subdialectic blog in it's original form is coming to an end after more than 3 years. you might have realized the small number of posts for some time now. the reason is simple: a massive lack of time. for me (the admin & founder) it's time to fully concentrate first and foremost on my music, but also the publishing & marketing affairs. (i.e. for motivic records) the mental ...

Last week we had the opportunity to watch the whole documentary "Cycles of the mental machine" by Jacqueline Caux about the Techno music roots in Detroit. Essential for every single lover of electronic music. The Cycles of the Mental Machine chronicles the musical legacy of Detroit, Michigan’s ravaged Motorcity where the great tradition of blues, gospel, jazz and Motown R&B has never died. It also tells the destiny of ...

Some days ago Austrian artist Ferdinand Johannes presented his latest masterpiece, the so called Ferdinand GT3 RS. It's a handcrafted Porsche 911 Bike-Replica made of plastic pipes and scotch tape. Beside the extremely precise realization (watch construction pics) of the car itself, I just love the usual car-poster-aestethic of the promo photographs available for purchase. The following video shows the bike-car in action: You can now see this car ...

Highly recommended docu from the 70s about industrial design in Italy, trying to explain the main reason why design from Italy had and still has such an enormous impact. It's nice to see behind company's curtains like Brionvega, Kartell, Olivetti or Cardin; If you don't know Brionvega already, that's what they do:

Supernice and really old documentary about the London Underground. Embedding is deactivated, so here's the Link

Check out the wonderful work of photographer Tod Seelie. I completely share his view on things more or less beautiful and a digg his sense for composition. Link: Tod Seelie Link: Tod Seelie interview

Real interesting story behind this small city in Czech Republic... I just summed up some of the info I found on the web... From the official website of Zlin: "Zlín, the administrative center of the Zlín region, lies along the river Dřevnice in a mild climatic area of southeastern Moravia. It is also a crossroad for the ethnographic boundaries of the Wallachian, Hana and Moravian Slovak regions. This ...

I don't know the real facts behind this person and the protagonists in this really strange story first told on ebay. The seller wants $250.000 for the rights on his story about dealing with PEZ Candy, but if you are into collecting (may it be PEZ Candy, Vinyl, or something else...), this story reads like a thriller with a bad ending... Don't know whether it's fake or not, but ...