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Have you ever heard the city is a living organism with distinct character, taste, smell, sound. Its thriving music scene offers a special kind of storytelling about the city’s personality quirks and cultural passions — an auditory window into the soul of the city. CitySounds.fm opens a dozen such fascinating windows by delivering the latest music from all the world’s most interesting cities, from Sydney to Stockholm even to New York.

Seems hardly graffiti on the city? YrWall provide you a new experience form the latest technology. It’s an interactive drawing art tool where users create virtual digital graffiti on a large wall using a modified spray paint can. The basically graffiti with a can that contains no paint, only a button and IR light source which is tracked using a computer vision system! Enjoy the free interaction graffiti device, however that shit never ever could replace the real graffiti on the wall place!

Lonely urban people like to having a lovely pet for keep accompany with, so that strolling outside become a big problem for everyone. Alice Wang designed a hand-shaped dog leash, from now on,your puppy has a 'hand', and you can hold 'his hand' like a couple!

Source: Alice Wang

“Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places” is the new solo installation and exhibition by London-based artist INSA, and opens on 17th July in association with the Nike Sportswear IAM1 launch of the 2009 Air Maxim. Those animation pproduced by Protein and documented by INSA's long time collaborator, photographer Ethel, each of the 35 hand painted pieces form one of the centre pieces of INSAs major London solo show for 2009. See more at the jump!

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Jazz rap is a fusion of hip hop and jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, afrocentricity, and general positivism. It’s popular in Japan recently, just like house music, but in Taiwan, never see any great singer or rapper bring back that smooth and relaxation music for TW auditors. Until Soft Lipa aka “DanBao”(Egg Benedict in Chinese) shows up from “Kao hip pop music crew” that make me feel tranquil from his music. Glad to see he drops out his first album in Taiwan. Congratulations, Soft Lipa!

The solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st century, not to be surpassed until June 2132. In Chinese traditional views, solar eclipse would bring out some huge catastrophes on the world. Don’t be so serious at that saying; just enjoy the world biggest diamond!

If you want to know more about the solar eclipse, take your free to the jump!

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Taiwanese found up a Michael Jackson dance commemoration tribute which the concept and choreography all form a Youtude film located at Stockholm, Sweden. The mostly glorification thing is, comparing with Sweden prepared more than 300 dancers for this event, all the Taiwanese guys just volunteer for practicing in a few days on this promotion. It has seen a successful event in Taiwan. Hope everyone likes this meaningful tribute for Michael.

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When I saw that idea from the end of the lifelike film, here comes out “Transformer house!!”. It’s totally nice when a projection is visually well balanced within the urban ambiance. All conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. It’s pretty hard to calculate all the details on promoting a vivid film on an architecture, not mention to the fitting sound. Anyway, just enjoy the short!

Look at that genius film work!!! Pierre, Damien and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt), they decided to collaborate for developing a design a font with a car. All the car movements were tracked using custom software which designed by interactive artist Zachary. You could download the new font form Toyota!

Today, the 20th July 2009 is the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon, Mike Stimpson used into his focus in Lego style for this photography. These authentic pictures has been recurred us that well-known saying "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for a minifig!"

Source: Mike Stimpson

Do you always find some suitable chopsticks for eating Chinese food, even could defend the galaxy as well? Here comes the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader lightsabers measure 9" long, with the blades cast in translucent material. No need to use the force when you have a pair of handy Star Wars lightsaber chopsticks a.k.a Chop Sabers! 

Source: Kotous

FREITAG presents a unique limited art edition which cooperation with the Tate Modern London, the Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Palazzo Grassi Venice and the Museum of Contemporary Art L.A. The one-off versions of it’s F52 Miami Vice shopping bag that swapping truck tarps for exhibition banners from these world-leading modern art galleries. FREITAG will release a collection of the museum bags online for each week in August 2009.

Here is the schedule

06.08.2009 TATE Modern, London
13.08.2009 MORI ART Museum, Tokyo
20.08.2009 PALAZZO GRASSI, Venice
27.08.2009 MoCA, Los Angeles

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Hosted by The Brandery fashion trade fair, the Outspace area devotes itself entirely to urban streetwear and sneakers. Described as a new concept in contemporary urban fashion trade shows, Outerspace will be looking at not only fashion but also the artists and designers who are a part of the urban culture scene. In those show case, as far as the eye can see, there are rows of wooden crates with glass windows that reveal a collection of some of the most incredible rare and vintage sneakers ever seen all in one place. It’s an incredible idea that I have never seen before, hope this good sneaker expo exhibition could be continued. LDope will attend on time!
More pictures at the jump.

Via: Sneakernews

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  After Bread & Butter end, Barcelona held a giant fashion show called The Brandery at the Montjuïc exhibition site. We are fascinated with it not because of the name, or the ambition of the show, but because they feature an early 1980s Chevrolet Caprice in their promotional posters. Such a nice advertisement that make a attractive eye sight! With less of the big brand names attending it will be a smaller event than B&B, but with an emphasis on local talent and labels like Armand Basi, Pepe and Lacoste exhibiting it might be a serious contender.

Pix: ighs

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If you crash on “M-Flo” or “Fantastic Plastic Machine”, or “House Nation”, you won’t miss that party !

Imformation:
TCY RADIO TOKYO VS mangalife presents 「The Big Party」@KOBE
Date: 2009/7/25 @ troopcafe KOBE 22:00~midnight DOOR,3500YEN w 1D / ADV 2500YEN w 1D

DJ:　　　
☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo)

☆JOMMY (ROC TRAX / 55DSL) 
☆Oddity
☆Y-BU (RAN CAST,TROOPCAFE)

Check the past party at the jump

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Bread & Butter, is an event bringing together denim makers, sports and street wear, intersections of art and fashion, and other cutting-edge fashion designers for three days in Berlin. This seasons BBB show is being held the former famous international airport, Tempelhof Airport location in Berlin proper. For the next ten years, Bread & Butter has closed a contract with the city of Berlin, and will take place in a most exceptional venue. The place is huge and amazing, it mixes indoor spaces and outdoor ones, indoor booths and outdoor ones.  See more pictures after the continued reading.

All pictures source and copyright : Bread & Butter 

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Monocle continue to develop some interesting projects and trend away for worldwide reader, this time round for teaming up with Japanese most popular retailer Beams to create a watch which base on Rolex submariner molding. There will be able to choose from two colors, either an olive or brown finish. Limited to only 200 pieces with two very subtle shades of olive or brown available from August. There would be pop-up a Monocle x Beams store in Japan.

Source: the 189

For keep alive the remembrance of Michael Jackson, Tower Records Japan remade three old designed T-shirts that commemorate the King of Pop. It’s too commercial for money; maybe some people would think it’s just a memento. Anyway, too much companies or brands do that so, but we can’t do a lot of it. Pity…

Source: Tower Records 

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We have introduced Japanese photographer Yasumasa "Yone" Yonehara presents its latest format Polaroid pictures and integrate Taiwanese pioneer graffiti artist “Reach” with a biennial concept. Now we just come back for a review, to get a better idea, have a look at the image after the jump.

Moreover, Yone will back to Taipei on this weekend, he would bring the most cute model, Lena Fujii and the most sexyDJ, DJ Heavygrider (the one he cooperation in KFC Krusher) to Taipei famous night club - LUXY. We all look forward Lena's voice and her song!!!

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Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center a.k.a CPDRC is a maximum security prison in Cebu, Philippines. The official security advisor, Byron Garcia who was assigned as head of the prison by Gwendolyn Garcia, is credited for starting a program of choreographed exercise routines for the inmates. I just think that it so amazing what they do, it’s a great idea for discipline and recreation for the prisoners. Following Jackson's death in 2009, they performed a tribute to Jackson in front of hundreds of spectators at the prison(But they also do as well in 2007). 1500 CPDRC inmates performed an entire show of choreographed dance moves to various Michael Jackson songs on Saturday, June 27th, as a loving tribute to the singer.

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