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
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
Above gives his own view on how social media has gotten a grip on our lives: People look at me like I’m from another planet when I tell them I don’t have social media like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. In the eyes of social media I’m severely outdated, lost and not ‘connected’. Not partaking in the [...]
Categories: Codes,Connectivity,DIY,Exhibit,OutoftheBlog.com,Rebellion,Skills,Street art,Technology
Tagged: #socialmedia, Above, artist, Copenhagen, Denmark, Facebook, GALORE, GALORE festival, instagram, opinion, social media, timelapse, Twitter, view
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- September 5, 2012 – 10:26
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- By Andrew
Saturday photographer Vincent Fournier presented his brand new photo book ‘PAST FORWARD’ at the Samuel Maenhoudt Gallery in Knokke, Belgium. Fournier photographed industrial settings in international space projects for his photo series SPACE PROJECT, showing magnificent and sometimes surreal images. SPACE PROJECT, and other series THE MAN MACHINE, TOUR OPERATOR, BRASILIA and SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY have now been brought [...]
Categories: Bookreviews,DIY,Exhibit,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography
Tagged: belgie, Belgium, knokke, past forward, samuel maenhoudt gallery, vincent fournier
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- July 2, 2012 – 21:47
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- By Andrew
presents STORM THORGERSON June 22 – September 1 Fort Napoleon - Ostend As a kid we would spend lots of time in record stores, flipping through albums, often judging compact discs on their album artwork (and lets be honest, nowadays with iTunes, Spotify & blogs we often have other influences, and the artwork sometimes becomes secondary). [...]
Categories: Art,Codes,Documentary,Entertainment,Events,Exhibit,Gathering,Heroes,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Portraits
Tagged: A&G, A&Gallery, album sleeves, Angels, anthrax, art work, artwork, audioslave, ben van alboom, Black Sabbath, cranberries, Fort Napolean, Ghosts, led zeppelin, Mars Volta, Offspring, oostende, ostend, pink floyd, Storm Thorgerson, The Offspring, visit oostende, Ween, Wombats, wouter van vaerenbergh
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- June 19, 2012 – 10:00
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- By Andrew
For those who didn’t catch the news, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye moved his work to Paris where he is the ’second artist to create a new, monumental sculpture for the Louvre’. The so-called “Suppo” will be exhibited at the Louvre museum the next couple months as part of the contemporary art exhibition “Wim Delvoye at the Louvre”, [...]
Categories: Art,Codes,Documentary,Entertainment,Events,Everyday life,Exhibit,OutoftheBlog.com,Street art,Travel
Tagged: Au Louvre, exposition, Gallerie Perrotin, kidult, nike barber shop, nike barbershop, Paris, pyramid, space invader, Wim Delvoye, Wim Delvoye Au Louvre
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- June 4, 2012 – 21:45
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- By Andrew
*not in a forthright manner an expo on skateboarding & the lifestyle surrounding it.
Categories: Art,DIY,Documentary,Events,Exhibit,Gathering,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Sports,Street culture,Youth culture
Tagged: belgian, Davy Van Laere, Exhibit, expo, exposition, Haute Cuisine, Jelle Keppens, Leuven, NOT IN A FORTHRIGHT MANNER, Photography, skate scene, skateboarding, Stijn Claikens, Stijn Lammertyn, Wilsele
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- June 2, 2012 – 14:07
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- By Andrew
Picture courtesy of Street Art Festival Little stop motion clip for the mural ROA made for the Street Art Festival in Hasselt, Belgium found its way to our mailbox today. Pity he couldn’t make last year’s fest, but glad he found the time to turn up a couple of months later and put that straight [...]
Categories: Art,Codes,DIY,Events,Exhibit,Gathering,Graffiti,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Skills,Street art
Tagged: Graffiti, Hasselt, owl, Roa, roabot, Street art, street artist, uil
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- May 21, 2012 – 21:06
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- By Andrew
Every now and then something extraordinary finds its way to me and couple of days ago this nice invite dropped right in my lap courtesy of Sstrid. Looks like we’re going to the Louvre at the end of the month for the opening of Wim Delvoye’s show. The show has been in the making for [...]
Categories: Art,Events,Everyday life,Exhibit,Gathering,OutoftheBlog.com,Travel
Tagged: Cloaca, Delvoye at the Louvre, Delvoye au Louvre, Louvre, Paris, show, Studio Delvoye, Wim Delvoye
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- May 11, 2012 – 10:00
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- By Andrew
