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Category Archives: nostalgia

Booze Haulage In Style

Sunday, May 29, 2011

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.

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After the Commodore 64, is NeXT next?

Friday, April 8, 2011

Now that the Commodore 64 has been revived, isn’t it time for the NeXT Computer to make a comeback?
NeXT was the computer system that Steve Jobs created during his years in exile from Apple in the late 1980s. Not only was the NeXT console stylistically beautiful, its processing system was also way ahead of its [...]

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RIP, Corporate Kurt

Friday, April 1, 2011

One of the designers who heavily influenced Germany’s post-war visual appearance, Kurt Weidemann, passed away on wednesday. His work for Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Coop or Deutsche Bahn are designed to last and will stay to be recognized around the globe.

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THE IMPOSSIBLE RETURN OF POLAROID

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

When in 2008, Polaroid announced that they would finally end production of their legendary instant film, they not only rendered 300,000,000 functioning cameras obsolete, it also felt like the final blow to analogue photography, in times when Agfa had gone bankrupt and most film and camera manufacturers settled on digital photography. But it’s sometimes hard [...]

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BRING BACK SPARTAKIADA

Monday, February 7, 2011

The Guardian today has a review of Phil Collin’s 2010 video installation, Marxism Today, an overview of ignored voices from post-wende East Germany (originally screened at the Berlin Biennale). It features – among other things – footage of DDR-era mass gymnastics displays. ‘This sort of thing could never happen here, I thought, not because we [...]

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LESSONS IN DESIGN: PROJECT THIRTY-THREE

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ah, record covers… don’t you miss them in times of torrents and iTunes? There should be entire sites dedicated to preserving the fine art of record sleeve design, and in fact there are: Project Thirty-Three is a great blog by Seattle-based record store Jive Time dedicated entirely to, as they put it, ‘circles and dots [...]

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THE YEAR IN BOOKS

Saturday, January 1, 2011

At the beginning of 2010, we prompted the lucky recipients of our mono.kalender with a greeting card to read more. Today I realized, bizarrely enough, that my reading list was the only new year’s resolution that I actually put into action, while successfullly ignoring bigger challenges. It also made me realize that fulfilling resolutions feels [...]

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Sleeping in Dubai

Saturday, December 18, 2010

While I was sleeping a garden grew up outside my window: bright flowers and soft irrigation pipes sprouted up out of the desert. It wasn’t there yesterday. While I was sleeping they brushed the beaches, glazed the cakes with gold leaf and mixed cement for the glittering monuments.
They fed the fish, rays and sharks so [...]

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LUX ET VERITAS

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Says Hal Incandenza: “I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’”

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A PAEAN TO BOOKS

Saturday, November 13, 2010

If you are a book lover or any other print ephemera collector or you simply like to admire pretty stuff from early days, you probably already know about ‘A Journey Around my Skull’. This blog offers the best book covers’ art selection I’ve seen online so far, as well as a very rich documentation of [...]

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