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• Tauba Auerbach

Saturday I’ll be in Ghent for the Citykingz graffitijam. Hope to see some of the visitors present, look at the line-up, there’s a whole lot of killers in there if you ask me!

Dave Decat will be one of the next people featured on on-point tv. Until then, check out this promovideo by Carhartt, for who he made several award-winning campaigns, which you’ll probably recognize.

Check out Dave’s myspace for more info and pictures of his work.

Having seen BBC Panorama’s “Scientology and Me” I’m not sure I should continue blogging about these freaks. Then again, they shouldn’t have stepped on my doorstep either:

Watch the legendary BBC episode right here. Must-see material it is!

“Mardi gras of the Sisypha”, the debut album of The Sedan Vault finally sees its limited edition vinyl re-release. And as you can tell, indeed it features a poster by yours truely, my first illustration work published actually.

Limited to 330 vinyls, this is obviously a collector’s item. Plus, the album is killer.

Drop a comment or mail me at lloyd@on-point.be if you want to secure your copy right away. Record stores are closing down, so I’ll do some sales myself, for the love of the game.

Price: 12 euros. Order now, I’ll sign some if you insist!

• Voyage en pays de Calligraphie | l’encre, les idéogrammes et leur évolution au Japon

After the huge succes of Ame’s Shining Back mix, we decided to hit you with another J Dilla Samples Montage. This isn’t a new one though, ‘Donuts - The Blueprints’ actually hit the web a long time ago, well received on numerous prestigious forums and boards, but after that kind of vanished.

But the mix is a classic, so we had to share it with you again. JtotheC added some artwork and well yeah, there you have it.

AME - Donuts - The Blueprints (J. Dilla Samples Montage)

Don’t forget The CD Cover, for your printing pleasure!

As always with these cratedigging gems, don’t ask for the tracklist, there is no way we can share that with you, matter of fact, I don’t even have one, it’s all in the allmighty mastermind of Ame, who by now, you should know from numerous After Hours productions!

Previously on the On-Point Podcast:
- Ame - Shining Back (J Dilla Samples Montage)
- Vic&lloyd - VanWidderVoeGidder on De Hop
- SNS - Tribute to Dilla Mixtape Side A
- SNS - Tribute to Dilla Mixtape Side B
- BLA - OndaSonora Mix
- SNS - Nineties Hiphop Dedication

Furthermore, feel free to grab this banner below, plug it into your myspace, bloglay-out, or whatever

And also, if you haven’t done so already, do subscribe to the on-point podcast, plug it in your iTunes or rss reader children!

• Lords of  the Logistic
• Google is watching you

Last week’s interview with Martha Cooper was one of the nicest in a long time. So nice I forgot some of my questions, what can I say, I’m an amateur…

Martha Cooper gained international recognization for her pioneering photos of early hiphop culture, being the first ever to capture graffiti and breakdancing.

The final edit ended up being over 10 minutes of video, in which I didn’t want to cut, so take your time, watch, listen or in other words: check it out. And spread the word if you’re feeling it:

Check out her latest book Street Play, The Hiphop Files, We B* Girlz and Subway Art, for some classic material!

Special thanks to Incr1 for the illustrations (mail), digitalovers.net, mr.Ego, Eastpak and the FromHereToFame people, for publishing Martha’s work of course!

HitTheBooks. That’s where you’ll find me this Saturday. Probably all afternoon, looks like there’s gonna be a whole lotta checking to do, all about mags ‘n’ books ‘n’ independent publishing. Props to Ephameron and Hessenhuis to make this happen!

(Click the flyer for practical info.)

People who search using only Google, and nothing but Google miss out on 72.7% of the possible search results.

That’s basically the main conclusion two American universities drew in this here study.

I plaid guilty as well, the damn thing is imported in my browser, as with most of us by now, I imagine.

Does anybody out here still remembers the glory days of Altavista - now called AlltheWeb? In tough competition with Yahoo for a while, when the third dog stepped into the game to basically flip the script and take over their business? It sounds almost nostalgic.

Anyway, here’s a top100 of alternative search engines, it’s amazing how many they are. Business blogs seem to be stuck on the question “Is Search still the big business opportunity for the web?”

And yes, it sure is, watch out for web3.0 coming at you, the semantic web. I might get a little deeper into that one of these days. It shouldn’t always be about style and music and design and stuff, now should it?

It’s a late pass, but by popular demand, here is the tracklist of the latest podcast, if you haven’t done so already, why not download it right away? I mean, look at that tracklist, there’s a fair share of exclusive unreleased and even some never-to-be-released material in there!

vic&lloyd at De Hop, Studio Brussel:

La Mescla - Days Like These (produced by Gusto)
Ugly Ducklin’ - Friday Nights
Slum Village ft. Q-Tip - Hold Tight
Isley Brothers - It’s Your Thing
45King - Put The Funk Out There
Bob Ballistic - 11 Juli (produced by Fonz)
The Stylistics - People Make The World Go Round
DJ Iron - Closer
JayLib - Unreleased Instrumental
INT - Do You Want It?
Jazzy Jeff ft. Slum Village - Are You Ready?
James Brown - Take Some Leave Some
William Devaughn - Be Thankful (vic on the robotic outro)
Audio Two - Top Billin’
Bob James - Nautilus
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (lloyd edit)
Isaac Hayes - Good Love
Interlude - Toot Sweets, The Candies You Whistle
Lloyd’s Ill Herbie Hancock Mash-up ft. Mos Def, Q-Tip, Bilal, a.o.
Lootpack - Answers Instrumental
Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear
Theo Parrish - Ugly Edit (with an extra lloyd edit)
Al Jarreau - You Don’t See Me
James Brown - Funky Drummer
James Brown - Soul Power
Outro - Spread Love ft. DJ PatCa

After the downloading, burn it on a cd-r, print the cd-cover, and plug it in your car stereo system, make your trunk rattle!

• Google Zeitgeist 2007 Videos
• Photographer Michael Wolf’s 100x100
  Photographs of residents in their flats in Hong Kong’s oldest public housing estate: 100 rooms, each 100 square feet in size.

I’ve very muched enjoyed the videos of the Google Zeitgeist 2007 conference. Most of them might not be as interesting to most of you so I’ve decided to pick just one for you trendwatchers out there: Josh Spear talking about the whole online community thing, commenting on various new services which I hadn’t heard of yet:

Josh Spear launched him self into online stardom by blogging over at joshspear.com. He’s running his own company now and the blog itself is run by eight (!) other people.

Here are some statements, who might not make any sense unless you see Josh speak upon it. I think the man is actually making sense spotting some trends, and I’ve found these to be very complimentary to my reading of Generation Me - I hope I’ll find some time to share my thoughts on that one, once I’ve finished reading.

“Universities are basically ignoring new media.”

“Ten dollars for a virtual red rose (…) Virtual gifting will be big!”

“…she’s a bit of a new media whore.”

“Dating is gaming. Dating has been gaming on tv for ages, but it hasn’t translated on the internet yet, until now.”

“Brands should integrate, not infiltrate.”

He also speaks upon the succes of Threadless, a t-shirt site selling limited edition t-shirts, designed by users and voted upon by the same community. A concept run by two dudes, who sold over a million t-shirts a year.

Which made me wonder if I were to upload some design, how many users would vote it into the actual printing phase (because just because you contribute a design doesn’t mean it will automatically be printed, you’ll need the community’s approval for that to happen)

There are more videos online, of course.

• Purpose - Online Photography Magazine

With another feature in ‘Brussel Deze Week’ and a dozen of blogs speculating on the who’s and how’s behind Bonom’s killer streetworks, our man seems to keep head cool and blesses us with another masterpiece:

Previously on Bonom:
Video: Bonom & Lork - Big Baby Piece the size of an office block, Brussels
Video: Bonom & Lork - Animated Streetart - Etterbeek Station
Photos: Bonom Flickr Photo Pool

We know you’ve been waiting for this to happen ever since we unplugged early in the morning some Sunday last month - yeah we saw you jumping on those tables - so we’re back on a go again: Tonight, All Night, at Le Tavernier, Free Entrance, Free Love, all of that. Come get down with the get-down!

We’ll be there from around 22h on.

But first, let’s meet and greet the one called Martha Cooper!

I’m a sucker for patterns. The idea that there’s virtually no start and no end to these repetitive aesthetics just makes me go round and round.

Which is brilliant, especially since I’m talking this Summer’s favourite fashion accessoire: The Pattern.

I don’t know if we’re supposed to look at this as another revival of the retro lifestyle or whatever, I for one see it as a counterreaction to the minimal styles we’ve been witnessing over these last couple of years, notably in music and graphic design (last Spring wearing white bermudas was quite minimalminded too).

Speaking of which, I actually pointed this out to brother vic a couple of months ago, how each and every graphic design seemed to be amped up by some extra plantlike curly forms and styles, simply for the sake of filling things up. I didn’t quite like that, however, in fashion it does get my groove on.

And don’t give me that “lloyd, old school retro styles have been in fashion for years now“. Obviously you’ve got point, but it’s going mainstream now, it’s not only the trendy highschoolgirls rocking patterns, it’s everyone nowadays. Either that or I’m just focussing too much, then again, prove me wrong.

Note to self: start second blog: on-patterns.net

• Exactitudes - Ari Versluijs & Ellie Uytenbroek

This is too good to be true: Martha Cooper is coming to town, Brussels that is this very Friday even!

Miss Cooper having earned near cult status with her legendary photos of the New York ghettos will sign her latest book: “Street Play”

If you want to check her work, “The Hiphop Files” is probably the best starting point. Or watch On-Point TV’s Martha Cooper Interview:

As for Friday, click the flyer below for more info:

Again, news from the man called Above.

It was only yesterday that I sit down with one half of the infamous digitalovers to prepare our questions for what is bound to be an indepth interview on the life and works of streetartist ABOVE and guess what. Today the Brussels video of his European tour has been uploaded to his youtube channel. Ain’t that something?

Above is all about arrows basically. That and putting his name up. Up in the sky.

By now our charming local authorities seem to have removed all of the arrows, very much to our disappointment. So for now we can only watch the video, that actually shows only a small part of his work, and unfortunately doesn’t reveal any secrets.

I mean, how did he put up all them signs, on cables above some of the busiest and crowdiest places of the city. (read: Manneken Pis, Boulevard Anspach, Place St.Gery, etc. etc.)

Check this video to see the man at work.

I told you I read my fanmail! This just came in at on-point headquarters:

From June 15th til September 2nd our current favourite French photographer JR is showing his Face 2 Face project in Amsterdam. (check for info)

Be sure to check out JR’s 28Millimetres video if you haven’t done so already.

Gives me yet another reason to go for a little Holland trip this summer. On top of that here’s some videomaterial of the project:

Ow and, his youtubechannel, can’ t do without nowadays.

Thanks a bunch a fan a.k.a. katrien!

• An Introduction to Type Design - The Type Designer as Artist
• NYChildren.org
• Four Eyed Monster - First YouTube Full Length Movie

You thought stacking chairs was impressive as a public art installation? Check this crazy rotating wall. Next thing you know we’ll be flipping buildings inside-out, with a big old canon bouncing on top! Lovin’ this:

From Gizmodo:

The UK city of Liverpool is playing host to a rather kooky piece of artwork for the next 18 months. Called Turning The Place Over by Richard Wilson, it consists of a rotating wall that turns 360º.

Cut in the wall of an old Yates’s Wine Lodge, the installation sits opposite one of the city’s train stations and is costing almost $900,000 - that’s $50,000 for each month of its existence.

What can I say, this stacked chairs installation is just utter brilliance!

“…This amazing art installation was made by Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo for the International Instanbul Biennale in 2003. She used over 1,550 chairs stacked on an empty lot between two buildings!”

(via woostercollective.com)

• Parra at work

In a day or ten Balo - of Starflam fame - will bless us with a sneak preview of his highly anticipated solo album “Hotel Impala”.

My interest in proper marketing is still present and I must say I was pleasantly suprised to see Balo’s myspace tweaked to the max ànd announcing a series of six promo videos which will be put online from June 11th on on his now empty youtube channel.

On top of that the videos feature some all-time killer on-point stars, such as Sozy.One Gonzalez, Amp Fiddler, Peter Lesage and Urbanus, amongst many many others. Needless to say I’m looking very much forward to this!

Balo will be playing at BlueNoteRecordsFestival, July 13th, in Ghent.

The first two of the following clips are playing, for the first one click play on the myspacepage, check it out and look for the surprise guest in there!

A lot of beatheads out there know about the infamous Dustbusters interview with JayDee. One long indepth talk about the whole of his career, by Y’skid and I.N.T. Thusfar the interview was only up for mp3 downloads, but what you didn’t know is that all of it was actually filmed!

I heard rumours of this getting a proper release or deal or whatever, none of that was confirmed so for now all I can say is check out this superb preview:

Related links:
Video: La Melodia - Time
Podcast: Ame - Shining Back
Video: J Dilla Interviews (Common, Bilal, ?uestlove, J Rocc, etc.)
Podcast: SNS - J Dilla Tribute Part One
Podcast: SNS - J Dilla Tribute Part Two

• Format Magazine: DELTA Interview

I uploaded some photos of last week’s expo.

And so did eMich:

If anybody else has more pictures, holla back at lloyd@on-point.be please!

Bonom. Over the last couple of months this man has been rocketing himself into cultstatus in Brussels.

Most readers will know him from emich’s video of his stop motion pieces he set up with partner-in-crime Lork over at Etterbeek Station (check).

Before that, Bonom was known for his wheatpaste work featuring fossils and animals, as you can see on this here dedicated flickr photo pool.

But Bonom and Lork seem to be on some bigger things now. Bigger as in, the size of an office block. Check out what these cats recently did, just a small walk away from Central Station, Brussels.

A baby in front of the King Boudewijn statue, could this be a clever provocation, or am I overthinking this one?

Just a little further, Bonom put up a big hand together with Bambi. See for yourself.

Fantastic flavour has been adding up since I didn’t find that much time to check all things new on this here worl’wideweb. But let me tell you, there’s a stàck of dopeness out there, to sum up just a few, here are some must-see’s / must-hears:

Video: Common - The Game

Mix: Kanye West - Can’t Tell Me Nothing Mixtape

Mix: OndaSonora - Deep Shit Part 1

Video/Expo: Geoff McFetridge, Eindhoven (Grand Royal Mag!)

Mix: Maurice Fulton Mixtape

Expo: Piet Parra - Random Tits, NYC

Video: 500 Years of Women in Art

No words from no sponsors really, I just wanted to share some behind-the-scenes view on the archives. A whole lot of video right there, let me tell you, and as always, the best is yet to come. Next episode hopefully online by the end of next week, and the week after that, and the week after that! Whoop!

Previously on On-Point TV:

Mo&Grazz - Live at Jazzbreak

Delta Interview

Olivier Kosta-Théfaine (Stak) Interview