About to lift off for another brilliant evening at BlueNoteRecordsFestival in Ghent. Wednesday was very nice, almost succeeded in convincing Shadow to do an interview, but the tour schedule was just too damn tight, too bad.

Thusfar I’ve only managed to properly arrange one interview, the rest of the bunch seems to be in superstarstatus. Which I can only respect.

However, I will still be knocking on management’s doors of the likes of Zap Mama, Guru and Sly Stone. Although chances to interview that last one are extremely small, but then again same went for Roy Ayers last year, when numerous attempts of setting up a meeting ended up in a nice long chat with Roy, about his sneakers, amongst many other topics - you’ll get the whole interview in one of the future podcasts, don’t you worry about that!

Anyway, I’m all into Sly & the Family Stone nowadays. Particularly this tune called “Babies making babies”, as featured on one of my favourite mixtapes, by Rob Swift.

And on that note, I’ll let Sly (on the photo to the right) himself do the rest of the talking. Read the Vanity Fair story on where he’s at nowadays, Or let’s go back, way back, back into the time:

There’s more Sly, here’s the man, the myth, living the life, basically:

Last month I joined Jan Peeters to interview Ben Westbeech, protégé of Gilles Peterson on his new label Brownswood Recordings.

A couple of hours before Ben Westbeech’s gig in Leuven, we join him for a beer and a relaxed chat in front of Leuven’s train station.

After having launched our joint criticism on the strange and not that well succeeded architectural combination of the neoclassical train station, its ultramodern canopy and the red brick bus station, our conversation takes of with Bristol, a safe haven for new electronical sounds coming from for instance Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead and Roni Size. Bristol seems to be quite a heavily bass-influenced town… (Read the rest of the interview.)

And/or tune in right here:

Ben is performing live in Kortrijk this Saturday the 14th of July, sharing the stage with Jimi Tenor, all for free, so go check that out!

He’s also playing at Dour Festival, which is sold out for the first time, apparently.

Previously on on-point tv:
Dave Decat - Carhartt feature
Martha Cooper Interview
Soul:ID - epk

Damn, what can I say, here’s Baloji with Amp Fiddler in the studio. And then the third killer steps in the spot, and he goes by the name of Peter Lesage! It’s brilliant!

Baloji Live at BlueNoteRecordsFestival this Friday, can’t wait to see that show!

More Baloji video material:
Congo Music Video
SozyOne Gonzalez on the Album Artwork of Hotel Impala

Don’t know how many of you have seen Ricky Gervais’ stand-up performance, but I hadn’t. But guess what, it’s put online for us to enjoy. Entirely:

The rest of the chapters are to be clicked through, or you’ll find them right here.

More Ricky Gervais:
- Ricky Gervais on Letterman
- One Love - Ricky Gervais in Kenya
- Ricky Gervais leaked video for Microsoft

Last month I’ve made the EPK that’s accompanying the release of Soul:Id’s highly anticipated debut album ‘Sex, Love and Philosophy’

I’ve had some great times getting to know the band and I must say I’ve rarely seen such dedicated people, focussed on doing things the right way. Seeing things happen made me realise it actually is not so surprising they’re debuting on the infamous ABB Soul label in the States. (with releases in Japan and the UK following shortly after)

The album is a killer, it was featured in Billboard. Still, no press interest in Belgium, strange, isn’t it? I guess it’s the stereotypical story, you’ll have to succeed abroad before you get noticed. As you’ll see in the video though, the band has been touring internationally already.

ABB Soul made a nice e-card, in which the EPK is nicely featured, which is nice!

A video interview with tons of exclusive video material will be featured on on-point tv somewhere next month. Busy times on the editing tip, learning a lot of new tricks. Stay tuned for more tv, and needles to say, please spread the word. Because here’s what to expect:

- Graffiti Royal Video (ft. SozyoneGonzalez, Shake, Rekto, Olivier Stak, etc.)
- Ben Westbeech Interview
- Dave Decat Interview
- Soil&Pimp Sessions Interview
- BlueNoteRecordsFestival Interviews
- etc. etc.

And after that I’ve got another round of jobhunting to do.

Time for me to plug some more music. Live music. Funk music. Straight outta Brussels comes The Peas Project: an 11-piece live funk outfit, influenced by a dozen of genres and known for their strong live reputation.

I still have to edit the footage over their blazing gig at Jazzbreak just a while ago. I missed out on their Brussels Jazz Marathon show on the Grand Place but looking at the pictures on theirspace it looks like Brussels sure was put on fire that night!

Their debut album “This Is Our First Record” is in stores, I’ll hit you with some live footage later on, but for now, here’s their new clip: “Our Funk Process”.

For live dates, check their myspace, and to all bookers outside of Brussels, Book these cats!

Baloji is going strong. Another video was just uploaded. This time around a high-quality 9-minute feature. Listen and feel the vibe, it’s quite heavy if you ask me:

Love the camerawork and the editing too. More info on Baloji’s Hotel Impala album soon!

Lately I’ve been feeling the need to share some serious topics with you. About online and cultural trends, to be specific.

Some of you will probably find this quite boring, just know that these topics in fact àre all about you, so they do concern you. I’m sorry to say so but you won’t escape marketeers, you won’t escape the media, and since you’ve read this far already you’re damn far from escaping the web.

Introducing Andrew Keen, whose book “Cult of the Amateur - How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture” seems to be growing into becoming the hype of the year.

Basically the web2.0 revolution (read: blogs competing newssites, youtube killing traditional tv watching, etc.) has always been looked at as being the democratisation of content.

The user taking over, making his own decisions, therefor liberating himself from the big corporations, serving other users with what they really want, not with what is dictated by major companies.

Keen, however, believes this is all a bunch of crap. Amateurs have indeed partially taken over the content-monopoly once driven by professional journalists, tv-makers, designers, etc. But this hasn’t given us the cultural revolution so many had hoped for.

Web2.0 has given opportunities to certain talented people, but the really big successes are, for instance, webcam videos about nothing, blogs about nothing, etc. So how does this justify the demonisation of classic media?

Being an amateur myself, I must say I don’t feel offended. On-point is not a political blog and I don’t think I ever pretended holding the truth.

I think it’s good to finally see someone stand up and take a stance against the crowdsourcing trend, a trend that is nice, but isn’t holy, I think.

Anyway. Stay tuned and think about it, these are the times we’re living in!

Here’s a Andrew Keen speaking at ‘Authors@Google’. I’ve made you a small selection of quotes, just for you to think about:

- “If we’re going to use the internet as a self-publicating platform, we nééd to have something to say. Otherwise it degenerates into a state of digital narcicissm where everything simply becomes a reflection of ourselves. We Twitter ourselves to death and we use the internet to tell the world what we had for breakfast or what we watched on televsion and that’s not valuable for ourselve or for any type of collective conversation.”

- “We need middlemen. We need experts. Whether experts are in marketing or in creativity, whether they’re in finding talent and figuring out how to polish it and distribute it. These are the core players in every media system..

- “The flattening of culture, the idealised web 2.0 system, where the intermediarists go away has profoundly unfortunate and often dangerous consequenses.”

- “Media literacy is the thing we need to build now. We have this open system, the challenge is to read it critically. The challenge is not to believe everything that is posted up on Wikipedia. The challenge is not to think that this sort of idealised media system can deliver us truth. -…- Truth is even harder to find.”

“The great seduction of the internet is to become a broadcaster ourselves, to use it as a platform to express ourselves. -…- I think we need to remind ourselves that there are many times where we need to remain silent, where we need to remain in the audience.”

Very much looking forward to hearing your opinion on these statements. I hope you still dare to comment after that last statement though.

Kind of lost touch with Good Magazine, my bad, I shouldn’t have. Not only did these people learn us about Object Orange, in Detroit, a while ago. By now they seem to have built a collection of, well, really Good Videos. Check all of them, or let’s just start with some favourites:

For my photographylovers: NYChildren.org:

For my recordlovers: Bob George - the Archive

For all lovers: Internet Porn:

Well I’ll be damned! Just today I asked him when the video was going to be uploaded, and guess what, there he is: SozyOne Gonzalez speaking upon the artwork he’s done for Baloji’s upcoming album.

From what I’ve heard the album is one master listening experience, haven’t heard anything but the intro yet, but I’m already hooked.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

La Melodia has a first video online, Time, of the full length album dropping in Europe this Summer. Japan has got its release, we’re still waiting, the singles are out on vinyl already though, fans go cop that hotness! (ask your recorddealer or get it here for instance)

After checking the video check out the making of video feature on the TMF site.

La Melodia is: INT and Melodee, both of Imadodattaz fame. Straight out of Eindhoven, Holland that is!

Browsing videos I came accross this nice little INT flavour, hadn’t noticed this lo-fi video yet, the song is classic to me though! Vibe ‘n’ Feel:

Ricky Gervais once again ripped it at Letterman’s last week. He just won another award and is nominated for several online awards, etc. etc. Just watch him:

More Ricky, more Letterman:

Also check out:
- Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) on Letterman
- One Love - Ricky Gervais in Kenya
- Ricky Gervais leaked video for Microsoft

Almost Summer and that means flowers are to be blossoming again. If you’re into urban gardening and you want to put that old flowerpower in contrast with our concrete jungle, what better choice than the giraffe of all flowers: the allmighty Sunflower?

As absurd as it sounds this is no joke. A bunch of enthusiasts plant Sunflowers around Brussels every year. They started their action May 1st and their stories are up for reads at brussels-farmer.blogspot.com.

And this is the year 2007 so all of this was filmed, which is brilliant:

Actually as I’m posting this, there’s a plantation being started at the Botanique, at 13h30. Unfortunately I came accross this just a bit too late, I should have told you earlier, I’ll be quicker next time, promised!

More on Guerilla Gardening. Or how about grass couches in the city? People worldwide seem to be dealing with concrete versus nature, solid versus green if you will.

All of my support to the people who are slowly but surely preparing their upcoming exams. Don’t panic, you’ll make it, if only you stay on-point!

Just know that times are stressful for all of us. Even for a hardheaded BBC journalist like John Sweeney trying to properly interview some Scientologists. Watch him go:

Why did this happen? Well, this might be a hint:

John Sweeney: “While making our BBC Panorama film “Scientology and Me” I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, denounced as a “bigot” by star Scientologists and been chased round the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers.”

As with Louis Theroux’ visit to ‘The most hated family in America’ prepare to be shocked once again. Here’s the first part of the documentary, the rest is to be found on thetube, of course.

Far away you said? Feel free to go take the Dianetics test at the Scientology shop near the Grand Place in Brussels. Wouldn’t recommend it though, they will label you “an instable personality” withouth a doubt, but do take the test, at your own risk. I didn’t.

(via P.F.’s Memorable Movies)

Over a year ago you could catch lloyd and one half of digitalovers down the Brussels streets, heads up high, pointing to the sky, talking to people “check ça, y a une fleche!”

Weird intro, right? Not if you know we’re talking about the works of Above here. The man who gained international fame by putting up big and small arrows all around the globe. Only a couple of months ago the city of Brussels removed the ones in our very own capital. (we counted at least five of them in the Bourse area!)

We got in touch with the man - who replied to our interview request with the killer opening line: “sorry I’m replying this late, but I was on a six month world tour”. That is of course a very valuable argument. But the interview will take place, in time. The man’s back from his European tour now and will be putting videos online in the coming weeks.

Needless to say we love him for that!

Here’s a video of the man working his magic in L.A. (the video lives up the image of the artist I had in mind)

Woostercollective started the channel on thetube dedicated to Above’s touring.

It’s out there on the streets, it’s moving, it’s in constant dialogue with the public and its environment… This must be art! It be what it be, I’m all in favour of this wheatpaste craze, these Berlin cats took it to another level for me with this one.

The art-topic is finally catching fire, thanks to all commentors, you are of great help to me right about now. Some inspiring insights already!

For those wondering why I’m asking an ignorant cliché question such as “what is art?” or why I’m spying on who made you loose your art virginity, let’s just say I’m onto something big here, and I need to catch the meaning of art. That’s really all there is to it.

So even if you’re one cold-hearted bastard towards what is referred to as art, drop your thoughts in a comment, it’ll be of great help to me, yes, even when it’s total rubbish you’re speaking, don’t worry about that!

(via: woostercollective)

I stumbled upon this killer video featuring 4 galleries speaking their mind on ArtBrussels 2007. And I’ll be damned if that isn’t our favourite gallery diva: Alice in the screenshot! Brilliant.

After having seen this, maybe you feel inspired enough to help me defining art, or to share you earliest memory of art? Please do.

If you don’t know about Alice yet, check out on-point tv for a chat with the legendary Delta and the infamous Olivier Stak, just two of their Artists Living In Constant Elevation.

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to finish my take on the whole artbrussels craze, I was lacking time.. and guts. The idea was quite edgy and I didn’t want to see my name on no blacklist, no sir!

However, I will bless you with exclusive Graffiti Royal footage in a couple of weeks. Graffiti Royal being an artbrussels party organised by Alice and Dalton, so I won’t leave you in the cold, no worries!

(Video credit: whatsonart.com)

This easily could have been a Michel Gondry piece, but it ain’t. It’s a killer stop-motion animation with waves of stuff. That’s all there is to it, but I’m a fan of these things, can’t help it.

It actually is a Dougal Wilson ad for ‘the Big Yellow Storage Company’.

Just the fact that as a little boy, Julius Popp used to think grown ups actually have a book with all mechanisms on how Life works, makes him my kinda fella.

Nowadays he sets up typographical waterfalls. And what more is there to say? Let’s watch him do his thing and explain it himself:

(Marketing boys who would want to jump on the idea, too late.)

Typographical masterpiece: Thisiswanted:

With these type of animations (see the Pulp Fiction videos too) I always wonder how this is being made. Anybody out there that’s active in this field? What are the programs used for this? Is there a specific name for this style? Or is it just plain cool?

Meanwhile part two of the Wim Crouwel interview has been uploaded, part one is still here too, obviously.

For those who missed out on the Frank Zappa docu, last Sunday on Dutch television, here it is:

Also check out “Frank Zappa debating music censorship!

Geniuses at work: Herbie Hancock shows his Fairlight CMI synthesizer to Quincy Jones, back in 1983!

What is the pen-controlled touchscreen rocking the sequenser? Looks futuristic, in a cute kind of way, doesn’t it?

Pricetag: around €40.000.

(via)

Last Wednesday Jazzbreak saw Mo&Grazz trying out a new set-up for their live shows. And well, it was killer, see for yourself:

Live on stage:
Backing Vocals: Nina Babet & Stef Caers
Drums: Patrick Dorcean
Bass: Daniel Romeo
Vocals: Monique Harcum
Turntables: Grazzhoppa

Before that it was just Mo&Grazz, two turntables and a mic, which was nice, as you can see.

The track in the video is an extended version of “Some Things Never Change” their latest single (check the clip).

RIP John Cleese.

He ceased to exist. Luckily he got to do his own eulogy, see for yourself! Ow, the hilariousness:

(via: Peter)

After the huge success of the Olivier Stak interview, on-point tv is back with the niceness for you and yours, putting the spotlight to the man called Boris Tellegen, the legend that goes by the name of DELTA!

This one cost me a whole lot of time and effort but it finally resulted into an 11minute feature, so sit back and check it out!

After you saw this, run to the shop and cop the Kroonjuwelen dvd (I know in Ghent it’s for sale at Toykyo), featuring a 48pages booklet and an amazing insight in Amsterdam’s graffiti scene in the early nineties. One bloody must-see it is, believe you me!

Furthermore huge shout-outs to:

Stunnedfilm.nl
Fonz at Duthed.org
Alice Gallery
Digitalovers.net
Woostercollective.com

More info on Delta’s legendary oeuvre, right here: delta-inc.com.

I told you some work was in progress, so here it is: the Olivier Stak video interview, filmed chez Alice:

The expo is currently running at Alice Gallery, till the 3rd of May, so go check that out! And don’t sleep on the upcoming Graffiti Royal event either, featuring Sozyone Gonzalez and Olivier Stak, amonst many, many others.

After this On-Point TV has a well wicked Delta video interview coming up (over 10 minutes of pure niceness!), thanks to Alice and Raph, and digitalovers for the support!

Into the Sao Paulo undergroud with the artist Zezão. Yup, it’s that time again, another underground newsflash, and this time around it’s not about trains, trams, metros or catacombes. We’re talking sewers here. And one artist literraly getting down to the nitty gritty.

Not really a video, but a flash presentation with photos and an audio interview, killer soundscape straight out of the underground. (subtitled in
English)

(via: woostercollective.com)

Capturing the vibe of a live concert with merely one camera is always a task, but might I say, I think I did quite a good job last Wednesday at Egon’s Jazzbreak gig. Loved the vibe these cats laid down, with a scatting drummer and a slightly psychedelic fusion atmosphere from time to time, that’s how we like it, keep an eye open for Egon!

Check it out, it’s not as long as the Flowriders video, or the Lefties Soul Connection video, alhough it is a bit longer than the Brothers on the Run video:

Egon has a myspace too, and Jazzbreak has its very own jazzbreak.be address and on top of that the myspace of course.

Just as a follow-up to Louis Theroux’ adventure earlier this week, I had to point out the launch of this new video site. A god-given YouTube, called no other than: GodTube!

Watch John Piper go: “shocking, stunning, devine, absolute staggering grandeur!”

For the afficionados of online tv-series, who seem to be abandoned by thetube, due to copyright infringement, here are some alternatives: Forget YouTube: Go To These Sites If You Want Hard Core Copyright Infringing Content. Enjoy.

From the makers/founders of Kazaa and Skype comes: JOOST.

The whole blogosphere has been wetting it’s panties on the future launch of this new online television service, rightfully or not, here’s the commercial: “The magic of television, with the power of the internet built right in. Joost puts you in control, and TV will never be the same again. Coming soon!”

Joost is currently in beta testing, and one needs an invitation to join in, unfortunately on-point headquarters wasn’t invited, just yet.

For the people who were at home, or for the stressed out working class heroes: Flowriders Live at Jazzbreak, last week!

Thanks to Michiel Thomas for killer camerawork, great job!

Louis Theroux is back! Gotta love him, can’t hate on the man!

Louis visited what is arguably thé most hated family in the States. Faut le faire, and indeed, he done did it. The Westboro Baptist Church is known for their extreme hate against homosexuals - using slogans such as: “Fags eat poop”. They’ve been demonstrating on funerals of America’s fallen Iraq soldiers, yelling it is all a punishment of God, etcetera etcetera…

Louis lived with these crazy nutters for three weeks. The result is to be seen on the tube, check it out:

Check the rest of Louis’ adventure (7 parts) right here. (Thanks to appelogen.be for hooking us up)

Had some great (offline) comments on the Underground/Subway Video Special, so I figured I should keep the topic running.

Here’s a nutter skiing down the longest escalator in Europe, in the London Subway:

(And here’s sneazing panda, which has absolutely nothing to do with this topic, but it’s a must-see too!)

Although I’ve been having some comments on dropping way too many videos lately, I feel like this whole street drumming scene is wày too on-point, not to share it with you peoples.

Now, turn it up some:

(Thankyouverymuch BeelWout for hooking me up with this movement!)

By know you probably know I’ve been into Ricky Gervais over the last couple of weeks, and guess what, there seems to be a lot of material online of the man who seems to be the modern day John Cleese, and guess what I’m all in favour of that title!

Check this and yes it’s an old one, but I had to share it because I hadn’t seen it yet:

A Microsoft training video created by Ricky Gervais has surfaced on online video sharing sites.

YouTube has since removed the file at the request of Microsoft, but it is still available on Google Video:

On-Point TV is back with another blast from the (recent) past: J Rocc live on the Born To Jazz Radioshow on Urgent.fm!

Check out the Funky President working his magic.

Warning: this is nerdish dj material, some of you might not understand why this is so utterly dope, but hey, I just had to share it with you. Enjoy!

For my nerdalistic type lovers only: a short, but quite indepth, interview with Wim Crouwels, typographer extraordinaire:

Who is this man living the life by the name of Wim Crouwel? Well, let’s quote now:

Wim Crouwel, born in 1928 in Groningen, Netherlands, is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer.

Crouwel is still an active member of the Dutch graphic design scene.

All praises to Digitalovers.net for pitching me this one! Check Part Two

Only a couple of weeks ago we had this strange traffic light defect in the centre of Brussels, and now I see this being one of the top ranked commercials of the moment: Snickers Don’t Stop

Check it out , some serious killer animation going on in there:

And then of course there’s The Making-Of

For more insane Brussels traffic light action, you may want to come visit the city, just to feel the vibe of these.

Recently I’ve been watching the entire first and second series of “The Office” for the second time. After that I did me an “Extras” marathon, watching the first series (+ the killer dvd extra’s) on one lonely night. Currently on the look-out for someone to fetch me the follow-up second part of the series. So yeah, I’m a huge fan of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, his writing partner.

And then all of a sudden, in comes this trailer for a BBC charity thing called “Red Nose Day”. It features Ricky Gervais and Stephen, and a whole lot more. See for yourself:

They just took it up to this whole other level I can’t really see happen anywhere else than in the U.K.

It’s just ridiculously master!

Ben Westbeech is hot! And damn rightfully so. The new “So Good Today” clip is just online, and I love the playfulness. Check it out and remember where you saw it first!

Ben Westbeech will be joining Gilles Peterson live on stage at Het Depot Friday May 18th. Don’t miss out on that one! Meanwhile, vibe along to some liveness:

Brand new! The new Mo&Grazz clip for Some Things Never Change, taken from the “Fallin’ upon def ears” album, ofcourse.

(Don’t miss out their upcoming Jazzbreak gig, April 18th, first time backed up by a full live band, ft. Nina Babet, Patrick Dorcean, Chan and other guests!)

And to quote myself of a previous post:

You know Mo&Grazz from their debut album, released last year. You’ve heard the album, seen them live or heard my very own audio interview. Now here’s the two of them in a nice live + interview combo on television.

I know some of you have had it with the overwhelming amount of new J Dilla material seeing light, but for the fans and just because I am a fan, here’s some more videos about the last chapter in Dilla’s life and the influence he’s had on other peoples lifes and music:

Taken from the Dilla tribute myspace page:

“With all of the events happening around the world to celebrate the life and music of J Dilla, a few people who knew and worked with him have been interviewed to talk about Dilla and the new Ruff Draft release. ”

Interviews by Havana Joe & Ross Harris
Filmed & edited by Ross Harris

Brothers on the Run are running in style.

Been down with them since day one and by what I’ve seen them do last week I can only forsee a bright future for them. Too bad if you’ve missed the gig, but no worries if so, because on-point tv was there, and you know it:

Tonight’s the second gig of the new Jazzbreak season: NToumos More info right here.

You know we’re all fan of Bai Kamara Jr. over here at On-Point Headquarters.

For those of you who don’t know about Bai just yet, get with the program, check the Living Room album for instance, and vibe along with Substitute, taken from the Urban Gipsy album, and to be featured on the new Vaya Con Dios record:

And for the Dutchies, here’s my article on Bai, published in Brussel Deze Week, last year.

What can I say? I’m tired and I found this “Human Pong” animation quite killer:

Ever since I was told to get on down I’ve been into this underground type of vibe. Literally, can’t nothing beat a good old trip down to the nitty gritty belly of the city - you can say that out loud if you want, three times.

The Brussels network is of course a bit pathetic compared to the real metropoles, but still it’s enjoyable to me. Let’s have a look around though, the underground worldwide. There’s a whole lot of things happening down there!

The best movie made about the underground is probably Marc Singer’s Dark Days. The documentary tells the story of a community living in the New York Amtrak tunnels. Singer spent 5 years of his live capturing their lives on camera and eventually even had to join them when he ran out of funds.

And then there’s the London tube, that might be on a whole other level too, ideal for glocking girls - or so I was told.

As always artists saw the light in Brussels we have our personal favourites: Bonom & Lork’s animated wall at Etterbeek Station (you’re right this one is located above the ground, but you’ll see why it’s in the list when we move on to the next):

The marketing boys quickly adopted the concept and are now investing in them concrete underground walls, can’t blame them for that - they’redoing it in New York so it’s only a matter of time until we’ll see this type of promo in Brussels:

In Paris graffiti veteran Psyckoze claimed his part of the city’s underground and has been working in the tunnels for years:

And then there’s music. Underground music:

To round it up, be warned and don’t fall asleep when rolling through town - sleep is the cousin of death, always keep one eye open:

One can also ski down the longest escalator in Europe, deep down the London underground.

Into the Sao Paulo undergroud with the artist Zezão. Yup, it’s that time again, another underground newsflash, and this time around it’s not about trains, trams, metros or catacombes. We’re talking sewers here. And one artist literraly getting down to the nitty gritty.

Not really a video, but a flash presentation with photos and an audio interview, killer soundscape straight out of the underground. (subtitled in
English)

Got to give credit where it is due, for all metronews emich.be has been my greatest inspiration, keep em coming!

“365 jours à Clichy Montfermeil”
The ghettos of Paris. Not the most popular holiday destination. This is a project by Ladj Ly and JR, who first brought us a photobook and now serve us up a DVD-release.

By the look of the trailer this seems like a must-see. The video above shows the street-art side of the story, the trailer on the site shows the street side of it.
The cover reminds me of the Cidade de Deus vibe, only less sunny.

More info on the project at 28millimetres.com.

A good way to start the day: Pulp Fiction put to type!

Yup, it’s all in them letters. First one is a work by Jarratt Moody, check out the rest of his work on his resumé site.

“Do they speak English in what?!”

“A fan” plugged me this next video, I must admit I had seen it around but had skipped it. Stupid me.
Please accept my apologies and let this be a lesson: lloyd too needs some guidance, so don’t hesitate to pass a link of on-pointness, you know there’s plenty out there (mail to lloyd@on-point.be).

More info on this project at the GraffitiResearchLab.

Thanks: a fan!

Loving this animation. I’ve always wondered how brainstormsessions for projects like these look like..

“Guys, we’ve got to do something about this book that talks upon a big Google conspiracy theory…”

“What does it look like?”

“What? The theory? Google? One’s a book, the other’s a collection of killerservers, I think.”

“Hmm… Hard one mate. We might need an extra art director, a fly-ass animator and some devine inspiration.”

“Yeah… Well anyway: let’s go!”

The result is brilliant:

It’s an oldie, but a goodie. So I had to share it with you. Watch the movie flip completely somewhere in the middle. Wordplay at its best. Brilliant! A good Tuesday to all! (don’t forget to turn up the sound)

(thanks to Bram@socialpitching.com)

You know Mo&Grazz from their debut album, released last year. You’ve heard the album, seen them live or heard my very own audio interview. Now here’s the two of them in a nice live + interview combo on television.

I’ve loved their live show in Ancienne Belgique early last year, but now that I’ve heard they will do an exclusive full live band show at the upcoming Jazzbreak series in Le Tavernier I’m getting really excited. The idea sure sounds promising to me. That’s April 18, don’t miss out!

It’s safe to presume you’re all big Moodymann fans, so I just had to upload this next video. Kenny Dixon Jr. aka Moodymann holding it down in his own trademark style. Lo-fi footage but Kenny’s killing it when a local cat steps up! “Not you mothafucka!” Brilliant!

Big up digitalovers for capturing these moments! Digitalovers.net soon online peoples!

Deze had ik nog niet gezien: Teeuwen, Bouwman, Gummbah - Betty Stöve Memorial

’slache!

Zo’n maand geleden had ik een interview met de Benjamin onder de Vlaamse stand-up comedians. Althans dat was de bedoeling, de jongeman, liet mij en mijn collega wachtend in de kou voor de Gentse Bal Infernal. Tot op de dag van vandaag heb ik daarvoor geen reden/excuus gekregen, no voicemail, no sms, no nothing.

Het is me al eerder overkomen dat een interviewée niet komt opdagen en dat daar ook niet de minste reden voor werd gegeven, maar die keer ging het dan wel om een legendarische striptekenaar wiens verhalen net verfilmd waren in een killer van een kaskraker.

Voor mensen die hun agenda uit handen hebben gegeven aan een amateuristische manager ben ik vergevingsgezind. Voor managers niet, en voor artiesten al evenmin. Laat staan voor een lokaal barely legal broekventje. Of hoe ‘Geen commentaar’ wel erg letterlijk te nemen.

U begrijpt dat ik niet helemaal onbevooroordeeld kan schrijven na zo’n situatie. In ieder geval, namen hoef ik niet te noemen, u googlet het zelf maar na, wat ik met u wou delen zijn deze previews van de Comedy Casino Cup, een soort Idool competitie voor de stand-up comedians te land, vanaf 9 februari op Canvas, en uiteraard heeft onze man het gehaald tot in de finales, ik wens hem veel succes toe. Onze man komt niet voor in volgend fragment, maar kijkt u toch even mee:

Meer fragmenten vindt u hier en hier. De previews vind ik niet meteen overtuigend, maar dat gebeurt wel meer. (pdw) in de jury geeft alvast één reden om de competitie te volgen.

Here’s a trailer of the upcoming Deck Demons dvd. Deck Demons did a short showcase at the 2005 Locoflows Festival. This first version trailer features no mention of Locoflows yet. But the Demons assured me we’d get a proper credit in the actual edit.

It’s been a while since, but just some time ago I was highly fascinated with the concept of “l’écriture automatique”. I had heard about this in dramaturgy class (yes, that’s something you didn’t know about lloyd), and as far as I understood it was a mindset in literature, where writers would just let loose of everything and start writing, going with the flow.

After the introductionary classes I kind of got into the concept and night after night forced myself into writing pages, packed with this absolute non-sense flow of conscience. This was before I started blogging. Eventually I got sick of it, but I still find it a concept worthy a try.

(For the readers who ever took courses in literature; I might have given the whole concept my personal twist, if so, I beg your pardon)

Why am I saying all of this? Well, whilst reading one of my favorite blogs “Presentation Zen” I came across this next video. After having seen it, it reminded me of the stream of consciousness approach to literature. Apparantly the makers are two German students who were on a quest for the phylosophical potential of … the Powerpoint culture!

Highly amazing indeed, but seriously, this is brilliant! The fact that it seems to be dedicated to Mary is a nice extra: A Film by Clemens Kogler together with Karo Szmit. Voice by Andre Tschinder.

Most of you are already familiar with the on-point tv channel, broadcasted through the tube. Because of extra posibilities and cooler features overall I decided to take the whole thing to dailymotion as well.

Latest additions: Lefties Soul Connection live at De Kreun and ESG live at Petrol. For the RSS heads, a feed has been added to the list, feel free to subscribe to the video rss feed.

To all colleague bloggers, here’s how you can integrate the on-point videochannel as a videoroll into your blog’s sidebar. Feel free to do so. It looks mighty fine and sure as hell it will give your site that extra bit of flavour your readers so dearly love! (Or you can dedicate a post to it, as ondasonora did yesterday)

I told you this week would be all about video. Here’s some live footage of Kortrijks freshest funkateers: Brothers On The Run, warming up for The Lefties Soul Connection, shot about a month ago. My apologies for the poor sound quality.

The Brothers will be kickstarting the new Jazzbreak season, March 6th! Don’t miss out on that one, I say!

I tried to explain how heavy an influence typography and fonts can be on our daily lifes. Having heard the “I don’t really care about the looks of a text”-remark over and over again I had the impression the majority of the people thinks arranging your text in a nice and subtle way is a waste of valuable time, and an act of superficiality pur sang.

Funny how in the following clip Wim Crouwel says exactly the same thing as Elke in the comicsans discussion: “The meaning should be in the text itself, not in the font.” Which makes the font all the more important, and not vice versa. Think about it.

Now, about the following clip. The bancomicsans movement is growing and maybe as a consequence the Helvetica crowd is swelling. We had the book “Helvetica - hommage to a typeface“. We had the designer t-shirt (don’t like it all that much though). In Australia a cafe named to the popular typeface was opened. But that’s all peanuts because guess what: a documentary is in the making. It looks very promising and the director even started running a blog about the filmmaking process.

More video clips of the film right here.

I haven’t been writing much lately, I beg your pardon for that but I think I’ll keep it audiovisual for at least another week. Maybe some artwork too, because guess what, I’m working on two album art projects (one poster, one cover). Can’t go deeper into the details, you’ll see it when it’s finished, untill then here’s Sasha Baron Cohen’s acceptance speech at the Golden Globe. (In case you hadn’t quite figured it out already Sasha is Borat is Ali G is Bruno)

Here’s more:
Borat - list of deleted scenes.
Interview with Sasha Baron Cohen.

I gave it my best shot to make this edit a little more exciting than the Moiano live videos (one and two). Lefties Soul Connection playing DJ Shadow’s Organ Donor live at De Kreun in Kortrijk. I hope you can dig it because this capture was quite the one-man-army action, which is kind of ridiculous to do, I realise now. The video is a 10-minute killer, half of it is intro, half of it is the actual track.

Big up to Lefties Soul Connection. Shout out to De Kreun. Whole lotta love to Theborntojazzmovement. And a good day to Thierry Steady Go as well, he’s a jolly good killer promoter and I think he’s rocking the Clark’s Wallabees, which is always a plus, as you will notice in the video!

This is the story of four ghetto sisters in the South Bronx, New York. They went by the name of E.S.G. and gained immortality by making killer music, simply structured and heavy on the bass. All-time classic being Moody.

I won’t get all biographical on you but here’s how allmusic.com puts it: “The four Scroggins sisters — Deborah (bass, vocals), Marie (congas, vocals), Renee (vocals, guitar), and Valerie (drums) — formed a group with the support of their mother, who bought instruments to keep her daughters busy and away from trouble”

The following is a short video of their performance in Petrol, Antwerp last November. Since their debut in the eighties the line-up was changed a few times (male players were kicked out one after the other), the revamped line-up includes Renee Scroggins’ daughters, Nicole and Chistel.
Filmed by digitalovers. Huge shout-out for that!

Het is zondag en dan is het tijd om niets te doen. Althans ten huize on-point. Gezellig het laatste stukje Kroonjuwelen checken, en dat zal het zijn. Volledige review en meer videomateriaal (i’view met Delta) volgt later, maar hier heeft u alvast het eerste stukje van de schplinternieuwe dvd:

En hier is meer.

Vorige maand heb ik ten zeerste genoten van “Ex-minnaar”, het boek dat samen met “Ex-schrijver” en “Ex-drummer” Herman Brusselmans’ bekende trilogie vormt. Die laatste komt eind deze maand in de cinemazalen en ik kijk er wel heel erg naar uit. Het boek moet ik nog lezen, maar ik durf te veronderstellen dat het hier een film betreft, met ballen. En zo zie ik ze graag. Filmfragmenten zijn reeds online: Great!

De soundtrack telt menig interessante mens, waaronder streekfavoriet Flip Kowlier, jawel. (De ganse soundtrack-clique treedt ook op op De Nachten, als de “Ex-drummer band”)

De intro in volgend filmpje wordt vanaf nu mijn favoriete opener in de platenwinkel: “Da speel gin rolle, trekt ip niet, ezwo, ti, ti, ‘t is pruts, allez, ‘kweetet niet, ‘t ee shit potentieel.”

Flip Kowlier: De Grootste Lul Van ‘t Stad

Voor de slechte verstaanders, hier even de toekomstige classic oneliners, binnenkort verenigd in “Flip’s killer oneliners, Deel 1&2″ Allicht in een package deal bij de volgende Humo-dvd, of met spaarpuntjes bij De Morgen.

“Ge ziet toch echt zo bleek, en ol daj doet is zien. Oj zo benauwd zit, ton doen we’t wel met drien”

“Ik voele niet voe de porno-industrie,
wuk voeldje gie, meiske, voeldje mie?!”

…vul gerust aan…

Mijn kop eraf als Flip zich niet gebaseerd heeft op de bekende Tripod sketch uit Coupling. “Sorry girls, seem to have a bit of a balance problem” versus “Ik ben ut evenwicht”?
En hoor ik daar een Paris Hilton referentie: “groene films doa doekik niet an mee” ?

Wat men noemt een tekst met lagen dus. Layers, gotta love ‘em right?

(via duizendingen.net)

Here’s how he actually did it:

You know about Michel already, right?

“De 95″ is nog maar net op pensioen gestuurd of de nieuwe generatie draait zich al warm aan het dépot. Zo doen ze dat dus bij de MIVB/STIB. Busje komt zo:

(via: emich)

Je zou kunnen stellen dat ze de feiten wel heel erg wanhopig achterna holt, en dat we’t allemaal wel al weten. Want, echt heel veel is er op het volgende filmpje niet te zien, maar de idee erachter blijft fascinerend.

In ware “Enemy of the State”-stijl brengt Michelle Teran in haar performance de wereld van beveiligings en andere verborgen camera’s naar boven. Met een winkelkarretje afgeladen vol hi-tech portable devices wandelt ze door, pakweg, Brussel. Op het einde komt de Beurs even in beeld. (Argosfestival, October 23, 2003 / 18.30-20.00 Brussels, Belgium)

Or as she states on her site: “‘Life: a user’s manual’ is a series of public performances and online mappings that examine the hidden stories captured by private wireless CCTV streams and how they intersect with the visible world around us.”

(meer video vindt u hier)

Another hit on the tube: A b-boy born rockin’. Merely 25 months old the champion belt would be bigger than the champ himself, but this might well be the A-trak of breakdancing!

Een toegewijde fan tipte me net, en jawel hoor: Remco is terug! Met drie filmpjes nog wel, allemaal op zijn eigenste youtube. De Remco-craze begon eerder deze week, kende even een dipje, maar de man is nu dus helemaal terug, zelfs in z’n moerstaal!

Ready for my first jobhop here’s one of my latest video’s at gobots.be: Troy von Balthazar telling you all about his typer. Which reminded me about the brilliantness of these machines. My old man’s typer can’t top Troy’s funky flavoured machine though.

(Note to self: go check the attic on a quest for the old man’s typer.)

Here’s a film I’ve got to see: “Sketches of Frank Gehry”. Now I don’t know jack shit about architecture (actually counting on some dedicated readers to enlighten my in that field) but I seem to recognize mr. Gehry’s buildings. Still have to go check out the Bilbao Guggenheimmuseum, that one kinda fell off my to-do-list, I’m putting it back on top right now. But first: the movie!

“I have no girlfriend? Check this, how many girls want to fuck me right now?”

In stand-up comedy the smart-asses in the audience are called hecklers. True killer comedians know how to handle them properly. I had never heard of Joe Rogan before I saw this video, and I’ll be damned if he doesn’t just walk right over this one! (although it doesn’t always end that sweet)

Via Peter Forret’s Video blog.

Recently some people asked me about interview techniques. Really though, all I can say is, there are none. The tips I could give were worthless pieces of shit, like ‘try to be as precise as possible, avoid vagueness’. You know. But anyway, here’s how it shouldn’t be done: Tom Lenaerts interviews Michelle Pfeiffer (actually a pretty neat combo after all):

My favorite backing vocalists: Stef Caers & Nina Babet, Live at Jazzbreak last month. Earlier footage was posted right here. Really though, watch them go! Doing it real big with Moiano.

Pech voor de fijnproevende rokers onder de lezers want vanaf volgende week doet België een eerste poging om de restaurants rookvrij te houden. Daar hoort natuurlijk een mediacampagne bij, maar omdat de televisie vooralsnog meer uit dan aan staat, had ik deze gemist. Geen nood echter, on-point’s eerst ‘Boodschap van Algemeen Nut’:

Opmerkingen (in no particular order):
- De marketingboys hebben dat weer bijzonder schoon voor mekaar gekregen: props!
- Geen Struisvogels. (Nochtans)
- De overheid heeft nog geen youtube/metacafe/googlevideo/imeem/etc. account.
- De Hoge Asbak op de stoep gaat het helemaal maken in 2007.
- De nieuwe Klara spot (’Het Paleis’) is ook master.
- Ten huize =lloyd= mag u er nog steeds een komen opsteken, maar ik ben dan ook geen chef-kok.

Ik had het er eerder al over, een stukje video over de soundtrack van Vidange Perdue, met Tom Kestens en ons aller Krewcial, ook wel bekend van Lalalover.

Was planning on doing an extended Dilla feature when this came in and I just had to give it to you right away: the video to the late JayDee’s ‘Won’t Do’. (featuring Dilla’s brother and mother, alongside a whole lot of people)

Got this from this new site I hadn’t heard of before: imeem.com > http://jdilla.imeem.com/ Here are pictures of the videoshoot.

James Yancey, aka J Dilla, aka JayDee died of Lupus February 10, 2006. R.I.P.

The long-awaited live footage of the legendary Moiano-crew workin’ it out at Jazzbreak last month. Thanks to Peter and the fam, Ugo and the loving Tavernier posse! (More footage might be uploaded later on, for now you get a neat 10 minutes featuring 3 tracks) Dig it:

Especially loving Nina going for hers at around 7 minutes, brilliant! (Don’t forget about the youtube rating system peoples, click the fifth star to rate 5 stars, I know you want to!)

Myspace oblige:
Moiano, Peter, Eva, Nina, Maarten, Brown Moshunz, Jazzbreak, Wonderful.

All Ireland lovers will be delighted to see this 30-minute docu on Dublin’s bike couriers. Or how a job can be healthy, stressing, urban, hip, alternative, etc. etc. all at the same time! I love the way I don’t understand a word of what these bikers are saying, or is it just me? Anyway, here’s part 1:

Be sure to check parts 2 and 3 as well.
(thanks to onepointzero.com)

Zoals beloofd hier een korte versie van het Troy von Balthazar interview, kwestie van onze vrienden rockers ook eens op hun wenken te bedienen. Volgende week volgt nog Troy’s visie op het betere schrijfwerk, waarbij hij zich voorwaar bedient van een typmachine. Echtwaargebeurd!

Click Troy for one kick-ass video-interview:

I have this great fascination with the underground. Having read “Molemen” (translated to Dutch as ‘Tunnelmensen’) and having seen the amazing documentary “Dark Days“, both telling the story of homeless people building a community in the tunnels of New York City, I’m thrilled to see another documentary on the life below is out there. Matter of fact I think I’ll order me a copy of “Dead Space” right away!(check out: deadspacemovie.com!)

The docu gives us some insight in the catacombes of Paris, where veteran graffiti-writer PSYCKOZE steadily built his own universe throughout the past decade. 69 kilometres of abandoned tunnels, 100 feet below the capital of France… If you’re not excited about the topic already, you might as well leave this site. Or, perhaps let the trailer do the proper teasing:

Ow and guess what, the makers set up their own myspace account. Brilliant!

Mo the City needs no introduction, the 313 has had its musical influences spread all over the globe for the past decennia and we all know it (don’t make me go listing names, r.i.p. J Dilla)

Detroit’s Motown signature of course came from the General and other Motors industry vitalising the city, after the industry fell off, the city morphed into this sort of post-modern abandondness, leaving empty factories and housings all over the place.

This called for some action, luckily a group of enthusiasts heard the call, and started ‘Object Orange’. Thanks to GOOD Magazine, we now also got this short video report:

Het was me een gezeul met codecs, cracks en plug-ins maar na uren gezwalp door audiovisuele wateren is het dan toch gelukt: een kort verslag over een expo van Brussels street-artist BlancBecincl. interview met de galerijhouder. Nu online op youtube.com/vicnlloyd, jawel.,

Een interview met de artiest bleek door tijdsgebrek niet mogelijk, maar wie weet wat de nabije toekomst u nog brengt. Voelt u zich ondertussen vrij om de video op uw eigenste blog of site over te nemen (dat doe ik zelf ook altijd, niewaar) For now, a video:

De expo liep begin dit jaar en de reportage kwam tot stand met de aimabele hulp van vrienden-collega’s Jill Mathieu, Cemil Belek, Sammy Follet en Rebecca Joris. Dank ook aan de Brusselse Montana Shop voor de medewerking.

I have no clue how long this has been up, I must have overlooked it last time, but here’s Banksy’s video page. The man, the myth at work: watch him do his thing! Here’s one out of four making-offs: Disneyland 2006.

It’s a good thing to have follow-ups, so out of genuine admiration for R.Crumb I have to share this video of the master explaining to us “The Bean Effect”.

If you’re not familiar with Crumb’s work yet, there are books filled with his sketches in every library, and most of the times you’ll also find the documentary “Crumb”, and the feature film “American Splendor”, which should give you a quite good overview on the legend, the myth, of Crumb. (He actually moved to France to get away from his obsessive fanbase in the US, so go figure…)

Anyway, here’s “The Bean Effect”, based on Crumbs personal obsessions:

De laatste tijd vroegen niet weinig fans zich af wat lloyd beroepshalve nu in vredesnaam aan het uitspoken was. De dag is aangebroken dat ik eindelijk, en niet zonder enige trots, de vruchten mijner werk van de afgelopen weken kan etaleren.

Gobots.be heet de nieuwe site, en daar staan voorwaar enkele schitterende on-point videoproducties op. Kortjes, maar u zal ze ervaren als bijzonder krachtig. Of niet. In ieder geval ze staan er, en dit is, uiteraard, slechts het begin, so stay tuned!

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Gobots.be is powered by CJP, wat meteen ook betekent dat de studenten onder u kunnen deelnemen aan alle wedstrijden en acties! (Er lopen verdomd mooie wedstrijden (Block Party dvd iemand?), en ik ben wat dat betreft nu eens een wel érg betrouwbare bron, jawel. Go! Go! Go!)

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.

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.

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.