

where is PLATOON ?
heidrun • September 29. 2007 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
fridaymorning -the world in weinmeisterstr.3 was allright.all platoonies were sitting at their desks working in the containers.
but then, six hours later, the area was blank. whats happened? where is PLATOON?




a trip off site berlin
heidrun • September 23. 2007 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
after some weeks in the town, it´s possible that you must go outside to refresh your head. now its indian summer, for few days say the weather forecast, and it´s sunday. after a stressful week -PLATOON makes preparations for the move- it was my desire to go off site.
so you can have a really romantic trip. the enviroment of berlin is fantastic, it´s fontane land. you find all -hundred of lakes, forests a.s.o. that´s also a qualitiy of this city.
in this year it gives many mushrooms, if you know them.
this one
is no good for eating, but you can make a drug.
after two or three hours walking through the nature, you feel well and can go back to the best town of germany.



JAHCOOZI - BLITZ´N´ASS
Marcello • September 18. 2007 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
Hey hey hey....here is something
you can´t miss out!!!
our dear friends Sasha, Oren and Robert are up for some trouble again...
yes, JAHCOOZI are about to release their new wicked album BLITZ´N´ASS.
here the invitation for the release party sent to us by WMF:
YO YO people the time has come>>>>>> since their debut in 2005 JAHCOOZI have been touring just about all over the planet and now they are back with the NU SHIT!! with their sophomore LP entitled BLITZ 'N' ASS, this time they are on a mission to raise the bar on intelligent booty music and to help put BLN firmly on the map as a stronghold for innovative club music that isn't just techno watch out LDN!!
BLITZ "N" ASS >>>> OUT ON 1ST OCTOBER >>>>
JAHCOOZI ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
thursday 20.09.07 - 23h
FESTSAAL KREUZBERG
JAHCOOZI live (a sound / bln)
KANO live (679 rec. warner / ldn)
SICK GIRLS (violent turd, rev. n°5 / bln);
FAGGATRONIX (bok bok / ldn)+ special
GRIMETIME floor:
DJ DOWNSHISFTER(skud, hyponik / ldn) &
MC NIKA D (virus syndicate, planet mu / manchester)
DJ EARGEL(rap.de / bln)
Festsaal Kreuzberg, Skalitzer Str. 130, BLN-Kreuzberg
and just from today you also have the chance to catch up with their music through the itunes pre-release page.
and here a little taste of their new tracks + the anthem BLN.
see you there....


homeless in berlin!!!
Judith • September 14. 2007 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
berlin is the hotest city in europe!and many people would like to live here, like a young friend from max ( etoy ).
so everyone: we want to help this young girl to find a room for some months. she arrives at the end of september. if someone knows something about free rooms in nice flat-sharing communities.
just tell us!
and by the way, me, new platoon worker, (picture on the rigth side) im also looking for a new room, favored in kreuzberg so 36.
thanks fort the support!

asia-pacific week berlin 2007
Judith • September 14. 2007 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
the 6th asia-pacific weeks take place from september 10 to 23, 2007 and will be dedicated to the motto: asia-pacific: changing the world.this is a very big event with more then a hundred arrangements.
it is a platform for political, economic, cultural and science dialogue and exchange with partner countries in the asia-pacific-region.
the slogan is " berlin: gateway to asia
the business and science programm basically consists of three conference clusters:
-urban sustainability conference (usc)
national and international actors from the spheres of politics, business and science conference on all relavant aspects of urban infrastructure.
- conference on multilateral economic cooperation with the asean (cmec-asean)
the conference will focus on cooperation as regards environmental issues, energy-politics and trade.
- creative industries conference (cic)
it supports long term collaboration with partners of the asian-pacific countries in cultural industries, product development, creative applications of technology and media, and in information transfer.
the cic encompasses radio and music projects, digital media, communication and product design, fashion projects, networking, lifestyle, city planning and community.
Platoon recommends: the china calling event
music experts from china inform and discuss about current developements and restructuring of chinese music market. They try to find out possibilities for networking between the european music industry and the chinese one.
invited are selected well know representatives of chinas music media who come to berlin to visit the popkomm music exposition like hao fang edito-in-chief rollingstone magazine china or wang xiang publisher of gramophon magazine china.
date: 21.09.2007
venue: cicero-galerie
adress: rosenthalerstr. 38 10178 berlin
time: 13.30-16.00




PARAFLOWS FESTIVAL 'UN_SPACE'/ VIENNA
Angela • September 13. 2007 • URBAN COMMUNICATION
whats going on in austria???? here a tip for my part
PARAFLOWS FESTIVAL 2007
annual convention for digital arts and cultures
september 13 23 / vienna, austria
the topic of the 2nd annual festival in vienna is 'UN_SPACE'. between the ars electronica festival and the steirischer herbst, PARAFLOWS is a fairly new, but really recommendable, festival. it functions as a platform for the local net art & culture scene and as an interface to the more famous domestic international positions within media art.
the festival title 'UN_SPACE' shows the exploration of inaccessible, invisible, theoretical and immaterial spaces. its a matter of spaces, which are physical unseizable or more precisely its about unseen, immaterial and theoretic spaces.
an worth seeing project will be jacob kirkegaards (denmark) examination with spaces in prohibited zones of tschernobyl. by means of an audiovisiual installation its possible to get acustcal and visual an insight in those prohibited zones, which are closed since the tschernobyl-disaster in 1986. about 30 kilometres around the atomic power plant is closed since more than 20 years and deserted.
further interesting projects:
interfaces of sea shows the sea as media for data transfer e.g. by sonar-technology (at quartier21)
exhibitions at CAT (contemporary art tower)
workshops by metalab vienna
altogether 25 impressive projects are shown at MAK (flakturm arenberg) in vienna - and every night: concert/party!




nine eleven
heidrun • September 11. 2007 • POLITICAL AFFAIRS
the future of our world was determined by this occasion. and my future was directly influenced by it as well, because i was in nyc during that tragic september, and i was supposed to begin a new future over there. the decision to move to u.s was at first a very unusual one for me, something that was mostly due to my desire to change my personal life than being driven by political reasons. however after 4 weeks it was not possible for me to stay anymore, because the whole nation fell in a psychotic trauma which freezed life completely and i just couldn't stand it any longer.the war in iraq, guantanamo bay, many assassinations all over the world...thats´ what has followed. today.
a new debate about people converting to islam started in germany, furthered by the government!!!
this two men didn´t look like having a dialogue in 2001. quite on the contrary: they pushed with aggressions the worlds political stage and cherished a viper in their bosoms.









