A new era of monarchy.

Spread for the Costa Rica-based magazine
Revista Collectiva. The theme was “beach” and
I wanted to showcase a new style of mine through
the shiny crome of a beach buggy.
If this would have been done in ‘83 and by a
air-brush artist then it would probably have been
named “Eternity and the car”.

The latest project from the brilliant Game Boy music
innovator/quality junk collector/electronics magician
6955 (aka Jason DeGroot) is a fantastic one.

Jason is making music using hardware that is not
made for music-making. In this case he’s using
a Roland TR-606 drum machine to control eight
Nintendo Famicoms. The 606 is used as a sequenzer
and is triggering sounds from hidden sound menus
found in old Famicom games. It sounds fantastic.
This is so great I fall of my chair when I think
about it. If you’re in Holland December 10th, make
sure to drop by the Impakt festival for the world
premiere show of this machine.
For more info and audio clips click here.

Today I picked up a free-paper in a record-shop.
The name of it is “Specialoose” (yes only on L) and
there is some nice drawings in there. Alot of text
that I don’t understand cause it’s all in japanese
but the articles seem to be interesting.

The nicest thing with this freepaper is it’s weight,
it’s so light I can’t believe it. It measures
105 x 175 x 5 mm and unfortunately I don’t have
a scale but it weights about as much as 30 gram
bag of black pepper so, eh, I guess it weights
around 30 gram. If you see a copy, pick it up.

“Trim & Scratch” is out now, pick up that too.

The other day I went by to see Yosuke Kurita at
his new office. Yosuke is running the brilliant
site cbc-net.com check it out.

I’m in Osaka to meet up with Tatsuki and
Matthias. Matthias is running a t-shirt printer
place/gallery space and I can’t wait to meet them
and check out the place. Have been keeping an
eye open for quality t-shirt printers the recent
months and it seems like Matthias and his
Sweat Shop Union is bringing the quality.

Osaka seems to be a nice place even though I
haven’t seen that much yet, there is network
in every corner of the place it seems like.