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PAROL wishes Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

PAOROL wishes all beings, our friends, our comrades-in-”arms”, our customers, afficionados, surfers and other wanderes, who come by here, merry, merry Christmas and a Happy, Happy  New Year 2010! Oh my Goodness, as times go by! We will have PAROL time, the global warming will have a break the next three months.

PAROL 2009 over and [...]

Die Wahrheit ist immer konkret
Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

PAROL was allowed to support KONKRET publishing in the campaign
PROLETARIES OF ALL COUNTRIES DRESS AND WARM UP
The scarf for the neck and books for the brains.
Revolutionaries must patiently be “fortiter in re suaviter in modo” as the old Romans have said, strong in the concern and pleasant in the sound. Dress and warm up [...]

Antje and Lookalike

PAROL has some wonderful models, for example Antje

It was not at all difficult to find a lookalike for Antje, a really great actress. Do you know her?

Her director was this gentleman

And here Antje just before revolution 1989 and with two of her scamps

Fortsetzung folgt. Mit Bella, mit Dietrich, mit Albert …

Ne résistez pas! Don´t resist! go4cinema

German movies in the United States and United Kingdom are something exotic you don´t really exspect to see in your neighbourhood cinema, perhaps in channel 99. So you will probably not have the opportunity to enjoy this funny movie about a serious subject, the  never ending time of lab for educated young people who do [...]

Education to Poetry

“Education to poetry. One can print on T-shirts each with a line of the great poems of the world and challenge the weares to look for each other and to find together that their groups will add up to a full poem. ”
From: Botho Strauss´ new book “About Sojourn”. Translation by PAROL.  We are responsible [...]

Encyclopedia of the Scarf: Everything you always wanted to know about scarves…

After only two months in the blogosphere we have tasted blood. Primarily we have thougt that this blog should be an additionals platform and stage for our PARL scarves – and for the divas & heros who has spoken, sung and written immortal evergreen words. Now our goal is much more ambitious, nothing less than [...]

Once more: Jenny Holzer and scarves with her “Truisms”

Source: Fondation Beyeler, Special Exhibition Jenny Holzer
Grand exhibition in and out a phantastic museum building. I was very glad to be invited by Mrs. Mühlebach to the opening of the exhibition. I had two excellent days in Basel.
PAROL realized in close cooperation with the Fondation Beyeler and Jenny Holzer the production of two scarves [...]

PAROL scarves and the reminiscence of the summer

Now are the days to protect the neck with a warming and beautiful scarf.  One of the slogans of PAROL is “Wearing a PAROL scarf you are a lightning star in the wintertime”. We remember a very beautiful summer and an are looking forward for the next one. Her we [...]

Scarves with “Truisms” from Jenny Holzer

This was a challenge that amused and enjoyed us a lot.
Jenny Holzer is surely one of the most important contemporary artists .  Her oeuvre was already presented in many grand art institutions, museums, expositions, for example Guggenheim, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, in the American Pavillion of the Venice Biennale.
The probably most famous work of [...]

Kap Hoorn

Our friend Jürgen Hohmuth circumnavigated Kap Hoorn. Unfortunately in a calm without the very picturesque and dreaded hurricanes. Jürgen Hohmuth is the founder and owner of the photo agency ZEITORT. ZEITORT uses a zeppelin for air shot with low altitudes up to 100 metres. Pictures taken with this method give an unique spatial impression. One [...]