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
Year is more or less over. Done deal so time for a recap. We visited Paris a couple of times. Attended our first Paris Fashion Week & a great Duvel Collection event in januari and also spent a night at the Louvre for the Delvoye expo couple of months later. Did some good travelling overall: French Alps, Malta, London, [...]
Categories: Events,Everyday life,OutoftheBlog.com
Tagged: 2012, end of the year, new year, overview, year in review
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- December 27, 2012 – 11:56
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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
Movember is coming. Time to register and show your support in a way you find fit. We know we will. Movember embraces the mustache to fight cancer. For those unfamiliar with the cause, one month after numerous brands and organizations went pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, a number of men start growing [...]
Categories: Codes,Events,Everyday life,OutoftheBlog.com
Tagged: Belgium, mo bros, moustache, moustaches, movember
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- October 26, 2012 – 09:57
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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
Tomorrow is International Egg Day, a day to help raise awareness of the benefits of eggs. As happens, I might just be the world’s largest egg consumer. I can eat eggs with almost anything, I love eggs scrambled, poached boiled, fried, … I love them so much I once actually cooked an ostrich egg. Yes, an ostrich egg [...]
Categories: Events,Everyday life,OutoftheBlog.com
Tagged: international egg day
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- October 11, 2012 – 14:34
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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
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
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- By Andrew
It was a week marked by aftermovies with the Tomorrowland clip being released and the even more anticipated aftermovie for the Hasselt Street Art Festival finding its way to the web. Have a look at all the finished pieces. Like & share. (Image of SMUG piece by DINDIN)
Categories: DIY,Events,Gathering,Graffiti,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Skills,Street art
Tagged: aftermovie, Hasselt, smug, smug one, street art festival
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- September 14, 2012 – 19:22
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- By Andrew
A day dedicated to the world’s best salty, savory, and crunchy version of the other white meat? This Saturday you say?! Yes Baconistas, there truly is a day dedicated to our beloved pork treat. Oh bacon, how we love thee and according to Wikipedia we have devoted an entire day to celebrate your scrumptious existence. Well, [...]
Categories: Codes,Consumer goods,Events,Everyday life,OutoftheBlog.com
Tagged: bacon, bacon day, crispy bacon, international bacon day, pork, respek, spek, swine, the other white meat
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- August 30, 2012 – 09:30
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- By Andrew
