Category Archives: Culture

The real story behind Doherty

Turns out the Pete Doherty scan­dal — and other realted stor­eis­Pete Doherty and the KLF:The men behind the scan­dal — Bill Drum­mond and Jimmy Cauty, who were them­selves infa­mous pop­stars under the name The KLF — admit­ted how they plucked a young Buddy Holly imper­son­ator Doherty from obscu­rity and made him a media darling.Priceless. Con­tinue read­ing

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Salad Fingers

Episode 7 of Salad Fin­gers was recently uploaded. As I’ve men­tioned before, this is strangely fas­ci­nat­ing… buy the rite moivie high quality

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Cars

Quick new wave reminders:Gary Numan on Wikipedia, As an amus­ing foot­note, Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Old­man. Con­tinue read­ing

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Sex Pistols spam

I just got a spam mail from Sid Vicious. He offers me what appears to be a great deal on Microsoft prod­ucts and Pho­to­shop. Con­tinue read­ing

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Idea bank

Oh, and remem­ber: AUX is present at the IV fes­ti­val in Copen­hagen til’ the end of the week. More info (in Dan­ish) at aux.dk. watch heat film in high quality

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Drawings

Adam K sug­gests we use blogs for what they’re good at and pro­vide a behind the scenes view of the sit­u­a­tion regard­ing JP’s drawings.Mie Femø on the issue at Kforum.And may I sug­gest we all jump a black cab and head to the town square to burn Louise Frevert’s mobile phone and all the copies of JP we can find… Con­tinue read­ing

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Me me me meme

There’s another meme wave these days.I’ve been tagged. Before respond­ing, let’s have a look at this thing. Con­tinue read­ing

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AUX — technical breakdown

After an excel­lent launch party Sat­ur­day, we launched the exhi­bi­tion site for Tech­ni­cal Break­down — and now it works. The exhi­bi­tion itself invites the inhab­i­tants of Copen­hagen to meet exper­i­men­tal con­tem­po­rary art on a street level. The lis­ten­ing posts are … Con­tinue read­ing

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Email tics

Mer­lin Mann; Five email tics I’d love for you to lose. A good 5ive on how nor­mal peo­ple should get evolv­ing. Con­tinue read­ing

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The Road Ahead — Flickr, senior dating and more

TIME Mag­a­zine — The Road Ahead, celebs on the futureMOBY:I was with my friend as he drove her to the Hilton to meet a Cana­dian doc­tor she’d encoun­tered online, and I thought, How dis­con­cert­ing.… Instead she’s in mid­town Man­hat­tan, prepar­ing to spend the night with a doc­tor, and her son is dri­ving her to the hotel! Con­tinue read­ing

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[DK] Exquisite Russian Brides live i Literaturhaus d. 23/10

23/10 inviterer Exquis­ite Russ­ian Brides til en aften med ven­lige drones og blid akustisk/elektronisk støj i Lit­er­aturhaus’ stemn­ings­fulde omgivelser. Afte­nen vil byde pÃ¥ en længere med­i­ta­tion i E for selvspillende ghet­to­blastere, prim­i­tiv elek­tronik, skjulte ekstra­musikere, bil­lige instru­menter og usko­let vokal ved pro­jek­tets bag­mand Marc Kell­away (Vinyl Dog Joy, The Cat Box Quar­tet mv.) Con­tinue read­ing

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[DK] DGI-byen, Digi:Wave og Eventblog

¥ er det i efter­mid­dag og i aften at der er elek­tronik i DGI-byen.Som anty­det er der blevet rodet lidt med noget billed­doku­men­ta­tion. Con­tinue read­ing

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[DK] Digi:Wave, DGI-byen

20 Ã¥bnes der op for en fem timer lang koncertrække, instal­la­tioner m.m.
Kom og find plads i vores sækkestole, fÃ¥ noget godt til ganen og hør
Electronic Lis­ten­ing Music pÃ¥ gode højttalere!Allerede kl. 15 vil den nye musik­plat­form open-space.dk blive lanceret.
LigesÃ¥ den nye foren­ing kon­tur, der foru­den even­ten lægger ud med tre
debut-cd¹er. Efter­mid­da­gens arrange­ment foregÃ¥r i DGI-Byens Hotel, lokale 5.
Vel mødt!Arrangementet laves i samar­be­jde med: IT-Universitetet, Statens Teaterskole,
DR, DGI-Byen og ¸benhavns Kom­mune­Line up:Koncerter: 
IR/Jonas Ole­sen 
Rune ¸chting 
txture/Jakob Weigand Goetz
Ejnar Kand­ing + Cikada strygekvartet
Orchard/Lars Bo Jandrup
Karsten Pflum/Jacob H. Con­tinue read­ing

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Fuck plakatmafiaen

Mere plads til stree­tart: Nogen har taget udfor­drin­gen op mod plakatmafiaen.FUCK PLAKATMAFIAEN BYMUREN TILBAGE TIL FOLKET! Alt for længe har en selvbestal­tet horde af wallpimps monop­o­lis­eret vores alle­sam­mens bymur til gavn for storkap­i­tal, plade­sel­sk­aber og koncertarrangører og til skade for al anden folke­lig ytring. Con­tinue read­ing

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RSS hos Afsnit P

Afs­nit P’s plog har nu — efter “indtil flere opfor­dringer” — fÃ¥et rss. Yay! Con­tinue read­ing

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Weltverbesserungsmassnahmen

Went to Cen­tral Kino yes­ter­day to catch Weltverbesserungs­mass­nah­men, documentary-style movie fol­low­ing nine pri­vate ini­tia­tives try­ing to make the world a bet­ter place — includ­ing Ampel e.V (train­ing car own­ers to respond bet­ter to trafic lights), Pri­va­tini­tia­tive für Äesthetic (sort­ing parked cars by colour) and Aktive Kranken­ver­sicherung (peo­ple train­ing to per­form surgery in order to save on health insur­ance). Con­tinue read­ing

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GRIMETIME

Grime-blog with a grime-podcast — and grime-Flickr pho­tos. Con­tinue read­ing

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Threats to gaming history

Jes­per Juul on an aspect of recent changes in proces­sor devel­op­ment I hadn’t thought of: Win­dows Vista and OSX Intel: Threats to Gam­ing History.11 years from the release of Windows’95 to not sup­port­ing Win­dows 3.1 is a very short time in cul­ture, but 5 years from the release of OSX to not sup­port­ing OS9 is the blink of an eye. Con­tinue read­ing

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The iStock Steel Cage — sakaasa vs. theprint

Pho­to­shop ten­nis match in progress: The iStock Steel Cage — sakaasa vs. thep­rint. Con­tinue read­ing

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Audiotour Berlin: Berlin Sounds

While brows­ing the shelves of pro qm, a most excel­lent media/architecure/design book­shop in Alte Schönhauser Str. Con­tinue read­ing

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Zur Semiotik des Widerstandes

Some­what of a messy post, but here goes:Went to see THE ABC-SEMIOTICS OF RESISTANCE at Neu­roti­tan, a really nice gallery in Berlin’s Mitte yesterday.Good exhi­bi­tion, “Ein mul­ti­me­di­ales Spek­takel über Dada, Cut-Ups, Inter­na­tionale Sit­u­a­tion­is­ten, Urban Art, Cul­ture Jam­ming u.v.w.”… Will try and post pic­tures later.More here: m e m e f e s t 2 0 0 5 | world­wide com­mu­ni­ca­tion cen­ter. Con­tinue read­ing

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Amoeba

As an update to the news about the clos­ing of Loud (which appear to have redesigned their site a bit?!), a name has now been put on the record store to be housed in the back room of Nad­sat: Amoeba Record Shop. Look­ing for­ward to check­ing their stuff… Con­tinue read­ing

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[DK] Bergensbrag

¥r nu ikke selv man kan være der: Bergens­brag — Aktive fra
tidsskrifter, smÃ¥forlag, net­sider og fes­ti­valer mødes
for at diskutere stÃ¥steder og strate­gier og udvek­sle erfaringer
med det konkrete arbe­jde med lit­ter­a­turen. Con­tinue read­ing

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[DK] AUX Audiograf #3 med Else Marie Pade

Glemte næsten:AUX Audio­graf #3 finder sted den 4. august. Con­tinue read­ing

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ich fühl’ mich gut, ich steh’ auf Berlin!

Liv­ing is.…..finding Fehlfarben’s Monar­chie und All­tag in your iTunes library while look­ing for Ideal’s Berlin and Malaria’s Kaltes Klares Wasser.You can buy all albums in the iTMS! Con­tinue read­ing

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