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Monthly Archives: June 2011
“Green Lantern” Timeline / Reading Order:
For the Berlin Tagesspiegel, I’m writing a series of essays on DC super-heroes (and their surrounding fan culture). With this years’ “Green Lantern” movie and 2010′s bestselling “Blackest Night” comic event / crossover, I thought it would be fun to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Scott, Blackest Night, Brightest Day, Carol Ferris, Comic Reviews, Comics Continuity, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, Donna Troy, Emerald Warriors, Geoff Johns, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, Guy Gardner, Hal Jordan, Jade Scott, John Stewart, Judd Winick, Kilowog, Kyle Rayner, Mark Waid, Oa, Peter Tomasi, Recommendations, Ron Marz, Sinestro, Sinestro Corps War, TBP, The Guardians of the Universe, Trade Paperback, War of the Green Lanterns, Zero Hour
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Viral Wednesday: Seven odd, weirdly compelling Animated Videos
I’m not a big fan of viral videos… …but: Here are 7 vids that left an impression – or a mark – on me over the last couple of years. Imaginative, pretty and/or… disturbing fun: 1) ‘The Dark Knight’ meets … Continue reading
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Tagged Batman, CGI, Die Sendung mit der Maus, fan parody, Kika, Kinderkanal, Long-distance Relationships, Mama Mirabelles Tierkino, My Little Pony, Pen Pals, Röyksopp, Recommended, Snowman, Stop-motion, Super Mario, The Dark Knight, Viral VIdeo, Wunderkammer, Yogi Bear, youtube
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Catastrophic Cakes, collected: Cakewrecks.com
You want to marry. You want a beautiful wedding cake. You go to your baker with a specific inspiration… and EVERYTHING goes wrong: At Cakewrecks.com, the biggest baking and dekorating failures are collected in wonderful, daily pic posts. Here are … Continue reading
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Tagged Baking, Cake Fail, Cakewrecks, Empfehlung, Fail, Jen Yates, Recommended, Wedding Cakes, Wunderkammer
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Toronto [pic post]
Today, I’m busy with writing. So… …here’s a couple of Toronto pictures – mostly from winter/spring 2011. Have a great weekend! for more – excellent! – Toronto amateur photography, please visit the Toronto City Photos and Video Forum (Link) at … Continue reading
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Tagged Euclid Avenue, Front Street, Personal, Photography, Pic Post, Toronto, Toronto Skyline, Urban Toronto, urbantoronto.ca
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Heucheleien, Journalismus, Propaganda: Best of Stefan Niggemeier [2010/2011]
Seit Juni 2004 beobachtet Stefan Niggemeier, freier Journalist, unter anderem für die FAZ, die Berichterstattung von BILD – und sammelt “die kleinen Merkwürdigkeiten und das große Schlimme” (Schleichwerbung, Geschichtsverdrehung, schlechte Recherche) täglich im ‘Watchblog’ “Bildblog”. Längere, persönlichere Analysen und Kritik … Continue reading
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Tagged "Tatort Internet", Axel Springer, Bildblog, Burda, Churnalism, Der Spiegel, die aktuelle, die Bunte, DSDS, Dumont Schauberg, Empfehlungen, Eva Herman, Journalismus, Konstantin Neven-Dumont, Lawblog, Lena Meyer-Landrut, Love Parade, Marco Scheyl, Medienführerschein, Regenbogenpresse, Spiegel Online, SPON, Stefan Niggemeier, Stefanie zu Guttenberg, Stern, Watchblog, Welt Online, Yellow Press
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eBooks gegen Bücher: Wird Literatur verdrängt?
Wird das Buch nur als teures Luxusprodukt überleben? …fragten Klaus Sander, Verleger beim supposé Verlag, Verlegerin Antje Kunstmann und Hanns-Josef Ortheil, mein Hildesheimer Literaturprofessor, gestern Abend im Hamburger Bucerius-Kunst-Forum. “Wie ist Ihre Meinung [über die Zukunft des Buches]?”, wollte (der … Continue reading
New, good TV? 2011′s most promising Shows.
So far, I’m not very impressed with the TV shows that will premiere this fall on US network TV: Lots and lots of sitcoms, priviledged white people, bitchy and shrill female idiots and domestic, cookie-cutter premises. Here are 8 shows … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC, Alcatraz, Anthony Head, Apartment 23, Awake, Don't trust the bitch in Apartment 23, Fall TV, FOX, Free Agents, J.J. Abrams, James van der Beek, Jorge Garcia, NBC, Promo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes, Terra Nova, the CW, The New Girl, Touch, youtube, Zoey Deschanel
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No Need to Read? 40 disappointing Literary Classics.
Coming up: A list of noteworthy, accomplished and exciting authors… …and the books that didn’t quite work. Not all of these classics are total failures or trainwrecks – but with all of them, the author either has much better alternative … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alice in Wonderland, Annie Proulx, Book Reviews, Ernest Hemingway, Existentialism, Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan, Ingo Schulze, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Junot Diaz, Lewis Carroll, Martin Amis, Paulo Coelho, Pride and Prejudice, quick list, Recommendations, Richard Ford, Simone de Beauvoir, Thomas Bernhard, Uwe Johnson, Virginia Woolf
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Underdog Literature: 15 fresh or notable, off-the-wall titles
Here are 15 books that caught my interest lately. Fresh, off-beat, quirky or curious titles that might deserve more attention: . 01: EDAN LEPUCKI, ‘If you’re not yet like me’, 102 pages, 2010 02: VANESSA VESELKA, ‘Zazen’, 256 pages, 2011 … Continue reading
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Tagged 15 new books, Adam Levin, Ben Tanzer, Brenda Ueland, Dance to the Music of Time, Daytripper, Empfehlungen, Grant Morrison, Graphic Novel, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Julia Wertz, Literature, Martin Büsser, McSweeney's, Recommendations, Scouting, The Decemberists, YA literature
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2010 / 2011: A Year of great Photojournalism at Boston.com
To commemorate the year I was born, my parents bought the “Das war 1983″ photography book by “Stern”, a big German weekly magazine famous for its photo spreads. When my siblings came in 1985, 1991 and 1992, three more photography … Continue reading
Hildesheim: Best of Youtube
Fünf Jahre lang, von Ende 2003 bis Ende 2008, habe ich in Hildesheim studiert – in einem Studiengang und zwischen Menschen, brillant-exzentrisch-exhibitionistisch genug, um Videos zu drehen wie… …das hier (Freundin Alex, Youtube-Sensation und Sommerhit 2008): …das hier (Freund Johannes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Müller, Christian Friedrich, deine Mudda, Domäne Marienburg, Hiaz, Hildesheim, Huckup, kleiner Hai, Kreatives Schreiben und Kulturjournalismus, Kulturwissenschaften, Kuwi, Niedersachsen, Phrasenmäher, Universität Hildesheim, Where the Hell is Matt?, Xiroi
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My favourite Movies [quick list]
I only watch about 10 movies a year (I’m more interested in books or TV shows)… …but in March, I made a quick list of my all-time favourite movies. Here are my top 25. [...with links to imdb.com's 'Trivia'-section.] American … Continue reading
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Tagged Criticker.com, Empfehlungen, Gattaca, Hamlet, Lars von Trier, Movies, Oliver Stone, Personal, Recommendations, The Seven Year Itch, Tom Cruise, Vanilla Sky, Wild Palms
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Prosanova 2011 [pic post]
Mein vor-letzter Post zu PROSANOVA 2011 in Hildesheim: Eine Auswahl meiner privaten Festival-Fotos – schon seit Ende Mai bei Facebook. Aber hier nochmal öffentlich, für alle:
