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 The ultra cool Swiss bag designers Freitag are launching an international truck-tarpaulin design contest to enhance the biodiversity of graphics in transit. The best tarpaulin design will be chosen and awarded with 2.000 euros by a jury made up of well-known designers. The winning tarpaulin will be produced in 2008, fitted onto a truck and will spend five years at work on the road. Thereafter the well-worn-designer tarpaulin will be carefully cut to pieces to end up as special edition bags. Leave them your draft by the 31st January 2008! FREITAG products are made from original recycled materials – used truck tarps, used car seat belts, used air bags and used bicycle inner tubes. Because the materials are tough, the products are too. Because we’re Swiss, our quality standards are too. And because it is made from an original piece of tarp, every single FREITAG product has its own, individual design. 
 Just in time for Halloween, LUON launches a nifty little game to kill a couple of dull moments. Chainsaw Charlie has crawled up from beneath the soil in the LUON backyard and he’s hungry… Do you think you’ve got the nerve and skills to handle a chainsaw? Click here and create a buzz… you could be the one who wins a frighteningly good cook book! Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here… (but good luck to you anyway)
 Centred around A MAGAZINE is a creative team of editors, the guest curator – who will be an international fashion designer, group or fashion house – and an international network of contributors. Each of his collaborations – with an artist, a photographer, a scenographer, a filmmaker, a choreographer – started with a conversation. Sometimes, as is apparent from interviews within this issue, a few words were enough to realise beautiful projects, develop special friendships, build things that transcend the ordinary. Every magazine is a new story. The latest story is curated by Veronique Branquinho, and quite a story it turned out to be. In the late 1990s, Veronique Branquinho took the international fashion scene by storm with a very personal take on femininity and elegance, her signature strongly influenced by the complexity of the female character. Underpinned by subtle references to film, music and art, her fashion offers a unique sensitivity.  This year Veronique celebrates the 10th anniversary of her label. A MAGAZINE #6 has turned out to be a festive edition, an intimate anniversary present from the designer to you. Veronique insisted upon compiling a warm and very personal issue, a genuine reflection of her world. Not a glossy fashion publication but a magazine that allows us, for the first time, to take a glimpse into her life. She does this in her very own way: affectionate, playful, seductive, but never too explicit, always leaving room for open endings. The magazine was to evoke a walk in the woods at night, where at every turn the winding forest trails divert you from your actual destination whilst darkness and the rising mist retain the mystery, a recurring theme in her oeuvre. The girls who inhabit the woods, though they appear to be hunted game, are somehow haunted and bewitched, innocent and severe at the same time. Veronique’s penchant for the seemingly ordinary – everyday situations that unexpectedly take a bizarre twist – explains the discrete presence of David Lynch within these pages: quotes from his films haunt the different chapters. In A MAGAZINE #6 Veronique stays faithful to the images that have dominated her work since the start, giving this issue a clear Branquinho signature. She likes what she describes as frozen images, such as the opening shot of As Black as Midnight on a Moonless Night: Snow White's blood-red apple pierced with a rusty nail. Or the naked girl on the cliffs somewhere in the north of France, her face hidden behind a mask of owl feathers. She wears a transparent cape that no longer conceals as capes normally do, the image therefore gaining a paradoxical erotic twist. These images are invariably both fragile and cruel. They suggest beauty with a dark undercurrent. This duality is a constant in Veronique’s world: attracting and rejecting, playing and pushing away again. Things are never what they seem. The smoke, to be found in several images, sometimes as a kind of mist or haze, then again as cigarette smoke partially hiding a woman's face, seduces and shrouds and, above all, never telling the whole story. But Veronique wanted to show us her fondness for the playful and the light-hearted as well. She often mentions how much she likes putting on records for friends and playing board games. It almost seemed like a game to hide references and allusions within the images and words of this magazine, which give it its subtle layers. I’m pleased to introduce you to Veronique’s friends and family, her work and team, her favourite music, her home and the people who have been a lasting inspiration over the past ten years. A MAGAZINE #6 is an issue to read on a cold winter evening, comfortably seated in front of the open fire, in the company of close friends, with a good bottle of wine and some favourite French songs playing in the background… Well. That's what the editor has to say. I suggest you just go out and buy yourself a copy like I did. And love it. Like I did.
 A good Economist article about the mega-hype created around social network Facebook lately Read Social graph-iti and learn why more isn't always better.
 Hoorah. Lafilledo switched to Ello Mobile, the only Mobile operator that donates all its profits to charity. To celebrate, we enjoyed a lovely photoshoot yesterday with Murielle and the allmighty Alex. This is only the beginning... Meow!
 Last Saturday Universal Music gave out free music. It is to say, the Belgian newspaper De Morgen agreed with Universal to give a free copy of Sarah Bettens' new CD Shine with every newspaper sold.
Fedis, the Belgian federation for distribution, responded with a law suit against Universal Music and De Morgen. Next to legal objections, Fedis made clear it was appalled that with this campaign Universal - otherwise an ardent advocate against illegal downloading - fostered the idea of music being free.
A couple of months ago Serge already reported how social networking sites change the way people consume music. The fact that this trend turns consumers away from buying CDs and even legal downloading proves to be a serious thorn in the eye for the music industry.
Earlier this week, MySpace & Sony BMG apparently smoked the dollar-pipe and made peace. MySpace agreed to license streaming music videos, audio and other content from Sony BMG. In a nutshell, Sony BMG will provide content and in return MySpace will promote the artists throughout the site. Both firms will share sponsorship and ad revenue as part of the deal.
That's a whole lot more "free" music than a couple of CDs though...
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 Yeah, I know. This is not a music blog. But here's an event you shouldn't miss; the almighty Robert Wyatt has got a new record out. Hooooo-rah! Robert only makes records every 3 or 4 years, so this is really the event of the month. " Comicopera" is finally available and a lovely package it is. 16 tunes and a beautiful cover by Alfreda Benge. What a godlike experience. Curious? Tune in on the Wyattron to hear some of the new tracks, as well as a selection from his masterly backcatalogue.  Before I forget: next monday, I won't be at the office. I'll be visiting the man himself in London. By the way: did I tell you about that Van Halen "meet and greet" a friend and I once won? It kept going through my mind: what in hell was I going to ask them... Them being my all-time rock heroes, I was dead nervous. Classic record covers they had too. But I was lucky: they cancelled the tour just the day before our meeting. Phew.
 Art Lebedev studio, responsible for that spectacular Optimus Maximus keyboard with a video display on each key, has apparently gone nuts, now giving you a way to test electrical circuits by shocking yourself half to death. The creative design studio calls this a Vilcus plug dactyloadapter,: simply insert a finger in each hole, plug it in, and boom!  You're in Electric Ladyland. Plug Into shocking experiences as a group? Lebedev has also designed a power strip into which you can plug multiple Vilcus units. We're thinking these devices must be commonly used at the Art Lebedev studio, stimulating employees to continue striving to meet that impossible (and continuously floating) deadline for the Optimus Maximus keyboard. Surprisingly enough, this device of questionable sanity is on sale at ThinkGeek for $12.99.  Bring the Vilcus Plug Dactyloadapter with you anywhere you need a quick pick-me-up. The included adapter allows for easy use on US style wall sockets or use the standard plug when traveling to most European countries. © gizmodo.com
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