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Are We Having Fun?

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Berlin’s annual Gallery Weekend is coming up, and this year Pointer Footwear and Lodown Magazine joined forces to revive an old institution, one that’s located right next to an even older institution that’s about to die after 121 years in business: good ol’ 95 Gallery – this is what it looked like back [...]

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ALTERNATIVE MAPS

Friday, November 29, 2013

There were times when Angela Merkel had problems with maps, too . Considering that, one should not be harsh on the others. No more comments…

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‘SAY_____’

Friday, September 13, 2013

Since the advent of industrialization, man has belabored the destruction of human identity in the technological sinkhole, enmeshed in metal, wires, and electricity and ever growing to the beat of Moore’s law.  The insistent currency of interchangeable events, status, and messages meted out by social networking sites presently fill the absence of the harder personal [...]

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EVOLUTION

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Before and after: Tuba Babuna in 2008 and 2012
Some months ago antievolutionist show girls of Adnan Oktar in Turkey were introduced to the world by Amsterdam based artitsts Pınar&Viola in Dazed Digital. What happens when an antievolutionist evolves, and turns into a hybrid being without even recognizing? See, evolution exists! Whilst claiming Darwin was wrong [...]

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CURIOUS ICONIC CRAFT

Friday, June 14, 2013

Browse through any ‘Best Magazine Cover’ lists of the past five years, chances are you will find our favourite film magazine Little White Lies somewhere near the top. With its curious illustrative approach, it struck out from any magazine shelf and ‘inspired’ a whole range of offbeat printed matter. So it was somewhat sad news [...]

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Provisional Indeed

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Truly a shame that it wasn’t really the right Jai Paul album… but let’s not get all excited about this and wait a little longer – and maybe have some drinks next Friday or Saturday in Berlin?

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 18: JOAQUIN PHOENIX

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

He’s a funny bird, Joaquin, but not stupid… and certainly the actor of our times. Read also his interview for Interview here.

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END OF POSTFUHRAMT

Thursday, March 7, 2013

After years of back and forths and maybes, tomorrow night will after all see the closing party of photography gallery c/o Berlin at the grand Postfuhramt Mitte, the former stables of the royal Prussian postal service, with an evening enlightened by our friends at Jutojo. But while c/o finally found a new and promising home [...]

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FROM THE VAULTS: DANIEL JOHNSTON

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Recently came across this portrait, originally taken for a mono.kultur issue that never saw the light of day – our apologies, Daniel!

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PAST PRESENT FUTURE

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

It’s rare that architecture photography manages to make a comment not on architecture, but the passing of time, an international crisis and a current sports event all at the same time – as does Jamie McGregor Smith’s series Borrow, Build Abandon on the desolate state of the sites of the Olympic Games in 2004 in [...]

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