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ROAD CRASH DATA

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Thank you BBC: ‘The image shows the location of 2,396,750 road crashes in Great Britain from 1999 to 2010. Each light point is an individual collision which resulted in a casualty. The intensity of brightness shows where collisions are more frequent.’ See the video here.

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Hammer and sickle disappear from central Berlin

Monday, November 21, 2011

Aeroflot throws its iconic Berlin signage out with the trash
One of the last hammer and sickle emblems in Berlin has disappeared from its prominent place in the centre of the city.
The hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism and the Soviet Union – was removed from most public buildings across the former [...]

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STASILAND

Friday, November 18, 2011

Our friends at Ein Magazin über Orte recently published their latest issue dedicated to Berlin, and I’m really happy that they asked to include a few images of a series that I started working on quite a few years ago (and since then shamefully neglected), on the city’s layered past, in this case its East [...]

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SOULA PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Now that you’ve seen us dancing to some unlikely tunes (last week, thanks to Chris Taylor), why not talk about Robert Sylvester Kelly for a minute: He may or may not be about to drop a memoir, amazingly titled Soula Coaster: The Diary Of Me (he is the true head of headlines, you know?), and [...]

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Season of the Faltgarage

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

It’s that time of the year, and all the bikers have to kiss their love goodbye for hibernation. It’s heartbreak, but it’s the season. And you can tell German Gemütlichkeit doesn’t stop at the front door.
Find more Faltgaragen here.

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IMPROV EVERYWHERE

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

I stumbled across the brilliant theatre group of sorts, Improv Everywhere, the other day and was pretty amazed – founded in 2001 in New York, they’ve been staging undercover performances in public for a decade now, ranging from spontaneous musicals in supermarkets to gathering thousands of people to do weird things according to instructions given [...]

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THE (GOOGLE) STREET PHOTOGRAPHER

Sunday, August 21, 2011

A while ago, I sat in on a talk with Penelope Umbrico, who just published a book with Aperture featuring her various photographic projects. The most well-known (and also the cover of the book) is Suns, a collection of over 2 million (and counting) photos of sunsets found on Flickr, which she then crops, prints, [...]

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NORDKREUZ

Monday, August 1, 2011

Street artist Evol is a bit of a household name in Germany, but it’s really nice to see how he evolves into a fine art practice that is actually more than taking graffiti into the gallery – it’s more like taking the entire city into the gallery.
Or into nature, as for this installation called Nordkreuz, [...]

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RUNNING ON EMPTY

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

There have been numerous photography series on cities such as Tokyo or Los Angeles without people, but to see a video of car-struck LA without cars… Painstakingly assembled by Ross Ching. (via Ignant)

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WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

There’s a new neon sign that has gone up on Alexanderplatz – alas, it’s not advertising for any fashion brand or technical gadgets, but stands on its own. The laughing Indian is the latest artwork by Cyprien Gaillard, as part of the nearly finished Based in Berlin group ehibition, and uses the icon of the [...]

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