The Korean Tourism Organisation know when they are on to a good thing and have tapped into their talented b-boy and b-girls to hold probably the world’s best breakdancing festival at the old Olympic stadium in Seoul. This helps build on the success that Korea has had both in industrial expansion with the chaebols like [...]
Vice magazine have put together a great short film with Alex Rigopulos on how he came to come up with guitar hero. It’s actually been a 15-year odyssey to make music creation accessible to plebs like me. More at VBS.tv
I love this short film shot at The Vinyl Factory in Hayes, Middlesex – it reminds me of the industrial films that were shot up to the middle of the last century. The Vinyl Factory Manufacture from thevinylfactory on Vimeo.
Check out this amazing film by Henrik Hansen about custom motorcycle engineer Shinya Kimura work works at Chabott Engineering in California. My father is a mechanical fitter by trade and much of this film reminded me very much of him. The close-up shots of Kimura-san’s workshop tools reminded me of my Dad’s garage at home [...]
Frank Miller of 300 and Sin City fame has produced a commercial for Gucci. This will feature on MTV on September 12. It is fantastic to watch, but it also a point of convergence between high fashion and geek culture. This has been going on for a while with people like hackette and fashion model [...]
The story of Silicon Valley, that I have helped to perpetuate in my career as a PR professional is that of the classic plucky young start-up founders going from garage to boardroom. Dare I say it there is even a ‘start-up’ monomyth. Bright young things work really hard developing cool | amazing inventions in a [...]
My trips home tend to be part family catch up, part sociological and anthropological expeditions into the heart of Merseyside. I use this time to watch the way my parents and my friends use technologies. On previous expeditions trips home I found that peer-to-peer networking had proved an unsatisfactory replacement for collecting and that sat [...]
Amazing short film about Japanese tattoo artist Yoshihito Nakano aka Horiyoshi III. Nakano is based in the Japanese port city of Yokohama and hopes to pass his business on to his son. Whilst Nokano uses an electric needle for the design outlines, he uses a traditional bamboo needle for the fills of colour on the [...]
Thanks to the folks at BNTL for this bizarre cover version of Bitches ain’t Sh** from Dr Dre’s The Chronic. The group take the track, own it and stamp all over the offensive lyrics. Enjoy: Lovin’ it like a fat kid loves cake.
I came across FunkStar quite by accident, but I like his mix of drum and bass tracks which has a different vibe to what I have been used to in the UK. Apparently he is one of the main movers in Taiwan for drum and bass according to the Taipei Times. Enjoy. FunkStar – White [...]
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