{ Funny timing for Ridley to get the TED look so right… } Ridley Scott, the ultimate advertising + futurist craftsman, has been leaking little bits for his new Alien sequel, Prometheus. The TED 2023 Clip. Can’t say we ain’t itching to see it ( for psychomedia analysis ) but just like a TED talk, don’t […]

{ mayday posters from Just Seeds, and more here } maydayS maydayS, all cats on deck ! … … … { SoCalled in the studio } < 14.05 > Asphalt Tango brings the incredible SoCalled to town with a new album “SleepOver”, with special guests Dj Podinski … and rumored Daniel Kahn from The Painted Bird, 21:00h, HBC venue, […]

{ Knistern Der Zeit by Sibylle Dahrendorf } … The premiere of Sibylle Dahrendorf’s KNISTERN DER ZEIT – CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF UND SEIN OPERNDORF IN BURKINA FASO was at Hau Eins on monday. And will begin a cinema tour in June. See the details at FilmGalerie 451 Before Schlingensief left us, he must have given numerous presentations and pitches for […]

{ Chaplin in Modern Circuit Times } re: Re:Publica 2012 (part 1 ) – Conference for media, blogs and digital society Re: Publica 2012 part 2 : In The Shadow Of The Net, S.O.S.! WHAT IF the campaign to “Save The Net” is just another side of the industrial-strength de-humanization and de-naturing ?! Capitulation to the data regimes […]

+++++ { ^ nxt to last foto by a.goetzke } … < 2-4.05.12 > Re:Publica 12 … Live Streams… Berlin. Germany’s largest conference for media, blogs and digital society ( good thing they moved to a bigger venue, or i$ it ? ) gonna party like it’s friendster 1999 !? let’s party like it’s twitter 1999 ?! let’s party […]

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Learning… { from ‘LetItRipple’, part 2 of ‘Connected’ } Since it seems to be our week for ranting about techno-evangelism and techno-empire, this film just came into the XLterrestrials lab… via a Mckenzie Wark twitter [ A cloud film making manifesto: http://goo.gl/tPcwb ] … And we can’t resist taking it apart, looking into its vital (trade-)organs, and […]

{ Up, up, and away into those trusted Net clouds } … “Wait, let’s get this straight: So Tim, good ol’ co-founder of the global data pump (net), says the solutions to our clusternetf*ck is to make ALL the data open and searchable so even MORE business ( and govt.) can set up services to crawl up […]

{ The World Tomorrow on RT } … “All memoir is prostitution!” Julian Assange, upon pulling out of his contract with Canongate to publish his autobiography, which then went ahead and published a first draft Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Biography. We’re not sure if we should feel a little guilty peering in, and yet it is a fascinating […]

{ happy to discover the art of Herakut ! } A follow-up report from Citizen Kino #15, and various Btropolis news coming soon. tbc… … { Antwoord, Lynchian mode } sketches: We began C-Kino #15 with the latest Antwoord video by Roger Ballen & Ninja ( with Director of Photography Melle Van Essen ). To give an example of the current […]

{ Alex in Epic Immersion } < 06.04 > CiTiZEN KiNO #15 at the Agora Collective, Neukoelln [ FedBook invite here ] A LIVE mix of Theater, Film and The Net, CiTiZEN KiNO sets the stage for you to re-access your own internally-generated cinema… unplugged and gadget-free ! Where: Agora Collective / Cafe Mittelweg 50, (U8 Leinestr.), Neukölln When: Doors at 19:00h Show […]

{ Dawkins tries the “God Helmet” } … WHooaa ! The universe works in mysterious AND hilarious ways!! Richard Dawkins’ Lobes are proven to be dull ! ; ) … Hahahhaaahaaa ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml We’ve got nothing against atheism, it’s a viable and often convincing belief, but let’s face it, Dawkins has been a thoroughly arrogant ethnocentric menace at the […]

{ a new era, in the embryonic stage * } … “Do we see any examples of (such) a perfected technology? Of course we do! It is called nature. Nature creates no waste…. I propose that the destiny of humanity — if we choose to survive as a species — is to reintegrate with nature — to […]

{ KonyCrap remix … get yur XLt kits 2day ! } … XLT analysts have been studying the Kony Campaign to understand more how the internet has become such a powerful medium… for making consume-suckers buy into almost anything that has a big (campaign) budget behind it… In other words, the net hasn’t liberated society much from […]

{ entrance to the ol’ cinema – High End Kino 54 – Tacheles / foto: Shazam } plz note: some unusual errors occurring with the complete posting of this story, but it is now restored. … If you’ve lived in Berlin for some time, you probably thought it was dead by now… but listen… there are fierce creatures […]