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THE YEAR IN PRINT

Thursday, December 30, 2010

In case you happen to be a magazine addict like us, there is a nice little round-up of the year over at magCulture, one of our favourite print blogs, with an accurate reflection on this much-loved medium experiencing its own digital revolution, once again. And even more looking back from a slightly more American perspective [...]

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LUX ET VERITAS

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Says Hal Incandenza: “I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’”

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A PAEAN TO BOOKS

Saturday, November 13, 2010

If you are a book lover or any other print ephemera collector or you simply like to admire pretty stuff from early days, you probably already know about ‘A Journey Around my Skull’. This blog offers the best book covers’ art selection I’ve seen online so far, as well as a very rich documentation of [...]

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Always by your side

Monday, September 6, 2010

If you consider drinking tea a social event as well as a personal one, the decision to share the ceremony with a friend might get in the way of individual contemplation. Realizing this dilemma between the need for solitude and the wish for company could be the very moment when well-meaning friends will introduce you [...]

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Don’t forget your towel

Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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Mayday, Robotnik!

Saturday, May 1, 2010

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 [...]

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100 Years of Technical Existence

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 [...]

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BALLADRY BLAST

Friday, January 29, 2010

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”. [...]

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PORN WORLD VS. REAL WORLD

Friday, January 15, 2010

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, [...]

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Customised Bang

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 [...]

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