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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Redefine Slime

Thursday, October 6, 2011

We all knew that slime was special watching Ghostbusters. Now, scientist dig deeper to understand such ancient, alien slime civilizations.
“If some countries started to build highways from scratch, I would recommend to them to follow the slime mold routes”
says Andrew Adamatzky, a researcher at the University of West England who also engaged slime mold [...]

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APPLELESS

Thursday, October 6, 2011
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SLOW COAST

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

I never understood why graphic designers don’t do more of their own projects, as the results tend to be great at times. For instance, when they decide to cycle around the entire coast of Great Britain or Ireland and document the weird and the wonderful along the way, with a slight faible for tradition and [...]

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THE ARTIST IS PRESENT

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Even if you didn’t experience it by yourself, most of you will have heard about last year’s The Artist is Present performance retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York where artist Marina Abramovi? (Yugoslav, b. 1946) created a unique audience experience: a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat [...]

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MONO.EDITIONEN #03: TARYN SIMON

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Dear Friends,
it’s been a while since we last published an edition, and it’s been just as long that we’ve been meaning to reprint that unexpectedly popular little gem of an issue mono.kultur #15 with Taryn Simon, which might still qualify as the issue to sell out the fastest so far. So when the occasion of [...]

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MOBILE EVOLUTION

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

I love watching films from the 80’s and seeing the brick-size of the mobile phones. With his clever paper designs Brighton based designer, Kyle Bean has depicted the increasing miniaturisation of the mobile phone in the style of a Russian Doll set (pictured above).  And on another tangent, it kind of reminds me a little [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: LHASA

Monday, October 3, 2011

I’ve been listening to this a lot recently: Lhasa de Sela, an incredibly gifted singer / songwriter from the US, who grew up in Mexico and lived in Canada and France – she sang in three languages, Spanish, English and French. She sadly died in January 1, 2010, from breast cancer, aged 37. Lhasa released [...]

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200 People Dipped In Blackness Making Clouds Forming Altered Carbon

Sunday, October 2, 2011

(We) came in the door/(we) said it before vs. (our) body traveled, our mind (…) behind the music – thanks, Palaceer, for the best concert so far in 2011. And see you soon.

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NOT VOGUE

Saturday, October 1, 2011

My new drug: fashion bitchiness at its most concisely hilarious. Thank you for that.

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