Do you ask yourself what the Bar 25 is doing in the winter? Did you sometimes wish you had yellow nail polish? Did you always wonder what records Hot Chip would put on at a party? Then we might have some answers for you in our party guide after the jump.
The attraction to small but funny design objects seems to be in the family, as my mother posseses kind of everything from Alessi’s kitchen stuff. These little plant-mosters caught my eyes at a fashion store in mitte called Storia. But you can buy them also online directly from the designer Matteo Cibic. What’s intruiging about the Domsais is the humanization of plants through design. I am always into it when a design aesthetic not only manages to be funny but also creates something that is somehow alive and let’s me think about the frontier of our own existence. Are we ourselfe having a glassbubble to protect us from the reality? Some of these days it definetly feels like it. A special edition of the Domsais in gold after the jump. Read on - Weiterlesen »
by C.R.
on March 10th, 2010
in Misc.
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Sandor: Fuchur
This Friday the Strychnin Gallery opens their big group exhibition Childhood Heroes in support of the children’s hospice Berliner Herz. Interestingly, all artists are Tattoo artists curated by Sara Rosenbaum. There will also be a mini concert by The Boss Hoss (no kidding!). More art and details after the jump.
by Frank
on March 9th, 2010
in Art
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Internet and amateur pornography seem to be a hot topic right now as I noticed browsing through my usual sites and blogs. Castor and Pollux discovered an interesting artist working with amateur clips and Amy&Pink made a list of the best sexual Tumblr blogs out there. Well, I am not the porn expert in town but some days ago a met one of the PR ladies of the Berlinale for a beer and she told me that there was a really hot Mitte-hippster-trashy-artsy porn movie from Berlin showed at the Berlinale and that i should definetly write about it. Since I am such a good catholic boy I will definetly not watch Bedways from RP Kahl myself but I asume that there might be some nasty little artsy pigs between our readers who might like it. More images and the trailer after the jump. Read on - Weiterlesen »
by C.R.
on March 9th, 2010
in Entertainment, Movies
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I guess you all have seen some of these long exposure light writing photos that you will find all over the internet. It’s so easy to do you would hardly call it art. But in the case of Miam you might want to reconsider. Those guys have brought the light writing to perfection creating 3dimensional graffitis of light into urban and industrial settings. I especially like their work with LED lights that are more graphical but also look a lot like brush strokes.
This Friday they will open their new exhibition at We Make Stuff Good, the indoor gallery at Stattbad Wedding. More of their work and details after the jump.
It’s Sunday late afternoon and some of you probably just came home from browsing though the fleamarkets at Mauerpark, Arkonaplatz and Boxi looking for vintage treasures. Maybe you even went to come cool second handshops this weekend too. But you didn’t find anything? And don’t want to wait until next weekend? Well, that’s where the brand new online vintage shop Jay Loves comes in. A group of girls from Berlin has piled up all their vintage clothing, accessories and decorative items and made an online shop to save themselves the time and effort of selling it all on a fleamarket. Quite clever. They even take on your stuff on comission. Check out their goods on JayLoves.
I wear colored contacts, fake eyelashes, a blond Lady Gaga wig, I am covered in black paint and my voice is distorted. Can you still guess who I am? Hint: I like to get dirrrrty…
It all started with a weird video clip of trees with arms and legs anonymously posted on YouTube about three months ago. In the end of that video you could see a blonde woman in some sort of naturalistic, dark womb. During the next weeks more videos where posted under the name IamAmIWhoami showing more of this strange woman with fake eyelashes covered in dirt. People started to speculate that this is some sort of viral campaign for an upcoming album release which it obviously is. The guesses which artist it might be ranged from big pop singers like Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga over cool semi-popular acts like Goldfrapp, The Knife and Santigold to smaller artists like Margaret Berger, Sia, Ladytron and Lykke Li. Just by looking at the videos it’s pretty obvious that it must be someone the record company spends a lot of money on. And judging from the music, it might sound dark and electronic, but it’s still so perfectly polished that it indicates to being parts or interludes of a pop record. I would consider it to be Goldfrapp if I hadn’t already heard their new album which is an 80s disco record and clearly not it. There are a lot of clues that point to Christina Aguilera (which you can read about here) and as she has a new album lined up I think she is the safest guess. I actually only like one of Aguilera’s albums which was her second: Stripped. It was quite brilliant and compared to the one before quite a change of style. So even if some people doubt it’s her because the mysterious videos are way too unconventional for a major pop artist like her I am pretty confident that she is IamAmiWhoami.
After the jump you’ll see all the videos in order of their surfacing. The animals that are shown towards the end of the video have been decrypted to point to a big revelation of the whole campaign this coming Monday 11am (Californian time, which means 20h here in Berlin). So stay tuned! I’m quite intrigued by the music you can here in the videos, especially the second one which sounds like vintage Goldfrapp glam rock!!
by Frank
on March 6th, 2010
in Events, Music
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photo: MrClean1982
If you have always dreamed to once design a garment for one if not the biggest fashion house of the country (and who hasn’t) then your dream might come true just now. Boss Orange - the young urban line of Hugo Boss - is calling for all creatives to design a T-Shirt for next year’s summer collection. The inspiration for the design is the colorful parrot which is an element in this year’s collection. Are eye patches and black pirate hats too, I wonder? The winner will get the chance to meet the creative team of Boss Orange to finalize the design until it then becomes a special edition of the official line for summer 2011. Contestants can submit their designs until April 30th, 2010 to a dedicated fanpage on Facebook. You can vote for the submitted designs until May 1st, 2010. How clever they all are with their social media integration and all that!
For your inspiration (and to distract ourselves from more important tasks) we flicked through a seemingly endless amount of parrot photos and have collected some fancy shots for you that you will find after the jump along with the flyer of the competition. There is also a parrot on that one, naturally.
by Frank
on March 5th, 2010
in Fashion
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Jimbo Starlight
While it was kind of tricky to gather enough cool events for our weekly party guide lately this week is absolutely and it will be hard to decide where to go. Will we sip champagne in the Malzfabrik, go on a blind date at the Hoppetosse, get sick at Picknick or wasted at Panorama Bar? Oh what the hell, we are only young once, so let’s do it ALL! The parties after the jump.
Members of our iHeartBerlin.de Facebook Group have the chance to win guestlist spots for the DFA Night at .HBC this Saturday. So you better join now.
by Frank
on March 4th, 2010
in Events, Parties
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photos: Thomas Aurin
There are some theater and dance companies that make me wish to have pursuit other career options. Since I am way too old to become a dancer I have to limit myself to watching their incredible perfomance and perhaps review them. One special company which is such a pain to watch because they are so incredibly good that you wish you could be on stage with them is the Costanza Macras ensemble Dorky Park. If you never heard of them and wish to experience my unbareable craving to be involved, they are playing their new piece Megalopolis this weekend at Schaubühne. More pictures, a trailer, a summary and details after the jump.
by C.R.
on March 3rd, 2010
in Events, Theatre
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