This Friday in the Ancienne Belgique: Nokia Trends Lab with Shameboy. There was a remix contest for a Shameboy song and it was won by Pieter Santens. I also downloaded the tracks last week and thought I’d use Acid Express to make a quick remix. But I quickly realized that I was so used to using the full version of Acid that going back to Express was like stepping from a Saab onto a scooter and still trying to hit the highway. So I stopped. Unfortunately I can’t find the winning remix on the Lab site.
Nokia Trends Lab is a cutting-edge event which combines mobile phone technology with creative and experimental art. Shameboy will look for local talent to remix their single, ‘Splend It’ from their Heartcore album. As an exclusive to Nokia Trends Lab, Shameboy has allowed samples of ‘Splend It’ to be temporarily featured online. The participant who creates the most memorable and original remix will be invited by Shameboy to record the track in the studio on 4 May. The remix will debute at the Nokia Trends Lab event which takes place on Friday 9 May at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The music video for the remix will be shot during the event, by young talents using Nokia N95 8GB. These young talents will also be selected through a Film Lab on the Nokia Trends Lab website. The music video will then be aired on JIM.
If you still want free duo-tickets: send an email to info@nokiatrendslab.be with as subject “Shameboy tickets”. It’s also on Facebook!
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This weekend was filled with heavy alcohol, since I went to a whisky tasting. We only drank a ‘wee dram’ (2,5 cl) at a time, with some bread and water in between so we remained sober enough to listen to our sympathetic whisky expert who told us about malt, barrels and distilling.
After preparing our palet with a blended whisky (irrelevant which one, real whiskies buffs never talk about anything that’s not single malt) we got to experience 5 single malts:
Whisky #1: Arran - which was the cheapest of the lot, not bad but not too special
Whisky #2: Ben Nevis - I liked this one more, had more of a sherry touch, as I recall.
Whisky #3: Balvenie - this tasted like a girl’s whisky. Quite a disappaointment after the previous one. Doublewood = the whisky was kept in ex-bourbon barrels for most of the 12 years, and was then transferred to ex-sherry barrels to ‘finish it off’. Ex-sherry barrels give a much nicer taste (see, we were still sober when that was explained).
Whisky #4: Glenfarclas - this one was my favourite. Definitely sherry-like, smelled really nice.
Whisky #5: Classic of Islay - this one smelled like a barbecue. The malted barley was dried with peat (’turf’) and by God, did you smell it. It went great with some sliced meat, though.
In all, a pleasant experience. I might spend the 50€ one day to get me a bottle of Glenfarcas.
I know I’m a bit late,and Ine, Bruno, Bart and … have already given their opinions, but I still needed an excuse to post some pictures of the event, so: last weekend I went to Pecha Kucha Brussels!
As everyone already mentioned, one presentation really jumped out: professor Jean Paul van Bendegem with his presentation “Wunderkammer”. It started with the painting “The origin of the world” by Gustave Courbet, which is essentially a frontal view of the crotch of a naked woman, which of course is a good way to catch the audience’s attention.
He then started free associating via freemasonry, over the Sherlock Holmes society, over women’s bottoms, the painting of the nude woman in court (I forget the details) and ended with the painting of a man’s crotch called “The origin of war”. There was no real message, but the voyage was vivid and entertaining.
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Net een stokje gekregen van Frank, en ik dacht er toch al aan een korte review van 2007 te schrijven, dus …
3 artiesten die ik in 2007 leerde kennen
- Balkan Beat Box
- Corinne Bailey Ray
- John Legend
3 dingen die ik niet licht zal vergeten
3 stommiteiten of blunders
- Barcamp Brussels #4 organiseren omdat ik vond dat het nodig was, niet omdat ik het wou. Het kwam op een slecht moment voor mij en ik heb er niet dezelfde energie ingestoken als de vorige keren, met het te verwachten resultaat. Geen erg, het was het moment om de fakkel door te geven.
- Mij laten gaan, op allerlei vlakken, met als apotheose alleen thuis zitten op Oudejaar met longontsteking. Augmentin met broodje kaas, en de eindejaarsshow van Raf Coppens trekt nergens op.
- Vrienden verwaarlozen. Dat rechtzetten is direct een goed voornemen voor 2008.
3 dingen waar ik trots op ben
- De manier waarop mijn passie voor tango, fotografie en Web2.0 tesamen kwam in de creatie van www.milonga.be, met agenda, wekelijkse newsletter en binnenkort forum. Is nu al de #2 tango portal in Belgie, nog 1 te gaan.
- De organisatie van Barcamp Brussels #3. Die ging zeer vlot, op een gezellige locatie, veel sprekers, super sponsors, goeie sfeer.
- Mijn eerste foto in de krant voor een artikel over het tango wereldkampioenschap in Buenos Aires.
3 gekochte of gekregen dingen
- De auto die ik wou. Nogal klein, nogal gulzig, desalniettemin de auto die ik wou.
- Mijn Canon 50mm fixed lens, heeft me veel doen evolueren als fotograaf.
- Een scheermes met borstel en schuim. Ik scheer nu weer nat, onder de douche.
3 mensen die dit stokje van mij krijgen
Tja, ik heb mezelf wat geisoleerd uit het bloggerswereldje de laatste 6 maand, ik hoop dat er nog op posts van mij gereageerd wordt.
Wouldn’t this be a great idea: the Brussels public transport not mapped by MIVB’s horribly unpractical route planner, but by Google’s Transit maps. You just need to get an export of the stops, the routes and the times, and they can be shown on Google Maps just like that. Where should we start looking for the source data? Then create agency.txt, stops.txt, routes.txt, trips.txt, stop_times.txt, calendar.txt and that’s it.
Google Transit Feed
I’m getting a little nervous. Barcamp Brussels is gonna happen on Nov 24th or Dec 1st and I still haven’t found a location. All my options have returned negative. The previous times I never really had a problem with that.
So I’m gonna put the question out there: who knows a nice location for Barcamp Brussels #4? If possible, I would actually like it to be hosted at someone’s offices, since it’s on a Saturday anyway …
- In Brussels (not just the center, let’s take Brussel/Halle/Vilvoorde)
- I expect around 100 attendees
- we need 3-4 presentation rooms of 20-30 persons each
- a hall or lounge with seats and coffee would be nice
- catering on-site or otherwise a neighbourhood with restaurants at walking distance
- available Wifi would be handy - or we can set that up ourselves
- preferably easy to reach by public transport, or with sufficient parking
- if the location costs more than, say, 2000€, it’s not an option.
- I tried a lot of socio-cultural venues (KVS, BSB, DeBuren, BTCCTB …) , but the moment I mention ‘Internet’ they say ‘no’. So I gave up on those.
- none of the locations of the previous events
Suggestions welcome via mail or comment!
It’s almost been 6 months, so here we go for the 4th time: I’m starting the preparations for Barcamp Brussels #4.
The proposed dates are: Nov 24th or Dec 1st. Location: to be defined. Sponsors: to be defined (you know how to reach me). Logo can be found on Flickr.
If you want to attend and/or present: please add your name to http://barcampbrussels.wikispaces.com/BarcampBrussels4.
(via www.barcamp.be )
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