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MUCKED UP

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Bored with the usual cinema fare?  Look no further.  L’Enfant (or I suppose now l’adolescent or l’adulte depending on your feelings towards said provocateur) terrible Matthew Barney returns to the cinema fray with his operatic River of Fundament, a collaboration between him, several powerhouse thespians, Gaspard Noé, Jonathan Bepler, and…Norman Mailer?!  Premiered at the Brooklyn Academy [...]

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PATTERNS AND OTHER STORIES

Monday, December 16, 2013

Sometimes we see exhibitions that draw attention to unknown legacies. Interwoven Connections: The Stoddard Templeton Design Studio and Design Library, 1843-2005 is one of them. We had a closer look…
What happens when manufacture and design go hand in hand? What is the legacy and historical relevance of this kind of fusion? The current exhibition Interwoven [...]

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CHINESE WHISPERS 30

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

More kind words from magCulture, yuhei!

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IF A TREE FALLS AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Bomba Estero | A Take Away Show | Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
To those who live to scour Berlin’s soundscape, teeming with many a diamond in the rough, Petite Planètes will stand as the ultimate lovesong (excuse the cliché) to music’s overlooked, obscure, or near obliterated.  Uniting documentary, music video, and art [...]

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CHINESE WHISPERS 29

Saturday, August 17, 2013

We are receiving so many kind words about our latest issue with Brian Eno from so many side, it’s kind of touching – including our friends at magCulture. If you’re heading over, make sure to also read a brief interview with Matt Willey, who designed our issue with Chris Ware; and someone we admire almost [...]

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MARMITE

Saturday, May 25, 2013

You can divide the world into those who like and those who don’t like Marmite, or at least the Anglo-Saxon world, since the rest of us are likely not to have heard of Marmite ever before. So for the uninitiated, the BBC’s Good Food section (and I can hear a roar of cynical sneering coming [...]

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CHINESE WHISPERS 28

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Kind words once again from magCulture…

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PEAKS AND PERKS #04: 2012 IN SOUND

Monday, December 31, 2012

Our studio soundtrack in 2012, in no particular order:

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PEAKS AND PERKS #03: 2012 IN BERLIN MOMENTS

Friday, December 28, 2012

Berlin, as every other city, has its ups and downs, moments where you would just love to hug the entire city and give it a big smack on the cheek, and others where you wish it straight to hell. Some of those worth remembering from 2012:
Summer storms are a rare treat in Berlin, and for [...]

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PEAKS AND PERKS #02: 2012 IN DEATHS

Thursday, December 27, 2012

To file prominent deaths under ‘peaks and perks’ might sound a little macabre, but as every year, the world has become a little poorer for these extraordinary individuals passing away – all of them, we dare say, would have made worthy mono.kultur issues. So it goes:
The godfather of visionary architecture and mastermind behind the extraordinary [...]

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