Mäx posted here (sorry Finn) and here (sorry Lichtenberg). And Mäx published photos from my phone! Shinichi Sawada  (Sandra Bartoli just emailed me the name) in the Palazzo Enciclopedico at the Arsenale. Actually I was writing about the Biennale and why I loved seeing all these ugly paintings, [more]

Three images I was about to post during the last weeks but while writing I lost their references: Marcus (and Mäx) really made us understand that it is not 60picks but 60days. It’s a window much more than an archive. Whatever happens within these eight weeks. And then [more]

Four posts I still had on my desktop: 1) Ex-footballer Lothar Matthäus was declared dead by the Amtsgericht München because he didn’t pay for ex-wife Liliana and didn’t receive the claims either. 2) Canadian smartphone maker Blackberry is mired in crisis––but German authorities and ministries have ordered thousands [more]

1) Today I read in a ft.com-link that British chancellor George Osborne will launch an Islamic bomb plan. Wow, I immediately clicked on the link but didn’t get very far. My position, job responsibility, and industry don’t allow me to read the ft. After 23 minutes I got [more]

Mäx, I was in Venice. Do you like boats Mäx? I can’t decide, in a way I prefer towers. Mäx, if you were a pigeon––would you live on San Marco? Mäx, are you Bulgarian?

didn’t hear from Mäx for two days.

Mäx just wrote: nomen est omen // see/read Freud, now, see/read Sigmund, see Carl Jung (C.G.) and Lacan. Don’t bother about the Jacques / it is La-can. Got it? Look at the names! Today I proposed Sascha Lobo. Mäx: “no”, Rebecca da Gama, “no way,” Boris Groys: “later, [more]

Here is Mäx again: “It is not about the beauty of the names––how exotic or whatever they sound. We are calculating 763 components for 6 names per week// in a web of 8 weeks. It’s a map. Call it a frame. The grammar is out there! Read Steinweg [more]

Five minutes after my last post Mäx wrote: “My cat’s name is not ‘Heinrich’ but ‘Jean-Luc’! I don’t live there // I live here:” Sorry Mäx! You are a genius Mäx. The names you are putting together are beautiful: Victoria Gisborne-Land, Murat Suner, Britanni Sonnenberg, Mei-Lun Xue, Victoria [more]

I first worked with Mäx in Bremen this summer. For the speculative Mahagonny re-enactment. Mäx wrote a program, which calculated the amount to forget about Brecht. The program said: keep 27,4% of the original content, the costumes, etc. And it worked. Mäx wrote a tool (he might be [more]

People! To tell you the truth: 60pages is not about us and has nothing to do with you or gin or tonic. It’s not about content or style or subject or ideas or therapy. This is about names. The name-game. When Carson Chan didn’t want to write in [more]

Découvrez les kits de cigarettes électroniques et les saveurs (e-liquides) de chez Alter Smoke Cigarettes électroniques! Sounds great, looks good. In France it is considered cool to smoke électroniques. People show off in front of the Café de Flores with their kits de Alter Smoke. There, in Paris, [more]

In 1971, Gilbert and George were asked why they had picked Gordon’s for their piece ‘Gordon’s makes us very drunk’ and their answer was: “Because it is the best gin.” For the film, they added their names to the bottle’s label on either side of the Royal crest. [more]

Each year 60,000,000 pigs get killed In Germany. Last weekend’s FAS: This is Mr. Straathof from the Netherlands who produces 1,5m young pigs a year in Germany alone: With 81,89m inhabitants and 7m vegetarians, (vegans: 800,000) there must be among the other 75m a lot who eat meat [more]

Sam asked me to do an elective this semester in Dessau where he teaches. And this will happen, starting today at 16:30: Skype is a camera. We do a film with Skype. Medium production value. Locations around the world. Principal photography starts October 2013. Editing in January. Crew: [more]

at least for me.     We hired bikes to go to the Jardin des Plantes (because I visited John Berger in Antony yesterday) and later from the Jardin to the Centre Pompidou to see the Pierre Huyghe show. Two things which would make the perfect day! But France [more]

at least for me. Talking about Les Gammas and not really recalling the back-story (was Gamma a wooden planet like in Aliens 3? No, they had a wooden spaceship, right?) I remember this one line they were repeating: “Les Gammas n’existent pas.” Why? Why would they not exist? [more]

at least for me. I was socialized by an educational television series with a bunch of longhaired people in skin coloured body suits that came from the future and/or from planet Gamma. And on Gamma ruled some kind of eco-commune-Alain-Badiou-projection. Nonetheless les Gammas only spoke Gamma (and had [more]

There is one law: every Sunday morning things come to an end, disappear, are missed. Perfume, ink for the printer, deodorant, rice-milk today; last Sunday, toilet paper, basil, green chai, the Sunday before, rice-milk, washing powder, beer. Never Saturday, when shops are still open. Always Sunday morning. Without [more]

The Guitar Lesson, from 1934, by Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better known as Balthus, is a forbidden work. In 1934, it was shown in Paris for fifteen days only. Covered, in the gallery’s back room. In 1977, it appeared at Pierre Matisse’s 57th Street gallery in New [more]

Like recommended by Lichtenberg I went to the Sonla Bistro not far from she S-Bahn station Storkowerstraße. It was around one in the afternoon and the place was quite packed. I went for a table for two next to the bar, sat down and ordered (like recommended by [more]

“Is there not one way in which animals, instead of disappearing, continue to multiply? Never have there been so many household pets as are to be found today in the cities of the richest countries. In the United States, it is estimated that there are at least forty [more]

“Indeed, one of its appeals to the wealthy, and in particular to hedge funders, is that as a currency, art is far more manipulable than most other currencies, save perhaps drugs. If it is not the most corrupt business, art is certainly one of the most loosey-goosey and [more]

This is the sound of the bell in a prefab high-rise in the East: [jwplayer config=”audio” mediaid=”5828″] From the time when Germany was still divided. The bells in the West might have had a similar nasty tone. In these times Siemens (and the colour Siemens Beige) ruled the [more]

Ž (from the archives of 80*81) a) On the phone we tell Slavoj Žižek we’ll wait in the “Bar Platana” on Kongresni. “I must know where it is, I know everything!” he says and picks us up by taxi. b) “Nonsense. This is stupid enlightened humanism!” c) “One [more]

If you are German and very rich, in the top ten of the richest Germans, you get these special photographs made. A little out of focus, something in the foreground. Coat, briefcase, open doors and: An on-the-run-feel to it. This is Karl Albrecht. The 93-year-old founder of Aldi [more]

This was the invitation: wall breaking … bring friends, come for drinks, food, heavy tools, smart action … cheers, arno This was my preparation: And this was today. Nice. With Arno, Armen, Claudius, Peter, Johanna, Tobias, Sam. Tomorrow there will be moving images.

Can be.

The German chancellor just said it. Today. And today is the Day of German Unity. He said it on RTL television. Heiner Lauterbach is the German chancellor. They tried to do Independence Day. The Reichstag in Berlin is hit after ten minutes. Burning physicists fly through a laboratory [more]

Tomorrow is a holiday in Germany: Day of German Unity. It is also the 25th anniversary of Franz Josef Strauß’ death. He died in 1988, one year before the German reunification. He died on the last Saturday of the Oktoberfest. After some beers and a knuckle of pork [more]

From the Happy Science London Temple comes now “the proof for the spirit world”: The life-size statue of Ronald Reagan, at his namesake sports park in Temecula, California, was damaged in an apparent arson fire on Friday, Sept. 20. Here are some comments on pe.com: Mr. Kent · [more]

Today I learned from Egon Friedell’s Cultural History of the Modern Age, that Mozart finished his opera Idomeneo in the same year Immanuel Kant published Critique of Pure Reason, in 1781. Friedell was an Austrian Jew. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, he described [more]

This piece is called “Zwiespalt,” which signifies discord or dispute, also dought or: of two minds. Pure discord would rather be “Zwietracht.” The sculpture shows two figures looking at each other. One is a representational head, hand on the mouth like in a shock (Hillary Clinton in the [more]

(continued from yesterday, hate-love, love-hate, hate-hate. Apple, German Telekom, Google, Facebook, Oracle.) The pattern: First they build up these huge dark and in a way invisible empires no matter what. Then they donate. They save us. You, me, the Africans, the world. The Internship (Prakti.com in Germany) is [more]

Fever again, today, the 25th post or pick, still kind of feverish and have read too much Victoria Nelson. September 26, three days after the German election. Brilliant thoughts by Wolfgang Münchau on Spiegel Online about how much Keynes the FDP or German Liberalism could or should swallow. [more]

Day, 24, pick 24, today it doesn’t add up. TMI, broken Links, if you are on “Schnupfen” on Wikipedia, what I suffer from these days––a cold––, and press English to change the language, you get this: “…insufflation and exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing [more]

Three members of the CDU singing Tage Wie Diese/ Days Like These by the band Die Toten Hosen: Kein Ende in Sicht Kein Ende in Sicht Kein Ende in Sicht No end in sight No end in sight No end in sight

“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.” John Berger  “Why Look at [more]

Last night I met Niklas. He is one of the founders of #60pages. We didn’t hear from him for a long time but he is such a charming and winning person. He is full of stories. His two main topics are cars (and he is an expert in [more]

In the 2010 World Cup, Jérôme Boateng played for Germany against his brother, Kevin-Prince Boateng who played for Ghana. Germany won the game 1–0. Today Jérôme played for Bayern München, Kevin-Prince for Schalke 04. Bayern 4––Schalke 0

Anne/Los Angeles 7am Mavie, Wilma/Vienna 5pm Enrico/New Delhi 8:30pm Georg, Christopher/Berlin 5pm David/Zurich 5pm Armen/Berlin 5pm language: Mid-Atlantic & German (Swiss, Austrian and South German) biggest time zone difference: California and Delhi Anne just got up. Enrico was already smoking. Mavie didn’t see us. Only audio. A dog [more]

This just came in from Mr.Porter and because I misread it I read the whole page and all its subpages and links (took me 43 minutes) and when I was back on the homepage I saw that there is not written IRONIC but ICONIC. Now I had read [more]

“It’s only for entertainment use” is written in the manual and in the warnings. Not for business? Spying? Moviemaking? Porn? Terrorism? The AR-Drone 2.0 comes in this beautiful box. Vera Lehndorff once told me that when somebody gave Salvador Dalí a camera as present he threw it away [more]

Audi upside-down-Metropolis. Silver Audi bag: Maserati bathrobe, tempting: Best outfit, Lancia: Lancia means “lance” in Italian. The model names are mainly letters of the Greek alphabet. Thesis are typefaces. And Thema? Lancia is part of Fiat and––look at the Thema––cooperates with Chrysler, since Chrysler is owned by Fiat [more]

Frankfurt as a city always occurred to me as half big, half nice, half interesting, not far, not close, good museums, big airport, the Städel, the Schirn––sure––a tough Bahnhofsviertel which is the hippest area now (Oskar M. is opening his deli and club there), and––the IAA! The automobile [more]

Today are elections in Bavaria. The CSU will win. C stands for Christian. These elections doesn’t make much difference, 1000 years of CSU, it’s the countryside, farmers, conservatives, but,––BUT if the FDP doesn’t make the 5%, doesn’t make it into parliament, than people will vote for the FDP [more]

Coming back to Munich is always nice. For a day or two. You see boats on the street with Hawaiian license plates. You see Oliver Berben in front of the former Helmut Lang store: You see this huge monumental and swanky new building for Munich’s small film school. [more]

First nobody believed in him. Only some people of the opponent party, the CDU, liked him. His own party, the social democrats, the SPD, never thought he is the candidate who would push Merkel out of power. He was not down to earth enough, he was interested in [more]

<Do you wish to get money from war? It’s the very time to realize this. Just as the first rockets touch the ground in Syria, black gold prices will rise…> This email came from angela.winters@hrtechinc.com on September 10, at 7:08pm my time. <…just as Monarchy Resources, Inc. (M-O [more]

“The most lethal and fascistic of our current enemies––the purist murderers of the Islamic jihad––despise our society for, among other things, its tolerance for the alcohol. We should perhaps do more to earn this hatred and contempt, and less to emulate it.” Christopher Hitchens, “Living Proof,” Vanity Fair, [more]

Dear Christopher Roth, Being obese is a terrible thing. You are restricted in so many aspects that life seems bleak and frustrating. You cannot wear stylish clothes, you cannot get the spouse of your dreams, and you cannot be as active as you want because excessive kilograms stand [more]

I got this book at Strand in New York: “the Quotable Hitchens––from Alcohol to Zionism”. With a forword by Martin Amis. On Generations: “Tell me which decade you love, or hate, and I’ll tell you who and what you are.” (“Empitomizing the Eighties,” Newsday, 12/30/90) “I must say [more]

when Colorado Democrats debated gun control and Second-Amendment rights the Centennial Gun Store in the Denver suburbs became the place to be. Gun-cretins cleared the shop of assault rifles. People who had never owned a gun went because “they didn’t want the government telling them what to do.” [more]

I can’t read it anymore. It’s awkward. It’s …. It’s James Franco. The Mindy Project. What a great building: The Port Authority Bus Terminal. My favourite. James Franco: Did I call him Frank in the last post? I love him too. Awkward.

Now, a few days later I have to make a list of my Telluride top three films: Blue is the Warmest Color by Abdellatif Kechiche is very impressing. First of all it’s very long. Too long, especially towards the end. The use of extreme close ups is absolutely [more]

The Criterion office is on Park Avenue. It’s really huge. Kim Hendrickson gave me a tour which ended in this tiny room with all their dvds. And I got a bag full of the greatest films. (Georg: JP Gorins three films are in the bag) I enjoyed the [more]

He said he is hungry, he needs money. Remember her? Léa Seydoux, the actress with the RUN DMC t-shirt in Telluride.

I have to sleep. The bus takes us tomorrow morning to Montrose. Did I write that before? More from New York. But one image now. The woman on the left is an airforce pilot. She trained the squad which killed Bin Laden. I saw photos on her iphone [more]

Actually I have to go. It is the last day of the film festival. 8:30, I have a breakfast meeting in the Sheradon on Colorado Ave. The internet here in the Ice House is very slow. Later there is a picnic in Town Park. Tomorrow at 6:00am a [more]