The Ken Robinson post finally seems to catch on. This one’s too important to let it fade away in the huge stack of blogs beneath. So let me just re-plug it:

Let’s speak upon it, you all know the topic, the subject, the situations, the frustration, the victory, the defeat. Speak upon it brethren and sisters!

(I could have re-plugged the funky poodle for being overlooked, but why would I do that? Watch him go though!)

Lately I’ve been thinking about writing a book. (Or three)
Haven’t really gotten there just yet. (You see)
One day I most definitely will. (Not really, unless you agree)

Either way, Thursday it is and I’m starting to feel that end-of-the-week vibe again.
Only difference is, just like last weekend, this week won’t be ending at all.
Just keep on keepin’ on, that’s what I’ve been told.

I hope to see you all very soon.
In a bar under the sea.
Or not.

Sometimes album titles is all that pop to my mind.
I can’t help it if I wanted to.
Sorry for that.

Sincerely yours,
warm regards and all,
your =lloyd=.

How has your week been thusfar?

Ok, now I know TheTube kickstarted the come-back of the homevideo, which is regrettable in a way. And I won’t be serving you those damn home-made shits on the regular, but this one I’ve just got to share. Check out One Funky Poodle.

Question is, what the hell is he jumping for? I can see the question mark floating above the ladies head.

The gods only know why it took him so long but now Gilles’ site is finally and completely on-line! It features a whole lot of stuff, which is up to Gilles to point out:

“I’ve kept the woody look that you get on here and there’s all the normal areas that you’d expect plus a moblog which will feature regular rambles from amongst others, charlie dark, dayo the don, karl injex, karen p and rainer truby - there’ll be more as we grow.

Also worth checking and what will probably be of interest to most is a podcast corner which features all the brazil docs I did this year for brahma, plus an exclusive new show featuring music from the brownswood label - looking to do some cool label profiles as much as pos - stones throw, jazzy sport, bbe etc. early days but hopefully very soon you’ll notice daily updating, all the charts you need, podcasts and the odd bit of streaming. you’ll find it at www.gillespetersonworldwide.com”

Sure enough he found time to quickly comment on his favourite blog: “Ow yeah I know on-point! What’s the blokes name? lloyd, right, jolly good chap, he interviewed me once, nice proper chat we had, really. I think the interview is still to be found online. Innit?”

Damn straight Gilles, it’s right here.

This is it, last weekend SocialPitching is launched and you can tell by the first three words of this little text that I’m quite excited about it. The art of storytelling is back, and I love it.

Rethinking urban patterns is what one of the pitches is all about (one in a series of four). And I’d be damned if I hadn’t come accross this here mastermind called Mark Jenkins, doing exactly that.

There’s a whole lot more on Mark’s own site. Do take your time to check out the other making-off’s.

Another day, another week.
Let me hit you with the on-pointness later on today.

Looks like it’s going to be a good day today.
Doesn’t it?

10 in de ochtend en dat was het dan. Waarschijnlijk de wildste dj-set die vic’n'lloyd tot nu toe gedraaid hebben, non-stop banging hard tot 8h30, de dansvloer stevig in de greep, lekker dan.

Een bass doorgeblazen en op de terugweg sneuvelde een uitlaat, daar doe je niets aan.

Rest mij voorlopig nog te stellen: Kortrijk, vic ‘n’ lloyd zien u graag! U is mad on-point en dat hebben wij dus graag gezien. Tot een volgende!

Teacher: “What are you drawing?”
6yr old Girl: “God.”
Teacher: “But nobody knows what God looks like”
6yr old Girl: “They will in a minute!”

Last week I pointed out how I was attending the Creativity World Forum in Ghent. John Cleese fell sick but none other than Sir Ken Robinson replaced him, and I must say the man’s keynote had its revelations. Business speaker of the year, and on top of that he’s funny too. (He worked together with Cleese on some workshops, so there is a connection)

Watch and learn: “We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather get educated out of it.” You heard it.

Utter brilliance, right? Here’s the full keynote, for the passionates: watch it, or even download it.

Will It Blend? is the question, and this guy seems to have said: “Bring in the marbles, let’s get into a blending frenzy and check it out!”. As absurd as it gets, WillItBlend.com holds the torch for killerconcept of the week. (Needless to say, you should not try this at home)

Of course this is all a very clever campaign to push you into buying one of those killer BlendTec blenders. Don’t sweat it though, enjoy the entire BlendTecYouTube account with videos.

(Thanks to LivingBrands for this one)

Yup, you read it right: Streetart Action Figures!!

Michael Leevitt offers more fresh action figures for the lovers of the urban decoration vibe. Picked this one for the monkey look of it. I mean, nobody really knows what Banksy looks like, so in a way, indeed he might just rock this style. Small chance though, if you ask me.

Don’t know who Banksy is? Seriously? Seriously though, let me link another thread.

Watch more dope ass action figures at Michael Leevitt’s. Almost forgot, Michael is on thespace to. Of course he is.

The old agenda right? Got it in check? Grab your pen and get next Saturdaynight locked. Vic ‘n’ lloyd are spinning the final session at Caravan in K-town, Kortrijk! November 25th that is. We’ll be there, come and meet us, come and greet us!

I mean, don’t we just look damn fly on the flyer?! vic+lloyd baby!

NewYear’s Eve: the date’s there, December 31st, vic ‘n’ lloyd are still looking for a date, up for bookings, mail us: lloyd@on-point.be or vic@on-point.be!

Doesn’t it just feel shitty when you know the next day is bound to be hardcore to the bone, feeling tired as hell?

2 a.m. and I know I have an interview, a meeting and school to attend. Doesn’t really feel as motivating as it should be. Only two dozens of hours a day and I’d sure love to double that.

Five liters of black coffee won’t make me through the day, but I sure saw a whole lot of stuff tonight, which makes it all worthwhile in the end. Still not motivated though.

The next step in cyberspace, we had it coming for some time and now we actually jumped on the bandwagon: On-Point’s on Digg.com now.

Haven’t quite figured out the system just yet, but you can find us right here.

Only a selection of stories will be up for digging of course, we’ll see what comes out of that. From what I’ve heard Digg.com is one of the rising stars in the online world. In short it’s a system in which you post stories, link them to the original site and then other users can simply “digg” it, or comment on it. Fascinating, innit?

Now I’m a recordnerd. Not the fundamentalist one, but still, a lot of my proud comes from these shelves packed with records who got my back, when typing this blog entry, my collection is just right behind me. Matter of fact, they’ve always been there, and I love them for that.

One of the records in there is Jaydee’s “The Ruff Draft EP”. It’s actually a highly underestimated piece of visionary music, it was when it was released in a limited quantity back in the days, and it still is. I remember being shitted upon, just for loving it. Some people feel very ashamed for that now, and honestly, only rightfully so.

Anyway. This is a Classic Jaydee Production. Many of the so-called fans might not know yet, but they will as it’s getting its re-issue!

So here it is, straight from the Stones Throw Records News:

“J Dilla - Ruff Draft: Stones Throw will be re-issuing J Dilla’s rarely-heard classic Ruff Draft in early 2007 along with previously unheard tracks from the Ruff Draft sessions. Full details coming soon to www.stonesthrow.com.”

For the fans, here’s the Stones Throw YouTube Channel.

The other day Fonz plugged me his latest productionwork for Bob Ballistic: Held van het Jaar

For those of you who missed it the first time around, I’ve uploaded the old on-point Fonz special in a neat mp3 for your monthly podcast pleasure.

The written version you can still find here The audio-version is quite a slow listen, mostly uncut and Dutchspoken, but it still features a dozen of unreleased Fonz beats.

Stay tuned for future release by Fonz, Budd Pluggs, Bob Ballistic, Dutched.org,… All of that.

Here’s the Fonz/Bob Ballistic discography thusfar, download ‘em all, I say!

01. Bob Ballistic - Held van het jaar
02. Bob Ballistic - Mijn element
03. Bob Ballistic - Vanaf vandaag (2006)
04. Bob Ballistic - Wat jij lekker vindt

Back when the Jay-Z remixing craze took off, Fonz had his go as well, and I’ll be damned if the result isn’t timeless: Jay Z - The red, white and blue album.

01. Jay Z - Interlude (remix)
02. Jay Z - December 4th (remix)
03. Jay Z - What more can I say (remix)
04. Jay Z - Encore (remix)
05. Jay Z - Change clothes (remix)
06. Jay Z - Dirt off your shoulder (remix)
07. Jay Z - Threat (remix)
08. Jay Z - Moment of clarity (remix)
09. Jay Z - 99 Problems (remix)
10. Jay Z - P.S.A. (remix)
11. Jay Z - Justify my thug (remix)
12. Jay Z - Lucifer (remix)
13. Jay Z - Allure (remix)
14. Jay Z - My 1st song (remix)

credits - All songs produced, mixed and recorded by FonZ for DutchFinest productions
Recorded and mixed at: My neighbours are F%&K’ed studio, Uden
All lyrics: S. Carter
status - demo

Here’s a something-something on how to download YouTube movies.

1. Install FireFox

2. Install the Plug-in

3. Install a .flv-player

Further directions you can find right here. The video will be saved as .flv, which you then can convert.

YouTube is on the verge of suing TechCrunch for blogging a similar by-pass. Don’t we just love them for that?

Here’s a list of more YouTube tips ‘n’ tricks.

Verdomme, nu wou ik iets straf bloggen, ontbreekt me de inspiratie. De indrukken moeten me te overweldigend geweest zijn de afgelopen twee dagen.

Als dat alles u niet interesseert en u hier komt voor een ander soort on-pointisme, dan kan ik u vandaag volgende mix aanraden: DJ Kicks: Henrik Schwarz.

Zoniet, leest u dan rustig verder. Wat me op viel, bij mijn eerste onderdompeling in de laatste nieuwe marketinginzichten, is hoe de nadruk niet langer op de ‘market’ lijkt te liggen. Dat de consument centraal staat is natuurlijk niet nieuw, maar dat ik me plots aardig gedefinieerd voel, is dat wel. De tijdsgeest heeft me getroffen en daar ben ik eigenlijk niet rouwig om.

Hier zijn enkele trendy termen om bij stil te staan:
one. “Online oxygen”
two. “Online natives versus online immigrants”
tree. “I-catcher” (find the typo)

En natuurlijk de toekomstige klassiekers:
four. “Web 2.0″
five. “Social Pitching”
six. “The Long Tail”

Meer uitleg kan ik vooralsnog niet geven, ik wou het gewoon even meegeven. En nu lacht het bed me toe, een geluk.

Once again, I’m drop-dead tired. But knowing tonight I’m attending a John Cleese lecture, makes it all worthwhile in the end. Thanks to the Creativity World Forum 2006 for having lloyd on the list, yesterday Dan Pink’s talk was damn on-point too, check out the man’s phylosophies, interesting it is!

Video-footage of the event will follow in the future, although it might take a while.

Update: Unfortunately John Cleese was replaced by sir Ken Robinson, who gave a master keynote as well.

I announced it earlier on and even though the full version might be available yet, I’m feeling good about posting scoops, so here I go: socialpitching.com is online!

A new platform to tell your stories, a bit like some (a lot) of you did in the literature topic, this will be the future place to exchange stories and experiences. Pitches are posted and after that it’s your turn, the result is what you make of it.

I love the concept, not only because I’m involved in the copy-writing process but just for the love of the game. Maybe they should change the bottom-line to “The Game of Storytelling”, after all it is, isn’t it?

Four pitches should be up and running pretty soon, if not, the site is fully operational as it is and the first pitch is posted already. Hell, I even posted a story on my Wallies fetish already. Please do join in, let’s tell stories t’all.

Newsflash II: =vic= ‘n’ = lloyd= to play another gig: November 25th.

Kortrijk will be the city, venue of the night will be “De Karavanne”, hope I’ve got the spelling right.
Actually it might be the last time ever I get to spell it, see it might be the closing night of the venue.

So be there, we’ll make it an extra special never-to-forget night.
It’s what we do.

If you support this,
please do click the Google ads in the left or right colomn, funds will go directly to the payment of on-point webspace, not to blogsome.com and sure as hell not to google.com, thankyouverymuch.

A new site will be launched tonight.
Let me blog about that, tonight.
Reste scotché, I’ll tell you all about it, tonight!
(not talking about that brand new ppklts.be, no ma’am)

Thanks for all enthusiasts having their say in the Literature comment writings!

Newsflash: =vic= ‘n’ = lloyd= to play their first Tavernier residency evening: December 22nd.
We told y’all. See you all there, Tavernier is in Brussels, and the 22nd is a Friday, in case you’d be wondering.

Track of the day: Souls of Mischief - ‘93 till infinity

I don’t know what the hell went wrong in New York City but the newest trend seems to be playing flute whilst driving your car. All credits to Seth Godin for taking this picture.

And if that wasn’t enough, the whole thing even seems to inspire some artists out there:

I don’t know about this transatlantic lifestyle anymore… Then again, the whole trend has its believers in Germany as well.

Lang voor we ons een .be aanschaften, toen bloggen nog uitgevonden moest worden en we nog een échte site ambieerden, startten vic ‘n’ lloyd on-point.tk. Het adres is in cyberspace opgegaan, maar dat is buiten the Internet Wayback Machine gerekend.

Het loaden kan vrij traag gaan, hou reken met jetlags en whiplashes want u gaat terug in de tijd. Vic’s oude artwork blijkt tijdloos, op het foutieve adres na in de wallpapers weliswaar.

Voor alle duidelijkheid de Wayback megaservers maken back-ups van een aanzienlijk deel internet, ongevraagd en helemaal automatisch. Je hoeft dus geen eigen praatprogramma na te jagen in een huis vol camera’s om door BigBro gevolgd te worden.

Met dank aan archive.org.

Sunday and I say, throw a can!

(Thanks Bram @ socialpitching.com for passing the link)

Warning: the following story contains a whole lot of links, please do take your time to check them out though, be amazed.

The whole online networking craze seems to be endlessly evolving into madness of unseen hights. After the whole msn, myspace, web2.0, youtube, flickr, blog and other crazes SecondLife seems to be the hottest thing around, anno 2006. The hype started a while ago but I had to see it to believe it, cuoldn’t blog it based on hear-say therefor this is quite a late pass. I’m sorry for that. But, I saw it now and here’s the deal:

In SecondLife you develop a new life. Really, that’s all there is to it. You get your charachter, tweak it to match your imagination, or to match reality even, and start living your e-life. Here’s A Day in Second Life.

I hear you coming: “lloyd, online games aren’t new to me, I’ve been a dedicated Warcraft player for ages now.”

I know, and I silently ignored the whole ‘the Sims‘ hype, but here’s the thing: apparently this isn’t a game! SecondLife is drop-dead reality. In your secondlife world, you earn real dollars. Business are paying big money for real estate in the second life world. A Chinese lady earned her self thousands of dollars, by building virtual houses… Reuters has a journalist reporting on the SecondLife reality, full-time job…

I don’t really know where all this is heading to, I always considered myself quite an online person but this is quite above my hat.

First time in my life I came to think, If only I were a hacker, I’d tear the whole damn e-place down, taking all them e-peoples with me.

Just wanted to let you know. There you are, knowing. Stay on-point!

Although I’m quite slow at it, I’ve been into reading books lately, newest addition to the pile of literature being ‘Vrij Spel’, by Kristof Clerix, on foreign intelligence infiltrating Belgium.

Because I know that amongst my readers I have some.. well, some readers basically, I was wondering, what have you been into? Let’s list some titles, in no particular order:

Here’s what I’ve been digging the past months:
- Zappa
- Extreem Luid en Ongelooflijk dichtbij
- Jacques Brel, de Passie en de Pijn
- De Luchtgitaar
- Last night a dj saved my life
- Los
- Vrij Spel

Prepare for satellite countdown: in 6 comments, on-point.be will be 1000 comments rich!

Ain’t that something.
Well, well.

Update: =vic= done did it, lucky coïncidence or case of dedicated counting down, fact is the 1000th comment has officially been posted:

Every once in a while I sense a little patriotism deep down in the bottom of my heart. Not so much for my hood, my hometown, my region or even my own friggin country, but for the continent and it’s capital (in a way): Europe - Brussels (the photo is no coïncidence).

Funny thing is I haven’t actually seen that much of Europe yet, although Germany, the Netherlands and Spain or on the travelling schedule. If only I’d get me some contacts running so I could get into some serious couchsurfing…

(photo credit: vazy.be)

Win uw eigenste Borat bathing suit door eenvoudig edoch origineel te reageren op volgende review. U kan ook duo-tickets winnen maar de film heeft u natuurlijk al gezien en daarbij, wie dacht u dan mee te nemen? Zo zonder bathing suit?

Ondertussen verbiedt Rusland de distributie van de film.

En ik herhaal, dat ik dit een Mooi Stukje Blog vind!

Er zijn zo van die dagen, dat =lloyd= twee interviewaanvragen binnenkrijgt.

De eerlijkheid gebiedt mij te vertellen dat dat eigenlijk nooit gebeurt, behalve vandaag dan.

Een beetje mediatraining, het kan uiteraard geen kwaad, al zal ik mij moeten inhouden om zelf geen vragen te stellen.

Even denken, misschien niet slecht om wat straffe quotes voor te bereiden, u dacht toch niet dat ik plande spontaan uit de hoek te komen?

Die zit er weer op.

=vic= heeft het ondertussen over smalltalk. Mooi onderwerp voor een blogstuk vind ik dat.

Brand new: the on-point youtube channel, customized for you and yours. New features: JtotheC & XXL in the Ketnet Studio (ft. Heidi Lenaerts) #1 and #2

The day after Heidi represented PPKLTS like a true queen. Props!

(All praises to Dohpee Dee for helping me out with the footage. Thankyouverymuch!)

Ter inleiding: Cafébazen moeten geen fluit van muziek afweten.
Als dj hoef ik geen rake voetbalanalyse te kunnen formuleren.
Dat wordt van mij niet verwacht.

Volgt een wijze les: “Hij die niet weet waarover hij spreekt, voele zich beter niet geroepen te spreken.”

Is dit dan het einde van =vic= ‘n’ =lloyd= in hometown Roeselare? Exotischer oorden roepen ons toe, maar hebben we niet altijd zo fervent onze roots vertegenwoordigd?

Komt daarbij nog dat ik gisteren een collega platendraaier disco hoorde draaien. Daar is deze anecdote aan verbonden. Als u het verhaal wat gevolgd heeft, begrijpt u dat daarmee onze stempel is gedrukt. Should we pass the torch and hope they can hold it?

De zoveelste oeverloze discussie voelt bij voorbaat al achterhaald aan. Verspilde tijd en energie, Roeselare in een notendop.

Dju toch mensen.

Maar zoals een niet-begrijpende sympathisante onlangs zei: “Je moet nu gewoon vrolijk zijn, lloyd”. En daarom onthouden wij van de afgelopen week vooral dag #1 en #2. Merci.

As Mathieu and =vic= pointed it out earlier in some comments, quite some scenes have been cut out the Borat film. Luckily for us afficionados, a lot of them are put online. This here user seems to be responsable for that. All praises to him!

Here’s a list:
Puppy
Dinner Prayer
Police
Jail
Doctor
Cheese
Discography

Can’t stop, won’t stop:

At the Toronto Film Festival
US Movie Premiere
US Press Conference Part One
US Press Conference Part Two
US Press Conference Part Three
At the Cine Expo Amsterdam

Ik hou het kort vandaag: deze al gezien?

Ok, first we had the Dutch copycat, now here’s the real deal: Sasha Baron Cohen on David Letterman. You might know Letterman as the prick dissing our main man Harvey Pekar (of American Splendor fame).

And here’s Borat himself on David Letterman.

Morgen live in de Roeselaarse Warehouse: SNS en Vrinden. En daar mogen vic, lloyd en bob zich toe rekenen, als dat niet mooi is. Het belooft een schone avond te worden, met de allures van een reünie-soirée als u het mij vraagt. 8800 zal het geweten hebben, baby!

Click the flyer for some real live action. (mail the flyer to your friends and theirs, or link the e-flyer on your blog if you’re down with the program)

Taking it back to the oldskool with hiphop, funk, soul, original breaks and dope flavours to make you shake ya ass!!

(ow and if I get my wings in check, I might serve up the aditional disco, we don’t want to upset your girl, by not making her dance, right)

Sneak previews of the future VanWiddderVoeGidder Mixtape release are on the menu of the night as well!

Newsflash: As of yesterdaynight =vic= ‘n’ =lloyd= are proud residents of Le Tavernier.

First date will we sometime in December, probably a fridaynight, a little less funky than the usual Jazzbreak-madness, but we plan to rock it though, ow yes we are!

Extra special thanks to Ugo and all funkateers present yesterday, never in our lifetimes have we seen such a loving crowd, we saw you! The crew deserves blessings to, for having us, and taking care of our thirsty throats. See you all very soon!

Tonight, warming up for and partying hard after Moiano’s blazing hot Jazzbreak concert: vic ‘n’ lloyd alongside Jazzforthatass.

Starting early tonight, so come early, you don’t want to miss vic’s ill turntable moves!

More info at jazzbreak.be.

See you all tonight, and that’s the truth! Ruth!