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WHAT WOULD ‘MOTTO’ SOUND LIKE IN SWISS GERMAN?

Friday, March 5, 2010

Well, you can find out tonight when the adorable guys at Motto open their second bookstore at La Perla in Zürich tonight. Great space, great people, great books – what more could you possibly want?

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THE MASTER

Friday, March 5, 2010

In the summer of 2005, Steidl published a modest booklet of London-based, German-born, mono.kultur #08 photographer Juergen Teller’s work, titled The Master. This booklet offered a characteristic portrait of Teller’s own world and his persona as a photographer, with a mixture of fashion and commissioned works printed alongside self-portraits, family photographs and scenes from his [...]

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SUDDEN SATORI

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

More great news from Ken Baumann: He now owns and operates a little publishing company called Sator Press. Congrats!

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VOCODED DATA

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Next month’s recommended read is going to be published here - oh, and here.

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A WOMAN WITH TASTE

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Leanne Shapton is the author of the book Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry which I have mentioned here before. She recently started writing a column titled We Three Things for T (New York Times Style Magazine). She has contributed for [...]

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GO WITH THE FLOE

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Even though it’s probably way safer to stay inside and just read about Walking In Ice, you should really come down to Motto Mitte tonight (see below) and check out Sam’s reading. Here’s a review I wrote about And yet, and yet… when I first discovered his little publishing enterprise:
Fittingly enough, the first little piece [...]

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MOTTO VS. MITTE

Monday, February 8, 2010

For everyone who cannot be asked to come down to Kreuzberg during these Siberian weather conditions, Motto will now come to you.

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INDEXING OBSESSION

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

As a big fan of order and indexing (don’t call me neurotic!) I’m very excited about the following book: Leanne Shapton – Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry.
Made up like an auction catalogue that features personal belongings of two normal people, [...]

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I’M HERE – A LOVE STORY IN AN ABSOLUTE WORLD

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Director Spike Jonze’s new 30 minute short film titled I’m Here (financed by ABSOLUT VODKA) recently premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.  The director of Where the Wild Things Are has created a robot love story celebrating a life enriched by creativity. The movie is set in contemporary L.A., where life moves at a seemingly regular pace with the [...]

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BACKBONES

Monday, January 18, 2010

Speaking of backbones and such… these guys certainly have that, and they obviously know how to turn a phrase or two. The rather short and precise “ich kann nicht mehr” by Unseld gives me the howling fantods each time.

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