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Two artists can be seen mid-thirties. At the end of each set, they reveal - she called Lisa and Bryce - their simple understanding of art: "Hau on it a bird": "Put a bird on it", ie approximately In the following scenes show how the hip-dressed couple bags, teapots and lamps in a gallery business with embroidered birds motifs, painted, plastered.
This should probably show the normal neostädtischen madness. A short time later, but Bruce will kill a bird that had strayed into the business. Since it is over with the Ornithological Art. Bruce suffers from a bird allergy.
The sitcom-bred American television audience suspects, of course, that here in Portland, Oregon will be shown. Portlandia (IFC, Independent Film Channel) was a surprise hit in 2011. The New York Times she got a "cult series". In early January will air the second season. Portlandia satirizes the lifestyle of young people between the nineties and noughties the-years. The whole thing is so settled in Portland, because there supposedly the hipsters like to live, to gentrify, do-gooders, the representatives of the digital bohemian. "Portland is the city that attract the young people, allowing them to retire," it says in the series.
The producer, comedian Fred Armisen and musician Carrie Brownstein, are practical as well as the main character. They can be seen in short episodes in new roles: as a feminist book seller pair, as role-playing nerds and indie musicians. It's about the important issues of these people to their way of life: Why are there suddenly so many disc jockeys? Was that Biohuhn happy?
Portlandia is a tribute to the indie culture, but which is simultaneously mocked. Carrie Brownstein is from her, she plays in the band Sleater-Kinney: "I love this culture, but they do not always understand," she says. Armisen and they usually hatch in cheap-looking costumes. The beard is affixed visibly, the craftsmanship is no blemish, but a citation to the do-it-yourself self (DIY) of the scene.
The spread in Portlandia humor is based on German standards, not far from the humor Anke Engelke Pastewkas or Bastian. They would have to imagine as members of an experimental rock band. To come clean comedy craft, pointed dialogue, dry humor and guest stars from the scene. In the new episodes will schauspielernde the director, writer and musician Miranda July, actor Jeff Goldblum and Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam to be seen.
Would you be a series produced in Germany, could occupy the two main characters really well with Charlotte Roche and Roger Willemsen. But those who trust in the German television?
In the U.S., just the labels are often found in hip bars. That say: "Put a bird on it!"
