Hiding music all around the world

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By Owen Duff in New Music on Tuesday 6 December 2011

Bored of the too-easy point/click way we find new music, I decided to make my own songs harder and more interesting to get hold of. I spent a year hiding CDs with my music on in cities around the world (with a little help from friends). I filmed the whole thing, including the responses I [...]

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How Max Zorn creates his tape-art works

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By Rani Nugraha in New Art on Saturday 12 November 2011

We first told you about Max Zorn in July this year when his fresh tape-art works were just in Amsterdam. Tinkering with nothing more than an exacto knife, some packing tape and plastic sheets, it takes wrapping his work around street lamps to see the pieces in all their glory as the complex layers of slicing and shading formations take their full effect.

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Olaf Hajek

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By Adam Graff in New Art on Thursday 3 November 2011

German artist Olaf Hajek’s work will be featured in a solo show at Berlin’s exclusive Werft 2 project space on November 10. The exhibition will include a combination of new work, as well as others from worldwide exhibitions, including his recent show in South Africa.

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Monster exhibition in Berlin

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By magenta in New Events on Sunday 30 October 2011

The Berlin Monsterkabinett fuses machine art and performance. A tour of the amazing work of the Dead Chickens Artist Group, the permanent evolving exhibition is housed in underground galleries at Haus Schwarzenberg: one of the few un-renovated courtyards surviving in the Hackescher Markt district. Allow a trusted guide to lead you into the bizarre and labyrinthine world of the Monsterkabinett, where monstrous yet loveble creatures — in turn terrifying, tragic and comical — dance and sing to a compelling rhythm.

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Vatos Tacos Mexican food truck in Berlin

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By The Urban Grocer in Cool Travel on Saturday 22 October 2011

Say you’re wandering the streets of Berlin and you happen upon a vintage milk and cheese truck that has a long line of people queued up outside it. What would you expect them to be waiting to buy: Frankfurters? Sauerkraut? A flotilla’s worth of German beer?

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Mad Potter ceramic exhibition in Berlin

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By The Urban Grocer in New Events on Friday 14 October 2011

The Lewis Carroll classic has already inspired foodies from LA to London to Tokyo. This time around, the magic has turned up in Berlin, in the form of the Mad Potter ceramic exhibition — a Wonderland design-fest worthy of the trippiest tea party.

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Hotel Minimal: a pop-up one-room hotel Berlin

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By Reem Algharabali in Cool Travel on Wednesday 24 August 2011

Fancy being part of an art installation while staying in a funky albeit minimally furnished room in the heart of Berlin? Hotel Minimal, is a pop-up one-room hotel from the Linie project that explores the concept of public and private space. Guests just have to be comfortable being on view in a large shop front on one of the main thoroughfares of the trendy Mitte district.

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Marcel Schwickerath

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By Katrina James in New Photography on Thursday 4 August 2011

Since landing in Berlin, I have met some really talented people Marcel Schwickerath is a photographer who I work with regularly. His photography is just beautiful: so simple, yet loaded with so much emotion. He is constantly adding to his visual diary, so make sure you bookmark it and visit regularly.

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Berlin-based artist James Bullough

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By Katrina James in New Art on Saturday 30 July 2011

James Bullough is a painter, illustrator, and muralist originally from America but now living in Berlin. I first saw Bullough’s work at MMX Gallery in Berlin. His work is awesome: from large scale graph pieces, to these beautiful illustrations, which you can also spot posted up around Berlin.

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Pomocracy: full of meticulously chosen weird stuff

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By Antoine Corbineau in Cool Websites on Saturday 25 June 2011

Pomocracy is a lifestyle statement Tumblr recently created in Berlin by PoMo, a nurse and designer. It’s an inspirational blog full of weird stuff.

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Interview with Planningtorock

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By NotAHipster.com in New Music on Saturday 28 May 2011

Planningtorock is the stage persona and creative form of Bolton-born Janine Rostron, whose powerful and haunting electronica was born in Berlin where Janine has lived for the past ten years. We checked in with her to ask a few questions about her music and her style. [Listen to her new single Doorway at the end of the interview]

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Clever interactive campaign by KKLD*

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By Lost At E Minor in New Events on Wednesday 18 May 2011

The New York and Berlin-based creative agency, KKLD*, has developed an awesome integrated campaign for its client, MINI. Until June 29, anyone can become a star in the new ‘It’s Personal’ campaign and appear live on Germany’s largest video screen, which is on the famous Kurfürstendamm shopping boulevard in Berlin. Even better, every participant has the opportunity to win their own personal MINI model from the advert. Fun!

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Berlin Stencil Art Challenge

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By Henry in New Art on Friday 29 April 2011

Blek Le Rat did what Banksy did twenty years before Banksy did. And that’s according to Banksy himself. Now creatives around the world have the chance to be flown to Berlin to take part in a live stencil art session with him. Upload a JPEG of your own stencil art to Hugo Create to take part.

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Kvast Berlin

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By Flux Magazine in New Products on Thursday 21 April 2011

Creating collections in their Berlin-based studio since 2007, designers Britta Knüppel and Verena Kern find gems in unexpected, humdrum places. From plastic toys, to fruit and veg, the pair have excavated Australia, stripped down Italy, and ventured through the Netherlands, turning everyday items into 24-carat gold masterpieces.

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Photoautomat: vintage photo booth fun!

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By Nini Baseema in Cool Websites on Thursday 21 April 2011

A vintage photobooth in London and Berlin shooting black and white photos during dubious opening hours? That, or something very similar to it, pretty much sums up the idea behind this new photography blog. We all still remember those famous four photos, of which at least one had to be thrown away because you either weren’t properly prepared when the release initiated or your face wasn’t doing what it was supposed to.

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