I came across Jaime’s videos maybe a week or two ago, when my good friend Pino showed me a video of a struggling musician in an over-dramatized music video showing a bearded guy with a guitar wonder the streets, collecting coins from the ground and playing in an empty venue. Of course Pino was drooling over the guy, however I
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The works of Mustafa Sabbagh may come off pretentious and “a bit too much” first, but I guess that’s the faith of every fashion photographer. Thus, there is more to Mustafa that pretty pictures and fashion films. His clicks dissociate themselves from the glamour fictitious standard beauty. He focuses his lense on normal subjects, caught in their wonderful imperfection. Vacuity and immediacy
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Coke or Pepsi? McDonald’s or Burger King? Beluga or Ossetra? The newest culinary dilema: City Chicken or Ris A? In Berlin, fast food has long been dominated by the mighty Döner. While I love a good Döner, diversity is the key to happiness. Pizza by the slice, when available, is a horror. Banh mi can hit the spot, and who
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Well I think the title sort of says it all, but we’ve had some amazing music coming out in the last few months that are not worth passing up. Weather it be on your x-mas list or whatever music lovers lists, but these albums should not be passed up for the emotionally charged, dance-a-holics, or geeks. This lists covers the
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It was supposed to be a quiet early night. However, since I’ve made overworking myself my new unsexy hobby that slowly replaces my private life, my friend and über fierce mentor Nadja aka the hostess with the mostest from ArtStars decided to break the pattern and take me on an arts night out. The venue – the legendary oyster-shaped building of Haus
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This Friday Prosume This! opens from 5 till 7 PM – the Product is the Medium, at the electronics store BEKO at Kottbusser str 9 in Berlin. Beko is a typical mid sized electronic retail chain that will lend the organizers some of their corporate space. Prosume This will use 30 of their in-store high definition screens to show works
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Brian Donnelly’s creatures exist in a perpetual state of encroachment and human-animal cross-breeding. And somehow, some of them arouse me. Brian Donnelly is a Canadian born painter working in Toronto. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design’s painting program in 2003, Brian has actively been questioning the role of the figure in contemporary painting for the last
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[8tracks width=”250″ height=”250″ playops=”” url=”http://8tracks.com/mixes/438687″] Sometimes it’s hard to wake up some days and kick your day started. So why not pump up some tunes, put on those fav thigh high socks, and rock out singing into your spatula while making pancakes, or well, you know, something else right? HAH! Well keep that sun out in your mind and the
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Because appearance is everything, you should buy S. T VALENTIN. At least that’s what the slogan of the sophisticated store in Aarhus, Denmark. In the small city with almost 250 thousand citizens, there seem to be a lot of picky gentleman with fine taste, since the shop is calling out to a very special breed of clientele. S. T VALENTIN is
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Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design collaborated on an interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, named PRISMA 1666, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms. The installation
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How do I start this post now? I’ll just paste my draft, since this track is only the demo anyway and it can change – just like my opinion about it. The track is produced by Martin Solveig, who had some really good tracks in the beginning of his career but then starting producing commercial crap. This one is on
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Christian Straub is back and this time he brings many things into motion, however on a metaphysical level. Things talk relationships. This is the premise for THE GAME OF THINGS, Cristian Straub’s latest fashion short film for German fashion label Ethel Vaughn. A woman is haunted by her past, by things and moments she once shared with someone. As the film unfolds we get
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