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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: INVENTORY

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Hardly a new title with eight biannual issues under their vintage leather belts, Inventory is somewhat of a bible for those who appreciate hand-crafted mountain boots that will last you forever or anything else that has written ‘authentic’ in capital letters all over it. Based in Vancouver and attached to a fashion store of the [...]

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FRESH FROM THE OVEN

Friday, June 14, 2013

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

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LIGHT MY FIRE

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

This being May Day, you should not be leaving the house without a solid box of matches, in case there is still a Mercedes Benz around that might need to be lit up, and if that sounds a little harsh, well that’s what people do here in Kreuzberg. Or at least used to in the [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: NEEDLES & PENS / SAN FRANCISCO

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Sometimes, when you produce a little independent title like mono.kultur, strange bonds develop with people you have never met, e-mail intimacies with stores in far-flung corners of the world who somehow found you, whereas you actually have no idea who they are or what they look like. And then, sometimes, you receive a mail saying, [...]

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C’EST CANDY

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Jules et Jim by Truffaut or Band of Outsiders by Godard are classical Nouvelle Vague films well-known by their beautiful scenes like Jules and Jim singing with Catherine; Odile, Arthur and Franz running through the Louvre in three minutes and dancing in synchrony at a bar.  This time, in the new short movie by Wes [...]

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The Best Of All Worlds

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Jaysus, Warp Records certainly knows what’s good – so good luck hunting down a copy of this musical trifecta’s limited edition release on Record Store Day! (And in the meantime, welcome to the future).

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END OF POSTFUHRAMT

Thursday, March 7, 2013

After years of back and forths and maybes, tomorrow night will after all see the closing party of photography gallery c/o Berlin at the grand Postfuhramt Mitte, the former stables of the royal Prussian postal service, with an evening enlightened by our friends at Jutojo. But while c/o finally found a new and promising home [...]

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NOSTALGIA / OTHERS

Friday, February 15, 2013

Edward Newton spent a year for searching photos of  the Others‘ in one of the flea markets in Brussels.  The book is designed by The Office of Optimism.

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Tortoise In Berlin

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Fashion Week is not the worst time of year in Berlin: Tortoise are playing a free show at the House of Vans this Thursday; and a certain Mr. Tommy Guerrero also happens to be on the same ticket that night…

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MONTGOMERY MUSIC

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

As an imaginary Fado song for sailors is how our first book artist Robert Montgomery imagined the words for his contribution to the first ever biennial in India – the Kochi Muziris Biennale, which also includes works by two other mono.kultur cover stars, Cyprien Gaillard and Ai Weiwei. Montgomery’s work was installed on the façade [...]

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