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NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL SUNDAY

Sunday, August 25, 2013

It’s that time of year again. If you find yourself in London, this Sunday and Monday see Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s biggest street festival, returning to wend its Red Stripe-fuelled way around Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park.
For those who can’t make it (or are running their own party free from the West London crowds, TfL [...]

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Weissensee Walkabout

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Berlin’s UdK hosts its annual “Rundgang” this weekend, and so does the Kunsthochschule Weissensee, the city’s smaller eastern sister art school, tucked away in the refreshingly mellow north-eastern parts of town. Last year’s open-doors event was really laid-back and nice: some fresh perspectives in fashion, (product, textile, stage, costume etc.) design, painting, sculpting, and [...]

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SLOW SUMMITS

Monday, May 27, 2013

Today’s a nice day for everyone waiting for the release of Slow Summits, the latest record by Glasgow residents The Pastels. Even though it was a long time in the coming (first full-length album in 16 years!), it was worth waiting, especially for tracks like ‘Summer Rain’ and ‘Check My Heart’. A triumphant return!

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40723

Thursday, May 23, 2013

If there is such a thing as ‘Asian Photography’, then Li-Han Lin is living proof of a distinct eastern aesthetic – because I can’t imagine a European photographer capturing German suburbia in any way like this.
Says the Taiwanese-German artist: ‘The title of the exhibition 40723 refers to the postal code of Hilden, a little [...]

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Vacationing documentationing

Saturday, January 19, 2013

If you don’t know what to say, make a picture of it, one might argue. But there lies beauty in conformity, too. That’s what we like to take from this collection of vacation proof. In fact, it’s the smartphone way to document leisure time in the sun, either on the beach or at the pool, [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #32: MARTINO GAMPER

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Dear Friends,
with summer dropping in and out every now and then, we finally and happily present our latest issue featuring the unmistakeable Martino Gamper – and about high time, admittedly. But: dedicating a tasty 10,000-word interview to the charm and wit of the Italian product designer in a volume ripe with food for the mind [...]

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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 [...]

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mono.kultur x Studio B recap

Thursday, July 19, 2012

In case you missed mono.kultur’s soccer night at Studio B…

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SUMMER READING

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Inspired by one of my favorite blogs, I recently decided to sort through the metastasizing stacks of books in my apartment and put together a coherent reading list. If you’ve never done this, do so immediately – it is one of the most calming, and inspiring, exercises I can think of. A little fiction, a [...]

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EUROTWENTYTWELVE

Friday, June 8, 2012

Tonight we hear, there is some kind of big sports event, so a Mr David Watson’s incredibly stylish poster designs to accompany the Euro Cup’s kickoff are a perfect reminder what the buzz is all about. Sometimes, there is no need to reinvent the wheel, when good old craft does the job just as well. [...]

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