I don't wanna be a hater but......

I know everybody has been pretty much going crazy for Lady Gaga, a 22 year old electro/dance, New York based singer. She is going to be huge, she kind of already is I guess.

Electro beats thumping and fashionable outfits does not make up for lack of originality miss GaGA. Don't get me wrong I'd rather have her "Just Dance" song being overplayed than most other artists, yet I cant help but think the world (americans) need to hear the orignal artists instead of her Akon label-signed-swedish-produced sound. I mean you got Robyn, Roisin Murphy, Annie, Bertine Zetlitz, miss Grace "motherfucking-rock-attitude" Jones etc so forth, and on and on. It all sounds like stuff I was partying to in underground after clubs about 5 years ago.

What im trying to say is the European electro sound is fucking the American "electro" in the arse royally. 

Yepp I said it and it's out in the open now.

www.ladygaga.com

watch "just dance" here

En la cama [In bed]

My friend Claudio showed me this incredibly erotic and serious 2008 chilean movie, In Bed (En la Cama) that follows two casual lovers that meet at a party and decide to rent a motel room and fuck each others brains out. Starting of like a sexualized version of Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset"  with Ethan Hawke, this movie wonders into the darker side of passion and casual sex as the characters take a break from all the love making and start to interact.

Needless to say the dialogue is nothing short of amazing. It's honest, pure, simple and ironic.

Without sliding over to the overly romantic vibe of "Before Sunrise", yet intimate.

The way the director creeps up close to the characters with his camera, depicting every inch of desire and seduction both characters experience throughout the night is just pure genius.

The actors lay it bare and play their asses off. Looking seemingly comfortable naked.

Definitely one of the best scripted and shot movies I've seen in a long time.

And probably contains one of the HOOOOTTEST sex acts filmed.

If you can get a hold of it here in Europe is well worth a watch.

Farfetched Fashion

Farfetch.com is a new online "boutique" that gathers Europe's most respected independent boutiques that carry interesting up and coming designer names and labels to the finest luxury established designers have to offer.

Farfetched has united 20 boutiques from 10 cities around the continent, like Maria Luisa and Olga in Paris, B store and beyond the valley in London, V-store, ParisTexas in Copenhagen and many,many more.

Farfetched.com's collection is split into three departments; Luxe – for high-end designers, Lab – for experimental or new designers and Cult – for diffusion lines, premium denim brands and unique labels with an inventive take on fashion.

The online boutique also offers an editiorial section where some of the industries heavy hitters provide shoppers with need-to-know style inspiration through a variety of weekly features, trend prediction written by respected journalists, buyers from partner boutiques giving dedicated fashionistas their favourites of the season.

At last somebody has brought boutique into the world of internet shopping. Farfetched indeed.

www.farfetched.com

Ryanairs attention to detail.

Ryanair has a lovely eye for detail. I found this on the toilet on a on board a Ryanair flight Stockholm from London yesterday. Makes one wonder how many things are 'overseen' by mr Ryan Air when buying old american planes. Guess it's just another way of transporting the animals

Headware

Saw this on Sunday Upmarket in Bricklane and completly fell in love with it, wrong colour but beautifully crafted.Very Isabella Blow.

 The picture does no justice to the piece really.

It's a damn shame my pothead mind cannot remember the name of the designer as he had no business card to give(everything is business man!).

Vote for black president

I saw this on a street just off Kingsland Road, in London and just had to document it. Lovely and relevant to our times.

WiFi for the people

Ok so we got this flyer in our mailbox the other day that said: Free WiFi for all Shoreditch.We said GREEEAAT!.There's nothing better than free internet!.

BT is teaming up with FON to give away 1000 free routers for the residents and shops in the Shoreditch area.

Shoreditchwifi.com is a project to create a Free WiFi area for Shoreditch, so that local businesses and residents can share their WiFi with their neighbours and surf the Internet for free.

FON is the world's largest WiFi community, and with your free router, you will get free access not only in Shoreditch, but to hundreds of thousands of WiFi hotspots around the UK and the world.

visit the website now and make Shoreditch the biggest Wifi area in the world.

http://shoreditchwifi.com/

Veenu Leather

I was walking randomly, together with about 20,0000 ppl (give or take) 'round Brick lane and Sunday Up-market on Sunday (duh!) when I stumbled upon this lovely leather goods (bags!bags!bags!) brand, Veenu leather.

Every Veenu leather bag is handmade in the Thar Desert in India, therefore avoiding the pitfalls of factory produced goods ( exploitation of labour, child labour & quality). There are a lot of variations in the leather and the person that crafted them, making each bag unique

The goods are also traded in an open market where makers negotiate a price that is fair to the labour they put in to making the bags.

The bags come in 4 different models and start at £30.

http://www.veenu.co.uk/

I've decided not to blog on the current financial crisis as I'm guessing you are all, like me half shitting their pants, and half not really faced by it, as it (the crisiss) has only begun to trickle down to us every day dopeasspeople. We are urged not panic yet panic stricken the panic stricken media all paint a doomsday picture of the state of the worlds economy. Buhu! people have lived on less before and will continue to do so in the future.

However point is that, no matter how big the crisis will be, there is no excuse for PM Gordon Brown to cheaply make use of the already wrong-on-so-many-levels anti-terrorist laws that have enabled him to freeze Icelandic banks money in the UK to protect UK savers money.
It completly proves that all anti-terrorist laws are just a massive load of bollocks to control and target individuals or those rare moments when a corporate slip-up is so massive it demands state action.
Big Brother is indeed becoming reality in the UK.

Michael Moore - Slacker Uprising

As the US election draws closer, desperate attempts from supporters of both political parties have emerged to swing votes to their side.
Michael Moore has released, Slacker Uprising, a film that documents the failed attempts of Mr Moore to swing votes the Democratic way at the 04 election.The fim follows Moore's 62 city tour of the Swing states in that years election.

Slacker Uprising is Michael Moore's attempt to get the slacker generation off their asses and vote, by bribing them with noodless (?), and shouting very loudly at very publicisized, and very american pep-rallys.

Slacker Uprising is available for free on http://slackeruprising.com/. Ive tried about a 100 times now to download the documentary from this very populist "super-sized super-star" filmmaker, however the film is only available for Canadian and US residents only. A bit puzzling given the fact that the Press Material available on the website states that this movie is "for the fans".
However dopeasspeople salutes mr Moores populist showman politics that aim to get the American people to make the right choice and "Barack" the Vote.

Slacker Up is available for download & order online here

Grace Jones Q Awards

Grace Jones has always been one of the most dope ass people/artist/model and most influetial for fashionistas world wide, so it's no wonder that when miss thing decided to grace (pun intended) the Q awards in London this week, she stole the shine like only miss Jones at 60ish years can.

Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Okay so another Andy Warhol exhibition is perhaps not the most exiting art to see in Londono as I'm sure there must of been about a 1000 of them over the years. Let the man rest!
However Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms exhibition at the Hayward Gallery (We love) takes on the impossible task of trying to unmask the man behind the highly influential art.
Presenting films, screen test, videos and television programmes, along with the more famous paintings and installations, the Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms brings to light the amazing creative processes and combines rare archive material to capture the unusual spirit with which Warhol worked, including oversexed films from the imfamous Andy Warhol factory.
Organised in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Museum in America, the exhibition is certain to bring some stunning pieces of his work to London.
This exhibition kicks some serious ass and worth checking out.
I saw it in Stockholm this past Easter at the "Moderna Museet" and can truly say that although mr Warhol will always remain an enigma, there is a trace of what Warhols pop-mastermind could of been like

Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms,
Hayward Gallery 10am - 6pm,
late night Fridays until 10pm,
7th October 2008 - 18th January 2009.
Tickets are £10.00.
Southbank Centre

Dope Ass Music: Robin Thicke - "Something Else"

Listening to Robin Thicke is like giving a full body massage to your ears. His voice soothes, aches, challenges and gets the party started like nothing else. Having finally earned long overdue respect from the music industry and the acceptance of lovers from both sides of the pond. "Something Else" is the talented mastermind brother of the smash album" The Evolution of Robin Thicke" (released on Neptunes label "StarTrak"). On "Something Else" Thicke let's loose and gets back on top form to croon us with his best Marvin Gaye falsetto, keeping us warm throughout the darkness of winter.

Robin Thicke plays Shepherd's Bush Empire on 27/10/08 book tickets here

"Something Else" is out in the UK on Oct 13th