MURAL FOR THE MINDESTLOHN by ASH

the mural art by Victor Ash has been finally uncovered today!
for days we had hanging the HUNGERLOHNPARTEI blow up, and it had a fantastic resonance.#
STIMMEN FUR DEN MINDESTLOHN is the theme of the work.
in the last weeks we saw a growing recognition that people want the minimum wage in Germany!

thats why it became one of the most debated issues in the run up to national election.

if you speak german, you should definitely check out this article spiegel and this other one by DGB.

MURAL ART by ASH from PLATOON on Vimeo.

Pecha Kucha Night Berlin Vol.15 @ IMA Design Village

Pecha Kucha Berlin Night TOMORROW: Friday, 25.09.09@IMA Design Village.

Ritterstrasse 12-14, 10969 Berlin, Berlin Kreuzberg
doors: 19:30h, Beginn/start: 20:20h
entrance: 6€



speakers list:

#Fabian Stelzer - Aktivist: Recreating the Berlin Wall
#Heike Fühlbrügge + Oscar Heim - writer, Film producer, chessboxing promoter: Love and crude oil in devided Germany
#Shaheen Merali - curator: "When elephants walk, dogs bark, a photopoesie on Muslim traders at Haji Ali"
#Dadara - artist: About a Bordercontrol Checkpoint to enter your own Dreams.
#Alexandra Senes - fashion queen: „Les petits riens“ - about small things
#Michael Bukowski + Ansgar Oberholz - writer: Romane für Nichtleser
#Philip Steffan Bausteln
#Luka Hinse - Organizer Pecha Kucha Night Auckland: networking on the Schafwiese
#Thomas Jäkel - Improviser:the origin of Theaters
#Bernhard Moosbauer - photographer and Mediaartist: Pudel Portraits
#Doreen Mende - curator and author: Bilder in den Westen
#Roman Deckert - projectmanager Sudan:Wahl-o-Mat Sudan





by the way: on the 26. and 27.09. the atoms&bits Festival will take place at the same location.






check out previous Pecha Kucha Nights via PLATOON

NIGHT FLEA MARKET ON TV IN KOREA

our first night flea market with magazine bling on 5 september was featured in the morning news on the korean public tv channel kbs. have a look! maybe you will recognize some familiar people^^

MILLER FRESH M – READY FOR STAGE 2!

stage 2 of the miller fresh m event is in preparation and after the performances at stage 1 expectations are high. the 4 audio/visual teams and 4 graphic artists that got voted to the second stage are preparing their new sets and works. jury members will be award winning music video director joseph kahn from los angeles, the international guest act for this night, kap10kurt from new york, and music video producer kazufumi kimura from tokyo. the designer's works will be evaluated by t. kim, president & ceo of mccann worldgroup korea, and christoph frank, co-founder of PLATOON.ORG.

to see samples of the works and vote, check out
www.miller.co.kr

open doors from 7.30pm.

please bring your id, people under 19 years cannot join this event.

no parking available. 



audio/visual teams:
· beejay & stereo

· east collective w/ vj doug

· idiotape & vj coon

· mindbusters

graphic designers:

· kang jin

· kimhaemin
· kim ji sun

· yp




special guest: kap10kurt

hue-man exhibition

in the streets of hongdae we bounced accidentally into a little art exhibtion called hue-man in the location "space hole and corner". artists gugjin park, jiyeong yun and seungtae hong showed their amazing sculptures: "mutant" humans or humans in unusual situations made of silicon.
the sculptures clearly remind of ron mueck, an australian sculptor who is known for his silicon human sculptures. just as him the hue-man artists made their sculptures highly detailed and scarily realisitc from all angles. whereas mueck's sculptures strike through their non-realistic hyperdimensional sizes, the hue-man artists also break taboos showing naked women with tails or four breasts, babies in capsules or a little girl with blood on her nightdress.
i got goosebumbs and i really liked it.




















each face has its own expression...




















a life-sized man taped on the wall.




























the size of the tail woman was only about one meter..


















the expression of this huge crying baby was incredibly realistic..






















honney's facial expression is incredible as well. in contrast to her the baby looks peaceful and quiet.

swatch mtv playground

last friday we went to the swatch mtv playground event at aa design museum in hongdae.
this event takes place across europe and asia and offers young artists to proof their creativity in art battles and live paintings.
while having drinks and sitting in cosy armchairs we watched the grafitti battle between the artists basara and mesus. have a look...









while basara in the purple shirt tried to convince with clear structures and less colors...
































mesus in the purple sweater preferred colorful, rather chaotic street styles.
he was the winner of the competition.

DAILY MADNESS IN THE WORLD

many people came to listen gigi gianuzzi from trolleybooks last thursday at the PLATOON DONNERSTAGS-BAR.

































he presented several slideshows, samples of recent photography-books which are part of his publishing program. the most of us were deeply moved by the pictures. we all know about the world´s problems and we have all seen many publications about these topics. but these photographers show us in an unspectacular, almost unbearable normal view, the daily madness in the world.
























but if you think that this show left us only with a bitter taste of embarassement: then you´re mistaken.
no, it was a warm atmosphere among each other, with interesting talks.....and of course lots of drinks.










it was a profound, very good evening.

thank you gigi for coming again to PLATOON. we hope to see TROLLEYBOOKS on the shelves of Berlin´s bookstores sometime soon!

TODAY'S CINEMA RELEASE OF OUR ELECTION CAMPAIGN

today is the nationwide release of our election campaign in all major cinemas. if you don't go to cinema these days:
watch it here – and vote next sunday!