Skip to content

Category Archives: streets

ECHOES OF VOICES UPDATE #01

Monday, September 3, 2012

On Friday, ten more billboards by Robert Montgomery went up around Berlin as part of his current project Echoes of Voices in the High Towers…

Also filed in berlin, exhibitions, mono.kultur, poetry | | Comments Off

SYRIAN DRAWINGS

Friday, August 17, 2012

It’s a rare and special thing these days for an illustrator to engage with political subjects, and looking at the amazing George Butler’s drawings from a recent trip to Syria, it makes you wonder why most illustrators even bother with drawing cars and cats when you could actually be doing something, well, amazing. It’s also [...]

Also filed in documentary, illustration, life, places, politics, travel | | Comments Off

BLUE CAR ORANGE PUMPKIN

Thursday, August 16, 2012

The legendary Joel Sternfeld’s works are depicting the ‘American life’ since 1970s, capturing cafés, bars, ordinary moments of  life; drinking water, a mum carrying her children in a basket or a woman passing by in the street…
To learn more about Sternfeld, here is a video related to his exhibition in Amsterdam’s foam:

Also filed in documentary, life, photography | | Comments Off

THE SUPER SOLAR COOK-OFF

Monday, August 6, 2012

The Solar Cook-Off is a cooking competition taking place as a part of Playpublik Urban Game Festival. Participants are invited to build a solar cooker, then show their talent with the scavenged food. In case the sun doesn’t feel like coming out, there is a Plan B, which is to built the Super Rocket Stove! If you are [...]

Also filed in DIY, Game, berlin, events, food, nature, products | | Comments Off

NO CHURCH IN THE WILD

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

A great song by Jay Z and Kanye West! The wonderful video is by Romain Gavras who is also the director of M.I.A’s ‘Bad Girls‘.

Also filed in celebrities, film, music, religion | | Comments Off

RYAN MCGINLEY VS SIGUR ROS

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

It’s become somewhat fashionable for bands (who can afford it) to produce not just one or two videos, but one for each track of a new album, with inevitably varying success – but in the case of Iceland’s Sigur Rós‘ cinematic music, the conjunction of sound and image for once really makes sense. They have [...]

Also filed in film, new york, sound, summer | | Comments (1)

ECHOES OF VOICES IN THE HIGH TOWERS

Friday, July 6, 2012

We mentioned Robert Montgomery before, and we are bound to be mentioning him again since we like his work so much, so we are really excited that his biggest project to date will be opening in Berlin tomorrow evening, in the beautiful park of the former air strip of Tempelhof airport – Tempelhofer Freiheit, as [...]

Also filed in art, berlin, exhibitions, language, light | | Comments Off

IT WAS CLOSE TO HERE I THINK

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Coming up.

Also filed in art, berlin, events | | Comments Off

WHITEWASHING

Thursday, June 14, 2012

These posters and ads have been gracing the streets and magazines in Berlin recently, to announce tomorrow’s opening of the hotly debated BMW Guggenheim Lab in the city. The Lab is a mobile container traveling to nine different cities in the world to host a series of talks, events and workshops on the theme of [...]

Also filed in Kreuzberg, berlin, cars, cities, comedy, culture, economics, money, politics, resistance | | Comments Off

POLITICS OF THE POOR

Friday, June 8, 2012

Pixadores are members of the Pixação movement in São Paulo. It’s a huge number of people from the lower class who use street art to express their political wishes through a language of tagging that they developed.
The photograph presents pixação tags, which are spread all over São Paulo, from public squares to rooftops and balconies of the [...]

Also filed in art, berlin, cities, events, language, places, recommendations, resistance, typography | | Comments Off