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MONO.KULTUR #40: EDMUND DE WAAL

Dear Friends,
we’re not quite sure what happened with that last year, and if anybody has seen it, please let us know. In the meantime, we are proud to return from our involuntary hiatus with a splendid new issue – mono.kultur #40, no less – with the wonderful British ceramicist, artist and writer Edmund de Waal.
Edmund [...]

ALL THE MINUTES

Our relentless obsession with connecting to the world in real time is maybe nowhere better captured than in Studio Moniker’s Twitter clock All the Minutes – essentially retweeting posts at the exact same time of the day. Another point in case that we usually have little more to say than banalities, but we do it [...]

NARRATION AS DRY AS SOIL

Christian Kracht’s book Imperium has been considered as a “Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas” recently. Released in Germany in 2012, it has now been translated into English by Daniel Bowes.
The protagonist of the fiction is August Engelhardt, a “nudist and cocovore”, who purchases land in what was then German New Guinea, in order to [...]

Guilty Pleasures

A lot of times, the tracks you’d call “guilty pleasures” are so much better than the ones you’re “o-f-f-i-c-i-a-l-l-y” supposed to love (before midnight, sober etc.)… (V. Maier pic, btw.)

Our Arrangement Hasn’t Changed

So much goodness floating around these days, we have to get rid of some early year-end love: Amen Dunes has a new video (below) and plays Berlin and Cologne next week (plus, Son Lux will also be in town), Run The Jewels 2 is Murder Mayhem Melodic Music indeed, Efterklang’s Vincent Moon-produced The Last Concert [...]

DAMN GOOD COFFEE!

By now everyone must have heard about the news: Nine brand new episodes of Twin Peaks will go into production next year to be broadcast in 2016! David Lynch has been teasing the show’s return on Twitter for a while, and now a teaser trailer that typically gives not much else away has been released. [...]

MONO.PUNKT #26: NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2014

It is precisely 18:01 now, meaning that one minute ago, across the big pond, the doors opened to this year’s installment of the mother of all art book fairs, obviously in New York and where else? We imagine a stampede of book lovers, wallets in hand (last year, all ATMs in the vicinity of PS1 [...]

EYE TO I

The song is good, but the video is wonderful. Fueling the beats and lyrics with Parallax-inspired stop motion, Nelson de Castro’s take on Digitalism’s Wolves is insanely addictive, and rather than sapping the viewer’s interest, the cinematic trope increases the hallucinatory momentum of the visuals, culminating in a cryptic Pop Rocks stare-off. How I’d like to [...]

FOOTBALL CULTURE 02

Meanwhile, on yet another side of the planet, or Japan, to be precise, our football-crazed friends at Juuichi – who put together some beautiful exhibits for a mono.kultur-hosted evening during the Euro Cup 2012 – are hosting not one but two exhibitions dedicated to football graphics and paraphernalia. In Tokyo, alas, but then you can [...]

STORE OF THE MONTH: BEAUTIFUL PAGES / SYDNEY

‘There is something wonderful in picking up a well-written and beautifully designed book. The way it is held in our hands. The weight and smell of its pages. The beauty that lies in between its covers,’ say Sydney design and book store Beautiful Pages on their website, and it’s obvious they have caught [...]