Mirrors, mirrors everywhere: An infinitely replicating room
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Berlin-based artist Thilo Frank has this fascinating installation work, The Phoenix Is Closer Than It Appears, a 4m x 4m x 8m room that is entirely lined with mirrors and lit with streaks of neon green. It looks like it came straight out of The Matrix. Hmm, looks really cool, but we wonder if people [...]
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An insiders guide to the Dance Music scene in Berlin
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Dance music and Berlin nightlife are essentially synonymous in 2013. Home to some of the most important labels, producers and spaces in dance and electronic, Berlin is a clubber’s mecca. The “Berlin sound“, essentially minimal techno/”micro-house” music championed and produced by, amongst others, techno legend Richie Hawtin, began to trickle into mainstream night clubs in the US around around 2003, as progressive house and techno fused into something dark, repetitive and hypnotic.
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Projections of Berlin’s city landscape in rooms
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We had our sights on French artist Clement Briend when he projected a hell lot of faces on trees for his Cambodian Trees project. Well, we are just as intrigued by his Berlin series. Here, he projected images of the city landscape in a much more intimate settings: people’s homes. In a way the projections [...]
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Europe’s first music hotel: Nhow Berlin Hotel by Karim Rashid
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Nhow is Europes first music hotel. This gem is located in the center pf Berlin and features two music studios. This is the place to stay if you want to do some recording, collaboration, or just soak up some inspiration.
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Pictoplasma: a contemporary character festival in Berlin
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The world’s leading festival of contemporary character culture, Pictoplasma kicks off today for three days of inspiring talks, screenings and more. It all happens in Berlin and runs until April 13.
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Beautiful Japanese-inspired surrealist paintings
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These gorgeous photorealist paintings by Moki deserve a second look. And then a third and fourth. The Berlin-based artist specializes in camouflaging people into breathtaking, northern landscapes. Rugged mountains, untouched rivers and the like have human elements cleverly woven into each image. My favorite is the mountain range. It took a moment to recognize the [...]
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Mr & Mrs Smith tell us what to do in Portland
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Portland, on the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, is shaping up as the new Seattle/Melbourne, with its passion for indie music, coffee and cycling. Oregon’s low-rise, river-bestriding capital has long taken a creative approach to city planning, ensuring its heritage architecture remains pristine and independent stores, arts spaces, bars and cafés flourish. Nicknamed Stumptown for [...]
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Dysfunctional benches by Jeppe Hein
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Jeppe Hein, an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen, created a series of modified Social Benches with a basic form not unlike the garden variety of benches everywhere. The catch: they are altered in a way that makes them somewhat challenging to sit on. I found a few of these beaches scattered along a waterfront [...]
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Deformed bottlenose dolphin adopted by whales
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In case you haven’t heard about the bunch of whales who were spotted with a deformed bottlenose dolphin as part of the gang, hear it now: the inter-species meeting of mammals was sighted by behavioral ecologists from Berlin’s Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries about 15-20 kilometers off the Azores in the North Atlantic. [...]
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Anonymous offline peer-to-peer file-sharing initiative
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Not sure what we’d do if we were to stumble upon a USB flash drive embedded in a wall in the streets. Essentially an anonymous offline peer-to-peer file-sharing initiative hosted in public spaces, the Dead Drops project is driven by Berlin-based media artist Aram Bartholl who mounts the USB drives empty at the start and lets anyone plug in his or her laptop to share data. Fascinating.
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Sausages illustrations by Molly Rose Dyson
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Berlin-based Australian illustrator Molly Rose Dyson really has a knack for drawing food. Exhibiting her series Small Goods during 2011 in Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts educated illustrator has since dropped a new series entitled Sausages Etc. The series provides a deeper look into the often overlooked Australian ‘snag’ and is comprised of six pieces. With a great eye for colour, Dyson’s work is as unique and special as the subject matter she focuses on.
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Errors in Production: a collection of defective products
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For her Errors in Production collection, Berlin-based artist Heike Bollig amassed a number of products with individual manufacturing defects. It reminds us of Jeremy Hutchison’s work, with one distinction: while Hutchison deliberately asked factory workers to make defective products, Bollig simply found them, mostly by accident or through sharp-eyed friends and salesclerks. We really like the mangled teeth-shaped marshmallow and the espresso cup with two handles.
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Hilfiger Denim presents Street Style Berlin
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Hilfiger Denim has teamed up with Yvan Rodic, photographer and founder of the Face Hunter blog, who has worn a live feed camera while exploring Berlin in search of the best street style. His footage is also being streamed to the Hilfiger Denim space to further complement the collection. Watch this video to see Rodic [...]
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Awesome street art by Brooklyn-based Australian The Yok
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Even though The Yok lives in Brooklyn nowadays, we can call his street art Australian, because that’s where he’s originally from: Perth. The loopy characters with the awesome staches and beards do not only look good on walls, but also on canvas, as paintings and illustrations. His potato headed gargoyles have been exhibited around the world, from Berlin to Taipei, and his success doesn’t seem to stagnate. So if you love surfing like The Yok does, keep your eyes open for an original artwork close to your local beach, too.
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Tabu: a new short film by Miguel Gomes
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A dramatic love story has to be clever enough to still give you smiles. Tabu has it – photography like no other with a magnificent story that makes you want to walk along the river looking for crocodiles. This was a winner of the 2012 Berlin Film Festival: the FIPRESCI Jury Prize and Alfred Baeur [...]
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