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Monthly Archives: June 2012

MONDAY MUSIC: LIARS

Monday, June 4, 2012

The first single No 1 Against the Rush taken from the Liars’ forthcoming and rather grand new album, WIXIW. Video shot by one of my favourite photographers, Todd Cole (who happened to take the portrait of one Miranda July, featured in our issue #16). Listen to more here.

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MADE IN GERMANY: IGNANT

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Our little column cat Made in Germany had gone missing for the past few months, and we have been wondering ourselves what she’s been up to, when today she just walked in through the front door and acted like nothing happened.
Our own more or less daily wanderings into the Internet lead us all across the [...]

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THE WORLD IS NOT FAIR

Saturday, June 2, 2012

World Fairs… Places of industrialization, power, colonialism and futuristic ideas.
From 1st of June till the 24th, a world fair will take place, that differs from The Great Exhibition in legendary Crystal Palace: ‘The  World is Not Fair-The Great World’s Fair 2012′. By collaboration of Berlin based architecture office Raumlabor and  HAU, this critical world fair [...]

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LIGHTING THE SAILS

Saturday, June 2, 2012

The German design collective Urbanscreen specialize on site-specific large scale projections, as, erm, the iconic Sydney Opera House – their most current project which is still showing until June 11 as part of the Vivid Live Festival. The annoying thing with site-specific installations is, as recently mentioned, that you need to be on site to [...]

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THE BOOK OF NOW

Friday, June 1, 2012

‘Someone had to do it’, as our friends at It’s Nice That put it so well, because yes, someone had to, and messieurs designers Felix Heyes and Ben West did it first: A weighty tome on and courtesy of Google, compiling the first picture to come up in Google Image Search for every word in [...]

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CHINESE WHISPERS 24

Friday, June 1, 2012

I do wonder sometimes where Google Alert is hiding these days, but then again, it’s much nicer to be told by friends that someone somewhere made the effort to write some kind or critical thoughts on you. mono.kultur as an antidote to the Internet? We’d never seen it like that, more like an addition, but [...]

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Rather optimistic future

Friday, June 1, 2012

Good news keep coming in for paper lovers. According to this and this, neither the physical book is dying nor the old loved library is disappearing!
Shannon Mattern in a very insightful article on the Design Observer:
‘A few years ago libraries were flying high. I wrote a book about the so-called “third wave” library-building boom of [...]

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