These boys are the hype of the moment on Berlin’s dancefloors at the moment – as electronic music is continually looking for ways forward, a classically trained ensemble that will play rhythmic club music with grand pianos and percussion and the occasional harp might not be exactly pointing forward, but at least it’s something different.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
There’s a BBC radio programme that existed for 70 years now. It’s called Desert Island Discs and each week a person of interest is invited to imagine what it would be like to be a castaway on a remote island. The guest of the show is asked to choose 8 music tracks which will be [...]
Friday, February 24, 2012
Whoever travelled the balkan region with backpack and sleeping bag might very well have met the locals and encountered the people’s love for traditional songs. Making music and singing is still very common in this region and even the cool teenagers don’t find it embarrassing to sit outside with their families and singing along to [...]
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The exhibition of Boris Mikhailov is opening today at the Berlinische Galerie. The Ukranian artist’s works document the social disintegration, poverty, harshness of everyday life and the absurdity that comes with these situations, mostly in Soviet Union times. The exhibition shows a selection of works from earlier periods till now, including the works produced [...]
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
I never understood why graphic designers don’t do more of their own projects, as the results tend to be great at times. For instance, when they decide to cycle around the entire coast of Great Britain or Ireland and document the weird and the wonderful along the way, with a slight faible for tradition and [...]
What is there to say about someone who will spend 10 hours on creating a 9mm flower out of paper? Someone like Anja Markiewicz, who has obviously taken the virtues of the Japanese Origami very close to her heart. It’s not for nothing her Flickr Page is called ‘Faltsucht’ – or ‘Folding Addiction’, where she [...]
Wait, there is a new garlic testament?
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
When in 2008, Polaroid announced that they would finally end production of their legendary instant film, they not only rendered 300,000,000 functioning cameras obsolete, it also felt like the final blow to analogue photography, in times when Agfa had gone bankrupt and most film and camera manufacturers settled on digital photography. But it’s sometimes hard [...]
Long before the word google was used as a verb, common-place was. Also, on a somewhat related note: There’s a fine “Für-lau-Gig” coming up in Berlin tonight.
