29 August 2009

ContourHD - HD Helmet Camera.

ContourHD is the World’s First (and lightest) HD Helmet Camera. ContourHD is the ideal wearable camcorder to shoot and share HD video of your active lifestyle. ContourHD combines amazing video quality (choose between crisp High Definition or smooth High Action SD), wire-free wearability (attach ContourHD to your goggles, helmet, equipment, or vehicle without wires), and one button simplicity (single button to shoot and share online). Light enough (4 ounces) to fit on your goggles, this compact and rugged helmet cam makes HD quality video affordable ($299.99 MSRP) to capture and publish online.




skateboard cam

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http://www.vholdr.com/


23 August 2009

Free Art Frenzy - Amsterdam





On the night of Thursday 14th August 2009, the city of Amsterdam was overtaken with a frenzy of the free art kind. Skatin Chinchilla and Karma83 star in this fast-paced, action packed makeshift movie. They travel around frenzily dropping over 20 pieces of free art from the Xstreets Collective. So if you were on your way home that night or on your way to work in the morning and you found yourself a nice piece of art, now you can view the fast-paced footage of how your art appeared Enjoy! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLPI4uoAgKI



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQYN_0lHD7Q


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A night tour of Amsterdam with my homies


Laser's book - Vice review


ARE YOU READING ME?
Laser 3.14
Lebowski Publishers


Ik erger me altijd mateloos aan die misplaatste expressieve poëtica van Laser 3.14 wanneer ik door Amsterdam fiets. Zijn korte, filosofische teksten doen mij een beetje denken aan de msn-namen die de meisjes bij mij op de middelbare school altijd hadden. Laser speelt niet alleen op safe met de keuze van zijn doelgroep, ook spuit hij alleen maar op tijdelijke schuttingen, houtstellages, bouwketen, afgedichte deuren, ramen van leegstaande panden en alles dat maar met renovatie te maken heeft. Hoewel je wel meer ballen hebt als je op muren kalkt, maakt deze keuze zijn tags wel karakteristieker. De korte gedichten van Laser vormen bovendien een uitstekend ezelsbruggetje voor krakers: als je na een jaar lang nog steeds hetzelfde gedicht leest op weg naar de universiteit, dan moet er iets te kraken zijn op die route.

Dit boek brengt Laser 3.14’s leuzen in kaart. Als je “nee” antwoordt op de vraag die de titel stelt, en slechts op de mooi gedocumenteerde plekken let, dan vind je heuse historische waarde in deze publicatie. Het geeft namelijk perfect aan hoe Amsterdam door al die renovaties verandert.

Laser's book as reviewed by VICE Amsterdam
http://www.viceland.com/nl/v4n5/htdocs/literary_nl.php?source=db

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translated by babelfish

ARE YOU READING ME?
Laser 3.14
Lebowski Publishers

I annoy myself always immoderate to those out of place expressive poëtica of laser 3.14 when I Amsterdam cycles. To be short, philosophical texts do me think a smattering of msn-namen those little girls at me on the high school always had. Laser not only plays on strongroom with the choice of its target group, also he spouts only on temporary fences, houtstellages, construction barracks, sealed doors, estimating being empty pawn and everything have do that but with modernisation. Although you has balls as much as more if you plaster on walls, makes this choice is tags, however, more characteristic. The short poems of laser form moreover sticking out an study aid for squatters: if you after for a year still the same reads poem on gone to the university, then must there something to crack be on that route. This book maps to laser 3.14 s leuzen. If you answer no on the question which puts the title, and only to the nicely documented spots pays attention, then you find heuse historical value in this publication. It indicates, as it happens, perfectly how Amsterdam all change those modernisations.

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One of the things I miss about Amsterdam is walking down the street and coming across a new text by Laser 3.14. So it was with great pleasure that I opened my mail recently to find a copy of his new book. Even more exciting was finding "Blakkbyrd" included in the photo credits.

This is a book worthy of any street art collection.

Blakkbyrd

03 August 2009

Urban Art Agenda #3

Urban Art Agenda is an invitation-only concept exhibition which brings together some of the most prolific artists from around the world in a unique showcase. The initial Urban Art Agenda#1 exhibition was presented in Shed 4 at the Melbourne Docklands as part of the International Design Festival in 2007. Urban Art Agenda #2 was shown later the same year in Perth, Western Australia, as part of the Alphabet City Festival at the ArtRage Complex.

Among the featured artists were Logan Hicks, Loomit, Ma'claim Crew, Evol, Stormie, Lucamaleonte, Boxi, Smatik and Ralf Kempken.

The 2009 instalment of the Urban Art Agenda will be launched at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, and then presented as part of the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, during the Arts&About Festival in Sydney and finally at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

A1one (Tehran), David Soukup (Chicago), ELK (Canberra), El Moocho (Melbourne), HaHa (Melbourne), Izolag (Salvador), Jana and JS (Salzburg), Jef Aerosol (Lille), Kenji Nakayama (Boston), Mandarina Brausewetter (Vienna), M-City (Gdynia), Orticanoodles (Milan), Ozi (São Paulo), Penny (London), Skran (Lisboa), XOOOOX (Berlin)
http://www.urbanartagenda.com.au/artists

Art Gallery of Ballarat
18 July - 23 August, 2009
40 Lyiard St, Ballarat, VIC

FamousWhenDead Gallery
24 September - 11 October, 2009
207 Victoria St, West Melbourne, VIC

Pine St Creative Arts Centre
1 - 25 October, 2009
64 Pine St, Chippendale, NSW

Brisbane Powerhouse
26 October - 23 November, 2009
119 Lamington St, New farm, QLD

http://www.urbanartagenda.com.au/galleries

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Previous Blakkbyrd post
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2009/06/urban-art-agenda-3.html


Subject Index - July 2009

The Aviary
Editorial - New Premises
Editorial
Subject Index - June 2009


Artists/Exhibitions
Franck Gohier
Museum of Football - Berlin

Graffiti
Né dans la rue – Graffiti Paris

Film

Open Air - Graffiti Documentary

The Dish - Moon Landing Film

Theory
Art & Austerity - ArtReview

Auctions
GRAFFITI - Auction Paris
Naval & Military Club Collection

Copyright/Appropriation
Cartrain and Hirst

Australia
Beyond Capricorn
George Collingridge
Perth Museum Cutbacks

Comedy/Parody
The Ashes