Berlin has been the capital of something or other for 400 odd years now. Started with the Kingdom of Prussia and on to the German Empire, famous for its handsomely mustachioed heads of state. This spring, Berlin will also be the capital of Finnish music.
HelsinKissBerlin brings Helsinki - the capital of the country with the thousand lakes and the finnish culture to Berlin. In collaboration with the Finnland-Institut in Germany, the embassy of Finland, the city Berlin and other co-operation partners a multiplicity of Events is shown, what the Finnish capital region has to offer within the cultural, economic and scientific range.
The goal of the project is to make the region Helsinki in Berlin and Germany public, and to deepen the relation between Berlin and the capital region of Finland within the ranges economics, science and culture.
From January 25th to February 10th the festival of urban fashion and art called “Wedding Dress # 2″ takes place around the citizens of Berlin’s Fashion Week.
In Berlin’s neighborhood Wedding about 15 restaurants, temporary showrooms and creative ranges are furnished, in which urban fashion and international art projects are shown. Itself the following competition “Create your own Wedding space” is to deepen the argument with the urban area and to bring up the possibilities for discussion of its future use.
The festival has the goal of making the range for the future development citizens of Berlins neighborhood Wedding. Experiencable of inspiring and the discourse with planners, creative ones, politicians, energizing architects and adjacents residents.
In addition the program offers in about 25 restaurants vernissages and parties, discussion evenings, films and performances and shopping options.
FOUR MODULES
After the organizer, which had already given citizens of Berlin the possibility to present themselves in the Wedding housing enterprise DEGEWO, with the competition “Wedding Dress # 1″, young fashion designers in January 2005 now gone a step further with “Wedding Dress # 2″:
“Wedding Dress # 2″ draws completely consciously a very versatile overall view with four different modules approximately around the topic “urban fashion and art” and wants adjacents residents such as visitors into the happening to also include:
1. Shops and showrooms for road and urban fashion as well as “Remix” - ranges for creative working on fashion exhibitions of international artists.
2. Those at the interface between art and fashion work information to occupations in the fashion industry.
3. The Fashion Week Berlin and the planned building and town development measures of the DEGEWO as well as
4. the advertisement of a competition for the temporary use or installation in a restaurant on the Brunnenstrasse for about one year.
JEREMYVILLE is an artiste/designer/autor who lives between Sydney and New York. He wrote and produced two international books: “Vinyl Will Kill” and recently “Jeremyville Sessions“, both published at IdN.
At this hour when the customization is omnipresent, JEREMYVILLE has no limits to find his imagination new universes to be personalized.
Proof of his ambition is the Sketchel Project where he collaborated with more than 500 artists just like Geoff McFetridge, Miss Van, Genevieve Gauckler, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Jim Woodring, Friends With You, Devilrobots…
With ease in the dumb comic-strip as in the commercial illustration, he draws pastel contours of his very poetic pop psyched universe as he breathes and never remains in front of a white sheet for a very long time.
It is the first exhibition of JEREMYVILLE called FOREVER & ALWAYS in Paris and it will take place from from November 29 to January 12, 2008 at ARTOYZ.
You will be able to discover screenprints, skateboards, books, toys, paintings, tee-shirts, Sketchels and even more…
SO MAKE SURE 2 GET THERE IF YOU ARE AROUND PARIS THESE DAYS!!!
The Vernissage will be today, November 29 starting at 7 pm at ARTOYZ.
Designed by Wonderwall of Japan, the store will hold the complete collection of BBC and Ice Cream apparel & footwear. The store will be open 7 days a week, a great destination for the holiday shopping season.
He created the premiere hymn of the legendary Technoparade in Paris 1998 and released a bunch of Maxis and Mini Albums on some of the most famous international Record Labels.
FREONs style is characterized by Originality and known for Deep Analogic Electro Ghettotech. He is switching successfully between Electro, Hip Hop and Techno but always following his unique Style.
In 2005 he launched his Label (i call it like this he would say it’s his “consortium of all his entities”…) called BBOYDELUXXXX..
Wanna hear what it’s all about???
Well… then don’t watch the screen like you are about to stick your head up your ass…
designer’s own words:
The product turns two plastic bottles into a clothes hanger by screwing the bottles into the hook. By the concept that reuses empty plastic bottles, I try to present to consumers a realistic idea to address environmental realities and encourage the reuse of already “consumed†items to form a new functional product. The design incorporates the following features that make it practical and appealing to both producers and consumers: • Low cost, realistic commodity • The shape of the bottle provides more fit support for the shoulder of clothes than traditional ones • Inspire the interest of users: the concept will attract consumers and inspire a rethinking of consumption habits
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name of design : hanger
design by : xuan yu from usa
interesting:
the winner of the competition:
name of design : watering can
design by : nicolas le moigne from switzerland
designer’s own words:
The idea consists in reusing PET and glass bottles. A PET closing piece is able to fit different shapes of bottles and to change it into a watering can.
more:
name of design : my little sister’s tea party
design by : mydesign ronen&mikulsky + MYDesign- + Yaron Ronen + MIchael Mikulsky from israel
designer’s own words:
Large quantities of disposable plastic cups are common site after any party. This is a modular structured system made of used disposable plastic cups and paper clips. In day time it functions as natural light source lighting and at night time it functions as light fixture with 220 volt light bulb situated inside the system. Similar to bee-hives structure this system can grow to any size and it is much stronger then its component.
and:
name of design : medusa
design by : anette kithier from netherlands
designer’s own words:
an industrial product of our days as a material source, imitating ancient roman and crystal glassware
So we wanna hype his latest Zoo York collab decks and feel this edition (above) that he did for 20×200.
Michael Perry works in Brooklyn, NY making books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, and drawings. He is currently curating two new books. He also recently started a magazine called Untitled a… That explores his current interests. Doodling away night and day, Perry creates new typefaces and sundry graphics that inevitably evolve into his new work, exercising the great belief that the generating of piles is the sincerest form of creative process…
If you’re out and about tomorrow, stop by Jen Bekman’s gallery, where he’s giving a talk and signing his Hand Job book from 3-5pm.
And their concept seems to work: no VIP rooms, no guest lists, no bad music, no crummy parties and no sleazy style. The club is poppin’ like always crowded and the Boheme is apart itself:
Well, if a hipster, a celebrity, and a Side Car had a child, the Beatrice Inn would be it. Nestled in the heart of the West Village, the Beatrice mixes old-world charm with West Chelsea exclusivity. Don’t believe us? Try showing up on a whim and getting through the door. If, by some chance, you get into the cozy confines, make sure to nab a seat by the building’s original fireplace for your perfect-martini sip-fest.
All in all, Beatrice is living proof that quiet is the new loud in New York…just don’t tell anybody!
Beatrice Inn
285 W. 12th St.
(8th Ave. & W. 4th St.)
West Village
Sixe began to paint in the middle of 89-90. Since then he has been making many works, and proving all type of materials, textures and forms.
He began bombing and making letters by the street and after a time it had an own style of letters and personages.
Later he entered a creative phase within a factory, painting his first pictures with letters like which he painted in the streets. Little by little he investigated new forms and styles, but without turning aside to him of my initial ideas, creating new series of pictures with personages, different forms and textures, that a little left the traditional graffitti.
After a time he started to work with the volume doing his first iron sculptures and compositions, transforming my plastic personages into 3D. Sixe has made three series at different times at which it is possible to be seen, like at the same time that it was changing the form of the personages, changed the series of the sculptures. Also he has been arranging his pictures in the street with working hours of hours in the factory, creating in different scopes and applying his creations in numerous projects: from exhibitions of graffitti, decoration of interiors, stores, to works for advertising agencies and marks of all type…
IF YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT KLINGATRON THEN ITS ABOUT TIME YOU DID!!!
During the decade when it was fashionable for women to have bigger shoulders than American footballers and welders could also be sexy dancers, Klingatron was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
By watching Tony Hart on the television Klingatron grew up with a pencil in one hand and a sketchbook in the other and through studying Illustration and Printmaking discovered a medium that he now concentrates on to produce his art with a style that can be described as detailed, although he describes his skills with stencils as “still being in my infancy†period. With each stencil Klingatron has a hunger to better himself every time and develop his work through a growing appreciation towards the world around him, looking at different subject matter and pushing his skills further.
So far he has managed to display work in Glasgow and Edinburgh but having only been creating stencil art for such a short period of time, it is just a matter of time to see how far he can take it…
WORKSHOP STORE PRESENTS THE “IM ONLY POPULAR ON THE INTERNET EXHIBITION” OPENING FRIDAY 5TH OCTOBER, 6PM-9PM EXHIBITION RUNS UNTILL THURSDAY 1ST NOVEMBER.
On September 1st Alife opened their LA store. The concept is once again ground-breaking and well translated into a retail concept.
The store is made like a walk-through shop window. All product are hanging behind glass on the wall, you can choose what you want and they will bring it.
They also brought back lots of great products that were sold out everywhere else. From the Puma x Alife First Round, old Alife t-shirts, Adidas x Alife collaboration, Reebok x Alife collaboration to a lot more - it’s all there.
We think it’s very refreshing what Alife did in LA once again…
Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Lo who came from a fast paced city where adventure was around the corner. This big city was full of smog, palm trees, and neon signs. There were millions of people in this city, but the longer she lived there, the lonelier she felt…
Once there was a young boy named Benjamin who came from a land of calm winds and four seasons. In many ways, life there was quite simple. But, the boy grew older and one day decided to see what else the world may have in store for him. So he headed west in pursuit of the unknown…
….Through an intricate combination of chance and circumstance, he found the young girl. The two quickly realized that their forces were much stronger together than they ever were apart.
Lo was so inspired by her new found love that she went on to design an ice cream truck that would drive around the city and spread fun and magic. Ben was so inspired by his new muse that he created a soundtrack of music for their truck and their life.
On any given night they are on one mission or another. You might find them starting impromptu dance parties with their new ep out of the truck, or postering the city with inspiring messages…Or maybe hanging golden hearts from street lines….You never know.
Together they stay home and tinker….playing games, creating wonder and sounds…. Conspiring on their next plans of attack…. You see, it is a very difficult task to navigate through dark forces of the city in which they reside.
You may think that once they found each other, the rest would have been easy. But, that is far from true. During the two month long process of making the debut double ep, the two were tested in ways that normal human beings would think was out of a science fiction movie……
By clutching onto the thought that others would be inspired by their music, they were able to perserve and finish the project. The result is a collection of songs divided into two parts. Side A contains electronic dance/soundtrack songs. Side B contains electronic heartschallenger ice cream truck songs. All of the songs were derived from love songs left on answering machines, and some of the beats were made by listening to each other’s heartbeat with a stethoscope. With a finished double ep and a truck stocked with international ice cream, candy and treats, what were the two to do next? In order to share their magic others, they need assistance in spreading the word of the beauty they have created.
Just remember, the greatest challenges are ones from the heart…………
Outsiders Wanted is a competition open to photographers and illustrators that Dazed & Confused is running in conjunction with Wrangler’s This Is Wanted touring exhibition.
There will be 3 winners chosen from all the submissions who will be flown out to one of the 3 cities to see their work on display for a weekend break courtesy of Wrangler.
The next stop for this roving cultural juggernaut is in Stockholm from August 30th to september 2nd so expect to get your mind blown on a few different levels - music, live art performances, and best of all, your peers.
The title “E Pluribus Venom†which translates “Out of many, poison†is derived from “E Pluribus Unum†(out of many, one) an early motto adopted by the U.S. Government which appears on U.S. coins and dollar bills. In the opinion of artist Shepard Fairey, many becoming one, or a loss of power and influence of the individual in favor of homogeny is a symptom of a society in decline. “E Pluribus Venom†could be interpreted as saying both that there is poison in the American system, and that many individuals are motivated by venom and anger toward this system. “E Pluribus Venom†is comprised of artworks designed to question the symbols and methods of the American machine and American dream and also celebrate those who oppose blind nationalism and war. Some of Fairey’s works use currency motifs or a Norman Rockwell aesthetic to employ the graphic language of the subjects they critique. Other works use a blend of Art Nouveau, hippie, and revolutionary propaganda styles to celebrate subjects advocating peace. The art addresses monolithic institutional power and authority and the role of counter culture and independent individuals to question the dominant paradigm. Shepard Fairey’s new body of work contains politically-charged paint, screen print, stencil, and collage mixed media pieces which use metaphor, humor, and seductive decorative elements to deliver provocative but beautiful results. These works blur the perceived barriers between propaganda and escapist decoration, political responsibility and humor with the intent of stimulating both viscerally and intellectually.
UPDATES!!!
Just to let everyone know, this is going to be a landmark show… They aren’t taking any shorts when it comes to Shepard’s NYC return! Get ready, they are announcing a SECOND SPACE for the exhibition. The second space is located in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For more information on the DUMBO Space hit the link the below.
This exhibition is absolutely something not to be missed!
This Thursday, June 21st, Vice and Adidas invite you to the opening of The Stripe Out, an exhibition of Skate photography and video with work of David Fischer and Jascha Müller.
It takes place at Friedrichstrasse 112 in Berlin/Mitte, from 19h to 23h.
Free booze and music….
End of July ‘07 VANS will open it’s first German Store in Berlin.
In the sales room of the old landmarked butcher’s shop are still the nearly hundred years old original flagstones on the walls - a very unusual environment around a selection of the extensive product assortment like shoes, clothing and accessory…
Highlight is this Classic slip-on in green’n'white tile Design, which is offered exclusively in a limited edition by only 200 pieces in the new Shop.
On July 25th is the official opening day including a signing hour with the international Skate teams in context of their Vans Sk8-Tour ‘07. Vans Skaters such as Danny Wainwright, Chris Pfanner, Muki Ruestig, Tom Derichs, Sabrina Goeggel, Mark Frölich or Ferit Batir will insert a stop around the new Vans store to inaugurate…
The butcher’s block berlin is european-wide one of five self-operated stores. Other Vans Stores are in Barcelona, London, Paris and Utrecht so far….
Unfortunately they had to cancel the Berlin and Copenhagen dates this week…
We can’t believe it…!
Some pretty serious health stuff came up and the doctor ordered Dave 1 to take the week off.
(>>> Hey Dave 1… Can we care for you? We got these white latex dresses with the red crosses on them titties and alot of energy just for you…besides our fancy footwork is phenomenal!!)
Well….they promise they’ll reschedule…
HEY DAVE 1….HEY P-THUGG…..WE REALLY HOPE SO!!!
Until then, keep it funky, and let’s hope Dave gets well soon so that they can make the rest of the tour! (I’ll do my best …… )
