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Dexter pillow?

February 8th, 2010 Mickey Tilburg

Buy it here.

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Japanese Augmented Reality with QR codes

February 8th, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

“N Building is a commercial structure located near Tachikawa station amidst a shopping district. Being a commercial building signs or billboards are typically attached to its facade which we feel undermines the structures’ identity. As a solution we thought to use a QR Code as the facade itself. By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.”

It’s the future you’re looking at.

(Found on One Plus Infinity)

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Google commercial

February 8th, 2010 Sea Captain Plonk E

Witty commercial by Google. Broadcasted during the Superbowl.

(Found on Swissmiss)

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Happy accidents

February 5th, 2010 Sea Captain Plonk E

Matt Stuart knows what it is to be at the right spot at the right time. Wonder how long he wanders the streets to get one of the above pictures. A day? A month? He has an exhibition at the KK Outlet (Kessels Kramer in London).

(Found at Creative Review)

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Mr. Hip Hop

February 4th, 2010 Katarie

Grimey and original hiphop tunes from from back in the days. Isn’t Ramellzee a serious candidate for Incubate 2010? We will pay half! ;-)

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There’s a Klingon ship coming our way…

February 3rd, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

Hubble has detected a mysterious spaceship-shaped object, traveling at 11.000 mph. It’s the first time NASA sees such an x-shape moving through our skies. They make a lot of speculations about colliding comets and so on, but the weird thing is that its nucleus is outside the dust halo which really not from this world.

(Found on NOTCOT)

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Julian Faulhaber

February 3rd, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

Fantastic compositions by Julian Faulhaber.

(Found on GrafiCache)

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Breakdancing in Iran, 1991

February 3rd, 2010 Mickey Tilburg

These images are warming my heart. I really do know what those guys are feeling at that specific moment in time, on that carpet, with those clothes, with those people around them who don’t have a clue what they are doing. Because I’ve had the same experience with my crew in 1985 on my local schoolyard. We felt on top of the world. Heroes!

(Thanks Willem!)

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Life below the fold…

February 2nd, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

So very much recognizable… Why is it that all clients are so afraid of the ‘fold’ in websites? Ever heard about a scrollwheel? It’s not like the early days when newspapers had to put big heads above a REAL fold to get more sales. I am Paddy proves that on internet stuff below the fold is as much important as the stuff above the fold, maybe even more important. Read for yourself.

(Thanks Vio and Mark!)

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Het Klokhuis!

February 2nd, 2010 Sea Captain Plonk E

I put these new leaders for the longest running Dutch TV show for children here especially for Bastard, since I know he is a great fan of Het Klokhuis (The Aplle Core) ;-). The stop frame film is made by John Kelly, you know who he is.

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Best track ever, part XIIIV: Lovefingers

February 1st, 2010 Katarie

Silver Apples with Lovefingers is our new best track ever. From 1968, do you all understand.

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Unhappy Hipsters

February 1st, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

We’re not ready to go out there yet, honey. And besides, didn’t I do a pretty good job bringing the outside in?

You can come out when you can properly explain the differences between Modernist architecture and postmodern ornamentation.

Trapped by the tawny palette, he struggled through yet another brown knit scarf.

The Unhappy Hipsters blog is by far the funniest thing I have seen on internet in 2010 so far.

(Found on What Alice Found)

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Podcast nr 5: Katarie & The Hill Street Clappers - The Greatest Place

January 29th, 2010 Katarie

Here we go again! The Hill Street Clappers step the stage one more time. Disco dancing all night looong baby. This mix is more or less the summum of all my favourite tracks of 2009. Vinyl and mp3, what the hell, all mixed up. Put these tracks on your iPads, pods, quads, whatever, and your feet will start shuffling for sure.

Next mix I wil try and add some voice of my own like my heroe deejeays Tim Sweeney and Bill Brewster do on their podcasts. So keep posted! Oh, and if anyone wants to put out his or her mix here? Just contact me.

The tracks that I used:

1. Absolute Voltage - Jay Sheheard - Compost Black
2. OOFT / The Revenge - This Sound - Instruments of Rapture
3. Raw Cuts #6 - Motor City Drum Ensemble
4. The Sunlamp Show (Disco Bloodbath Remix) - The Aliens - Channel 83
5. Vacuum Boogie - Floating Points - Eglo
6. Latin Combo - Ulysses - Wurst
7. Feverish - Camboche (The Revenge mix) - Under The Shade
8. Buzz in (Optimo rmx) - Boris - Scion Audio/Visual
9. Watcha Need - Lee Curtis
10. Found a Place - Tony Lionni - Ostgut Ton

Listen to it via Itunes or via our soundcloud:

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Quite nice: Letters to dead people

January 29th, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

Quite nice idea by Celine Song, a blog where you can leave in letters to dead peoples.

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Celyn Brazier

January 29th, 2010 Sea Captain Plonk E

Colourful illustrations by Celyn Brazier.

(Found on But does it float)

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Hello!

January 29th, 2010 Mickey Tilburg

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Internacional

January 28th, 2010 Sea Captain Plonk E

Now, this is a painting I would never get bored of watching. I would love to have that on my wall somewhere. It tells everything about this world, that it’s just a ridiculous place really.
More great paintings by Paco Pomet you’ll find on his blog.

(Found on Booooooom)

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Best track ever, part XIIV: Golden Brown

January 27th, 2010 Katarie

The Stranglers decided to dedicate a walz time ballad to the thing they loved most: heroin. This song surely is a trip. Our next best track ever.

(Thanks Justin for reminding me!)

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A woman cleaning in knickers

January 26th, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

Did you know that most women like to clean in their underwear? And that they have strange rituals doing the cleaning? Filmmaker Justin Anderson teamed up with lingerie brand Damaris to visualize these facts. Result: a pretty interesting piece of film, called Chore.
Warning: partial nudity!

(Found on Creative Review)

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Compassion for an inanimate object

January 26th, 2010 Sea Captain Plonk E

An oldie but still strong: Spike Jonze’s Ikea commercial from 2005. It gives me the same feeling I got from those sad xmas trees. But this little film helps me snap out of it.

(Thanks Fina!)

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Vanishing point

January 25th, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

Made by Takuya Hosogane.

(Found on Fubiz!)

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Creepy old pictures

January 25th, 2010 Mickey Tilburg

Or aren’t they? Food for directors of horror movies i think. More here.

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Go and see: I’m here

January 22nd, 2010 Archibald Kobayashi

A short movie by Spike Jonze in collaboration with Absolut Vodka. A true robot love story. Premieres at the Sundance film festival. Go and see that one.

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Drawings by Viktor Timofeev

January 22nd, 2010 Sea Captain Plonk E

Very, very nice. Thought we dealt with an older guy, but the chap is just 25. Please check out more of this talented artist right here.

(Found on But does it float)

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Dolle Jolle and Todd Terje in Melkweg tonight

January 21st, 2010 Katarie

Our Norwegian friend Dolle Jolle mailed us this week that he has to play Melkweg tonight with his friend and other Oslowegian nu-cosmic-disco hero Todd Terje with their Shari Vari concept . We are going for sure. Want to come along?

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Some birds playing Jimi Hendrix tunes

January 21st, 2010 Katarie

Why do I find this extremely funny? I don’t know, but I laughed my ass off, really. It’s probably a very serious piece by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, but somehow this strongly reminds me of this.

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1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7

January 20th, 2010 Sea Captain Plonk E

A short film, done by Job and Roel Wouters for the If You Could: Collaborate exhibition.

(Found on Today and Tomorrow)

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Don’t mess with King Monkey

January 20th, 2010 Katarie

A terrible interviewer asks Ian Brown stupid questions about martial arts and other irrelevant stuff. Brown gets annoyed and ends the interview with a great line in pure Madchester slang: “Do you want knocking out from here or shall I come over there?”
Brilliant, but damn, look at that face. Boose and dope made him look 30 years older I guess.

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