once upon a platoon-jungle-bar....

o o o -we are so sad, we have to see that our jungle-bar need build down for a new hotel-building.













we had a really happy time the last two summers, with party-friends-drinking-cooking-eating-laughing-dancing.




















it makes melancholy, but perhaps its autumn-time too....
































....and those who know the platoonees could be sure, that there is going to be another idea for next summer.

WESTERN CREATIVES IN HONG KONG

yesterday we had dinner with some people connected through our network (small video): first timothy jachna and wantanee suntikul. both professors at the polytechnic university of hong kong. he is an architect who worked for 7 years in berlin at christoph langhofs office. christoph checked this contact for us: thank you!

his wife is working at the hotel & tourism management department of the university.

we catched up with some of their friends: valérie portefaix and her husband laurent gutierrez from map office. also a architecture project which publishes books and takes part in exhibitions.. such as the urbandrift to which we took part as well in 2002. so there was already a link between Platoon and map office.. funny..

and last but not least benoit dupuis. the french publisher of the online art and culture magazine tofu.

it was a really interessting group of people talking while eating.. in the end nobody was interested in the food but in conversation.. we ended up on the roof garden of the map-office in between really tall buildings.. having some beer and wine..

later on, while we were on our way to the first really stylish club in town, we found our first example of the rare pieces of street art.. see left side..

the club is really hidden in a small alleyway at the very end: the drop. this is somehow the only real club we found so far. everybody told us that the 'underground' or party-people-scene is not very active.. there are just these pubs we all know and hate from england.. and some ibiza-style teeny-discotheques.. but we´ll keep searching..

stay tuned..

SOME WORK - SOME FOOD!

on tuesday (yesterday) we had our second meeting with the adidas-marketing-squat in asia-pacific: hisako esaki (director of communications) and marcus spurell (manager new media) gave us an extended presentation of an upcoming project which will be realized 2007 in hong kong, beijing and tokyo first. we were briefed about the goals and aims of this project. so we will make our thoughts and brainstorms during the next 10 days. when we come back to hong kong after seoul we will make a presentation to them. about our ideas concerning this project.

at night we met with gary chow (senior editor) and craig carl cheung from milk-magazine. it's they ONE street and lifestyle magazine in hong kong. they gave us a short but intensive overview in hong kong youth culture: shopping! millions of youngsters fly around thousands of small shops to find the newest and hippest snickers from japan.. incredible impression!

afterwards we had a real overwhelming dinner: hong kong hot pot! lots of different variations of different meat: watch the movie!

and stay tuned..

FIRST MEETING: ADIDAS

on monday we had our first meeting with the adidas division 'asia-pacific'. the picture shows their building in taikoo shing. we met jürgen strafe the vice-president of marketing & sales devision who we know already from berlin.. he gave us a short overview to the devision and then we had a really nice dinner with him and his wife ilse. we made some nice videos during the night which we will cut to a short movie and put online here on the blog soon..

stay tuned!

hongkong is so amazing!

we just arrived in hongkong and this is our first view out of the hotelroom.
after a small nap we are now one the way to our first meeting here.
so stay tuned.

TAKE OFF FOR ASIA

the two soldiers check out on sunday for asia:

hong kong, beijing and seoul..

we will let you know what kind of adventures we´ll have to cope with..
stay tuned on this site for detailed reviews ;-)

ONE VILLA FOR TWO NEEDS

PECHA KUCHA : ANOTHER SPEACH:
STEPHEN K MOLLOY
stephen also made his diploma at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) in 2006. but in architecture. his project is a really unexpected solution for the two needs of modern megacity-inhabitants: on the one side you want to live in the pulsing center of the city with its subculture, people, noise, speed and smog.. on the other side you have moments where you are in need of nature, silence, privacy and peace..

so he invented a house for these two needs: a house which is devided in two parts: one is located in the center of the city – the other part is placed in the green outskirts – connected via a direct 25minutes ride with the metro.

look at his gorgeous presentation of the diploma..

i would rent it! wouldn't you?

BLINKS & BUTTONS by Sascha Pohflepp

on yesterdays PECHA KUCHA there were a lot of very interesting speaches.. sorry if you missed it!

one of it was a project presented by its inventor, our old friend sascha pohflepp. his diploma in visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) presents us a vision in how we share our photographic moments in a worldwide community.. via flickr a lot of people already share.. with his gadgets you get something else.. maybe more interesting: a camera without any lenses. you just press the button in order to decide a specific second of time you want to take a picture.. and the camera gets the pictures for you: not yours but the one someonelse has made in this exact second worldwide and has then uploaded it to the internet.. the gadget searches online the datas of all available pictures and displays them on a screen.

fantastic!!

check it out on : www.blinksandbuttons.net

Between Blinks & Buttons are two projects about the camera as a networked object. Through making their photos public on the internet, individuals create traces of themselves. In addition to their value as a memory, each image contains a multitude of information about the context of its creation. Cameras become context-recorders which create references that go well beyond taking a photo.

Through this metainformation, every image is linked to the precise moment in time when it was taken, making it possible to see what happened simultaneously in the world at that instant. This work tries to focus the user's imagination on that other, to create narratives that run between one's own memory and a stranger's moment which happened to coincide in time.

The installation Blinks is a prism which refracts the ray of time running through a photo into all the moments that were captured simultaneously in different places. Buttons is a camera that actually shoots other's photos, taking the notion of the networked camera to the extreme.