The Entlastungsstraße disappears in 2006 right after the World Cup. Originally it is conceived as a relief road, built during the construction of the Berlin Wall to quickly connect Schöneberg to Wedding. During the 1970s Autobahn bold euphoria the Entlastungsstraße is considered to become a permanent feature, a [more]

A new land has risen from the ashes of tectonic annihilation. Sentimental sediments, seen from the French Pleiades high-resolution Earth-observing system, to form an almost geometrically precise circular island off the coast of Pakistan, emerged from the ocean after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck last Tuesday afternoon, 20km north-east [more]

Something came up, and I had to interrupt reading James Salter and start reading Gideon Lewis-Kraus instead. I know Gideon from a few years back, he was recommended by a friend, Christopher and I were looking for somebody to help us with this 80*81 research about the great [more]

What if, one day, there are no more humans? Doesn’t this scenario become more likely with every day that passes? But how would we think something like the irrevocable end of thinking? What access do we have to our own non-being? How do we know that our distinction [more]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-AxvurUtg

From Microsoft’s ‘live tiles’ in Windows 8, to Google’s new logo: the digital design world is getting flatter (small exception: Yahoo). With Apple’s most recent iOS7, it seems that Ive has given us the official nod: Skeuomorphism is decidedly dead. Flatness is taking over: no more textures or [more]

I first arrived a few weeks shy of my twelfth birthday. I can still recall a great number of details. There was no lake, no breeze, no bats circling the air at dusk. No eight-lane highway, whose shoulder was lined with wildflowers, no cars, in fact, and nobody [more]

How do people distinguish themselves from other people in LA? It’s no longer possible through a Chanel bag, too many people showcase that. Kardashians, High School Girls, Yogies…who ever. Me too. BUT there is a better way these days. Coffee. Where to drink coffee, where to buy coffee. [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]

Impressionen / Impressions Klaus-Lutz Gaedicke – DDR / GDR Sandstein / Sandstone, 1987

why are you doing this to me? What’s happening? I was always there for you. I stood in for you, in every dispute. I celebrated you for your youth, your style, your Tennis, for being the first German to be naked on the cover of der Stern with [more]

Aus der Reihe: Manche haben es eben einfach raus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-4cMJXXV6o live solo D-dorf, filmwerkstatt, 28/09/13

I usually start reading magazines and newspaper articles from the back part. First the books and arts section in the Economist then the rest. First the last paragraph in an article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung then the rest. I am not the only one, I know. Today I [more]

Ein Vorschlag, wenn man sich dann mal verkleiden muss.

Yesterday someone told me women shouldn’t drink beer. Such an idiot. There is nothing more elegant than a beer-drinking lady. Bavarian beer. I always drink beer; wine makes me aggressive. Beer and I belong together. I like how it tastes, looks and smells. Right out of the bottle. [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I tried explaining this to the tall man, but he said nothing. We were following the long trail next to the Big River and the buggy wheels [more]

This is an experiment. I am reading James Salter, 88, about his life, a life, about love and sex, so far, marriage in the fifties, New York in the fifties. There is a certain Mad Men glow over this book All That Is which seems to capture something [more]

Last night I came back to Berlin after a month of mundane travel — London, Rome, New York, and finally two days with my family in Westphalia (a location I mainly mention because Christopher described 60pages’ interests as seemingly gravitating toward West Germany). (His exact list of prevailing [more]

When I was a kid I loved and hated that my parents (actually all parents in Turkey) would take my brother and me where ever they used to go, particularly when they were going out in the evening or to see friends. Usually this would mean sitting at [more]

There’s a generation of young TV presenters so telegenic and telefluent they speak a very quick sort of hot air that bears no resemblance to real life. Three appear on a weekly political round-up on Channel 4 and it’s like fast-forward tennis, big serves, rat-a-tat short rallies and [more]

Ali has blue eyes is the second feature of young Roman director Claudio Giovannesi, who’s a musician too (he’s the composer for his own film). Claudio had the idea for this film while shooting a previous documentary, Fratelli d’Italia, in which he showed everyday life of three teenager [more]

Dear Pebble, Your sleek, black plastic is wrapped quite elegantly around my wrist. Who would have thought that your overly simplistic purpose, bundled in a stylishly retro design, would end up as one of the most highly coveted tech feats of the last 12 months? The demand for [more]

La politique était sa passion. Du lundi au vendredi soir il fréquentait des clubs politiques. Un véritable clubiste. C’était un vieillard respectable par son âge et par la sagesse de ses conseils. On respectait en lui le Nestor de l’assemblée. Clubiste & Nestor Removed from the official French dictionary   [more]

Traveling in a car and watching the outside world passing by is like watching a great movie, maybe even one of the greatest movies of all times. Life itself. In all its magnificence consisting of endless combinations of moving shapes and colors it craves to be observed and [more]

New Year’s Eve in Berlin, over one million humans gather in the middle of Tiergarten, on the “Festmeile” of Straße des 17. Juni. Thousands of fireworks and rockets go off for hours, have been already detonating for days. Many of the birds of the city fly higher than [more]

I start the week with a morning visit to the dentist, and while the olaflur gel is setting and I think of Olafur Eliasson, I watch motorcycle speedway on the telly, which seems oddly anachronistic. I think about floss and loss, and all things dental and mental. Every [more]

Goodbye to All That, by Joan Didion

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]

Social Bookwork a few days ago in Istanbul and Berlin. Book signing by the authors Alper Canıgüz, Murat Menteş, Emrah Serbes (“april yayinlari” publishing, Istanbul and “binooki” Verlag, Berlin) at “6:45 Dükkan” bookstore, Istanbul. Revue – tools for an unknown future magazine release “REVUE Pop-Up-Event »Transformations«” by Rabea Edel, [more]

Oh ja, manche haben es einfach raus!!! Alicja Kwade, Haus Esters, Krefeld

I saw Leonce und Lena today, a play which might be overrated or overly beautiful, I could not tell from the children*s version we went to with my kids at the Opernhaus Zürich. I had seen the play before, a couple of times actually, the adult version. I [more]

Cognac, Grand Marnier, egg yolk, Piper-Heidsieck Red Top, nutmeg, and a late night   Marlene Stark

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World (yesterday’s last lines: “I want to talk with you.”       Thinking this would give me a chance to tell him about the world of Light and Love, [more]

Manche haben es eben einfach raus.

The result of today’s Austrian elections is somewhat shocking: The right-wing populist party, the FPÖ (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs) is, with a total score of 22%, stronger than in the last 12 years. Now everybody else hopes that the Social Democrats of chancellor Werner Faymann––still the strongest party with [more]

I don’t know if they still have them but Dusseldorf used to have the coolest traffic lights which told you what speed to keep to stay on green, or did I imagine this? One of the big problems in London is how long to wait for a bus. [more]

No matter for how long you live in a certain country there are always a few things which you never get used to, you actually never should get used to. The omnipresent, overwhelming poverty under which millions of people in rural and urban India have to survive day [more]

A Sunday goes by that my memory will obliterate the first second Monday starts (Austrian elections don’t change this, believe me). I was listening to Matthew Gurewitsch talking about his life soaked up in culture in the radio show Musik für einen Gast on Swiss Radio. Then I heard Herta Müller [more]

For the first time in my life I entered a one-euro-shop. Although there has always been a certain fascination, I have never dared to enter. Doing a first step is falling on the other side, I imagined. Into the world of the Spießer, (the English translation is bourgeois [more]

          so speculation has now conquered the german museum               nina told me that of course i can blog pictures, but should try to take good ones. which was of course enough to scare me off. so instead [more]

Ok. We are patient. At the moment Hillary is still relaxing and indulging in “just ordinary, everyday pleasures”  (Laughing at the family dog, watching stupid movies, taking long walks and going for a swim.) with her family. But soon, Hillary will be ready for 2016. (www.readyforhillary.com) I can’t [more]

I kind of missed it (apparently, haven’t been going out in Basel enough), but now you are not allowed to smoke anymore in Basel’s bars (actually you weren’t allowed before, but that’s a different story). I don’t smoke, but I prefer bars where you can. Why do you [more]

[jwplayer config=”audio” mediaid=”3864″] Yes, it’s Kate Moss “singing”, which I had quite enough of when she decided to feature on a Babyshambles track not that long ago, before marrying Jamie Hince and secretly hoping she could usurp Alison Mosshart and become a full-fledged rock star in her own [more]