Sooo erstmal frohes Neues an alle ! Wieder ein Jahr rum, ging verdammt schnell was?
Nachdem ich erstmal komplett gejetlagged aufn Futon ausgeknocked war und dann irgendwie um 4 Uhr morgens topfit auf der Matte stand konnte
ich mich in Kichijoji mit Chris Mako (@chris_mako) und dem Rapper EGO (@egotokyo) treffen.
Kichijoji ist echt relaxed ich denke wenn ich mir einen coolen Ort zum leben in Tokyo suchen würde wäre Kichijoji bestimmt in meinen Top 3.
Was haben wir in Kichijoji eigentlich gemacht?? Erstmal gestärkt und einen richtig guten Ramen Laden auf EGO’s Empfehlung besucht.
Danach kannte er da noch einen Sneakerstore wo ich dann diese hier zum ersten mal in real life gespotted habe. DAMN!!
So jetzt kommt eigentlich der interessante Teil was machen drei Dudes nachdem sie sich den Bauch mit Ramen voll geschlagen haben und Sneaker gekauft haben !?
BÖÖTSCHE FAHREN! LOL
Zum Glück gibt es kein Bild von Chris und Chris im Pinken Tretboot, zumindest waren wir die Gaijin-Attraktion überhaupt im ganzen Inokashira-koen.
Naja ich bin ja immer fürn Spass zu haben solang alle dabei was zu lachen haben ;-).
Zu EGO muss ich noch mal sagen er ist nicht nur ein Hammer Artist sondern auch ein echt guter Gastgeber und es hat echt spass gemacht mit ihm in Tokyo abzuhängen ich kann es kaum abwarten bis das neue Producer Album von Chris Mako dropped! RUNFFM promoted das ganze natürlich dann auch ordentlich hier, es ist ja an sich nur für den Japanischen Markt gedacht aber vielleicht können wir ja eine kleine Menge für RUNFFM.com Leser fit machen! Also immer schön supporten das ganze!
Ich dachte ich meld mich auch mal wieder und teile hier mal ein paar Impressionen von meinem kurzen Tokyo Trip im November.
Für eine Woche ging es Ende November nach Tokyo um Chris Mako während seiner Reise zu treffen und ein paar nette neue Leute kennen zu lernen die
in der Japanischen HipHop Scene unterwegs sind.
Am Flughafen angekommen mussten erstmal ein paar Basics erledigt werden.
Naja und dann gings halt per Keisei Skyliner direkt rein nach Tokyo. Wenn es euch irgendwann auch mal nach Tokyo verschlagen sollte dann nehmt auf GAR KEINEN FALL ein Taxi von Narita nach Tokyo es sei denn ihr habt zuviel Geld und wollt locker mal 200-250€ ausgeben. Per Skyliner oder Bus Transport geht das easy kostet um die 25€ (Bei dem Crap Euro-Yen Kurs momentan zumindest) und ist sowieso schneller. Ihr könnt auch für 10-15€ herum den normalen Zug nehmen aber das dauert dann über eine Stunde und es kann je nach Zeit sehr voll und eng werden. Also 15€ mehr zahlen nen festen Sitzplatz und Stauraum fürs Gepäck plus in 35-45min relaxed in Tokyo ankommen.
Einquartiert habe ich mich in Minami-Senju im Juyoh Hotel das ist so eine Art Mischung aus Hostel und Hotel für Backpacker. Sehr günstig für um die 25€ die Nacht. Es ist zwar nicht besonders groß dafür pennt ihr aber in einem Futon in eurem eigenen Zimmer und nicht in einer 12er Bude in einer Box.
Ich hab das bei meinen vorherigen Reisen nach Tokyo auch immer gemacht und nachdem aber unter mir in der Box so ein dicker Bär gepennt hat der nonstop durchgeschnarcht hat wie ne Säge habe ich mir gesagt diesmal net.
Hier ein paar Views vom Balkon im Hotel.
Ihr befindet euch bei dem Hostel an der Ostseite von Tokyo also seid nahe an Akihabara, Asakusa, Ueno usw. Nach Shibuya und Shinjuku etc. dauert es ein bissi länger von dort so um die 35min was man aber dank des sehr effizienten Nahverkehrsnetzes locker überstehen kann.
Zum Musikthema ich bin ja selber net der Musikfachmann aber dafür Chris Mako umso mehr der jetzt an seinem ersten komplett mit Japanischen Artists produzierten Album bastelt.
Wer da up to date bleiben will sollte sein twitter followen @chris_mako
Einer der Künstler der auf seinem Album gefeatured sein wird ist EGO (http://ameblo.jp/egoofficial) mit dem wir auch den größten Teil der Zeit verbracht haben denn er ist einfach ein original Sohn Tokyos und kennt die Stadt und die HipHop Scene in und auswendig.
Zu dem Zeitpunkt hat er an einem Lied für Amebreaks Floating Lab gearbeitet wer genau hin schaut wird Chris Mako auch im Video spotten können.
Lustige Anekdote zu einem früheren Tokyo Trip ist mir der Artist Sky-Hi auch schon mal durch meine Kamera gelaufen, zu dem Zeitpunkt war mir der Kerl
aber unbekannt (Er ist unter anderem auch Mitglied einer sehr bekannten JPOP Gruppe namens AAA “Triple A”) doch ist mir seine coole Kappe aufgefallen
die ich auf jeden Fall mal filmen wollte.
Hier der Clip aus dem Archiv:
Naja damit will ich den ersten part erstmal abschliessen, in meinem nächsten Blogpost werde ich dann auch ein bisschen mehr auf Japanischen HipHop eingehen
zumindest das was ich davon bei dem letzten Trip erleben konnte wir waren ja auch auf Showcases / Konzerten.
Frohe Festtage euch allen und haltet die Ohren warm.
Chris / Twitter: @chrishimself84 / tumblR: Gauweed.Tumblr.com
GUDE! Wir haben uns überlegt mal wieder eine kleine “Blog/Supporter/Party” zu starten und zwar am Freitag 21.10. in der Stereobar Frankfurt, die komplette Adresse steht auf dem flyer und noch mal unten zur Info. Wir laden euch alle also herzlichst ein zur Blog Party 2.0 !!
Am besten schaut ihr mal in die @RUNFFM Facebook seite http://www.facebook.com/runffm klickt oben “Gefällt Mir/Like” an und geht dann
zu diesem Event -> Run FFM Blog Party 2.0 und dort dann eben auf Attending/Teilnehmen.
Quatscht uns ruhig auf der Party an keine Scheu ! Gibt es denn Bloggerinnen in Frankfurt die in Richtung Urban/Popculture posten!? Haha.
Ansonsten ist die Bar natürlich auch voll ausgestattet AJJAKLAAAAR!! Diesmal werden wir auch darauf achten dass die Bar genug auf Lager hat, denn
bei der letzten Party habt ihr tatsächlich alles leer gesoffen O_O.
Anyways hier noch ein paar infos:
Start ist am 21.10 um 23h ! Support 7€
Ort: Stereobar Abtsgässchen 7, Frankfurt am Main
I know you haven’t heard from me in a while, so I thought I should only hit you with some great news. And I got some…: NEW SHIRTS, GIRLIE SHIRTS & even HOODIES!
Even though it’s already the third time we had some RUN FFM stuff printed, it’s always amazing to pick up all that stuff from our screenprinter.
As usual, the shirts will be available in our online shop (unisex & girlie + black & white). The hoodies won’t, because we’d like to have them only for people, that are rocking our shirt alreadyyy, so they are strictly limited.
For everyone that supported us so far and for those, who will hopefully do so in the future, we made this little stopmotion video, because we basically just wanted to do one, but I think it turned out quite well. What do you think…???
That beat by S&G Beatz is really killing everything else here. Check out some other tracks on Soundcloud, so you may also like them on Facebook, too.
This gives me also the opportunity to post this nice picture of the beautiful mrswood from mrandmrswood in our black shirt…
… and also the one of my new teammate Andi in our white shirt, while he was studying very hard, so that he now can enjoy life once again. :)
Unfortunately, a store in Frankfurt stole our idea, but even worse… printed the RUN FFM design on Fruit of the Loom shirts by flexprinting it… AND selling it for about 25€. We just want to make sure, that you know, that you can get our shirts for 20€ only through our online shop and at Julie’s Barbershop in downtown Frankfurt. In addition we also printed a little URL on the left side of the back, as you can see in the picture below to mark them as “originals”.
Make sure to get one now. These may be the last ones available…
On a personal note: I know, I lost myself somewhere down the road in the last few weeks, but I’m just re-discovering why I started doing this in the first place. It’s definitely time to bring the fun back.
Good Day Peepz,
Another day in the world of RUNFFM and crew.
First we had to meet up with our screenprinter so we were able to clear up some details and we are already working on some new stuff.
Afterwards we were on the way to meet up with Rodney who is currently visiting from New York make sure to check out Juntos Worldwide its his online project about backpacking / travelling.
Explaining some of our future projects, discussing things etc.
I thought that was a really dope car, I am by no means a car enthusiast but I appreciate good design and since you dont see a classic Mercedes like that very often anymore I had to snap a picture of it.
Next stop, the guys from the freeline skate community in Frankfurt aka Team FFM. Make sure to look out for them I think they are the very first freeline skater team from Frankfurt.
Rodney also took some amazing interviews with them I will post the videos online once they are availible which may take a bit until Rodney finished editing them back in NY.
Even national TV station RTL got interested in freeline skating and they were having interviews with everyone involved, they asked us to give an interview since they wanted an outsiders opinion.
Brian of Team FFM helping Andi balance on the freeline skates.
Andi performing, this doesn’t look too easy. (Note by Andi: Nope, it isn’t. But a whole lot of fun! Thanks to Brian for his help!!)
Stefan of Team FFM showing his freeline skates, you can personalize them by spraypainting them or putting different color wheels on them to give them a little twist.
Shoutouts to TEAM FFM they did some amazing stuff on those freeline skates I am still amazed, they might have started a new trend this summer!
Check out their facebook page for more info on where they usually meet up.
What do you think?
Of course no day is complete with some….
BUBBLE TEA!!
Served by these lovely ladies =)
Thats it for today check me out on twitter @chrishimself84 also follow @theballatician and @JuntosWorldWide
I dont know if Team FFM has a website but if some of you guys are looking please drop me a comment or a message I will be sure to add your information! (edit: they got facebook)
Big shoutout to Flo aka Bunnypop who is our graphic design chief guy ;) He makes some cool artwork go check out his website.
Andi (@theballatician) and me (@chrishimself84) went out to restock some shirts at Julies Barbershop and deliver some T-Shirts to our special customers ! You know where to get them go get em!
Heres a bunch of random clips from Tokyo that were leftover on my “old” camera before I sold it, I thought I would share some of those random clips with you, be warned these are really random.
I was shooting a mini vlogumentary (I made up that word docu x vlog) during my stay last August but due to technical issues I was not able to complete it yet (though some sequences are online on my youtube), since I upgraded to a new DSLR with video I decided to continue the “vlogumentary” with the new camera the next time I am in Tokyo.
Hey guys as some of my friends already know I am back in Tokyo and so far I’m accomodating to all the new circumstances, all the confusion, the jet lag etc.
But you know what its all worth it, I thought I would share some of the oddities that you can encounter while you are in Tokyo with you. Not to make you jealous, mh maybe a little bit ;-) but who knows maybe you have never thought of going to Japan and this will help you with your decision.
I woke up early, my hostel is near Akihabara the so called electric town of Tokyo it has everything that your electronic geek heart can ask for plus much much more and I mean more! Gaming, Idols, Maids, Food, Health Material ;-).
The Streets were still very empty I later want to that Gorilla Curry place on the other street side.
I went out when the total rush our hit.. until 9 in the morning the trains are filled to the brim with people so I wouldnt go out that early if I were you, maybe its not for all trains but for sure for the JR Chuo line coming from the Chiba area, its were all the salary workers travel towards Tokyo from the more outside areas, you will see armys of SUITS! haha.
The japanese train authority invented the (I think) first women only cart, for obvious reasons… we stink, I guess. Time to take a shower and use deoderant guys! ;-)
I’m using AXE at the moment I wonder about the AXE effect inside one of those women only carts, when I accidentally enter one, like the gaijin that I am haha.
Talking about gaijin (which is the japanese short word for gaikokujin meaning outsider or simply foreigner) there is a new movie coming out based on this manga/novel called “my darling is a foreigner” I havent heard much about it yet but the trailer looks interesting I wonder if I can get me a subtitled copy of that.
The konbini (japanese convinience store) can be quite a life saver they stock almost everything for your daily life needs.
This is what will happen to wack rappers in every country! Start quitting the business and sell sausages cause you wouldnt sell two records even if you did a double album. haha ;-P (stole that verse I know)
Theres also a bunch of book (mooks) and magazine stores, heres the latest copy of shoe masters, to all the sneaker heads outside step your sneaker game up when you come to Tokyo cause you will definetly see some crazy neckbreakers out here ;-)
Also alot of photography magazines availible and my personal camera of choice.
Okay I’m going to close this post with kamen no riiiidaaaa DRINKS !
Only in Japan ;-)
Today marks the day we first posted something on this domain RUNFFM.COM
That was one year ago, when we started this blog we just thought that it would be a nice idea to have something like a scrapbook online where we just file everything that we find in some way interesting, cool or inspirational.
For us that is sneakers, gaming, design, art, music, toys, movies, travelling, photography, videos, filmmaking, sports and alot more too much to mention.
Its basically our brains splattert accross this blog haha.
We will keep that spirit up and also do our best to step it up a notch for 2010 !
Also we made posts about our trips to different countries like the USA, Egypt and Japan.
Make sure to check out our 2009 round up post on our travels or just browse through our archives for the liveblogging experience.
About travel blogging I will soon visit Tokyo again and I’ll make sure to put up some vlogs too in the usual fashion, this time I will try to focus more on retro gaming in Japan since I’m a big fan of old videogames and videogame systems, especially the ones that never came out in our area.
I also want to thank the people that supported our blog and to everyone who helped spreading the word on facebook! Also big thanks for everyone who posted a link to our page recently.
That is much appreciated and dont be a stranger say hi sometimes!
So, on Wednesday, we again walked around town to check some stores for the newest shirts, sneakers and so on, but also we’ve seen some classic sneakers like the Jordan XI going for 126,000 Yen (nearly 1,260 US-$ and 1,000 €) at Kicks Lab.
But let’s start from the beginning, when we went to KIKS TYO, so Chris could meet someone for his documentary. Please have a look at those Baby Jordans they had. I like!!!
I also arrived in Tokyo yesterday, so I thought I could share some early pics with you (after the jump). There are many things that irritate me here, but my first complete day in this city was really great.
The first shot is from my bus trip from the airport, as the city made a great visual impact. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey Guys this is my first update from Tokyo Japan.
I arrived sound and safe I survived the two earthquakes and the typhoon the only thing I have to struggle with right now is the heat and humidity plus a little jetlag but thats fine.
The first night I really only chilled out at the hostel after easily 25 hours of travelling I was done for that day and slept until the second earthquake hit around 4am, it felt like someone was shaking me in my bed telling me to wake up!.
Yesterday I met up with two friends who coincedently also went to Tokyo just a week before, we met up in Shinjuku.. not a really good meeting place because it has so many exits we agreed to meet in front of Odakyu it took a while for them to find me or me to find them since we both dont have working cellphones here in Tokyo :/.
Eventually we met up and since my friends are huge fans of Anime and Manga I told them we should check out Nakano Broadway, a place that has alot of anime related shops. Havent been there before but it was a huge place stuffed to the rim with anime stuff so if you are into that you can go there by taking the Chuou line to Nakana from Shinjuku and its right behind the station the anime stuff starts at the 2nd floor.
I recorded alot of video material for my little japan documentary we also tried to get some reaction shots of ourselfs eating Natto and drinking Cola Shock LOL. Yeah good times….
The night ended in Shibuya where we just went to some overpriced wannabe punk bar with nice ambiente at least. I enjoyed a few beers with my friends and went to a crazy Karaoke session afterwards we decided to hit a manga kissa to chill out until 8am or so since both of our hostels have curfews LOL, good thing that the one that I’m going to next doesnt.
Sorry for no pictures (yet) but I’m mostly recording video and you will get to see these too once I edited everything which takes some time. I also planned a few photowalks I brought my dslr along but forgot my Lomo LCA (damn).
Anyways hope you enjoyed my first post from Tokyo!.
The first shot is from my bus trip from the airport, as the city made a great visual impact.