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PAPERWEIGHT

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

You might think jumping into independent publishing really is an insane idea, considering what must be overcome: non-existent profit margins, time constraints, onerous distribution terms, snooty shop owners, insane printing costs, etc. But, it seems, everyone is doing it. Why?
This was a question explored in relative depth a couple of weeks [...]

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01001110

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Nice touch: the revered Swiss newspaper Neue Züricher Zeitung launched their first complete digital edition with a front page in binary code. Those innocent ones and zeros that have transformed our world like nothing else in the past 30 years. (Thanks.)

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MADE IN GERMANY: IGNANT

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Our little column cat Made in Germany had gone missing for the past few months, and we have been wondering ourselves what she’s been up to, when today she just walked in through the front door and acted like nothing happened.
Our own more or less daily wanderings into the Internet lead us all across the [...]

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THE BOOK OF NOW

Friday, June 1, 2012

‘Someone had to do it’, as our friends at It’s Nice That put it so well, because yes, someone had to, and messieurs designers Felix Heyes and Ben West did it first: A weighty tome on and courtesy of Google, compiling the first picture to come up in Google Image Search for every word in [...]

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ENDS OF THE EARTH

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Personally, I really love land art, so I wish I could go and see the apparently epic exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at LA’s MOCA museum. In the meantime, since the world of science is slacking a little as far as the advancement of physical bilocality is concerned, thank MOCA for [...]

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BLACK BOX

Friday, May 25, 2012

I’ve recently and finally got around to reading Jennifer Egan’s hyped novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which at first I was highly skeptical of but ended up loving. Egan treads a fine line between high and low, but won’t shun a spoonful of pop if it works, so it’s not really surprising that [...]

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FUTURE SELF

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Made is a curious and pretty bling – as in very white – space on the ninth floor of Haus des Reisens on Alexanderplatz. Their focus is to bring people from different media together and work out a new collaboration, so you never really know what to expect, which I suppose is the idea. It [...]

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Glitch hunt

Monday, April 16, 2012

So what do you think of The New Aesthetic?

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PHOTO FACTS

Thursday, March 22, 2012

As all creative fields, photography has changed at a breathtaking pace since the arrival of digital photography. We take four times as many photographs as only ten years ago, but even more surprising: ten percent of all photographs ever taken were taken during the past 12 months. These and more astounding numbers on photography you [...]

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PressPausePlay

Saturday, March 3, 2012

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? [...]

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