Last week was the Memorial Van Damme 2010 over here in Brussels. And it could well have been the day when Usain Bolt would had crushed competition fingers pointing to the moon in his trademark pose, photographers around the world portraying the man… possibly in a shirt designed by yours truly. Faith decided differently, Bolt [...]

Always big enthusiasts of ‘making-ofs’ over here at the headquarters, I happened to stumble upon this impressive series of photographs. Of what seems to be like a real doll factory. Fascinating to say the least, for all you DIY cats out there, get inspired, or cough up a solid $6000. Her lips are full and [...]

At OFFF’10, genius came into play during the Art+Com lecture, when a professor of the institute not only showed how they had made a huge BMW installation and how the first tests dramatically failed, with metal balls crashing into the ceiling, but when after that he presented ‘The Image Fulgurator’, a brilliantly executed piece of [...]

Documentary photographer Jocelyn Bain Hogg had the privilege to embed himself with a group of gangsters in London’s East End called “The Firm.” This is only a snippet of the series, watch the full series on his portfolio site. The Firm is a searing photographic document of the British organized crime world, which received instant [...]

When entering the foreign legion, some legionnaires had their testament/will tattooed on their back, often put down with a hand-made machine, put together with parts of walkmans and other devices. When The Word magazine asked me if I had any stories to be told for their now-published Skin issue, it didn’t take me a split [...]

Last month we shot some video that will soon result in a nice little video introducing the man called Title, who’s Caravan will soon be available on 7″ vinyl and who’ll be performing an exclusive set live at Release this Saturday. The video is still in the making, but partner-in-crime Gunter – Eckelwood – Blokken, [...]

Last week JtotheC and the Bad Mothas played an in-store gig at Avenue in Antwerp, Belgium. Had to miss out myself, but from what I’ve heard from witnesses, the gig was a blast. Big up Puma for their Suede Road and for making JtotheC part of it! Pictures courtesy of ineversleep.net, after the jump:

Having spent a week in London I’m overwhelmed with a strange mix of both utter tiredness and over-the-top energy and motivation. Revitalized if you will. All of my love to everybody who welcomed me so warmly in the Big Smoke, no need to mention names, you know who you are. The all of you: Thanks! [...]

So, off I went then, following the arrow to London, and well, I’ve arrived. The Big Smoke they call it, yet I haven’t figured out why… Anyhow, I’ll be in Londontown for a week, interviewing and meeting and sipping coffee, blogging might be at a low because of that. Or it might not… Getting a [...]

The grime, the gritty. When it comes to BXL aka Brussels, there’s virtually no escaping it. Five chapters deep, and whoever wrote this scenario is getting deeper and deeper into his or her twisted little mind. The brutal force of a golf club going head-to-head with the elegance of the samurai warrior? Is that how [...]

Brussels’ finest, Sozyone Gonzalez and Dave Decat are currently exhibiting at the Arty Farty Gallery in Kôln, until January 23rd. ‘La Guillotine’ is the name of the exhibit, and also the name of the publisher behind the fictive journals they made. They each made two newspapers with illustrations, stories and designs. Each journal has 3 [...]

Winter is here. And the snow is solid. So get your craft on and build something. Like a big footed snowman with a cap on, another JtotheC production, straight out of the city of Kuurne:

The following pictures were taken only last week, but since I passed by the exact same spot only an hour ago, I can confirm this piece of contemporary typography is history by now. ‘Sur le chemin de la vérité’ it read, freely translated I guess the author meant he/she was on his/her way to the [...]

Murder, torture and out-of-town shadows… With a claustrophobic wind blowing through this BXL-Les-Nuits storyboard, the story still hasn’t been formed, and even if it were, the end seems far from near. As the ambulance is called to the scene, memory becomes a vague term and a man called Baantjer turns his back to the events:

As of yesterday you’ll start finding The Word Magazine in and around shops and bars around the country (or in your mailbox if you’ve been so supportive to subscribe). The latest issue is all about our country’s heritage, in various areas, quite leftfield if you ask me, so no beer, chocolate or Manneken Pis or [...]

Last month, around the time Halloween took over the streets for a hot day, I stumbled upon this photo of a video game designer who had made perhaps the most scary costume I’ve seen in a long time. No seriously, this scares the living shit out of me. Digging deeper in his portfolio, my amazement [...]

Arguably the strangest place I’ve been over the past years must be ‘El Presidio’, the former prison of Ushuaia, which is – as you know by now – at the end of the world. Normally this place is a museum, but for the occasion, J&B‘s had emptied the place to have a party. The party [...]

Ushuaia, aka the Southernmost city in the world, at the tip of Argentina. Quite a strange place that was to visit. Overall quite a desolate vibe throughout the town actually. And dogs, lots of dogs, running in the streets. Dogtown, if you will.. Since our J&B-sponsored visit to the place was a very short one [...]

On our last day in Buenos Aires, we took a little time out to walk the streets of the city. A frustrating experience to be honest to you, as you can feel there’s obviously loads of things to explore and discover, but our time was limited, as we had a twenty-hour trip back home ahead [...]

During my recent trip to Ushuaia for J&B’s ‘Start A Party’ we had a little stay in Buenos Aires, during which a little sightseeing was of course to be done. The following posts are a collection of snapshots I took during our walks and rides through ‘the city of good air’. Football is life, at [...]

Third eye vision in this third installment of the storyboard-still-without-a-story series. As it seems, the story must have taken a slight esoteric angle in this very chapter. As always, nobody has a clue what this is all about. Sure enough we get some new character popping up and some out-of-town scenery… Logically thinking this should [...]