DJ'ing with a Nintendo Gameboy

8-bit music

DJ Rocko working his magic

 A couple of weeks a go I visited an event called 'What's Up', a monthly gathering that's all about creative and innovative concepts and movements in and around Amsterdam. A part of this edition was guest 'Eindbaas' the driving force behind 8-bit chiptunes in Holland. They organize parties and other events where chiptune DJ's perform.

A chiptune (chip music, 8-bit music) is synthesized electronic music often produced with the sound chips of vintage computers, video game consoles and arcade machines.
Which basically means DJ'ing with not much more than a game computer, such as the Nintendo Gameboy. This makes for some pretty interesting (danceable!) music in different genres. During the What's Up event one of the resident DJ's of Eindbaas Rocko showed his DJ'ing skills. Meaning he was hitting the small buttons on his Nintendo Gameboy at a rapid speed, pretty impressive!
Love it or hate it? Check out these beats below.





For more info about chiptunes: http://www.chiptune.com/
For more info about chiptunes in The Netherlands: http://eindbaas.org/

inspirational footage - dior homme

CREDITS

All clothes and accessories Dior Homme SS13
Photography Andrea Spotorno
Styling Mauricio Nardi
Hair Joseph Pujalte at L’ATELIER (68)
Make-up Katy Le Sant at Walter Schupfer Management
Nails Sophie A at L’Ongle Singulier
Models Janis Ancens at Elite Milan, Karl Morrall at L’homme de Nathalie Agency
Photographic assistant Philippe Bustarret at Bird Production
Retouching Vincent Rochat at Bird Production
Digital operator Florent Brunel at Pin Up Capture 
Casting by Bird Production
Production by Bird Production
Shot at Pin Up Studio

For more info please visit: http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/15749/1/dior-homme-quiet-revolutionary

studio africa and designer laurenceairline

While doing some trendresearch, I came across this really cool African designer. I actually stumbled upon it thanks to a great Diesel+Edun initiative called Studio Africa. It is a platform celebrating and promoting creativity in Africa. Studio Africa was born out of the Spring 2013 collaboration: a denim collection born in Africa and entirely sourced an manufactured in Africa, using the finest cotton from Uganda. The collaboration goes beyond fashion to discover and be inspired by a cast of creatives fueling innovation across Africa. If you want to know more about this online platform please visit their tumblr page.

One of the Studio Africa creatives is Laurence Chauvin-Buthaud of the brand Laurenceairline. She is a rising menswear designer from Cote d'Ivoire. All her collections are produced by locals at the Laurence Airline workshop which serves as a pole of creation and a centre for teaching couture sewing techniques. The concept behind her brand is based on how fashion and ethnic cultures can successfully collaborate to create possibilities for the future.
As a designer she is inspired by people living in their clothes rather than a constructed fashion influence. She says: "It is the attitude and spirit that an individual gives a garment through the way that they wear it."
Her spring/summer 2013 collection is a fusion of local fabrics in carefree masculine silhouettes. I am especially keen on video that represents this collection. Starting very soft and playful, but gradually becoming more mysterious and clashy: a good representation for Laurenceairline's SS13 collection.

SS13

SS13

SS13

AW12

AW12

For more info about Laurence Airline or Studio Africa check:
www.laurenceairline.com
http://studioafrica.tumblr.com/
http://www.diesel.com/diesel+edun/

hof stuff - blog humans of new york

Every now and then you come across something great on the internet. This week for me that was a blog by photographer Brandon called 'Humans of New York'. Brandon started his blog in 2010, as a direct result of wanting to construct a photographic census of New York City. This census would contain a catalogue of the city's inhabitants. But as the project progressed, it began to have a different character. Instead of just capturing and collecting portraits of NYC's citizens, Brandon started to collect quotes and short stories as well. To me, this is where Humans of New York becomes extra extraordinary. What I love the most about cities it that it houses so many different characters. Being your iconic self, being whoever you want to be and not let anyone tell you you can't act or dress a certain way. To me that is the ultimate state of freedom. Scrolling on the blog you see so many inspiring people. And that is exactly it's purpose: bringing daily glimpses into the lives of strangers in New York City. I've put some of the photos below: if you want to know more about their stories, just click on the link.

Enjoy and have a nice week!

Purim in Crown Heights

The Sikh Parade

Seen in the subway

"I'm in the middle of a spiritual process. I can't wear color for another six months."

Mixed and Matched

If you want to know more about this blog, please visit: www.humansofnewyork.com

Viva la Barcelona

Vive la Barcelona 

So last week I was telling about my holiday plans, which included going to Barcelona. The past few weeks flew by so quickly and I find myself back home in Amsterdam already. School, rainy & cold weather are not quite the welcome home I was hoping for ;).
Well anyways Barcelona was a really great get-away. The weather was nice and sunny, the people friendly and the clubbing scene was really good too. We stayed at a nice hostel near Segrada Familia (Sant Jordi), which I would recommend if you ever end up in Barcelona. While walking in Barcelona, I could totally see myself live there for a couple of years, the atmosphere of the city is relaxed and to my surprise it has a great 'creative-scene' as well!
Didn't get a lot of time to take photos but I uploaded some of them below. Hope u enjoy it!

A sunny day at Mont Juic

Converse doing it right

birthday (cup)cake

absolutely loved the concept

brilliant quote

give a compliment, get a compliment

The SoulPancake is website with content designed to open your mind, challenge your friends and feel damn good. They have made this video especially to fill those needs. Because sometimes you don't express enough how much you appreciate those around you.
Enjoy!

More videos and other content at: soulpancake.com 

tomorrow i'll do it

If you really want to do something, you should just go ahead and do it, right? This is what fellow dutchmen and actor/director Tony van der Veer thought. Tony decided to inspire and motivate people to do chase their dreams. To make decisions in life not based on fears and habits but on pure joy and passion. In the pursuit of his own passion and happiness he is currently traveling from Amsterdam to Marrakech on an old moped (Zundapp). During his travels he meets people who are or aren't pursuing their dreams to share thoughts. He puts all this into an online blog (morgendoeikhet.nl) with videos and photos.
Check out some of his photos below.
Enjoy!

For more info check (dutch only): http://www.morgendoeikhet.nl

inspirational footage part five

Disney for Barneys New York

Disney and Barneys have come together and unveiled their "electric holiday" campaign. For this campaign Disney designed a special cartoon featuring some of Disney's biggest characters like Minnie Mouse, Goofy and Daisy Duck. Disney's sweethearts are accompanied by big names in the fashion world, whom are transformed into cartoon stars as well.

The video shows Minnie dreaming of the life as a high-end fashion model in Paris, strutting the runway with her best friends. In this wonderful daydream Minnie is rocking Lanvin, Mickey Mouse shows a Balenciaga outfit and Goofy is getting his groove on in Balmain.

I think it's a really original, creative and fun way of marketing, what do you think?

brilliant quote

fashion designer Chichi luo

Chichi luo 

Chichi luo is a China based fashion designer, blogger, photographer, illustrater and buddist. She is extremely versatile to say the very least. Chichi attended College of Fashion in London where she studied Fashion Design Technology Womenswear. 


Her graduation collection was inspired by artisanal traditions.She says: 'This Spring/Summer collection is inspired by my trip to Tibet in China last summer. The colour palette is based on photographs, which have taken by myself during the trip. The selected colours are bright, vivid, and energetic, which represent Tibetan people's kindness, boldness, faith and passion to their religion. I bravely play with these colours, and get lots of unique results by using different hand dye techniques. 

 The silhouette of this collection is based on what Tibetan people are wearing, which inspires me to do lots of draping through this collection by using flexible fabric, such as silk chiffon and silk jersey. I then draped and layered them up, to create a new look for Tibetan people. 

I was inspired by Tibetan women's braided hair. I transferred this idea on to part of my clothes by developing to complicated handcraft techniques such as macramé and knotting. That is why you can see lots of amazing macramé pieces in this collection. Also there are many colourful wooden beads at the end of each rope on macramé, which symbolized the beautiful Buddha prayer beads.'
 Photography for this graduation collection was done by Tina Zhang

Autumn Winter 2012 collection
For the upcoming autumn/winter season Chichi developed a collection inspired by a previous visit to the Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. 
After this inspiring visiting, she fell in love with the atmosphere of modern people come across this historical country house, discover the beauty of polish which left from years passing of time. She took these inspirations for her collection by focusing on the interior elements at Wimpole including antiques from different periods, curtains in amazing textiles, paintings and vintage crystal lamps, and combine them to modern clean silhouettes. Crystal glass, tassels, furniture fabrics and mohair are frequently used in the whole collection.
For her Autumn/Winter 2012 collection she did the photography and styling all by herself. 

more info: http://chichiluo.com/
http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/chichiluo

cool stuff: we are hairy people

we are hairy people

We are hairy people make hand painted apparel. WAHP is run by Sarah Caulfield, a 23 year old youth worker and painter. She started the company in the spring of 2012, having no fashion or business education and with no money. Since then she has come a long way already, her items are now sold at Asos marketplace and some other exciting things are coming as well.

more info: http://wearehairypeople.tumblr.com/about
https://marketplace.asos.com/boutique/we-are-hairy-people