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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

Here are a couple of pictures from the Karneval der Kulturen (Carnival Of Cultures) yesterday.
Unfortunately it rained quite a lot, and i thought it was less colorful and less fun then it was a couple of years ago, still, it remains impressive.
What struck me though was that the Germans dressing up in the colors of far away countries far outnumbered the actual foreigners behind the different wagons of the parade.

front of parade:

before the rain:

crowd:

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Tonight, - let me remind you, in case you forgot - there’s the Taugshow at c-base. A splendid opportunity to meet some Metrobloggers from Vienna.

Then, if you don’t care about Taugshows, there’s also the fuckparade.

What sounds like a porno-gangbang-event, is really your chance to dipp into independent media and protest - this time a national event of solidarity which goes along with the protest against the selling of Köpi and attached trailer park Wagenburg on May 8th for some €1.7 Million Euros. Anyway, more online.

Tags: berlin, taugshow, c-base, wagenburg, köpi, protest, fuckparade, fuck, parade

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