SLAB Magazine

Public park benches in Münster (Westphalia).

SLAB’s pole decorating stunt seems to have caused some resonance in the neighborhood: someone has now strung their laundry up between the daft forest of signs, presumably to celebrate the 1st of April. SLAB approves. More please.

The forest of new parking signs on the corner of Choriner Straße and Zehdenicker Straße heralds a new era of extra expense and irritation for car owners in the surrounding neighborhood. Finding a parking spot on these streets is akin to striking oil. Social Darwinism largely determines who wins and who looses in the hunt [...]

Count the signs
As reported two posts earlier, Mitte’s long standing pole deficit has been solved with the installation of twelve new, stainless steel masts. We understand that poles don’t just get rammed into the ground for the hell of it, so it was of no surprise to find each one sporting a shiney new sign [...]

Last week the two little traffic islands on the intersection of Zehdenicker Straße and Choriner Straße were selected to be the location of twelve new, first-rate, 3-meter stainless steel poles, each capped with a handsome black plastic lid. The new fixtures make a fine addition to the lamp post, the no-enty sign, the tree, the [...]

Johannes sent me a link to Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in his comment on the previous article. Hofman’s work fills the uncomfortably large gap between Jeff Koons’ goofy, architectural-scale sculptures and Situationist International excercises in détournement.
Of particular animal interest are the works “Zwarte Kraai” (Black Crow) for its structural similarities to Spanish Osborne Bulls …

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Berlin’s most fecund inner-city prairie, also known as Skultpurenpark Berlin_Zentrum, knows no rest. A work by German artist Valeska Peschke currently occupies the southern plot of land in the form of a black seven-meter-high dog. I was immediately reminded of the scene in Catalan director Bigas Luna’s film Jamon Jamon, in which jilted lover Jose [...]

Mr Udo Arndt of the precicely titled “Verkehrslenkung Berlin (VLB) zentrale Straßenverkehrsbehörde Baustellenkoordination”, was kind enough to reply to my enquiry about the three green men of Torstraße. He explains:
“The changes to the crossing at Torstraße / Schönhauser Allee mean that a left turn from Torstraße into Schönhauser Alle is now possible. A left turn [...]