kickstart

money, but no good ideas. good ideas, but no money. both constellations are kind of a waste of resources. so when i found kickstarter today (it's not new, only new to me), i immediately thought it is a good idea. people with ideas (and no money) present their project and raise money through the website. it's not a pure donation system though, those who back up a project get something out of it. what good it can do depends on the project. sometimes it helps financing projects like the production of an album (like 'kind of bloop'), sometimes it helps to avoid wasting good things.

GRAFFITI IS NOT A CRIME!

this is ridicoulous!!!
a 19 year old kid got sentenced to 8 years in prison for tagging some walls in his city, thats one of the harshest and longest sentences for graffiti related vandalism to date. prosecutors said these are the consequences for the choices he made.
well now he is going to go to jail with murderers, robbers, and real gangsters... in the words of one of the speakers : „for this kindergarten crime he´s going to learn how to be a man!“. well done! thats the best way to breed criminals! I´ve never heard such a narrow minded statement. people in texas should uphold the values of democracy and freedom that their country tries to spread around the world...
i would have expected to hear such a story from some country ruled by a dictatorial regime, not from the country that claims to protect freedom of expression and constantly wants to be an example for the rest of the world.
to jail a kid for 8 years for writing upon walls is a crime!
wake up people!

in the middle of nowhere

in the austrian countryside - basically in the middle of nowhere, i came by this fancy container building. I couldn´t figure out what they use the building for, but i immediately liked it´s rare almhütten style.


an architectal concept we should definitely keep in mind, in case there´s gonna be a PLATOON.austria

kimbab goes berlin

discovered in front of the tacheles in berlin mitte^^

report.FRESH M..

hi all...

It was crazy night..2,000 people 6,000 beers..











I needed to wear the glove for saving my hands from twist bottle cap.

When I took off the wet glove...granma's hands showed up.














water fight...drunken...and after party~~till 6am..








wet people...haha

Art Gallery Trouble Maker 2009

on monday our studio artist junkhouse, udo, ohyun, and me went to "trouble maker 2009", a small art exhibition at cha gallery near gyeongbokgung.
the curator is the artist yp, who also participated in the miller m fresh competition at PLATOON KUNSTHALLE last friday.
here are some impressions...

what makes a hero

I think that everyone can become a hero, this image that travels from mouth to mouth getting stronger each time.
In Mexico we have two heroes, "Luchadores", they are "El Santo" and "Blue Demon".
But what makes them heroes are for sure not the movies they made in the 70's but the fights in the wrestling arenas in Mexico. They have traveled from generation to generation fighting every month, passing the mask to their children to give us the chance to see them fight.
We all have a clear idea of how are they suppose to look when they fight, and also how they have to behave.
They are heroes because they bring joy to the families in Mexico, they stand for family values, they pay respect to their ancestors and do charity work for the mexican people.
Everyone in Mexico knows who El Santo (el enmascarado de plata) and Blue Demon are...
I have found a very nice Flickr with pictures of the wrestling culture in Mexico.

ARTE TRACKS july 17

Werner Herzog gets shot while interviewed,
Kinski as usual,
Cronenberg,
Tarantino,
Lynch and Guillermo Del Toro,
one legged strippers,
wheelchair-skaters,
body-modifications and bumfighters on crack doing art mixed up with Jan Fabre's flesh sculptures.

All stuffed into 50 minutes in ARTE tracks moviemakers special, only available for 7 days, so better hurry,
you've been warned.