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PROTESTER 2.0

Sunday, January 8, 2012

2011 was the year of resistance. After revolutionary movements and occupy waves, it is the protester the Time magazine declares as the person of the year. The accompanying essay by Kurt Anderson gives an interesting insight.

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MOBILE EVOLUTION

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

I love watching films from the 80’s and seeing the brick-size of the mobile phones. With his clever paper designs Brighton based designer, Kyle Bean has depicted the increasing miniaturisation of the mobile phone in the style of a Russian Doll set (pictured above).  And on another tangent, it kind of reminds me a little [...]

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DOES SHE LOVE ME DOES SHE LOVE ME NOT

Sunday, August 28, 2011

With the elections coming up and Berlin being once again flooded with posters that couldn’t be any more meaningless and vague, time to mention another widespread political message which started cropping up here and there over the past few monts: the Berlin Loves You Not stickers. No less vague but apparently with no unclear target: [...]

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THE BLACK BBC

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Two decades ago, the rapper Chuck D (Public Enemy), described rap music as the “the black CNN”. Rappers in London found their own way to describe the political and social background that led to the English riots in the past week. Here’s an excellent and in-depth article about the subject by writer Dan Hancox in [...]

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YOUNG SOULS

Friday, August 5, 2011

Continuing on the theme of peculiar dancing, have a look at Dean Chalkey’s short film on the phenomenon of Northern Soul, as commissioned by the rather great 125 Magazine. And if you’re based in London, you still have a few days left to catch the accompanying photography exhibition at Youth Club Gallery, which should be [...]

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BIRTH OF A NATION

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Today marks the birth of a new country: South Sudan which, after decades of civil war and atrocities that are hard to imagine, is finally becoming independent. Normally, this wouldn’t have meant all that much to me, but now it does, having recently finished Dave Eggers‘ What is the What, a fictionalized autobiography of Valentino [...]

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HUMANS ARE STRANGE

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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PORTUGAL TURNS RIGHT

Monday, June 6, 2011

After the election with the biggest vote abstention (4 million people in a country of 10 million) in the whole country’s history, Portugal elected a new right wing social democrat government.
The rain persists in staying lately, tourists are not as many as before, and the people seem generally lost and tired. EU winds of calm [...]

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ROAD TRIPPING, AGAIN

Thursday, May 12, 2011

We’ve mentioned David Lynch’s brilliant Interview Project before, but it’s time to revisit, since Lnych’s son Austin and director Jason S. are currently on the road in nowhere else but Germany. Every Monday sees a new episode of random encounters with German strangers, giving some entertaining and at times perplexing insights into the German psyche. [...]

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IT’S LONELY IN THE MODERN WORLD

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Nice easter themed contribution on the Unhappy Hipsters blog. Happy Easter.

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