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 ...

vernissage "faserungen" by kathinka willinek

friday, april 13, 20 h
haus oranienplatz, oranienstrasse 164, berlin


FASERUNGEN shows works which kathinka willinek develops from the group RaumBilder. she especially realized her works for the rooms of the former woman-fashion-store maassen at oranienplatz, berlin-kreuzberg.

her works treat experiences of ephemeral pictures on the internet and the possiblities of digital picture-editing. kathinka, a skilled ceramist and video-artist, animates with her work to find out what lays between what we can see and our perception.

visitors get an experience of swift view-changes and surprising encouters and they become a part of the FASERUNGEN.



opening hours
april 14 - 29
wednesday until sunday 19 h
or after agreement with kathinka (0178-7252584)

Anne von Vaszary »Rock mich«

the latest newcomer book from the leipziger buchmesse:

anne von vaszary, a friend of platoon, published
her first book »rock mich«, a racy story about a fast, unconsidered life and the brutal intensity of growing-up.

anne von vaszary, was born in 1975 in großenhain (dresden). after education as sport-teacher, she studied dramaturgy at the university of film and tv in potsdam-babelsberg. anne lives in berlin, working as drama director and author, among other things for TV.

NEW MOVIE: PLATOON.asia 2007

right now tom and i stay in hong kong for a bigger workshop with adidas asia-pacific-headquaters about a region-wide marketing project.. but we will tell you later about this project..

our beijing projects develop well as tom reported lately..

so just to give you an impression of what is going on here in asia with PLATOON we edited a new movie from the footage we did in november in hong kong / beijing / seoul..

watch it and enjoy.. and feel free to give us some comments ;-))

PLATOON.caribbean

and while the lads are strolling around asia i was on a mission in the caribbean...











unfortunately i had some problems with my camera (it fell in the water at pirates bay) so i can post my blogs only now.















it has been a truly amazing experience and of course i didnt miss the chance to enjoy the white sandy beaches on the several diffferent islands i´ve been visiting...however apart of all the cliches about palm trees and cocktails on the beach i also kept my eyes wide open for some interesting cultural events surrounding me.












the one that striked me the most, maybe because of the displacement contrast, was „a night at the opera“, an event under the distinguished patronage of his excellence the governor-general sir daniel williams of grenada and outfashionably sponsored by several corporate establishments on the island.- when a girl went on stage before the break to introduce the sexiest mobile phone in history i couldn't help bursting into a big smile, if not laugh-.

but hey, to hear some quality opera on a caribbean island is something hard to forget, especially if one takes into account that all the performers were locals and had to learn by heart sections of german, italian and french opera masterpieces such as mozart´s „don giovanni & le nozze di figaro“, verdi´s „la traviata“, puccini´s „la boheme“, bizet´s „carmen“ and many more...

it was an interesting project combining the efforts to fund the restauration of theatres and churches after the impact of hurricane ivan (2004) which destroyed many a building and left most people without a roof, and an attempt to revive and bring a higher niveu to the art scene in grenada.

what i found most incredible was the reaction of the audience, a mix of international diplomats, some representatives of grenada´s high society and government officials plus friends and family of the performers. everyone was kind of stiff at the beginning until the interval when delicious fingerfood and wine was served...it goes without saying that the second part was much more lively and everyone was clapping and whistling...almost singing along...and the room was suddenly filled with a true caribbean vibe...
(so for all those that thought the caribbean were all about relaxing on exotic beaches, soca parties and rastas smoking all day here you have something more to think about)

* i have to thank hereby my very good friend Jomo Kirton (one of the incredible singers at the opera who also gave us a fantastic interpretation of le „nozze di figaro“ in german) and Tales & Cheryl for the very interesting chats about world politics and for letting us stay in their beautiful house on top of Mt.moritz overlooking the stunnning bay of St.georges.


another caribbean wide phenomenon which is taking over everyones attention during this period is cricket...yes, the world cup is back!





games started in jamaica some weeks ago and are now cruising from island to island...they will be soon reaching Grenada as well.






for the occasion the Chinese government has kindly sponsored Grenada with a brand new stadium. well there have been some controversies surrounding this project, the funniest one, without wanting to be unrespectful to Platoon´s new friends in China, was when in occasion of the grand opening of the stadium someone made a big embarassing mistake and instead of playing the chinese national anthem played the taiwanese one, and nobody would have noticed if it wasnt for the chinese represantives who had been seen leaving the stadium totally outraged... after the due excuses it all resolved in big smiles...mistakes can happen.






the other side of the story is perhaps more gruesome...it´s about the whale hunting trade...
it seems like it will be allowed again around several caribbean islands including Grenada...and the stadium was somehow a diplomatic gift for easing this process again. however the world cup is coming soon...and the road works around the stadium are still in progress...busy bees are working restless all day long....will they make it on time? ...we´ll see.




and here a little container shop near paradise beach on carriacou, soon or later we will have a little Patoon container shop as well... for all of you people desperately wanting our Platoon flackjacket vests and m-51 trousers.































not all of the villages are tropical paradises....there is also a harsh reality of poverty....
















here we are at grenville beach were many rastas are squatting and liming away. (liming being the art of hanging around doing basically a zenlike nothing) the same night we went to some underground party in a ghetto like area called paradise...the club was called „saltfish hole“ another slang name for the most sought after hole on the planet.... ragga beatz were buzzing in the air, the walls of this wooden bungalow were completely shaking, inside everyone was wining (it´s a very sexual dance were the woman shakes her back at the men behind her....but it´s a cultural thing,believe me you can even do it with friends...so if you ever get over there don´t be shy and try it out!!!)





...well, everyone tried to discourage us to enter but nothing can stop a platoony from partying especially if the beatz are fat and the booze is flowing choka choka...















back to tobago we headed to charlotteville....a small cosy fishermen town with a history of piracy and a taste for simple good things.




there you can find incredible fresh tuna and mahi mahi, a sort of dolphine, but no worries it´s nothing like the one we all know...wich are exquisite when cooked by geil (a local restaurant owner who is also a very good friend of the wider Platoon family) or by the rastaman in pirates beach...philosophising away with rasta sculpture artist Hollace i had the chance to meet some local people out of their selling times (they really do annoy you sometimes with their sneaky selling tactics). there i met azi, a local mc who hooked me up with some cool music and promised he would be keeping in touch...so if anyone out there is looking for a good mc with that particular west indies accent for some samples on your recordings you are more then welcome to contact me....















and here a little curiosity... near little tobago -an island exclusively inhabitated by birds- you will find another small little isle with this only house...and the only inhabitant here is the writer of all the james bond stories...i really wonder what is under the house...i wouldnt be surprised to find some high tech laboratory or something like that...










So... PLATOON.mission caribbean is finally complete!
im back in the container ready for new challenges....and believe me there is no better place then back here in the Platoon headquarters to find new projects for cultural development!!!













Fist to Fist to all platoonies
especially to you guys over there in asia....
thank you so much for letting me go for this amazing experience.




Jah...Pastafarai!!!