What is going on?! Duw duw
14.03.2026 17:19
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What is going on?! Duw duw
A perfectly formed digital archive of Gunta StΓΆlzl's life and works. I love her Bauhaus Dessau photo ID card on which (I presume) she scribbled out 'student' and replaced it with 'Master'
www.guntastolzl.org
#pointlessdetail Why does Pete Headset pronounce the word 'without' as if it rhymes with pith out? It doesn't. All of them sound like machine translations of English fed through autotune
A street with colourful housing blocks, a modernist building, a high rise and some passersby. The sky is blue with a few clouds
Berlin loves to resemble unfashionable postcards
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
"With some people, money and sex are the only truths... Bringing down the royal family may be the least terrible consequence of everything Andrew has done." A system that deserves to be gnawed into oblivion from within
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This is anathema to all concerned of course but why doesn't this service take a leaf out of my late PhD supervisor's book and write BALLS in big red letters over an entire page of A4? Or even: 'stop plagiarising rubbish, in fact just stop plagiarising, you'll feel much better.'
Yeah it's the mum **who correctly identified the slime machine without hesitation.** This bit rankled: '.. a lot of academics were just not prepared to deal with someone like him.' Academics deal with manipulative maniacs all the time but the stakes are so low because the big bucks are elsewhere
Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
#onthisday in 1616, the Vatican banned Copernicusβs "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium". π«Though it laid the groundwork for modern astronomy, both Catholic and Protestant leaders initially rejected the idea that the Earth orbits the Sun!
De La Soul's Tiny Desk Concert! Stakes is High! Me Myself and I! Enough said. [kottke.org]
Also Guy Debord and the Situationists, or much by Walter Benjamin. Maybe they fit
Iain Sinclair's psychogeography ramblings? He would stroll about London and environs with Bill Drummond from the KLF
Welcome to the public domain, GRAND HOTEL (1930) by Vicki Baum π¨
A glamorous Berlin hotel is the site for intertwined lives in this bestselling novel of drama, romance, and ambition π
The 1932 movie starring Greta Garbo.
Read it here β‘οΈ archive.org/details/bwb_...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
βοΈ A Marginal Note in the Shape of a Duck in an Ottoman Manuscript, 18th Century
All Evidence Points to Pigs and Camels Being Mutually Exclusive
Same. The laptop required fiddling with background colours etc. This never happens in espionage novels. What is going on
A Hungarian archivist friend of mine does the same. Is it the same person? The plot thickens
Inspired by my lunch
Chess absolutely everywhere in the Hungarian twentieth century: thermal baths, prisons, parks, railway station waiting rooms. Children, professionals and grandmasters, even KΓ‘dΓ‘r. Smoking optional
hetifortepan.capacenter.hu/sakk/
Nonsense, as a NATO member HU can invoke Article 4 if there is a threat, which there isnβt. Getting sticky under those tight mobster collars
Welches Mitglied der Linken hat bei der heutigen #vitscheberlin Demo am Brandenburger Tor gesprochen? Er distanzierte sich ganz weit weg vom Pazifismus.
Last week we saw new jersey/cali industrial hip hop nutters h09909 in kreuzberg where I was definitely the only person old enough and British enough to recognise the hairdo of zaphod beeblebrox circa 1981. Gig was superb #mulletsgalore
If one person appreciates my attempts and that person is you I am chuffed. This place often reeks of linkedin too much. I prefer to be a dodgy purveyor of fanzines nobody wants to buy
By this point the Stierlitz jokes write themselves:
"The hope is that if at one moment Russian people have to choose between the television and the refrigerator, the refrigerator will win."
An older man in a check shirt with long white hair sits on a stage in front of a red curtain. He has a microphone in his hand. The interviewer to his left is smiling at him.
Another extreme #berlinale experience. Q: How do you make an 80-minute documentary without dialogue about bridges? James Benning's answer: eight ten-minute static shots of bridges across the US, some famous, some not. "I am teaching you to pay close attention" he said.
Six women on a stage in front of a red curtain. Two are holding microphones. Three are wearing vyshyvanka, the traditional Ukrainian embroidered blouse
#berlinale Traces (dir. Alisa Kovalenko) is a document of surviving and starting to talk publicly about rape under Russian occupation, before the first war crimes trials even begin. Survivors show the path out of darkness towards justice.
Your Uncle Iggy is on the wireless to blast the blues away
Five people standing in front of a cinema screen curtain looking to their right. In the foreground seated audience members look in the same direction
Chung Ji-young's My Name is astonishing and in places very hard to watch. Gracious discussion with the director & two leads about historical and structural violence incl bullying, taboos, and hiding behind other names. Wondering about domestic reception after films depart the festival circuit
CALL FOR CHAPTERS!
Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
