My wallet is still feeling quite stressed from all the Christmas shopping and here I am, already now, hours away from 2010, browsing for what is in store for us fashion addicts in the new year. I think my wallet will feel better after reading this though.

The new Topshop Spring 2010 collaborations featuring Ashish, Ann-Sofie Back and Jonathan Saunders (almost) made me spit out my champagne in excitement!

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Founder Scott Hobbs wanted to design a complete mp3 mixing system with a touch screen interface that was possible to create an entirely new DJ’ing experience, by bringing back DJ Performance to DJ’ing. I gotta say that he’s pretty much achieved that.

To put it really simply ATTIGO TT allows DJs to see, push their potential using the digital medium to hear and touch music the way we would imagine the future to look like. We’re talking about touch screen scratching, live sampling multi channel mixing but very reminiscent of how it would all be dont on your 1210‘s.

The TT allows DJs to see, hear and touch music in a completely new dimension with a visualisation of the music travelling vertically upwards. The waveform of the music can be manipulated similar to a vinyl record on a turntable, with the abilty to ‘scratch’ and along with all the other functions to control the music, this is the most simple and exciting way to mix mp3 songs.

I discovered this project through Justina Bailey‘s blog however (as always) I needed to know more and was well pleased when I discovered he had a video diary of its development from start to finish! Here are a couple of them…

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Gotta give it to Mini. Continuing their quest to meet the hearts of urbanites worldwide, in Switzerland they have selected a group of 10 artists or bombers alike and asked them to decorate the car in amazing vibrant imagery as part of the celebration of Mini’s 50th Anniversary and the launch of a art book – Wash Me. I gotta say that this collaboration has done a excellent job in expanding the paridigm of what can be done to a car’s external decor.

I like some of you had a hard time reading the German text in the literature. But just for you what I have extracted is that the collaboration was 10 works done between 13 contributors, some well known in graffiti cirlces. Best known being Seak, Euro and Smash137 and others not so well includes Rémi Jaccard & Stefan Ege, Marisa Pichler & Gigi Burn, Dieter Meier, Michèle Roten, Aurèle Sack, Tika, & August with a critic by Alfredo Häberli, Fabian Bertschinger & Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Otten.

None the chosen artists had worked on a vehicle as a canvas before so it was a real challenge of spirit for them due to the new amount of care and logistics they had to adapt to. They were all developed in different locations with [..]

‘Whoop Whoop’ … you know the rest!

I didn’t know this until I saw it on Slamxhype but a little while back in Autumn KRS ONE has launched his his first book called ‘The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument‘, which is the first book from the ‘I Am Hip Hop’ imprint. It’s a  philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE and written in the format of a self-help book and visual style in a holy book that I am sure many Hip-Hop heads will see it as. The publisher PowerHouse and say that its ‘opus is a spiritual manual for citizens of Hip Hop Kulture that combines classic philosophy with faith and practical knowledge, for a fascinating, in-depth exploration of Hip Hop as a life path.’

Ultimately the book covers some of his life story but also details the history in creation and development of Hip-Hop culture, what it means, and the true philosophy for hip hops future by stating its true fundamentals. I think I might pick up a copy to find more ammunition for real hip hop none of that Hip-Pop shit.

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What you’re looking at here is an amazing project collaborated by ‘Agents of Change,’ 6 street artists – Stormie Mills, System, Juice 126, Timid, Remi/Rough and Derm. The video shows the amazing collaboration from these guys who bombed (spray-painted) every crevace of a completley deserted 70′s village on the west coast of Scotland.
This is truly an amazing feat and find out how they done it and let it inspire you on this video ‘The Ghostvillage Project’.

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