Or why Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner should meet for a beer if they haven’t yet. It’s all about politics – what you eat, what you wear, what you drive, where you shop, where you party. We’ve let politics get in our lives in every way possible. Yet, there is one area where politics first came in and never
Read MoreA swarthy waiter will serve you Antipasti & Meze in Italian, Greek or Turkish restaurants. It would almost be worth it to order them just to see the sexy hairy arms of said waiter…but there is more to these delicious nibbles than Mediterranean good looks. Antipasti (Italian) and Meze (Greek, Turkish, Middle Eastern) are generally straightforward, easy to share snacks
Read MoreRevenge Of The Nerds is my column for HONK! magazine – art, photography, fashion & music online magazine from Berlin. 2010 was the year when the 80s were back, 2011 is obviously the year the fashion and all other industries joined forces to bring back the 90s. No matter what decade is coming back in which year, style and taste are
Read MoreBiophilia is an iPhone/iPad release of Björk’s latest album created in collaboration with Scott Snibbe and her longtime design collaborators M/M (Paris). Comprising a suite of musical pieces and interactive artworks, Biophilia is released as ten in-app download experiences that are accessed through a three-dimensional galaxy, the album’s theme song Cosmogony. The first single Crystalline, is now available, others soon
Read Morefotos: diephotodesigner.de Why do gay bars the world over have horrible cocktails? Beer, wine and long drinks are all good and well, but a truly great cocktail is what I most want when out on the town. GoGo boys and darkrooms have NOTHING on a well made gin martini. Berlin offers no exceptions to this universal truth, but there is hope
Read MoreThe 200th issue of Dazed & Confused is on sale since Thursday 7 July, and the magazine celebrates its 200th publishing milestone by inviting Björk to guest-edit the entire issue and “show us the future”. Dazed editor Rod Stanley meets her at her home in New York to find out all about her remarkable new album and “app suite” Biophilia
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UPDATE: BL33N.com is finally officially open! Yesterday my inbox had only one name in the sender section: Matthias Vriens-McGrath. There was also one single subject: BL33N. We were obsessing about the magazine, the clothes, the artists, the faces representing the idea and the images. It is a dog’s life choosing from the whole collection, so I will make it easy
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Berlin Fashion Week is usually rather dull than interesting and rather boring than thrilling. The runways are flooded with designs and models that don’t really belong there and the crowd consists of people whose opinion about fashion is as important as Anna Wintour’s opinion about nuclear power. However, there are some shows that got me excited so far and designer
Read MoreHold your breath, this will change your life. Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) is best described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldbergs do best – performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction – Melvin has an identity. Actually,
Read MoreBad kissers are everywhere. God knows I unfortunately know loads of them. They either try to lick your face like a baset or just stay there with their mouth open and play the dead man. Sean, who has the same slimy problem with disappointing kissers, stumbled upon this amazing new make-out teaching device for couples. It is a witty art project
Read MoreThere are a lot of “before/after” images out there, but these captured my attention so intensely that they almost knocked me out. In the gallery, find a pick of Nicolai Howalt’s Boxer series capturing the expressions of young boxers before and after the fight. Nicolai Howalt was born in Copenhagen and graduated from Denmark’s Photographic Art School Fatamorgana in 1992
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Working on my WOODKID interview for the next issue of HONK! mag, I heard of THE SHOES. The moment I heard their new record, Crack My Bones (2011), I facepalmed myself and started wondering which friend of mine has kept this band hidden from me. The French dynamic duo have been calling on all the friends they’ve met on their
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