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Reames has a book on the subject.
http://www.arborsmith.com
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WOW
I don't think I've ever clicked on quite so wonderful a link before.
I've often thought about this kinda thing, read about it in fantasy novels... extremely excited to see it coming to life. Good show.
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I think that Tomasz Bagiński's Cathedral is a bit on topic here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8GyHvBogrI
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Wow...every bit of that was incredibly interesting. Thanks for sharing that information with us!
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There are new building materials being introduced nowadays made with super dense formed fungus. Its apparently tons stronger than drywall, and far lighter as well.
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This is wonderful! The "chair that grew" reminds me of Odysseus' marriage bed (made of a living tree, so when Penelope tells him she's moved it, he gets angry and thus proves he's really her husband).
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Down here in Australia, the Boab tree of the semi-arid west has a short, squat and voluminious trunk that had been used variously as a house, jail and particularly sturdy restroom.
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Meat - "Superdense Formed Fungus Furniture"! Sounds great, can't wait to get one (just don't want it to grow too much...)
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I actually grew up with a shaped tree in the backyard— my dad spent a couple of decades shaping a cave out of the lower branches of a mulberry, while the upper area has a fort-like feel, big enough for several adults (we've gotten at least eight up there at one time.) It was a great place to read.
When I was going to college, my dad asked if he should remove the cave. "Dad, you are going to have grandchildren at some point!"
Not to the level of these things, but it goes to show that even an amateur can come up with something lovely and appreciated.
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Next up? Skyscrapers! http://blogs.discovery.com/news_sustainable/2009/09/tree_tower.html
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This is so fantastically beautiful. Thank you: this made my week!
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AMAZING!!!
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Fantastic presentation! Marvelous! But, all that is not just fantasy of some crazy peoples. It is part of our own cultural heritage. Not only huts and shelters of reeds or twig-arks bound with lianas covered with leaves are still part of everyday life in many places of the world. In ethnology or cultural anthropology this is well known today. But archaeology has mistakenly taught us to accept only durable materials as prehistory of material culture. In contrast to this we can construct a "soft prehistory" getting together all the secondary sources of signs (early script in China and Mesopotamia) and symbols (life trees) and even early representations of deities (Ishtar-Inanna of Uruk) with their roots in neolithic village culture where they were important as territorial signs and nuclear aesthetic models of the local village culture.
We know even that there were "Babylonian Creation myths" focused not on the universe but on the foundation of the local "cosmos" (that is the spatial organization) of an agrarian village by making a deity of reed which grew and grows in abundance in the Eufrat/Tigris region. The founder becomes some sort of chief of the village. The "Marsh Arabs" are still widespread living there in reed huts and around reed mosques, but having Islam as their religion today.
Paradoxically this very ancient "soft prehistory" is still vital as a sacred tradition of annual cyclic renewal of sacred Shinto-symbols in Japanese agrarian villages. From these traditional survivals we can understand that, originally, this was not "primitive religion", but was a very complex event, an essentially aesthetic territorial demarcation system which used only one symbol in the center of the village built of reed an bamboo and using its aesthetic structure to define the village territory Yin-Yang style: "holy woods and agricultural fields". The annual renewal of the symbol had become a festival of central importance for the village. The destruction of the old one put the whole population into a crazy ecstasy for one night until the new one was rebuilt next morning.
Important: early civilizations copied a lot from this nuclear territorial system of the neolithic agrarian village!
See my 6 videos 01-06 at YouTube (type: 'negenter' in search)
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Those "beautiful glass trees" in the BONUS section are by sculptor Dale Chihuly
http://www.chihuly.com/
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Hi Avi, great post, I loved Cloud Atlas when I read it. Another book by David Mitchell is Black Swan Green, and that is my all time favourite book.
David Mitchell is definitely my favourite author I would encourage everybody to read his books.
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I would suggest that the Yiddish Policeman's Union is a form of Alternate History. For other examples see:
http://www.uchronia.net/
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Had no idea the laws of thermodynamics applied to surviving in the wilderness. Silly me. I thought it dealt with heat and energy :\
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an acquaintance of mine make tours and rafts through the yukon- well ok we are from munic germany ;-)
http://www.any-way-out.de/
cheers
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I'll find it an real interesting experience. But isn't this really the "survival thing" out in the wilderness? Why does he have to twitter? I mean why do you really need access to the Internet out in the Yukon?
Maybe that's the deal for TV and National Geographic, but it seems a little odd to me.
"hi-pitched audio alarm built in that Ed can switch on as necessary. At night, the pressure pads can give early warning if predators (larger than a rabbit) roam through the camp."
Water-Resistant, High-Resolution Bullet Cameras 'FollowMe' Remote CamerasAutomatic Capture CamerasSony PalmcorderLightweight underwater Xacti camera - whre does the energy for all those from? Does he carry all the batteries along?
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That guy is an over-dramatizing idiot. It is warm, he has plenty of clothes and plenty of equipment. This isn't "survival", this is hiking. Join the nearest scout troop. They do the same thing every other weekend.
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He's not 'just hiking': he needs to get his food from the wilderness. Although he has some rice and oatmeal, I expect the NGC producers to have pushed this so he will at least go for a few weeks. (halfway through he said he'd eat most of it in the next days because he was so hungry)
I checked his latest vids and he really has this malnourished desperate face, talking somewhat incoherent and generally look weak.
On cams, twitter and internet access: they're heavy and you can't eat them so they're probably more a burden then a boon.
The sunday scouts probably don't have to eat porcupine, berries and leafs to stay alive, also they don't have to sat-phoneair-rescue to get pulled.
Mad respect, i'd probably be dead in a week.
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Great Story & Photos! New blog on the Hx. of the Ladybug:http://historyoftheladybug.blogspot.com/
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according to the twitter account, they pulled him out, because he wasn't in a good health. So maybe Bart was right in his comment, that he had some problems with finding food or getting anything good to eat.
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Really neat to hear DRB got exclusive stuff on this show. :D
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Isn't it amazing how we are fascinated by someone living in a world that many indigenous people did (and some still do) quite easily.
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I've lived outside for as much as a few weeks at a time. When things go wrong you really know it. You feel it deep inside because there isn't a hospital down the street or a friend to pick you up if your car breaks down. Most folks would've given up long before this guy. He's tough to have made it so far. He probably would have fared better if he's stayed where he was where there was more food. But that's the way it is outdoors. If you make a mistake that's it, there's no going back and you have to deal with the consequences which are immediate and unforgiving. I'll wager that anyone down on this guy hasn't camped more than 10 yards from a parking lot.
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he didnt make it - he was short by 5 weeks i believe. it was a BBC production originally, so if you are looking for more information search BBC - too bad i would have loved to see him make it - apparently he was starving and going a little crazy
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I guess he tried but it seemed a little too amateurish. for example I don't know how he capsized his canoe in calm water, may be for drama. He should have made getting food his priority and not on twittering. They even gave him guns! As a good old Canadian boy I spent three and half months in the high Arctic (twice!) and I didn't get a cent for it. Too bad Discovery wasn't around 18 years ago, I could have been a super star!
P from Montreal
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He didn't have adequate training and eventually used his emergency sat-phone to call for evac. He was suffering from delusions brought on by advancing starvation.
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I made it through 15 minutes of this show just a bit ago. I understand that apparently he didn't make it to the end, which doesn't surprise me. He's a moron and obviously has no common sense. I understand the whole "no survival experience" pitch, but seriously. You have a gun, you have bedding, you have a myriad of supplies... stop whining.
MSG D.S.
US Army
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Started off as something that may have had some substance. There was only 4 episodes and the man started crying in episode 2. 3 and 4 were the same. Man looks for food. Man can't find food. Man cries. I probably would have cried myself out there but wathching it on tv was just painful. I beat myself for watching it through. Glad he came to his senses and went home. I loved the last scene when he was back in his hotel room. looked at the mirror at himself and of course...cried one more time...ha!
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He is a very sensitive guy, not wanting to kill, missing his family and girlfriend, and perhaps he isn't cut out for what he set out to do. His undoing was his need for human companionship combined with his total lack of food. He was on the verge of having an emotional breakdown. I'm glad he left. At least he had the option to do so. To show the world his vulnerabilities/weaknesses was very brave. I know lots of men who wouldn't even consider it. I just know he's a "keeper" and his girlfriend is lucky to have him.
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This show devolved into bad television. Ed has provisions, albeit spare, all the way to day 50. Plus, his producers brought him food! He didn't look like he was "starving" or anything near it. Editors could have done a much better job of showing his adventure instead of one crying scene after another. Ed is weak and it turned out...so is this show.
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Show: Grade D
Ed: Grade F
This show rapidly became stupid and meaningless.
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My BS detector went off almost immediately. What a stupid show!
Les Stroud remains the genuine article.
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Started watching this, and I must say, I'm less than impressed. Expecting a show about wilderness survival, and getting a grown man weeping will do that. Better to watch Survivorman, or My dvd of Lars Monsen going across Canada. Granted he used almost three years and had dogs and a sled, but at least it was watchable
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I TiVo'd the whole show and I thought it was great. It does give you a pretty realistic vision of being alone in the wilderness.
I've done something similar on two occasions. The first was when I was 23 and I spent a month on the Canadian border camping by myself, living on a week's worth of food and fishing for the rest. Like Ed, I lost a good deal of weight. I brought a book and read it cover to cover three times.
The other time was a week long trip by myself again on the canadian border but this time at the age of 47.
When you are alone the wilderness is completely different than when you are with someone else. Completely different. There isn't anything to distract you and you are forced to live - if you will forgive the abstraction - totally inside your head. Time slows tremendously. You'd be amazed how much you can eat even when you aren't moving camp. Just making a fire requires 500 calories and you're lucky to get that back from a fish you caught.
I totally admire what Ed did. I do think he made some mistakes like moving around too much and not hunting large game like the Moose. It really isn't a nature vs. man test if he obeys the hunting seasons and doesn't shoot the ducks, so that part wasn't fair to him. Great show though. Too bad he didn't make the full 90 days.
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totally irresponsible for people like this to attempt these mid life adventures. Plus this fellow was not mentally ready for what this trip was about. Ed could never make it in the military. Stay in your favorite pub or coffee house Ed and stop making a fool of yourself.
US Army Retired
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I squirmed the entire time watching this idiots attempt at survival.. grow a pair and dry the eyes Ed.. what a worthless show... I learned everything not to do if found in this situation and I already know how to fish.
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You'd think the guys at National Geographic could tell a tank from an APC.
I mean, they've only been around for 50 years or so now, right?
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Ural motorcycle is just a BMW R 71 licence given to Soviets by their Nazi allies in 1940.
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The double-iris eye pic may be a reference to the cover art of tool's Aenima album.
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Ural mototcycles are not made in Russia but in Ukraine.
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Redmer's creations are fantastic...and he has launched a FB fan page lately: http://www.facebook.com/redmer.werkstatt
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You missed the latest news:
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre56g583-us-map-america/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_map
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Vinland_Map_HiRes.jpg
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That Absolut ad is actually brilliant. It's too bad that people don't know enough about history or geography to realize it.
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You definitely missed this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis
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under
Alternate history in hypothetical maps
The first map.
Why is there a yellow circle around Denmark?
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Wow, as if sailing in the 16th century wasn't frightening enough, imagine looking over your maps and seeing monsters or whirlpools drawn in right where you are positioned.
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Old maps of Africa are my favorites. My dad has a print with the continent covered in exotic tribesmen and strange, uninformed versions of the wildlife.
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Fantastic article. I'm really loving the proposed re-structuring of the United States in the 1970s.
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I find it very interesting that on the map produced from Amsterdam in 1689 shows that California (which seemed to also include parts of Mexico at the time) is not even connected to the North America. It seems to be separated by water called M Vermezo... I searched for what that might have meant but came up with nothing but a park in Budapest named Vermezo (meadow of blood or bloodfield) due to an execution that took place. I wonder if maybe the original California is now under water and the state that we know it as now was later named... Hmm... very intriguing indeed! Thanks for all the great map examples!
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>>That Absolut ad is actually brilliant. It's too bad that people don't know enough about history or geography to realize it.>>
In what way is that brilliant? I can't figure out what the message is supposed to be. Should we interpret "In an Absolute World" as "In a perfect world" or "In a better world?" Would it be better if they showed a map of Germany at the height of Nazi power with the words "In an Absolute World"? This has nothing to do with history at all. We know that the Southwest was owned by Mexico. But, how does that change anything, and how is the ad brilliant?
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>>In what way is that brilliant?>>
Wow, it only took 9 comments to break Godwin's Law! The ad is brilliant because it was marketed in Mexico, where there remains a bit of resentment over the takeover of the Mexican Northwest by the United States. Thus, in an Absolut world, they would still have their land.
>>This has nothing to do with history at all>>
Of course it does, that's why it was in the section labelled "Alternate history in hypothetical maps"
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Why are those Catholic clergy having mass on the back of that big fish?
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Hi people!!!
Where can I find some of these maps at a good resolution for printing?
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Eric: here is what we could find - "It shows the whale, Jasconius, in an account of the voyage of Saint Brendan. Some of the monks were preoccupied with mass when the nature of the island became obvious."
Claudio: some of the images are linked to very large-format scans on Wikipedia - you can use those.
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Intriguing! Thank you, Avi.
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Hi,
Some of these are true works of art.
One needs to remind that most of these are unique and handmade.
Some maps were also created with errors as a way of counterintelligence.
Regards,
José
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"there remains a bit of resentment over the takeover of the Mexican Northwest by the United States."
Well, given that you acknowledge that pandering to that nationalist resentment was the point of the ad, I too wonder just what you find so "brilliant" about stoking such passions just to sell vodka. It may be skillfully done, but I don't think it's a terribly bright move on Absolut's part.
If this were a map of the Old Confederacy, under the same headline, would you also sneer at people troubled by such an ad, insinuating that they simply "don't know enough about history or geography" to appreciate its "brilliance"?
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Yes, yes I would. You're still talking about the Absolut ad, and isn't that the point of all advertisements? Hence, briliant.
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Really Awesome. ( Lisbon/Portugal)
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I'm glad to see you gave http://vladstudio.com/ the proper credit for the image of the "reversed map" but you should use the image with the proper name on it, not the one of someone that cropped it and added their own name to it.
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ya that absolut ad is genius... if only mexico's corruption, and third worldliness could stretch further.
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http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
Always good stuff for anyone that hasn't been there.
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The "whale as an island" refers to St. Brendan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan
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The second map (according to Posidonius) isn't from 150-130 BC; it's based on his general ideas but was actually drawn in the Middle Ages. There are a lot of details that Posidonius couldn't have known -- for example, the Greco-Roman world didn't know that Britain was an island until Gn. Agricola sent an expedition in the mid-1st century AD.
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Vis the Absolut Vodka Map:
why do americans always get self Righteous / Indignant offended soo easily?
It was light hearted and aimed at mexicans.
Its not as thought it was aimed at native american indians showing the pilgrim fathers hanging on to small east coast enclave?
as the other poster indicated... Godwins Law so soon!?
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Becuase we all know that the "wild west" is so much in the public domain?
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21343
Just a big play area for the US Federal State (aka Military)
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Fabulous interview!
I love everything Myke does... thanks for the insights and for publishing such a great range of his work and interests!
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Great art. But why the dismissive and shallow description of artists Jasmine Beckett Griffith and Brigid Ashwood as "cute and light-hearted"? Jasmines work is fantastical pop surrealism and while some of it is airy fairy she also has a broad range of work that shows real depth and skill. Brigids steampunk art is beloved by her fans for its original take on the genre and uniquely feminine perspective. Many of us find her work mysterious and compelling rather then "cute and light-hearted". Some food for thought.
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"But why the dismissive and shallow description of artists Jasmine Beckett Griffith and Brigid Ashwood as "cute and light-hearted"?"
@Sophie - Mostly for lack of space. I had a lot of trouble keeping the word count down as it was, and the last thing I intended was to sound "dismissive" - as that would nullify the point of making recommendations.
Jasmine is a wonderfully talented artist, with a lot of great work, and she employs the use of color like no other. She has also been kind to me over the years, such as having given me a spot in last year's "Gothic Art Now" book.
Brigid is equally incredible, and I especially love that she is not only multi-talented, but has a myriad of skills to pull from - and an ability to work most any media with ability that is beyond "expert".
She also has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the best spots to purchase the best materials, and is an invaluable friend for this and many other reasons. She, too, has done some rather wonderful things for me along the way.
Both of which lean more towards figurative art, and those figures are figures that I find to be "cute" and looking at them not only makes me feel inspired. Given that they are often colorful and vivid, the mood of their works, to me, is generally uplifting.
I stand by "Cute and Light-hearted", just not in the way that you might like to interpret it.
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what a joy to fall in a world, only you and the novel. Such inspiring. That is the power of the mind. Good work
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About Justo's Cathedral. He lives in a village near Madrid city (Spain) and has no degree or other specific knowledge. He's simply a believer and a dreamer.
Use recyclable materials, accept donations (money or materials) and recently was the starring of Aquarious drink (Coca-cola).
Some summers, volunteers works with him to speed up the work. He has been working alone on it for decades.
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The television tower was spectacular - I'm sure that lifting it took a lot of hot-air.
Lol
The TV Commercial Blind and the Armpit Dryer ads are not from from an old mail-in catalog, as the caption suggests, but a NatLamp parody. Drawings by Bruce McCall.
Thank you, page updated.
The cow is a corn labyrinth in Berlin to teach children how a cow produces milk out of corn.
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/Stadtleben-Marienfelde-Labyrinth-Tempelhof;art125,2873489
It isn't a movie poster, but a parody work by lj user waldemar_kazak.
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