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Monthly Archives: June 2014

Keep on Pushin’

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

If you’re familiar with names such as Barbee or Duffy, Shiloh or Salman, Hensley or Natas, this one’s clearly for you, but Ricki Bedenbaugh’s “Keep on Pushin’” is fun to watch even if you’re not.

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LOST AND FOUND

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Aphex Twin’s unreleased album ‘Caustic Window‘ can be now fully streamed on Youtube! The album had reached the test pressing phase in 1994, but was aborted as a full release. True Aphex Twin passionates can still get their hands on the original, which can be purchased on ebay (the current bid is $10,750!).

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BOFILLTOPIAS #01: LA FÁBRICA

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

With Spanish master architect Ricardo Bofill as the subject for our new issue mono.kultur #36, we’re going to focus on a few highlights of his singularly prolific and versatile career spanning five decades, since so many of his projects are just such good fun to examine.
And where better to start than at the mythical La [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: WASHED OUT

Monday, June 16, 2014

Beautifully trippy summery video for the day: Washed Out’s Weightless.

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YARN HARVEST

Monday, June 16, 2014

All your favorite garden finds, knitted by japanese artist Itoamika Jung Jung.

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AUFNAHMEZUSTAND

Sunday, June 15, 2014

The ZDF – one of the major German television channels – started two years ago to invite smaller, quite unique bands and musicians to play in the gorgeous Funkhaus, the former broadcast center of the DDR which happens to provide elaborate sound qualities, so good that you may call it ‘acoustically immaculate’.
Among the bands to [...]

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WHEN I WAS

Saturday, June 14, 2014

One of the films I look forward to most this summer: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. While the title draws multiple definitions only similar in abstraction, Linklater–the versatile, the skillful, and just shy of master-status–manages to distill that bittersweet expanse of time in this massive work. Capturing twelve years in narrative through the aging cast, the film [...]

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TUBE MOMENTS

Friday, June 13, 2014

Subway systems always have their particular allure, and it’s funny how they come to represent the city they are in – just compare the unique smells to be found in Berlin, compared to Paris or London. What is universal is the way how we will rub shoulders with people from all walks of life, cramped [...]

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512 HOURS

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

‘I am thinking a lot about next year, and what is my next step. I am preparing something that I should not talk about because that is bad luck,’ Marina Abramović told us last year of our mono.kultur #35 – meaning that ‘next year’ is now, and indeed, today is the first day of Abramović’s [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #36: RICARDO BOFILL

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Dear Friends,
‘It is enough to say that Ricardo Bofill is one of Europe’s most famous and prolific architects of the last century. To add any more is to inevitably leave out too much.’ With these words we begin the journey of our new issue mono.kultur #36 into the mind and work of [...]

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