right now i am at the media shed in southend on sea (a.k.a.the end of the world) just out of london where mongrel is hosting a launch party for two new projects: Hairy MP’s & Telephone Trottoire. one of the people giving a speech is Yoshitaka Mouri of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts […]
Rana Dasgupta has just published an essay of the same name on his site in which he explores the devellopments behind the recent rise to media stardom of cities like johannisburg, bombay, caracas, lagos and nairobi. from the essay: Dismissive talk of Chinese “sweatshops” that would never meet EU regulations does nothing to dispel the […]
picture taken by guido van nispen before the p2p workshop at felix meritis last friday. from looking at the timestamps of the photo and the previous entry (all the way to the bottom in the white box) it seems that he has actually captured me writing the previous blog entry… see the rest of the […]
the border film project by Brett Huneycutt, Victoria Criado and Rudy Adler has some amazing pictures online. the project distributed hundreds of disposable cameras to undocumented migrants attempting to cross from mexico into the US of A. (they also distributed them to so called minuteman vigilantes trying to stop the immigrants from coming there). the […]
one of the more prominent themes at CeBIT this year was the whole security/surveillance/biometric systems complex. hall 6 and 7 where full of companies demonstrating that you can stick an RFID chip on just about anything in order to then read it and know where just about everything comes from or goes to or belongs […]
have been hanging out at the CeBIT IT trade show for the last 2 days and that is a pretty much brain wrecking experience. among other things this means being exposed to a overkill of stupid advertising slogans. one that especially caught my attention was on a poster at the stall of WYSE computing (the […]
have seen one and a half war movies today. first i went to neukölln to see ‘kurtlar vadisi: iraq‘ (Valley of the Wolves: Iraq) and then tonight on TV i ended up watching the second half of ‘Tears of the Sun‘. For those who have not followed the hysteric discussions in Germany in the last […]
ok it seems his has been around for a while (my pal bjorn blogged about it 4 days ago) but it seems that the british online music distributer OD2 (a.k.a loudeye.com) is canceling some of the licenses it has given out a while ago. initial reports suggested that the music bought (downloaded) under the 10-cents-per-song-for-unlimited-playback-on-one-computer-license […]
… if you are in berlin on wednesday, thursday or friday (8,9 & 10 march). Back to the Present is the first work of Constanza that i have seen (in the original version that played in the summer of 2003 in and abandoned, turn of the century warehouse in Berlin). this version was followed by […]
i am sick, given all the pooh-ha in the media i one would like to assume that it is the bird flu, especially with pale ducks appearing on the u-bahn in berlin over the weekend. i am feeling doomed…. Technorati Tags: berlin, popularculture, publictransport, streetart