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Monthly Archives: November 2011

LIGHTSCAPES

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Much talk has been made of art and fashion in these past few years, mostly in a superficial and unsatisfying way. More sense makes a recent collaboration by Belgian fashion designer Dries van Noten, cover star of our issue #20, and photographer James Reeve: when van Noten discovered Reeve’s beautiful Lightscapes, a series of night [...]

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CHINESE WHISPERS 19

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Sorry for posting another self-congratulatory comment here, but we just can’t help it: Our stomachs get all tingly when someone like Jeremy Leslie of the beloved design blog magCulture chooses mono.kultur above the dozens of excellent titles out there as his favourite magazine. Thanks so much. Read the full review here.

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SOULA PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Now that you’ve seen us dancing to some unlikely tunes (last week, thanks to Chris Taylor), why not talk about Robert Sylvester Kelly for a minute: He may or may not be about to drop a memoir, amazingly titled Soula Coaster: The Diary Of Me (he is the true head of headlines, you know?), and [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: VOO / BERLIN

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

It was only a matter of time that Berlin’s Kreuzberg district would get its own proper fashion store. Lucky for us, it happened to be Voo, which has its own particular style of fashion, magazines, decent coffee and understatement that blends in perfectly with our favourite area. A great selection of designers including Henrik Vibskov, [...]

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READABLE ARTS

Monday, November 14, 2011

In the wake of the digital turn, the book is becoming a precious and extravagant superfluity and an aesthetic emblem. While the book is shifting from an inevitable cultural experience to a specialized one, the artist’s book undergoes an explosion of activity, proving once again that “when a medium dies, it becomes an art form.”
For [...]

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UP IN THE AIR

Monday, November 14, 2011

Don’t you hate it when your neighbour on the airplane disrespectfully spreads out left and right? We do, but in this case, we might be inclined to turn our heads the other way, out of pure envy.

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MONDAY MUSIC: BLOOD ORANGE

Monday, November 14, 2011

Mr Devonté Hines aka Lightspeed Champion aka Blood Orange not only plays guitar at our current cover star Chris Taylor’s CANT project, he also released his own album Coastal Grooves earlier this year, reminiscent of, oh, dare we say it, R‘n’R, and seems to be the man of the moment, generally speaking. He conveniently opens [...]

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EPILOGUE: MONO.KLUB #36 WITH CHRIS TAYLOR / CANT

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Dear all,
it took us a little to nurse our hangovers from our launch party with the mighty boys of CANT on Wednesday night, and what a launch party it turned out to be – so after last year’s anniversary bash tragically cut short, we finally had our proper dance party all right. Thank you everyone [...]

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A SPECIAL ON TIME TRAVEL

Friday, November 11, 2011

Nerdy magazine Wired’s US edition features a special on time travel this month. One article examines Haruki Murakami’s novel 1Q84 which was just released in the English translation. Murakami creates a “bizarro version” of 1984 and Wired compares it to the real 1984 as it happened.

Moreover, there’s an interview with Stephen King about his latest [...]

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IT’S REAL!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

What would life be without music and dogs… The new Real Estate album is really good. It’s called Days. They’ll be touring in Europe in December but the only date in Germany is in Hamburg…

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