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Monthly Archives: August 2012

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Complicated emotions while hearing this incredible voice of Antony… Isn’t that Marina who is standing near the door at the left side? Oh yes it is!

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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HERB LESTER

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Like anybody, we love city guides and maps, and even if traveling to a particular place might have to remain a dream for an unspecified period of time, just reading about it will send a little tingle of excitement down our spine. Anyway, city guides are probably the ultimate fun book project, and what a [...]

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THE SUPER SOLAR COOK-OFF

Monday, August 6, 2012

The Solar Cook-Off is a cooking competition taking place as a part of Playpublik Urban Game Festival. Participants are invited to build a solar cooker, then show their talent with the scavenged food. In case the sun doesn’t feel like coming out, there is a Plan B, which is to built the Super Rocket Stove! If you are [...]

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Bodily Motives: Fin Serck-Hanssen

Monday, August 6, 2012

‘With this project, I was fascinated by the prison institutions in Norway. In my view Norwegians in general have the idea that prisons are very human institutions. I wanted to find out how much truth there was in this assumption. I wanted to investigate how different prisons were designed, and how the surroundings for restricted [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: MICACHU

Monday, August 6, 2012

Speaking of producing videos not just for a track but an entire album, spare a moment for lovely and wondrous Micachu who worked together with director Chloe Hayward to produce a visual sort of dream diary for her latest album Never – and weirdly wonderful they all are, in their own way. Unashamedly low-budget, cheaply [...]

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MEANWHILE, ON MARS

Monday, August 6, 2012

Chances are that by the time you’re reading this, about, oh, some 150 million miles from you, the Curiosity Rover, Nasa’s latest mission to Mars, will have successfully completed its landing and is happily scurrying about freezing desert planes to collect data to investigate the feasibility of a manned flight at some point in the [...]

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REVENGE OF THE RINGS

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Doesn’t that remind you of… Well, yes. And they are getting more, getting stronger, getting better – until their day has come.

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THE BOOK COVER ARCHIVE

Friday, August 3, 2012

Book covers, in Germany, are mostly something to be ashamed of, for no good reason – it’s really inexplicable why virtually all German publishers have such appalling taste in design, or presume their readers to have. So forgive us for kindly pointing you towards the new and still in beta state website The Book Cover [...]

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OBJECT LOVE

Thursday, August 2, 2012

These days where it’s all about the Olympics, let’s turn to a former archery champion to have our suspicions confirmed: the world can be a wild and wondrous place. (And yes, the video gives our quote below a whole new and unexpected twist…)

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MONO.KULTUR #32 / SOUNDBITE 02

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Coming out next week: mono.kultur #32.

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