A couple of months ago brother Wouda (as seen on on-point tv) of Dopeness Galore Records asked me if I’d be able to write up some liner notes to the new release on his label. ‘Sure thing, you know how we roll, Wouter,’ I replied, ‘tell me though, what is this secret project you’re referring [...]

Ghent-based illustrator Squid/Delay made this ?uestlove illustration a while ago, and it just came to my mind how much I’d love see this one printed on a t-shirt, king-size style, covering the entire shirt. That would be simply beautiful, now wouldn’t it? Drop a comment if you think it would! Find more of Squid’s work [...]

One of the things with reggae I’ve always had a little trouble with is its happiness. Nothing against that, of course, but as always, I’m just a bit more drawn to the dark side of things. Am I wrong when I state that dub is the darker side of Jamaican music? Not to say that [...]

That’s right, tonight’s the night and we’re guessing by now you know that. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock in some desert somewhere, Vanessa still wants you to know that CheebaCheeba is back in town. Tonight, at Botanique, Brussels, starting around 23h00. Entrance is 5 euro this time, that’s the new policy of [...]

Just when we’re about to wrap up the next vic&lloyd podcast extravaganza, it seems like the times ahead are getting pretty busy. You may want to catch one of the following opportunities to come and get your groove on with vic&lloyd: May 22nd – Petrol, Antwerp – with Jazzanova(live), Jimi Tenor(live), Butsenzeller, K’Bonus May 23rd [...]

What if your radio… would have a button to lower – or even mute – the voice of the host of the show… would give you the local news in the morning and bbc world news in the evening, because you asked it to do so… would no longer give you traffic information that you [...]

Well, the title really says it all with this one. Tony Starks was kind enough to sign my wallie last night after his show at Ancienne Belgique, Brussels. And that made my day… week… month… maybe even year. Mind the matching colours, didn’t even need a colour consultant for that, just straight-up swagger:

Huge shout-out to Laszlo Colombani over at allphon.com. Rumours were he was working on a documentary about Los Angeles’ lively music scene, and rumours can now be confirmed, as the first extract of the film has now surfaced. And it is an interview with none other than Dâm Funk (as seen on on-point tv), check [...]

Perhaps the nicest surprise at OFFF’09 was Multitouch Barcelona. Stupidly enough, I missed out on their presentation, I did however witnessed their huge Space Invaders installation, which is simply brilliant, and a whole lot of fun, of course: “Designed for the Red Bull Music Academy 08, Guten Touch is an interactive installation that involves people [...]

Having grown up in a newspaper store I’ve always had this fascination with alternative ways of selling newspapers. There’s an incredibly charming side to opening the store at the crack of dawn, finding stacks and stacks of freshly printed newspapers and magazines, each and every day. Then, even more romantic it was, to see passionate [...]

First time I saw the trailer to the We Live In Public documentary, I didn’t have a clue what all of it was about. Second time around I wasn’t any wiser. All I know is that it looks like one crazy trip, and that the film won the Sundance 2009 US Documentary Grand Jury Award [...]

PES (born Adam Pesapane) is arguably the king of stop motion animation. At least in the genre that he helped pioneering, animations using every day objects. Such as nuts, tools, and just about everything that’s in your house. For his presentation at OFFF ’09 showed making-of footage and explained some of the techniques used in [...]

As you may have noticed, I was in Lisbon last week, to attend OFFF’09, the festival about ‘post-digital creation culture’. I tried to keep you posted the micro-blogging way via twitter. And now it’s time to serve you some more indepth stories from the festival. Presenting: Chris Milk. Though not the best presentation at the [...]

Photo series about abandoned urban environments keep on popping up these days. Take this next series of photos of a abandoned clothing factory in Baltimore. “These photos were taken at the abandoned Lebow Clothing Factory in Baltimore, MD. Lebow Clothing manufactured fine suits and jackets at this factory. This building also housed a consumer outlet [...]

Less than two weeks to go before we’re hitting you with that good stuff once again: CheebaCheeba, May 23rd, Café Bota – Botanique, Brussels. JtotheC aka vic was so excited about Lizairo‘s excellent photoshoot of Vanessa (Godblessa) that he couldn’t resist making two kingsize versions of the flyer. And well… pose with it for an [...]

Part two of my little touristic mood photo series: nighttime (also check part one, and one-and-a-half). Thanks to my man Kris, for guiding me around in Lisbon and Oeiras, to the wonderful sounds of Radio Marginal – Al lado mais suave do radio (the smoothest side of radio):

It seems like I overlooked this next documentary: Slingshot Hip-hop, telling the stories of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. The film is currently out on dvd and is without any doubt [...]

What can I say, walking around in Lisbon yesterday, I couldn’t help but noticing this nice little rooftop hide-out, allegedly housed by the illustrious Ghost Dog… Now this got me wondering why he left Amsterdam, where I spotted him last year…

As I’m writing this I’ve temporarily changed Brussels for Oeiras, right next to Lisbon, Portugal. Today is the first day of OFFF Oeiras ’09 – International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture. If all goes well I should be able to hit you with some impressions of the festival, similar to the Colophon posts in [...]

Living in Brussels this teaser grabbed me by the throat. Could this be the documentary a lot of people have been waiting for, but didn’t realise the necessity of just yet? ‘Urban Legends’ revolves arount four Moroccan friends, living in an all-Maghreb part of Brussels. In their spare time the four of them direct Hollywood-inspired [...]

Last week at Amsterdam’s Queensday flea market, I’ve gotten my hands on this Polaroid badboy: the Miniportrait 403 camera. I had no clue at the time, but it seems to be one special machine, which was developed to make pasport pictures. It has four lenses, so the result is a polaroid picture with four little [...]