fixie ride

Hey, Ihope you passed all some good days with your family or your friends.
I found this little vid on milano fixed. Thiy is one of the more interesting trick videos for fixie I've seen so far. I hope he keeps up the good work. Props!

One gear No idea from chris akrigg on Vimeo.

Random pic III

sublime pic of star wars awesomness!



via c+r

a wet day

I don't get it. But this short is quite interesting. It's from Matthias Fragstein.

A WET DAY from Michael Fragstein on Vimeo.

Via shape+colour

Plague

Short movie about a gun runner who tries to escape a zombie plague

PLAGUE - OFFICIAL SCREENER from Matt Simpson on Vimeo.

cut chemist

Cut Chemist - 1st Big Break from eyestorm on Vimeo.

Salazar

Hey,
I've stumbled over this cool short movie from Salazar. it's shot only in Sow mo and you can see some Skater boys who were powdered in some kind of pigment dust.
Enjoy!

Wizard Smoke from Salazar on Vimeo.

vice guide to sex

Just watch it.

lplover

If you want browse through trashy old lp covers here is the place to be!
They have tons of covers and often short explanations of the covers and the bands who are behind the masterworks. Some examples:

exactitude

The second post is about Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek.
They were interested by the different dress codes in social groups and began in 1994 taking shots of people. They put them together and present they work, which they call exactitudes here. I personally like this one:

Néojaponisme

Hey,
Sorry that I didn't post so much thee last days. Yeah I know this is getting more and more regular.
But today I will make up for the lack of postings.
I will begin with a page called Néojaponisme. It is a website who handles everything japanese. I just stumbled over this page and I quite can't tell where they are going. Thy seem to be political and philosophical, how strong I still don't know. But if you want to see something that is more than a conglomeration of mindless links and pictures (not that my “blog” is exactly that...) you are on the right homepage. Perhaps we let them talk for themselves:

We have taken the name Néojaponisme as a convenient rubric for our pursuits. This is not a revival of that specific Japonisme visual design style of the 19th century (now often construed as “Neo-Japanesque”), but we do indeed identify ourselves as impudent inheritors of the original Japonisme spirit. We too are non-Japanese inspired by Japanese culture, and we too hope to advocate Japanese products and creative culture that may have been devalued or ignored in Japan. But let us correct the fundamental philosophy of the previous movement in two areas:
First, we expand the idea of Japonistic Japanese inspiration beyond pure visual aesthetics to a broader appreciation of myriad creative fields.

Taken from their Manifesto which you can find here

Trippy

Brace You!
Have you ever heard of the group Major Lazer? It's Gangsta Shit meets nerdy Bikieness, all mixed up and spiced with a healthy Dose of LSD and other hard Shit. Watch at your own risk!




Pon De Floor featuring Afro Jack & VYBZ Cartel

Major Lazer | MySpace Music Videos

Interbike 2009

Here's some Bikeporn from the Interbike 09 filmed by chris clappe.
Wish I've could been there.

INTERBIKE 09' VEGAS SUCKAS from chris clappe on Vimeo.

Random pic II

Found this pitcure here

The yes men

Now it is getting political.
If you didn't heard of them, the Yes men are a group of like they say: “genderless impostors” who impost managers, reporter and so forth to put their message out to the world. They last coup is to distribute a fake special edition of the New York Post, a journal who denies the climate change, with articles about who the climate IS changing. The clou: all of these articles were genuine and true facts!
I love the actions of the Yes men.

"SPECIAL EDITION" NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo.

Read on here and here

Extra

An old jewel from 96 surfaces again from the depths of the world wide space. 1996 the clip for Ken Ishii's track Extra was voted best Dance video of the year by MTV. Back in those days were MTV was still a MUSIC Channel and not the Monster it is now. And before Kanye West interrupts me (Yeah pop-culture Reference) Enjoy the clip.

Extra [Ken Ishii] from Xix on Vimeo.

PS: In the case you wonder the clip was made by Kouji Morimoto who was involved in one of the greatest Manga ever, “AKIRA”.

Gao Brothers

Political, subversive, Art and China. These words doesn't seemed to match . With the exception of Ai Weiwei, who by the way is recovering from a head wound who was supposedly inflicted by a chinese Policeman, I didn't hear much about this. But now I stumbled, thanks to it's nice that, over the Gao brothers. They are Beijing based artists who criticize the chinese government. They have trouble to show they art in China and they getting famous in the other countries.

"goodbye Tienanmin"


I don't know the title for this one but I love it.

Little BMX Vid

instead of learning ' am clicking from bike blog to bike blog. It is where I found this vid from two japanese BMX Riders namde T-GON and Akira Okumura. The one on the green free dear is T GON and the one the pink fixed gear is Akira. Enjoy!

Perhaps you have already heard from La Roux with her debut album Bulletproof.
I isn't one of my favourite albums of all times but she has some great tracks on it.
One of my favourites an this album is quicksand. She has an great and distinct voice and I hope that we will hear from her in the future.

La Roux_Quicksand from _del on Vimeo.

Émilie Simon

Here is the nwe single from french Ex-model, singer Émilie Simon. I lover her voice and since her first Album i think she improved her singing. I don't know why french models are so good in their second career. Perhaps it is the "je ne sais quoi?"



She can even play the piano!

Come As You Are

NYC Ghost

I like the idea that some people try to change the urban landcape in creative ways. I've just stumbled over the project from a New yorker based street artist who uses Ad stands for his works.


You can see more here

Puffy Fluffy magic land

If you like clouds that look like pink cotton candy and stars and unicorns and everything that goes with it then you will love th new video from sound of arrows for they single into the clouds.

The Sound of Arrows - Into the Clouds (Music video) from The Sound of Arrows on Vimeo.

the unkown hipster

Hello to all the hipsters out there,
I found par chance this blog here by the great Jean-Philipe Delhomme. He writes in the guise of the uknown hipster and draw really cool little pics. He has an fine humor and i really like reading it. After some digging I found out that hethe author of two books and published some more.


Dash Snow in all its glory


The unknown hipster doin' some surf

three frames

For all gif lovers out there, kitsunenoir remind me in his last post about the funny site three frames. The guys behind this just take three frames from a movie and make a gif out of it. they come out quite wierd and funny. See for yourself.

world war robots

Hey,
just recently I stumbled across the work from Ashley Wood. An australian comic author and artist. he made the series called world war robots. His drawings remind me a little bit of the designs for the robots used in Hellboy although the drawing style is different.


The first toys also exist. If you have the money you should grab one of these at bambaland

Last week

Listen up and crank up the volume. Drunken Tiger's new album "feel ghood muzik, the 8Th wonder" hit the stores in Korea and stormed the charts. As always he stayed true to himself and brought us a new masterpiece. Enjoy

The site in English din't get any update since last year. But it is here

Shoot out with Music

I'm just posting this video that is aparently one project of Jack White. The music is ok but the video is great. Thanx to kitsunenoir I can share this with you

Sweet lazy Sunday

Although I should learn for the university I'm surfing the Web. While doing this I've stumbled over the duo Hivana from Japan. Great breakbeats an whacky video straight from the Land of the rising sun.
Enjoy!




Thx invasian

Goodies from Korea

Friday I was on a Shoppingtour in Insa-dong, the so called "traditional village" in Seoul. In fact it was a big tourist trap, albeit with great charm. I lokid it there. And I found a shop of the wonderfull people of mmmg. I couldn't resist an i bought some stickers and portable pnedants. Here I present to you my spiols of being a tourist



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Total Eclipse

Today there was an eclipse over most of Asia an i was sitting in the classroom. Damm! I didn't knew it. But thanx to the wonderful world o the Internet I stumbeld upon some footage of NHK who shows the total eclipse who passed over southern Japan.


And I feared an big raincloud....

Sumofighting

Hey,
This is the revelation that vidogames aren't so far from the truth than I thought. And it is the answer why Japan suffers so many earthquakes.


Other Episodes you can watch here

MCA got cancer

Hey,
I just swas this video on verymasa and I had to post it too. Wish him luck. I want to see them live once in my life!

Zombie goodness

What are two of the most important ingredients to make flicks great if you like bad-ass action and gore? Of course zombies and evil nazis. And now some crazy norwegian guys packed this package in one movie! I'ts called "Dead Snow" And I have to watche it!



On the hompage you cann watch the trailer in norwegian with subtitles.

New music and trips

Hey,
If you ever wanted to know how a drug trip is like try this new vidoe from animal collective directed by Danny Perez for the track "summertime clothes". This time the song falls behind the visuals.



Another great clip is the the video for fever ray and the track "triangle fever". This video reminds me of old mystery Horror flicks without the schoking moments. It has a etheral feeling that floats above all and it is a good tribute to the music. Enjoy!

Triangle Walks from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

Sculpture

Hey,
This week i don't have much time to update. But since I don't want to left you without update at all, let me present you Simon Schubert. He is an artist from Germany. He works with Paper but also make som creepy sculptures. I like them.



Pic via simon schubert

randomness

Gundam

They have done it. Finaly the 1:1 scaled Gundam suite is finished and ready to save the arth! Or at least ready to look freakin' cool. Here are the pics via pink tentacle

italian street art

I'm not sure if you already know the italian artist named blu. But I'm pretty sure that you already have seen a video from him. Hes makes some crazy Stop-motion vis with grafitti. His characters are alway morphing and changing. I love them.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Life sign and house

Hey,
Sorry for the long waiting. I hope that some of you are still here and wait for the next update. Well here it is. Let's start with a house from japan. It is desinged by the Yosuke Ichii architects an is a residential house for one family. It responds very nicely to the problem of free place an consists of two boxes, interconnected by a black cube. With this assymetric placement of the cubes and the entrance the form has some strong remainders to the old city houses in old Edo time.

adidas

Hey,
This time I will post something more serious. Perhaps you've already noticed that Adidas is celebrating some Houseparties around the globe because they want to "celebrate originality" and because they are 60 now. in Rio the Janeiro they found a really original location. A villa who belongs to a guy named Luiz Fernando Penna, a rich Lawyer, was the the place to be. Under the party people was João Paulo Cuenca, who happens to own a blog. And he noticed something. Perhaps you can see it in the Pictures here:




or here:


I think i made the point. After Cuenca remerked this his an some other guests left the party. Of course the owner isn't a Nazi (little irony here). After a german newspaper he said that he is just a collector of antiquities. And according to him the symbols at the pool are just some greek symbols. Yeah sure. Perhaps strange coincidence, if you know tha the founder of Adidas and his brother Rudolf, the founder of puma were assidiuos nazis who worked for them and were even buildt the so called "Tank terror". Hurray for Adidas. Sadly I didn't found some english publications but there are the brasilian blog and the german newspaper, where i read about this. Perhaps you can help me find some english links.
Oh and of course Adidas held no Responsibility for this.
Of course the company today isn't responible for the Actions of their founder but they had they share of child labor and other scandals to leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

Mangas

If you happen to be a manga nerd then you will like this post. In Japan they are building an 18 meter tall Gundam suite to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this series. In the moment only the legs are standing but it gives a good glimpse how awesome the finished suite will be.

More pics via pink tentacle and mainichi

design from china

This post introduce to you a designer with his brand libelledecor from China. He is based in Shanghai and produces lamps and houseware with a definite chinese touch.

Soundscape

Hey. With all the work waiting to be done, the blog got surely delayed. Sorry for that. But I present you a new video. Sadly I forgot where this vid comes from. This video is a great example of a virtual Land- and soundscape. The colors matches the sound perfect. Enjoy:

The Interpretation from YouWorkForThem on Vimeo.

good design

I cannot wait to fly to Korea. One of the main reason is that they have great design who looks very simple and playful, but has an incredible attention to detail. And on top of it all it is so damm cheap! If you don't have the possibility to go there, you can still buy it from the online Shop.

periphere

Hey,
this one is an interesting furniture company based in Montreal, Canada. Sadly I don't have any pictur to show it to you, but the website is definitely worth a glance. I especially like the stool/night table cast in concrete. Although it's made from this hard material, it has this soft, comfy look.

New video

Hey. Today I am a little short of time so i will only post this nice video I found.
I really like how the effects respond to the music. Good work


apoptosis from takcom™ on Vimeo.

Paper cuts

The second post today, also comes from Japan. The Artist Noriko Ambe cuts through many layers of Paper to create these little landscapes. I like the calmness that comes from her work and some are like little landscapes made out of paper.

Pics form Japan

Hey,
I am sorry for the delay in updates. It will be better to have an update schedule so from now on I will update on Wednesdays and Fridays.
The first thing I post today comes from Japan. heiwa4126 uses a Fisheye lens to make these interesting pictures. If you wanna know how to make one of these push on the link in his profile page or go here.

vase design

The last one is about german designer Anika Engelbrecht. She designed these funny vases. Simple and funny idea.

monsters

This nice monster is from the french Site les monstres du placard by Sandra B.. I like this simple but beautiful executed drawings. Sandra writes herself that this site is dedicated to simple scribbles without any pretention. I hope she keeps up the good work.

N.A.S.A.

Hey. I hope everybody had an nice Easter weekend. For my Part I had a great Weekend in Bremen. Now I'm back with new and fresh Graphic and Music for your ears and eyes.

My new discovery is the Project N.A.S.A from Dj Zegon and Squeak E. Clean who is the brother of movie maker Spike Jonze. They made some crazy stuff and worked with almost everybody who is important in the music business these days. My favorite is the track gifted with Likky Lee and Kayne West who is totally NOT GAY! (or a fish) ;) They worked with some awesome artists to realize their clips and they are really Mind blowing. So watch!


N.A.S.A. - "Gifted" video from Anti Records on Vimeo.

Objectuals

Korean Artist are pushing on the European market for Arts. If you were following the emergence of korean galleries, or galleries with korean artists,on Art Fairs the last two years, you could see a steep rise. With success.
One of these interesting artist is Hyngkooo Lee. The first time I read about him was because of his work “animatus”. He constructed different skeleton, who depicted famous comic characters like roadrunner. I loved this work because of the humor and the idea of fictional character becoming real.
One other work , is more serious and bizarre. His face and body distorting Helmet and Gauntlet called “objectuals”. With this he pursues the alienation of the body of oneself and the perception by strangers. This work is also interesting because so many korean people are going to the esthetic surgeon to correct their face.





More Pics here

Random pic

Yeah that's right.

World Crisis

How fitting is this piece? It was drawn by Christopher wool and the year of its making was 1988. The year of the Reagan crisis. I think this piece of art is, if not timeless, the at least, time repeating!

Chernobyl

Hey. Not so long ago i found this link about a Photoreportage in Chernobyl, from the guys village of Joy. The Pictures are great and they have absolutely this feeling of a postapocalyptic World.

Plain Sowjet Style


Really creepy. Does anyboby plays Fallout 3?