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Tha Lodown

Having just released issue #89 (featuring greats like The Acid, Eddie Otchere, Allen Ying and tons more), Berlin’s Lodown Magazine also launched its new website last week: Call it a day, listen to some free Fly Lo, check the Pulse and read some fresh in-depth interviews with Darkside and others online!

MONO.KALENDER 2014

Dear Friends,
since it is that time of the year again, we proudly present our mono.kalender for 2014 – as usual, it comes free with any order through our online store, as of last week and while stocks last. Did we talk about kindness yet?
All our very best and enjoy,
mono.kultur

‘ALL WE EVER SEE OF STARS ARE THEIR OLD PHOTOGRAPHS’

For those who have not heard of it yet, Prix Pictet is the premier international photography competition focusing on the  environment and sustainability.  Founded in 2008 by Pictet & Cie, it rewards the most outstanding photographers based on the annual theme–one with CHF 100,000 and another with a photo commission (the honor aptly named the Commission). [...]

SILENCE/SOUND

Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013.
Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures.
Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.

Weissensee Walkabout

Berlin’s UdK hosts its annual “Rundgang” this weekend, and so does the Kunsthochschule Weissensee, the city’s smaller eastern sister art school, tucked away in the refreshingly mellow north-eastern parts of town. Last year’s open-doors event was really laid-back and nice: some fresh perspectives in fashion, (product, textile, stage, costume etc.) design, painting, sculpting, and [...]

SOCIAL VALUES FIRST

Fairphone started in 2010 as an awareness project about conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the sourcing of these minerals is fuelling in the DR Congo. 14 hours left to order the limited first edition of the Fairphone – made of conflict-free, fair resources.

SOLIDARITY

Protests in Turkey are going on while the type of gas used by the police is constantly changing. First it was burning eyes, make one puke; then the one that hurts the skin… The last but not least is affecting the ability to think properly. Bring it on Mr. President!
The violence of the police increase. [...]

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

By following Tilda Swinton and Madonna, please keep spreading the word about a secular, civil revolution against Islamist fascist* prime ministers and neoliberal capitalists in the world…
For a short and effective summary of what has been done.
Protestors working altogether again to extinguish the fire that provocateurs lighted.
*The photo being shown here is depicting the poetic side [...]

ONE PERSON WITH A LOT OF MACHINES

The legend foreseeing the future. Mr. Morrison is informing the death of rock.
“It may rely heavily on electronics, tapes…One person with a lot of machines; tapes and electronic set-ups…”

BIG HEARTED BUSINESS

Big Hearted Business is a wonderful new initiative set up by Claire Bowditch – “As part of a new-guard of micro-business educators, BHB exists to teach brilliant, creative people how to build strong, successful, caring businesses, without compromising their integrity, their health, or their happiness. Through free weekly videos, expert-interviews, affordable online courses, beautifully styled live [...]