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... :-)

DOLLY BUSTER´S ex PORNSTUDIOS- party am 29.09

this is a date! .fri. 29 sep. .23h. open end...

please come through and enjoy with us an eclectic night of music, live performances and visual art... urban mixed media culture... berlin cosmopolis...

in our new berlin venue-

DOLLY B brunnenstraße 154 / Dolly Busters expornstudio...

... we´re on the run ... another outrageous "so what!" production, keeping you awake until the early hours !

meet me at the door

all the best...

Marcello Platoon

*please forward this link to your mates!

street artists caught up in a frenzy

So, if you cant sleep at night just do like the ong crew does in barcelona...meet your mates at a busy cross, but make sure it´s well beyond midnight, then just get it all out... seriously....painting some massive remarkably sinister creature in the middle of a crossroad will certainly do the job ....but when the cops show up dont even think....just run!






well everyone has got their own way to express their art, don´t they...look at banksy for instance, he probably felt his subversive nature calling him as well lately...sabotage is one of the best recipes when you feel in a prankish mood...in fact just a few days ago he posted a nice little video on the net for all of us to see...dedicated to all those paris hilton fans and victims, even though I have to say, I dont really know any of them...


talking about banksy...did you ever hear an interview with him? well, it´s about time.... there you go

soni riot at tentstaion

audiovisual live performance in Tentstation pool

Tentstation is a camping site in the midst of berlin standing for urban camping


Soni riot is revenge against popculture
a combination of visuals and modern electronic music as an answer to the high tech and beautiful world praised by the sphere of advertisement. she resists unrelentingly against the consolidation of institutional power within humanity and acts as pacemaker for the collapsing we-want-it-now generation.

Friday 0809206
starts: 22.00h

drinks will be served at the 5meter bar


audiovisuelle live-performance im
Tentstation pool

tentstation ist ein campingplatz mitten in berlin und
steht für urbanes campen

soni riot ist die rache an der popkultur.
eine kombination aus visuals und moderner electronikmusik als antwort auf die in der werbung angepriesene schöne neue high-tech welt. unbeugsam streubt sie sich gegen die gleichschaltung der menschheit und agiert als herzschrittmacher der kollabierten spaßgesellschaft.

freitag 0809206
Beginn: 22.00h

drinks an der 5meter bar

end of the summer concert...

many many thanks to all of you who helped me to organise my farewell party here in Platoon on sunday the 26th august....it was truly amazing to have you here....i know i was a bit too hectic, constantly jumping up and down, trying to tie up loose ends ...but that was all part of it. i mean, part of this holistic event, to which so many of you contributed, in the name of friendship and a cheerful love, was for playing music unconditionally, without following any scheme of retribution....




i find it important and all of you should know, that it wasn´t just my leaving party from Platoon, (i am in fact still here), it was also Ronny´s birthday, the terrific bela bartok´s mikrokosmos guitarist that, with Nadia (flute), completely spellbound the audience sitting under a gentle rain; we hope to see more of your eclectic duo in the future...















Ronny also had to improvise as the role of sound engineer for the rest of the bands, since the original one had hurt his back. How would we have done it without you, man?

































Bettina and Jessie´s leaving party from their berlin headquarters was also another good reason to throw a party... in fact they left straight after for the u.s and were then heading to salerno where they will be staying for a while - enjoy the amalfi coast my dears and cheers again for the good vibes. lets not forget Bettina´s burgers..they really hit the spot!





























well at this point i want to give a special thanks to Toby (drums) for understanding the profile and family-like atmosphere that we wanted to create for this event and for still playing despite getting soaked, along with his fantastic drum set, by the rain...hope you enjoyed the experience though!
your unconventional rhythm melted just perfectly into the Autonervous performance; as a first debut with this constellation i think you will be blowing up many a stage in the foreseeable future!

























the same goes for DISH, all of them came to rock the stage and you know wha´? they did!





















Holger (drums), Helge (bass) Celli (guitar) were just smiling all the way, groovy man, i saw more then one person in the audience playing their own air-guitars, and that says it all...














Espin (singer) was just getting out of control....he had been the most enthusiastic since i asked him to play....this man is a driving energy...follow him and you´ll get burnt.... after the concert he was so much on fire that he had to jump in our Platoon container-pool....and you all know how freezing it can be these days...i think I heard Tschhhhhh!!! at some point but maybe it was just a "mampe" side efffect!?!










we now have a very special gift from chin chin (street artist) on the Platoon courtyard....it´s such a great work of art! hey chin, Don´t forget to come to this part of town more often when going out for one of your „nightwalks"!
































thetape vs RQM (video)
what to say lads ?, you are just incredible; sometimes when i hear you play i get the shivers.... Luckazs (emcee) was having a rough day...there was a bit of pressure going on since both of them also had to perform at this very underground party (taking place in an actual subway am alex) later on that evening...but I found their performance fitted the whole atmosphere of the day perfectly...sit back ... it´s coffee time...
Robert (beat master) was sitting comfortably with his laptop playing at a mellow volume, creating a sort of cosy effect..lounge exotica..certainly not only music, the effect as a whole was kind of transgressing the boundaries of poetry.
we all very much appreciated you joining us for this occasion.....have fun at your next gig with Jahcoozi in malaysia !!!



















also Anna (soni riot) gave us some subversive flavour by stenciling my "grime barrel" which we used at the very end for the final jam session.
the instrument, which I created especially for the occasion in collaboration with Luis (conceptual artist) and Steffen (Platoon´s buildmaster), actually consists of a shell oil-barrel that i play with a metal scaffolding pipe...it produces low frequency infra waves that one can twist into grime beats, or whatever. it´s really more about the symbolism, for instance the pipe is supposed to be made of coltan....does it ring a bell anyone? It´s everywhere from our mobile phones to satellite antennas...and well, it´s one of the reasons for why there is an ongoing war in congo....






















anyway, the last performance was totally improvised, we jammed acoustic, like old pirates singing in circle around a barrel of rum...RQM rapping his way on a mental quest, Espin following with some very tribal chants, Holger playing a half cut Shell barrel like a possessed madman while Anna stenciled a gloomy "Platoon" on top of it...and me? well i was sweating while blowing beatz into that grimey barrel......cioe´dju know wha´i mean?














someone kept making crazy pictures and showing them to me at the same time...i'm not sure, but i think it was that drmotte dude, I'm really sorry for the lights man (I read your email and I apologies for the poor lighting on stage during the autonervous performance...but then again I think it was very much in tune with the music..mha? bollocks, they where just improvised). but to be totally honest, i was so much into making this thing happening at all that I forgot some of the basics....but you are always welcome to show us the way forward mate!.... we all know how sometimes you are able to throw some parties running fundamentally on love......and that is what we had last Sunday, no?... hope you people still got it...well if you do, keep it close 'coz we´ll exchange it again next time.... for sure...

Marcello

marcello´s leaving party

Marcello: PLATOON agent 693, is finally leaving the weinmeister headquarters after 8 months of loyal service in the cultural development squad....all you people don´t want to miss out the opportunity to wish me good luck for my next mission....or at least I hope so....

for this special occasion PLATOON is glad to invite you for a wicked saturday afternoon filled with outrageous music.....





doors will be opening at 15:00 o´clock, weather permitting, and who still wishes to jump for a last time in our container-pool is very welcome to do so....(but dont forget to bring your own towel and an umbrella...just in case.)

entrance will be 2 EUR for members, (all the others will need to become members first) ...as usual we have a strict no dogs, no kids policy...but you know, its for obvious safety reasons.

From 15:00 till 16:30 we´ll be serving some very tasty food, and before the bands take over you might even just chill&chat at the pool side with your mates....




the line up for the day will be the following:


17:00- DISH - raw uplifting rock,


18:00 – theTape vs RQM - punk jazzy hip-hop and electronica


19:00 - Con-Go-On - acoustic grime maschine....Jam!


20:00 – Autonervous Bettina Koster & Jessie Evans with special drummer Toby Dammit...
...sexy electro mixed with a cabaret flavour







hope to see you there...we´re going to get smashed!!!

Marcello

** Well..since it was my leaving party and all of our guest were mostly friends, we decided to let everyone come in for free...so thank you all for staying despite the rain!