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May 29th, 2010

Day In Day Out

We went out for a RUNFFM meeting and to get some Burgers today since yesterday was the so called “Hamburger Day”, not so sure about how that came to be, but I am always good for a Burger.

The place where we got the Hamburgers is called “Die Kuh die lacht” (http://www.diekuhdielacht.com) and I can recommend the place for “Der Chef” Burger, it’s tasty! Located at Schillerstraße 28 in Frankfurt am Main close to the station exit “Hauptwache-Passage”.

Afterwards only a few meters from the Burger place we checked out a shop called “Julies Barbershop” (http://www.juliesbarbershop.com/), it is a mix of a Barbershop and a Fashion Boutique.

Big thanks to Julie for letting us promote our stickers at your shop and for the nice talk too!.
You can find it at Schillerpassage, Rahmhofstr. 2 60313 Frankfurt am Main.

Also make sure to check out their artwork, this one right here is done by Il-Jin aka. AtemMeta check out his website http://atemmeta.de/.

Oh and heres a little bonus feature for today!

Stay tuned we got some really cool things in the making for this summer!

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peace
Chris / @chrishimself84

Tags: Atem, Boutique, burger, Die Kuh die lacht, Graffiti, Hamburgers, Il-Jin, Julies Barbershop, Meta, Streetart
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May 29th, 2010

Latest additions to the Be@rbrick Team.

The Be@rbrick team got some new members recently, so I wanted you to get to know them.

Chrishimself brought me two Be@rbricks (Series 19) from his recent Tokyo trip (BIG SHOUTOUT & THX!) and I also ordered a special KAWS Companion Be@rbrick in collaboration with Original Fake. All 100%.

Check out the glass ear!!! :)

I got it from Firmament/The-Glade (located in Berlin), who carry also the 400% and 1000% versions of this grey colorway and the black one.

I also really love this Be@rbrick by Pattern because of the fur!! Hope you can see that on the pic.

The B-Team.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Tags: bearbrick, Companion, design, designer toys, fir, Kaws, medicom, Originl Fake, The-Glade, toys, urban vinyl
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May 25th, 2010

Back to the FUTURE

Hey everyone this is going to be a quick entry, I’m a big fan (like many others too) of the movie “Back To The Future” and I watched it many times but just now I noticed this via. a post on the widely known movieblog Slashfilm.

Pretty cool “easter egg” huh?
Has anyone of you ever noticed this in the movie?

peace
Chrishimself

Source (Picture&Info) : /FILM

Tags: Back to the Future, easter egg, Marty McFly, movie
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May 21st, 2010

Coney Island Dream.

By this beautiful video, I was just reminded, that Chrishimself and me spent a wonderful evening with Steph and Tiff in Coney Island last year to this exact date during our NYC trip!!!

Good times.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

(via: better taste than sorry.)

Tags: brooklyn, Coney Island, new york, New York City, video
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May 19th, 2010

Tokyo Photowalk

Todays post is going to be a collection of some street shots that I took during my recent Tokyo trip.
Most pictures in this post were taken around the areas of Asakusabashi/Akihabara, Harajuku and Shimokitazawa.

The three stripes are everywhere.

This is Radley who is currently a film student in Tokyo, he’s taking some b-roll shots for his latest shortfilm, check out his youtube channel!

Nice cars in Tokyo!

The Shimokita.

They are building a new highway through the old Shimokitazawa area which will destroy the whole vibe of the area.
Several organizations are trying to convince the Tokyo government to reconsider their current plans to save the Shimokita.

Village / Vanguard is an interesting store in Shimokitazawa that has all kinds of weird and cool stuff and “novelties” , from cool cameras, books/magazines, music, gadgets, T-shirts to weird costumes.

Costumes like that one for example… HG!

If you keep an eye open for cool stickers in the different areas of Tokyo you might come accross
one of those ;)

Lots of food vendors near the Shimokitazawa station.

The title of this can of beer sounded weird to me, “The Brew”, it sounds like someone mixed together all the leftover beer of last night and put it into a can, but it wasnt that bad actually when I gave it a try.
But I’m still not sure if it really was beer ;)

Uniqlo had some cool T-Shirts and as always for a good price, I am also surprised by the quality of their T-Shirts !
The prints on my old Uniqlo shirts still look like new after several washes.

A sidestreet in Akihabara.

Well this is it for todays post, hope you enjoyed the pictures, make sure to check back and please join&invite people to our facebook fanpage, its much appreciated!!

peace
Chrishimself

Tags: 550D, Akihabara, Asakusabashi, canon, Fotos, Harajuku, Japan, Photography, photos, Shimokitazawa, Streetview, Tokio, Tokyo
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May 18th, 2010

ADC Exhibition. flaek kaalen hi.

Last weekend, the ADC Summit took play in Frankfurt at the Fair, ADC standing for Art Directors Club (Germany).

After I found out, that the guys from flaek footwear (Oliver and Sven) also had their shoe on display at the ADC Exhibition, I had to go. There is more than a little story behind this sneaker, because this shoe is the final project of their studies. It is called kaalen hi and I already blogged about it last September. So now being able to finally check it out in person, was quiet cool.

The material felt really nice and the shoe’s design is so fresh, so clean as you can see on the pics. What you also can see is the wooden box for the sneakers as well as the interchangeable tongues on the side. Right, now they are looking for a manufacturer to make a larger production.

Obviously, the guys were not really satisfied with the way things were presented here, as you can also see Flow from Bunnypop checking out some ridiculously long home improvement bill, that was laying right next to the sneakers from another project, while the posters for the sneaker were hanging on that side of the table.

But just imagine that cart at the home impovement center with all those goods worth 3,748.20 Euros…

Anywayz, you gotta take the hat off to Oliver & Sven for pushing that far and creating their own sneaker. You can only guess, how that feels, wearing your very own snekaer on your feet!! And I’m definitely in for a pair, guys!!

Finally, here are some other projects, that stood out to me.
This right here was called Swooshed. Basically, it would allow you to personalize the swoosh for NIKEiD products by being able to upload your own graphic.

I’m definitely rooting for this as I would also for this bottle of Vodka Absolut.

Also laying around randomly were these limited posters by Pixelhure, you can get at hhv.de for instance.

And I also liked that placard right here. Not only for the design, but if you know German, you’ll get it.

The ADC Summit is also taking place in Frankfurt the next two years, so hopefully there are going to be some cool new things to check out in 2011 and 2012, too.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Tags: ADC, Art Directors Club, design, exhibition, flaek, frankfurt, hhv, hhv.de, kaalen hi, shoes, sneaker
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May 17th, 2010

Rollei SUC

Some people have asked me what kind of camera I used for the black and white shots from Tokyo.
Well while I was at the Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara, I got the idea that it would be interesting to take some black and white shots on film while I am in Tokyo. I only had my Lomo LCA with me that used 35mm film and I still had more than 20 shots left on the roll that I still had to take, while wandering around this huge store I found those Single Use Cameras.

When I saw the results I thought I should give it another try and got me some more of those ^^;

Black&White Film FTW!
Chrishimself

Tags: 35mm, Akihabara, Film, Fotos, Japan, LCA, Lomo, Lomography, Photo, Photography, Rollei, SUC, Tokyo
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May 16th, 2010

God bless Azita & my new NIKE Air Maxim 1.

Did you notice how Chrishimself’s posts all contained some cool art recently (proof here, here, here and here) and mine are all about material things (proof here and this very post)? But who would argue that sneakers aren’t art themselves, right?? Right??? So, here we go again, because I promised you more gear to be featured.

It’s already been a while now, since I stopped by AZITA and got me these NIKE Air Maxim 1 Torch+ ND to rock this summer, but summer’s still M.I.A.

Also have a look at their new store design. I think that definitely counts as art without any doubt!

On my way out, I was also handed a copy of the latest Sneakers Magazine, that contains a sneaker store guide for New York City (including our favortie NYC sneaker boutique atmos) besides many other interesting articles.

A pic like the last one also never hurts and that way I can be sure to have squeezed as much art into this post as I possibly could. ;-)

If you’d like to the visit the nice people from Azita, which you should, here’s all information needed:
AZITA Store, Münzgasse 10, Frankfurt, Germany – www.azitastore.com

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Tags: Art, AZITA, design, frankfurt, Nike, Nike Air, Nike Sportswear, sneakers, Sneakers Magazine
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May 9th, 2010

Some more Tokyo Photography / B&W Edition

Here I present you some fotos that I have taken in Tokyo with a simple Rollei single use camera equipped with some agfa black and white film.

Hope you enjoyed todays photography edition of RUNFFM.com
Dont forget to join our facebook fanpage! and spread the word =). THX!

peace
Chrishimself

Tags: 35mm, Agfa, Black and white, Film, Japan, Photography, Rollei, Streetscene, Tokio, Tokyo
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May 7th, 2010

My new obsession.

I guess, that is the right expression for what’s going on with me and NIKE‘s Dunk. I already got myself three new pairs this year after I was able to not buy any shoes for almost the first three months of the year. All of them were not planned, as there are some other important releases this year. But, why not? Life’s short, right??

It all began with this NIKE Dunk Hi Nylon Premium, when I ordered it at KICKZ.com.

Only one day or so after, me and Amil went to the big sale at our local NIKE Stadium Store here in Frankfurt. Everything was off like 50% or something. I copped those right here. Some other Dunk Hi Premiums.

And to round it all out I ordered these Gucci Dunks, who officially go by the name of Nike SB Dunk Hi Premium Deep Forest/Paprika. Allegedly, these were the last pairs in size 12, that were still laying around somewhere at NIKE and I just love the colorway. Thx to Partizan.

Oh, and check out this box and the little details on the inside of it.

More new gear to be featured in the next days as I didn’t only limit myself to my new obsession.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Tags: dunk, KICKZ.com, Nike, NIKE Dunk, Partizan, shoes, sneakers
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May 5th, 2010

Stüssy x Ricoh in Ginza Tokyo

On a nice sunny day in Tokyo I decided to hit up the Stüssy x Ricoh gallery at the Ricoh Ring in Ginza.
Whats nice about Ginza on a Saturday (or was it Sunday not sure anymore) is that they block off the main streets for cars so people have more space to walk around while checking out all the stores.

Also a camera team was out and eager to find people for an interview about something, I guess fashion lol but who knows, it would fit the whole Ginza scene though.

I managed to take some pictures from inside the gallery.

Well all together the gallery was nice and it made me think about getting myself one of those Ricoh GR Digitals ;). I like their quality and how easy and compact they are I need something like that as my backup on the go camera though (depening on the lense) the 550D is not too heavy to carry around too but doesnt quite fit into my pockets ;). Afterwards we went to Shimokitazawa and checked out some other thingys but more on that in given time in another blogpost.

peace
Chrishimself

Tags: camera, Gallery, Ginza, GR digital, Japan, Photography, Ricoh, street, stussy, Tokyo
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May 4th, 2010

Tokyo Bla

While looking through everything I recorded randomly, mostly to play around in vidmode with my new Canon Eos 550D, I quickly slapped together a bunch of clips to make this short music videoclip of Tokyo street scenes.
(Go to Youtube to watch in FULL HD)

That also made me realize that I need to update my computer asap. all those new HD formats will make my current system go up in fumes soon.

Chrishimself

Tags: 550D, canon, Clip, Eos, Japan, Kiss, Ratatat, Rebel, Scenes, street, Tokyo, video
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