GRATEFUL GRAPEFRUIT

Mar

2010

Drop The Soap

This is what (mostly) happens, when you drop it. Imagery Courtesy from: santotomas, kiske, Davario, Sadao Hasegawa, Peibols, Scotto, Mr Steven, Mr Drachea Rannak, Rick Chris

Mar

2010

Experiencing Abstract Information

Nerd alert! Here comes a Bachelor project I would love to embark on. Graded with “very good” this is “Experiencing Abstract Information” by Jochen Winker and Stefan Kuzaj. “There are four essential parts in making abstract information experiencable: information itself, relevant senses, fitting emotion and a direct reference of the presentation to the information. With our method you can not

Mar

2010

BUTT 28

The new BUTT 28 has hit shelves in the next American Apparel in your hood. Or the nearest queer bookstore around you. On the cover you will see a familiar face – singer Kele Okereke of UK indie band Bloc Party was photographed in and out of the shower by Wolfgang Tillmans. Here is what else issue 28 is going

Mar

2010

The Knife Discography FTW!

Soundcloud evangelist David Noël blogged the most awesome piece of news (sorry, Gorillaz!) yesterday giving us heads up on the complete soundcloud-release of The Knife discography (listen to it below). About one month ago the Swedish duo added Deep Cuts and their newest masterpiece Tomorrow, In A Year to their Soundcloud and since yesterday you can listen to the classics

Mar

2010

Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny in CRUSH fanzine [VIDEO]

Every zine writes about him, every arty hipster queer knows him and everybody wants to be like him – or at least to date his boyfriend (both videos at the bottom of the article). Slava Mogutin is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, performance, sculpture, and painting. Born in Siberia,

Mar

2010

Watch: OK GO – This Too Shall Pass [VIDEO]

I am effing excited! First we got the Stylo video with Bruce Willis and now the new OK GO. Pure awesomeness on a Tuesday afternoon – who would’ve expected that? The chain reaction video has been built for months in a warehouse in LA together with the Syyn Labs crew. The rock band is famous for its wicked video performances

Mar

2010

Watch: Gorillaz – Stylo [VIDEO]

As promised, here comes the first video off Gorillaz‘ Plastic Beach album – for the first single STYLO. Our kickass friends from tape.tv are streaming the video along with the whole Gorillaz videography. Stylo is bringing back the sarcasm, the irony and fun in Gorillaz’ videos as we know it in 19-2000 or in Dirty Harry. And hey, Bruce Willis

Mar

2010

We are nerds and… vol.2

…we joined the fight club. …we can’t talk about art, but can totally create it. …we ink stupid tattoos when we’re drunk.

Mar

2010

Grateful Grapefruit ♥ Berlinhell Fugzine too!

Meet team awesome – Berlinhell Fugzine. The by now Facebook only zine focuses on imagery from the heart of Berlin, capturing the moments of all-day life in the big city and expresses the love-hate relationship we all have with this city. It will be keeping you posted about the hell in Berlin every week – so stay tuned, there are

Mar

2010

Hear: Gorillaz – Plastic Beach [full album]

The wait is over – 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel have finally arrived at the Plastic Beach (see full track list and hear full length album at the end of the article). Stay tuned this week for the official premiere of the “Stylo” video on GRATEFUL GRAPEFRUIT. The album opens with a warm wash of oceanic strings, before hitting

Feb

2010

Andrej Krahne: Type Sex With DUREX

Here we go again with one almost praise-worthy ad by the condom giant Durex. Too bad DUREX or the author is still concentrated only on the hetero safe sex side while HIV positive numbers amongst homosexuals are skyrocketing. And one more thing… oral sex with a condom?! (check the end of the article for more info on that) TASK Communicate

Feb

2010

Vampire Weekend: Nerds playing tennis

Vampire Weekend prooved with their album Contra (2009) that they are the real nerd shit in the music biz. Winter is really too much handle lately in Berlin (we have snow, again) and pincher crabs continue pinching at my sandals (for more info on that reference check Horchata by Vampire Weekend and the free DL link at the bottom). That’s