Let's make some beautiful fucking cards, together!

Imagine next week is a special birthday of a close friend and you are tired of facebook messaging and whatsapping. You really want to do something retro, something classy.

A birthday card is the idea. You go into a store and the cards available make you want to throw up. Jerky, boring sayings and frightening images of little walking presents or of little kittens significantly increase your level of aggression?

 

 

Here is the solution: Calligraphuck.

 

Stylish Callighraphuck cards allow you to express your real feelings - also with swear words. A card that will defenitely not be thrown into the garbage!

 

 

Calligraphuc combines hand-written lettering and swearing. The project needs to reach its $10,000 funding target, and the treasures will be available to buy online (8 designs in total), and you will be able to pick which set you would like (or get both!). The web-shop will open at the end of this month!

 

Check out the video by graphic designer Linus Boman explaining the project.:

 

 

 

Nice: free worldwide shipping 

 

You can donate, share them, or follow Calligraphuck on Facebook, Twitter, Instagramm, Printerest, and Tumblr.

 

 

Go to the website

 

 

 

We love Radio

Also tired of Bullshit Music playing in every bar and shop you are visiting? Feel like nice spots with great music are rare? So do I.
Therefore here a couple of really good radio stations you will keep in mind. Most of them without annoying blabla but just selected, versatile music which will enhance your personal hitlist and your dull sunday afternoon.




1. RADIO MEUH

Broadcasting since 2007, an independent French radio, 100% music, no publicity, playing 24h nonstop with great and varied music at all hours. With the Playlist (which is fabulous in comparison to other broadcasts) you can always see who is playing at the moment and what’s the name of your future favorite album. Délicieux!

Listen To RADIO MEUH>



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Compatible with a fancy Smartphone: yes


2. RADIO LEDJAM

Select french online radio with no unnecessary talking – just a nice variety of high-class music with cool artist and a decent website design with artist pics. Tops and Flops list is nice. Some goodies are the live concerts & the Morning Show.





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Compatible with a fancy Smartphone: yes


3. RADIO ELLEBORE






Another frenchie radio from Chambéry, the capital of the beautiful Savoy region. Illegally broadcasted first in 1977, legally first in 1981. Also no publicity but only select titles with a slight accent on french music. Interesting are the various emissions at all times of the day that will make sure you are never bored again.

Listen to RADIO ELLEBORE>

Compatible with a fancy Smartphone: yes

Minimal and stylish desktop wallpapers that look professional but not boring can be found at MinimalWall. They use Basic colours, graphics and mindful words, are supposed to look nice and at the same time serve as motivation while you are starring at your computer.

I say it works, which one is your favorite?

Go to th MinimalWall website

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                                What to listen to when you are bored?

RADIO COLIFATA is the first radio station broadcasting from a psychiatric Hospital which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2011.

Colifata is Lunfardo and means something like crazy-wonderful or also crazy inspired.

The program is conducted by patients, ex-patients, and visitors of the hospital José T. Borda every Saturday for five hours and broadcasted from the garden of the institution.

The program “Colifata” is a mixture of reflections on various topics starting from the daily life at the clinic to more philosophic discourses on insanity and normality and assorted music.

What started as a small project has become a very popular program which is regarded to be therapeutic for the patients participating and which has served as a model for several similar radio projects around the world.

The documentary “LT22 Radio La Colifata" by the Argentinean director Carlos Larrondo accompanies the life of the patients of the psychiatric hospital with the Soundtrack from Manu Chao – one of Colifatas most famous supporters.

The Colifata radio station has already developed into a phenomena which has helped to revise the social stigmatization of psychologically ill patients - especially in Argentina. Due to the enormous success and the millions of listeners around the world this project has in a way contributed to the re-integration of these patients into society and also helped to gain acceptance for mental illnesses in general.

Listen now to RADIO COLIFATA

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Off-Sonar-Experiment

Sonar weekend Barcelona – The Off-Sonar - Experiment

...and again it’s time to go completely wild and celebrate music, love, summer, & life at the biggest electronic music festival in Europe.

Every year about 80.000 people from all over the world gather to celebrate some of the most popular international representatives of electronic music in Barcelona, Spain.

Apart from the Sonar there is a uncountable amount of parties, off-sonar-festivals and events celebrated at the same weekend with not less top-class artists making some the off-sonar events a serious alternative to the “real” festival.
An endless list of amazing artists playing at numerous selected venues (many events are already sold out) and a promising sunny 27°C weekend sounds like the best festival-weekend during this summer.
People who do not like the Sonar festival premises may be re-compensated by attending the uncountable alternative off-sonar events held at private mansions, amazing hotel terraces, public swimming pools, beach bars etc.

This year I am going to check out some of the hottest spots hoping to see amazing locations, listening to incredible music and meeting interesting people meanwhile.

I am ready are you?


Here an overview of all the EVENTS going on these days during Off-Sonar.


                                                         Yummies:

Sonar/Off 2012 - Mobilee & Friends Pool Session (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

DJs: Slam, Nic Fanciulli, Robbie Akbal and Safeword, Anja Schneider, Pan-Pot, Sebo K, Martin Landsky, Ray Okpara, And.Id, Dan Curtin, Ralf Kollmann, Re.You and Sebastian Radlmeier, M.A.N.D.Y ., Booka Shade (DJ Set), Maceo Plex B2B Jon DaSilva, DJ T.,Catz N Dogz, Siopis, Blond:ish, Smash TV, Oddparents (among others).

Where:Piscinas Municipales Montjuic / Avinguda Miramar, Barcelona

Entrance: 20 € at doors

      

The breathtaking location familiar from the 2003 music video, “Slow”, featuring Kylie Minogue



COCOON HEROES

DJs: Tobi Neumann, Daniel Stefanik, Frank Lorber, Dorian Paic, Markus Fix, Chris Tietjen, Martin Huergo

Where:Mac Arena Mar Beach Club

Entrance: free

Half Baked- Sonar Rooftop GardenParty (Day/Night)

DJs: Les Fils Du Calvaire, Hold Youth (Sueil b2b Le loup), The Mole b2b Mike Shannon, Mara Trax, Onur Ozer, Rainer, Greg Brockmann b2b Julietta, DJ W!ld, Christian Burkhardt live, Yakine, Robin Ordell

Where: Vetro Club C/ Adriá Margarit 27, 08035 Barcelona

Entrance: 30€

Ego and Whatpeopleplay present: 10 Years Watergate

DJs: Solomun, Ellen Allien, Tiefschwarz, M.A.N.D.Y. (Philipp Jung), H.O.S.H., Mathias Kaden, Heidi, DJ Hell, Sebo K, Marco Resmann, La Fleur

Where: EL MONASTERIO POBLE ESPANYOL

ENTRANCE: INVITATION ONLY

                                        

                                          

Y’akoto -  Album "Baby Blues" (2012)

Born in Hamburg Germany as daughter of a well known ghanaian musician and a german mother, Jennifer Yaa Akoto Kieck alias Y’akoto led a nomadic lifestyle beeing raised in Ghana, Carerun, Togo, and Tschad and lived in Hamburg, Lomé, and Paris. The 23- year-old artist believes that in order to truly find yourself someday you have to continuously loose yourself.

Her debut album “Babyblues” makes the listener loose his head with profound, sexy, and bright songs (a fusion between soul, pop and afrobeats) and a powerful voice which some describe as a mixture between Erykah Badu & Nina Simone. At least as good! Incomparable and incredible!


Y´akoto Official Website

Everbody just LOVES mondays! Here is the perfect item for mondays at the office...

Designed to use the valuable time at the office at a maximum - or example for a a short but refreshing nap:

"OSTRICH offers a micro environment in which to take a warm and comfortable power nap at ease. It is neither a pillow nor a cushion, nor a bed, nor a garment, but a bit of each at the same time. Its soothing cave-like interior shelters and isolates our head and hands (mind, senses and body) for a few minutes, without needing to leave our desk."

Also good to hide from the collegues, the angry boss, screaming girlfriend or lousy conversations...

OSTRICH Design Website