Next friday I’ll be playing at an event with some legends from the 60ies Fluxus art movement. I am thrilled!

Come around to see Ben Patterson, one of the Fluxus founders, Iput, Eric Andersen and Willem de Ridder at the Schau Fenster Gallery at Lobeckstr.30, from 8pm. A good way to end the week and start the friday night!

The opening party is part of the “Fluxus Today” conference by the Akademie der Künste and the exhibition “The lunatics are on the loose“.

Pretty cool to see my name in such an arty environment. Let alone the question: What am I supposed to play?! Well, I have some days to think left, I guess. Suggestions for songs are welcome in the comments.

I am getting excited about this years Melt festival. Again, I will be taking care of some artists, to my very pleasure, the ones I would have liked to see most as a visitor as well. My place again is the stage down by the lake, the beach stage with lots of dubstep, experimental electronics and some pop appeal. Among the musicians are Nikolas Jaar, A.T.O.L., Jamie Woon, Modeselektor, Gold Panda, Cosmin TRG and Apparat. Here is the official trailer, hope to see some of you there!

Das ZDF hat eine Doku gemacht, in der ich “der Nutzer” bin. “Wir machen uns nackt im Internet” ist die These der Sendung in der Reihe “Zoom”. Ein Team hat sich eine Woche mit mir im Internet beschäftigt und ist mir heimlich durch Berlin gefolgt, hat dann eine Menge Zeug ausgedruckt, alles an die Wand gehängt und dann vom “Medienexperten” Hendrik Speck analysieren lassen. Was lernen wir daraus? Nicht viel.

Leider weiß ich nicht was der Beitrag uns sagen will. Dass wir alle Angst haben sollen vor den bösen Datensammlern, dem Staat und Stalkern? Dass alle Druck verspüren sollen, mitzumachen im Social Web, weil das erwartet wird, obwohl es doch gleichzeitig so gefährlich ist? Dass Facebook, Google und der Staat morgen in meinem Schlafzimmer stehen? Ehrlich, die Einzigen, die mich je gestalkt haben, sind das ZDF.
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Great fun this thing, and one of these “Wow, internet!” moments: On turntable.fm you can enter a room and play songs to each other, like 5 djs playing back to back, and it’s designed like a little club. I just stumbled into a session by Numblog and this is what it looks like:

Hop behind the dj booth when there is a free space. You can search for tracks in a database and select it to your playlist. The djs play on from left to right and when you’re on, the song from top of your playlist is played next. Everybody in the room can click “awesome” and the avatar starts dancing. If enough people push “lame”, the next dj is on. Simple idea, well done, playful interface, like I said: great fun!

And there was this great moment also when one of he founders Seth Goldstein entered the room to see if everything was ok. We clapped his shoulder, congrats to turntable.fm, made some wishes (export playlist, real mixing) and let him step up to play one song. “Soldier” by DJ Cadim it was. Good luck, Seth and turntable.fm!

Thank you for showing me some music in a great session with Barbnerdy, Saetchmo, Silke, Fakir Ayonto, Uwe and others!

Bergstübl last friday and here is one hour mix of that session. I played more than 5 hours which I haven’t done in a long time. Here is a mix I recorded in the beginning of the evening, it starts of with some nice remixes including Doors and Grandmaster Flash lyrics, brings in Trickski’s überhit Pill Collins, Rodion’s Electric Soca, Chopstick & Johnjohn’s Clear Eyes, Cruel Intentions by Simian Mobile Disco (Maurice Fulton remix), Louder by Major Lazer always is a good tune to wire people up, Black Van – The Calling is next, Pawas – It’s Working (Trickski remix), the Blackvan remix of Aeroplane’s Without Lies, Test is a pretty deep track by Mario Basanov and Vidis, I tried to mix in Reckless with your love by Azari, the Manuel Tur remix,and here we are in more elctronic surroundings with Antony Shakir’s Detroit State of Mind and this is where the mix ends. It was a great evening, thanks to everybody who was there.

From Disco to Deep by Stylewalker

I admit, I still love to watch tv. Here is one tool which let’s you carry around the screen: a DVB-T tuner for the ipad. I could test it and it’s definitely approved, it works fine and fast and is very easy to handle. Here is a little foto session to see how it works.

Tizi is a little box which receives the DVB-T signal with an antenna and creates a wifi you connect on with the ipad or iphone. With the Tizi app (free) you can then watch digital terrestrial television. In Berlin there are most of the major channels (ARD, ZDF ect.) on and some digital radio stations. Price: 150 EUR at Gravis.

Had it not been so cold, I could have even taken it downstairs to take out the garbage.

Martina from TLGG gave me this gadget to test it. Thank you!

Here are two video remixes who cut together scenes from movies by Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, and by Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick. A real hommage by Leandro Copperfield, a visual designer from Brazil. A great love to these directors is noticeable in these pieces which must have cost many hours of work. The fact that I have seen most of these movies surprises me at the same as it feels comfortable to see Mia dancing again (Pulp Fiction) or watching Joe Pesci say “Funny? Funny how? How am I funny?” (Good fellas). Thank you Leandro for this!

Kubrick vs Scorsese

Tarantino vs Coen Brothers

via Kraftfuttermischwerk

Solange ihr mir nicht auf den Sack geht, könnt ihr machen was ihr wollt.

von Thomas aka Stylewalker

Paris is one of the most expensive cities. This counts also and especially for part time lodging and tourism.

Say you want to stay there for some days and know for sure that there has to be that one little hotel or bed and breakfast, a little worn and old maybe but cosy and charmin. Where to find that? Searching the web is impossible, you’ll find tons of lists and hotel room merchants from hrs to tripadvisor so I asked around via Twitter and Facebook and here is what I got:
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Sie sind schön, diese alten Vespas. Vor allem die, die ich im Auge habe. Zur Zeit steht sie noch im Vespa-Laden an der Kastanienallee. Sie sieht stolz aus, ein bisschen wie ein Schwan, sie ist eine 1981er, 50 Special. Sie hatte noch etwas Stroh im Motor, der Vergaser muss eingestellt werden, der Auspuff ist ausgewechselt und jetzt kommt noch das Getriebe.

Und dann muss ich fahren lernen: Immer die richtige Menge Gas geben, im richtigen Augenblick schalten, die Bremsen kosten ordentlich Kraft. Das Schalten ürbrigens auch. Und ich hatte mir schon Sorgen gemacht, auf dem Roller körperlich zu verkümmern. So eine Vespa ist schön, aber auch ganz schön zickig!

Und jetzt kommt die entscheidende Frage? Bin ich der richtige für eine Vespa? Ich habe schon Fahrräder verloren, Computer fallen lassen, ich habe keine Ahnung und auch kein besonderes Gespür für Bautenzüge, Gaszüge, die Geräusche, die ein Motor machen SOLLTE und was sein könnte falls er das nicht tut, nichts fällt mir leichter als zu vergessen, Öl beim Tanken hinzu zu geben, damit es keinen Motorschaden gibt und ich soll eine alte Vespa fahren? Sollte ich nicht lieber eine schnittige Hongkong-Schleuder nehmen?

This weekend Berlin will finally see some big festival inside the city. It has, in my opinion, a killer line-up, and takes place at one of Berlin’s most historically charged places: Tempelhof airport It was built by the Nazis, hosts one of the world’s biggest buildings, was used by the US army to fly goods in while West-Berlin city was blocked by the soviets, it’s a vast place with lots of space and now home of the Bread & Butter. And the Berlin festival. (If the site is offline, try the Google cache version)

Friday and saturday there will be shows by Deichkind, Peter Doherty, Jarvis Cocker, Dendemann, The Rifles, Moderat, Saint Etienne, Zoot Woman, Digitalism (DJ Set), Peaches (DJ Set), The Thermals, Junior Boys, Florence and the Machine, WhoMadeWho, Bodi Bill, Bonaparte, Berlin Battery and many more.

As a teaser, I recommend Shir Khan’s Bombaklaat live mix:

In may, I played at the Webinale party and was quite excited because it took place at Week End club on top of Berlin with a brilliant soundsystem and DJ booth. The party was great and everybody danced plus I was lucky to have the mix recorded so here I can present two 30 minutes mixes, one opening house mix and one which is more dubsteppy and in the end loaded with hiphop classics. Enjoy!

Bildungsstreik in Münster von Gedankenstuecke auf Flickr

Diese Woche streiken Schülerinnen, Schüler, Studenten für Verbesserungen des Bildungssystems. Die Demonstrierenden wenden sich gegen Studiengebühren, “Turbo-Abi” und vollgestopfte Bachelor-Studienpläne. Sie wenden sich gegen Bildungsprivatisierung, gegen Leistungs- und Konkurrenzdruck, gegen “Gesetze des Marktes” im Bereich der Bildung. Anders als in vorangegangenen Streiks haben es die Organisatoren dieses Mal geschafft, mehr als 150 000 auf die Straße zu bringen. Vor allem die Forderung, die Bachelor-Studienpläne zu überarbeiten ist immens wichtig.

Weiterlesen im Trabayo-Blog.

Trabayo is the name of an enterprise I am starting right now together with four friends and actually many more people you will all get to know soon. I am saying enterprise because it is going to be journey to see something become live we have been thinking about for a long time and of which we think might help a lot of people.

The idea is to give students a place to present a certain talent and a specific service. Students need ways to make a little money aside, in a flexible way and they have myriad talents from baysitting to fixing motobikes, from groceries for grandma to being a style and shopping assistant. We want to add useful tools to administer service deals and finally offer a pro version. On blog.trabayo.com you can follow our progress, even more detailed is twitter.com/trabayo.

If you register now on trabayo.com you will be using this service free, forever! Take the ride with us, I would be delighted.

It’s going to be a pretty active weekend, I am not talking about riots. But there is lots of cool stuff going on in Berlin this weekend: Tonight, thursday, there is the money printing contest which will take place at Mariannenplatz 21 in Kreuzberg 36. (“Who hasn’t thought about it? The perfect solution in this time of global meltdown and financial disaster! We need to make our own money!”) Great, arty and subversive idea by Czentrifuga.

Tomorrow night, I will be playing at CRACKERS, Heidestrasse 5, a friend is organizing a party for friends, come if you’re a friend! (see the flyer to the left).

Then, saturday and sunday, I will be attending Politcamp09, a barcamp about politics. I’ll try to post an English summary here.

And he did it again. This time very various and smoothly mixed, Shir Kahn’s Bodytonic music podcast

Free Streets track No1 “I love my phone”

Fram Bangkok to Ranong, to Ko Chang, to Kao Lak, to Krabi, to Surat Thani, to Ko Samui, to Bangkok.
I felt like a boy in Disney Land, with too little time to try it all out; the snorkeling, the Kyte surfing, the trekking, all the great food, the North, more islands, meet more people, suck it all ever more.. Only three weeks to be inspired, to meet people, to become fascinated by the Thai energy of doing, family, public life, smiling, enjoying.

Als normaler Hauptstadtbewohner merkt man es kaum, höchstens wenn einmal ein schön gebrandeter Shuttle-Mercedes vorbei fährt oder der Mitbewohner mit prall gefüllten Taschen von der Bernhard Willem Show im Postbahnhof zurück kommt: Die Fashionweek war die letzten Tage in vollem Gang und neigt sich heute ihrem Ende zu. Zeit für einen kleinen Rückblick. (Bild von m.ariii)
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Inspired by Peter’s blogpost about Life updates, I would like to state some things, too.

Over the last year (2008), I was still working as a freelance online consultant but mainly doing concepts and creating ideas for the Berlin based digital communications agency PANORAMA3000 and its clients. I started to work for P3000 in december 2007 after having finished my studies in communcation and business at FU Berlin.

Working for P3000 has been great so far, it’s a very ambitious and young team, consisting of people who like exactly what I like: music, the interwebs and being creative. I had lots of possibilities to shape ideas and concepts for clients like Universal Music, Sony Music, arvato Bertelsmann and even the Golfclub Wannsee Berlin. Some of my posts here might have been work related but since most of it treats with funky web ideas and music, I did not take the chance every time to say I was also working (for money!) with that particular project. Sorry for that.

Next year we’ll be working for young socialists within the Social Democratic Party (SPD), short: Jusos. There are elections to the European parliament and the Bundestag (German parliament who then elect the government) coming up and we will be helping Jusos to tune their websites and most of all their online supporters management, using social media platforms and tools. You probably know that I did work for SPD with ABFace2net in the past. And that stylewalker.net always featured posts dealing with politics.

Of course I will present some strategies, tools and ideas here and hope you will find it interesting to take a look at our work and sometimes behind the curtains. Personally, I like the social democratic people we are working with and often, of course not always, agree with their political ideas about a social society, education, environment and regulating financial markets on a global level.

I want to speak at Next09 and I need your help to do so!

Next09 is a conference for digital communication, economy, the web, technology and the actors within this world. “Share economy” will be the theme for this year, the conference will see speakers from all over the world, the private and the public sector, workshops and start-up presentations. All supposedly dealing with how digital technology, especially the internet, is changing the way people communicate and do business with enabling them to share. Next09 is organized by the Hamburg based company SinnerSchrader.

So, here is the plan: Propose me as a speaker! I did so myself already but I need a little more support, so I will post here what I wrote to Next09 and if you like it,

I very much ask you to go to this speaker proposal form and suggest me!
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.. 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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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.

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.

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

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