Alexander Girard on House Industries

Feb 20,09 | 05:17 PM on delicious by kuppa kuppa

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House Industries presents the oeuvre of Alexander Girard with a suite of fonts and objects. Sunny faces beam from a set of childrens’ blocks; hand-made dolls speak volumes about relationships among designers; wise men preach tolerance in a nativity set; snakes, fish and foxes form a puzzling menagerie; an illustrative legacy challenges the intellect with a 72-piece memory game. Shop Girard!

The Lives of Others

Feb 20,09 | 11:27 AM on youtube by kuppa kuppa

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One of my favourites films. At once a political thriller and human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. THE LIVES OF OTHERS traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' AMEN), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck).