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Category Archives: leisure

Booze Haulage In Style

It’s Sunday, and this is something that might come in handy for the next the next 15 Sundays or so. Enjoy the upcoming (2-day) heatwave.

READING ROOM

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 [...]

PARADISE IS NEAR

Very much looking forward to escaping the cold, grey and rainy Berlin weather at least for one day tomorrow, leaving all the hectic city life behind me – and to get a glimpse of paradise in the ‘Temple of Relaxation’, Berlin’s Liquidrom!
Thermal bath Liquidrom
Möckernstrasse 10
10963 Berlin

BERLIN-PARIS FOR THE WEEKEND

We know this might be a little bit too late, but we still think it’s worth reminding you that the third edition of Berlin-Paris is happening (in Berlin) this weekend. Event though it started yesterday, it will still be on for today and there’s yet time to visit some of the participating galleries and scheduled [...]

RANDOM NOTES ON A FRIDAY NIGHT

– Librairie Yvon Lambert: très chic.
– Book title of the night: The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload, published by
– The Institute of Social Hipocrisy, who anyway seem to have a knack for great names.
– mono.kultur is now available from Amazon, apparently.
– Ada would qualify as a great contender for a girl’s [...]

WILD TALK

Few months ago, when blogging about this video from Everynone, I came to know Radiolab’s widely famous radio podcasts.
And that was it!
Since then I got caught in their web of highly developed narrative techniques and styles, sound games, and most of all, highly interesting subjects.
They start every podcast with a main subject on which they [...]

CHEERS

Call it firewater, a highball, a chaser, or one for the road – this interview will leave you thirsty for more…

SKATE ESCALATION

This isn’t exactly new, but hey, I just fell in love. See, I like the culture around it, but I never quite understood the appeal of skating as such (unlike someone we know). Until now. And great music, too.

Big in Japan

If you can’t go to Japan right now but are still looking for a Japanese moment, then you could consider heading for Berlin-Marzahn and find your way into the ‘Gardens of the World’ to become completely captured by the autumnal light making your eyes dance in the beauty of shades, shapes and colours.

RIGHT NOW

Despite its crappy name, this is actually a great market – and you can check it out today!