… forest area the size of a soccer field is destroyed. Check out this hot new PSA by Greenpeace Switzerland.

This Friday, April 29 at 7pm, Skalitzers Contemporary Art  Gallery in Berlin (Skalitzer Strasse 43, 10997) presents PUNITIONS, the first solo exhibition in Berlin of the Parisian artist L’ATLAS. One of Europe’s most fascinating urban artists, L’ATLAS works with everything from small block-printed tags to massive, perfectly executed taped street pieces. Xhiller had the good Continue Reading

The privitization-friendly housing policies - real and planned - of Wowereit, Künast and Economics Senator/vice Mayor Harald Wolf of the co-governing socialist party “Die Linke” (’the left’) are satirized in a series of photoshopped portraits that have been popping up around Neukölln, Mitte and other inner city districts. The posters are attributed to the “Partei Continue Reading

 
… in Chorolque. That’s the location of the film Daughter of Chorolque, which the FDCL sponsors with a film partnership on realeyz.tv. The film tells the story – in fascinating and at times breathtaking images - of the difficult lives of the women who earn their living for themselves and their children in the mines Continue Reading

The Red Army reached Neukölln in south central Berlin on April 28, 1945 and liberated the last remaining forced laborers and inmates of the concentration camp Columbia Haus (near Tempelhof Airport). Anti-fascist initiatives have kicked off a week of commemorative activities which will culminate in an anti-fascist street parade on April 28 at 6 p.m Continue Reading

A couple weeks ago, I have presented the praying vending machine located in Berlin. I have found another interesting and uncommon vending machine named «Gold to Go». It is located on the 1st floor of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Berlin. This machine exists in 12 locations around the world. Users can buy gold Continue Reading

Growth is the plan – and the goal is production capacity of 7 million fine ounces of gold (currently at $ 1,500 per ounce) by 2017 at the latest. Production is now at about 5 million ounces and the projected increase should mainly occur in Latin America, in Peru and Surinam. The sensitive natural balance Continue Reading

This Super 8 clip offers another behind the scenes glimpse into the home of Anemaet and Soppela. The home is both workplace and private space for the couple, a situation that nurtures creativity and closeness but may also be too much of a good thing…
And here are some “Home Recordings” from 1983 - the lyrics Continue Reading

Hetherington covered many crisis regions as a photographer. His Vanity Fair photo reportage of US troop deployment in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan was named World Press Photo of the Year in 2007. Together with author Sebastian Junger, Hetherington revisited the Valley in the Academy Award nominated documentary RESTREPO (screened at One World Berlin 2010) Continue Reading

BERLIN CALLING star and leading minimal techno DJ/producer Paul Kalkbrenner will release the follow up to the 2008 Berlin Calling soundtrack, “Icke wieder”, this June. The record is the debut on his own imprint Paul Kalkbrenner Musik (via Rough Trade) after he left BPitch Control post Berlin Calling.
This album is all instrumental, so don’t expect Continue Reading