FIRST MEETING: ADIDAS

on monday we had our first meeting with the adidas division 'asia-pacific'. the picture shows their building in taikoo shing. we met jürgen strafe the vice-president of marketing & sales devision who we know already from berlin.. he gave us a short overview to the devision and then we had a really nice dinner with him and his wife ilse. we made some nice videos during the night which we will cut to a short movie and put online here on the blog soon..

stay tuned!

hongkong is so amazing!

we just arrived in hongkong and this is our first view out of the hotelroom.
after a small nap we are now one the way to our first meeting here.
so stay tuned.

TAKE OFF FOR ASIA

the two soldiers check out on sunday for asia:

hong kong, beijing and seoul..

we will let you know what kind of adventures we´ll have to cope with..
stay tuned on this site for detailed reviews ;-)

ONE VILLA FOR TWO NEEDS

PECHA KUCHA : ANOTHER SPEACH:
STEPHEN K MOLLOY
stephen also made his diploma at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) in 2006. but in architecture. his project is a really unexpected solution for the two needs of modern megacity-inhabitants: on the one side you want to live in the pulsing center of the city with its subculture, people, noise, speed and smog.. on the other side you have moments where you are in need of nature, silence, privacy and peace..

so he invented a house for these two needs: a house which is devided in two parts: one is located in the center of the city – the other part is placed in the green outskirts – connected via a direct 25minutes ride with the metro.

look at his gorgeous presentation of the diploma..

i would rent it! wouldn't you?

BLINKS & BUTTONS by Sascha Pohflepp

on yesterdays PECHA KUCHA there were a lot of very interesting speaches.. sorry if you missed it!

one of it was a project presented by its inventor, our old friend sascha pohflepp. his diploma in visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) presents us a vision in how we share our photographic moments in a worldwide community.. via flickr a lot of people already share.. with his gadgets you get something else.. maybe more interesting: a camera without any lenses. you just press the button in order to decide a specific second of time you want to take a picture.. and the camera gets the pictures for you: not yours but the one someonelse has made in this exact second worldwide and has then uploaded it to the internet.. the gadget searches online the datas of all available pictures and displays them on a screen.

fantastic!!

check it out on : www.blinksandbuttons.net

Between Blinks & Buttons are two projects about the camera as a networked object. Through making their photos public on the internet, individuals create traces of themselves. In addition to their value as a memory, each image contains a multitude of information about the context of its creation. Cameras become context-recorders which create references that go well beyond taking a photo.

Through this metainformation, every image is linked to the precise moment in time when it was taken, making it possible to see what happened simultaneously in the world at that instant. This work tries to focus the user's imagination on that other, to create narratives that run between one's own memory and a stranger's moment which happened to coincide in time.

The installation Blinks is a prism which refracts the ray of time running through a photo into all the moments that were captured simultaneously in different places. Buttons is a camera that actually shoots other's photos, taking the notion of the networked camera to the extreme.

a day in Megumi fukuda´s "eternal garden"

life in a container can be dull sometimes...but then again you have days here in Platoon when everything around you, suddenly, starts to bloom.











like the other day for instance... when i´ve been unexpectedly introduced to Megumi Fukuda (installation artist & photographer), and to her beautiful never fading artificial red tulips.














a delightful experience i have to say, one that made our courtyard look like never before...the contrast between the military imagery and the flowers was definitely striking.














Megumi explained how her project „eternal garden“ started in her grandparents place back in japan. in a once well tended garden which now lays abandoned...
where memories of her childhood blended with those of her parents.













there she had the vision of a garden with flowers forgetful of the seasons, which go on blooming regardless winter and beyond spring: “ lashed by rain and covered in snow“ they will always stay the same, like a still in time „unable to change in the midst of changig“...a rather poetic way to defy time...“unable to change, so... they just don´t“












Megumi kept moving around totally absorbed in her thoughts whilst gracefully placing her flowers near Chin Chin´s „Mädchen“...















for few hours Platoon was transformed in an idyllic landscape, and for that time it seemed the flowers would have stayed forever...















until a gentle wind came blowing...the sun went down...last pictures zack zack...
and was already time to pack














*we would like to thank again Megumi for the wonderful experience and maybe who knows, we might do it again next time when Platoon is covered in snow.....

3. Pecha Kucha Night Berlin

we warmly advise you....to get there
for everyone of you who missed the 2nd Pecha Kucha here in PLATOON last time, well, now you have another chance! all the others will go there anyway.

Tuesday 10.10.2006
Ballhaus Ost
Pappelallee 15
10437 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg)

Starts at 20:20h | open from 19:30h | entry €3,-

Presented by Pecha Kucha Berlin, Pecha Kucha or 20/20: fast, wild, fun, information

Be on time, it starts at 20:20h on the dot!!!

Confirmed Guests:

• Erik Wahlforss, Alexander Ljung (trust, trustmojo.com)
• Sascha Pohflepp (We make money not art)
• Peter Krell (Game Face)
• Jš rg Hajkal (Photographer)
• Joachim Stein (DG2)
• Stephan König (genausoundanders)
• Stephen K Molloy (Architect)
• Paul Jamtgaard (Lo-cal Architecture)
• Marcel Schobel (monkeyman.tv)
• Dennis Rudolph (Artist, about painting)
• IEPE (Artist, about raining trees in Singapore and flower rain in Amsterdam und www.iepe.net)
• Markus Neckar (about public toilets)


those who want to present their works at the next Pecha Kucha Nights Berlin, should please send an email with the subject "PechaKuchaNight Presenters" to the following address: curators@pechakucha.de

Pecha Kucha Team Berlin
Luka Hinse, Joachim Stein, Iepe Rubingh



KÖNNEN WIR NUR WÄRMSTENS EMPFEHLEN: HINGEHEN!
alle die die 2. pecha kucha night bei uns im PLATOON verpasst haben bekommen jetzt nochmal die chance! alle anderen werden eh hingehen...


präsentiert von Pecha Kucha Berlin, Pecha Kucha oder 20/20: schnell, wild, spass, information

Kommt rechtzeitig, Anfang ist punkt 20:20h!


Wer an einer der nächsten Pecha Kucha Nights Berlin präsentieren möchte, schickt bitte ein
E-mail mit dem Betreff "PechaKuchaNight Presenters" an der folgenden Adresse: curators@pechakucha.de

Pecha Kucha Team Berlin
Luka Hinse, Joachim Stein, Iepe Rubingh

Fake Rabbit

to this I can only say: caught red handed

fully absorbed in their saucy Fake Rabbit (minced meat looking as a roast) and pork cutlet with potatoes, Tom and Christoph had almost past unnoticed by the “BZ mobilephone reporter”... DF with fork in the mouth in front of the trendy joint a stones throw from their headquarters

apparently the meal seemed to have been much appreciated :-)


da kann ick nur sagen: ERWISCHT!!!

voellig versunken in FH mit viel soße und schweinefiletspitzen mit kartoffeln wurden Tom und Christoph fast unbemerkt vom "bz handyreporter" DF mit gabel im mund vor dem szeneimbiss aus naechster naehe abgeschossen.

scheint geschmeckt zu haben... :-)