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TRADING STYLE

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Fashion exhibitions are a difficult feat, even though they are wildly popular in terms of visitor numbers. And yet, clothes behind vitrines somehow mostly miss the point. A slightly different approach is taken by the ethnic Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, where tonight the exhibition Trading Style will open: presenting not only more than 500 fashion [...]

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MADE IN GERMANY: SONIC PIECES

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

This time, ‘Made in Germany’ may be taken quite literally, since Berlin-based label Sonic Pieces has a rather unusual approach to that object called CD (or vinyl): in times where downloads and MP3s have taken over the music industry, Sonic Pieces are heading exactly in the opposite direction of craft and hands-on personal engagement, packaging [...]

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THE COMMENTATOR

Sunday, September 23, 2012

“I always thought that it deserved better than lousy sports journalism; I thought it deserved to be sung about.” It’s Sunday, and hell is around the corner (it hit us northern hemisphere people yesterday, ready to take over the next couple of months), so do yourself a favor and support some goodness (it’s still possible, [...]

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A RUSSIAN GATHERING

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Amazing song from the Berlin based Canadian musician, Chinawoman, whose voice leads to melancholia…

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MARTINO TREATS #02: IF ONLY GIO KNEW

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

We can’t talk about Martino Gamper’s work without talking about his use of waste material, and we can’t talk about Martino’s use of waste material without talking about his project taking apart and reassembling furniture by Italian master designer Gio Ponti – so here you go, in our second little excerpt of our very current [...]

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PAKISTANI TRUCKERS

Monday, August 27, 2012

Painting of the beloved near depictions of animals with blue, pink, gold or more. Truck drivers in Pakistan know how to spice up their long journeys. Here is the Pakistani truck art!

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GRAND BOUCLE MOTHER DRUCKER

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mother Drucker, which opened about a year ago just around the corner from our studio, is the kind of place that in the age of the supposedly all-consuming, all-replacing Internet by all means should not exist. Dedicated to the art of screenprinting, it is part gallery, part workshop, as long as it involves manual labour, [...]

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HAPPY EASTER!

Sunday, April 8, 2012
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MONDAY MUSIC: BRANDT BRAUER FRICK

Monday, March 5, 2012

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.

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CASTAWAY FOR 70 YEARS

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 [...]

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