Mayer Hawthorne is conquering the world these days. And how happy we are to see him making such proper moves. Back in september you were served a worldwide exclusive when we hit you with this free mp3 download. Shortly after the heart-shaped vinyl saw the light, on Stones Throw Records. The single quickly sold out, [...]

One of the reasons I’m so heavily digging the documentary as a cinematic genre is that quite often it transcends fiction. Not by ideas or plots, but simply by passion and emotions. If it were fiction, I wouldn’t like the story behind ‘The Garden‘ at all. Knowing this is the true story of ‘the South [...]

By now, you probably already know about cult artist Robert Crumb, and if so, you’ll probably have seen the disturbing ‘Crumb’ documentary, featured on this very blog a while ago. Digging deeper into the life of the man, I came across this little video in which he explains the beautifullest part of the female body, [...]

Wax Poetics is doing it big. Big in Japan even, as of lately. The magazine recently launched its Japan issue, which – for now – is a compilation of older articles you’ve most likely read in the American version of the mag already. But still I had to get my hands on a copy of [...]

Needless to say the internet is crazy for creating a buzz every now and then. But at the same time it is quite freaky to see how quickly things spread, and how sometimes third parties benefit from the hard work of others… Rappcats.com posted this story about how StonesThrow Records teamed up with Mitsubishi for [...]

This is the story of an automobile factory in a small Belgian town near Liège. How I love to read that neighbourhood complaints have been around for at least a century now. But, complaints often lead to innovation. Like putting the test track for the produced vehicles, on the rooftop of the factory. No joke: [...]

Favela On Blast documents the relatively new funk phenomenon that’s happening in Brasil. Over there people call it Funk Carioca, or Rio Funk, but you might know the genre as Baile Funk. “The music customises raw, bombastic Miami rhythms with percussive loops of samba drums and a lively and unrelenting Brazilian rapping style. It’s a [...]

The year is 1969, and you know the deal, John and Yoko decided to get their hippie on for world peace. Which meant… going to bed… At least, that’s how it has always sounded to me. I’ve never gotten to take the hippie vibe seriously. Maybe South Park is to blame for that, or the [...]

‘Your journal of meat culture’. That’s what meatpaper is, covering the fleishgeist: the art and culture of meat. It was purely incidental how I was introduced to meatpaper, as Sasha – the founder and editor in chief of the magazine – sat next to me on the last day of the event, asking me: ‘so [...]

This week I’ve finally gotten my hands on the pile of mags I’d scored at the Colophon2009 symposium in Luxemburg last month, which I had left in the trunk of a kind friend (thank you Ineke!). Expect a couple of more magazine posts coming up, I hope you don’t mind… ‘We Make Magazines – Inside [...]

This is arguably the news of the day (at least on the interwebs it was): “Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. Carl Lundström: Guilty. The [...]

This saturday U-Gene is presenting his new project: ‘U-Gene & The Nomadelics’, featuring Krewcial, Gus and Grazz. The venue is Cahier, in Hoogstraten, that is. Alongside Azzman, vic&lloyd will be rocking the after-party, and we’ve got 4 guestlist spots to give away! So please send me a mail, or a comment with your name and [...]

This next video brings out the child in me like crazy. I was always told not to slide down escalators, rails or any other urban architecture, but now that the phenomenon seemed to have gotten a name, it’s almost like an official sport now, right? Let’s watch some instruction videos:

‘Or How a 23-Year-Old filmmaker with $7.000 Became a Hollywood Player’. The title may sound too much of an American Dream type of thing, but I must say ‘Rebel without a Crew‘ is one hell of an inspiring read. The book is a compilation of excerpts from the journal Robert Rodriguez kept during the making [...]

Last week nieuws.be sent me a little questionnaire asking about the who, what, when and why of your favourite blog. I appeared to be chosen to be ‘blogger of the week’ on their site. And with that, they ran a little special interview on the site, about on-point. That’s brilliant, so allow me to thank [...]

Dressing up like a clown and still be the king of the ghetto? Well, yeah… You probably know the style from The Chemical Brothers’ videoclip to ‘Galvanize‘: krumping is the dance, clowning is the style, and what a crazy ghetto movement this appears to be. Back in 2005, David LaChapelle made an award-winning documentary called [...]

Lately the on-point headquarters have been boiling up, for times are crazy and there really is no time to waste. There’s a whole lot of heat coming up though, so please, stay tuned, for future episodes of On-Point TV (Mayer Hawthorne, JtotheC, Dave Kinsey, Cris Prolific, etc.) new Podcasts and some damn fine documentaries for [...]

Remember Stack? The service that aims to promote independent mags, by sending you a new mag to discover every month? I kindly asked the people of Stack if they wouldn’t want to treat the on-point people on this world in an extra special way, and guess what, Stack is down with it! Basically here’s how [...]

Although I had announced it back in february, I still haven’t taken any cooking lessons. Not to say I’m an absolute noob in the cuisine, but then again, I’m not that far from it either, I have to admit. Now that the financial crisis is starting to show in our daily lives (well it surely [...]

By now we’ve all seen and heard about the parkour phenomenon, especially since Nike used it in one of its commercials a while ago. But still I heavily enjoyed this next short documentary, in which the makers go back to the roots of this sport, and then take it accross the canal, from Paris to [...]

Last week’s Dâm Funk video interview is still catching wind on the net, and here we are again with a brand new On-Point TV episode: Dorian Concept. Dorian just released his debut album “When Planets Explode” on Amsterdam’s finest Kindred Spirits imprint. And I must say, that’s exactly the sound you’ll get, the album is [...]