Ruairi Watson

hello friends....and strangers.

Here is some talented up and coming emerging artist from the ghetto of London
( i actually don't think he is from the ghetto but let's just pretend).
I met dear Ruarir knocking on random peoples doors to invite them to an exhibition (not ours either).
He focuses on Video and Photography Art, so go have a look-NOW! The link is below.
He has some talent and i am sure one day he will be some famous artist selling his arty farty work for a hat full of cash and laugh at all the times he purposly left his bank card at home to not spend any money that he doens't have anyway.

Enjoy!

p.s. my fav is when god winked...


http://www.ruairiwatson.com/#/when-god-winks/4539615143

L-for London

Reporting from a brand new location about all it's amazing assets, London Town ladies and gentlemen...
HUUUGE city and so much happening, here a few first impressions...

this brother...

...is amazing. The british just know how to roll.

DELS- Shapeshift

Hello Friends

Croatia, Italy and Slowenia. Sunshine, the sea, delish foods and one big party.
Yes please.

Hey fashionesque people

Who doesn't want a cat pendant or a whole peanut family hanging of their neck?!
Here is an awesome-crazy jewellery website straight outta France!
If you're into the extraordinary pieces around your neck or on your ears,
it's definately worth while checking out!

p.s. thanks friend who advidsed me to this, you know who you are.

~N2~
www.n2-lesnereides.com

location: Frankfurt.

HOUSE OF PAIN


HOUSE OF PAIN

since i can't upload photo AND video...

...here is the video to La Ritournelle.
Viola

Yup, he's a rockstar

Since everything that is French i pretty much love (yes including all the ridiculous tracksuit people), one of my friends kindly suggested to listen to this parsienne musician, Sebastien Tellier.
They call him the "new Gainsbourg" (see movie suggestion further down)- he just looks like a grungy old drug addicted musician- we love that kind, they can only produce the good stuff really.
So his first debut album L'incroyable Vérité was pretty big in France,
so he went on tour with no other than AIR. Tellier's next Album was released in 2005 Politics and Sophia Coppola decided to use some of his songs for Lost in Transaltion, oh why not.
My favorite song of his Politics album is La Ritournelle,
i posted ABOVE. The love above.
His latest album Universe was produced by Daft Punk and released 2006.

Allez, ecoutez!

p.s. He even was a finalist in the Eurovision Song contest 2008...i'm glad he didn't win.

Power Houses around the world...spot the nz one

...yeah ALRIGHT, i'd live here...

BLU

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

The Past can be cool in the future?

To The sign we sang, to It's a beautiful life we danced, to The Juvenile we cried. So guess whos bringing out a new Album in October? No one else than swedish 90's pop band Ace of Base.

So i thought, okay, i love the 90's, including all the ridicoulus trends and music that i eagerly followed, but i think what makes the 90's so awesome, is that it was back then, not NOW. History is repeating itself just a wee bit too fast.
ANYWAY, so i thought i'd listen to some songs of the album, without prejudices and all, and to be honest, i should've really known when i read the title "Let it play it on the radio (bla bla bla)". It's just...shit. It's not 90's, it's not today,
it's just trying to be a little better than in the 90s but just not working for me, sorry alligator.

Sometimes it's just for the best if you keep things as they were, not trying to re-live the past. But maybe they needed the money?

Anyway, listen for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNeRmGNTMM&feature=related

Don't you just love french movies...

YES PLEASE.

This guy...

Stendhal Syndrom

Stendhal Syndrom is a psychosomatic illness that causes
rapidence of heart beat, rising body heat,
cofusion even hallucination when individual is exposed to art.

Without sounding weird, that was exactly how i felt when i went to see the exhibition of my life in Basel of Jean-Michel Baquiat.
During my uni years he was my main inspiration, i was always so facinated by this guys story and especially his creative mind.
Basquiat started as a Graffiti Writer named Samos (his icon was a crown), always leaving political statements around the walls of New York.
After Andy Warhol took him under his wing in 1982, Basquiat's style later transformed into more abstract, painterly pieces that he painted onto canvas and found objects.
Throughout, Basquiat kept his style intense, energetic, unique and iconic. Aesthetically beautiful.
Art wasn't his only creative output, he also played in a Jazzband and acted.

I guess the downside of Basquiat's rapid success, led to his over drug use, when sadly in 1988
the artworld lost one of its best artists at the young age of only 27.

p.s. if you're interessted, watch this movie about him Basquiat, David Bowie plays
Andy Warhol and does an awesome job
p.p.s. sorry about the shit photo quality, but i only had my phone and had to take secret photos

Funeral Party

Yes please and Hello.

Funeral Party is a five-piece band that formed late one night in a park in California.

The Suburbs- The Arcade Fire

Our favorite Canadian Indie-rock-folk Band has released their new album, FINALLY!

There was this one time in my Life where i was living in this awesome flat where FUNERAL and Neon Bible
were the Soundtracks to our Life back then and the flat Tamburine was in full use.

Maybe that is why i had quite high expectations on this one- maybe i just have to listen to it more often...?! But The Suburbs ss still ridicously great- go listen to it

Shortfilm: Family Business

Dear Friends and Randoms,

this is my friend Alex Zibold's Shortfilm that he made when he graduated from Filmschool in Colonge last year.
If you are around in the Black Forest (by any chance),
you should go see it, it's playing at 6.30 pm in Kenzingen at the Movies (here a link of the town
http://www.kenzingen.de/)

The Wackness

THIS, dearest Ladies and Gentlemen,
might just be the best movie i have seen this year.

1. It's funny- a bit odd and a bit of a nostalgic reverie.
2. The soundtrack is awesome (Tribe called Quest, Notorious BIG, Nas, Wu-Tang, Weezer etc).
3. It was made in 2008, but plays in 1994 ( bring back the 90s yes please).
4. It won the award for Audience Choice at the Sundance Film Festival.
5. Shapiro is probarbly the awesomest name i have heared.

If these 5 reasons ain't enough- go watch Titanic.

Bear- Photography

Yo my mate Bear from NZ has a new Blog-
he takes mean as photos (mainly Skate related),
def worth while checking it out
if you wanna see some cool Photography. Word.

www.stokedphotography.blogspot.com

Weekend Shinanigans

Check it

This is my mate Skydavys Blog from Sydney.

http://lstilll.tumblr.com/

Angus and Julia Stone

Angus & Julia Stone are a brother-sister duo from Newport on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia.
Having just released their debut album A Book Like This, the duo look set to transform MySpace adoration into success on the big stage, with their winning mix of Angus' Damien Rice-like lilting vocals and Julia's Bjork-esque warbling creating a sonic combination that lulls the listener into wistful contentment.
Listen to it. You will love it.

SOMEWHERE

Can't wait for this one- Sophia Coppola's new Movie.
With Elle Fanning (Dakotas little sister) and Stephen Dorff.
With music by The Strokes and Phoenix.

Sebastiaan Bremer

This talented dutch Artist Sebastiaan Bremer does these beautiful dreamlike and sometimes a weee bit scary images.
Referencing visions by turns dreamy, fantasy and druggy, Bremer’s dot-screens speak of our mediated relationship to the “real.” Through the clash of the drawn and the photographic, Bremer presents a world that can never be experienced directly, a world that resists complete description through any single method or mode.
I Like!

Kele is back -Solo

Bloc Party Frontman Kele just recently released his first Solo Album-
more of an Electro- Dance vibe compared to Bloc Party. Check out his first Single-Tenderoni.

(Tenderoni is a slang terminology used to describe one's younger male or female love interest or someone too young to talk to or become involved with.)

AND JUST...

for everyone who hadn't had enough...voila

The Soundtrack for this Summer has landed

Quite possibly the best band you’ve never heard (yet), Auckland’s The Naked And Famous won’t be a secret for too much longer.
The band, named after a line from a Tricky song, are based around the ferociously talented pairing of composer/control freak Thom Powers and vocal siren/lyricist Alisa Xayalith, though they operate as a 4 piece live.

Put on your colored Sunglasses, pack your chilled beers and go to the beach and enjoy the summerheat!

LYLAH STORE

My Cousin and his wifey have an awesome Designer Store in Brisbane,
if you ever get around there make sure to go check it out- even if your wallets can't afford it
go have a nosy, they have some mean as stuff!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/LYLAH/132621740102495?ref=mf

http://www.fourthousand.com.au/shop/lylah/

BANGS

Since the dawn of the internet, and especially Youtube, people have been getting famous and becoming household names without corporate budgets. Often, its not in the way that they imagined.

Bangs, a young rapper from Sudan who currently lives in Melbourne, managed to clock around 300,000 views for his video ‘Take U To Da Movies’ in one week.

He is the next internet craze.

Ladies and gentlemen

Bangs....

This one time...

..when i was going to work at 7 in the morning, i saw this guy/woman/shim.
You can't see it properly but other than Shim peeing thru his zip-hole and the casual wheelchair, he is proudly wearing shiny hooker boots with penny-heels. Interessting composition. I wonder where he has been all night

The latest collection of art inspired chairs by James and Karla Murray, Damon Ginandes, Skewville, Cern and others at Barneys New York.

Summer Treat 2010

How to make Posicles - delicious nutritious

SHAME and IN YOUR FACE!

Dope Song

...but maybe loose the glasses Lupe?

Bye Bye Argentina!

Monster Children

is properbly the best urban culture magazine from the Southern Hemisphere that i have read!
They also have a tiny but awesome little Gallery in the heart of Sydney with the Exhibitions from the latest up and coming artists.

Check it out:
http://www.monsterchildren.com

Summer's here and tie-die's back!

...but maybe don't over do it

Becos' of Love

My multitalented friend Amy aka Lady Sheeq just released her first Single!
Keep it up Amz! x

Check out this shit!

look closely...

Followed by Shit

Michel Gondry Short film

Jean- Michel Basquiat

MUST check out this exhibition if you're near by! He was so talented

the 1st

We are to a large extent dependent on regular contact with the mass media for information, entertainment, ideas, opinion and many other things all of which are connected to our attempts to 'make sense' of who and what we are.

Rather than trying to keep up with what's "so hot right now" I'm basically just putting stuff out there that i think is worth while checking out and that inspires me.


This is one of my favorite Artists, who had quite a big impact on me when i was at Uni...He's pretty damn awesome.