Recently, a friend posted this video on Facebook. I have been knowing it since me and my homies started to discover these type of videos on the internet back in the days (early 2000’s). We couldn’t get enough of this guy, coming in, looking like Mr. Bean and just rocking the damn thing and tried to search for more footage of him, but never found anything. This guy deserves some credit and I’m glad to give him all the exposure RUN FFM can give him, while reminiscing the early internet days…
I have been seeing these cool videos where people make music with chiptune hacked Nintendo GameBoy’s and Famicoms and I kinda liked the idea of course you need some knowledge to do this but fortunately music company KORG released a software for the Nintendo DS a while ago already called KORG DS-10. It allows you to make funky music like this right here on your Nintendo DS.
It looked like enough fun to me to buy it and again fortunately at work we had one left and I got it for a good price :).
Since in germany the demand for synthesizer/music software for your Nintendo DS was not that high, they are not offered alot anymore but you can still find them for a good price here and there.
KORG also released a new edition called KORG DS-10 PLUS of the synthesizer in Japan, lets hope for the german fans out there that they will release it in our midst. For those who cant wait its availible from Amazon.co.jp in a limited and standard edition.
If you happen to be in Frankfurt / Main and are in desperate need of some fresh kicks then why dont you go to Freebaseand check out their current sale ? Offering you 15% on Sneakers, Apparel and Bags from the28. Sept till the 04. Oct.
Living in Frankfurt has so much advantages. Like yesterday, when I got a message by my man Amil, asking if I would like to go to the IAA, the world’s largest motor show, that takes place here every two years. Phil, my new teammate had free tickets. I mean, to me these are just cars, but as I didn’t have to pay…
OK, there always HAS to be someone with that hat at a motor show, right? Now that we have that checked, let’s move on to the cars…
Audi R8 5.2 quattro
Lamborghini Reventón Roadster
Tesla S Series
Alfa Romeo 8C Spider
Artega Intro 2008 GT, limited to 99 units
Wiesmann GT MF5. That’s really bad ass to drive up in this one.
Next, we went to Mercedes-Benz, located in the antique Festhalle.
Electric motor on display
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
Vintage cars in front of the Festhalle with the Messeturm in the background.
We were also testing out this parcours. Only as passengers though.
Big props go out to Mercedes-Benz for the invitation to their exclusive catering.
But finally, we decided to move on…
Brabus G V12 5
Brabus S V12 R biturbo
Aston Martin by Mansory
Honda Insight
Honda Genesis. Bad ass color.
GT by CITROËN
Pegeot bb1. Electronic city car. Length 2,5m. They also aired a beatifully done commercial.
MINI had a very kool booth with a DJ, celebrating the car’s birthday.
BMW had a arena set up, where cars were driving around and over their booth.
I guess, I took the following pictures because of the car… Hmmmm, yeah, must have been because of the car: BMW Efficient Dynamics.
Rolls-Royce Phanton. BAWS!!!
Thanks to my guys for the interesting and funny day.
After Chrishimself made me aware of the fact, that some NIKE Dunks High, that I was thinking about buying for a long time, are being sold during AZITA’s sale (even in my size!!! US12!), I drove there yesterday to get them. In typical Frankfurt colors!!!
AZITA
Münzgasse 10, 60311 Frankfurt
On their web store I also found some interesting magazines, but mostly the Preview Issue of reed pages intrigued me. From the AZITA store, you just have to walk around the corner and you’ll find LASER MAGAZINE. Hopefully, they’ll get also the real issues, as there are so many interesting things already in this Preview Issue. Also, some things, I already planned to blog about, so that means, you’ll get even more quality posts now. :-)
You can also subscribe to it. Worldwide shipping is even being included in the 60$ fee. That’s word up!!!
German magazine STERNmade this video about urban vinyl also known as “designer toys” for better understanding.
Urban vinyl is usually made in limited numbers and seen as a piece of art like a sculpture for example.
The market is still kinda “unknown” but prices can go up to a few thousand euro already for highly limited “toys”.
Some of the designers for urban vinyl are KAWS, Usugrow and Pushead.
I recently won an urban vinyl figurine by Secret Base designed by Pushead while I was in Tokyo, I heard it’s highly limited of which (if I remember right) 10 were given out in a raffle if you buy something worth 5000 yen in the Secret Base store in Tokyo. A rumor says that they made those out of some leftover glow in the dark vinyl ;).
They had to take a polaroid picture of every winner to place it on the store shelf, if you happen to be in Tokyo check out the Secret Base store and look for the polaroids and say “Hey I know the guy from RUNFFM.COM” ^^; .
I really dig the design it has so many details and it glows orange in the dark ! ;).
In the video Selim Varol shows his huge urban vinyl collection, the video says he has the biggest collection in europe so far.Selim Varol is best known for the book Toy Giants which you might have seen in one or the other bookstore already.
Unfortunately the video is only in german and without subtitles but I hope you enjoy it anyway.
Sneakerized is also the name of the blog of three Germany guys (Oliver, Mischa and Sven), that you have to know as a sneaker head in Germany. They also made this clip, titled – you guessed it – Sneakerized. And I’m sure, many of us will find ourselves in there at some point. LOL!!!
By the way, I really love the “It’s marking check boxes with a swoosh” line. Hehe.
But they have even more specials for you. If you are visiting a city, their store finder is worth a look for finding sneaker stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Just type in the name of the city.
And it really doesn’t stop here. The best thing is about to come: Oliver and Sven even created their own sneaker brand, called flaek, and designed their first shoe, the kaalen hi. It has a clean and timeless design, features quality materials and interchangeable tongues. The whole process was covered in their flaek blog and this interview by Sneaker Freaker Magazine provides another insight into their project. Go to their site for more pictures and information. Originally, a project for their studies, they now try to make a production of the sneaker possible.
It is already good to see how far they have come, but hopefully, these guys can go all the way finally.
Everyone knows that space is limited in Tokyo even the people that have never been to Tokyo know that and I can imagine that people have seen pictures of shoebox like apartments (or just look at Andis Apt. in Tokyo).
This thing does not apply to you though if you live in Tokyo and your name is Nigo and you have a successful brand called A Bathing Ape.
And you know you’re stuntin if you park your cars inside (!) your house especially cars like that.
Lets have all that as some kind of motivation if you lack space in your own homes ;-).
Crada is a Frankfurt am Main / Mannheim based Hip Hop producer and songwriter who got his name out by working with german and international rap artists. Just recently we made a blogpost about Kid Cudi’s first album drop called Man on the Moon : The End Of Day.
After having a big hit in the states with D-Block’s “Get That Paper” which was already in Top25 heavy rotation on none other than Hot97 radio, he produced the Kid Cudi track “Hyyerr ft. Chip Tha Ripper“ which is now on the Kid Cudi album.
As Frankfurt based bloggers we are especially proud to give that exposure to people from our area.
Make sure to check out his myspace page (myspace.com/crada) for more information and to listen to some of the tracks produced by him.
Thanks alot to DJ Kitsune aswell for the heads up!
I’m a big fan of retro gaming not because retro is “cool” nowadays its more because I grew up with it and I still find some of the stuff from the late 80s and 90s better than the stuff they put out today. Of course part of it is nostalgia but its also the skill gamemakers had back in those days with limited tools, was it the graphics or the music.
Please check Myk Dawgs aka. Myk31webpage and videos out if you are into the oldschool 8bit era of videogame graphics. He makes graphics and music videos for different kinds of artists and I really like his style, its great to see people using the new tools to check out what you can do with some of the older technologies (like in chiptune music too).
One of his latest videos includes a collaboration between Mick Boogie and Peter, Björn and John called Stay This Way.
This video featuring the Kanye West track Robocop (808s & Heartbreak) has to be my favorite video as a big Mega Man (Rockman) fan.
Hope you enjoyed the videos and the music and please comment if you have some questions or suggestions :-).
Havent done this in a while so I thought today is a random enough day for another random Lomo LCA shot.
So here you go this one was taken last year in Tokyo when I enjoyed a nice cold boss coffe in a can straight out of a vending machine.
