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KRAUTS ARE CANNIBALS

Friday, August 27, 2010

It’s unbelievable, but if the Guardian picked it up – who knows? There’s a market for it for sure…

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THE NORTH CIRCULAR

Thursday, July 15, 2010

“Knitted by grannies, supported by supermodels”, this is The North Circular motto. Katherine Poulton, Alice Shelby, Isobel Davies and super model Lily Cole have joined forces to create a knitwear collection. Scarves, mittens, collars and other accessories are knitted by grannies using the wool of rare sheep from Wensleydale in England.
“We wanted to return value [...]

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PAUL WAS RIGHT, AGAIN!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Paul Allen, also known as Paul the Octopus (hatched January 2008) is a common octopus living in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, who is used as an animal oracle to predict the results of football matches, usually international matches in which Germany is playing. He came to worldwide attention with [...]

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ON A MOUNTAIN TOP

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Under the headline ‘The Future of Social Media is Here’, Alex Fuller presents us with his latest project in his personal website. Together with Noah Bernsohn, he developed a new social network which denies the popularity contest-driven character he finds in most social media platforms.
About the project, Fuller says: ‘At it’s most basic form, I [...]

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The evolution of empathy

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Likey.

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Mayday, Robotnik!

Saturday, May 1, 2010

In the late 19th century workers in many countries started to recognise their new social status by a public holiday. Only 24 days before Towel Day, each year on May 1st, collectively sleeping in and parades coloured around 630 nm raise awareness to the widespread habit of working.
Today, there are individualised angles to the [...]

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THE CATORIALIST

Thursday, April 29, 2010

There is the acclaimed The Satorialist but maybe you have yet to discover the fabulous The Catorialist?  And in a tenuous link to our current mono.kultur issue and in regards to scent did you also know?

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WEPAD

Monday, April 12, 2010

Although rumour has it that an American jounalist destroyed an iPad after more than 90 (!) hours of non-stop-use, our friends from Cupertino sold so many hundredthousands. They will somewhat be rivalled by a Berlin-based company offering the WePad who state that their device will have useful connections, like the good old USB! [...]

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INTERVIEWS, THE REAL THING

Monday, March 22, 2010

Normally, the formula is quite simple: You (or a journalist) meet(s) someone, there is a talk, a conversation going on. You are talking, possibly bullshitting a little, arguing, maybe provoking – shortly, you have an interview. We at mono.kultur love and live these very moments, and do our best to present the achievements in the [...]

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TEMPELHOF, THE LATE DAYS

Thursday, March 18, 2010

And speaking of mountains in Berlin, we’re still devastated by the Berlin Senate’s refusal to consider architect Jacob Tigges’ proposal on erecting a mountain on the vast landing strip of historic Tempelhof airport, which was closed down in 2008. The area lies in the center of Berlin and it is still undecided what the city [...]

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