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Stijl Sommer 2010 in Mainz.

theballatician — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:12:06 +0000

Chris and me made our way to Mainz today to check out this summer’s Stijl. It is the 3rd installment and basically a trade fair for fashion and design and still running tommorow from 11:00 – 18:00, if you want to cope some sale items or also items from new collections. You can’t miss Adrian and his freiraum booth, since it is the first one you’ll see, when you get in.

If you want to, you can grab something to eat, buy something to drink, play some new form of boccia, skate with fingerboards or have your photo taken in two old school armchairs. They also have a stage with rappers and a DJ performing, but the music was quite nerving from time to time. Anywayz, I got myself a nice new The Hundreds Snapback, that will come out with the Fall 2010 collection later this year, from Ibrahim (A-Game Distribution). Since he is a former pro ball player for Frankfurt, we were also talking a little bit about the last Skyliners season.

I also found this book about Banksy‘s streetart at 50% off and this Ucon Strap Wallet. I hope it is finally the wallet I was looking for since the last few months, as it is designed by the German brand out of Berlin, so it fits our ID card perfectly and also has a snap-fastener for the coin pocket. Just like Sheed does it with the strap on his Air Force 1s, I think I’m gonna wear it with the strap dangling, too.

19th & 20th June 2010, 11:00 – 18:00: Stijl Mainz @ Alte Waggonfabrik, near Phönixhalle, Hauptstraße 17 – 19, 55120 Mainz – www.stijl-mainz.de
3€ admission

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Rock ‘n Shop & Nippon Connection.

theballatician — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:51:11 +0000

I’ve been to the Rock ‘n Shop sale today at Alter Offenbacher Schlachthof (the Old Offenbacher Slaughterhouse), where you’ll get special deals on some nice clothes, shoes and accessories by many brands including The Hundreds, Sixpack France, Nudie, Superdry, Adidas, Nike and many many more. It’s still running tomorrow (Saturday, 17th April) from 12:00 until 20:00 at this location:

Achat Plaza Hotel, Ernst-Griesheimer-Platz 6, Offenbach

By the way, thanks to Adrian from Freiraum Frankfurt for having a cool talk in between.

And there’s also the 10th Nippon Connection going on until Sunday. It’s the largest festival for Japanese cinema outside of Japan. Chrishimself already posted about it last year. Alreadyyy. It was the first time, I went there today as well. Besides the red carpet and the movies, …

…you also have the chance to just hang out, …

… to buy some mangas, …

… to grab some Japanese food …

… or play some old school games.

Check the website for all screenings and locations.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Sag es mit einem Design.

theballatician — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:18:05 +0000

Frankfurt based store Freiraum has asked 7 designers to create some new t-shirt designs. You can vote for your favorite one on the PRINZ website (a big German city magazine for all mayor cities) and finally buy the winner shirt (limited edition) in May at Freiraum. Profits go to a good cause benefiting homeless and needy people in Frankfurt. In addition, you have the chance to win a voucher worth 25€ for Freiraum or even a winner shirt. So, everything speaks for going ahead and take part, right?

Here are the designs:

You can vote for your favorite design here and enter the lottery for a voucher or a shirt here.

Good luck.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

pure flask @ Freiraum Frankfurt.

theballatician — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:59:36 +0000

Last weekend, Freiraum Frankfurt held a charity event in their store. Limited pocket flasks by Finlandia Vodka in five different designs were for sale benefiting drinking water projects in Kenia. Before I saw them, I figured that I am (1) not old enough or (2) not desperate enough for something like this, but they looked really cool, so I had to get one. You never now, right?? ;-)

This one is designed by Viva con Agua and combines different symbols of water and life.

Thanks to Adrian for this nice little party with good vibes, good people and good drinks for a good cause!!! Hopefully more of these in the future.

Oh, and it also came with a little bottle of Finlandia Vodka. Drink responsible, it reads. But most of all: Drink in style.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Help Haiti.

theballatician — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:30:14 +0000

I’ll admit, that during my day-to-day-life I don’t get to watch or read the news stories very often, and that also this is not the original theme of this blog, but what has happened earlier this month to people in Haiti is nothing short of heart shattering. CNN has five 360° videos on the current situation here.

Haiti may be a place that’s far, far away for you, but also people from your community could be directly affected by this tragedy. I found out, that the family of two basketball players, who play for MTV Kronberg (close to Frankfurt) has lost six of their family members, including three kids. I don’t know David or Dominik personally, but I was interested in their story, because I do know some other players of that team and attend their games quite often.

Their dad went back to Haiti – shortly after visiting his family there for Christmas – to assist people in need as a doctor. Their adoptive brother from New York immediately took a flight to the Dominican Republic to supply the family with water, food and medicine. That’s what family is about. I think, we all can learn something from that.

You can read more by clicking these links (in German):

their site: www.haitibrauchtdich.de
FAZ article

I know times are tough for everyone, but we cannot compare what’s going on to the people of Haiti, that already went through so much, but still were happy people and in the right direction with their country. So on behalf of the Duclervil family I ask you to show your support accordingly to your possibilities – it is still needed. Here’s how:

The 5€ admission of the up-coming home game of MTV Kronberg is applied to their campaign and there will also be a tombla with some SKLINERS stuff (and I guess certainly more, but that was the only thing I heard about this) as well as a box for additional contributions: Saturday, 30 January – 19:30 – Altkönigschule, Le-Lavandou-Straße, Kronberg – I’ll be there!
For a donation, they have their own donation account (German account – #368091088 – „Riepel/Die Familie braucht dich“ – BLZ 51050015: Nassauische Sparkasse) and also listed those of organizations here on their site. (By the way, NIKE, David’s employer, is going to double the donations made by its employees, which is also a great move.)
Freiraum Frankfurt (Brückenstraße 36, Frankfurt) has a charity sale event going on this evening (Friday) starting at 19:00 (more details). It was supposed and still is for drinking water projects in Kenya, but they also have a box for your Haiti donations. Personally, I also think that this is going to be a cool event, so I hope I can be there!
Many well known musicians contributed to an album titled ‘Hope for Haiti Now‘. All proceeds will benefit support for Haiti.
UNDRCRWN, a brand that’s largely inspired by basketball, now offers limited ASSIST HAITI tees (all proceeds will go to YELE, Wyclef Jean’s organization).
There are many, many, many other possibilities and this leads me to all those organizations you know and heard about, if you want to contribute that way. Many hearts and souls will be thankful.

I think this post is now long enough and y’all know what to do, so I just leave you with some wise words on this subject by Jay Smooth.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

WE RUN FFM

chrishimself — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:50:17 +0000

Like some of you have already seen on facebook.com/runffm we are currently endorsing this T-Shirt via our Blog.
We still have to figure out how to make it easy for you guys to order them and unfortunately we can only offer to ship them within germany (for now at least).

UPDATE: You can order them now through werunffm.de (The Ballatician)

Price is 35 Euro shipped via UPS (in cooperation with Freiraum Frankfurt) . If you are interested then please email me at webmaster@runffm.com with what Size you want and your contact address and phone number , we are going to get back at you with payment details.

Shoutout to Freiraum Frankfurt.

T-Shirts and design by Once Upon A Time

Chrishimself