if you are in desperate need for a practical original Christmas present in limited editon check out the PRINZAPFEL Calendar by HerzPalma!
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Heres a german description from the homepage:
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“Prinz Apfel 2009 ist da!
Mesdames et Monsieurs,
Druckfrisch, knackig und prall gefüllt mit bunten Illustrationen gibt es den Prinz Apfel Kalender für das kommende Jahr!
Prinz Apfelist keine neue Apfelsorte und auch kein baldiger Erbe eines Königreichs – etwas Besonderes ist er allerdings.
Ein Taschenkalender, Timer, Zeitplaner, Bilderbuch, Notizbuch, anspruchsvolles Fotoalbum, Tagebuch - Prinz Apfel ist eigentlich alles, was Du aus ihm machst. Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen aus dem Leben des Prinz Apfels. Jede Woche versüßt Dir das Büchlein im A5 Format auf seine individuelle und wunderbare Weise das Leben – es lässt sich zusammenfassen nur sagen: ein Prinz Apfel eben!”
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Stunning News from the science world:
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Annie Leonard Talks us through the story of stuff backed up by some neat flash animation.
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Dare the buffering phases to get some information and motivation about consumption and sustainability. Its worth it!
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video length 20 min +~ altogether 4 minutes buffering

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found an interesting flash application showing the worlds preferences for McCain or Obama as next president of the USA.
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“see the hipsters in the park, hair so styled clothes so dark”
that moldy peaches line was my first encounter with hipsters.
Back then i tried to figure out a bit what that youthculture was really about and if it had good or bad connotation (like you do with new influences)
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recently vintage look, overstylers and pornesque everyday life poses came back knocking at my door.
I think this whole hipster thing has a soft edge border. At the one hand I’m not entirely put off by it at the other hand I would never want to commit myself. Anyway a friend of mine posted a nice Article on her moodmessage today, published by adbusters. The article worries about kids making style issues and being perceived their overall sense of life, not realizing that they are marionettes of a marketing image machine.
On the other hand people realize that quite for sure. The question is if you can develop a youthculture left alone by marketing and image scouts nowadays. I think hipster culture is not the only one being fucked by capitalistic workflows. Think about visual kei and how fast it appeared in popular product culture with the tokio hotel frontman featuring its aspects almost before it “appeared” as a youthculture.
Two factors make it hard for youthcultures nowadays: constant trend monitoring, capitalistic logic taking over every aspect of your life and the general feeling of the educated consumer that nothing new can be created.
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But i wouldn’t worry too much. As we have seen with Vienna descending Krocha youthculture, Style Bubbles without substance might plop sooner as one thinks.
In this Spirit commit, create and “Mach et einfach!“* for something new will always emerge.
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(via maria otter)
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*frei nach Icke und ER ; )

Add-Art replaces web advertisment (visual klick me madness) with contemporary art.
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i installed it, i like it!
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UPDATE:
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Add-Art is a project by the anti advertising acency. Read more here.

Montpellier’s Remi Gaillard decided to put more efford into his street pranks after loosing his job as a shoe vendor. Since then he is producing incredibly funny prank videos which are standing out through their variety of ideas and spontaneous character.
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Hes working with his friend as cameraman using a standard dv camcorder. At the moment they are not earning any money but much respect from all over the world.
their motto:
“C’est en faisant n’importe quoi qu’on devient n’importe qui”
means as much as
“its through making anything, that you are becomeing anyone.”
(if my translation is right…)
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check out remis website nimportequi.com or youtube channel to see videos like these:
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