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Monthly Archives: August 2015

ADVICES FROM THE WISE ONES

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The extravagant pervert, legendary director John Waters has precious advices, indeed, such as: ‘If you go home with someone, and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them.’ In an old interview dating back to February, 13 2014, when his exhibition at Sprüth Magers Berlin was going on, Waters talked about ‘finding friends, beating the [...]

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CHINESE WHISPERS 33

Friday, August 14, 2015

From India with love: warm words from our friends at Paper Planes.

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MISLAID BY NELL ZINK

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Recommended Summer/Winter reading! Just check out what The New Yorker and The Guardian are saying.

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STORE OF THE MONTH: WOOD WOOD / COPENHAGEN

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Most Berliners under a certain age and with a certain taste will be more than familiar with Danish streetwear gone fashion label Wood Wood. Syonymous with Scandinavian contemporary cool like no other brand, Wood Wood are beyond borders and genres, stocking Comme des Garçons next to New Balance next to their own collections next to [...]

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FIND YOUR SINGLE

Monday, August 10, 2015

Are you looking forward to listening the new album of Beach House? Click ‘Single Finder‘ on the band’s official website, choose three of your favourite tracks from the previous albums of the band and listen a new one online that would fit to your Beach House taste.

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MONDAY MUSIC: KOREY DANE

Monday, August 10, 2015

There isn’t much to be known about newcomer Korey Dane yet, but anyone covering Mazzy Star for starters is onto the right track in our humble opinion, and we’re always suckers for dreamy lo-fi videos.

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MARSHA

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Marsha P. Johnson was a liberation activist. Despite Hollywood’s latest claims as in the film Stonewall(2015), the African American drag queen was the one who threw the first brick against the police in June, 1969. Literally, according to various sources, this trans woman of color ‘really started it’ − not a pretty clean white boy [...]

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SINGLE FLAT

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The artist Erik Steinbrecher has conceived a new installation for the courtyard of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin – an accessible platform: SINGLE FLAT (2015) adds a third, even bigger cube to the cubes already present in this yard; those nested within each other in the architecture of Café Bravo, designed by Dan [...]

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Monday, August 3, 2015

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the important ideas of our time.
Festival of Dangerous Ideas
5-6 September, 2015
Sydney Opera House
Australia

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Point And Duration

Sunday, August 2, 2015

A good while ago, we introduced the Dexter Sinister-curated Watch Wyoscan 0.5 hz, and now it’s available as an app for your phone:
Time is like that — both point AND duration. This is how it can bend and warp. A week, a second, a season: all are specific and discrete, but none are [...]

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