Madness at its best

seoul life can be demanding. the picture was taken during a meeting with a customer. it illustrates what happens to you when you do not take your time to sleep, recover and nourish yourself.

;)

Life makes sense again / We’re No 1, now!!!

thank god the second leg of the bundesliga-season 2008/09 started three weeks ago. this means the winterbreak and the tristesse are over. my life makes sense again, definitely!
gratefully we had the choice to start at home on gameday 18 - we earned a 2:1 victory against frankfurt, then, followed by a 1:1-draw at bielefeld one weekend later.
on saturday, 14th the time had come. it’s all about the david vs. goliath-myth; we had to guest fc bayern münchen ... and won 2:1 in an outstanding performance. i guess there is no need to mention that the olympic-stadium was sold out. more than 74.000 spectators were freezing and focusing on this match.
as you can see, we’re no 1, now! this is really awesome because no one expected it. our budget isn’t that big and therefore this is so much the better!


if I write „we“ all the time, i’m definitely speaking of Hertha BSC Berlin. if you haven’t been familiar with the club’s name that much; hertha was the name of a berlin based pleasure-boat on which the club was founded on a summer day in 1892. if you’re interested in the club’s history, here is some further information.


however - you can’t imagine how proud I am by owning the club through the fact that I can call it’s traditional home my home, too. namely speaking of an area called berlin-wedding.
actually, the club used to own a ground at this time in wedding, the „plumpe“, but they had to give it away in the 1960ies.
it was sold by moneymen, in person the management-board, which miscalculated at this time. the loss of this heartland is still a big tragedy; due to the fact that it was the place where the club achieved it’s only two championships in 1930 and 1931; hopefully there is more to come, though.
anyway - the „Plumpe“ had to go for a council-housing-complex. at least there are some sculptures as a rememberance!


i do not know how you experience football...? to me it is so much more than just follow a match as a spectator whose only interests are the goal-oriented facts.
in Desmond Morris’ words, it is all about masquerade, chanting, dancing and narcotics – just being a member of your tribe! if you’re really interested in those things and the cultural side of football, i strictly advice you to get in touch with Desmond Morris, Reinhard Kopiez, Eduardo Galeano and 11 Freunde; to name only a few...!

stay tuned; or how did the first football-philosopher, Sepp Herberger, say: „after the match is before the match!“

Aleks’ second anniversary

i experience container-life now for more than two years and nevertheless i haven’t introduced myself to all of you through our blog.
firstly I apologize therefore – so it’s my turn right now!

i’m Aleks Trajanovic a native from Berlin; which means i grew up, passed school and studied in Berlin as well.
as a thirty-something i made my way to the PLATOON by networking.

my accountabilities here at the PLATOON.berlin focuses mainly on organisation and logistics. from this follows, that i’m in charge of the Minimum-Wage-Tour – a campaign held by german unions ver.di and DGB, as well as some back-office-organisation.

Google liquidated

street artist, logo liquidator and visual kidnapper ZEVS (pronounced ZEUS) finally got his own website. There he's not only presenting his works but also defacing google at the same time. A quite cool application of his brand/logo liquidation concept to the internet!

ZEVS is probably best know for the visual kidnapping of the Lavazza Model in Berlin in 2002.

Read an interview here and be sure to check out his former pieces like the IBM attack als well!

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understanding duchamp

here is an interesting site about the works of marcel duchamp, one of the co-founders of conceptual art:

http://www.understandingduchamp.com

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

This can happen to everybody! Watch out! M0RNING 0F THE M0NG0L0IDS

The Korean duo YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES creates new reading experiences through their web based artworks that combine text and jazz. Try out also SAMSUNG and CUNNILINGUS IN NORTH KOREA.

ART OF OVERTURE

it´s all about foreplay. berliner kunstwerke presents VORSPANNKINO-54 titles of an exhibition duly for the berlinale.

the extraordinary challenge of bonding together font picture and sound, and at the same time establishing the subject, without telling everything in advance, lead to the development of a new (character) defining genre:
the cinema of titles

when during the mid 50ies film companies committed to mention all participating artists in the opening credits, it was mainly saul bass, wayne fitzgerald and maurice binder, who recognized this legal requirement to be a form of expanded space.

the exhibition VORSPANNKINO gives insight into a contemporary visualization of the phenomenon.



Dates February 8 to April 19, 2009

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin




"James Bond 007 jagt Dr. No": Terence Young, UK, 1962. title: Maurice Binder




"Psycho": Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1960. title: Saul Bass



"Death Proof": Quentin Tarantino, USA 2007

LODOWN "Gallery Westberlin"

"THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING FEBRUARY 12TH!"

SUPERBLAST - creates artwork themed around psychological archtypes,
fictional mythologies and his personal utopia.

JAY ONE - ChiefRocker - Sic Semper "Tyrannis""

LODOWN "Gallery Westberlin"
at Brunnenstr. 56, 13355 Berlin-Wedding, Germany

Vernissage: 12.02.09, 19.00-24.00 h