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There seems to be no end to all those creative challenges of this world. Here is yet another one: Create Berlin is calling for entries to the BerliNordik design competition. Its concept is all about sustainable design and while the last edition of this contest was about fashion, this one is about product design. Product and interior designers still have time until April 23, 2010 to submit their designs. The best entries will be part of the exhibition Bright Green Design that will take place from June 8-13 during DMY. For more infos about the challenge read on here.
by Frank
on March 15th, 2010
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This past Tuesday I was lucky to attend the German premiere of the new Spike Jonze short film I’m Here at the Babylon Kino in Mitte. For those of you who need a little hint on the director and film maker: He made Where The Wild Things Are and Being John Malkovich. His new short is a little love story of two quirky robots. It’s actually Jonze first love story to date and I thought it was really sweet and charming. I liked it a lot. They agency who organized the premiere did a really nice job decorating the whole place in candles and rose petals. They also had all sorts of candy and popcorn and long drinks for our enjoyment. After the film there even was a buffet but I kind of wish I had known that beforehand because I was already a bit sick of eating too much candy and mixing it with vodka.
The movie will be released online later this month. But after the jump you can already watch the trailer and see some film stills. The website is really worth a visit.
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by Frank
on March 12th, 2010
in Entertainment, Movies
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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.
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by Frank
on March 11th, 2010
in Events, Parties
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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.
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by Frank
on March 9th, 2010
in Art
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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.
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by Frank
on March 8th, 2010
in Art, Events
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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.
by Frank
on March 7th, 2010
in Fashion, Misc.
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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!!
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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.
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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.
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by Frank
on March 4th, 2010
in Events, Parties
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This coming Friday another big event is going to take place at Stattbad Wedding. A multitude of artists, performers and musicians will come together to celebrate the golden youth. While one will will color the old swimhall with a stream of spirited and uplifting images, the other will improvise some grass roots electronic music on self designed analog instruments. While one will present a glamorous Electro Pop Extravaganza, the other will do a dance performance interpreting the night’s theme La Jeunesse Doree. And there will be lots of DJs and live concerts. What more could you wish for? Details after the jump.
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by Frank
on March 2nd, 2010
in Events, Music, Parties
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