Gateway to South East Asia: SINGAPORE

We featured a few weeks ago the visit of a Singaporean delegation from the EDB to our headquarters in berlin.

Finally we made the trip to Singapore in order to scan the cultural and arts scene and met many interesting institutions such as the singapore art museum, DesignSingapore Council, red dot Singapore, Singapore Tyler Print Institute and valentine willie fine art.

Wondering what Singapore has to offer on the local independent creative & culture side we dived into various spots and discovered The Asylum, Substation, Post-Museum, Osage and the Blackhole, a punk rock off location.

As a gateway to South-East Asia and with its multi cultural population, Singapore is an emerging vibrant spot with a lot of different facets. Strongly recommended for a visit!







Container City Singapore...













Helutrans exclusive collectors gallery














SAM currently exhibiting Contemporary Southeast Asian Art from the Singapore Art Museum Collection














Post-Museum an independent cultural and social space including a show room and contemporary vegetarian café in bustling little india














Punk night @ Blackhole








































The Substation, Singapore’s first independent contemporary arts centre located in the city’s civic district

NEW PLATOON BABIES BORN!

here are the first pictures of our new babies born in china right before chinese new year (tiger year!). we are so happy as we noticed they will be 29 of them.

we don't know which ones are boys and which are girls.. but we will find out as soon as thes arrive at their new home.


here you see one freshly born.. still a little bit scummy..














after there first bath the nurse brings them carefully to the nursery.

















they are quite happy to play togheter now and immediately start to babble.

















aren't they cute?










and here you see them waiting for the bus to bring them to us.




stay tuned to find out more about this new PLATOON project and why they have such a strange color ;-)

ver.di mindestlohn spot

last weekend PLATOON in collaboration with Mutter & Vater Filmproduktion and Christian Schwochow shot a viral ad spot for the ver.di mindestlohn campaign. with the help of 100 extras we filmed some spectacular mass scenes at several spots in berlin. thanks to all of you members of the PLATOON network for supporting this noble cause!

stay tuned for the next flashmob.

PREPARATIONS FOR MODERAT IN SEOUL

the kunsthalle team is busy with preparations for the best concert in seoul. 2 days to go!!!
























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SCHEISS SOMMER

not quite the real hot summer in town yet (at the moment just 22 degrees), on may 26th at 10:30 pm we launched the camapgne for arena berlin.

fucking summer / scheiss sommer is their claim for the upcoming season for 2009. our operation includes a complete image and ci campagne - posters, online, social networks, adds and much more. check out and sign in for facebook and myspace or see the flickr foto collection.

this really nice industrial area, consisting mainly of old brick buildings and an awsome container ship in the water of the bypassing river spree, being used as chill-out pool, will present themselves with a great program.


since about a week berlin is (not quite) cobbled with the great theme posters. at certain sites they become fan items and get ragged of the wall.

but where is the theme for chilling?

100 BALLOT-BOXES in front of the BUNDESTAG

today we mobilized our PLATOON forces in a massive operation for the stimmen für den mindestlohn campaign. #









we placed 100 huge ballot-style-boxes in front of the german parliament with a crew of more then 60 people.
















then we joined the "we will not pay for your crisis" demo, an european wide demonstration which in berlin attracted about 30.000 people, marching against an irresponsible capitalism and the injustice of having to pay for the corruption within our society.














Mindestlohnwürfel in Aktion 28.03.09 from MINDESTLOHN09 on Vimeo.

adidas party pics

here is a link with pictures from the party:

http://www.cyworld.com/timezone83/2448095

Bündnis Soziales Deutschland-Alliance Social Germany

On March 3rd the „Bündnis Soziales Deutschland“ (Alliance Social Germany) was formed. Labor unions Ver.di, NGG and social organizations AWO, VdK and SoVD presented their collective campaign for the introduction of a minimum wage at the German press conference.
Of course Platoon had a finger in the pie, here. Concept, layout, etc. were compassed inside the infamous green containers on Alte Schönhauser Straße.