New Passport - biometric photo

meantimes you can notice all-around the new terrorists laws. by the way I feel the summertime coming and my desire awake for travelling. perhaps to asia? so I looked to my passport and "ups" it was out of date. I go to the office of government to get a new. but it was not simply, then you must have now a biometric-photo. and the realization was at first really curious. see beside. you can study all regulations, how it must be, on this website (sorry, it´s in german language) but to the second it´s for me strangely, that my face is calibrate for/of the state....

LOUD GRAPHIX: GRAPHIC DESIGN IN CLUB CULTURE

tip for this rainy weekend:


LOUD GRAPHIX |||||
GRAPHIC DESIGN IN CLUB CULTURE

loud graphix shows graphical works, like coverdesigns, photos, flyers and videos of european club culture by means of an exhibition, an audio-visual concert at the planetarium and parties with legendary DJs and video-artists.

on may 13 there will be also a discussion with artists and graphic designers about the future of graphic design.

artists:
daniel pflumm, delta, jutojo, machine, mode 2, parra, pfadfinderei, and many more …

may 12 | 20:00 | exhibition opening
loft falckensteinstr. 47, floor 3 over 103 club
(exhibition lasts from may 12 until may 27)

may 16 | 20:00 + 22:00 | audio-visual concert
tickets for 8 euros (limited capacity!)

live at PLANETARIUM
prenzlauer allee 80 | S-BHF prenzlauer allee

two hours full of great live performances with electronic music by I:CUBE (paris) and visuals by JUTOJO (berlin) at the 360° PLANETARIUM astrodome.



i'm sure the planetarium will be an extraordinary and amazing location for that event!

„working poor“: tour-start of exhibition-container

„working poor“: the wages per hour in germany are going down steadily– nearly to poverty line. in order to address this problem PLATOON has been working hard for more then one year to create a strategy for this campaign with ver.di and NGG, aiming to achieve its goal of introducing a law for minimum-wage in germany (we reported this already in previous entries).










for a better understanding of the topic minimum-wage and especially to show the frightening truth to as much people as possible, PLATOON created an
exhibition-container for the „working poor“ campaign.
the container is now finally ready!













the exhibition-container shows the national problem of „Hungerlöhner“. inside the exhibition-container there are portraits (gorgeouse photographs by marc brinkmeier and emotional articles by judka strittmatter) of people, whose income just hardly overruns the poverty line. extensive information material and special features, like a DVD or minimum-wage-t-shirts are available within the exhibition. the minimum-wage-puppets are also on their way and you will certainly see them in every city touched by the exhibition; the puppets visualise professions suffering particulary from wage-dumping, for example nurses, waiters and security guards.
























this exhibition-container is now touring through more than 50 cities in 80 days in germany. the tour started this week on 1st of may in erfurt. nearly every day the the exhibition is located in another city and is accessible for everyone. here you can find the tour-diary including google-maps etc..














i also want to remind you of the signatures-collection for a minimum-wage at the website, where everyone may support the campaign. on the according weblog you can find the reports and pictures of the tour...














i think, the hard work, the dirt and the sweating of all the involved person was succesful – but best you look and see for yourself ...

short movie of moving truck..

who the fuck is angela ?????

she contributes so much here in our blog, that now I will answer to you this question. angi is the trainee of PLATOON. she has been with us already for 2 month and will stay 4 month more over here. in her childhood and schooltime she lived in linz/austria. the young lady is very interested about berlinlife and wants to learn something, so she can pass the examination for studying graphic-design. so I would think she is in the right place here. welcome angi.

Designmai Youngsters: “Intercity: Berlin – Praha”

INTERCITY: BERLIN - PRAHA
stilwerk berlin, kantstraße 17
may 3, 19h, opening
may 4 – may 25, 10-22h, exhibition


INTERCITY: BERLIN - PRAHA is the title of josef vomácka's german-czech exhibition concept, in cooperation with DesignmaiYoungsters (DMY). after painting and photography the third project is dedicated to design.

this exhibition presents design trends and creative experiments from both metropolises and in both metropolises. after the presentation on czech republic's foremost design festival in prague, the exhibition now starts in berlin, in context of the designmai 2007.

designers from prague and berlin present INTERCITY: BERLIN - PRAHA, with editorial support on german side from DMY initiator joerg suermann and with designblok curators jirí macek and jana zielinski on the czech side.

the berlin designer crew: bless, fuchs+funke, metrofarm, osko+deichmann, susanne philippson, andrea pössnicker, florinda schnitzel, jan philipp wittrin

the prague designer crew: jan capek, radana & pavel ivancic, jerry koza, daria podboj, rené sulc, zdenek vacek, maxim velcovsky, hana zárubová

exhibition set: radim babák, ondrej tobola



DMY preview:

REDESIGN > RUBBERSHOES
special exhibition
location: galerie korea, cultural department, embassy of the korean republic, lützowufer 26, berlin

may 10, 19h, opening gala
may 11-20, 14-17h, exhibition


DMY 2007
5th edition of the international design exhibition DMY.
location: kunstfabrik am flutgraben, am flutgraben 3, berlin

may 17-20, thu-sat 12-23h, sun 12-8h

special events:
may 16, 23h, opening party
may 17, 23h, mobilee (minimal, techno, house)
may 18, 23h, international night, a-gogo (electronica, punk)
may 19, 23h, laaard is laaard! (rap, disco, nu rave)

DJs and VJs daily from 3h.

boogybytes vol.3 mixed by modeselektor

today it's time for a new mix-cd announcement:

BOOGYBYTES VOL.3 mixed by modeselektor
is published since yesterday, april 23.


tracklist
01. Intro by The Panacea
02. Siriusmo - Wow
03. Detroit Experiment - Vernor
04. Flying Lotus - 1983
05. Spank Rock - Rick Rubin
06. Paul Kalkbrenner - Gia2000 (Modeselektor Remix)
07. James Holden - Idiot
08. Bobby Peru - Erotic Discourse / Audiojack Remix
09. C'hantal - The Realm (Acapella)
10. Nathan Fake - Charlie’s House (Apparat Remix)
11. Errorsmith - Free For All
12. Skream - Midnight Request Line/A. Battilani - Empty
13. Rhythm&Sound/Bobbo Shanti - Poor People Must Work
14. Burial - Southern Comfort
15. Jean Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert - Moog Acid
16. Various Production - Lost
17. Fillin # 1
18. Siriusmo - Discosau
19. Fillin # 2 feat. Teki Latex
20. Modeselektor feat. TTC - Une Bande De Mec Sympa
21. Clatterbox - Collision Detection
22. Mr. Oizo - Half A Scissor
23. Marcel Dettmann - Just Do It / Errorsmith - A1
24. u-Ziq - u-Ziq Theme
25. Phon.o - Ridin Dirty
26. Radiohead - Idioteque
27. Outro by Modeselektor

so put it on, turn it loud and enjoy...

www.myspace.com/mdslktr
www.bpitchcontrol.de

RADICAL ART INTERVENTION AGAINST LANDMINES

one and a half years ago i posted an article about a video which now gets a new quality:

today i found another intervention against landmines: the irish artist will st. leger prepared 100 faked landmines and placed them in the public parks and playgrounds. the movie does one thing while watching it.. the artwork creates something even stronger if you find it while walking in your 'save' city.

STOP LANDMINES!

via wooster collective

vernissage by anna niedhart

anna niedhart presents at her vernissage wie willst du das noch poppen? dirty art from berlin ...


golden gate gallery
friday, 13 april, 23:00 h
u8 jannowitzbrücke / schicklerstr. / berlin


live
trapclicc - hip hop aus moabit (enjoy the wicked video!)
dj bzoo - electro
soni riot - visual contamination by musical prostitution
return of the space invaders - electro from bram van der poel (holland)

this party is qualified for celebrating ...