On saturday I had the chance to see the European premier of “Captured” at Babylon Berlin, as part of the American independent film fest “Unknown Pleasures“.

“Captured” is a film about the New York artist Clayton Patterson and a film about the change in the Lower East side, Manhattan, during the last 20 years. Patterson has tons of foto and video material from the time when the Lower East side was a dirty, cheap, chaotic, independent, arty, druggy, anarchic area. Not only with Giuliani this changed into yet another hip and expensive place to live in New York nowadays. “Captured” shows this change and the protagonists around Patterson, e.g. the art scene, the hardcore scene (with Bad Brains e.g.), the queer scene, the squatters.

Filmmakers Den Levin, Ben Solomon and Jenner Furst managed to boil down Pattersons’ hours of film into a consistent, exciting and interesting 90min movie, which literally makes you feel sad you hadn’t been there when it was still rough.

Captured Homepage
Captured MySpace

.. that would fit on a CD just to make it a little complicated. So, here it is, my end-of-the-year-collection. Thanks to all the friends, blogs and magazines that give me so much inspiration!
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I would like to recommend this brilliant mix to everyone who.. yeah, well, to everyone! Because it takes the Dubstep thing in such a soulful and smooth way, taking so many different paths, showing so many facets of music which is funky, breaky, dancy, pushy, longing, hands-up, wobbly.. It’s 2Step, it’s dubstep, it’s even a little Goa.. And I am listening to it like the 5th time in a row, so it can’t be bad, really. Enjoy Shiva from (yes) Indianapolis in a mix from a local club, found via @dubstep on Surfacetensionrec.

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Heute (20:00h) versteigert Pablo Thiam, Ex-Bundesliga-Spieler und nunmehr rechte Hand von Felix Magath beim Vfl Wolfsburg, in der FC Magnet Bar (Veteranenstrasse 26), alle seine Tauschtrikots, die ihm während seiner aktiven Zeit von anderen BL-Spielern überreicht wurden. Die Versteigerung findet in berlin-mitte statt ab 20.00, alle Erlöse gehen an die Arche. e.v.

Außerdem werden heute von 13:00 bis 18:00h Berliner DJs und Musik-Labels Alben, Singles sowie limitierte und signierte Geschenke beim Weihnachtsbasar im 4010 Store anbieten. Alle Stücke werden zum symbolischen Preis von 1,- Euro verkauft, der Erlös geht an die Stiftung „Musik Hilft“ .

Wie man Auftraggeber findet, indem man ein Serviceprofil erstellt.

Not only because of the impressive pictures (click the movie to view the HD version on YouTube!) but also because of the nice sounds by PantyRaid (song is called “Like That”) this is a great video. Enjoy some super slomo-, helicopter-, powder-, the world-is-ok-we-still-have-snow-action.

[found via Pointkilla]

Many visitors liked my links to Nightlife Snapshot fotography, like Lastnightsparty or Dirty, Dirty Dancing.

Thanks to Max, I can point out some new destinations for all of you who love the air of the night and the excesses of party put into flashy pictures full of desire, let-loose and provocation.

So, here we go to Ambrel.net by Nikola Tamindcic who also runs Homeofthevain,
Glamcanyon by Katja Hentschel from London who does street fashion and party fotography and DrivenbyBoredom by Nate Smith aka Igor from NYC.

With Jazzanova (”I can See - Garnica Deep Mix”) and the Stylewalker Calendar

Last week, I got a package via mail which looked quite interesting, sent to me by K-MB, a brand consultancy from Berlin.

Opening it, I found two cans connected by a thread just like one of those tin can telephones kids connect their rooms over the street with. Also, a Noise Conspiracy cd and a nice handwritten letter, inviting me to either a Babyshambles or a Noise Conspiracy concert.

Since Babyshambles are cancelled (what a surprise..) I guess, I’ll go for Noise Conspiracy on January 19th.

Opening the cans, I found one of them filled with earplugs and other stuff which turned out to be a bluetooth headset, namely a Jawbone.

I am not only impressed by the effort of this campaign; which also got coverage on other blogs like Lumma.de or blog.telefon.de but also by the product.

It looks nice, the descriptions are comprehensive. It connected easily and fast with the iphone, I just managed the first phonecall with it and the speech quality is good and everything works well. Besides, it comes with a charging unit and several eargear in different sizes.

Good product, good idea.

Create a job and service profile, connect with others, make offers and earn money.

Yesterday, I attended the ceremony of Deutsche Welle to award the Best of Blogs (theBOBS) which, according to the jury, are the best blogs in different national categories, as well as in video and audio in 2009.

Peter aka thewavingcat blogged live with a very fascinating tool called Coveritlive. It has a very smooth editor surface to write, comment and adjust stuff and codes which can be embedded in other websites where your twitterlike short news are flowing in and can be commented. He worked really hard in typing down the many informations from the stage, approving comments AND answering questions from a worldwide crowd. Respect! Also, Stefanie Suren and Andreas Schepers did a good job in guiding the audience through the evening with a plimpse of Hollywood feel: “And the winner is..!”
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“Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.”

Hm, so what does that mean? Basically what you can with the little Arduino board is easily bring lots of input in and turn it into certain outputs. Sounds easy and maybe trivial but really is not. Because Arduino can process many different signals and trigger many different outputs. Kiss a door and it opens. Step close to a mirror and a video starts playing with the mirror talking to you. Turn TV picture into LED-signals. Connect it to the Wii and In general one might say it’s very nerdy and looks a little unready still. But it’s definetly the start into a development of selfbuilt robots and machines.

Below are some video examples. I particularly like the TV to LED part because it’s kind of what a friend and I did for a party once. We put 16 toilet paper rolls covered with translucent paper in fornt a tv and thus reduced the pictures to a 16×16 pixel screen. We taped it to video and had a nice party light installation. The posted below is slightly more elegant but, really, less charming.
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Whoever ever wanted to experience the very exclusive three star restaurant “Ma” by famous chef Tim Raue at Berlin’s first hotel Adlon, is heartly invited to sip some cocktails with us and listen to some nice electronic moody music tonight.

Steve and me start spinning at 9pm, come around and have some drinks with us! Ma Restaurant, Adlon, Behrenstr. 72, Berlin.

It’s not the typical noisy toothsayery dubstap massacre what Scuba serves us in another excellent XLR8 podcast but rather a very deep and flirry mix which accelerates veeery slowly and has a curve of tension which is hardly noticeable. Still, this mix contains some energy which is hidden deep in the bass. I love it.

Check out the whole article and the tracklisting.

Here is another example of fancy touchscreen and visualization gadgtets: An interactive mirror. It could be interesting to leave notes for your roommates or put pictures of clothes on it to see what would be looking good at you. Hm… Myriad possibilities. Plus: This videos has some very pushy old school Dr Dre styled beats beneath.

Interactive Mirror from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo.

Ourmusicmixes is a great source for classic, old and new, deep and soulful house music. Tons of mixes are stored there, Chicago deep Stuff, raw classics, in the ultimate haven for all lovers of what started from disco in the 80ies to warehouse stuff in Chicago, to the big house success in the 90ies. From gay clubs in churches, from Lerry Levan, to Mr Vegas, Kerry Chandler, Moodyman, Basement Soul. Thank you so much guys for giving us music that easily could be forgotten!

Here is one very nice and deep mix from Chicago Deep:

There are not many streets there. Still, in the very north of Norway, on the archipelago Lofoten two of the most known Norwegian street artists, Dolk and Pøbel have painted some house walls. Poppy, stencil-like paintings in black and white with few colour highlights and some surreal motives like superman with Dialyse, at old wooden houses in the middle of nowhere. Certainly one more reason to travel to Lofoten despite the breath taking nature. [via Elsbe]
Watch more pictures at Nrk.no or watch a slideshow with Lofoten pictures from Flickr
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Many ask: “What’s this track in the ford fiesta commercial with the pink car in front of many moving tv screens” or “Wie heißt der Song aus der Ford Werbung”? It’s “Transient” by Pluxus, Swedes who live partly in Berlin and come out on the label Pluxemburg. The song is very groovy, deep, longing, and a little glossy, perfect match for the commercial. Props to Ogilvy London to buy it!

I alreay mentioned Ofrin here as a very, very good band. Unfortunately I could not see their concert at Glashaus but on Hobnox is a nice feature about the Israelean duo in Berlin who just released their second album (produced by Eddie Stevens) and who are on tour right now.

I wrote the following article together with Max Senges and Peter Bihr for the UOC Fórum Innovació.

Social Communities have grown rapidly over the last years, offering people the chance to publish personal information and connect with each other. The biggest social community today is Facebook with more than 120 million members. Due to the myriad possibilities to use Facebook, there many ways to support teaching and learning.

Facebook started in 2004 at Harvard University and was aimed at connecting students. Now, almost every American student and many Europeans have profiles on Facebook. They use it to share information, such as links, photos and videos, to arrange real life events and to communicate in groups.

From: http://www.apple.com/au/education/digitalkids/disconnect/landscape.htmlFace

The use of Facebook also shows the current cultural differences between teachers who slowly have to adapt to new technologies and students who grew up with digital communication. The differences in media use and learning behaviour between so called “digital native learners” and “digital immigrant teachers” are shown below. Understanding how to use Facebook opens up a way to stepping closer to actual student behaviour and to create a more appropriate way of teaching.

Read on at the UOC Fórum Innovació.

Facebook for Services, students create job and service profiles

The Evolution2 is the sequel of the first, very susccesful talent competition Evolution by Hobnox. The contest is coming closer to the final decisions, though it is still time to submit projects to enter the finals.

While the Evo2 is running hot right now, the winners of the first contest are presenting the results of their work since winning the contest at the big Hobnox launch party and evolution festival in february 08. Missy Magazine, a mag about pop, politics and style from a feministic viewpoint is now available as a good old glossy print mag, while Boombaker, a very energetic live drum’n'bass/breakbeat band are on tour right now.

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Greenhouse.sproutbuilder.com is an absolute blast. It’s a flash based widget builder which works entirely in your browser window and has a lot of editing features. Build sites with text, video, pictures, slideshows, maps, charts or insert RSS. Define size, fonts, colors, background, effects. Here are the most recent updates from the PANORAMA3000 blog in a widget, it took me 20 minutes to make it nice.

Auf myspace.com/urbanstreetteam gibt es eine nette Competition: Freund werden, Foto in das eigene MySpace-Profil hochladen, mit dem Urban Streetteam Profil verlinken und dann Kommentare auf dem Foto sammeln. Dazu kriegt jeder noch ein stylishes Widget zum eigenes-Bild-promoten.

Das Foto mit den meisten Kommentaren gewinnt - ein Trip im Bus inkl 5 weitere Freunde zum Konzert nach Oberhausen.

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Immer wenn ich Sarah Palin höre, muss ich an Loriot denken. Die Frau ist Comedy pur. Zunächst ein von Tina Fey in exakt denselben Worten praodierte Passage aus ihrem berüchtigten Couric-Interview:

und hier ein echter Loriot Klassiker. Der Politiker Karlheinz Stiegler hält eine Grundsatzrede im Bundestag.
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The most exciting moment of Berlin Art Forum is already over? Probably. Because the furious and multicreative festival that international artists put up yesterday at the opening of Berliner Straße at .BHC has been a firework of wonderful moments. Rooms, so many impossible to count, each one especially designed by a an artist or a group with painted walls, installations, videos, bands, performances.. It was a blast: A man playing drums in big yellow box, faces out of rotten potatoes, concerts with looped beatbox and casio guitars and many photographies, grafitti like street art pieces and last but not least a big and arty looking crowd hanging out in a party atmosphere with drinks, talks, dance. Enjoy a little slide show of impressions.

Tonight the movie Let’s Make Money celebrates its premiere, will be in cinemas from tomorrow, go watch it! Moreover the excellent Ofrin will celebrate the release party of their second album at Glashaus. They took two days to prepare the venue, its a big dark cube now, ready for an intense show of voice, electronics and softly disturbing instruments.

Two tracks that rocked the party last friday at Pan Am Lounge were the Audiofly remix of “Show U Love” and Daniel Mehlhardt’s remix of Fausto Messina’s “Siboney”. While the first is a true deep house banger that just grooves massively along, Messina’s / Mehlhardt’s is a typical contemporary balearic dance classic. Reduced, funky, with some scrarce percussions and a very longing spanish melody. Great. Thank you for the music, the people danced until the early morning on top of Berlin!

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