Staff

MOKA
loves dark eyes, freckles, cream cheese, mango, fish, gin, beer, green tea & waking up really late. Born 1985 and currently living in Mexico. Believes in tarot cards. Ocassionaly trades mixtapes around art of the mix. You can contact Moka personally at motelmoka(at)gmail.com. Additional links: myspace, last.fm.

KAHLO
is Marta Castro. Graphic designer and sexiest blogger in Spain. She blogs about erotism and subculture at Dadanoias and Ternura Porno, draws at Las mujeres impares and shares the most impressive flickrseries. A full portofolio of her work as a graphic designer can be found here. She lives in Barcelona.

SQUASHED
is mostly active at his own mp3 blog, Bricolage Fantasy but has also been seen posting at Skylab now and songs for the sirens. He currently can be spotted down south. Also at: Bricolagefantasy (a-t) gmail.com, last.fm

LOTUS
is an architecture student. She is currently living in Guadalajara, Mexico.

BUBBACHUPS
is Bob from the Netherlands. Bob is a 25 year old Accountancy & Controlling student at the University of Groningen. Besides music he also has a great interest in movies and sports. You can contact Bubbachups personally at his myspace or last.fm.

USVAHE
is a 21 year old student from Beijing, China. She has a flickr account where she constantly presents us a silent and very intimate side of Beijing. Also see: last.fm

MAKRUGAIK
Kosmiche hippie Besides contributing to the motel Makrugaik writes at Another night on earth. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

ISSA
is a 23 year-old web editor, from the city of Monterrey, Mexico. She fell in love with music at the age of 3, when her mother gave her an LP in her birthday. Her current proyects are weshallbefree, a blog that collects gigs and music events in the city, collaborations in metroblog ochocuartos, typohunting at perdida en el súper, and music writing for local publication La Rocka (printed). Her job in the motel is to keep the blog running and very web 2.0.

3UM
b. 1985, living and studying knowledge about culture in Poznan (PL). Listening, watching, reading and so on… Also see here.

CARL KRUGER
is an abstract and noise artist exploring the areas of computer noise vs plunderphonica. He has released his work on Tib Prob and Retinascan and has recently started his own record label Hair Club Tapes. Some of his work is available for download at the internet archive as well as on the retinascan label. He lives in Wilmington, North Caroline.

MUSICISART
is our guest, the artist behind the beautiful music is art. Currently combining music and exploring the Gotham city with keen eyes.

VENDETTA
is a 21 year old student from Istanbul, Turkey. last.fm

LIKE A EAGLE
is the moniker behind Adam Heathcott. Adam runs the Hometapes record label with his wife, Sarah Padgett, and will rarely blog at something less than intended. Rumors has it that a couple of musical projects with Matt Crum of Feathers are on the horizon as well as an eventual solo album. He is currently living in Boulder, Colorado.

See also alumni: Berbercho Productions, crish and oum, GiL

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Jean (Hans) Arp. (French, born Germany (Alsace). 1886-1966). Automatic Drawing. (1917-18) (inscribed 1916). Ink and pencil on paper, 16 3/4 x 21 1/4″ (42.6 x 54 cm). Given anonymously. © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn