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YES BUT NO

Sunday, March 11, 2012

The new Koi Klub happens every month on the 11th, regardless of the day of the week. If that date doesn’t ring any bells, then you just need to look up any news site today to find out why. Because, in many ways, today is the anniversary, even though for Koi Klub it isn’t, but [...]

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MÄRZTAGE

Saturday, September 17, 2011

While Fukushima seems to have disappeared from the news, I now see it cropping up in all kinds of unexpected corners: in the pages of Purple, on blogs, on the shelves of art book stores. One great book I came across, however, was artist Thomas Neumann’s diary Märztage.
Having lived in Tokyo for several years, he [...]

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from a wide angle

Thursday, September 8, 2011

This week a host of writers have come forward to say something about the events of 11 September 2001, and to provide some kind of account of the events since. This one looks at the event obliquely. Is it is easier to write when you aren’t staring into the abyss? Or is it just that a [...]

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YOU HAVE TO SMASH THEM UP

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Destructive transmutation in the penumbra of the new Olympic Stadium on the tenth anniversary of the most influential destructive event of the 21st Century. Scrap Club takes place by a site that has probably seen the most destruction and rebuilding done in London since World War II. These grounds shall now also bear the fall [...]

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HOW TO MAKE A SPOON FROM A CARTON

Monday, April 25, 2011

Olive is a clever site from Japan that shares designs, food and ideas that help when living in disaster areas. Olive offers tutorials on making spoons from old milk cartons through to turning an aluminum can into a lantern.

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READING ROOM

Friday, April 15, 2011

We can think of no better place to read mono.kultur issue #24 with Cyprien Gaillard’s interview than on top of the “beeramid”, Cyprien’s large-scale sculpture at KW in Berlin, built out of 72,000 bottles of Efes beer. Approximate duration to read Cyprien’s interview: 3 Efes beer!
The ‘reading room’ is open until March 22, 2011:
KW [...]

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UP SHIT CREEK

Monday, January 31, 2011

Many Queenslanders and Victorians in Australia have been ‘up shit creek‘ quite literally ie ‘in dire circumstances’ with the recent widespread flooding. You can help and get a cool tea towel in the mix! Our friends at Third Drawer Down are donating half of the proceeds from their sales of Jon Campbell’s Up Shit Creek tea [...]

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IMPENDING DOOM

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

After the recent fad of apocalyptic films, television and video games such as The Road, Fallout New Vegas, the so-so Book of Eli, and the excellent new AMC series The Walking Dead, had all had effects on my psychological wellbeing and possibly making me believe that the end of the world is imminent. As always [...]

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OUT O’ TUNE

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Whoa, David, or: Mr. Lynch goes Auto-Tune.

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ARCHITECTURAL HANGOVERS #01: PRIPYAT

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Our current issue featuring Cyprien Gaillard contains several references to and images of architectural curiosities where unfortunately we did not have the space to go into further detail – but we will present some of these here during the next few weeks.
The issue opens with a spread of Cyprien in the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, [...]

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