i love your sexy beats!! an exclusive mix recorded yesterday during the “iloveyourtshirt.com” party night! phunky & fresh undergroundhouse vibes mixed by françOis (me).. don’t forget to visit www.iloveyourtshirt.com, the finest selection of tshirts around the world!!

tracklist::
digital minds | funk from my trunk | downsouth music
troydon | drop it | spatula city
special interest | song like this | guesthouse music
ricardo rae | believe it | guesthouse music
troydon | sway the feel | phonoshuffle
inland knights | none of these | drop music
mr devins | the comeback (da sunlounge remix) | dae
inland knights | not crazy | drop music
dj heather | picture of you (s&b remix) | blackcherry
jimmy corona | refused | ghost
justin timberlake | sexy back (sneak remix) | jive
lamanex | sweet pheasant | spatula city

Ohne Worte, vorgestern passiert.

Messis Kommentar dazu: “Ich habe einfach gesehen, dass da Platz war“. Achso, ja richtig, da war Platz. Da standen nicht etwa SECHS Gegenspieler im Weg..

LaFraise.com is a design community who produce shirts. It started in 2004 as an experiment by the Parisien Patrice Cassard who set up a system to upload designs, present them as shirts and let users vote the best styles. He then started to produce and sell the most popular shirts, in a limited number, paying royalties to the original designer. Now, the site has grown ever more popular into a European shirt design community (and has recently been acquired by Spreadshirt).

Lafraise offers an affiliate program for people who promote the shirts. Since I do not only like most of the designs but also the whole community approach of the idea, I decided to put a flashcode into my site (in the sidebar to the right) which shows the recent designs. If you decide to buy a shirt after clicking the banner, I will get 10% of the purchased sum which I can spend on shirts.

It’s a nice idea and just an experiment and since I like the shirts anyway and assume that my visitors will too, I figured why not try it out. What do you think? Are you being annoyed by the animated banner? Do you think it is a smart idea? Or is lafraise ripping me off with poor gratification?

When telling marketing people about my blog and how many visitors come by here daily (around 200 which is a nice number but still loooooooong tail, no?) they tend to ask me: “Why don’t you put ads on your site?”. Hm. Dunno. Too much stress to administrate? Not worth the effort? Besides: I know, would I put ads here, I’d put much more work in getting more people on the site which could change: What I write about and how I do it. On the other hand, I am vain enough wanting many people to come here anyway, independent from ads..

[PLACE YOUR AD HERE (in case it’s as pretty as the site)]

Actually, Stylewalker.net would be a mag where, I guess, advertising wouldn’t surprise visitors. It’s music, it’s style, it’s interesting web stuff, it’s Berlin – it’s not the ohsoindependent opinion driven private newsroom or diary. I am the last to say advertising is bad, but in the context of a site who has a strong message to tell about how the world should be, ads just don’t seem to be appropriate.

Here, they would under one condition. They had to be stylish. Banners must look nice, I would not like stupid text links or blinky animated gifs. I want cool ideas, good photos, interesting products. As long as these premises are not complied, I am afraid, I can’t put ads here.

But if you are somebody who is looking for exactly that match (Me: A cool site about cool stuff, You: selling stylish ads for interesting products), please write and give me your clients’ money!

hey i’m back! after 5 months, here is a set mixed by me.. as you see i need some training, but there’s some good and fresh tracks! i will try to do better next time, this set is without ambition, just for fun! [track id on demand]

For those who didn’t know, streetart is big in Berlin! Here’s a little clip that shows some protagonists, their art, some ironic commentary and a funky soundtrack!

By Reclaimyourstreets, found via Wooster collective.

And here’s a nice initiative: Youthougtwewouldntnotice, who claims copyrights of street artists whose work has been used for commercial purposes without notice. It is also a great archive on how streetart influences graphic design. [found via Agendapop]

Auch wenn der Re:publica an einigen Stellen vorgeworfen wird, sie sei lahm, langweilig und überhaupt alle Blogger dort ziemlich selbstreferentiell gewesen (”Blogger sprechen mit Bloggern übers Bloggen” – hm, ja, stimmt) ist mir das ziemlich egal, in die besten Clubs kommen eben auch nicht alle rein und die drin sind, sprechen darüber wie toll es ist, drin zu sein. Ist es auch. Wenn man drin ist.

Ich habe mich auf jeden Fall sehr wohl gefühlt in dieser loggeren Atmosphäre im Kontakthof oder im “Nerdgeschoss” wo es sich eben so vertraut anfühlte, weil sich alle, zumindest irgendwie, schon kannten. Dass das aber überhaupt nicht repräsentativ für die “deutschen Blogger” war, ist ja sonnenklar und das hat auch niemand behauptet. Das war vielleicht eine irgendwie lose gekoppelte Szene, aber ganz viele waren eben auch nicht da. So und um mal ein bisschen Social Networking zu betreiben, danke ich für die netten Gespräche und Inspirationen: Markus, Jan Schmidt, Falk, Steffen Büffel, Florian, Robert, Oliver, Pit und Nico.

Noch zwei Anmerkungen zu von mir besuchten Panels:
Bei der Diskussion über Politik hätte ich gerne noch über die Verwendung von Kommunikation gesprochen, denn man kann viel reden, vor allen Dingen im Internet, Entscheidungen werden dennoch woanders getroffen und warum soll dann ein Gespräch im Netz mehr wert sein als das der Politiker auf der Straße? Für mich gibt es da keinen Unterschied und auch keine “Verpflichtung” der Politik, das Netz zu nutzen. Höchstens, wenn sie sich kulturell damit identifizieren.

Die Jungs, die über Games gesprochen haben, bewiesen leider wenig Fantasie, bei jeder tollen Idee aus dem Publikum, wie die Spiele der Zukunft aussehen könnten, wiegelten sie zynisch ab. Geht nicht, passt nicht, überhaupt nicht drin. Ein bisschen mehr Enthusiasmus bitte, das nächste Mal!

Außerdem ist die Tasche von Tim Pritlove gestohlen worden, voll mit wertvollen Dingen. Das ist Scheiße und wer dafür sorgen kann, dass sie wieder auftaucht, sollte das tun. Die ganze Geschichte bei Tim.

Some may say that music is too hard nowadays…. it’s not… it’s only stronger than ever before! If you think Clubmusic is dead… think again!

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Tracklisting:

1) Revolution – Fabrice Mondor ft Shurakano
2) I’d Rather Be Alone – Macca ft Mel Sweet
3) Getcha Some – Pleasure Center (Orangefuzz Star Club Mix)
4) Feel Together – Ben Macklin (Eddie Thoneick Mix)
5) Discoteka G – Phil H Dirrty Guitar Bootleg
6) You used to Hold Me 2006 – Marc Leaf vs Ralphi Rosario
7) La Discotek – D Ramirez
Ring The Alarm – Beyonce (Freemasons Club Mix)
9) The Beat Is Rocking – Erick E
10) So Deep – Walker (Chris Cox Mix)
11) Touch Me – Kass Fox (Spencer Hill Remix)

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Wow, this is what I call impact, look at the Technorati searches to the right.
I guess I do not necessarily have to say much myself in this case, just that re:publica is a nice conference about life on the net with a good vibe and surprisingly many girls (usually, you’ll only find guys on this web 2.0bloggingcastingmediachanging digitalworldrevolution things..) See some pics or read about it. Or ask me later when you see me personally. But the coolest, most instant and somehow closest tool to get an impression on what’s going on at the conference is the very twittery live comment tool of the lectures via SMS.

Half inspired by a Chuck Palahniuk book I read in high school, half inspired by an overabundance of free time. My last song was 50 seconds long, this one clocks in at over 6 minutes (you know, to balance things out). And for those of you playing along at home, you’ll be happy to know I’m kicking mono’s ass.