The good, the bad, and the artsy.

If you’re in Berlin this week you might consider paying a visit to the Illustrative Berlin 07. This exhibition in the Villa Elizabeth showcases a variety of illustration artists from all over Europe, and as can be expected you’ll encounter the full spectrum from beautiful, sophisticated drawings to outright tacky pixel bombardment.

Northbound on the ICE train #1712.

I just caught an early train and now I'm on my way to spend a 42 hour weekend in Berlin. Leaving Munich behind I'm looking forward to once more enjoy some cultural and culinary diversity. And a lot less of those sixties-style houses and mindsets.
YT - Kay

Still five days to go.

Just a short reminder that the Gilbert & George exhibition in Munich’s Haus der Kunst will end on Sunday, 9 September. So get yourself out of the house and have a look at the art while it’s still in town.

Dessau – kaputt.

Our flickr set from a derelict housing block in a city that lost about a third of its 100,000 inhabitants within 15 years after the wall came down. Some of the buildings had even been renovated before they were abandoned, and still contained traces of those who lived there a while ago. (Photography by Kay Friedlein & Claire Sourgnes)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayfriedlein/sets/1620325/

Day Two. Post four.

I can't believe it's not blogger. Mobile blogging, nearly live from a
subway station that's almost too orange. But it is also, as a few other things in
Munich, slowly decaying behind a facade that has been maniacally
polished so often that most of its original ‘beauty’ has been scrubbed
off by now.

YT – Kay

Sounds pretty good to me.

Getting literally paralyzed by the abundance of brain-damaging ringtones on the internets and in the real world around me, I was pleased to hear about toneShared.com – a library of fantabulous soundbits created by musicians and artists from the electronic alternative music scene. And not only are these tones so much less annoying than commercial ringers, but also they are given away completely for free. So there’s little excuse not to get some decent sounds pronto.

http://www.toneshared.com/

Hold on to your lederhosen!

This as bad as it gets for a proper post: how could someone just come up with the idea of implanting iPod controls into a pair lederhosen? Obviously Berlin is much closer to Bavaria than anybody would openly admit, or how else could this strangely concoction turn up at the IFA 2007?

– via Gizmodo

My visit. Day one.

Bienvenue!

So I entered the twitter zone and the blogosphere. As prententious as it gets, this one’s going to drown in a sea one of a zillion massively useless posts on the interwebs. Just because I feel like I need to blog for the blog’s sake. But if, and only if, anything noteworthy happens, you will read it here first.

YT – Kay