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'Turf'

2006-aug-25 @ 4:35:43 pm Permalink
Tags: hong kong, asia

'HK morning'

Nathan Rd, 6am...

~~I Think I'll Call It Morning~~ - Gil Scott Heron
~~Dreams~~ - Fleetwood Mac
~~Rise and Shine~~ - Bunny Wailer
~~Joy In The Morning~~ - Dennis Brown
2006-aug-24 @ 8:01 am Permalink
Tags: hong kong, nathan road, asia, mp3

'Super Supreme'

I'm impressed by how James Jebbia and Supreme has handled their business these last seasons. Some might argue that the brand is not what it should be but considering it's presence on the forefront of streetculture for the last 12 years but I'd say they're tighter than ever. Credibility is still a word synonymous with Supreme. Decided to cut a few corners on the supply chain with a good friend and went through quite a few backdoors while travelling through mainland factory-China. Picked up the above pictured objects not too faraway from the coast...
2006-aug-23 @ 8:51:18 pm Permalink
Tags: supreme, street culture, retail asia, china

'Sneaker Street'

I'm back in Hong Kong. Sneaker Street aka Fa Yuen Street could've
been a great recon mission but it wasn't. No specials, and not
at all as exclusive as rumoured. Bad timing I guess. Bought a Go game on Temple Street instead.

2006-aug-23 @ 6:43:07 pm Permalink
Tags: hong kong, asia, sneakers, street culture, sneaker street

'Haze 2006'

(Haze @ Soi 1, BKK)

Bangkok shuffle:

~~Travellling~~ - Burning Spear
~~We Are Free~~ - Burning Spear
~~Caged Birdsong~~ - Aloe Blacc
~~Whole World~~ - Aloe Blacc
~~Long Time Coming~~ - Aloe Blacc
90% Of Me Is You - Gwen McRae
~~Finest Dreams~~ - Richard X feat Kelis
~~Burnin'~~ - Daft Punk
2006-aug-21 @ 4:01:47 pm Permalink
Tags: haze, graffiti, thailand, asia, bangkok, street culture

'Modified Bangkok'

Brian delivered the intel that Futura had opened up shop in Bangkok. Clean, quiet design with an exclusively produced eight foot Pointman at window display. The location on Soi 1, near several shoppingcenters (MBK, Siam Center,Zen...). is quite unbeatable as both Thai and Westeners shop in this area.

2006-aug-20 @ 4:06 pm Permalink
Tags: street culture, futura, bangkok, asia, thailand

'Bali Bukit'

Balangan (Bali Bukit)

Spent two weeks surfing Sumbawa, a nice bumby 1 day ferry and busride from Bali. It was a relief getting away from Kuta that just gets too much sometimes. Ofcourse, there's also many good spots around the Bali Bukit to surf instead of like me heading into unknown territories. Scored beautiful waves on Sumbawa although one could just rent a motorbike and ride about 20 minutes to find world class breaks away from Kuta Beach. Balangan is the closest spot followed by Dreamlands (sandbreak), Bingin (shallow, nice hollow waves), Impossibles (fast), Padang-Pandang and Ulu Watu. Six years ago there were virtually no construction except local residences on the Bukit peninsula. Today there's a cluster of new buildings either completed, planned or under construction. Actually, most buildings are still residentals but mainly owned by foreigners. Australians, Italian, French, American, Japanese and Brasilians are heavily represented. Landprices are increasing and this is probably the area developing the most (not counting Seminyak). A 18-hole golfcourse is also under construction just on the cliff overlooking Balangan and Dreamlands.
2006-aug-19 @ 2:52:52 pm Permalink
Tags: bali, indonesia, balangan, surfing, development, asia

'Localism'

2006-aug-09 @ 5:43 pm Permalink
Tags: surfing, indonesia

'Heading East'

~~You Can't Always Get What You Want'~~ - Rolling Stones
~~'Surfin'~~ - Ernest Ranglin
2006-aug-07 @ 1:07:48 am Permalink
Tags: bali, kuta, surfing, indonesia, asia, mp3

'Suicidal Tendencies'

Driving on the bukit to get to most surfbreaks is an adventure in itself. Its zigzagging on a oneway street with traffic coming from both directions. For early morningsessions it's a cruise but getting back to Kuta in the afternoon is a bombardment of obstacles and tricky maneuvering; trucks, bikes, a whole family on a bike, chickens in the street, corrupted trafficpolice, cows, dogs & your ordinary extreme speedfreak. Somedays I'm even more exhausted making this 20min drive home than surfing Bingin a whole day.
2006-aug-06 @ 2:33:24 pm Permalink
Tags: bali, experience, indonesia, surfing, asia

'Skulls Are Dead'

Iconography is always an interesting theme since it many times overlapses different cultural territories while creating new communicative concepts along the way. The swastika is probably the most classic example being a sanskrit symbol for 'wellbeing' adopted as an emblem by the Nazis and turned into an icon that could be seen as representing extreme evil. However, the question is how many attempts at reinvention does one get before the intended message goes stale and loses all forms of substantial meaning? The skullicon has never had much of an innovative image. A skull has always been a skull symbolising either danger and/or rebellion of an established idea or system. Personally I'm not a big fan of this particaular icon but seeing that is it going through yet another phase I find it noteworthy. Moving through different layers of subculture for some time (music, skateboarding, streetwear...) it has now re-entered the surfing culture. Major manufacturers as Quicksilver, Ripcurl and Billabong are all using skulls as a graphical element this season while minor (minor is comparison) companies like Spyderbilt and X-Cite have decided to follow set trends. The problem is as mentioned that the skull has entirely lost it's original symbolic meaning a long time ago and that too many presumable rebels are trying to figure out how to fight on a nonexistant battlefield. The only thing worth figuring out is that there is no war to be fought. Capitalism and extreme consumerism won this campaign a long time ago. Skulls are dead and so is whatever rebellion the wearer of a skull t-shirt is trying to express. Perversely enough the skullicon has been turned into a form of selfmockery. How? Because many times the person making the most noise or wearing the most intimidating armour is the last one fit to start a revolution.

2006-aug-04 @ 3:24:15 Permalink
Tags: symbolism, hype, asia, street culture, indonesia

'The Long Tail'

I'm looking forward to having a read in 'The Long Tail' as soon as I'm done with these. By Wired editor Chris Anderson this book will probably be the next 'hip' business/economy literature succeeding 'Tipping Point' and 'The World Is Flat'. That books on macromarketing, globalization and communication somewhat went trendy is well interesting. They're easily read, a bit lagging maybe but still very informative and so I guess I'm buying in on recent trends. 'The Long Tail' will probably be the one I enjoy reading the most because of its dissection and focus on niche culture, 2.0 and webculture (p2p, blogs, rss, MySpace, eBay...). I'm also working on a personal betaproject with features closely related to the macrosegmented market Chris Anderson is presenting in his book.

2006-aug-04 @ 2:32:08 pm Permalink
Tags: books, media convergence, marketing

'Volcom Crustaceous Tour'

Spent the day in Kuta attending this Volcom contest at Halfway. The conditions (1-2ft) didn't make for a very existing showdown but it was a nice sunny afternoon nonetheless. Actually paying more attention to the event ground crew than the water action since pulling off any kind of arrangement in a place like Bali requires some heavy organisational skills. I find the surfing industry a bit edgy but I guess every 'industry' behaves a bit funny when it deals with such delicate cultures as surfing and skateboarding.

Fanzines are always an interesting idea; the size and the homemade xerox feeling. This one had some pretty weird layout, several copyerrors and plenty misspellings. Very successful and well executed. Free hands-outs in the form of smaller DIY publications work well.

2006-aug-02 @ 1:49 am Permalink
Tags: surfing, bali, kuta beach, indonesia, magazines, volcom

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