Karneval der Verpeilten 2008

Karneval der Verpeilten PlakatI am getting lots of hits from people looking for “Karneval der Verpeilten 2008”. This year, this classical open air (for the tenth time!) will NOT take place at the Planetarium but behind the Hauptbahnhof, at Moabiter Werder on sunday, 08 September, 12-22 h – here is a map.

10 YEARS KARNEVAL DER VERPEILTEN –
Bar25 and Bachstelzen Line up:
Witwe Bolte aka Christin & Ultraviolettnana & Mr. Mostash – live
david doradepilocka krach – live
Man of tomorrow – live/dj
heinrichs&hirtenfellner
one:shot:orchestra – live
gianni vitiello
sven dohse
the dose – live
m.a.n.d.y
philip b

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Danny Sangra Opening

Danny SangraDanny Sangra is a true working pop artist. Flashy colours, poppy motivs and detailed painting are his trademarks. The London painter also successfully designs clothes, bars and hotels. He also designed T-Shirts for Levi’s and now Levi’s Berlin booked him to redesign the white walls of its Flagship store in Kurfürstendamm 237.

Tomorrow (Sep04) there will be an opening, starts 20:30h, Peaches will be djing, I guess a bunch of marketing, design and otherwise scenish people will show up but if you look arty enough you have the chance to sneak in and grab some free beer.

See him painting after the click
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Iphone wordpress app test

Just a test of the iPhone wordpress app – still iphone word recommendation is really a pain but that’s not the (the=thw- wtf?!) fault of the app..

Took a picture but I guess it means work to adjust it nicely to the design. We’ll see..

Next task: Disable this autocorrect thing.

70200 samples in 30 seconds

The artist Johannes Kreidler created 33 seconds of music, using 70200 samples. On 12 Sept 08 he will register the musical work at GEMA (Germany’s RIAA) – using a truck full of standard forms. If you want to register a song at GEMA you have to fill in a form for each sample you use, even the tiniest bit. Watch a very fun telephone conversation between Johannes and the GEMA (in German):

IFA-Links

Sony hall at IFA, by HolgerESony hall on IFA by HolgerEI went to IFA last week and apart from the vacuum cleaning robot (cute!), the 3DTV screens by LG and Samsung (no link found) and the vast Sony hall, I especially liked the science part of the trade fair. I talked to two scientists from DFKI Saarbrücken and tried the Wii fit board they hacked to surf Google Earth. Fun! In general, I think it’s a big chance for IFA to strengthen this part to be ever more successful in the future. Here, Matthieu and Simon demonstrate their invention:

A trip to the baltic

Three weeks ago we went on a great trip around the Baltic sea, from Vilnius to the Curonian spit (Lithaunia), from Liepaja to Ventspils (Lativa) to Öland via Gotland (Sweden). It was fantastic, especially because so many unplanned things happened and so many people helped us out of difficult situations. Watch a slideshow with the best pictures!

Final shows at Melt08


Melt Festival 08: Berlin Battery final show of the festival
The last moment of a long DJ show at a festival often is a magical moment, especially when it’s the last gig on that stage. I remember Roni Size and Dynamite playing extra long into the sunlight, same for Goldie next year as last show on the big stage.

This year, Goldie again was part of a legendary show: Skream, Lowqui and the godfather of DnB rocked the Dubstep floor massively on saturday. Watch Skream crowdsurfing in a video below. And with this year sunday being the last day of the festival, the big honour to close Melt 08 laid in the hands of Berlin Battery who had several last records until finally the gates had to close and everybody had to go home, to sleep, or to rock on at the Sleepless floor outside. Despite all the criticism coming down to Melt! this year, with such a frenetic finishing, it cannot have been such a bad festival..

What’s on this weekend in Berlin?

Trotz des eher bescheidenen Wetters lassen sich die umtriebigen Partymachers Berlins nicht beirren und starten jetzt, da sowohl die Berliner aus dem Urlaub wieder da als auch viele Sommertouristen immer noch da sind, richtig durch.

Nachdem die Bar25 in ihrem vielleicht letzten Jahr des Bestehens durch Filmvorführungen, Showcases, Modeschauen und allerlei weitere Mainstreamveranstaltungen noch einmal besonders viele Gäste in den Genuss ihres doch einzigartigen Flairs und Ortes kommen lassen möchte (dabei natürlich auch riskiert, ihr freakiges Stammpublikum zu verlieren), geht es an anderen Open Air-Orten etwas undergroundiger zu:
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Pablo Francisco: Movie previews

This is an old clip but I had to think about this extremely funny comedian, Pablo Francisco, when we talked about the strange voices one can hear in movie previews today. Pablo has a great parody about this exact phenomenon but he has much more funny types to offer: the Mexican girlfriend, the Chippendale dancer who shaves his huevos.. But here we go for the trailers:

Watch out for more Melt! coverage tomorrow and the kickstart into a late open air rave party season in Berlin!