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main sources include the highly recommendedeyeteeth, happy famous artists, we make money not art, daily servings and wooster collectivethis is placeboKatz tumbling

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The Oracle of Wifi inside the jukebox at the placeboKatz LoungeYou know, when I woke up this morning I had a realization about myself. I was always Blondie. People always called me Blondie, ever since I was a little kid. What I realized is that at some point I became Dirty Harry. I couldn't be Blondie anymore, so I became Dirty HarryDeborah Ann “Debbie” HarryA happy B-day, Goddess of Punk

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Back from the tease art fair, the vivid counterpart to the Art Cologne. Again the tease took place in the Rhein Triadem, an administrative building from the thirties, right opposite to it´s bigger complement on the bank of the Rhine. One could easily spend a couple of days inside the 5000 squaremeters filled with young art. Smoking artists and barking dogs, the tease came with a gentle touch of

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Helen Levitt, caught fleeting moments of surpassing lyricism, mystery and quiet drama on the streets of her native New York. A kind of imagemaking, that, as a NYT reviewer once wrote, “combine[s] intuition and intellect to forge sophisticated, lyrical compositions from commonplace events. Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless form of street choreography that held

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Julia Murakami, untitled, 2009, Installation, dimensions variableEdmund Piper, the man behind two german satellite art fairs (Berliner Kunstsalon/ tease art fair, Cologne) and artist himself opens CIRCUS MINIMUS, a 100 sqm art fair with 43 exhibition booths on a scale of 1:10. Leaving it to the visitors to look at the art market literally at their feet or to catch a glimpse of a state of

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Nouvelle Vague “Dance with me” | Bande à part by Jean-Luc Godard.Delicious Anna Karina is reason enough to post a yt flic :)Nice finding from poisonous pulchritude

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Personal show by film and videomaker Thorsten Fleischfollowed by a music performance of his bandMalendeOn first sight, his films are very abstract and conceptual. Thorsten Fleisch is working directly with materiality, which can be as analogue and direct as skin impressions or crystals growing on the surface of film surface (16mm), or as digitally generic as a reciprocal math formula that creates

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hair-e in collaboration with directors lounge present: proud flesha film by jenny graf sheppared and chiara giovandoSunday, 22 March 2009 / doors: 7pm/ screening: 8pm.Proud FleshTwo young filmmakers, Jenny Gräf Sheppard and Chiara Giovando, from Baltimore, Maryland collaborated on “Proud Flesh”, a film shot in the Badlands of South Dakota located in the American West. The film will be presented

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Sam Spenser's Umbrella BloomPhoto by Jessica Rollandvia

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Humble People Who Expect Nothing (Margate)There are some things that just don’t go together, though God knows I’ve tried. Custard and horseradish. Eczema and satin. Margate and December…Nhung Dang and Tamsin Chapman met some years ago, late one night during a pub lock-in. Tamsin admired Nhung’s shiny black umbrella. She keeps meaning to ask Nhung what happened to it. Nhung takes photographs,

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Pension, Gyepü utca / Panzió, Gyepü Street 2005NON-PLACES, The non-place is part of the space. It’s part of the space, but we don’t live in it. It’s part of space, but it’s not a real place, it’s the transitional part ofthe space between places. It’s a kind of matrix: it’s lifeless, apparently unsubstantial space between the spaces, we live in. It’s a lifeless space, which lives it’s own life,

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Nadya Vessey lost her legs as a child but now she swims like a mermaid. Nadya Vessey told a little boy: "I'm a little mermaid" when he asked what happened to her legs and the idea stuck.Later she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington asking if they would help her realise a life long dream and make her a fully functional mermaid tail so she could swim.She was astounded when they agreed. She lost

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"Peep Show"J.X. Williams: Wrapped in an Enigma. If the filmmaker J. X. Williams didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent him..An exploitation filmmaker with a storied past, Williams is credited as director of the 1965 documentary “Peep Show” - a kind of spiritual vortex of sub rosa Americana surrounding the Kennedy assassination. After supposedly being suppressed for decades, it was

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German Gemutlichkeit, a series of photographs, developed with silver gelantine emulsion on wall papers, deals with German cosiness after WW II, when the two Germanies tried to get back to “normality” through the “Wirtschaftswunder” in the West and integration into a pretendingly international socialist world in the East. A clever combination or contradiction of different layers by Joachim

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Understand Modern Art Breath Spray $4.99If the only thing you’ve ever seen painted is your living room, this may be the life-changing product for you! Surreal Peppermint Flavor. .25 fl. oz./ 7.5ml If the only thing you’ve ever seen painted is your living room, this may be the life-changing product for you! Surreal Peppermint Flavor.Instant Swedish Accent Breath Spray $4.99Recent scientific

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Julia Murakami´s Anatomy of a fairy tale, miniatures in little glass cases, take a butcher at the atrocity of well known fairy tales. The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the Little Mermaid retold by tiny, precious sculptures with a sinister shift. Saving grace does not exist for the slaughtered ladies in the realm of Julia Murakami. Broken beauties that will never come

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Edmund Piper, a true dandy of the Berlin Bohemian, on display at Ziegert part of Kontraer, curated by Alessandro Rotondotill Dec 7th

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A charming highlight at this years Berliner Kunstsalon, Ralf Schreiber´s Wuerfel Matrix 5x6, presented by Walden. Every now and then the little dices suddenly starts to dance, triggered by solar cells lying under the desk light.

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In case you wonder what made a change, it was Paul Notzold, on the road for Obama… in 10 Nights, 10 Cities, 4 Statescongratsmore

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sneak preview: Andre Werner, parol soleil, an interactive video installation will be shown as part of BAZAAR – Die Strategie des RisikosThe 5th BERLINER KUNSTSALON will continue setting up a base for fresh, young art, worth to be discovered. Thus emphasizing what made BERLINER KUNSTSALON an internationally acclaimed art project. The new venue, a former substation, located in the center of

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Artville, an Copenhagen based art project is the latest addition to the chain of fairs that will open tomorrow (wednesday). "The sixth Artville, international exhibition for artists, will take place at the Berlin Exhibition Tempelhof, 30. October - 2. November 2008. The venue of the Artville exhibition, a building originally built for habitation, has a unique circular shape. 9 flats on 5 floors

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ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival , the first festival and award worldwide that is solely dedicated to films based on poetry, will open this thursday in it´s fourth edition. The biannual festival that will continue till saturday at one of Berlin´s most charming cinemas, the Babylon Mitte.The 4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival will be opened with a poetry film kaleidoscope. Historical films, the best of the

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For his strong support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 (and effective use of television commercials in California), Newman was 19th on Richard Nixon's enemies list. Something he commented "Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?"Paul Newman, screen legend, superstar, and the man with

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by Renja LeinoFascination and frustration are some words to describe my feelings as a starting point to this new series of photographs. For quite a long time I have been looking at people working by their computers, watching TV, playing PlayStation games. It is almost the same, a strange expression on their face when they are inside a world of their own; faces in foreign landscape. They are often

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