What follows is an entire animated GIF collection played in ten minutes to Girl Talk’s NightRipper. This is out of control.

through http://fffff.at/cache-rules-everything-around-me/

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Copyright law and what to do with it. A hard nutshell to crack. A discussion that has been going on for decades and one I do not really want to share my opinion on as different parties state different facts which make it hard to draw a line in it all.

I remember how when I was a kid tape and VHS cassettes used to be pirated on a large scale and were sold on local markets. I saw Napster and other services come up later on in life and I saw some of these services disappear as quick while others became larger than life. Evolution and revolution at the same time one might say and interesting times none the less.

Piracy, whether music/video or designer handbags, is something that will always be around in my opinion. What everyone must realise though is that creative people deserve to make a living. A liner note which our younger generations can hardly grasp as they never really grew up to value music for instance.They love music, they talk about & share it with their friends and they especially also download it. Logical in my opinion as they’re growing up in a digital environment with unlimited access to something with no value due to that reason.

Kids nowadays do not grow up in record stores. Flicking through hundreds and hundreds of records, looking for that one album cover to draw their attention, ordering limited edition releases from Japan, … They just can’t value the carrier which a CD or vinyl is for some older generations.

Now I do not want to blame everything on the kids, as older generations also download huge volumes. But I do want to explain  that current tactics fighting piracy do not work in my opinion. One must educate people and learn kids how to appreciate creativity. And that’s the hard part as one does not have the impression that they are hurting someone with a harmless download.

As stated, a long discussion and one with mixed opinions …

Now I stumbled upon the following clip. Its a clip in which director Simon Klose explains why he needs your support to finish the documentary called TPB AFK. This stand for The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard. Its a documentary on the notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay, a long-standing enemy of the movie & music industry. In this documentary Simon follows the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined over 3.6 million dollars.

There’s already over 200 hours of footage saved up and there are plans to record more during the founders’ appeal against their previous verdict, which is set for less than a month from now, on 28 September, 2010. In three days, the director already raised over $30,000 on to pay for a professional editor and use of an editing suite in putting together the full length feature.

The court case, the political parties that have been started across several continents, the threats which get hilarious answers, … all interesting and something which many have been following up close for a long time now. All I can say: crazy Swedes. Hope they’ve got a stay out of jail for free card .

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Saw some tweeps already picked up shuffler.fm the passed week. Had a quick look and liked the idea at first sight. Bookmarked it and decided to have a better look later on.

Once you enter the landing page you will bump upon a list of different channels, each representing a different genre and radio channel. There you pick a channel and shuffler will send you to a blog post and start playing one of the songs mentioned in that post. Once the track has ended it sends you on to the next song on a next blog within the genre and so on. Off course you can also always skip forward to a next tune or pick another channel through the so-called shuffler bar at the top of the page.

So shuffler aggregates music from a (more or less) curated list of blogs, sorting it by genre through Last.fm which acts as their necessary filter. Smart idea as every day thousands of bloggers and music tastemakers blog about music somewhere on the web,

Crowdsourcing your music by bloggers so, making them the dj’s, reviewers and tastemakers and Shuffler.fm the player, catalogue, and radio station.

Now I gave you something new with shuffler.fm and I must admit I ain’t totally sold for it as my preferred music channel. In the meantime I will continue to tune in to something old(er) for that reason, namely Laidback Radio and 22tracks. I know it ain’t all the same as Shuffler, but they remain my favourite weapons of choice right now. Big up to all the people behind both projects, you have fine-tuned my life many times. Out.

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I-dosing is a method of intoxication that is delivered by sound. Kids put on their headphones, drape a hood over their head and drift off into the world of ‘digital highs’. They believe the repetitive drone-like music will give them a ‘high’ that takes them out of reality.

Is it? Or is it just a placebo effect? For as far as I have been able to uncover it must be a combination of several aspects. Now, I am no fancy scientist/researcher but I do know how to read up on things. Most of the stuff I came across suggest that the specific sounds, especially if played with your eyes covered and a relaxed body, can bring one into a state of trance.

As with everything, some people may be more susceptible to the experience than others off course and  I can perfectly grasp the fact that the so-called binaural beats, which researchers have clearly documented, can bring forth temporary changes in peoples brain activity but after listening to several of the recordings I did not feel anything except annoyance really

Annoyance also because I am sick and tired of seeing crap like this being pushed by the press, especially when it concerns young folk. Belgian mainstream media gets the first prize each and every time for pushing foreign hype-able content (news, fait divers, stats, …) and claiming its relevant locally.

If we are to believe our beloved reporters i-dosing is happening all over the world. See that kid in the busstop with the headphones? I-dosing right as we speak

Lets say it as it is: if you had kept your mouth shut, a whole majority of youngsters would never have heard of it and probably would never have gone on to try it out.

All I can say: don’t believe the hype. Out.

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What is this clip you might be wondering? Well, its a naked-eye 3D Display using an iPad and a projector. Cool stuff one must admit Out.

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As promised, part 2 offf what we saw the passed days in Paris. You can read all about the first day overhere.

Friday – Big beamers keep on beaming

An experienced person is just someone that’s made a lot of mistakes. Hoss is very experienced. This is your opportunity to listen to Hoss do his first ever ‘acoustic set’ ? An intimate sharing of lessons learned, punctuated by the odd bit of work, including his latest collaboration with Rob Chiu, and a very simple explanation of how to be profitable on Apple’s App Store. . That’s what the description stated and I regret that we only caught Hoss Gifford‘s presentation halfway true.

Pity as his Things I have learned was really interesting. Not a shocking keynote but a collection of insights & stories that anyone who’s good in what he does should already have experienced but it was nice as I considered it a little fresh-up course.

“Don’t do anything for free and do not give discounts to new clients as you will never taste the same afterwards” is the one that stuck to me the most. An ongoing discussion I have had with a couple of people lately and his comparison was great. “Its like going to the supermarket, buying 6 yoghurts for the price of 4 and afterwards not finding the same deal.” A wise & bold statement. One to ponder upon amongst others!

Hilarious was also the fact he made an iphone app which has paid his lunch every day. An app that gives you the time, more or less

“Unicorns farting glitter metal band names”

He was soon followed by Tara Mcpherson. I bet you have seen work by her already! A great artist besides being a hot girl with tats (something you do not see a lot on stage at #offf) I am all for more girl designers, … taking the stage next time around

Tara is an artist based out of New York City. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. She exhibits her paintings and serigraphs in fine art galleries all over the world. Named the crown princess of poster art by ELLE Magazine, she has created numerous gig posters for rock bands such as Beck, Modest Mouse, and Melvins. Her array of art also includes creating toys with companies like Kidrobot, Dark Horse, and Toy2R, painted comics and covers for DC Vertigo, advertising and editorial illustrations for companies such as Wyden+Kennedy and Spin Magazine, and teaching a class at Parsons in NYC. A lot of stuff you can know her from and worth a look at

The program states that Firstborn came after her? Can not really remember from the top of my head what they showed us, so I will just refer to their website

Knife Party I do remember vividly. It was the point were a little voice inside my head yelled “finally” as our visual appetite had grown more hungry. ‘Coalition of the Willing‘ is an animated film about an online war against global warming in a post-Copenhagen world. It was written by Tim Rayner, who is the brains behind the campaign in this digital struggle against global warming following the failed summit. Bare in mind that the following animation is a collaboration between lots and lots of people who ech took upon themselves a part of the film.

Universal Everything continued to nurture our longing for great stuff. These are the guys who did the international MTV rebrand which means that all you guys have seen their stuff passby. I will let the following clip speak for itself but google them!

MTV / International Rebrand Overview from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

They also did some short reveal films for AOL’s relaunch for instance. These got used in web video, mobile, digital campaigns and outdoor LED displays. Nice stuff to say the least

You can find more stuff on their Vimeo which is worth going through.

Goodby & Silverstein are the big boys who took the stage. They are the agency who brought us the awesome HP ads with Jigga, Gwen Stefani, Jerry Seinfeld, … But they also did this campaign/viral for Häagen-Dazs in order to draw attention on their bee program. Hilarious Homebees

Then something totally different followed: SoSo Limited. These guys take word clouds to a master level as they are specialised in interactive installation and audiovisual performance. They create immersive works that play on the immediacy of live media by creating word art by the analysis of what is said. I can not describe it all that well bt the following clips will emlighten you I guess. The first one for instance is a four minute edit remixing the ministerial debates from the UK.

Sosolimited – Prime Numerics (Taster) from FutureEverything on Vimeo.

Prime Numerics (3 of 10) from Sosolimited on Vimeo.

We ended our Friday at the Wooster Collective meet-up near de Quai de Jemappe by the way. Great to meet Marc & Sara amongst others IRL. We we’re amongst great company to say the least

Saturday – The return

We had to skip the festival Saturday. Other stuff called. Pity as I heard it was the best day. Crowd seemed enthusiastic and some of the previous organisational problems belonged to the past.

That being said, it is a great festival with a good vibe, but we have some liner notes for the band

• communicate better, it is clear that this is not the organisations cup of tea
• queues ain’t good, if you say you can pick up passes earlier stick to it (we travelled a day earlier to the venue for nothing!)
• good WiFi = a must have
• more sanitary provisions
• venues? how about signposting these or at least getting your organization to know where what is
• check peoples tickets, we met a couple of people who got in for free where we paid full price #sad

Btw, its 2010 and we’re in a post-digital time as you all know. Organising means to get all digital communication streamlined can be great. Tell people what tags to use for their pictures, … and give them the tools at the venue in order to share their experiences.

Do not want to end negative though as I had a great time and will recommend the conference to anyone who’s interested in this kind of stuff. Maybe we should finish with the end titles for the sponsors. Yet another great piece of work! See you next year so Out.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Thanks to On Point & Eckelwood for the company and great talks/laughs thoughout the days.

You can still check part one of our report overhere.

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Soon we will be Offf. Yes, you read it right. No spelling mistake going on here as we are talking about the OFFF Festival which this year will be taking place in Paris the last weekend of June and a bit the days before.

I wanted to attend last years edition in Portugal, but a last minute setback meant I had to cancel. Anyways, this year I will be making it and in good company as I heard several tweeps will be joining in amongst the international crowd. Hope to meet some great people there and also hope Ms Bambi still makes it back on time from the US or I will have to find a last minute replacement travel buddy.

Prep yourselves, as upon return I will be sharing experiences, great stuff we I saw, … In the meantime, if you have any suggestions on what to do/go see in Paris when I am offf duty just drop it in de suggestion box below Out.

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We love our music and we especially love our mixtapes, which have never been as hot an item as the passed months. The passed says several wicked ones dropped across the interwebs and I thought I should share these fresh tunes with you all as you probably have been bored to death with your daily itunes shuffle.

First off is the new major lazer mixtape which features La Roux. This has gone bananas across the web and is a great mix. I think a lot of you have not heard about this yet so though I ought to mention it definitely. You can download it over at Mad Decent after dropping a couple of lines. Worthwhile and an OOTB favorite right now.

Next up is Cool Kids. Guys deliver time and time again. Wicked beats, smooth lines. Download overhere.

Hudson Mowhawke also deserves a spot today. Gy has been kickin’ butt across the globe and his album Butter has been loppin’ itunes for a while at OOTB HQ. There’s a mix overhere which he did for Radio 1.

Nicki Minaj also passed through our downloads the passed week. The new ca$h money queen bee is Trickin’ or What.

Last off a release off which I must be honest that I have not had the chance to listen to yet. T.I. brings us Fuck a Mixtape, his latest work after having served a prison sentence. Download overhere .It features productions by Timbaland and Swizz Beats amongst others.

So, enjoy the tunes. Out.

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Well, we’re back on track & OOTB blog business is booming. The passed weekend/days I spent roaming the streets of London, meeting way to cool & interesting people (you knows who you are and we can’t say enough how much I enjoyed hanging out), dicovering new spots & stuff, …

I will write about a bunch off experiences & discoveries but have decided to do this bit by bit as I do not want to create an overload here. In the meantime you can check some pics I took overhere. Defintely have a look as it features some fine street art near East End, a visit to Tate Modern, …

What’s next you might be wondering? Well, Paris for the OFFF Festival I guess and with a bit of luck I will make it to Amsterdam for a weekend also. So a lot stuff to definitely to keep your eyes open out for. Out.

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Damn, I would have loved to see OrT dress up as girly as he can be. Would have been a sore sight for our eyes But with 114 votes (from the total 5337 votes we counted from Australia to Zichen Zussen Bolder) he just did not make it. He did not even come close.

Instead we have to crown the lovely @Marie_ke Cutest Female Geek 2010. Seems her online campaign was rewarding as she took the lead. A pity as we would have liked to see @isabelleminnebo do a meet & greet signing session for her fanboys.

So, the votes have been counted, the results are in, your top 20 of cute geekettes for 2010:

Marie_ke 716
DeVisKar 301
greetd 228
Karmeen 223
Goedles 214
isabelleminnebo 186
kleinehgl 163
Leesa_ 153
sofievalkiers 135
zofie 129
flexyflow 127
imkedielen 123
FakePlasticRuby 114
ort 114
Wahiba 110
princess_misia 97
cockringbambi 94
Lieneuh 88
Sstrid 83
JudithStr 82

We have got some great prizes for our queen bee by the way. A chocolate & wiskey frenzy provided by Choqoa, a celebrity like profile shoot with @bunker from Pitslamp (he’s setting up a great concept with Pitslamp Profiel) & a date with the following charming fella.

All info on the physical award ceremony will follow soon. I heard it will involve some beers and a good laugh though.

For now Jim said it best: “This is the End“. Out.

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Hooray! In one weeks time I will be on a train, destinatination… LDN. Together with some fellow BE tweeps I will be attending #youngscum overthere. The first one to be hosted across the channel and the next step in the further expansion of what once started as #jongtuig, a simple get together of young online minded people who love to drink offline beers here and there. Needless to say world domination will follow pretty soon afterwards.

The exact location in London will follow one of these days, but I heard it will be somewhere in/near Shoreditch.

All sightseeing tips are more than welcome and much appreciated in advance. We will be staying in a hotel near brick lane so my street art eyes will be able to eat their heart out.

Hope to see some of the UK cats up in here turn up at #youngscum btw. Out.

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This passed Sunday shouted for a field-trip. We packed our camera and headed on out.

The afternoon started at Ghent’s finest SMAK where #BGGD28 would take place. On the agenda, a guided tour of Ed Templeton‘s exposition which is being held there. His biggest to date.  We had previously mentioned this one with the opening of Electrified a couple of weeks back. Exiting to say the least as we had missed out on the opening night and we were more than curious to see what mister Toy Machine had to offer.

The main part of our little excursion was Organo0n, Roberta Gigante’s latest work of art or is it artwork though. A part of Electrified, which is hacking public space in Ghent the passed weeks.

Hard to describe Organo0n. What I can say, with my humble opinion, is that I liked the concept and the idea behind it.

I guess by now you are wondering what it exactly was. Well, you know that sound and feeling you have at six in the morning after you have exited a rave or club? That sound in the background of pounding bass? Capture that sound and imagine it blasting through several huge steel pipes. A modern XL didgeridoo we might even call it.

(video through YetAnotherBlog)

Anyways, I took some pictures, but some others also did so here and here. There even is a little piece on the subject from local television station AVS.

Oh, and did I mention it was my first Brussel Girl Geek Dinner ever! Milestone Thanks Vooruit (Karen, Jeroen & Astrid), S.M.A.K. & Clo for the invite. We had a blast. Out.

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Wow! There is no other expression for the results up till now. Since we posted everything Friday over 2700 votes have been cast for the female side of the contest.

This means, the way everything is running right now there is no need to host a second voting round. Seems everyone knows their geek cutie pies.

A quick round-up of our top contestants:

Marie_ke
Goedles
sofievalkiers
DeVisKar
Leesa_
flexyflow
zofie
princess_misia
cockringbambi
isabelleminnebo
imkedielen
Karmeen
greetd
Wahiba
ort
kleinehgl
Lieneuh
lamazone
JudithStr
rrradiogirrrl

The poll will run until next week. Some might want to start a campaign of their own as we have collected some nice prizes. bare in mind that most cuties are very close to one & other, sometimes just a few votes from victory which will taste oh so sweet
In the meantime you can remain casting your votes over here so. Last straight line. Rock the vote. Out.

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Now the time has come for you all to help us out as is up to you to carefully select (in any order) your 3 favourite girl geeks from the list below. This will then result in a final selection of female geeks who will go head to head in a second voting round for the gold.

We thought this is the best way to go, as we do not know who all these lovely tweeps are and can not judge their level of geekyness for that reason.

For those of you who are interested to host this poll elsewhere, it is available for you to embed, but you can also just share the following link http://www.adhese.com/cfgc/ at your discretion.

All credit goes to Ben for the development by the way! Without him it would not have been this kick-ass.

In the meantime you can also find us elsewhere, #CFGC on twitter or here on facebook.

Don’t forget to spread the word all over the interwebs. Get people involved. This is a matter of national interest. Ladies put on your best smile and ask your fans to vote

Now cast you votes, but cast them wisely!

And one last thing, we have left some doors open for the real geeks to get creative up in here with the voting protocol

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Whenever I read hacking I spontaneously think of Angelina Jolie, I think Russian 16-something year old whiz kids with laptops attacking government officials and for the BE readers I am also reminded of Red Attack. As an on-line minded fool hacking is automatically associated with the digital part of life for me.

On the other hand there also is cultural hacking and that’s what Electrified is all about. Throughout April, May & June several artists will be taking over public space in Ghent [Belgium], turning the city into one hackerspace for themselves.

Video introduction for Electrified 02, sad enough only available in Dutch.

So, just as two years back S.M.A.K. and the Vooruit Arts Centre join forces. Not to cross over to the dark-side, but in an effort to hack the city of Ghent. This time the second take-over focusses on artists who hack public spaces on the crossroads of several directions in the visual arts. At the same time it will expose the friction between the areas where the two institutions operate: the S.M.A.K. in contemporary art and the Vooruit in media art, sound and performance art.

I will spare you from the further official lingo, but know that everything will be presented in the S.M.A.K. (where the main exhibition will be held) and the Vooruit. For all other information needs I refer to their site!

Now Astrid was so kind to think of us at OOTB and asked if I would like to be an ambassador for the project. Being a fancy word and all I was honored. You know how that goes Well, I guess my first point on the agenda (cause that is what ambassadors do, they make an agenda for themselves) was to tell you what it is all about. Mission accomplished I guess.

Electrified 02 will kick-off on Friday the 3rd of April and continue on through May & June. I already regret I will not be able to make it for the opening night but I also heard they will host a Girl Geek Dinner on the 9th of May! Looks promising to say the least as Roberta Gigante, a young Italian artist (who currently resides in Brussels) will be doing some crazy stuff with the resonance frequencies of  huge metal pipes. Seems she will be incorporating them into an instrument called “OrganOOn”. Setting will be the Ghent harbour for this one time event. Who knows it might be the first BGGD I attend if someone asks me to tag along Do not really want to miss out on it to say the least.

So keep you eyes open when strolling through Ghent the coming months I guess. Out.

[twitter hashtag for this hacking frenzy is #HPS]

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Now I am definitely not a Google hater and i don’t fear them either. I’m actually a huge fan of their services (although the search side of it all it starting to suck monkey balls). Gmail? Check. Google docs? Use it regularly. Google Wave? Been fiddling around with it. Blogger? Was the first platform I ever used to share my thoughts and stuff. YouTube? Has become a way of life for me really. Their calendar runs my life lately and I won’t get places without their maps.

I can continue this list endlessly. Google is here and its here to stay if you ask me. A company that has always tried to push itself forward innovation-wise (although lately some strange choices have been made and some stuff does not really deserve their stamp). Why this love letter about Google? Well, I came across this nice clip which in a couple of minutes time situates what Google is all about. The description is also great: Meet Google. The noun that became a verb. The world’s favorite search engine, and the company whose motto is “Don’t be evil…”. Out.

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Ok, you saw the post title and taught ‘what the f***?!‘. Guess the stats will peak with this post. I’ve been meaning to share this feature, which goes deep into the porn industries strategies and recent changes/shifts, for a while. Its vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel who takes us on a behind the scenes look at the adult entertainment industry, examining its history and impact on the ever-changing face of new media.

From the impact piracy has, to the way porn is promoted through affiliated marketing. It all has its place in this documentary. Hell, they even have their own seminars/summits, where people discuss iPhone porn apps and stuff. I had never stood still to the fact that porn hit twitter for instance. Or how about the fact they are also building communities. Now let me sit back and see my stats go mad. Out.

(through the purveyor of cool)

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The Hello Project is an online social collaboration giving people the chance to say hi, hello, or hola on one of today’s most common yet neglected canvases: the Post-it®. A description that does not need a lot more explaining as how it works is rather simple. People can take a regular 3×3 (yellow) post-it note and write, sketch, doodle (or however you feel like) a version of hello. You then scan it and email it to hi@thehelloproject.com, and they will post it for everyone to see on their nifty little site.

It was a total coincidence I ended up finding this site and loved it right after seeing the first sketchy drawings people had mailed on through. It reminds me of another project I once blogged about, called paperbeatsinternet.com by the way.

Anyways you can always fan yourself for the project over on facebook just as you can fan yourself for OOTB. Out.

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Some of you might have seen it pass by on twitter, facebook or even linkedin. I’ve closed the door behind me over at Trendwolves and opened a whole new playing field over at Adhese. What started out as the following tweet (which I hadn’t even seen) by Sven, ended up in me moving to Adhese I guess.

My sudden move, shows once again, how fast this business tends to shift. The next weeks will bring me/you more background and info, but for now I can say I”ll be Stefan‘s wingman for Enchanté. This is Adhese’s blognetwork, which acts as the link between brands/companies and the right/influential blogger(s) by offering various blogvertsing services which brands/companies are looking for in order to build a strong relationship with the blogosphere.

Anyways, now that you’ve all officially been updated, I just have to thank my former collegues over at Trendwolves for the great experiences the passed year. It was a great run, I’ll miss you all and who know our paths might cross again in the future. Out.

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