Events: Braderie Lille 2006

Each year, on the first weekend of September, 2 millions visitors throng the streets of Lille for the annual "Braderie" street fair.

What is the "Braderie" ?
Professional tradesmen set up shop on the street and the citizens of Lille sale or exchange their unwanted possessions. They are settled on 100 km of pavements throughout Lille selling paintings, antiques, ornaments, furniture, books, records, and junk of every description.
Part of the celebrations is eating moules-frites - mussels and chips, with a pinte of beer. Traditionally, after eating your mussels you leave your empty shells outside the stall of restaurant and there is a competition to see which one amasses the biggest heap by the end of the fair.

How to come to Lille ?
From England, Netherlands or Belgium, you can get a train (Eurostar&Thalys) to go to Lille (Lille Europe station) or fly towards the closest Airport (Lille Lesquin). From England, you can also take the Channel shuttle with your car, towards Calais (100km from Lille).
Public transportation in Lille :
If you come by the car, you can park around the city (free carparks) and go to the downtown by tram, bus or underground.
1 "two days" ticket (valid on saturday and sunday) : € 4,60 ("Pass'Braderie")
1 "one day" ticket (valid on saturday or sunday) : € 3,50 ("Pass'journée")
10 single tickets : € 10,20

Music: Playlist # 1

-1 T.O.M. Project - Untitled
-2 Omar S - Groove On
-3 Headcase Ladz - Why Dont You Pay Us Visit
-4 Dirty Diggers - For The Haters
-5 Tarwater - Otomo (Jazzanova remix)
-6 Jazzanova - Keep Falling
-7 Quantic - An Announcement To Answer
-8 Life - Come On
-9 Le Tigre - Deceptacon
-10 Demon Boyz - Dett

Enjoy...

Design: Pascal Bardel

This french talented designer innovates in the design&development of household appliances and electronic goods, offering clean flowing lines.
Some of Pascal Bardel's producs lounge : the clock radio-gellule, the mp3 player-billball or a circle portable dvd player...

Lifestyle: The Mustache Summer Tour

Even if we didn't see any mustachioed german players during the last world cup soccer, the 'Stache could be back this year! In NYC, the film-maker Jason Della Valle tries to reverse the course of men's grooming. He wants to make the mustache hip again by making a documentary about mustache in modern American culture: the Glorius Mustache Challenge. In USA, Europe, everywhere, some trendsetters adopte the 'Stache and organize some famous parties called "Mustache Soirée", "Rock The Stache!" or "La StachMou, ça claque!"
Is it gonna be a mainstream? Wait and see...

Architecture: Jean Nouvel

Musée du Quai Branly / Paris, France (2006)
37, quai Branly - portail Debilly

The museum of the Quai Branly Arts and Civilisations of Africa, of Asia, of Oceania and Americas, drawn by Jean Nouvel, fleet like a majestic ship on the garden drawn by Gilles Clement. He presents himself with a set of multicoloured boxes on a wood lattice separated of the Quai Branly by a high glazed wall. He connects himself to the existing frame on the quay with a vertical garden due to Patrick Blanc and on the street of the University with a building whose design for the various ceilings comes to touch the rough concrete from the frontage.
Nicknamed MKB, the museum of the Quai Branly was is designed to reflect cultural diversity. It is "the sign and the symbol of a France that knows and recognises the cultures of the world and the need for dialog ue between those cultures", Chirac emphasised.

Digital features: Digital Jay

Even if unofficial, sldz1200.net gathers the Technics SL-DZ1200 Direct-Drive Digital Turntable online DJ community. This DJ forum is dedicated to bringing users the latest industry and information on the Technics SL-DZ1200 and other Technics DJ products.
General discussion, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Improvements, Accessories and Pics are available in forum format. A question? just post it!
You can check too the excellent and complete official site for more information.

Society: We can do it

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop, called 2B1, a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children.
2B1 was designed collaboratively by experts from both academia and industry, bringing to bear both extraordinary talent and many decades of collective field experience in every aspect of this non-profit humanitarian project. The result is a unique harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the emerging world can leapfrog decades of development—immediately transforming the content and quality of their children's learning.

Fashion: French touch

A.P.C. for Winter 2007 is definitely an elegant collection defined by its unique style and quality.
Womenswear & menswear are cleverly presented style by style just to inspire a day by day attitude. Minimalist and efficient...

By the way, what does A.P.C. mean? "Atelier de Production et de Creation"

A free paper catalog is issued every season. To get it, just fill in a form in the website.

Digital features: G version Gun Metal coming soon

The latest fashion statement from Japanese watch designer Twelve 5-9, G version Gun Metal is the Re-Mixed version of Twelve 5-9 G.
The watch uses the base numbers 12, 5 & 9 to easily display the time on the block-holes (Leds). Designed by pioneering Yasushi & Makoto, this model was inspired by the various Tokyo's architecture.

For sure, I'll purchase it for test...

Music: Peter Bjorn And John / Young Folks

Young Folks is extract from the Lp Writer's Block, the third album (2006) composed by this Swedish power-pop band. Young Folks stands clearly out from the other tracks, by its energic percussions, rhythm, dubby bassline and Victoria Bergsman.



Special Recommendation: beyond the wizard's sleeve re-animation remix.


Stream: Peter Bjorn and John: Young Folks [ft. Victoria Bergsman]

Digital features: Dress your iPod different!

You can give now a second art-skin to your cold white iPod: Gelaskins proposes a large range of iPod's protections (made from vinyl), designed by artists from all over the world. The original idea is that you can submit designs to the company!

Henceforth, it's possible to stand out from the crowd.

Nightlife: Gent, Belgium

Culture Club

Africaalan 174, 9000 Gent

Created by Belmondo, Belgium's famous party-makers, the Culture Club becomes every week-end The exclusive nightlife's scene, where fashion, interior design, full colours & beautifull people are combining on quality music: House & Hip Hop music pumping the crowd up all night long.
The club's motto takes all its sense: "nightlife is lifestyle is nightlife"

Enjoy there... Annual Opening Night: 09.30.06. More details soon.

Architecture: Herzog & De Meuron

Prada Aoyama Epicenter / Tokyo, Japan (2003)
5-2-6 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku

As Prada's new strategy is to transform shopping into a completely new experience, the store conception is designed by over-minded, pioneering architects. Prada Aoyama shopping can be analysed from a wide range of conceptual and constructional viewpoints: this kaleidoscope generates facetted reflections, which enable viewers, both inside and outside the building, to see constantly changing pictures and almost cinematographic perspectives of Prada products, the city and themselves.

Simply brilliant and amazing...

Desperate Dolls!

How to refresh the hot dolls?
...a lethal watershot!

Bang The Party!