A few days ago – on Tuesday to be exact – I was at the Aloe Blacc concert at mousonturm here in Frankfurt. The place was really packed and people were going crazy. By the way, also peep this dope shirt by AZITA!!!!
I also met two former b-ball teammates. One of them is aware of RUN FFM, while the other one was not. So he was going like “Yo Schulz, wuddup with your lifestyle, man?!? See you running around town with Americans and stuff!” The last time I had seen him was last year, when we were actually running around town with DJ Neil Armstrong and since the mood was alreadyyy at an unbelievable high, I said “Oh, you mean Jay-Z‘s DJ, right???” which only added to his freaked-out-ness. So he asked, how that went down and I just pulled out a RUN FFM sticker. – “OK, cool. So… how much do you get paid as radio host???” LMFAO…
That’s because many people only see and/or speak out the FM at the end. I didn’t have an answer for him nor do I have any right now, but one person, who should know is Nardwuar The Human Serviette, because he has his own radio show. But since he’s the fucking greatest interviewer of all time, he should be thrown all money at.
Why he really got money thrown at, is told by Nardwuar in this video of his TEDx presentation, that @chrishimself84 posted this video recently via his twitter. It’s just like his interviews: VEEEERY DIFFERENT. He has a unique style, but please check it out yourself. He tells how he was able to get an interview with some people, but the bottom line is: because he asked!!!
That’s also a great way to end your presentation, right?!? Might try that at university next time LOL.
I don’t remember how we stumpled upon him, but it has to be it an interview with some rapper. Obviously he has also interviewed many politicians, which is even doper, if you think about it. You can check out all vids on his YouTube Channel.
OK, so I’m doing me right now (I guess that’s the appropriate saying these days), because my tests at university are coming up next week, but judging from some tweets and also this post by the homie Neil Armstrong announcing some festivities, it is NBA All Star Weekend in L.A., right???
Well, I don’t get excited for the game anymore as I used to, but there is always still the dunk contest. And with Blake Griffin in it (just check this new vid of him! Ouch!!!) I’m pretty excited about that. But whatever he does in this contest, his in-game dunks are still the shit to me, because he’s doing all this incredible stuff in an actual GAME!!!!
Speaking of dunk contests: While some mascots like RUN FFM, some others just like to dunk like Mr. Boom Tho in the Korean dunk contest.
Boom Tho is basically a movement, that is mostly represented by Rod Benson, a long time, great and very creative blogger, who happens to play basketball professionally. If you are into the behind-the-scenes basketball & overall funny things, I highly recommend to check his blog.
BOOM!
Also speaking of DJ Neil Armstrong, some weeks ago I clicked through his YouTube channel and found these videos of him DJing at the Rookie Photoshoot the NBA does in NYC before each season. OK, you won’t see him DJing in those videos, but you can see, how to future NBA players do at the decks as he is giving them some lessons.
To Neil & everyone out in L.A. a great All Start Weekend and of course also to those, that are losing sleep while watching it in front of the TV. :)
(This just in: With NBA League Pass you can watch it all for free – at least in Germany. Thanks for the heads up, Sid.)
Remember, when we were in Düsseldorf for the first Party&Bullshit Party?? Where DJ Rafik & DJ Neil Armstrong were spinnin’ and Chris made a video??? The guys from GOOQX also made a cool video capturing the whole day including some parts of the conversation between Rafik & Neil.
But that’s not even the only reason to post it, no!!! Me and the RUN FFM shirt also have two cameo appearances in it!!! :)
And since we are only a few views from one thousand views away, I’ll post @chrishimself84′s video as well. ;-)
Also with the opening of the Toykio Gallery & Coffee pop-up there are some cool things happening right now in Düsseldorf. Keep it up!
Sorry, I just had to and also wanted to do some round up of last year, because it has been sooooooo kraaaaayzie… (and obviously doing so is still appropriate, since I posted the 09 Memories one year ago on January, 5th as well)! In 2010 I went from being like “OMG. This is alreadyyy two weeks ago…?!?? Wow. Time flies.” to “OMG. It’s really only two weeks ago since this happened?!?? Wow. So much stuff was going on in between alreadyyy.” and I’m really grateful. Nothing worse than those people with their boredom statuses on Facebook. There are countless things you could do, but that’s a whole nother blogpost.
We started the year running around as two dudes at the BRIGHT Tradeshow in Frankfurt, that just got their first stickers made for their blog…
Major shoutouts to Flo for coming up with the idea of the sticker image and also for all graphic design work he did for us all year long!
Then in April Chris was running around Tokyo and I was running around London (cheering on Simon) and each of us got to experience some weird stuff once again.
OK, one of us definitely experienced more crazyness than the other, but we both distributed our sticker all over those cities.
Chris did even so, that it can be seen on this pic of Levi Maestro soon later (on the very left side from photographer’s view). WHAT?
Chris also blew us off with some great RUN FFM journalism par excellence…! ;-)
By the way, I really love those random kind of videos by Chris like this, where he had to kill some time in the morning to go to the airport on no sleep the night before. I had to literally laugh out loud severel times, while I was digging through all that stuff. Here are some more impressions of Tokyo.
Now, this was really a great day as I predicted in the video. We picked up the first print of the RUN FFM shirts in June, which was an unbelievable feeling at that time. Ain’t nothing like rocking your own shirt for the first time.
Immediately after picking them up we went to the public viewing of Germany’s match that day and there was already some guy we didn’t know, that asked if he could take a picture of my shirt. Of course, feel free…
Later that month, I somehow found out about a DJ Neil Armstrong party in Frankfurt by scrolling through my twitter timeline and thinking “Wait…. A tweet by him mentioning Frankfurt? Gotta check that out.” The In Heaven Part 2 party then went down two days later on a rooftop in downtown Frankfurt. And by going down I mean really going down. Like really, really going down. It was more some kind of a festival that night and it didn’t end until the sun came up.
At that party we also met Yves & Lea, who just opened up their pop up store MARKET 41 around that time. They went on to become good friends and even selling the RUN FFM shirt in their store eventually.
The first store to have the RUN FFM shirts in stock however was Julie‘s Barber Shop and this again was very cool to have your shirt in a store in Frankfurt and then even in two stores later on. At this point big thank yous to give us the opportunity to spread the word about RUN FFM and connect with our people from Frankfurt & everywhere else.
Another chance (or from my point of view: obligation, because I was the only one to wear the shirt that day) to make that possible and just to get the shirt on TV was this interview with German TV station RTL, that were filming on Freeline Skating that day – we even made it the most watched news segement the day it aired (like 2 months later, after everybody had nearly forgotten about all of this LOL).
Then in August it was time to get some new stickers and a new TwitVid format out there…
In October we bumped into Adam Tensta and in different news I just wanted to do some stop motion film, also as a way to celebrate the arrival of our white shirts and the new stickers (YES, I posted it once again LOL). Thx to DJ Steph again, who allowed me to use the instrumental without hesitating and to be honest without really knowing me at that point, but we got to know each other more after that.
October & November were DJ Neil Armstrong time again, as he was touring through Germany for a week and also had some off days in Frankfurt. We drove to Düsseldorf to attend the first Party&Bullshit party with him & DJ Rafik at the decks.
And as you can see we didn’t come to party LOL. We had work to do. Chris filmed & I had to drive all the way home again at night. Here’s Chris’ video of the night.
Back in Frankfurt we then had the time to conduct an interview with Neil at Julie’s Barber Shop, while we were driving & running around Frankfurt having lots of fun not only, but also because we introduced him to some Frankfurt gastronomic specialties. And he even liked all of the food as you can tell from his post.
As I mentioned only a few posts earlier, it was great to see him DJing in the RUN FFM shirt here in Frankfurt.
I went to visit my buddy Simon again in November – now only in Berlin and met Phil-G. & Omer while checking out some Berlin spots.
Also another amazing party took place in December: DJ Craze came to Frankfurt and DJed along with C-Arrow, DJ Passion & DJ Jackmode at the first YOSOY party (What’s up, fam?) in collaboration with fenchurch. Chris once again did a nice little video on the event…
… as well as Julian Middle, where you can see both of us. :)
In December, we also had C-Arrowattaching our stickers in NYC, Frankfurt’s own DJ Kitsune (who is with us since day one!) with a dope mixtape series called 1-2-3-4 and we finally made it to printed press as Sven was reppin our hoodie in Journal Frankfurt magazine.
The biggest accomplishment of ‘em all is of course that I got myself finally a nice haircut at Julie’s Barber Shop. :)
Mad love to everyone supporting us, connecting with us, partying with us, rocking RUN FFM shirts & hoodies all over the place (check for some pics here and here) as well as the stickers.
Long post, I know, but there was quite some stuff going on as I told you at the beginning of this post. Looking back we began 2010 as two dudes with a blog and a bunch of stickers, but ultimately it took us places & got us to meet cool people, so thanks for the ride. Let’s see where we can go in 2011.
… for a great year 2011…! I wanted to do a full year review with video and so on, but at the end of the day I hadn’t had the time (sorry), but anywayz… we wanna thank everyone who supported us throughout the year and will hopefully continue to do so in the future, so THANK YOU – and yeah, that’s exctly you, if you are a Facebook member ;-)
To finish off the year I’m gonna run some of the recent pics that were sent to us of people rocking the RUN FFM shirt…!
Ladies first! This is the beautiful mrswood of mrandmrswood rocking our shirt. And yeah, she really likes construction sites and road works. ;-)
That’s such a dope pic!!! It’s Joe from Frankfurt/Rhein-Main based Sorrow Crew.
Our shirt is also perfect for the 5pm tea time as shown be my (now unfortunately) ex-teammate Andi (We’ll miss ya… Pause…)…
…. as well as for the consumption of other beverages as Micha demonstrates in this pic.
If you are a @chrishimself84 YouTube channel subscriber, I’m sure Gauweed‘s face looks familiar to you. :)
This is Josua & Leon (we used to play ball for the same club as I did a few years ago – good to see you in our shirt! :D) in front of a very dope wall, don’t you think??
And last but not least the Witters, who I also know from when we were kids, after they run this year’s Frankfurt marathon. Congrats.
By the way you can find all of the pics in this FB album, and this post also gives me the chance to once again post our little stop motion video. Hehehe…!
Allright, everybody have a great year 2011. All the best…
So I promised you some party pictures I decided to post just a few of my favorites and the rest is on my flickr account so click right through.
I finished putting up the Q&A session with DJ Neil Armstrong also and uploaded it on Youtube the video is embedded in this post hope you like it!
Probably unusual from the interviews you see somewhere else haha.
You can view the video right here, I would recommend you to watch it at least at 720p. If you like to keep updated on what videos I upload next simply subscribe to my youtube channel.
The link is youtube.com/chrishimself84 hit that yellow subscribe button (you need a youtube account for that).
Oh this is a little bonus btw.
enjoy :)
Chris aka. Chrishimself
@chrishimself84 on twitter
DJ Neil Armstrong was in Frankfurt am Main for about 2 days, for sight seeing, food excursion and playing a gig at club “Travolta”.
I told him about the “curry wurst” and that they have one of the hottest types of curry wurst at “Best Worscht in Town”.
Neil was down for it so we went there, I told him that the highest “grade of hotness” I ever went for was C and it goes all the way down to F or F+ even.
C is already 30(!) times hotter than tabasco, everything beyond that is just crazy in my opinion even C is tough work.
DJ Neil Armstrong eating Curry Wurst (Grade C). =D Certified curry wurst eater in the building!
Doing some quick check ups on the internet before we shot the Q&A for my youtube vlogs, will cut that during this weekend so stay tuned.
Some more food at Frankfurt Sachsenhausen, Handkäs mit Musik and some Äpplewoi.
It was funny hanging out with Neil and his theory about what makes “a real New Yorker” was also quite interesting, changed my image of New York quite a bit.
My next post will contain some pictures of the party at Club Travolta and also bookmark my flickr account if you would like to download the pictures : http://www.flickr.com/chrishimself
Yesterday the first edition of the “Party & Bullshit – Party” was hosted by STÜSSY, ALIFE, UNDFTD, DRMTM, BEASTIN and WEMOTO at Ufer8 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
DJ Neil Armstrong and DJ Rafik were responsible for the music of the night holding down the 1s and 2s.
The crowd was great, the drinks were strong, the women looked fantastic and the hosts were nice people.
Düsseldorf seems to be a cool city especially the area around the Rheinufer must be a great place to chill during the summer, I think I will
visit again next year ;-).
RUNFFM.COM goes Düsseldorf ! This Saturday 30.10.10 ! If you havent heard already theres a big party coming up with none other than DJ Neil Armstrong (5th Platoon / Tour DJ Jay-Z) and DJ Rafik (multiple DMC world champion). The whole thing is going to take place at Ufer 8.
Also as a part of the collaboration between STÜSSY, ALIFE, UNDFTD, DRMTM, BEASTIN and WEMOTO they will open up a popup store this Friday the 29th of October at 4pm (16:00).
You will be able to get your streetwear aswell as your urban vinyl fix since they will stock some stuff by Toykio aswell! I can already see my hard earned money floating away.
We will be there to take coverage of the event so be looking forward to some new videos and photography :-)
This past weekend turned into a great one as DJ Neil Armstrong & DJ Passion were DJing on the roof top of the 25hours Hotel. They did a great set together and it was amazing to see how much fun they had doing so. And of course a big shoutout to all the party people for this incredible night on top of Frankfurt! Sunrise party to the fullest!
DJ Passion & DJ Neil Armstrong
Chrishimself
Now, that was a first! The first player, that I used to coach, bought me a drink! Very much appreciated.
Yo, I was so hyped, when I got word of this today!!! DJ Neil Armstrong from NYC (Jay-Z’s Tour DJ in 2008/2009, global ambassador for adidas and overall good guy, who we’ve been following for years) is DJing at a party in Frankfurt on Saturday.
For more information on DJ Neil Armstrong, just check Chrishimself’s post on him.
Please come out to celebrate with us on the roof of one of the finer hotels in Frankfurt:
Saturday 26.06.2010 // 22:00
L’Agentur & The IMA Clique Present IN HEAVEN PART 2
@ 25 Hour Levis Hotel, Niddastrasse 58, 60329 Frankfurt – www.25hours-hotels.com
with DJ Neil Armstrong & Mr Nice Guy DJ Passion
As a big fan of DJ Neil Armstrongs mixtapes I had to repost this little clip right here, they also show you the latest collaboration between Adidas and Ransom I dig the boot designs will probably take a closer look at their products too.
