Attended the Henry Van De Velde Awards & Labels in BXL last week. Belgium’s finest design awards. Read Sstrid’s blog for a more detailed background, … [dutch]. Saw a bunch of nice & local work. The Quinny Jet by Studio Peter van Riet for instance or the Nomad solar lamp (our personal favorite btw). Check them out! Quinny Jett [...]
Categories: Branding,Consumer goods,Design,DIY,Events,Exhibit,OutoftheBlog.com,Quickie,Reviews
Tagged: Henry van de Velde Awards Labels, Nomad, Quinny Jet, solar lamp
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- January 21, 2013 – 23:53
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- By Andrew
This is sick. Its a collaboration between Brussels based artist Oli-B and RoseStudio which we have been meaning to share. “Olga is a charming companion. You can hang it inside in every place. Its wooden structure is self-supporting. Coming from the fantasy of Oli-B and its colourful world, Olga is cheerful even eccentric. Not afraid about [...]
Categories: Art,DIY,Exhibit,Graffiti,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com,Skills,Street art
Tagged: collab, collaboration, exhibition, Olga, Oli-B, RoseStudio
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- January 10, 2013 – 21:01
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- By Andrew
(through WoosterCollective)
Categories: DIY,Heroes,Quickie,Rebellion,Skills,Street art
Tagged: Roa
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- December 10, 2012 – 15:39
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- By Andrew
This is a cool project by Fixerati Antwerp/Brussels and Opel. After 70-80 years without making new bike models, Opel is now collaborating with local Fixerati on the production of a new fixie bike. They’re closely documenting the whole process. Episode 1 has been fittingly titled “the briefing”, it gives a quick run through for the [...]
Categories: Branding,Codes,DIY,Documentary,Events,Gathering,Gent,Ghent,OutoftheBlog.com,Skills,Sports,Street culture,Travel,Youth culture
Tagged: adam, adam fix, adamfix, antwerp, antwerpen, bike polo, bikes, brussels, fixed gear, fixerati, Fixeratie Antwerpen, fixie, fixies, Gent, kuipke, LDV United, opel, opel adam, opeladam, riding fixed, z6sdaagse
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- November 27, 2012 – 18:34
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- By Andrew
At the beginning of autumn we selected a playlist which took shape over the past weeks. Our Soundtrack to Autumn has been around for a while now and we thought it was about time to start allover again for the winter months. A work in progress, so drop your suggestions. Stream it below or follow the following [...]
Categories: Connectivity,DIY,Entertainment,Mixtapes,Music,OutoftheBlog.com
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- November 16, 2012 – 10:28
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- By Andrew
From 13th -19th August 2012, See No Evil saw top street artists present their work to the world on Nelson Street, Bristol. See No Evil is the UK’s most ambitious and diverse permanent street art project featuring some of the biggest names in the industry. A great recap popped up earlier this week…
Categories: Art,Codes,DIY,Documentary,Events,Exhibit,Gathering,Graffiti,Heroes,Movies,OutoftheBlog.com,Skills,Street art,Travel
Tagged: 2012, Bristol, see no evil, street art fest, street art festival
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- October 25, 2012 – 21:08
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- By Andrew
If you’ve got some time to sit down and watch a documentary you should watch the following one on the workings and beliefs of the self-described “hacktivist” collective, Anonymous.
Categories: Connectivity,DIY,Documentary,OutoftheBlog.com,Rebellion,Skills,Technology
Tagged: anonymous, hachers, hackers, hacktivism, The Story of the Hacktivists
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- October 7, 2012 – 18:24
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- By Andrew
Back from a quick 5 day excursion to London. It had been a while since our last visit to Europe’s bacon capitol and we can only re-state that we still love LDN. Visited some of the typical tourist traps and spent quite some time in Camden and East End. Hope to cross the channel as [...]
Categories: Art,DIY,Events,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Street art,Travel
Tagged: brick lane, east end, londen, london, Street art, streetart
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- October 4, 2012 – 10:33
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- By Andrew
Film short documenting the work and philosophy of Huntington Beach surfboard shaper Tim Stamps. A look into Tim’s world of quality and craftsmanship.
Categories: DIY,Documentary,OutoftheBlog.com,Portraits,Skills,Sports
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- September 23, 2012 – 14:30
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- By Andrew
This Thursday we’ll be hosting our 20th #youngscum meet-up in Ghent. We’ve come a long way since our first meet-up in Espace Ladda (we’ve also grown older) and for our anniversary edition we’ve teamed up with Ladda once again and more precisely with the Topo Copy shop. Topo Copy is an ‘openlab-research-center’ for print, zines, paper, copy, ink [...]
Categories: Connectivity,DIY,Entertainment,Events,Gathering,Gent,Ghent,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com,Skills
Tagged: BE, DOK, DOK Kantine, Gent, jong tuig, jongtuig, Ladda, topo copy, topocopy, young scum, youngscum
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- September 18, 2012 – 13:36
- Author:
- By Andrew
