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Archive for October, 2009

Playing tomorrow at Brussels’ ‘Festival des Libertés‘: African Underground : Democracy in Dakar, which is not only a multi-award-winning documentary, but an entire project that made my jaw drop, ‘reflect before you elect’ is the motto, watch it:

I’ve fallen in love with vinyl almost exactly 10 years ago, my first records were second-hand copies of U2 and R.E.M. albums. So there you have it, my wednesday music confession for you. Now, I’m not a purist, but I can’t deny it’s been vinyl love since day one. Much like one of the interviewees [...]

It seems like the Ultraboys silently opened WeBringJustice a couple of weeks ago, a group blog with contributions of the crew’s members. Sozyone Gonzalez posted a couple of previews of his new work, highly dynamic these are:

Playing this saturday at Brussels’ ‘Festival des Libertés‘: Bomb It!. Jon Reiss travelled around the world to report on the graffiti phenomenon and the discussion it has sparked since it’s birth. A profound debate about the neutrality of public space, the freedom of expression, the visibility of minority groups and protection of private property: Through [...]

Spending an awful lot of time on twitter and on the facebook fan page, I sometimes forget that a lot of you visitors check only the site (or even its rss version). As I’ve been tweeting photos of my nightly and daily walks through Brussels, I’ve regained a strange love for the city. From now [...]

This one is dedicated to all the Madlib fans out there. If you’re down with Lord Quas, you must be down with ‘La Planète Sauvage‘, the 1973 feature animation by René Laloux. Soundtrack is mostly renowned for Madlib’s use of it in ‘Come On Feet’: “Set in a far distant world, human beings – or [...]

Playing tomorrow at Brussels’ ‘Festival des Libertés‘: Jonathan Ben Efrat’s ‘Six Floors To Hell’, a captivating documentary about illegal Palestinians workers living in an unfinished mall near Tel Aviv, six floors underground, with no electricity and water. Jalal Hamdan is one of many Palestinians who cross into Israel to find work. With hundreds of others, [...]

Playing tomorrow at Brussels’ ‘Festival des Libertés‘: Samuel Lampaerts first long play documentary, an indepth portrait of the culture and tradition that is voodoo. Taking the pretext of the preparation of a photographic work by Jean-Dominique Burton on the most important priests and priestesses of the voodoo in Benin and their deities hidden in the [...]

Playing tomorrow at Brussels’ ‘Festival des Libertés‘: When I Cry My Heart Beats, Annett Shutze’s documentary very reminiscent of Children Underground, which you may have seen on this site a while ago. Although by the pitch of if wouldn’t know if this is a brighter or a darker documentary… Seems like a must-see film eitherway: [...]

Black Dynamite hit theatres in the States recently. This will probably never happen in Belgium, yet we’ll impatiently awaiting the European dvd-release, and of course the release of the soundtrack. The recording of which was a special event, as explained in the following video: Congratulations to Wax Poetics Records (keep an eye on on-point tv [...]

Speaking of which. I couldn’t keep this one to myself: Promotional film from 1969 for the Philips science museum in Eindhoven, Netherlands – Evoluon. The Evoluon is a remarkable building in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in the shape of a flying saucer. Between 1966 and 1989 it was a museum, dedicated to science and technology. How [...]

Continuing this mini-series of blog posts covering the city of Eindhoven, in comes the company that put the city on the map. Philips is to Eindhoven what General Motors was to Detroit, leaving an undeniable stamp on the city. Walking through the city I couldn’t help but taking photos of the legendary logo’s, and if [...]

Last weekend the fine people of holland.com invited me to visit Eindhoven, city of light, city of design, city of Theo Maassen, city of Hans Teeuwen, city of PSV etcetera etcetera. I’ll be posting a couple of more reports on this trip, but for now, allow me to simply hit you with some random pictures [...]

Meanwhile, in the land of the rising sun, people seem to be discovering the sounds of Trus’me. And as the man will be touring Japan in november, Red Book decided to show parts of the On-Point TV interview to the people, including Japanese subtitles! This video is now on screens in all Puma stores in [...]

There was a time when skateboarding was considered a crime. There was a time when French for skateboard was ‘rouli-roulant’. Or so it seems, watching this Canadian short-film about this new phenomenon called skateboarding that took over the streets back in 1965: The Devil’s Toy / Le Rouli-roulant : Such beautiful photography isn’t it? And [...]

It must have happened overnight, because I didn’t hear anyone speak upon it yet, but these flyers tell the truth: Brussels now has a bike messenger company: Pedal: This post is not a commercial one, this is pure love for all bike messengers out there, and especially those in the city of Brussels. Been driving [...]

Menno Otten. You’ve heard the name before, if you’ve been staying on-point for a while, since I’ve written about his now-classic video clip to Aardvarck and U-Gene ‘s ‘Track 4′. The clip was awarded ‘ Most Cutting-Edge Dutch Videoclip Ever’ last year at the Amsterdam International Film Festival. And ever since, Menno has been on [...]

It wasn’t until a friend who’ve known me since high school told me, that I came to realise it, but it seems like we’ve been repping PPKLTS for over seven (!) years now. (Watch ‘A Man And His Funk‘ again and see the original artwork in there, on the back of an old cereals box.) [...]

Now, back to the regular program, right? That’s how I feel about it. Only, I’ll have to admit that after three weeks of crazy promoting and crazy deadline stress I’ve found it extremely hard to get back to where I left it. To be perfectly honest, I’ve been walking around all shook up by the [...]

Tonight’s the night. Or so it seems. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you must have been sleeping for three weeks or more. If so, that’s cool, it is not too late to get with the program, and hurry your ass over to De Beursschouwburg in Brussels tonight. A long while ago the [...]

While JtotheC is dealing with photographers, journalists, groupies and other types of fans, we got sent a banging remix of the NoNo track featured on his future classic ‘A Man And His Funk‘ preview ep. Download the remix, and as always: spread the word!