazed – founded in 2001 in New York, they’ve been staging undercover performances in public for a decade now, ranging from spontaneous musicals in supermarkets to gathering thousands of people to do weird things according to instructions given [...]

FERROFLUID TOWERS

Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama creates sculptures made from magnetic liquid. By exposing ferrofluid to magnetism these alien looking creatures shape and re-shape. Her work Morpho Tower is currently shown at the Edinburgh Art Festival until September 4th, 2011.