In diesem cool gemachten Video gibt uns WEMOTO, die ja bei uns um die Ecke aus dem Taunus kommen und schon eine beachtliche Größe geworden sind, einen kleinen Einblick hinter die Kulissen, wie ihre Rap Idols Collection enstanden ist. Das Video kommt von Dave von BOOM & der Beat von S&G Beatz, dem Produzenten-Duo DJ Steph & Guzt.

 Hier gibt es auch schon ein Preview auf die 2012er Rap Idols Collection mit Jigga, Biggie und Pac.

Und ganz nebenbei… Auch mit unseren RUNFFM-Shirts hat WEMOTO im weitesten Sinne etwas zu tun. Als wir damals auf der Suche nach einer Siebdruckerei waren, haben wir uns natürlich verschiedenste Anbieter angeschaut. Bei einem lag dieses Shirt von WEMOTO rum, was uns dann direkt schon so sehr überzeugte, dass wir gar nicht mehr weiter nach irgendetwas gefragt haben, sondern für uns war die Sache klar: Hier machen wir auch unsere Shirts!!!

Und natürlich musste ich mir dieses Stück RUNFFM-Geschichte dann auch besorgen!! ;-)

Einen guten Start in die Woche, vor allem mit diesem chilligen S&G Beat…

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

We are very proud to unveil our very limited RUN FFM All Star Shirts, that were designed by @myk31 alreadyyy a few months ago. The design is inspired by Japanese Pop Culture as most of his amazing stuff is. He already did music videos, lots of video animations – even for MAESTROKNOWS & itsbongoboy and dope graphics, so you definitely have to check it all out on his – you guessed it – incredible site myk31.com.

We were going to drop those shirts anywayz as they were planned to be released for another special RUN FFM milestone. It just so happened, that these Japanese inspired shirts were printed this week, so it was a no-brainer to drop them now, because that way we are able to do our little part in helping Japanese people after the disaster, that hit them so hard last week. How?? We decided to donate all profits from those shirts directly to the Japanese Red Cross.

These shirts are very limited. You have the choice of 4 colours (black, white, grey, navy), but we only made a total of 31 shirts, that will sell for 31€ per piece (in conformity with Myk’s choice of the Ukrainian Devil’s Dozen as “his” number :D). The screen print is on Continental Earth Positive shirts, so they were manufactured solely using sustainable energy generated from wind and solar power and have an organic & very comfortable feel to them. You can read more about the shirts on the Continental EP site.

Please inquire for your preferred color and size combination via e-mail: andi@runffm.com. We are sorry, that we cannot do it over the “regular” web shop, because due to the very limited quantities there are several color/size combinations, that only exist once. First come, first served.

You can pay via bank transfer or cash. We ask you to please do so within 5 working days and please add 1,45€ for shipping to Germany (pick-up also possible of course).

As mentioned above, we hope to do our little part in helping Japanese people, that we otherwise would not be able to accomplish.

Thanks to Myk for this amazing design & him being all for the idea of donating all profits to Japanese Red Cross. Thanks to our screen printer to make this shirt possible in this small quantity. Thanks to all the supporters of RUN FFM (We are sure you’ll like this shirt). And of course to everyone, who is helping in any way possible for Japan to get back on its feet again.

By the way, on Mar, 25th all haircuts at Julie‘s Barber Shop will also be donated for Japan, so call 069 – 37304274 now to make your appointment. You should also check this round-up on Hypebeast and on WHATZOOEVER!.

Let’s pray for Japan!
気をつけて!

Chris / @chrishimself84  &  Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Dunking Kong reppin’ RUN FFM.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

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-Arrow attaching 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.

Hope you are ready. :)

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

… 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. ;-)

This was a krayzie honour as DJ Neil Armstrong was doing his thing while wearing our shirt, when he been to Frankfurt recently.

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…

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

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Hey everybody,

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.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

]]> http://www.runffm.com/2010/10/nuuuuuuuu-stuff/feed/ 2 http://www.runffm.com/2010/10/party-bullshit-party-bullshit/ http://www.runffm.com/2010/10/party-bullshit-party-bullshit/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:17:50 +0000 chrishimself http://www.runffm.com/?p=3572

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 :-)

peace
Chrishimself

source:
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Yesterday Andi (@theballatician) and me went out to prepare a little videoclip for the white RUNFFM T-Shirts heres just some random photography on our way to the location.
I am not telling you where we shot it yet since we might do a little quiz thingy for you to win something.
But maybe those pictures can help you find out already ;D

Some of you guys like those fashion blogs so Andi modeled for our outfit post hahah ;D Nah actually these were just some test shots but yeah.. just a blogpost filler for now.

Andis outfits for the day :

Market41 now carries some WoodWood stuff ! They sell out quick get your chance and visit them! (Fressgasse 41, Frankfurt am Main)
They are also preparing something special for their final closing sale, as you might know Market41 is a pop-up store and the concept is that they only open up for a short period of time
in this case just 3 months, so make sure to keep your schedule free on the 2nd of october ;).

Subway and S-Bahn. Those old subway carts have no aircon, sticky warm air ugh…  and @theballatician tweeting away on his new iphone4 ^^

peace,
Chris (@chrishimself84)

This post is dedicated to some of our strongest supporters out there, everyone who bought one of our RUNFFM T-Shirts and those who actually send us a picture of them wearing it.
All of them are extremely awesome, look at what Rodney did who was here on vacation just a few weeks back.

Are you a Yankees fan? =) I guess RUNFFM.COM is cool with the Yankees now huh? haha

There are some more cool pictures at Rodneys flickr page and make sure to check out his newest online venture called JuntosWorldWide.com , its a travelsite/blog hybrid where people can share photos and videos about their recent travels around the globe. It’s a little different than the usual travel websites since you get the information right from the person travelling in a kind of refreshing and personal style, kinda like our blog where you find random information on our daily “adventures” in our local midst or on tour =).

He is also into vlogging and produces little videoclips like the one right here where he interviewed yours truly.

But Rodney is not the only one I really like this shot of Philipp too.

Mike after the epic Germany worldcup game against Argentina.

She is just referred as “Miss Undercover somewhere” lol. ;)

We like those alot! thank you for sending them our way.

If you want to send us your picture wearing a RUNFFM T-Shirt, send them via email to webmaster@runffm.com , we always do appreciate it =).

cheers,
Chris (@chrishimself84)

As usual I carry on with my so called “Photowalk” posts from places I go to and what has been going on lately in terms of RUNFFM etc.

Soon-Ho aka ZUNO gave me a ride to the city he had a rough night aswell haha kinda funny how everyone was partying hard the night before I meet them.

We arrived at Market41, the event was called “Flutschfinger” (named after a famous popsicle).

And of course we were all munching away on the “Flutschfinger” popsicles =)

Our RUNFFM T-Shirts out on display, they sold out quickfast!!

Andi (@theballatician) dropped by and we decided to hit up MoschMosch for some “Yakiudon” with slices of Beef in teriyaki sauce pretty gooooood gotta eat that more often unfortunately I forgot
to take a picture of it LOL damn ^^;;

Afterwards we were hanging out at Mikes place until the party started :)

Arrived at the party, ZUNO dropping threepointers like Ray Allen?

DJ Passion rocking the show, as far as I heard he just got in from Hamburg from another gig a night earlier, but as expected the music was top notch!

All together it was a cool night met some nice people, had alot of ice cream lol and saw my good friends again like Roberto who is always M.I.A haha ;D Shouts to Simon who is back in Germany.
Shouts to Market41 Yves and Lea, as always they know how to organize a party!! =)
Look forward to the FUJI INSTAX POST where you will get to see some instant photography pictures, RUNFFM always got the funky camera stuff going on you already know it haha.

Personally I feel a little under the weather but its cool just gonna chill and everythings gonna be good.

peace
Chris (@chrishimself84)

We really had to have another meeting in the city today for several reasons, we sold out almost all of our T-Shirts and need to restock asap. and we are already making plans for upcoming events and were talking about some details for our new “products”. Also Andi (@theballatician) finished his semester finals so he finally had the time to meet up .. he had a rough night partying though ;) but “you cant knock the hustle” hahaha.

Met Mike too today was cool hanging out with him again after a long while, I’m already looking forward to go party with him at tomorrows Flutschfinger event, if you are interested make sure to scroll down and check out the details its organized by Market41 a pop-up store in Frankfurt that is plain awesome but I will get to that later in that post.

So since I have never seen the Market41 store in person I had to drag the guys to it to check it out. Its aaaaall the way in the back of this little area on “Große Bockenheimer/Fressgasse” near “Alte Oper”
if you have no idea where it is and you are in Frankfurt and want to check it out then click here for google maps lol.

Lea, who is the owner of Market41, offered us to put some of our RUNFFM shirts on display for the next two months. The whole concept of a pop-up shop is that it only opens for a short
period of time and basically offers some brands or products that are normally not widely availible, basically for you to get a little taste of whats out there.

Here comes our little dilemma that we solved with the power of coffee.

Soon-Ho dropped by, how dope, I havent seen this guy in a long while he had finals too and is now preparing for his diploma thesis but I am already looking forward to go out and hit some parties with him before he is “gone” again to work on his diploma.

Also I noticed that my camera was still on some weird setting that I tried out few days ago so I had to fix some pictures in post at least a little bit, däng.

Soon-Ho talking over some double-shot espresso, word!.

Well we were able to get at least a little “sample run” of a few sizes to show at tomorrows Market41 event to solve our little dilemma, also Mike was very helpful ironing the T-Shirts LOL!.

I really love this picture down here, Mike is ironing and Claudia is chilling eating a sandwich hahahhaha great moment! What an awesome couple! =D

Soon-Ho digged into the chorizo!

Intermission….

done.

Back to the shop setting up the T-Shirts, Mike likes this “dress”.

“Hui!”

Market41 is everywhere on the streets.

“Kaugummi! Kaugummi!” lol that means Bubblegum in german, does anyone still remember those oldschool candy vending machines??

Streetart by V3NT.

Yes I really dig this, its Crooks and Castles and Sixpack France to the right and all RUNFFM on the left yessir!

Okay so all in all this was a pretty productive day we managed to talk to our screenprinter to order a reprint and were able to put out some T-Shirts on display.

And off we go hit me up on twitter anytime @chrishimself84

peace out!
Chris

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.

so long,

Chrishimself

(Last picture courtesy of Rodney Mendez)