Marcello @ Do150508 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
the gecko at rosi´s
a quick advise for tonight...
Espin, front singer of DISH and The Gecko, who rocked the stage at the end of the summer PLATOON.festival 2006, is performing tonight with the Gecko at Rosi's in F'schain. it's a very important gig for them, and they would really love your support... it should be a really great evening we hope you come along.
Rosi's - Revalerstrasse 29 at 9 o'clock, they start early because they are playing support for Promises Promises, a band from Western Germany. the entrance is only € 5
watch this shortcut featuring DISH in PLATOON during the magic summer 2006:
and here a little show featuring Espin in
„big in berlin.the trend show“.
Philipp @ Do150508 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
It's not Rio...
Excited by the great weather and all I heard about this big event, I didn't want to miss Berlin's unique "Karneval der Kulturen" on the last pentecost-weekend.
Leaving the metro station on Hermannplatz, I immediately dived into masses of people, who partied the streets of Kreuzberg. More than 4000 artists, representing 80 nations, entertaining over a million visitors - it was quite an impressive picture of Berlin's cultural diversity.
The procession, consisting of hundred different wagons, each representing an own cultural lifestyle, moved from Hermannplatz to Yorckstrasse - separated by dancing people, shaking their bodies to different sounds from all over the world.
It was real fun being among them, especially because of all those nice costumes and colorful appearances.
Never having seen it, i must admit on the downside, that the event also reminded me of the numerous pictures and clips of the famous Love Parade I saw throughout the media. Most people shook to the drum'n bass wagons and big transparents spanning the streets and reminding people to drink water, gave the carneval a special Berlin touch.
Nevertheless, all the artists did their best to show their way to party hilariously on this sunny weekend on the streets.
It's not Rio - it's Berlin, fine enough...?
For more impressions and background-infos check out www.karneval-berlin.de
yeunsu lee @ Do150508 •
CONTAINER SITE IN KOREA #5.
very short update for our container site.
with aluminum inside it looks like a spacecraft...super!
almost ready to get in ....hhh^^*.o~~oh jinzza~!
the strategy table! exclusive army style.....hmmmmm..
what do you think? -it can be folded into one box and is may be~~portable -if you can carry around 40kg...
the color fits us but the size......? zu klein~~?
heidrun @ Mi140508 • PLATOON.area
after show of birthday
did you know this young guy???
last week on friday he has had
birthday.....
we take this chance for the first sittin with barbecue in our courtyard.....
.....in a real familiar, friendly atmosphere
....presents were included
Marcello @ Mi140508 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
PECHAKUCHA BERLIN VOL. 8.1
as already announced on their website, the PechaKucha team is proud to be working together with DMY Festival on their next edition of Pechakucha Berlin.
in the midst of the inspiring atmosphere of the design-festival with an international audience we´re sure that this Pechakucha evening is going to be a highlight.
the festival team will recruit part of the speakers from the DMY-participants, the Pechakucha team will contribute additional presentations to make it a perfect mixture.
as always all presentations will be made available as Videopodcasts, or simply viewed directly on their site.
after Pechakucha there will be an aftershow party with Exsample (normoton)spinning some records! So bring your dancing shoes and make sure to take friday off!
this whole thing will go down on the DMY-fetsival area, in the Glashaus / ARENA. if the weather stays as nice, the adjacent Badeschiff (place to swim on the Spree) is worth a visit!
++ a little taste of the LIST OF PRESENTERS ++
* Marco Riedel (Roomdivision / design, architecture)
* Bernhard Moosbauer (The Barebackshow / vinyl records with endless rills)
* Joana Breidenbach, Till Behnke (Betterplace.org / online-platform for microfinancing)
* Steffen Bärenfänger (B&W Interactive & Motion Design / does design need to be beautiful?)
* Eric Wahlforss, Alexander Ljung (Soundcloud / innovative platform for musicians)
* John von Ascheraden (heimatmedien / video as synthesis of the arts)
* Niklas Roy (international dance party / discomachine)
PECHAKUCHA MEETS DMY!
22.May // doors open 20:30 // start 21:20 (One our later than the usual time!)
Glashaus, ARENA, near Badeschiff // entry fee €5,-
if you´re interested to know more about past editions of PechaKucha via PLATOON check this out:
8th 6.1 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st
and of course the Seoul vol.5 edition.
DMY: clusterAsia and intercity
yeunsu lee @ Di130508 •
CONTAINER SITE IN KOREA #4
wow !!! it's a huge crane....so long legs ~~ when l came to the site l saw this and got so exciting that we are going to stake them up .....yeay!! but it belongs to our neighbours.soon it will be happen to us too^^.
sweet~~ from top of our container Muhahahaha~~ l love it!
stair light . it's sensible for movements for night time.cool~~
remember? christoph showed a light for this pole .....PLATOON's night life guide.
the basic works are all finished .....hmmmmmmm now we are waiting for the last aluminum jacket ~shining ! shining!^^*
to be continued .....Tschuess~!
Marcello @ Fr090508 • POLITICAL AFFAIRS
amnesty international- signatures
In these dark ages of human rights infringements we have the duty to rise our voices and not to look away from uncomfortable realities. Amnesty International has always been an organization ready for intervention by any possible means. here is something that brings across the message...in order not to forget that our opinion makes a difference.
Marcello @ Mi070508 • POLITICAL AFFAIRS
virtual may day on union island in secondlife
On May Day I went to the opening of Union Island, the brand new secondlife island for trade unions from all over the globe. I was greeted by John Wood from TUC (picture on the right), who also is the organizer of this international platform.
Here is a transcript of what happened over there:
john: hey Marcello!
john: happy may day!
You: Hi John how are you doing?
john: very good
Erdenesaikhan: Bro John, How much is the minimum wage for Germany?
john: ah Erdenes - here is PLATOON who is talking about that
You: hello everyone! Happy May Day!
You: Erdenes, unfortunately we don’t have a minimum wage in Germany…that’s why we are doing this campaign…and we are fighting to introduce a minimum-wage of 7.50euro per hour.
You: so, where are you guys writing from?
Erdenesaikhan: I'm from Mongolia, in Ulaanbaatar
You: oh wow
VarvaraUNI: i'm from russia
You: oh privet…
You: so you represent some of the russian and mongolian unions?
Erdenesaikhan: I represent Uni-lcm
VarvaraUNI: my union is trade union of managerial staff
You: hey Erdenes...nice flag
Erdenesaikhan: I did it, I'm very strong with my MAY DAY flag, Please give mongolian trade unionists some May day greeting...
You: We are all very glad to have this chance of being together on this important day… WORKERS DAY!...and hope we´ll make our voices heard in every corner of this planet… to represent all people who deserve a decent life and a fair pay for their work. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS!!!!
Erdenesaikhan: thank you so much!!!
john: Amen to that PLATOON!
john: So Marcello - how are things going in Mainz today, with the Real version of this exhibition??
You: im sure they are up and running with the puppets by now!
john: It must be hard to use the puppets all day! are they as big as the ones here in SL?
You: in proportion they are bigger but they arent very heavy.
Prometheus: what is "arm trotz arbeit?"
You: Arm Trotz Arbeit means WORKING POOR.
Prometheus: are there a lot of working poor in Germany, too? Are there hungry people in Germany? food pantries?
You: Uhmm...mostly ANGRY people..... but yes, in comparison to our society most of them are poorer.
but of course no one is really starving over here. Which is still not a reason to shut up and accept being paid a meagre wage. our campaign is in fact mostly about paying a fair wage for a good job, to good people.
You: hey john have you heard of Europe´s Workers Day in Slovenia? 35.000 unionist coming from all over europe gathered in Ljubljana at the beginning of april.
john: yes - a huge event. ETUC have some posters about it in our SL library.The size of the European demonstrations always embarasses us in the UK - we don't really have big demonstrations in our culture.
You: i went there to film the event and made this shortcut...you can watch it here.
john: thanks I will
john: did everyone see the ver.di film here yet? I think it's really impressive.. there aren't many unions in the world who think about campaigns on such a big scale, as ver.di…. very imaginative campaigning
You: well there will be many more RL events....and all the German unions are getting stronger these days.....
john: Do you think that such high profile campaigning is helping unions?
You: Well, it´s getting to the people!
john: The work with billboards and painted buildings must have been seen by millions in Germany
You: Yes, “genug gespart!” was a very successful nation wide campaign…. i think it´s good to find alternative ways to approach people...and also spend the money of our members wisely and in a constructive way.
john: It's interesting, as the campaigns cost a lot in Germany and many unions will not spend so much money but it seems to have been worth all the money.. for the campaign benefit and also for more members.
You: i think it is a duty of unions to reinvest the money given by their members to represent them better with effective campaigns.
john: Thanks for that PLATOON, and good luck with the ongoing campaign.
udo lee @ Di060508 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
pecha kucha night seoul
last week the first pechakucha night seoul of this year took place in the house club m2. here are some of the highlights:
yong kwan presented a project called syllabrick, basically modular toy figures. the form of the modules is based on a linguistic research of phonemes of the korean language. he digged deeply, tracing its historical roots of hangul that at the same time represents the phonetic language and the cosmological relation between humans and the universe.
kim mujun has a passion for baseball fields, swimming pools, track fields and soccer fields. in a moment of boredom he looked for baseball fields, swimming pools etc. in google earth, collected them and turned his fascination into pieces of art, strict formal abstractions of such athletic areas.
my personal favourite was the presentation of the chill magazine, one of seoul's freshest underground magazines. so far three issues have been published, dealing with the city of seoul and the elderly. to be honest, i forgot what the last issue was about, but i love it for the diy 3d glasses...
next time we will introduce the KUNSTHALLE.seoul project so stay tuned ^^
yeunsu lee @ Di060508 •
CONTAINER SITE IN KOREA #3.
optik!!! today~ our containers wear the PLATOON uniform muhahahaha~~ now they are truly seoul korea platoonies.
still have lots of work to do but every step is always giving me a chill...
Marcello @ Fr020508 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
die allianz
TONIGHT AND ONLY FOR TONIGHT!!!
all of you party freaks should keep an eye on this.
there is a wicked party at TAPE with Modeselektor, SickGirls, KRSNSKATE, Kode9, Housemeister, Pole and more... with dope visuals by Pfadfinderei.
....brought to you from the same people who rocked Berlin for the past 15 years...with that extraordinary WMF touch!
See you there!
yeunsu lee @ Do010508 •
pecha kucha night in seoul vol 5.
PLATOONIES went to check it out~~
there were more ppl than we thought...pretty cool~~
l just want to leave short report for now and what a udo will continue...
yeunsu lee @ Di290408 •
container site in korea #2
today we have a door !!! we can get out~~ hehehe...
they are fast, day by day yeah?! which is good.
we will provide aluminum, windows, A.C and painting from now one by one and time by time, but still fast~~. going to the site every morning is very exciting yohoo!!!
it's our brand new light for guiding PLATOON's night life but christoph totally looks like taking a happy mug shot!^^*
Alex @ Mo280408 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
Architectures of Survival
Spring is here ! After a cup of coffee on this nice and warm Sunday afternoon philipp and me headed over to sparwasser hq who were hosting 'Architectures of Survival' until yesterday, an exhibition curated by Brussel based collective Komplot.
After some explanations and chit chat with the curators, we strolled around in the rooms. Besides some smaller pieces of art, the results of a play-dooh explosion covering the whole room proves the open and process-oriented approach of the gallery. We like it !
A little later romanian architects ‚StudioBasar’ gave a really interesting lecture about legal housing evictions in Bucharest. (they promised to send some more pictures)
Since the fall of communism in Romania the law enables pre-communist house owners to reclaim their former property.
StudioBasars public proposal „Evicting the Ghost“ documents how law forces citizens, that moved in during communism, to evacuate their houses in order to return them to the former owners.
As a consequence and a form of protest, affected inhabitants move in so called „ghost houses“ - stacks of furniture wrapped in foil - on the sidewalks directly in front of their former domicile.
It’s quite impressive how they manage to handle this situation and improve the temporary „houses“ over time.
Artist Yan Renand works with different objects and creates a process of transformation by mixing painting, food and growing vegetation in plastic bags. He spent most of this evening in doing a “knitting” performance in which he created small objects made by strings.
In the basement of Sparwasser hq we found some interesting video works by Christine Woditschka , Meiya Lin and David Blandy which gave us reason to discuss our different tastes of visual art.
On top of all that, chatting with interesting people and drinking a beer in comfortable atmosphere, made it a really nice evening.
heidrun @ Mo280408 • POLITICAL AFFAIRS
german finance minister
peer steinbrueck was a rapper. who has known that....
but it´s certanly pathetic...
yeunsu lee @ Mo280408 •
korean typical traditional opening ceremony ...
Friday! 2weeks ago ~ we met my dj friend sunny on the street in itaewon and she dragged us to her new club (very very tiny but cool^^) before open ceremony.....Tom fed some money in to a smiling big pig's ear woo~hahahahahahahaha~^^*
this ceremony is a very common thing in korea , no matter what religion you have-the pig is such a big symbol of luck and money in korea, maybe japan and china also.
If you dreamed about a pig then for sure go buy lotto!!! GOOD LUCK to you all.
Maybe PLATOON needs to prepare one for our opening hehehe...^^*
heidrun @ Sa260408 • PLATOON.members
marc brinkmeier
our friend, marc brinkmeier called fosten, has get a price -in the rubric reportage-, of the big publisher gruner+jahr who edit the magazine stern and other known magazines . they attached importance for good photographers. marc´s series was titled "pictures lest we forget".
othertimes he shoots for PLATOON the exhibition-photos poor in spide of work
all of PLATOON would like to congratulate him.
Yipee fosten!!!!!
yeunsu lee @ Fr250408 •
CONTAINER SITE IN KOREA #1.
Action!!! that sound worked already~
now it looks like real business is going on yeah~~!! seriously~!!
they are very fast.
exciting!!!
to be continued...
yeunsu lee @ Do240408 •
PUMA Concept store exhibition.
Remember the korean T-artist soo who had a exhibition before in seoul. you can find an previous entry on the PLATOON blog.
So here we go! he organized a Puma shoe exhibition last weekend in apgujeong-dong, Gang nam area. also jiwon baik, our interior designer and architect from the Korean side, exhibited a piece there too hehehe^^.
this is T-artist soo's work.
Anna ~~this is for you ...we all thought you will be interested.^^
taraaaa~~~it's from our architect jiwon, yeah~~!!
PLATOON!!! wherever we are - so coooooooool~~~~i love it so~~~hhhhhh.
looks good on him yeah?
it was a very cheap arrangement for drinks tho....you all know how we drinking?#$%*^^.(in the end we had to get beer ourselves)...but we had good time and enjoyed.^^
here is more art work^^.
danke dir~~!!!
yeunsu lee @ Do240408 •
The milestone to KUNSTHALLE with graft in seoul korea!!!
Here we are!!! GRAFT architecture and PLATOON got together for planning the huge project "KUNSTHALLE in seoul, korea"~~!!!
we (Chris, Gregor Hoheisel, Tom, Christoph and Jiwon) discussed for hours and hours about how we will build up 30 containers in the middle of the big future art area cheongdam dong.
playing with small sized containers .......
our KUNSTHALLE project will be launched in september along with the PLATOON project.
we got all excited about every small working step today. finally the very important step of design has been done – and the action will last for many days from now on!
we will keep on updating.......sooooooo do not turn your eyes off of us! you might miss something big yo! yo!yo~~!^^.
side of KUNSTHALLE.
OUR ROOF TOP-lovely terrace^^*
front of KUNSTHALLE!!!
Auf Wiedersehen~!
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