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IMPENDING DOOM
After the recent fad of apocalyptic films, television and video games such as The Road, Fallout New Vegas, the so-so Book of Eli, and the excellent new AMC series The Walking Dead, had all had effects...
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UP SHIT CREEK
Many Queenslanders and Victorians in Australia have been ‘up shit creek‘ quite literally ie ‘in dire circumstances’ with the recent widespread flooding. You can help and get a cool tea towel in the...
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READING ROOM
We can think of no better place to read mono.kultur issue #24 with Cyprien Gaillard’s interview than on top of the “beeramid”, Cyprien’s large-scale sculpture at KW in Berlin, built out of 72,000...
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HOW TO MAKE A SPOON FROM A CARTON
Olive is a clever site from Japan that shares designs, food and ideas that help when living in disaster areas. Olive offers tutorials on making spoons from old milk cartons through to turning an...
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Destructive transmutation in the penumbra of the new Olympic Stadium on the tenth anniversary of the most influential destructive event of the 21st Century. Scrap Club takes place by a site that has...
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from a wide angle
This week a host of writers have come forward to say something about the events of 11 September 2001, and to provide some kind of account of the events since. This one looks at the event obliquely. Is...
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MÄRZTAGE
While Fukushima seems to have disappeared from the news, I now see it cropping up in all kinds of unexpected corners: in the pages of Purple, on blogs, on the shelves of art book stores. One great book...
View ArticleYES BUT NO
The new Koi Klub happens every month on the 11th, regardless of the day of the week. If that date doesn’t ring any bells, then you just need to look up any news site today to find out why. Because, in...
View ArticleBOOM
Complicated emotions while hearing this incredible voice of Antony… Isn’t that Marina who is standing near the door at the left side? Oh yes it is!
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WIND MAPS
Nature, of course, is amazing and violent and beautiful and many more things, as we all know. In the wake of hurricane Sandy ravaging the east coast of the US, see a live data visualisation by Fernanda...
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EVOLUTION
Before and after: Tuba Babuna in 2008 and 2012 Some months ago antievolutionist show girls of Adnan Oktar in Turkey were introduced to the world by Amsterdam based artitsts Pınar&Viola in Dazed...
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ALTERNATIVE MAPS
There were times when Angela Merkel had problems with maps, too . Considering that, one should not be harsh on the others. No more comments…
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DON’T MAKE FUN OF OTHERS
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present. Photo by Marco Anelli. © 2010 Marina Abramovic. 114 minutes. Throwing back to our launch-screening a couple of weeks back, one question: did Marina make You...
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Monday Music: RIP Efterklang
Sadly, the incredible Efterklang are about to call it quits: “February 26th 2014 we will play one last concert in Sønderborg, Denmark, where we grew up,” they announced on their website last week. “It...
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APOCALYPSE NOW?
These apocalyptic appearing press photos of the latest events in the Ukraine were published yesterday by the spanish newspaper El País. Immediately touched by the anarchic brutality of a real event I...
View ArticleMUCKED UP
Bored with the usual cinema fare? Look no further. L’Enfant (or I suppose now l’adolescent or l’adulte depending on your feelings towards said provocateur) terrible Matthew Barney returns to the...
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JAPAN SYNDROME
Three years after the tsunami in northeastern Japan and the damage to the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, many people, including a growing number of artists, have got beyond the agony and speechlessness...
View ArticleBLOOMING POTT
Indie animation mainstay since “My First Crush,” (2007), her plaintive ode to infatuation, Julia Potts has in the last seven years only grown as an artist. Her most recent offering, “The Event,”...
View Article“IS THE MUSEUM A BATTLEFIELD?”
Filmmaker, visual artist, author Hito Steyerl asks: “…armed forces fire flares to add to the confusing scene of giant smoke plumes, ambulance horns, and faces illuminated by mobile phone screens. At...
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SHARDS OF TIME: 9/11, NEW YORK
With so many other things going on, we should not forget about our current and hugely inspiring issue #37 with war photographer James Nachtwey. Every now and then, we will publish a few images that he...
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