Berlin Fashion Film Festival – Call for submissions!
The first edition of the Berlin Fashion Film Festival will be launched during the upcoming Berlin Fashion Week, taking place July 3-8th.
Frohe Ostern!
Happy Easter! May it be full of eggs in all their many guises, but beware the ‘Virgin Boy‘ variety…
The World’s Lost Languages
On all corners of the globe, languages most of us never even knew existed are rapidly fading away and dying out. It’s especially awkward since we’re immersed in what’s meant to be a hugely interconnected system of global communication, and yet find little attention given to recording languages now only spoken by a few hundred people.
Beate Uhse Erotik-Museum
Located rather inconspicuously on the corner of a dingy, concrete shopping centre close to Zoologischer Garten U-Bahn, is the world’s largest erotic museum. Dedicated to the art and history of sex, the Erotik-Museum opened its doors in 1996; on the ground floor, a garishly-coloured sex shop has all the offerings you’d expect – dolls, dildos and everything in between, but … more
From Detroit to Berlin and Back Again
Once the thriving epicentre of America’s manufacturing boom, Detroit is now a vision of industrial decline with the highest rate of homicide per capita for over a decade in the U.S. Its striking degeneration has been documented with instantly recognisable and iconic images of abandoned homes and buildings, yet against all adversity Detroit remains a highly creative city famed for its … more
‘Extreme Outsiders’ Zine
‘Extreme Outsiders: Randy Constan’ is a very lo-fi pamphlet-style fanzine that caught our attention at the recent Zinefest in Berlin. Although it was one of the more modestly produced offerings, an A3 black and white photocopy, it was also one of the funniest and most intriguing.
Musical Furniture
Wouldn’t it be awesome if musical chairs wasn’t just that childhood game none of us have played in years? As in, if there really were musical bits of furniture that you could play like instruments? We’ve got everything from bendy guitar tables to an organ that also just so happens to be a desk.
Stendhal Syndrome
Have you ever felt giddy admiring a van Gogh, lost all sense of reason looking at a Raphael or turned to jelly before a Botticelli? Shameful wordplay aside, if the answer is yes, you may have suffered a bout of Stendhal Syndrome. Also known as Florence Syndrome, the psychosomatic disorder can develop when an individual is exposed to particularly beautiful … more
The Mushroom Man: Taylor Lockwood
For over 25 years, American mycologist and photographer Taylor Lockwood has been travelling all four corners of the globe, “chasing the rain” in pursuit of the world’s most spectacular and exotic mushrooms. Lockwood, who defines himself as an aesthetic mycologist, uses the photographic medium not merely as a means of cataloguing the organism, but to portray their beauty. From Chile … more
The Snowflake Man of Vermont
Befitting the winter season, weather scientist Keith C. Heidorn considers the life and works of the first known snowflake photographer. In 1885, at the age of 20, Wilson Alwyn Bentley, a farmer who would live all his life in the small town of Jericho in Vermont, gave the world its first ever photograph of a snowflake. Throughout the following winters, … more
Paris Syndrome
Immortalised in art, literature, film and music, Paris has been portrayed throughout the centuries as a seductive spectacle for the senses, a city overspilling with old-world charm and the promise of romance and passion. However, for a handful of Japanese tourists each year, this romanticised image shatters like the sugary crust of a Crème Brûlée, leaving them suffering from hallucinations, … more
ANZA Magazine
Available now at Motto Berlin, ANZA is the first East African architechture publication born of a collaboration between Tanzanian architechture students and Swiss architecture magazine Camenzind. It was completed in just over four weeks between August and October this year.
Ghost Towns
When you picture ghost towns, what do you think of? Mexico? Cowboys and Indians? Swinging cantina doors and tumbleweed? Well, ghost towns have been pigeon holed for too long! We’re here to show you the other side of ghost towns. We’re bringing them into the future. This isn’t actually Tomorrow Town. This is a Sims town. Tomorrow Town hasn’t been … more
Josh Coles’ London Gang Photography
With twelve photographs nominated for this year’s AOP Photography Awards, Josh Cole is a photographer at the top of his game. Having begun his career photographing the UK hip hop and graffiti scene, Cole now travels the world photographing slums and hard to reach people in hard to reach places.
BUGS AND BEASTS BEFORE THE LAW
Murderous pigs sent to the gallows, sparrows prosecuted for chattering in Church, a gang of thieving rats let off on a wholly technical acquittal – this is the very strange world of medieval animal trials as recounted in E.P. Evans’ “The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals” published in 1906.