the pool saison has started!

yesterday, while making the pool ready, the heavy storm surprised us. also a tree fall over and so, allthough the platoon jungle bar is gone, now we have another "little jungle" here.

but the storm couldn't keep us off from making the pool ready for this saison. and now, even though the weather today isn't really the best, our pool is ready to swim!

i'm sure, the weather should be nicer the next few days. so you are very welcome ...

6th PECHA KUCHA NIGHT BERLIN

sure you remember the entries about the last pecha kucha nights. now it’s time for another interesting night ...

6th PECHA KUCHA NIGHT BERLIN
thuesday, may 29
start 20:20h (be on time!)
doors open at 19:30h
entry 4 euros

** attention: new location **
TAPE GALLERY
heidestraße 14 / near by main—station



for the first time at this pecha kucha night there will be a guest-curator: wolfram putz from the architecture office GRAFT is invited. he will contribute the ensemsprble with some interesting and top-class speakers from his network.

preliminary spreakers:
• friedrich kirschner (about art of machinima)
• jörg hejkal (photographer)
• joachim frost (architect, about his work for IC! berlin)
• prof. joachim sauter (ART+COM)
• daniel josefsohn (photographer)
• bjørn melhus (speak about his art)
• club real ('photos of work and leisure')
• ariel schlesinger (about Minor Urban Disasters)
• raul marroquin (about his art)
• second berlin (they are building berlin in second life)
• aram bartol (about his art)
• stephan liske (trendscout and consultant, PCH Berlin)

a night with a lot of interesting guests showing their creative work.

neo-nazis mobilizing against g-8 summit

this year the G-8 summit takes place in heiligendamm , from june 06. to 08. some organizations want to demonstrate against the politic of the world richest states for a global world.

the same themes, but only in german interests, utilize the radical-right left party for themselves.
germany´s Neo-Nazis are using anti-capitalist rhetoric and start mobilizing to protest against the upcoming G-8 meeting in june. the police fear that there could be clashes between the extreme-right NPD and radical far-left groups also gathering to protest against the summit.


















now the other groups, who call out for demonstrations against the G8, have to cope with some problems. first they run up in preparation of the ngo´s, who want to demonstrate.at twice the ministery of interior orders many house-searchings and detains of peoples. but the anxiousness of the population was not as much as you think. even this days an ex-minister of the conservative-party accede to attac. he advises against the demage of democracy, through all the requirements who don´t guarantee the demonstration-rights.











in the blind right eyes of the government, the neo-nazis can unhurriedly arrange their own great demonstration, while other groups have problems to demonstrate - against the nazi´s or against the g8 summit.
perhaps it´s the best, to let the nazis demonstrate alone. in this time it´s not the first of national problems, it´s more important that many many people go to rostock on 2nd june. then the g8 states have a sign, that the population not agree.

New Passport - biometric photo

meantimes you can notice all-around the new terrorists laws. by the way I feel the summertime coming and my desire awake for travelling. perhaps to asia? so I looked to my passport and "ups" it was out of date. I go to the office of government to get a new. but it was not simply, then you must have now a biometric-photo. and the realization was at first really curious. see beside. you can study all regulations, how it must be, on this website (sorry, it´s in german language) but to the second it´s for me strangely, that my face is calibrate for/of the state....

LOUD GRAPHIX: GRAPHIC DESIGN IN CLUB CULTURE

tip for this rainy weekend:


LOUD GRAPHIX |||||
GRAPHIC DESIGN IN CLUB CULTURE

loud graphix shows graphical works, like coverdesigns, photos, flyers and videos of european club culture by means of an exhibition, an audio-visual concert at the planetarium and parties with legendary DJs and video-artists.

on may 13 there will be also a discussion with artists and graphic designers about the future of graphic design.

artists:
daniel pflumm, delta, jutojo, machine, mode 2, parra, pfadfinderei, and many more …

may 12 | 20:00 | exhibition opening
loft falckensteinstr. 47, floor 3 over 103 club
(exhibition lasts from may 12 until may 27)

may 16 | 20:00 + 22:00 | audio-visual concert
tickets for 8 euros (limited capacity!)

live at PLANETARIUM
prenzlauer allee 80 | S-BHF prenzlauer allee

two hours full of great live performances with electronic music by I:CUBE (paris) and visuals by JUTOJO (berlin) at the 360° PLANETARIUM astrodome.



i'm sure the planetarium will be an extraordinary and amazing location for that event!

„working poor“: tour-start of exhibition-container

„working poor“: the wages per hour in germany are going down steadily– nearly to poverty line. in order to address this problem PLATOON has been working hard for more then one year to create a strategy for this campaign with ver.di and NGG, aiming to achieve its goal of introducing a law for minimum-wage in germany (we reported this already in previous entries).










for a better understanding of the topic minimum-wage and especially to show the frightening truth to as much people as possible, PLATOON created an
exhibition-container for the „working poor“ campaign.
the container is now finally ready!













the exhibition-container shows the national problem of „Hungerlöhner“. inside the exhibition-container there are portraits (gorgeouse photographs by marc brinkmeier and emotional articles by judka strittmatter) of people, whose income just hardly overruns the poverty line. extensive information material and special features, like a DVD or minimum-wage-t-shirts are available within the exhibition. the minimum-wage-puppets are also on their way and you will certainly see them in every city touched by the exhibition; the puppets visualise professions suffering particulary from wage-dumping, for example nurses, waiters and security guards.
























this exhibition-container is now touring through more than 50 cities in 80 days in germany. the tour started this week on 1st of may in erfurt. nearly every day the the exhibition is located in another city and is accessible for everyone. here you can find the tour-diary including google-maps etc..














i also want to remind you of the signatures-collection for a minimum-wage at the website, where everyone may support the campaign. on the according weblog you can find the reports and pictures of the tour...














i think, the hard work, the dirt and the sweating of all the involved person was succesful – but best you look and see for yourself ...

short movie of moving truck..

who the fuck is angela ?????

she contributes so much here in our blog, that now I will answer to you this question. angi is the trainee of PLATOON. she has been with us already for 2 month and will stay 4 month more over here. in her childhood and schooltime she lived in linz/austria. the young lady is very interested about berlinlife and wants to learn something, so she can pass the examination for studying graphic-design. so I would think she is in the right place here. welcome angi.

Designmai Youngsters: “Intercity: Berlin – Praha”

INTERCITY: BERLIN - PRAHA
stilwerk berlin, kantstraße 17
may 3, 19h, opening
may 4 – may 25, 10-22h, exhibition


INTERCITY: BERLIN - PRAHA is the title of josef vomácka's german-czech exhibition concept, in cooperation with DesignmaiYoungsters (DMY). after painting and photography the third project is dedicated to design.

this exhibition presents design trends and creative experiments from both metropolises and in both metropolises. after the presentation on czech republic's foremost design festival in prague, the exhibition now starts in berlin, in context of the designmai 2007.

designers from prague and berlin present INTERCITY: BERLIN - PRAHA, with editorial support on german side from DMY initiator joerg suermann and with designblok curators jirí macek and jana zielinski on the czech side.

the berlin designer crew: bless, fuchs+funke, metrofarm, osko+deichmann, susanne philippson, andrea pössnicker, florinda schnitzel, jan philipp wittrin

the prague designer crew: jan capek, radana & pavel ivancic, jerry koza, daria podboj, rené sulc, zdenek vacek, maxim velcovsky, hana zárubová

exhibition set: radim babák, ondrej tobola



DMY preview:

REDESIGN > RUBBERSHOES
special exhibition
location: galerie korea, cultural department, embassy of the korean republic, lützowufer 26, berlin

may 10, 19h, opening gala
may 11-20, 14-17h, exhibition


DMY 2007
5th edition of the international design exhibition DMY.
location: kunstfabrik am flutgraben, am flutgraben 3, berlin

may 17-20, thu-sat 12-23h, sun 12-8h

special events:
may 16, 23h, opening party
may 17, 23h, mobilee (minimal, techno, house)
may 18, 23h, international night, a-gogo (electronica, punk)
may 19, 23h, laaard is laaard! (rap, disco, nu rave)

DJs and VJs daily from 3h.