This weekend: Sonar and midsummer

Posted on 14/06/2007 by Thomas

Next weekend I’ll be in Berlin, neither in Sweden nor in Barcelona. Which is a shame because in Sweden they’ll be celebrating midsommar, the endless day and in Barcelona Sónar, the endless night. The multimedia and electronic music festival with acts like Beastie Boys, Justice or Devon starts today. Many people come to Barcelona, only for all the parties that surround Sónar without ever setting foot on the festival area. Especially the parties at the beach are famous and Sónar fills the chiringuitos with party people ever since we made a party there about four years ago (yes, that was actually not so common back then). And the Kubik concept spreads to Barcelona, opens this weekend.

Update: There’s a special midsommer celebration open air party going on for three days in a formy red army military base in Bernau, close to Berlin with many, many great electronic music acts organized by such infamous party crews like Pentagonik, Wir sind Park or Patentblau.: Check out the lineup, pictures and how to get there!

And here is a little impression of how it looks now: Michael Mayer on the beach for Sónar 2006 Continue reading →

Extreme funnny

Posted on 04/06/2007 by Thomas

Since I read so many bad news in the newspaper today, here is something to cheer things up: The two guys are like modern comic style clowns with extremely coordinated physical action, perfectly adjusted to the music. I wonder who they are, so I could give them credit. Some idea?
(Note: The three ns in “funnny” are on purpose, so I’ll get hits by type errors.. hohoho)

Documentary blog: To the surface

Posted on 28/05/2007 by Thomas

To the surface is a new blog about documentaries. It is aimed to find and present “crucial documentary films online”. Pierce and Ben are the guys behind this project and also did the Notic Nastic video.

So they features documentaries like the BBC’s “Parallel Universe” or the History’s channel “Secret Societies” (like Skull and Bones which George Bush claims to be a member of and which also played an important role for the emergence of the CIA, as explained in the movie “The Good Sheperd“)

Arcade Fire in an elevator

Posted on 25/05/2007 by Thomas

I really start becoming an Arcade Fire fan. The music’s influenece just gets stronger and stronger, everyday. Now I found this amazing video with an Arcade Fire session in an elevator. Amazing. Especially since I always loved the drum sounds of elevators and always used to play around with it since I was a kid.

This session is part of the Take Away Shows by La Blogohèque and was taken in Paris before their show at the Olympia. First we see everybody quite concentrated in the warddrobe, then they play “Neon Bible” in the old freight elevator and then “Wake Up” in the middle of the audience before starting their show.

Advanced Second Life building strategies

Posted on 02/05/2007 by Thomas

Yes, building stuff in Second Life can be a complex issue.

“To make this, I used PDFs from our architects as a base to trace all the walls on 11 layers in an Adobe Illustrator file, then exported each floor as an XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics file, each of which I ran through a PHP script to extract the object info and convert it to something I could paste in a notecard. Then I made 11 objects (the little cubes in front of me in the video) that scoot themselves off to a predetermined location, spew out prims based on the notecards, and send them to their appropriate positions. The next step, is to rez this on the ground, terraform, and then texture-bake every single prim…”
Watch Kisa Naumova model her working place in Second Life with a perfect fitting Daft Punk soundtrack.

Football and movies: 11mm festival in Berlin

Posted on 26/04/2007 by Thomas

Two things people (including me) can be very passionate about: Football and movies. A whole crew of these passionate people now set up a nice movie festival about football which is merely a lense for all kinds of interesting stories, reflections about society and culture.

11mm takes place in Kino Babylon from today on until tuesday, 1st of may. There will be movies for kids, documentations about clubs and players (Zidane, Beckenbauer, Maradona) and fans as well as feature films which use football as a frame for stories about life e.g. in a small Swedish village.

Here’s the whole program, click on the titles to read a description, also in English and Spanish.

Lionel Messi’s wondergoal

Posted on 20/04/2007 by Thomas

Ohne Worte, vorgestern passiert.

Gol de Messi al Getafe 18/04/07

Messis Kommentar dazu: “Ich habe einfach gesehen, dass da Platz war“. Achso, ja richtig, da war Platz. Da standen nicht etwa SECHS Gegenspieler im Weg..

Time for some grime: Roll Deep – Rules and regulations

Posted on 19/03/2007 by Thomas

Roll Deep is probably the most famous Grime crew – Dizzie Rascal was part of it, Whiley still is and they are deeply connected with the pirate radio scene. But despite having sold 60000 units of their first album “In at the deep end” so far, and playing liveshows with people like Snoop Dogg in the UK, Asia, Europe, e.g. Grimetime in Berlin, nobody there can afford a us-rapstarlike lifestyle – the 13 members predominantly still live in East-London’s housing estate “The estate”. Still. That might change. (Click for their new video)
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Tony Royster Jr.’s Amazing Drumsolo

Posted on 22/02/2007 by Thomas

This video is already a classic on Youtube and one of the most viewed music clips. Little kids come to their teachers with this, wanting to play like little Tony Royster who was apparently only 12 years old when he played this solo. Since then, 10 years have passed, Tony has received many awards for his drumming and now plays with a rock group called Lazy Eye.

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