Category: k i n o k a s t
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Give a Photo gift for Christmas! Get 20% Discount
Get 40% Discount (ending 31-12-20) Coupon: 20-20 (+) Coupon: gift20 (=) 40% Discount for your unique photo gift 20-20 Reduction applies to all digital photos from Kinokast gift20 Reduction applies to all digital photos from Kinokast but only in combination with WhiteWall’ Gift Certificate. Shop here to give a present to your dear ones or…
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) WHO advice for the public: Myth busters
Some interesting if not plainly humoristical information about running Covid-19 Myths (from the WHO): Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Check the Myth busters Basics Medical Mask use advice from the WHO Stop the spread of COVID-19 by taking these steps outlined by the WHO, including washing your hands for at least…
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Covid-19 crisis living in(-)sanity
In this time of prolonged health, socio-economic and political global crisis in 2020 with Covid-19 (more or less ‘intelligent’) Lockdown situations nearly everywhere I hope you, your loved ones and all people around you keep healthy and safe. In the confines of our homes (a shelter of any kind is really a huge privilege for…
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The Open COVID Pledge from Creative Commons
Some interesting response during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Open COVID Pledge Open Science against Covid-19 New developments in Open Science against Covid-19 as the Creative Commons put it: Be safe, be smart, and be kind to one another. CC Open COVID Pledge: Creative Commons has joined forces with other legal experts and leading scientists to offer…
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More Foxes to teach us about cities?
A nature photographer captured an unlikely friendship between children living in a disused army barracks in Berlin and local wildlife All photographs by Jon A Juárez https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/07/the-foxes-the-young-refugees-and-me-a-unique-bond-in-pictures
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Snowden: The whistleblower’s Pivotal moment?
The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively to the Guardian about his new life and concerns for the future.
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World architect I.M. Pei passes
I.M. Pei, one of the most celebrated and prolific architects of the 20th century, has died aged 102. The son of a prominent Chinese banker, he favoured stone, steel and glass in his creations that bore his hallmark geometry and reverence for light. I remember visiting the German History Museum in Berlin in 2012 and being…
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‘Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it.’ ? André Gide, 1952
In his 1995 essay “Eternal Fascism”, cultural theorist Umberto Eco lists fourteen general properties of fascist ideology. He argues that it is not possible to organise these into a coherent system, but that “it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it”. He uses the term “Ur-fascism” as…
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World’s biggest intelligence headquarters opens in Berlin
Its [The BND building’s] bold new presence is meant to signal a more self-confident global role but the agency is not without critics in Germany, where security services can evoke memories of the Stasi and Gestapo.
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It’s New Year 2019! … OFFSIDE?
Project OFFSIDE started with the photographing of Berlin but extends in 2019 to wider territories: urban centres (build environment) and everyday life (theater).
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Bill Gates reads …
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2018?WT.mc_id=12_29_2018_21_YIR2018_BG-EM_&WT.tsrc=BGEM
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Read this now, post me later in 2019?
This is something you want to read before dying: I mean before 2019 slicks in… with fog and all. Robert De Niro is, famously, a man of few words. In the past two years, those words have included “punk,” “dog,” “pig,” “con,” “bullshit artist,” “mutt,” “idiot,” “national disaster,” “embarrassment,” “disgrace,” “fool,” “bozo,” and “Jerkoff-in-Chief”—all directed at…
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New Project: Walking to Unity
On the Day of Unity, two things made me start a new Project. First, photographing walking people – as in demonstrating or participating physically in public events – and then the overal Critique about East-West German divide, which is in many ways remarquable in its historical bias and simple social and political denials. See photos…
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Is reality Prettier with Google’s new Earthview app?
Is reality So Beautiful as Google Earthview gives us at each new click? If not, what are we looking at? Am I missing something? Today I got this image from Earthview – from Google Earth on my new Chrome window… Earthview is a new website and Chrome Extension displaying ‘A Curated Selection of the Most…
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Ok what is that?
Where is this? https://g.co/ev/1176 This is the thing: where is this? You win a Photo when you give me the good answer here !
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Jacques Brel on Being Stupid – and brilliant
This needs to be translated into English! So good Brel.