I always liked the edgy and provocative advertising ideas of Diesel (The current slogan e.g. is “Ready for global warming” -sic ).

This one’s not bad either, here’s the story: Two girls who want to be supermodels hijacked the diesel page, kidnapped a Diesel sales guy, stole the underwear collection and are now blackmailing Diesel to make them the two protagonist models of their next campaign. They also want to be Diesel renamed to “Heidies”..

Now, they communicate with their fans via the site, e.g. let them vote what should happen with the kidnapped guy. Despite the fact that he gets his legs waxed, his situation is not too uncomfortable really..

This mp3 made my day. Easy, dubby, sublimely powerful, just right to start a tough week.

It’s from Up, Bustle & Out’s 8th album Mexican sessions and I found it on the cool dubsite Collision aka dub-music.de.

(Noch was zum Thema Befindlichkeitsbloggen, einfach nur weil ich den Spruch so nett finde: Wenn man das “Bei mir bitte nicht mehr” des Kassierers persönlich nimmt, hat man definitiv einen sensiblen Tag.. )

So, was geht ab dieses Wochenende in Berlin? Hier ein paar heiße Tips, stylewalker-approved.

Freitag (also heute)
feiern die Barfussleute in im Auditorium U5 mit touane – live [persona rec.], dirty doering, [aycb/ mind the crap] und anarki [barfuss] ab 23h. Ein Laden, den ich mir genauso gerne mal anschauen wollte wie das Raumklang (ebenfalls Fhain)
Sonst kann man auch gerne der Stella mal einen Besuch abstatten, heute abend.

Samstag
Wird es voll im Festsaal Kreuzberg, wenn Jahcoozi, Sick Girls, Gäste aus East-London (yeah) und u.a. Teens of Thailand ihre Revolution No.5 Party abfackeln. Skalitzerstr. 130, ab 24h mehr Info bei Voco-Me

Die ::: electro ::: minmal ::: techhouse ::: Alternative läuft im Lutz Friedrich am Mauerpark und ist eine Kooperation von ZMF, Interact, Fettton, Klangsucht und Wir sind Park
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For those of you who enjoy a little wordplay from time to time and are fascinated by German zusammengesetzte Hauptwörter (Mark Twain loved them too, read his masterpiece “The awful German language“) here’s a little thought:

German composed swear words don’t sound so mean anymore if you just interchange the two main vocals, actually, they sound quite cute.
Some examples.
Schwunzlatscher - Pessnilke - Sickgesacht (haha, reminds me of Bastian Sick) and Flichwachser. Hey, here’s one that get’s even stronger: Wurmdascher!

Saidly enough, it doesn’t work with Flachzange, Vollpfosten or Kackbratze.
Any more creative ideas here?

Picture by Christian Iten & Daniel LüthiAnd here is another interactive multitouch display from the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich.

If you like this you might also find the following interesting:
Multitouch interaction research at NYU
and the interactive multitouch instrument Reactable

This video is already a classic on Youtube and one of the most viewed music clips. Little kids come to their teachers with this, wanting to play like little Tony Royster who was apparently only 12 years old when he played this solo. Since then, 10 years have passed, Tony has received many awards for his drumming and now plays with a rock group called Lazy Eye.

Kompakt is the label that even more than all other great ones (like Karaoke Kalk, Substatic or Treibstoff) built the “minimal-fame of Cologne”, also with their big distribution network they smartly built over the last years. I personally don’t own any Kompakt records but their DJs sure deserve the popularity. One of its protagonists is Tobias Thomas who is also a music theorist (or journalist) for German pop magazine SPEX.

He plays regularly in Berlin’s Panorama bar and has gigs all over the world. In his mixes he is not so minimal at all, but has a nice feel for some pop, elegiac and hands up moments. Enjoy the following mix (which is not always tight and perfect but very warmhearted and with the real club feeling to it) which was recorded at Kiosk Club in Lille in 2006 and is kindly hosted by Dviason.

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I found this mix via the highly remarkable Dj mixes collection Drogensumpf aka <3 Electro - an almost too overwhelming amount of DJ mixes.

I wrote an article about Scientology on Potsdamer Platz for Hauptstadtblog which has been linked to from different sites and has some nice comments on.

On Berlinale, I visited the Talent Campus and saw the movies that have been produced within the last four days. An exciting and very succesful experiment: Directors, writers, actors, cinematographers, editors and so on organized the projects almost entirely over the internet, you can read their public discussions on the projects site. They come from all over the world, finally met at Berlinale and each team had only one day in the Garage studio to produce a short movie. Be sure to check out my favourite “Click-Clack-Clack” and read the whole story (in German) on the Berlinaleblog.

Just the other day I listened to one of my favourite albums: Solarscape and Starmarket. Indiemusic, but intense and somtimes complicated, a little melancholic, but not naive, full of power and surprises. And I thought, too bad, it’s been long that I didn’t find music like this.
Now, “Pictures of Shanghai” wanted to add me on Myspace and seriously, I am a little annoyed by the mass of bad music and disturbing mass bulletings á la “new mp3 online!” that I stopped adding bands. But listening to them made me feel like the other day when I turned the volume up and had the perfect rainy but angry weather soundtrack. Please check out Pictures of Shanghai and if you have a label, sign them, they are going to be succesful.

Beatport, probably the world’s leading online store for club and electronic music has developed a great tool: The Beatportplayer which generates a code you can put into websites to play track snippets according to certain criteria.

Here’s an example for the recently issued tunes in the deep-house genre. Nice toy and great viral marketing, just like De:bug states.

One of Berlin’s best record shops faces hard times, so they asked their friends to celebrate a support party for their shop Freizeitglauben.

Since it is a nice place with enthusiastic people, many big names of Berlin’s DJ scene will show up tonight at Watergate. Admission: 6 charity €. Among the DJs playing tonight will be:

Guido Schneider / pokerflat, Thomas Melchior / perlon, Benjamin Fehr / catenaccio, Sven VT / memo-freizeitglauben, Falko Brocksieper / substatic-karloff, Anja Schneider / mobilee, Oliver Koletzki / cocoon, Mitja Prinz / wmf, Daniel Dreier / highgrade, Jens Bond / highgrade, Sebo K. / mobilee, Todd Bodine / tresor, Housemeister / aycb-bpitch, M.i.a. / substatic LIVE, Burger / freizeitglauben, Phage / Norman Weber (Luna City Express) / moonharbour and many more. Read on for the official invitation of the Freizeitglauben makers about the current situation in the record selling business (in German):
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JoinR is a new social network which has an intriguing surface, very ajaxy, you can play with boxes and mash up your profile. Let’s see who’ll be hanging out there. Check it out: Joinr.de. I, of course am stylewalker.joinr.de, but have no fancy profile yet.
Note: It’s early beta and obviously aimed at younger people (I feel old).

And here you’ll see UK’s master of the mouthmade beats, Maité, playing around with some kitchenwear and sounds á la “Memphs Soul Stew”.

Wow, only a few posts and already there’s a war around my writing on the Berlinaleblog (Watch more pictures and read the whole story about how I sneaked into the big gala night).

This campaign is maybe the best blog / brand / personality campaign so far in Germany: Schlämmerblog, branded entertainment.

German bloggers are tough on the recently issued German Vanity Fair and critizise the big gap between pretension and reality, some even rip it apart visually.

Check out Agnes Obel on Myspace - beautiful dreamy and elegant music from Kopenhagen.

Heute fliegen die Finger nur so über die Tasten und die Blogeinträge ins Netz. Das kann man tatsächlich üben, irgendwann wird man richtig schnell! Also, Freunde, auf dem Hauptstadtblog etwas über die neue Weinerei in der Griebenowstr. 5 und über die Künstlerin ZolaBerlin, auf dem Berlinaleblog gibt es eine schöne Linkliste über Film- und Kinoblogs.

I think, I never touch these filthy, mean and infamous creatures again! (Sorry, roomies, maybe you are more courageous..)

Made by students of ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe)
[via Tristesse Deluxe]

Den zweiten Artikel habe ich gerade fertig geschrieben, in Form einer kleinen Einleitung und Vorstellung meiner Person als Autor, denn ab jetzt geht es los, Berlin brummt, die Stars fliegen ein, die Tische sind ausgebucht und der Vorverkauf hat begonnen. Die Berlinale ist also am Start, Karten brauch ich ja keine, bekomme ja die Akkreditierung (hoffentlich, noch ist sie nicht da), was auch übrigens die einzige Vergütung ist, die ich bekomme. Ich mach das nur aus Spaß und hoffe, es wird kein Stress. Ich bin gespannt, was ich mit dem Pass alles anstellen kann, und hoffe inständig, dass nicht “Blogger” drauf steht. Wobei, warum eigentlich nicht, is ja so.

I got this hint via an sms, somebody believed having seen a blogpost about the Reactable here and wanted to inform me that this fascinating digital music-interface is in Berlin for Transmediale at M12. Actually, I did not know about this project by the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona but it is similar to the Multi touch interface I posted some weeks ago. Watch this demonstration and be amazed by the blend of the visual effects and the music controlling capacities.

“The reactable, is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.”

Picture by PhotophunkWhat’s on? Well certainly Transmediale, the big media art festival, the 20th of its kind (well some are a little dissapointed by this years issue, Photophunk has some pictures).

De-bug has the necessary club dates, like Freeform at Weekend or 4 Hero in Café Moskau.

Stellabar celebrates their new party series Dysconnect and

there’s a nice blend of Tango and Techno at Club Rodina (below Jannowitzbrücke) with jörg buntenbach (tango), a guy called gerald, peter nikolai [4augenvögeln], gregor heyden [klangsucht] and demir [pentagonik].

Finally, my friend, superentertainer Yaneq hosts the opening of this years Party Arty sessions at Galerie Tristesse Deluxe on Karl-Marx-Allee 137 (starts 19h)

Spending my days in the library and reeling in between insight and confusion, I’d just like to use this as a little sketch of what organization identity might be, in science and in practice.

Science

Ever since the ground-breaking article by Albert & Whetten, defining organizational identity as what is central, distinctive and enduring about an organization, a wide range of scholars have emerged, trying to theoretically describe and analyze this field. In their views, organizational identity serves as a cognitive frame for understanding reality, as shared assumptions about the world that lead to collective actions (just like in organizational culture), as a discourse about sense and reality (therefore there can be multiple identities to organizations), as collective claims about the contents of the organization and room for personal identification (e.g. “I am with Boston Consulting now, boy, I’m proud, we are so going to do a good job on this project!” social identity theory).

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