spring and tiramisu

since today is giulios last day of his 3 week internship
at platoon he sweetened up our afternoon with some home made super delicious italian speciality!

we want to say thaannxxxx a lot it was great fun !

and we are looking forward to watch the movie he did during his days here at platoon

movie comig soon :)

big hugs to giulio !

„Fußballbrüder“ Mechanisierung Köpenick – Die Legende lebt!

A documentary about 10 pairs of brothers from the historic East Berlin club Mechanisierung Köpenick.

shown at Kino Babylon-Berlin Mitte on April 5th 2009, 1:30 pm

In the 70ies and 80ies of the past century, unnoticed by the flying flags of socialism, more than ten pairs of brothers played soccer at the – many times renamed - East Berlin Club Mechanisierung Köpenick. That was and still is record-breaking! In their never-ending but always unsuccessful battle for third-classness they made club history. „Fußballbrüder“ tells the story of the meaninglessness of a historical change because even after the collapse of a world system, many of those brothers remained loyal to the club. Despite the fact that the bone breaking and ligament tearing continued, for some players even several times, the club still exists a hundred years after its formation – also thanks to these people. What has become of them and how are they doing today?

take a deep breath

After almost two years of iPhone the team of Skype has released the official app for the iPhone, it is really good, the quality of the sound is high, and it is very simple to use. It still has some minor issues, like if you are talking on Skype and you get a normal phone call, the app will give you a hard time to go back to your Skype call.

I do not know if you should change from Fring to Skype, if you are using Fring to chat with your pals and not really into voice talk then stay on Fring, IM+ or whatever you are using. If you really want to improve the sound quality of your calls you should move to the Skype app.

The rumor is that the Skype for iPhone allows you to make VoIP over the 3G network on the actual iPhone 3.0, but you have to keep in mind that the 3.0 is a beta, and probably they will lock this feature for the commercial version of 3.0, but that is something that ATT will decide, after all... they will loose a lot of minutes if you are able to use the Skype over 3G.

The good thing when Skype runs on 3.0 is that you will have background notifications, to know when someone wants to contact you, because now you need to have the app active in order to communicate... not very cool...

100 BALLOT-BOXES in front of the BUNDESTAG

today we mobilized our PLATOON forces in a massive operation for the stimmen für den mindestlohn campaign. #









we placed 100 huge ballot-style-boxes in front of the german parliament with a crew of more then 60 people.
















then we joined the "we will not pay for your crisis" demo, an european wide demonstration which in berlin attracted about 30.000 people, marching against an irresponsible capitalism and the injustice of having to pay for the corruption within our society.














Mindestlohnwürfel in Aktion 28.03.09 from MINDESTLOHN09 on Vimeo.

The Catastrophe of Success

"The Catastrophe of Success" is an essay by Tennessee Williams about art and the artist's role in society...

very interesting...

http://sissyhips.livejournal.com/508083.html

temporary architecture - ARTE meets PLATOON

last week, the international TV channel arte, broadcasted a short documentation about temporary architecture featuring among others: PLATOON, the temporäre kunsthalle berlin and the "kitchen monument" a project by raumlabor and plastique fantastique.

of course, we (tom) have been interviewed and mentioned.
check it out - sorry it's only in german.



for who wants to watch it live, it´s going to be on again tomorrow at 8:40am berlin time ... you could use zatoo to watch it.

pictoplasma

being at the opening of the PICTOPLASMA in the 'Haus der Kulturen der Welt' i was totally surprised that there is another art world parallel to the art world.
and the best thing: it felt like these artist are more about coming together then about jealousy and competition.
coming from the street or from design the not hooked on and taking themselves super important. if you think now "yeah but there are just toy boys and don’t now a shit about bacon & co" sorry dude. but the works of sam gibbons, olaf breuning or gory baseman have already ended up in art history, for real.
besides that - the character walk tops the classic galleries as well cause here you can see these artist working and talk to them without knowing the birth date of jackson pollock (he died in a car accident 1956 and is famous for not painting characters). art is dead long life the character.

photo/text:
FIT freie internationale tankstelle
flying förtress + the london police at work

Hallo!!! von seoul PLATOON!

Hi all my friends !!!
it's been a long time .... missed me?^^*
actually i've been busy with the adidas house party and now with the preparations for our grand opening party (which make us cry and laugh at the same time ^^)
just want to send out a short greeting to everyone who knows PLATOON.
also~ we don't need to wear this safety hat anymore yeah~~~!!! in other words: our construction work is done!!! everybody is welcome to the PLATOON at any time!
thanks to PLATOON and i'm very happy working together with every platoonies... i mean it.
love you all.bis bald!
tschuess!