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ACTING CLASS

Monday, July 11, 2011

There’s hardly an actor as famous as Nicolas Cage with more bandwidth when it comes to really good or really bad films. You can’t deny he’s got a style of his own.

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ONCE UPON A TIME

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Opening tonight at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, the exhibition Once Upon a Time: Fantastic Narratives in Contemporary Video focuses on how myths, fables, and fairytales are represented in video art today, to mirror current social phenomena and events in recent history. The show, organized by Joan Young, features a selection of video installations and single-channel [...]

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CHOCOLATE

Sunday, July 3, 2011

By Martynka Wawrzyniak

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Natural Beauty

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Latest project by Lernert & Sander, Natural Beauty, where they consecutively apply make up to the model Halennore Knuts, for a project that took the whole length of 9 hours.
They applied 365 layers of make up to the model in a single day, to check out how much does it takes to go from a natural look [...]

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PAST / PRESENT

Monday, June 27, 2011

I know, I know, we’ve been mentioning Mike Mills a few times recently – not that it has to do anything with his latest film Beginners or the beautiful blog he’s dedicated to it (you haven’t seen it? go here right now for a great new dog video) – but this drawing above caught my [...]

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INCENDIES

Sunday, June 26, 2011

This week saw the German release of Canadian masterpiece Incéndies (in Germany released as Die Frau die Singt) which was nominated for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Oscars Awards. Set in the turmoil of the Middle Eastern conflict, it’s one of the most relentlessly crushing and impressive films I’ve seen in a long time. [...]

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PET PEOPLE

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Miranda July and Mike Mills are two great people and both very talented artists who love animals. There’s a dog in Beginners and a cat in The Future. Here’s an animal related list of links from Mike Mills’ website:
sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html
ponttokamera.net/index_e.htm
oregonhumane.org/petcam.asp
farmsanctuary.org
dogsforthedeaf.org
worldwildlife.org
aspca.org
petfinder.org
Portrait: Alexi Wasser

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WEEKEND TIP: 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Despite being the neighborhood most discussed on the media (as well as here and there) by its sudden invasion of youngsters who are bringing along with them new bars, coffee shops, shops and all sorts of business, Neukölln still feels like the right place to live. Contrary to Kreuzberg, where one can clearly feel the impact [...]

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SOME DWARFS DIDN’T START SMALL

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

In case you haven’t heard of Peter Dinklage he’s well worth checking out. I first saw him in Tom DiCillio’s 1995 film Living in Oblivion, one of my all time favourites which I’ve watched about 30 times by now. Over the years Dinklage popped up in all kinds of good films, most famously maybe as [...]

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YES I KNOW

Monday, June 13, 2011

Eerily wonderful: Eric Epstein’s latest video for the The Memory Tapes’ Yes I Know. Post production at its best.

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