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Monthly Archives: January 2015

READING MATERIAL

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Learn the recent trends in haute couture with i-D’s delightful video.  Featuring an impish spin on the classic “ABC” song by Toro y Moi.

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BRONX BOYS

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

‘The Bronx felt like home to me because the people I photographed took me into their hearts and made me family. When you are family, a place can still be dangerous at times but it is home.’ It’s this discrepancy between violence and poverty on one side, family and belonging on the other, [...]

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Something Else

Monday, January 19, 2015

A professional skateboarder for almost two decades, Kenny Anderson is a triple dad, and the way he skates in this new clip for CONS is just too unpretentious, too effortless. What’s more, he’s going to be doing his thing in Berlin, later on tonight (free entrance, more info: see image below).

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SHARDS OF TIME: NORTHERN IRELAND, 1981

Saturday, January 17, 2015

As we are on the verge of releasing our next issue, here is a short excerpt from our still current and not to be missed mono.kultur #37 with war photographer James Nachtwey talking about his first big assignment on the civil war in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s:
You once mentioned how [...]

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OSTALGIA REVISITED

Friday, January 16, 2015

It’s one of the curiosities in life that the world’s largest collection of East German design and objects should be housed in Los Angeles, of all places. While nostalgia for the DDR is mildly frowned upon in Germany, America has a little more distance and can just revel in the charme of the past. A [...]

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THE BLUE FLESH

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Besides narrations of Christianity − Pieta or crucification − and depictions of Hindu deities, Don Pablo Pedro’s tempting paintings are reminiscent of miniatures − Levni, end of 17th Century, Ottoman Period as an example − or 16th century anatomy drawings. A third eye evocative of a bleeding vagina, several faces protruding from the same surface [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #38 / SOUNDBITE 02

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Always a pleasure: the smell of fresh ink. mono.kultur #38 went through the printing press yesterday.

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STORE OF THE MONTH: NADA / BOGOTÁ

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

We keep hearing great things about Bogotá these days, so it’s a pleasure to welcome the lovely Nada in the heart of Columbia to the generous world of book stores fueled by love and dedication. What is so normal to us Europeans spoiled with beautiful things for body and mind – such as great independent [...]

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TIP OF THE TONGUE

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The legendary Glasgow-based record store Volanic Tongue is closing after ten years activity! Run by former Charalambides member Heather Leigh Murray and her husband and writer David Keenan, it was a very relevant place for experimental music. Specializing in new, second-hand & rare underground music and sub-cultural ephemera including books, magazines and DVDs. After closing [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: GOLDEN DISKÓ SHIP

Monday, January 12, 2015

Lo fi electronica and I really like the name: Golden Diskó Ship.

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