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!

cheers,
Chris / @chrishimself84

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

Hier ist der exklusive @RUNFFM.com Report vom Event beim UEBERVART in Frankfurt wo die neue Collabo zwischen Puma und Undefeated vorgestellt wurde.
Es gab Mini Burger und Sushi von der IMA connection wo es übrigens auch geile Wraps gibt kann man sicher mal auschecken wenn man in der nähe ist.

An sich ja mal ganz cool dass sowas in Frankfurt gemacht wird, also ein Sneaker release mit Event, gibt es ja sonst so gut wie nix also mehr davon!

peace
Chris / @chrishimself84

Irgendwie hab ich diese Bilder mal mit meinem alten HD camcorder in 東京 gemacht und dachte ich poste einfach mal in vollster tumblr Manier ein paar random Bilder.

Alle bilder via flickr (http://www.flickr.com/chrishimself)

Chris / Twitter: @chrishimself84

Whats good @RUNFFM frrriieendz. Followers who have been reading my original blogposts from Tokyo last year might remember this photo that I took in Shibuya but I just discovered something on Youtube that made me crack up once again remembering how awesome this was.

Japanese SWAG ! Check this guy out, I dont really know if this is really a “stretching routine” and if it really helps your back!?
All I can say is he is the BAWS , I mean look at that stance!!!

Now to the video that I just found via CheapyD on Youtube check this out!! This is the same dude doing the same stance or stretching routine on the train !!! This is some major swagger going on right there , BABAWS!!

Chris / @chrishimself84

Hey sorry for the lack of updates lately, @theballatician is busy in LA and I really had no muse to post anything lately. This will probably change when Andi is coming back to post alot of stuff from his Los Angeles trip. He already posted some stuff on his twitter and on our facebook page, if you dont know about it yet then please follow us there aswell :)

Heres something random, I spotted two Youtube videos where I appeared in the background doing exact the same pose, the asian victory thing LOL.
This shows my asian half I guess (I’m half filipino half german). Anyways I embedded them below also if you like you can subscribe me on my youtube channel aswell.

via JuntosWorldWide follow him @JuntosWorldWide , its a cool travel site for all you adventure peepz.

via Youtube persona Ken Tanaka this video has over 1mio views !! just AWESOME ! :-)

cheers!
hit me up on twitter @chrishimself84

As I share a good relation with Japan and have been to Japan a few times in my life so far my thoughts are of course with the people struck by the earthquake and tsunami in the northern parts of Japan.
My friend and music producer Chris Mako decided to produce a music track in collaboration with japanese rap artist EGO to express their feelings and thoughts and to give people energy to be able
to rebuild and move forward.

Please give it a listen even if you dont understand Japanese.

peace

@chrishimself84

If you want to watch the first round of the legendary DJ Battle DJ Premiere vs. Pete Rock in Tokyo Japan go ahead and make about 2hours and 15minutes time!

DJ Premier vs. Pete Rock: Round 1 (FULL) from AlohaServedDaily on Vimeo.

I still have the original flyer that I got when I was in Tokyo last May 2010.

Add me up on twitter @chrishimself84

Yesterday I had the craving for some Ramen, no not the instant tom yum nongshim style ramen, I wanted the real deal.
So my buddy and beat producer Chris Mako suggested to check out Yumeya in Frankfurt.

I had a big bowl of miso ramen mhhh.

Just like in Tokyo you can add some extra stuff to it, extra meat, some extra veggies, corn etc. if you like to , in Japan though you can also decide how you want your noodles cooked soft, medium, hard etc. The noodles were a bit different but the soup was rich in flavour and all together I enjoyed it. Pricepoint is about 8-10 euro depending on if you like to add some extra stuff.

Go to their website and check out the menu :)

They also had some variations of sake (japanese rice wine) if you are into that, I only had some Kirin biru :)

I hope I dont turn into a Ramen blogger now hahah ;-)

peace and twitter me @chrishimself84

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

100YEN is a documentary following the japanese arcade scene, its history and the big impact it had in Japan.
I will be looking forward for its release in fall 2011, the whole project was funded by donations of people on the internet with help by websites like kotaku.com
I’m glad that people still produce content like this and I nearly cant wait to get this on DVD :).

Anyways enjoy this preview right here, if you are into gaming like me then I am sure you will enjoy this.

100 YEN: The Japanese Arcade Experience from Brad Crawford on Vimeo.

visit the official website

peace
@chrishimself84

Here is a little leftover video from Tokyo ;) Dont take it all too serious.
Its a prelude of a new webisode I am working on when I get back to Japan next year so stay tuned!

peace YO!
Chrishimself
twitter me @chrishimself84