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
Since we started to intensively use spotify a while back we’ve collected a wide range of playlists. As autumn is in the air we thought it was about time for a new playlist and as happens with such lists, we reckon this one might be stuck on shuffle/repeat for the next couple of weeks. For those [...]
Categories: Advertorial,Branding,Codes,Connectivity,Entertainment,Everyday life,Mixtapes,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Reviews
Tagged: autumn, Music, play button, play list, play lists, playlist, playlists, review, soundtrack to autumn, spotify, spotify unlimited
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- September 14, 2012 – 10:04
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- By Andrew
One of our new favorite artists is Joey BADA$$. Young rapper on the rise. Got introduced to him through the connect and his debut ‘1999‘ mixtape has been stuck on repeat [download it like right now, don't hesitate] for a couple of days. Reminded us of DOOM, Ghostface, NAS, … Its got a certain je ne sais quoi sound/vibe [...]
Categories: Entertainment,Heroes,Mixtapes,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Reviews,Skills
Tagged: 1999, Biggie, brooklyn, Common, DOOM, ghostface, hardknocks, Joey Bada$$, joey badass, joey bass, MF DOOM, NAS, new era, pro era, public enemy, survival tactics
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- June 21, 2012 – 09:25
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- By Andrew
Gunshots, people running mad in the street and lots of cheers yesterday as Spotify deployed its services in Belgium. Or was it just twitter and my facebook wall that got flooded with Spotify related content? All I know is that lots of people were giving Spotify their praise while other unhappy hipsters were calling the [...]
Categories: Connectivity,Entertainment,Everyday life,Mixtapes,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Reviews,Technology,Youth culture
Tagged: code, premium, premium account, redeem, review, spotify, test account, testing
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- November 17, 2011 – 21:58
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- By Andrew
Met A Squid Called Sebastien for the first time while organising Youthwatching several years back. He would join in with several others at the end of the day, expo some of his work, … Couple of weeks back we met again over some coffee at Ghent’s Vooruit. He had just returned from the 9000miles tour he [...]
Categories: Animation,Art,Codes,DIY,Entertainment,Events,Everyday life,Exhibit,Gathering,Graffiti,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Portraits,Quickie,Reviews,Skills,Street art,Street culture
Tagged: 9000 miles, 9000miles, a squid called sebastien, antwerp, antwerpen, artspace leguit, asquid calledsebastien, asquidcalledsebastien, Digsville Music, expo, fat kids, fatties, jan opdekamp, Leguit 23, Nadia 'Cymo' Oussehmine, preview, project, stanislas lahaut, Third Digit, vimeo, wooden pieces, youthwatching
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- October 10, 2011 – 14:30
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- By Andrew
There’s a new ipad app in town. For the natives, you can read all about it on Freaky. “HeyHey Colors brings the colorful world of street artist Bue the Warrior in an amazing iPad coloring book to your child’s fingertips. Bue the Warrior’s iconic figures have been bringing joy and color to cities around the world. [...]
Categories: Animation,Art,Branding,Codes,Connectivity,Consumer goods,DIY,Entertainment,Graffiti,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com,Reviews,Street art,Technology
Tagged: bue the warrior, children's colouring app, color, colorful, colors, colouring, colours, educational app, educational apps, HeyHey, HeyHey Colors, HeyHeyapps, ipad, ipad children, kid, kids, street artist ipad, toykyo
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- July 3, 2011 – 19:00
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- By Andrew
Thursday we found ourselves heading to the Belgian Tron Legacy première in Ghent. The people behind it all were so kind to send us an invite and before we knew it we found ourselves walking up a red laser-beam carpet amongst good company. Curious to see what all the fuzz was/is about, we took our [...]
Categories: Codes,Connectivity,Entertainment,Events,Gaming,Gent,Ghent,Movies,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Reviews,Technology,Trailers
Tagged: 3D, avenueL, daft punk, daftpunk, disney, Gent, Ghent, jef bridges, kinepolis, premiere, soundtrack, Tron, Tron legacy
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- January 16, 2011 – 14:51
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- By Andrew
So, the year has neared its end and guess we should do a little round-up, check if our predicted 2010 moments lived up to what they would be or not. We can already say it lived up to be way better than expected Met some great people, had some great experiences, (re)discovered artists, heard some [...]
Categories: Art,Bookreviews,Codes,Connectivity,Consumer goods,DIY,Documentary,Entertainment,Events,Everyday life,Exhibit,Gaming,Gathering,Gent,Ghent,Gigs,Graffiti,Guestblogger,Heroes,Looks,Mixtapes,Movies,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Reviews,Skills,Sports,Street art,Street culture,Tattoo,Technology,Travel,Twitter,Youth culture
Tagged: 2010, 2011, awesomeness, concerts, experiences, holidays, jong tuig, jongtuig, meetings, OOTB, people we met in 2010, trips, visits, what else should I put here?, year overview, young scum, youngscum
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- December 31, 2010 – 10:00
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- By Andrew
Amazon dropped some fresh stuff last week. Amongst several Christmas gifts some new books for yours truly. The Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia is a nice addition to my bookshelf. Fascinating stuff the Russian tattoo, especially the fact it goes hand in hand with criminal culture in which tattoos are codes one must learn to master [...]
Categories: Art,Bookreviews,Codes,DIY,Looks,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Politics,Quickie,Rebellion,Reviews,Street culture,Tattoo
Tagged: amazon, criminal culture, mobster tattoo, russian criminal tattoo, siberian education
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- December 19, 2010 – 18:03
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- By Andrew
Finished reading Siberian Education by Nicolai Lilin which in my opinion is a must read if you are into non-fictional books. The small republic of Transnistria, which declared its independence in 1990 but has never been recognised, is a remote part of Russia in which a community of honest criminals settled years ago. It is [...]
Categories: Bookreviews,Codes,DIY,Documentary,OutoftheBlog.com,Politics,Reviews,Tattoo
Tagged: codes, communist, communists, crime, criminal, criminals, honour, nicolai lillin, russia, siberia, siberian education, sovjet union, thiever, thievery, transnistria
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- December 6, 2010 – 18:42
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- By Andrew
