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SUDDEN POETRY

kvr — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:29:08 +0000

Robert Montgomery is a beautiful surprise. Infiltrating public spaces and billboards with unexpected and ambivalent messages that will make you stop in your ways, it is poetry in motion. Find out more here, or even better, if in London, experience it for yourself.

All work by Robert Montgomery

Fake Patois In Your Area

rh — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:52:02 +0000

The infamous Das Racist are currently on tour in Europe. Meet them “at the Kochlöffel/at the Wienerwald,” I guess, or, better yet, at the combination…

ROAD CRASH DATA

kvr — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:18:42 +0000

Thank you BBC: ‘The image shows the location of 2,396,750 road crashes in Great Britain from 1999 to 2010. Each light point is an individual collision which resulted in a casualty. The intensity of brightness shows where collisions are more frequent.’ See the video here.

SOULA PANEL DISCUSSION

rh — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:19:54 +0000

Now that you’ve seen us dancing to some unlikely tunes (last week, thanks to Chris Taylor), why not talk about Robert Sylvester Kelly for a minute: He may or may not be about to drop a memoir, amazingly titled Soula Coaster: The Diary Of Me (he is the true head of headlines, you know?), and of course he already promised “his fans an intimate and unforgettable ride.” However, we still prefer some of those alternative titles…

Blast from the past

rh — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:36:25 +0000

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

28 Days Later

rh — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:20:37 +0000

The opposite of fragile or flimsy: Son Lux’s new-new album We Are Rising. Recorded in four short weeks. And clearly on the rise.

LIGHT SPACE MOTION

tw — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:55:33 +0000

You finally want to see your pictures in a museum? Your time has come!

The transdisciplinary working collection Apparatjik invites you to participate in their Light Space Modulator, taking place at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin from March 13 – 26, 2011. Submit your images until March 1 here. More information on the exhibition here.

HEATH ROBINSON IN WONDERLAND

rh — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:46:34 +0000

BTW: This might as well be the funniest Rube Goldbergian children’s book of all times.

BLAKE VS. DEATH METAL

rh — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:51:12 +0000

In case you didn’t know it already: There’s a fine line between William Blake quotes and Death Metal lyrics…; the same goes for good and bad book trailers, I guess.

FEELING SAD?

kvr — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:33:53 +0000

This winter might be the hardest and longest I’ve ever experienced in Berlin – I’ve also been feeling particularly tired for the past couple of months, wondering whether it’s the continuous cold draining energy from the reserves… But it turns out it’s all due to the lack of sunlight, apparently, which has a direct relation to your levels of Serotonin, a neurotransmitter responsible for your over-all mood. It can even lead to the appropriately named SAD syndrome – the Seasonal Affective Disorder. Apart from investing in ludicrously expensive special lights, I still haven’t found a reasonable answer to what one can do about it, but particularly helpful was one blog’s suggestion to make sure to get some sunlight every day… You don’t live in Berlin, we assume.

Photography by kvr