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The Emigrant

Sunday, December 18, 2011

W.G. Sebald, one of the greatest German authors of all time, died 10 years and four days ago. He was 57 years old. Damn.

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TWIN PEAKS: BACKSTAGE

Friday, December 9, 2011

Everyone knows the most popular serial drama/comedy/thriller ever broadcasted. Let’s think back to times when TV shows were meant to be serious and smart entertainment. Thanks to David Lynch.

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SPORT/ART

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Russian photographer Valery Katsuba began exploring the aesthetics of acrobatics and gymnastics in a series entitled Phiscultura. Inspired by photographs taken in the gymnasiums of St. Petersburg in 1901 that he discovered in the state archives, he recreated the style of the era to demonstrate the similarities between now and then.
“I naively imagined that fitness [...]

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Hammer and sickle disappear from central Berlin

Monday, November 21, 2011

Aeroflot throws its iconic Berlin signage out with the trash
One of the last hammer and sickle emblems in Berlin has disappeared from its prominent place in the centre of the city.
The hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism and the Soviet Union – was removed from most public buildings across the former [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: ZOLA JESUS

Monday, October 17, 2011

The video is kind of terrible, but the music could be straight out of the black-clad country discos of my youth: somewhere between what would have been perceived as underground back then, say, Dead Can Dance and Anne Clark (who, weirdly enough, seems to be largely unknown outside of Germany, in spite of being British), [...]

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JOHN’S PHONE

Sunday, September 18, 2011

I met up with my friend H. last night, who is the only person I know that doesn’t own a mobile phone. However, now he has found an option that he is seriously considering – I’m not quite sure how serious he is about the whole thing.
But he liked the idea that John’s Phone can’t [...]

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HOW SAD, HOW LOVELY

Friday, August 19, 2011

Elizabeth “Connie” Converse disappeared in 1974, leaving behind a haunting body of recorded music that would remain virtually unheard for the next 35 years…

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City Palace

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Rui Vilela interviews the Lebanese journalist and filmmaker Raed El Rafei, who talks about his experiences in relation to the former cinema ‘City Palace’, also commonly known as ‘Egg-building’. In the interview El Rafei comes to memories of the period after the Civil War and looks at film as a platform for [...]

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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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Unerzählt bleibt die Geschichte der abgewandten Gesichter

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Two weeks back, a few of us had this semi-serious discussion about whether or not art should generally make you think about your own mortality, whether it should sort of transport you to a place that’s indeed a bit closer to that terminal breath – or not. Obviously, we didn’t come to a conclusion that [...]

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