The Mountain

Check this badass time-lapse.. 

It was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain´s highest mountain @(3718m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories. 

nice tool; ifttt.com

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Stumbled upon this handy tool which makes it easy to connect different services to each other. For instance if I tag an item in Google Reader with 'tweet' it will automatically create a tweet. You can 'cook' your own recipes by combining different services. Check it out: ifttt.com. Also handy for those people who want to Tweet right on time on New Years Eve (in every time zone).

Pantone Xmas ball

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Although only in the middle stages of October, ’tis the season to get in the Christmas spirit. Surely a designer’s dream, this ten-different color set of Pantone Christmas Ornaments is both clever and stylish. Designed by Selab, these two-toned glass spheres measures 8cm or 3.14″ in diameter, and are a perfect gift for that artistic someone in your life.

Label design for Granholme

After Naked Lunch and the site for 3024 I was asked to do another music / label related job. For Granholme I did the label design / identity. Peter Dickinson did an amazing job with this teaser / trailer. GHM-001 is out now! Also check out the reviews on Resident Advisor and Factmag

GHM-001 – Graphics
Wiping The Eye EP
1: Wiping The Eye
2: Name This
3: D-Transition (Digital Only)

Today was a good day

Today was good day, seeing the Los Bangeles tote bags on a sunny day.. We missed summer a bit this year in Rotterdam, but if autumn is like this day, it's all good.. So open up those windows and turn on this autumn anthem by Dam-Funk!

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The work of Neck Face

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Neck Face is an artist who manages to imbue humor into violence, locate amusement in fear, and takes pleasure in rattling nerves. His work is simultaneously sinister and grim, genuine and playful. He toys with the sacrilegious, antagonizes phobias, and triggers insecurities, all with a measure of ambivalence. His distinctive style straddles the line between reckless and deliberate, yet the work maintains a sense of immediacy, and is always provocative. Neck Face posits nightmares, prompts anxiety, and conjures the devil. In doing so, he champions the urge to laugh, rather than retract, at the discomfort felt from the true absurdity of horror. 

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Jonwayne = Boss

Jonwayne @ The Echoplex for Friends of Friends

Heads up - this is the debut full length from LA's recent Stones Throw signing, Jonwayne and it's a peach! Jonwayne is a member of the WEDIDIT Collective, a gaggle of LA-based beatmakers counting Shlohmo and Elan in their number. 'Bowser' is the first we've heard from him, but it's sure to make a lasting impression. Evidently he's got a very unique spin on the whole West Coast psych-boogie sound, sharing a taste for the frilliest riffs with Dâm Funk, but also a a crushed 8-bit vibe nodding to Ras-G, and all wrapped up in this weirdly off-kilter tuning and beats that range from ultra-minimalist machine funk like 'Longest Night' to skewed lo-fi neck snappers like 'Trilla G'. There's also a correlation with James Pants to the extent that they're both out on their own planets in terms of juxtaposed arrangements and weirdo harmonics, but Jonwayne's sound is more in love with a modern HipHop and synths than referencing old pop like Pants. To be fair, the detuned sounds may be a bit too much for the strickly orthodox heads, but what's he's doing is actual quite individual and worthy of closer inspection. Recommended!

This dude is pretty awesome. Nasty 8 bit subbassbeats.. Checkout Bowser, Thanks Bro, Thewayniac, Remixes are things, I don't care (rap mixtape). More about Jonwayne on his site and don't forget to like him on Facebook, he def needs some more fans..

The Rum Diary (2011)

Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.
Finally it's there!  

Jonti – Firework Spraying Moon


"When I think of how to write about Jonti's music, I don't feel like writing at all. I feel like drawing a picture, with watercolors and maybe crayon - colorful, abstract, youthfully curious and open to interpretation. Maybe then I'd staple, glue or nail some found objects to it, recontextualizing their intended purpose into something strange and beautiful."
– Jeremy Sole (Radio Host, KCRW)

Also check out this Co.fee remix!