USED universe VS. Berlin art Prize - KW Berlin 27.04.2013

USED universe VS. Berlin art Prize - KW Berlin 27.04.2013

Fitter, happier, used universe

fitter, happier by all.the.used.universe on GoAnimate

Animation Software

fitter happier text by radiohead
Animations arranged by used universe

Sensory Deprivation countryside bioshock

Out in Cambridgeshire for the week and I awoke at 3am in a state of near panic because of the extreme silence- I strained my ears but could hear absolutely nothing... were it not for the gravity you'd think you were in outer space.

In Berlin there is always some *thump* or *tinktinktink* some far off cough, - a muffled Turkish car stereo drive by or a screaming drunken fight on the street below- but never ever nothing...

Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About (Full Album) (HD 1080p)

Doom Generation vs. doomed generation

Recently revisited the Greg Araki films of the mid-late 90s and I actually found them to be quite charming... When we were watching them in high school they were 'cool' and 'fucked up', disturbing, 'edgy', and actually quite artsy... The characters' existential suffering rang true with our teenage angst and the whole woe-as-me post-grunge fallout before pop went right back to being bubblegum. Before Britney. So, yea, what is the millennials' Doom Generation or nowhere? Do they have existential woes or are they too swept up in the infinite distractions provided by their phones and game consoles? When I am out and about I sometimes meet university kids from America at art shows and, to me, they have seen everything and nothing- experienced everything and nothing and they have an android-ish type quality about them... Perfect skin and physique but they seem... Hollow... Even vacuous. maybe I am Just getting old (or older) and mentally shaking my fist shouting out the window into the night at those dang kids and their internets and their dubstep music racket... Or maybe they are creepily superficial and know nothing of life... Either way I heard the fresh air 'alone together' interview with shelia Tuttle and it keeps haunting me... Haaauuuuuuuuunting.

Everything is sculpture.

Quick early morning insomnia thought: Lately I have almost started to think that Everything is sculpture.
At least, the sculptural process seems to fit across most all disciplines - writing filmmaking, painting, etc...

Long lost tree stump library in prenzlauerberg found

I have been on Dr Reecard Farché (aka Anklepants )'s ever since seeing him perform at the network awesome party last summer. A few weeks back he had posted some interesting shirt designs so I wrote back saying I'd like one- alas I have no idea how to buy things on the Internet and I didn't want to give any money to Deutshe Post (especially since they recently sold the c/o Berlin building (aka postführamt) to an Israeli who is turning it into an wffing luxury hotel- blah blah- anyhowwwww) so: basically I want I buy a hand made shirt and give 100% of the proceeds to the guy who is selling it- but as it turns out there weren't any left in my size so the email exchange went back and forth for a few weeks until yesterday when I actually had the evening free after work and just trekked my arse up north in the snow getting off the U2 at senefelder Platz (sighing at the sight of cafe Chagall where we used to feed hangovers with their cheese breakfast platters back before the Pfefferberg was renovated- or eat borscht and drink beer by the fire in winter... Ja, I walked up kollwitzstrasse a few bloks and realized that I hadn't been in that exact part of town in YEARS- and it suddenly reminded me that I
Might be getting Near that tree stump library I had randomly found circa 2008-9, checked out the hobbit from
And then NeVER been able to find again- when when turning the corner onto Sredzkistraße suddenly - there it was! Long lost tree stump library! Now I can finally return the Hobbit!

STREAM NEW BOWIE ALBUM

STREAM NEW BOWIE ALBUM HERE

Thisquietarmy by YEAR OF NO LIGHT

the Darker Days of a Berlin February incarnate:

Strange and subversive cartoons of the 80s and early 90s

Beetlejuice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hFoR0ziYFc

Punky Brewster
http://youtu.be/0lGnaIMCmU8

Street Sharks
http://youtu.be/NqGQyMF5a_0

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
http://youtu.be/qtURoWuzfpE

Little shop of horrors
http://youtu.be/oIqjFAM5W9o

The Pirates of Dark Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_5F1zYQF5M

Godzilla
http://youtu.be/oTItRfN-LO8

Addams Family
http://youtu.be/IokBKvFiCvM

Fantastic Max
http://youtu.be/XZJfknWVIgY

Mad libs app, yo!

http://www.madlibs.com

7:19 am, S1 just outside the ring

Trying to stay in my own little world of books and music the woman sitting opposite drags me out worldlessly howling with her obsessive fidgeting.

The fact that the fake beaver collar of her swiss army jacket won't stand up straight has prompted a skin-toned boil of frustration to bubble up over her right eyebrow where it will live forever as a badge of - or monument to futility, alive - a janky, deaf-mute third eye of the Western world.

"Whatever. Is there some sort of game we could play by describing people on the U-Bahn to sharpen these neural pathways?"

Because I am on the pretty early train...
the one full of doomed-for-life Handwerker
Waiting only for the sweet release from their drudgery
Found in booze and the thought of potentially
swimming drunk and naked with other men's overbaked wives
during that upcoming summer camping vacation...
interspersed amongst their other disgruntled seat-fillers:
a clone army of fleshy Frauen who have
made frumpiness a religion for which they embark on a daily pilgrimage.
Hin... und zurück.
Independently travelling kids play, joke and tease each other as
solumn teenage girls are either are glued to their handheld devices
or greeting each other as if they are headed to a funeral, kissing each other on
both cheeks- sometimes thrice-
in a train which operates on the same dull throb of the festering pathways of
Oscar the grouch's Monday morning brain. Every. single. day.

No fucking wonder Patti Smith's Just Kids seems like some holy relic...
If I am too tired to read I listen to Wait Wait, Don't tell me and laugh out loud
Only to receive death-ray stares from my fellow drones
Because anyone having any fun
Disturbs the silence of their brooding, abominable, precious rühe.

:)


(Note on the (con)text:
The subject was a suggestion/request from a dear friend, to which I began a simple response... Which took a turn for the strange... And resulted in the above rant.)

How to quit drinking or how to quit smoking or how to lose weight usingthe Nyan Cat method (aka the iPhone stopwatch method;) - GOOD LUCK!

How to quit smoking or stop drinking or maybe even lose weight using the Nyan Cat method:
1.if you have a smart phone (iPhone) then open the clock app and start the stopwatch then exit the app.
2.routinely check he stopwatch and see how satisfying it is to see how long it has been since you drank or smoked or ate a piece of cheesecake.
3. If you break down and smoke or drink or eat a bacon cheeseburger then you have to reset your stopwatch back to zero YOU FRAKING LOSER!

So, yea, this method I invented to help keep myself away from vodka basically works on the same principle as the Nyan Cat website: http://www.nyan.cat/

(If you copy this please give me credit and praise ;) oh, and for those of us who can't read here is the video:

100 Grad Festival "I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all."

Pasullero - 100 Grad Festival Trailer from Pasullero on Vimeo.
Meanwhile, in Berlin...

"I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all."

A new work by Patrick Faurot

100 Grad Festival 2013
Sophiensaele Festsaal
February 24th, 18:00

how to remove write protection from a SD card

the little LOCK switch broke off my sd card adapter and no matter which other adapter I put it in the LOCK seemed to still be on it so it was (seemingly) somehow permanently write protected - I spent HOURS searching the internet and trying out other suggested solutions until I came across this kid and this is the one that worked - scotch tape!!!:

Kids books about having Herpies

Yep. we are Writing and illustrating one.
More to come...

Auf der Drift

each home
A fortress







Context:
Berlin streets & neighborhoods

Why the iPad allowed me to get beyond any reservations about digital art and actually learn to <3 it:

Because you can draw on it.

Asocial media

One of the worst aspects of your friends and family having smartphones is that you KnOW they receive these messages instantly yet somehow so many of them may takes days or weeks to respond- if ever - in which case it makes it seem that they are CHOOSING to ignore you, right?
How and why is that ok?...

My mother and I went on a 45 minute tirade about how modern technologies have just turned everyone into zombies- and on of the worst examples is the conversations she has with the young mothers of her students who have 2-3 elementary-aged children or younger BUT who's husbands are seriously addicted gamers who have no time for their families...
In many ways Blur was right when they said 'modern life is rubbish'...

Felix Baumgartner

You know after a few glasses of champagne at the art opening for transmediale at Haus der Kulturen der Welt after you just saw a ton if people an a ton of crazy techno-art and then you swing through that späti downstairs at Alex and multiple Felix Baumgartners are staring at you from some red bull cans and you put all thoughts of worldwide corporate domination aside and just think: "Felix Baumgartner - love that guy!"

CTM.13 purge ghashtag, mykki blanco, Alec empire etc. at stattbad wedding

I have seen this poster around but only realized that we are actually going to this... And was kind of shocked... Because it looks totally insane!
Context: club transmediale 13 Berlin

Or- in their own words:
"Werte Gemeinde,

mit stolzgeschwellter Brust dürfen wir verkünden offizieller Teil des diesjährigen CTM Festivals zu sein.
Diesen Samstag werden neben Bekanntheiten wie Simian Mobile Disco, Skream, Greco-Roman Soundsystem und Alec Empire auch Acts wie Necro Deathmort und Anika, um nur einige zu nennen, ein abwechslungsreiches und sehr exklusives Programm gestalten.

THE MIDAS TOUCH
Greco-Roman Soundsystem (UK)
Simian Mobile Disco (UK)
Anika (DJ, UK)
Skream feat. Sgt Pokes (UK)
DJ Sotofett (NO)
--
PURGE
BlackBlackGold (US)
Tom Ass (SE)
xorzyzt (US)
Sun Worship (DE)
Necro Deathmort (UK)
Alec Empire (DE)
--
#GHASHTAG
BlackBlackGold (US)
Tom Ass (SE)
xorzyzt (US)
Half Girl / Half Sick (DE)
Gatekeeper (US)
︻╦╤─ ƱZ ─╤╦︻ (INT)
Mykki Blanco (US)
EAN (UK)

Facebook-Event:
www.facebook.com/events/120484458121307
RA-Event:
www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?432091
CTM:
www.ctm-festival.de

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Sa. 02. Februar | STATTBAD
Gerichtstr. 65, 13347 Berlin
S+U Wedding / S Humboldhain
www.stattbad.net
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Vorschau: Sa. 09.02.2013 | Keinemusik Record Release

Adam Port
David Mayer
Reznik
Rampa
&ME

Facebook-Event:
www.facebook.com/events/423796881029243
RA-Event:
www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?436605

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STATTBAD
Gerichtstr. 65, 13347 Berlin
S+U Wedding / S Humboldhain
www.stattbad.net
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "

An open letter to GEMA 2013, (same shit, new year)

Dear GEMA,

F%*K OFF.

Sincerely,
The Internet users of Germany who f*%king HATE you.

Hipsters + NEukölln = D E N A - Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools

Hipsters + NEukölln = D E N A - Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CDc9yCAqE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Aiaiai Berlin

Sandra's Maria Magdalena vs. Laura Branigan's Self Control

compare and contrast - not sure which came first...
Sandra's Maria Magdalena

OR
Laura Branigan's Self Control

Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able [Official Music Video]

just absolutely gorgeous:

found it because I have had this song stuck in my head for days:
Grizzly Bear Slow life

Dumbasswear.com

"The real Italian style"
Found this late night on the train...
Just...
So baffled... so SO baffled.

Hauptstrasse 155, berlin

Today I am returning to Hauptstrasse 155 for a friends's son's birthday party.
There is a funny story with that address, though. A few years ago when my friend was planning on returning to Berlin I was helping him hunt for an apartment (while he was still in Stuttgart) and adftwr viewing a dozen places I'd visited for them that was the one they chose. Originally I had google mapped the addresses but after they moved in I wanted to go for a visit and accidentally GOOGLED the address and a whole mess of David Bowie and Iggy Pop stuff came up- apparently my friend had moved into the apartment at the Hauptstrasse 155 address directly above the one David Bowie and Iggy pop used to live in back when.
The sad part of the story is that a yer later a Turkish family with special needs kids who obviously
Didn't know any better moved in and painted over all the paintings on the walls that Bowie and Pop had done (which were still there up until that point !)- which is just sad... :( and how that is my David Bowie Berlin apartment story.