AKA is a tattoo studio, a gallery, a café, a performance space, and a foster home for all kind of artistic stray cats. According to Zitty, Berlin’s equivalent of Time Out, it’s the best shop/store/art space of 2010. Dossier was excited to sit down and talk shop with Jon John, who together with partner-in-crime Valentin [...]
Author Archives: Thomas Mader
Whatever You Guess It’s Not
May 12, 2011 – 11:08 am
Angela Aux is really a man, the title of his new album (recently released on Red Can Records) is Whatever You Guess It’s Not, and the press info provided reads that the identity of the 27-year-old singer/songwriter/producer/younameit is pretty mysterious and that the album deals with the feeling of being lost in a forest of signs. All [...]
Der Greif
February 20, 2011 – 9:47 pm
The Augsburg, Germany based photography magazine Der Greif (The Griffin) is a wonderful publication that began as regional project, but has since garnered worldwide attention. Since starting in 2008, the magazine’s creators have had the chance to present their brainchild at Preview Art Fair Berlin, Stroke Urban Art Fair Munich, Fotobook Festival Kassel, Dezines Madrid [...]
Kim Jong-il Looking at Things
December 5, 2010 – 11:38 am
With political and military tensions growing between North and South Korea, it’s time to take a closer look at North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il – while he looks at things. These images (and more like them) can be seen on the strangely interesting website Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things.
The Future of Money
November 24, 2010 – 4:53 pm
With America still knee-deep in the recession, and a banking industry that has long lost all trustworthiness, more people are starting to think about alternative systems of monetary exchange and trying to develop new, mainly community based, structures and platforms for the exchange of goods and ideas in general. Dossier talked to director and media [...]
Arm und Hässlich
November 18, 2010 – 12:45 am
Munich-based hip hop crew Arm und Hässlich (translation: Poor and Ugly) not only produces sweet beats and rhymes, but also makes great videos. The video to their song Unperfektion feat. Soihe is one of the best stop-motion productions I have come across in a long time. Everyone on their production team must be OCD, because [...]
In Conversation with LNY
November 11, 2010 – 3:15 pm
A few months ago we presented work by artist LNY in our Look section. Now Dossier got a hold of him for a quick conversation during his recent stay in Berlin. Thomas: The pieces you posted in Berlin are site specific in different ways. How aware of current political discussions in Germany and Europe were [...]
Big Bang Big Boom
July 13, 2010 – 3:15 pm
After his very impressive stop-motion film “Muto“ and after releasing several teasers over the last weeks and months, everybody’s favorite Italian Blu is back with his new film “Big Bang Big Boom.” This time he takes on the theory of evolution and shows you where life might have come from, what steps it has gone [...]
Papergirl
July 12, 2010 – 2:40 pm
Unlike a paperboy, a papergirl does not follow the same route. She goes where ever she wants, never takes the same road twice, talks to strangers and doesn’t even collect money at the end of the month. She is the kind of girl all the boys, and girls for that matter, want to hang out [...]
