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THE JOY OF COLOUR

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Colour, of course, is essential, metaphorically and quite literally. As is language, and when the two meet, weird things can happen. We like to entertain ourselves by coming up with odd ideas for our subtitles to divide up those rather lengthy interviews we feature in mono.kultur – from chess moves to classic comic gap fillers [...]

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JAAR ESSENTIALS

Monday, May 21, 2012

In the meantime, on an entirely different musical planet, 22-year-old wunderkind Nicolas Jaar compiled his first ever contribution to BBC One’s essential Essential Mix, which is like a roller coaster ride through musical history, easily living up to last year’s benchmark essential mix by James Blake. Shigeru Umebayashi followed by *NSYNC, Jay-Z by Johny Greenwood? [...]

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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CHRIS WARE

Friday, January 6, 2012

When we asked our current cover star Chris Ware to send us a self-portrait, this is what he sent – including his wife and daughter. And an intriguing list of references that sadly didn’t make it into the issue, so we thought we should share them here.

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IRANIAN ROSES

Thursday, January 5, 2012

We mentioned Port magazine before, and with its last three issues, it has matured into one of the best titles on style and life that combines writing of the highest quality with a great and sophisitcated design. So we were all the happier when they got excited about a reportage we did years ago in [...]

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Tag der Weltmaschine – day of the world machine (LHC)

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Quarks, neutrinos and other nerdy stuff – you might not know what you missed. Yesterday was the official ‘Tag der Weltmaschine’ – Day of the World Machine (LHC) – and  your chance to go and see where the Big Bang happens: Experience Die Weltmaschine live! Better still: you can still do this if you happen [...]

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KNOW-IT-ALL

Friday, September 23, 2011

Lost for answers? Know it all with the Know-it-all pencil set.

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Festival of Dangerous Ideas
1-2 October 2011
Sydney Opera House
Australia

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The problem with ideas

Friday, August 5, 2011

The first problem with ideas is that they so rarely become anything more than fireworks in the brain. Few make their way from the brain to the notebook, and even fewer still make the leap from notebook to reality. That of course invites a debate about the notion of reality – does it not arguably [...]

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Blast from the past

Saturday, July 16, 2011

“Modernism began in the magazines“: The Modernist Journals Project. (via). What a blast…

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PORTUGAL TURNS RIGHT

Monday, June 6, 2011

After the election with the biggest vote abstention (4 million people in a country of 10 million) in the whole country’s history, Portugal elected a new right wing social democrat government.
The rain persists in staying lately, tourists are not as many as before, and the people seem generally lost and tired. EU winds of calm [...]

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