Most of it too colourful and flamboyant for my personal taste, but there have been also some very nice plain dresses…

A little late, I know, but there was so much to do during the Fashion Week! Nevertheless I do not want to deprive you of those photos. I expect during the show everybody was only looking at those skyscraper high plexiglas heels with lily blossoms in them, waiting for one of the models to fall. And they were sliding, sliping, but as if by a miracle nobody fell…

A glance to the right and the avalanche lets go. A mountainside of Tommy coming down in her head. My god, don’t they know? This stuff is simulacra of simulacra of simulacra. A diluted tincture of Ralph Lauren, who had himself diluted the glory days of Brooks Brothers, who themselves had stepped on the product of Jermyn Street and Savile Row, flavoring their ready-to-wear with liberal lashings of polo-kit and regimental stripes.

But Tommy surely is the null point, the black hole. There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event-horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul. Or so she hopes, and doesn’t know, but suspects in her heart that this in fact is what accounts for his long ubiquity.

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“We sell out your human needs digitally,” states austrian web artist Hans Bernhard. His collective UEBERMORGEN.COM creates personal songs by using eBay-user-data. “You simply enter your Ebay-username, add Email-adress and within some minutes their software generates a score-file which is then transformed into your unique but uniform song and presented in teletext-porn-style”.

“The Sound of eBay is the affirmative high-end low-tech contribution to the atomic soundtrack of the new peer-to-peer hyper catastrophic shock-capitalism.”

With The Sound of eBay UEBERMORGEN.COM wraps up the EKMRZ-trilogy they started in 2005 with Google Will Eat Itself, followed by Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime in 2006 and 2007. 

1. Sleeping in
2. Collecting my blue peep toes from the cobbler
3. Vanilla Chai with mango mash &  cream cheese brownie at Aroma
4. Reading Süddeutsche-Interview with belgian painter Luc Tuymans
5. Reading Süddeutsche-Essay on put-on identities and US-photographer Collier Schorr (current exhibition running at Deutsche Guggenheim, I’ll try to go there tomorrow)
6. Taking some street photos
7. Back at home electric kettle almost on fire
8. Nevertheless absolutely determined to go out tonight 

P.S. The course is in english, that’s why I switched languages. Have to practise. Moreover there are more and more international visitors now. Välkommen!