{ from the film Problema. see below. } - some poetic processing-in-progress ( beware the messy confusion ) - Are we all Wikileaks ? THe news: Julian Assange is granted bail today, but don’t expect things to get any less surreal, his conditions include an electronic ( hackable?? ; ) tag. And on another channel Glenn Beck winks and […]

{ from: I Met The Walrus } < Sat. 11.12 > XLterrestrials present CiTiZEN KiNO #2 at Filmkunst im Roderich, Glogauerstr. 19 – Berlin. With very special guest FRAN ILICH of Possible Worlds and Sabotage.tv (Mx). 18:00h door, 18:30h presentation begins ! CiTiZEN KiNO is A Live Media Intervention + (re)mix of extremely rare cinema (bits) and each […]

{ Unknown acts of poetry } * Wikileaks.ch, Listed Mirror Sites ( up to more than 500 !) …> URGENT UPDATES: Assange has been arrested in the UK! And rather than discuss all the lovely details of The Spectacle that has now been conveniently unleashed, it is far more important to remember that the people who ( by […]

{ Rap News w/ Robert Foster & Special Guests } Still one of the best reports of what’s going on: See Rap News ! Wikileaks on Twitter Wikileaks on F*k$book WL Central – An unofficial WL info resource … This morning we noticed a Yahoo / AP (Associated Plantation?) News headline that said “The Noose is Tightening […]

{ poster from BOing Boing } A Wikileaks Scanner work-in-progress, but meanwhile… an excerpted conversation of psychomedia analysts: G.B. : When wikileaks posted the video of the murder of journalists and civilians in Baghdad, it was an excellent, pointed, and focused attack with a specific objective. Now they have posted 250,000 documents and many of us are wondering what […]

{ Fanfare protest group, afterparty at 2dh5, Tilburg } XLt On The Road and in The Labs We tested the Citizen Kino in a Sunday workshop, and received some great ideas for our Digital Dogme project – rules for navigating the web 2.0 and liberating ourselves from the “walled (corporate) gardens”. The term our friend Kurt Osphal […]

Fundraiser : Dear XLterrestrial readers, it’s that critical time again when we need to ask you to consider supporting our latest educational and tactical initiatives. Please contact us if you would like to DONATE or would like to assist us in replacing the “corporate theaters” nearest YOU. The Newsletter # 2010 v.X : (LOCAL ) (>o<) < […]

Fundraiser : Dear XLterrestrial readers, it’s that critical time again when we need to ask you to consider supporting our humble efforts to create a truly liveable world through education, arts and praxis. This November we will launch CiTiZEN KiNO, our new formula for developing higher intelligence and collaborative sustainable culture, without endangering the delicate […]

{ The inspiring work of Zina Saunders, who recently presented ” ARt as a Weapon ” in New York with Erik Drooker } A Quick + Practical Guide To The Myth of Democracy Take about 2 whole minutes to vote tactically, usually the lesser of 2 evils, cause your so-called democracy ( wherever you are ) has […]

… { First NSK Citizens’ Congress poster competition } < 21-23.10 > First NSK Citizens’ Congress: Kongress, Ausstellung, Filmprogramm, Seminar at HKW, Berlin HMmmm, things couldn’t be more timely for an NSK visit in Germany with this anti-multicultural bizness oozing out from the Merkelites. 2 nights of panels with a focus on PASSports and equal Global mobility ( […]

{ Polski Animacji – Labirynt – Jan Lenica, 1963 } “The Social Network” – The film about Mark Zuckerberg and the rise of Facebook – A pre-Review primer Ok, we’re cynical bastards, but we wouldn’t trust anyone in the Hollywood machine to get a mass media zeitgeist story right, unless Orson Welles had been cyrogenically preserved and […]

{ Big Man Japan + Electric Sheep + Modul8 } NUmb Trust, coming soon to the digital theater vortex nearest you ! … Ohh Holy Podopolous Ballsacs! SO many things to rant and get tactical about… From the current “internal strife” of Wikileaks stories, to the jaw-dropping goodness of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows” and Malcolm Gladwell’s XLt-style analysis […]

{ Colony of the eye… will we ever get back inside ? } A 2010 XLt special psychomedia analysis report … “The earth is not a flat screen, i ain’t trying to fit in… this ain’t here for the underground, this here’s for the sun! ” Saul Williams from ‘Talk To Strangers” … The great technological progress of the last two decades is that humanity now sits one foot away from the screen instead of six. Should we consider it a shallower mass grave?

{ Medhi Haddab, the Jimi Hendrix of the Oud } < 10.09 > Piranha’s Nights Of Ramadan finale w/ Speed Caravan, Kobra 36, Dj Pasha, Terakaft ( former members of Tinariwen ), Sahra Halgan, Mario Rispo… and the XLt Kollectiv. Story coming sooon ! See below for upcoming shows, meanwhile check the rapid-fire mastery of Speed Caravan’s Kalashnik Love here: http://www.myspace.com/speedkravan Peter Gabriel’s Realworld label just got some frickin teeth!

+ + + + + + + + + + + + { Our minor XLt “intervention” at Womex last year … A2N now in 2010 ? } … < 6-11.09 > ALL TOGETHER NOW, the 2nd annual new music + culture conference in Berlin. Forums for rethinking the music industry and creative platforms. Plenty of LIve Streams if you’re not in Btown… and you can see the whole schedule HERE ! … Can The Entertainment Industry Be Made Relevant To Surviving the 21st Century ?