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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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KEEP CALM CARRY ON

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

If you haven’t seen it yet, then it’s high time to catch up: Inside Job is a brilliant documentary summing up the economic crisis of recent years. Narrated by Matt Damon and perfectly crafted, it breaks down the global financial meltdown into its singular components: how we got there, what happened, why it happened, the [...]

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FREE AI WEIWEI

Thursday, April 7, 2011

It’s been five days now that our cover star Ai Weiwei has been arrested at Beijing airport and kept imprisoned at a secret location – not even his wife has been informed of where he is being held nor is she allowed to communicate with him. Yesterday, a brief statement by the government was released [...]

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LECTURE ME

Thursday, March 3, 2011

It started off harmlessly enough, my obsession with online lectures. A few TED talks a week between e-mails, until I had gone through the entire TED back-catalog. By then I had grown tired of the format – the applause intro, the smug cleverness of the speakers, the shallow content and short timeframe. TED was intellectualism [...]

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WHAT’S AMERICA LIKE?

Monday, January 24, 2011

I only found out about the New Left Media last evening but I must, say since then I can’t stop but thinking about doing 5 minute breaks to go back to their page and check for more of their videos.
Super interesting interviews covering American politics, produced by a group of (apparently really young) students. [...]

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ANGRY BOYS

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Chris Lilley will make his long-awaited return to television in 2011 with a new ABC comedy titled Angry Boys. After a short break over Christmas, Chris Lilley, the creative genius behind We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High is back filming his new 12-part series, Angry Boys – and here’s what he had to say:
“We’ve been [...]

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20/20

Monday, January 3, 2011

Finding a pair of glasses, sun or otherwise, can be a huge pain in the arse, in case you’re not too inspired by aerodynamic, bendy, flimsy things that are supposed to make you look, well, modern, presumably, as in aerodynamic, bendy, flimsy. Anyway, personally, I always thought that glasses in the past looked so much [...]

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THE DEATH OF A CURRENCY

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

If you regard currencies as a measure of cultural diversity, the world will lose a little variety and become slightly more homogeneous on January 1. Another colorful currency will disappear with the dawn of the New Year.
The Estonian kroon will be absorbed into the eurozone, and a whole cast of familiar faces will disappear from [...]

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IQ.ORG AND JULIAN ASSANGE

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

IQ.org was the personal blog of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange.

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WO STEHST DU, KOLLEGE?

Friday, December 3, 2010

On the occasion of the first 20 years of the Berlin-based magazine Texte zur Kunst a symposium organized by Isabelle Graw and André Rottmann asks the question of art criticism’s potential as social criticism. When the magazine was founded in Cologne in 1990 the methods of ‘Social Art History’ promised to present contemporary art in [...]

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