In the late 19th century workers in many countries started to recognise their new social status by a public holiday. Only 24 days before Towel Day, each year on May 1st, collectively sleeping in and parades coloured around 630 nm raise awareness to the widespread habit of working.
Today, there are individualised angles to the [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Max Bense would have turned 100 years earlier this week. Even if his reconstructive post-war modernism does not appeal to today’s postmodern mainstream, and there is not a single hit on wired.com, Max Bense’s work is still worth a glimpse. That’s why the Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) has put up an exhibition [...]
A mere four weeks into 2010, and I already discovered two mind-blowing “ballads” (yes, well: ballads is what some people like to call them); so if we keep going at this pace, we might end up with 26 awesome ballads this year, which, in turn, would make 2010 something like “The Year of The Ballad”. [...]
Although TED might be known amongst most mono.blog participants, this is definitely worth another if not first visit.
Cindy Gallop (!) gives a lecture not only about porn vs. this thing called love but also introduces to her new web project Make Love Not Porn. It’s not that heard-a-thousand-times-and-999-times-even-better stuff but funny, plain and really real.
So, [...]
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Time and bang seem to be fundamentally connected. While passing seconds are notorious for their ticking sound, passing universes are known for somewhat bigger bangs. It seems only fair to assign a tradition of cracking to passing years. After all, the inventor of this unit can refer to strong evidence gathered from several thousand study [...]
Well, I did it; again. Forgot to blog – on time.
So, why does this happen? Why do I and hopefully a huge we as well forget to remember and do things we think of as more or less important?
Check here for a possible solution. And, try to remember!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Just a little addendum to last week’s blog entry about Cormac McCarthy. The typewriter (Olivetti Lettera 32) with which he typed all his novels from 1958 to 2009 just sold at a Christie’s auction for $254,500. At the age of 25 McCarthy bought it in a pawnshop in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he grew up. After [...]
Today, the 29th of October 2009, it is the already 50th birthday of a little kind a guy who managed to entertain generations all over the word to tears.
He was born in France, although his father is a native Italian, still travels a lot as well as far, loves to eat boar and is strong [...]
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
In case you haven’t received a hand-written letter in a while, head over to Letters of Note, “an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams,” and more.
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