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First it was Sthlm-Istanbul then Istanbul-Beirut, Beirut-Istanbul, Istanbul-Stockholm, Stockholm-Munich, Munich-Krakow Krakow-Frankfurt, Frankfurt-Stockholm. And none of those flights were anything like this. When is Southwestern going to offer their services here in Europe?

TEH meeting #67 - Stanica, Slovakia

At the begining of may me, Cattis and Ella went to Slovakia to represent Subtopia at the 67th meeting of Trans Europe Halles - a network consisting of 50 independent culture centres spread out in Europe. It was my third meeting and really great to meet everybody again.

The venue was crazy... as Stanica (the centre were the meeting was held) had no venue that could take all the participants Marek and his crew had built a new meeting hall built entirely from beer crates and hay. Tootally crazy... (click here for more pics of the construction..)

Betnér on Volvo

So this guy, Betnér is brilliant, here he delivers a good albeit painfull analysis of Volvo and government subsidis to the auto industry.

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

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Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters

Intelligent job advertisment (swedish only... sorry)

Today I went out to buy myself a pair of shoes and met Johanna in the shoe store. She had her office in the back room and I got some good perk while she checked her e-mails. In her inbox she had one of the better Wanted/Job Ads I've read in a long time. The booking agency (and label?) Monstera managed to skip all the standard clichés and instead gave the add a tone that people-like-us can relate too...

Hej.

Monstera ska tillsätta ytterligare en bokare/agent-tjänst. Tjänsten är under provanställning/inskolning(om det behövs) 60-80% med fast ingångslön och efter förlängning tänkt som en 100%are.

Vi söker dig som: framför allt har några av nedan nämnda egenskaper, eller känner igen någon av situationerna

kör en framgångsrik pop/dans-klubb och sett hur man arrangerar fester och hur turnélivet kan te sig för ett band/djs och vill kunna sluta på ditt extrakneg

skriver spaltmeter om innovativa remixar av artister från Lautzenhausen för någon nördig webbsida och surar över journlisttjänsten du blivit utlasad från

sitter på något bokningsbolag/produktionsbolag men ledsnat på att jobba med ointressanta gamla rockband, kanske är trött på dina arbetskamrater eller helt enkelt inte tjänar tillräckligt med pengar motsvarande din fantastiska kreativitet

jobbat på något skivbolag och känner till alla intressanta internationella och svenska artister inom dans & elektropop-scenen. Men blivit nedskuren och fått kicken eftersom du inte är över 40 och blev anställd innan mp3-filen dök upp

drivit ditt eget lilla bokningsbolag som vi inte känner till för att vi blivit insnöade och arroganta, men du vill komma vidare och kunna tjäna riktiga pengar

Sedan måste du vara avslappnad, lite av en arbetsnarkoman, inte vara rädd för att ringa främmande folk hela dagarna och vara skön att hänga med. Gilla att gå ut på klubb och kika på dina artister och gilla att resa runt i världen på möten, töntiga branschmässor och softa festivaler med jämna mellanrum. Vi sitter i Stockholm, och det gör du med om du jobbar här.

Hör av dig till: info@monstera.se

Vi ses!
monstera

Not only did I manage to find this great ad to pass onto my friends but I also found a good pair of shoes.

...and the job?

- Well sure, I like music but... It ain't me babe.

Delicious in plain english

For a few years I've been totally hooked on this great social bookmarking site called Delicious. It's absolutely brilliant for a number of reasons:

1. You have your bookmarks availiable on any computer.
2. ...your friends can see them too.
3. You can choose not to share when you are a tight ass.
4. You can access and even RSS-feed everything all other users tag with a certain word so that you'll be super-updated.
5. You can bookmark-stalk a nerd (read: very knowledgable person)
6.
7.

...I have been ranting on about the greatness of this for ages. Today I found the greatest pressentation of it ever. Here it is, Social bookmarking in plain English.



See you on delicious.


...and if you havn't checked out the "Zombies in plain English"... well, you should, 'cos I tell you - they are comming.

Charles Leadbeater

Sunday evening me and Karin will head off to Warzaw for a conference on "Creative Cities" hosted by British Council.

I'm so stoked to meet all the awesome people who will be attending... including Charles Leadbeater who is releasing his new book shortly.



...and for those of you who have not yet seen his presentation on TED... well, I strongly reccomend you to check it out.

I'm also really curious about Lorraine Gammon who will lecture on "The dark side of creativity"... Please drop a comment if you know who she is.

Reactable

This is Reactable.

It is a cheap music machine that can be built from home electronics (a projector, a video camera, some frosted glass) and software allowing movements, visuals and music to blend into one medium.



My main reason why I want to take these people to the event in Botkyrka is that I want to try out the table myself. I don't know how these guys see themselves but someone should tell them... They are not a band - they are the inventors of the coolest electronic socializing/music game ever. Fuck guitar hero... Imagine being like 8 people around a table like this one, or if the bar you went to had tables like this and the glasses that you drank from had symbols in the bottom so that every person with a glass got a piece to controll and add to the music.