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Category Archives: nostalgia

MOVIES REIMAGINED FOR ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

What if movies we were all familiar with were made in a different slice of time? Who would be in it? Who would direct it? So here we are…

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TUESDAY MUSIC: BEIRUT

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

We can’t help it, we simply have a soft spot for Beirut, who will be touring Europe this summer, by the way, including a September slot in Berlin.

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TIME IS OUT OF JOINT

Thursday, February 23, 2012

The exhibition of  Boris Mikhailov is opening today at the Berlinische Galerie. The Ukranian artist’s works document the social disintegration, poverty, harshness of everyday life and the absurdity that comes with these situations, mostly in Soviet Union times. The exhibition shows a selection of works from earlier periods till now, including the works produced [...]

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NOSTALGIA

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Bringing the old and new memories together, feeling the nostalgia… The blog Dear Photograph makes you take out your old photos from the boxes and visit the places where they were taken.
‘I wish climbing up was as easy as the sliding down…’

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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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