EURO 2008 - Kicking for betterplace! JunpmSun, 15 Jun 2008 21:30:30 +0000c09 28, 2008

Kalzone (Username: panconqueso) is participating in the betterplace prediction game to each of the 31 matches of the EURO 2008.

Everyone can participate and do something useful. If you are spot on: Well done, you know your football. If you get it wrong: Donate one Euro to the project “KICKFORMORE - the streetfootball league” - or to one of the many other projects on the platform for social projects - betterplace - and be spot on anyway.

The Internet based Foundation betterplace.org, founded in July 2007, aims to connect people in need of support and others who want to help - one to one - worldwide. After an extended stay in Africa, Till Behnke returned to Germany to work for car manufacturer DaimlerChrysler. In 2006, Till felt the need to combine his degree in Business Informatics, his professional expertise as a project manager and the ambivalent encounter with the African continent to a more meaningful end than a career in a transnational corporation. In Berlin he met his ideal partner in Line Hadsbjerg. With a degree in anthropology, she had worked both for Amnesty International in India and for the European Commissioner for Development in Brussels. After long discussions about how the Internet can be used to better the lives of people in need worldwide, they surrounded themselves with a highly motivated, interdisciplinary team, consisting of Philip Baier, Moritz Eckert, Georg Friedrich, Axel Kuzmik and Bodo Sieber, to start betterplace.org - a global platform that was to be a bridge between needs and new, innumerable opportunities.

On betterplace.org there are social projects from around the world or in the closest neighbourhood. Projects can directly be supported by offering donations in money, kind, know-how, or time – as an individual or a company. On betterplace experience can be made directly, in text and image, the concrete difference each contribution is making.

betterplace guarantees that the donation will be forwarded to the project of your choice without any administrative fees - 100%! This possible because betterplace is not funded by donations. Furthermore, the charities represented on betterplace are also committed to this principle. Each donation received through the betterplace platform is forwarded to the individual project, and is not being used to cover the administration costs of the organisation.

Returning to the EURO 2008: Whoever gets most of the predictions right will be the betterplace Prediction King 2008 and is the winner - but so of course is everybody else involved. For every false prediction, 1 Euro will be donated to the project KICKFORMORE.

On the first matchday, we were able to save the position 11. Our results to present:

Win:16 Draw:15

Contribution in Euro: 15,00

Placing bets: “panconqueso” Matchday 1

Season	Kickoff	Home team	Away team	Group	Toto
EM	6/7/08 6:00 PM	Switzerland	Czech Republic	Group A	2
EM	6/7/08 8:45 PM	Portugal	Turkey	Group A	0
EM	6/8/08 6:00 PM	Austria	Croatia	Group B	2
EM	6/8/08 8:45 PM	Germany	Poland	Group B	1
EM	6/9/08 6:00 PM	Romania	France	Group C	2
EM	6/9/08 8:45 PM	Netherlands	Italy	Group C	2
EM	6/10/08 6:00 PM	Spain	Russia	Group D	1
EM	6/10/08 8:45 PM	Greece	Sweden	Group D	2

Placing bets: “panconqueso” Matchday 2

Season	Kickoff	Home team	Away team	Group	Toto
EM	6/11/08 6:00 PM	Czech Republic	Portugal	Group A	2
EM	6/11/08 8:45 PM	Switzerland	Turkey	Group A	0
EM	6/12/08 6:00 PM	Croatia	Germany	Group B	2
EM	6/12/08 8:45 PM	Austria	Poland	Group B	2
EM	6/13/08 6:00 PM	Italy	Romania	Group C	1
EM	6/13/08 8:45 PM	Netherlands	France	Group C	1
EM	6/14/08 6:00 PM	Sweden	Spain	Group D	2
EM	6/14/08 8:45 PM	Greece	Russia	Group D	0

Placing bets: “panconqueso” Matchday 3

Season	Kickoff	Home team	Away team	Group	Toto
EM *	6/15/08 8:45 PM	Switzerland	Portugal	Group A	2
EM *	“	Turkey	Czech Republic	Group A	2
EM *	6/16/08 8:45 PM	Poland	Croatia	Group B	2
EM *	“	Austria	Germany	Group B	2
EM *	6/17/08 8:45 PM	France	Italy	Group C	2
EM *	“	Netherlands	Romania	Group C	1
EM *	6/18/08 8:45 PM	Russia	Sweden	Group D	2
EM *	“	Greece	Spain	Group D 2

Placing bets: “panconqueso” Quarter-final

Season	Kickoff	Home team	Away team	Toto
EM *	6/19/08 8:45 PM	Portugal	Germany	1
EM *	6/20/08 8:45 PM	Croatia	Turkey	1
EM *	6/21/08 8:45 PM	Netherlands	Russia	1
EM *	6/22/08 8:45 PM	Spain	Italy	1

Placing bets: “panconqueso” Semi-final

Season	Kickoff	Home team	Away team	Toto
EM *	6/25/08 8:45 PM	Germany	Turkey	1
EM *	6/26/08 8:45 PM	Russia	Spain	2

Placing bets: “panconqueso” Final

Season	Kickoff	Home team	Away team	Toto
EM *	6/29/08 8:45 PM	Germany	Spain 2

Panconqueso congratulates Spain for being ‘campeón’!!!

The Blue Dragon by Robert Lepage in Salamanca! JunpmSun, 08 Jun 2008 18:41:33 +0000c06 28, 2008

Robert Lepage, one of the most versatile theater directors has braught a new masterpiece to Spain when he and his company Ex Machina performed last night in The Blue Dragon at the IV Festival de las Artes de Castilla y León in Salamanca.

Québécois director Robert Lepage’s characters are often travellers drawn to the revealing encounter with the other, the exotic, the unknown. Yet in all the stories Lepage has told through opera, film, or theatre, only one of his characters has ever gone away for good— Pierre Lamontagne, the central figure in The Dragons’ Trilogy, who departs as the play closes to study art in China.

Twenty years later, Lamontagne resurfaces in Shanghai’s Moganshan 50, a former industrial complex converted into an arts centre, now the heart of the contemporary Chinese art scene. Here he meets Claire Forêt, a Montreal ad executive, drawn like so many others to take advantage of the Chinese economic miracle. Claire, who had known Pierre in another life at art school, casts a decidedly western eye on his current existence. Through the shock of their rediscovery and confrontation, their common past opens an unexpected door to the future for both. Enter Xiao Ling, a Chinese artist exhibiting at Pierre’s gallery. As she faces wrenching choices, the young woman awakens hopes long buried in Claire.

In the effervescent paradox that is modern China, the collision of these three characters brings about fundamental changes for each.

Co-written by Robert Lepage, winner of the 2007 Europe Theatre Prize, and his collaborator Marie Michaud (who also co-authored The Dragons’ Trilogy), and performed by Lepage, Michaud, and dancer Tai Wei Foo, The Blue Dragon bears all the hallmarks of Lepage’s original, brilliant, and highly visual style. As always, Lepage relies on the one inexhaustible resource the theatre possesses—the audience’s intelligence.

Playing with the audience’s imagination, Robert Lepage is a real visionary, he is creating theater for those who don´t like theater.

Pecha Kucha Berlin Vol. 8.1 meets DMY MaypmMon, 19 May 2008 23:15:25 +0000c11 28, 2008

Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 100 cities across the world. Find a location and join the conversation.

Pecha Kucha nights always start at 20.20h in changing location.

This week is very special when Pecha Kucha Berlin meets DMY International Design Festival at Glashaus Arena (Kreuzberg) at 21.20h.

The speakers of the next Pecha Kucha night are the following:

+ Aftershow Party with Exsample (normoton)

Pecha Kucha Vol. 8.1 meets DMY!
22.Mai // Glashaus, Arena // Start 21:20 // Einlass 20:30

Napoleon D - A show about men, the internet, politics, sex. Oh, and dance. MaypmFri, 09 May 2008 15:59:46 +0000c03 28, 2008

The US movie “Napoleon D” narrates a story of outcasts at a provincial American highschool. The protagonist Napoleon Dynamite is a nerd. Normally the incarnation of “uncool” one day he manages to surprise his entire school: at an election rally for student representative Napoleon dances for the minority candidate to support him. This dance scene enchants with its bizarre sexyness. For whatever reason － this scene became one of the most often watched dance sequences on the internet. More than 8 million people watched it on YouTube alone.

post theater has invited 5 choreographers to research this pop-cultural phenomenon and interprete Napoleon’s dance. The rules are as easy as they are strict: every choreographer has exactly 10 minutes performance time, not more than two performers and very limited light and stage design options. The scenes will deal with the topics at hand: masculinity, sexuality and the power of pop. And of course: how are pop-choreographies transmitted via film, video and the internet? The choreographers that will join the project all have their specific signatures and different approaches to pop-culture. Every dance segment is a re-mix of the same source material － Napoleon’s dance.

Inspired by the movie-narrative and just like the YouTube conventions － the performances will be not just put on stage but put up for voting. The audience will vote over their favorite piece. In addition this is an ironic spin on TV formats that vote for stars and the Berlin art scene where arts are in competition for recognition.

Promotion clips and the actual works of the collaborating choreographers have been uploaded on the internet － back to where their material came from first.

Watch the promotional clips here and vote your favorite.

Napoleon D. Clip 1 - Nabih Amaraoui and Matthieu Burner

Napoleon D. Clip 2 - Martin Clausen

Napoleon D. Clip 3 - Clint Lutes

Napoleon D. Clip 4 - Nir De Volff

Napoleon D. Clip 5 - Christoph Winkler

Every Monday at 20.30h

Ort / Venue: Dock 11 - Kastanienallee 79 - 10435 Berlin

Karten unter / Ticket-hotline: 030 44041912

*Reservierung dringend empfohlen
*Reservation recommended

Note: The performance is in English and German.

10 verdades sin importancia! - Vol. 2 AbramMon, 21 Apr 2008 10:23:38 +0000c10 28, 2008

1. En Italia no hay Malaria desde el año 1962 - oficialmente!

2. Tocar la cabeza de un niño desconocido, se ve muy mal en la India.

3. Sólo un 4% de los Irlandeses son pelirrojos.

4. Regla para mantener un acuario: 1 litro de agua por cada centimetro de cuerpo del pez.

5. El miedo a la cifra 13 se llama Triscaidecafobia.

6. Cuando hace frío, la Torre Eiffel se puede encoger hasta 15 centimetro.

7. En Suecia, la W es letra oficial desde hace poco.

8. Nadie tiene que aceptar más de 50 monedas.

9. El Gorila y Orangután tiene que aprender la natación igual que el hombre.

10. Los arboles no superan a los 130 metros en altura porque el agua no puede subir más.

Por Neon

Foto: Judi Bottoni

Exberliner - Nuevas tendencias de Berlín en Inglés AbramWed, 16 Apr 2008 11:39:11 +0000c11 28, 2008

¿No hablas alemán pero quieres pasar un buen tiempo en Berlin? No es tan difícil. El Exberliner es una buena ayuda si te enteras algo del inglés. Primero es una revista que se distribuye de forma gratuita en muchas tiendas de moda y hoteles. Es bien entretenida y te pone al día con lo más básico. También puedes conseguir direcciones y primera orientación en la página web. En el ‘City Guide’ encuentras toda la información necesaria, no sólo cómo moverte dentro de la ciudad, restaurantes, hoteles, sitios más destacados pero también consejos de la vida nocturna. ¿Quieres quedarte más tiempo en esta ciudad maravillosa? Si buscas casa, consulta los ‘Classifieds/Kleinanzeigen’.

2 Kolegas in Beijing AbrpmWed, 09 Apr 2008 23:15:37 +0000c11 28, 2008

It is a little remote from the centre of Beijing in the Chaoyang district and almost impossible to find the bar unless you are in the scene. It seems that Taxi drivers have never heard of this place before. It´s inside a retro drive-in cinema complex off Liangmaqiao Lu in the middle of nowhere with some run down Chinese restaurants and coffee bars around the cinema itself. Turning left away from the drive-in (I know it is hard but try to explain the taxi driver that you don´t want to go to the drive-in), you can see a run down building with blue letters ‘2Kolegas’.

2 Kolegas - no joke - it has a Spanish name although it is run by two Chinese guys. In Chinese Mandarin the place is called liang ge hao pengyou, meaning “two good friends”, but it probably seemed cooler in Spanish.

This bar with a plastic furniture garden (and a proper loo inside!) is probably the best live music venue in town, covering rock, punk, blues, jazz and experimental music with the odd charm of the illegal bars in Berlin in the mid-90s. Rarely you can rely on opening times and programs, however, if open it is an absolutely amazing place to chill out, especially in summer.

2 Kolegas
21 Liangmaqiao Lu
Inside the drive-in movie theater park
亮马桥路21号汽车电影院内
燕莎桥往东500米路北汽车电影院内

Image by Kalzone

20 verdades sin importancia! AbrpmTue, 08 Apr 2008 22:42:42 +0000c10 28, 2008

1. El eterófono (Theremin) ha sido el primer instrumento electrónico que no hay que tocar.

2. Michael Jackson tiene los derechos en la himna de Carolina del Sur.

3. Osama Bin Laden tiene 53 hermanos.

4. Antes del Siglo 18 no había diferencia entre un zapato izquierdo y derecho.

5. Grace Kelly ha sido la primera que murió en un hospital que ha sido fundado e inaugurado por ella misma.

6. Los eskimos usan neveras para que no se congelan los alimentos.

7. El mes de Noviembre siempre empieza el mismo día de la semana que el mes de Marzo.

8. Elvis Presley nunca cantaba otra después del aplauso.

9. El músculo más fuerte del cuerpo es la lengua

10. Un móvil tiene más capacidad que el macrocomputador de la época del alunizaje.

11. Los antropólogos no han encontrado a ningún pueblo en el mundo cuyos niños no juegan al escondite.

12. Cortar una cebolla para aplicarsela a los pies tiene el efecto de tener sabor de cebolla en la boca una hora después.

13. Los bebés nacen sin rótulas.

14. A los músicos les encanta de esconderse detrás de su instrumento.

15. Sólo un 10% de energía de una bombilla se transforma en luz, el resto es calor.

16. Los pulpos tienen 3 corazones.

17. Cleopatra no tenía origen en Egipto, era griega.

18. Dar igual si vuela alto o bajo, la sombra de un avión es siempre igual grande.

19. A diferencia a los cisnes, los gansos pasan gran tiempo en la tierra.

20. En Suecia, la prostitución está prohibida.

por Neon

Foto: Take care in China! AbrpmSun, 06 Apr 2008 13:33:49 +0000c01 28, 2008

Foto: Carlos Hugo Ramírez Zuluaga, 2008

Foto: 100% DDR AbrpmTue, 01 Apr 2008 19:25:19 +0000c07 28, 2008

Foto: Pippa Matson, 2006