Melt! Festival 2009 in Ferropolis, Grafenhainichen, close to Dessau.

Few people know that Ferropolis/Graefenhainichen is located in a former coalmining region, Wittenberg, and during GDR years the nearby chemistry industry caused remarkably severe pollution.
This area was known as Bitterfeld. Nowadays, the environment seems natural and clean, a lot has been done to make it a surrounding worth living in. Lakes, woods, leasure sites, you can all find it here. Regarding to the press, the industry focusses on solar engineering and renewable energy.
We also find a very high unemployment rate and vanishingly few young people – They all moved to the cities or to the western part of Germany.
Naaaah, talking schmalking: It still is a nice place. You got the picture.
Here are the photos:

Click here to open the Melt! 2009 set on Flickr

These two artists are - in my humble opinion - blueprinting the next musical season:
CSS [Cansei de ser sexy - Tired ofbeing sexy] from Sao Paulo, who named themselves from a Beyoncee quote.

CSS music is a messed-up toybox, a theme park. On MySpace the band categorizes itself as “Grunge, Regaae, Melodramatic Pop Songs” which for me just describes nothing. They are just blending any pop style they can find – thank god including electronic music. I’d categorize them under Do it yourself. If you do not like this pop song, check some of their remixes.

I see a lot of parallels to the foolishness of bedroom mashup superstar Girl Talk, you remember: The guy who plastic wraps his laptop during shows to save it from his own sweat.

Listen to this [follow the links]:

• Tiny Masters of Today (CSS Remix)
• CSS – Move (Cut Copy Remix)
• Grizzly Bear: “Knife (Girl Talk remix)”

What if David Lynch directed a Disney Movie? This is how it looks like:

Really nice spoof made only from original footage of Disney’s “A Goofy Movie”. Director: Cody Richeson

Melt! Festival July 18th – 20th, 2008 in Ferropolis, Grafenhainichen, close to Dessau. Remarkable setting and mind blowing acts: Goldie, Whitest Boy alive, Booka Shade, Roisin Murphy, Mode Selector, Gus Gus, Hot Chip, Björk and many many more.

Click here for the whole Flickr Set and higher picture quality.

It was a strange mix of sunshine and thunderstorm, but though a lot of fun. We were privileged to camp directly on the festival site, the permanant beats in our ears. I had a flu and a sore throat – but it was worth it after all.

Enjoy for the moment.

Snoop Dog made it. He has now become the reincarnation of German Folk singer Roy Black:

And here is a bloke who tried that in 1971:

Pretty cool:

Food Fight is an abridged history of American-centric war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.

Watch the movie here and have a peek into the Official Food Fight Character Cheat Sheet
where the dishes are explained. Well, sausages & pretzels are the Germans, naturally.

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Your are thirtysomething? This is how you will be able to appear 15 years younger then you actually are. A quick instructional tutorial:

Third:
Then, forget about First and Second, go to a club with the following song on CD. Sandbag the DJ to play it, then pretend having a epileptic air guitar slip and rock the house.

I promise you’ll get all the chicks.

Soulja Boy vs. Van Halen – Jump Dat Soulja. Mashup by DJ Lobsterdust

Wenn überhaupt, dann hat die Nanotechnologie jetzt den gesellschaftlichen Breakeven erreicht. Die Blogs dieser Welt rätseln noch, woraus diese kleinen Plastikschweine gemacht sind: Halb Quecksilber, halb Polypropylen, enthalten Sie vor allem zu 100% das Element, was das Herz der geistig 11jährigen schon seit Jahrzehnten begeistert. Seien es ‘Uaaahhh’, Gummi-Jojos oder Jawbreakers: Sinnfreiheit. Giftig? Das auch! Aber THC macht ja auch gleichgültig…

Ein Material, das sich fast wie Flüssigkeit verformen lässt, sich aber seiner ursprünglichen Form erinnert. Wozu braucht man es? bestimmt macht es Sinn im Flugzeugbau oder der Textilindustrie. Ganz bestimmt. Und das kann eben nur Nano, weil keiner weiss, wie es geht.

In Japan kosten die läppischen Wirbellosen nur etwa 2,20 Euro. Wer japanisch spricht, findet vielleicht auf der Herstellerseite heraus, aus welchem Teufelszeug sie gegossen wurden: lokuloku.com

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