Writing for Metblogs has the potential to be the most rewarding experience in your entire life. It’ll make you rich, famous, good looking, will help you lose weight, make your clothes fit better, and get you a super good deal on a new car. It will make you the most well known person on the entire planet. Yes, each and every one of you. Really.

OK maybe not. Actually those are all lies, but it’s fun at least. The truth is Metblogs is the largest network of locally focused blogs on the web, covering almost 60 cities around the world and we’re looking to add a few new bloggers/writters/authors to this fine site. If you wanna know more about us check out this wikipedia entry but it’s kinda boring so I won’t waste time repeating it all here again. If you wanna write for us, here’s the scoop:

• All author positions are volunteer. That means you don’t get paid.
• You must live in (or very near) the city you plan to write about.
• Anything you post must relate to the city somehow. That means you shouldn’t post a movie review, but talking about going to see a movie at a local theater is fine.
• There’s no requirement for how much you can or should write, but we ask that if we set you up as an author you make about 3 posts a week.
• You can post about things you love, you can post about things you hate. It’s entirely up to you

Additionally, because of our global network, there’s plenty of options for things you write to be read by people all over the world. Interested? Want more details? Post a comment and we’ll be in touch!

This is one of the reasons why I love YouTube Vimeo. I really do. I find crazy shit like this on there which wouldn’t make it to my hears otherwise. I mean, I rarely listen to the radio - let alone the local stations, I don’t watch TV and even if I did I doubt I see this stuff on MTV.

This song is called “rooftops”. It’s by Damion Davis (spokenview). More music and dates as always on M*Space.

Just by the way, if you think, “Damion Davis, I’ve heard that name before…?!”, well you probably saw Wholetrain then.

Tags: berlin, music, rap, rooftops

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Berlin Love, originally uploaded by elegalindus3.

Inside Kulturbraucherei (in Prenzlberg).

Tags: berlin, love, liebe

More from today yesterday.

Tags: berlin, streetart, love, kreuzberg, just, fase

Yeah, that’s the front of a supermarket in ‘36. I like love Berlin. Love living here.
Who else has this? If you know, leave a comment.

More impressions are on Flickr.

Tags: berlin, graffiti, 36, kreuzberg, rtz

I just discovered the graffiti report card (which comes with its own Flickr group).

And even though the inventor is not Berlin-based, I think it would work here as well, since we got plenty of graffiti (of course) and a lot of opinion - everyone got at least one!

So whether you love it or hate it, here’s your chance to become active. If you discovered a great piece, or you seethink it lacks talent, download the PDF, print it and put it right next to it.

And if just about anyone can judge music and musicians, why not apply the game to street art/graffiti/writings as well?

More at Design Crack.

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Tags: berlin, streetart, graffiti, hate, love, hypediss, hype, diss, judge

Although the We-Can Project is not from Berlin and its current exhibition is also not in the capital, but at Galerie Fango in Cottbus, I really want to present the project here. Not only because some Berlin-based artists contributed to We-Can, but also because lots of fantastic artists from all over the world did - and because I just love that project!
The idea is as simple as ingenious: to send a little yellow plastic watering can to artist-friends all over the world, “from Cottbus to Singapur, from San Jose to Bern, from Brighton to New York” as it is written on Froodmat’s (the project’s initiator) blog, and wait and see what they will do with it!
And they did great stuff: have a look at the We-Can flickr group to get an impression or read about all the participating artists on the aforementioned blog.
Or even better: if you have any possibility to go to Cottbus in the near future, visit the exhibition - the can-art will be shown until the middle of june.

Tags: art, we-can-project, streetartists, cottbus, exhibition, photos

21MB Moabit - this short film competition will be running until September. Make a documentary, love story, music video, or experimental film…anything goes. The only requirements - the film be no larger than 21MB, playable on a mobile telephone and have some relationship to Moabit. The organizers are also hosting workshops every first and third Thursday of the month, demonstrating Linux installation (Ubuntu!) and how to edit and export multimedia files. The jury consists of filmmakers, visual artists and teachers. Prizes will be awarded in two age groups - the first for filmmakers up to 21 years old and the second for the old folks. The winning films will also be shown on the big screen at the Open Air Kino in Lehrter Strasse.

for more information: info@21mb-moabit.de

The friends from Metroblogging Vienna are pretty much involved with everything there is in Vienna - at least it seems. Some of them will come to Berlin 12th May, 2007 to present their Taugshow at 8 PM at c-base!

Here is the info:

The flat hierarchies of talk shows are about as subversive as NYC Democrats smoking dope. But count us out! We won’t produce a talk show. Nope. We produce a TAUGSHOW! Which means: we dig it. Our guests are geeks, heretics, and other coevals. A joyful bucket full of good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair, condensed into the well known cultural technique of a prime time TV show.

[taugen; Viennese slang: to dig/love/adore something]

Tags: berlin, vienna, wien, c-base, cbase, taugshow, talkshow, johannes grenzfurthner, metblogs

If you are into streetfashion and love magazines like FRUiTS, websites like Hel Looks, Flickr groups such as this or that, you should definitly check out Stil in Berlin. Here you find pictures of people that are dressed stylish (in the opinion of the authors of that blog) or funny (in the opinion of the moderator Holgi of the radio show Trackback, where they were interviewed last week - right before me actually, to make some selfpromotion ;) ). They even have an exhibition here in Berlin at the Postfuhramt. Have a look and form your own opinion or let them take a photo of your style!

April 20 - May 8, 2007
Tue-Sun 11-18 hours

CREATE Berlin Showroom
Postfuhramt Berlin
Oranienburger Str. 35-36
10117 Berlin