I don’t want to pretend that i read the book – but I will read it. I ordered it 5 minutes ago via a famous book selling website.
I am recommending the book because it happended to me 3 times today that different people told me something about it. I am not a fan in self-help books that claim to dramatically change a person’s life in one read, but I give this book a chance. And it’s also the provoking title that i like.

| buy it |

the ‘santa boarders’

he knows what to wear

happy matylda

chris, policeman – nice talk on the way to berlin.

I grew up with a walkman – I want it back. Remember back in the days when people use to share music via mixtapes? Here is the solution for the mp3 generation:

| usb mixtape – insound |

left: piece of compressed wood
right: schneekoppe ‘fruchtschitte’ – energy bar

what do you like more?

Ingo Binder is fashion design student.
His unbeatable trend are white shoes.

Shanghai. World Expo 2010. Sascha Glasl intend to ask visitors to influence the expo with their memories of the country’s past. He will collect personal souvenirs comprising single German memories. Together they will form a huge pile. As such, the souvenir functions as a way of communicating German memories.

In order to obtain the souvenirs he started a donation appeal in Germany. Germans have been asked to send a personal memento – an object, which fitted in a post package (size ‘S’) plus a description of the memento. These items of everyday life are conserved in transparent luggage bags.

The souvenirs and the concomitant pile will be assembled during the next 3 years until the Expo opens. During the Expo the mountain will decrease, as each visitor takes away a luggage-bag as a ’gift’. In this way, new memories show up every day. At the end of the Expo the German pavilion will consist only of a green park. This donation of souvenirs enables Germans to deal with their history and to give their nation a true and complex identity.

| sascha glasl’s blog cluster of works |

| german pavillion – world expo shanghai 2010 |
| EAP | the project was nominated for the euregional architecture price 2007

lamp
a refillable gas fuelled candle
| chris kabel |

ceramic rings
in breaking the ring the bond between people will exist
| frederik roijé |

ring
‘rubber-bend-rings’ made from silver
| gesine hackenberg |

pin
gold in acrylic

| ted noten |

maastricht. gallery-showroom Editions. It’s one of the spots were it feels like home. You find yourself in a small, white room which is full of diffrent lamps. The illumination comes just from the exhibited works. A mix of famous and yet not known designers are to find here. But also other diffrent stuff which a designloving person appreciates. Chequita Nahar, gallery owner and Head of Department Jewelry & Product design Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht, runs through the showroom and arranges everything. She does it with complete satisfaction. Like she would do it with her own work. When I asked here why she opened the gallery, she said:’ I want to show people what exist in design these days.’
Unfortunately the exhibition is over this sunday. But she is already working on a new one. We are looking forward to it!

Chequita Nahar | gallery-showroom Editions

|editions showroom|

editions | gallery-showroom
tongersestraat 3
6211 LM maastricht

What you should wear on the ski run.

Patrick Vogt started in 1982. He decided to collect all songs on vinyl which his brother had on tape. It was not easy, because all to often he not even had a tracklist. He got the tip to contact ‘disco patrick’. People said about him that he knows everything about disco, funk rap and bootlegs. He went to the guy and was stunned. He was able to name him every song he played including artist, date of publication and many more. He was sitting there, no special looks but a unbeatable dimension of music knowledge.
Three years ago they started to work on a book. A manifesto about the uncharted mysteries of disco acetates and bootleg vinyl medleys released between 1974 and 1986. 1500 editions are on sale. 1400 in standard and 100 limited – with a vinyl cover. Two guys from Limburg, south of the Netherlands, wrote a piece of music history. Patrick Vogt said to me: ‘The only thing which we haven’t done by ourself, is printing the book.’

patrick vogt | co-publisher

|disco patrick|

USA:
| Dusty groove |

Japan:
| Diskunion |

NY. The New Museum is open to the public since December 1, 2007. It is a home for contemporary art and an incubator for new ideas, as well as an architectural contribution to New York’s urban landscape. It is situated in the Bowery. Years ago it was the most exclusive street in New York. But that’s a long time ago. The last news were about the harbourage for the homeless and the soup kitchen: the boulevard of the fallen. And now you can find the institution of art on it. A place for adventure.
But the highest statement is the building. You can’t find any windows and it’s seems that somebody put seven boxes on top of each other. It is radical. It’s diffrent. Like a psychological experiment – I love it.

|new museum|
|sanaa new museum|
|sanaa architects|

another project of sanaa in essen, germany
|sanaa – zollverein school of managment & design|

An extract from ‘ PONS – last minute phrase book’ / Dutch.
Read it like a dialog and you will laugh.

TRANSLATION
You have beautiful eyes.
I like your smile.
I like your looks.
I like you.
I think you are amazing.
I love you!
Wanna marry me?
You wanna join me at the seaside?
I wanna sleep with you.
Maybe later.
No, it’s going too fast.
Actually I just wanna cuddle.
Hands off!
But only with condom.
Where can I buy some?
Do you like it?
Did you enjoy it?
It was wonderful.
Sex is not important.
Fuck off!

…

Maastricht

(continue…)

yeah – this are my parents. I guess this picture is from 1985.

not just granny style – really handy

The pop-out tree is 1,80 meters high and and has all what a real christmastree has to have: a pretentious dressing. Advantage over an authentic tree is that you can set it up in 10 seconds. And when christmas is over you can store him easily everywhere you want.

Unfortunatly this is one of Simeon van Tellingen’s prototypes. We hope that we see it soon in store. Waiting for christmas in 2008 …

I want this tree!

|popouttree|
|simeon van tellingen|

poland. This car is small, oldfashioned, uncomfortable and slow – but still polands popularst car. The Fiat polski, polish people call him ‘maluch’ what means ‘the small one’, is 2 meters long and 1,40 meters high. It has not even a trunk. 3,5 million exemplars were produced between 1971 and the productionstop in the year 2000.

If 5 people are sitting in this car, it can reach a speed of 100km/h. The only problem is that the stopping distance is then around like at a locomotive. And after an 1 hour drive it needs minimal a 5 minute rest, because the motor has to cool down – there is no condenser.

maluch

|wikipedia maluch|