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Frisch - oh how fresh!

Possibly the coolest store in Berlin. These young and fresh (frisch is German for fresh) fashion designers have got it... eldorado for people who are looking for cool stuff combined with high quality. The shop owner sits in front of a woodfire oven in an old east german shop and takes your measures and makes the piece for you.... friendly and creative.... check their website for more info and their collections.

Look out for an upcoming Berlin Photo Album on neverhappened!

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DAM - Digital Art Museum

This DAM website is a good resource for the history of digital ART - a must bookmark. And worth a visit when in Berlin!

Digital Art Museum  (DAM) aims to become the world's leading online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art.

It exhibits the work of leading Artists in this field since 1956. [DAM] is an on-line museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews.

Neverhappening: Acid Bar, Emerald Hill

This comes firmly on the drink side of the Food and Drink category, but if you are in Singapore this friday, come down to the Acid Bar (next to the Alley Bar in Emerald Hill) after 9pm. I'll be there, so if you see me greet me with the secret neverhappened handshake. It's just like a normal handshake, but you stare into the other person's eyes with fiendish intensity bordering on insanity. Simple.  Here's the official invite text:

FRONTAL  Presents:

Open Mix Sessions

Supported by Heineken Music

Friday, 25th Feb 9pm

Acid Bar (Emerald Hill, next to Alley Bar)

Bear witness to the future of club music, as the most forward thinking musicians and DJs come together to create a night of elemental grooves. The Open Mix backed by a combination of vocalists, visual artists and keyboardists; along with the finest DJs in the industry, is a brand new clubbing experience. Open your eyes and ears; and embrace the soundclash of robotic beats against lush warm melodies. Feast on the kaleidoscope of vibes and atmosphere. The future of clubbing is here.

Hunter S. Thompson: So Long and Mahalo

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. . . .” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: “Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?”

That's the opening paragraph of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  Yes, it was also a movie starring Johnny Depp playing Groucho Marx playing Hunter S. Thompson.  If you haven't seen it, don't. It'll ruin both the book and Johnny Depp forever.

Oh, and lastly I'll leave you with this:  Hunter's last creation,  Shotgun Golf.

Shotgun Golf was invented in the ominous summer of 2004 AD, right here at the Owl Farm in Woody Creek, Colo. The first game was played between me and Sheriff Bob Braudis, on the ancient Bomb & Shooting Range of the Woody Creek Rod & Gun Club. It was witnessed by many members and other invited guests, and filmed for historical purposes by Dr. Thompson on Super-Beta videotape.

The game consists of one golfer, one shooter and a field judge. The purpose of the game is to shoot your opponent's high-flying golf ball out of the air with a finely-tuned 12-gauge shotgun, thus preventing him (your opponent) from lofting a 9-iron approach shot onto a distant "green" and making a "hole in one." Points are scored by blasting your opponent's shiny new Titleist out of the air and causing his shot to fail miserably. That earns you two points. But if you miss and your enemy holes out, he (or she) wins two points when his ball hits and stays on the green.

And after that, you trade places and equipment, and move on to round 2.

My patent is pending, and the train is leaving the station, and Murray is a Founding Consultant, along with the Sheriff, and Keith Richards, etc., etc. Invest now or forever hold your peace.

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As for Bill's triumphant finish at Pebble Beach, I am almost insanely proud of him. He is an elegant athlete in the finest Murray tradition. Bill is a dangerous brute with the fastest reflexes in Hollywood, but he is suave, and that is why I trust him even more than I trust all his brothers. Yes, I say Hallelujah, praise Jesus. Where is Brian? I will need him for this golf project, if only to offset Bill's bitchiness. We will march on a road of bones.

OK. Back to business. It was Bill Murray who taught me how to mortify your opponents in any sporting contest, honest or otherwise. He taught me my humiliating PGA fadeaway shot, which has earned me a lot of money ... after that, I taught him how to swim, and then I introduced him to the shooting arts, and now he wins everything he touches. Welcome to the future of America. Welcome to Shotgun Golf.

So long and Mahalo.

Hunter.

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Wiretap IS Yo Daddy

I'm not normally into sales, but this is a product worthy of advocation. I've had a stream of problems trying to get music or sound samples off my mini disc recording device into my mac. One reason is Sony doesn't support Mac, so I've had the time consuming process of using garageband to record everything off my mini disc at full sample size, which chokes my mac, then export to itunes and convert to AAC file format. But this little beauty not only dumps it to any location on your mac including any playlist in itunes, it file converts to 4 different formats on the fly. AND not only does it take any mic or external recording device it also has internal recording, so for example you might record a bit of jazz from your favourite web station as you go or, like those two sample songs barnaby put up from Goodshirt.. just play them and record them. Brilliant. Not bad that Fiji Baby either.

Note: You can Ctrl-click the Fiji Baby link and download the song without wiretap.

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ths.nu

Kind of David Carsonish art/design/whatever you wanna call it by someone from .nu.  That's the Netherlands isn't it?  Anyway, check out the gluebooks.

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Goodshirt - Fiji Baby

When I was leaving New Zealand, I bought the new Goodshirt CD  at Wellington Airport.  Here's a couple of the tracks I like from it.  If you like them you can buy the album online from Real Groovy Records in Auckland New Zealand and they'll send you a little parcel with it inside.  It would be quite exciting I think.

Fiji Baby

Cold Body Blues

Buy Fiji Baby from Real Groovy

Scientific Evidence of a Global Conciousness

It's a humble-looking black box known as a Random Event Generator (REG). It uses computer technology to generate two numbers - a one and a zero - in a totally random sequence, rather like an electronic coin-flipper.

The pattern of ones and noughts - 'heads' and 'tails' as it were - can then be printed out as a graph. The laws of chance dictate that the generators should churn out equal numbers of ones and zeros - which would be represented by a nearly flat line on the graph. Any deviation from this equal number shows up as a gently rising curve.

During the late 1970s, researchers decided to investigate whether the power of human thought alone could interfere in some way with the machine's usual readings. They invited strangers off the street and asked them to concentrate their minds on this number generator. In effect, asking them to try to make it flip more heads than tails.

It was a preposterous idea at the time. The results, however, were stunning and have never been satisfactorily explained.

Again and again, entirely ordinary people proved that their minds could influence the machine and produce significant fluctuations on the graph, 'forcing it' to produce unequal numbers of 'heads' or 'tails'.

According to all of the known laws of science, this should not have happened - but it did. And it kept on happening.

originally published at rednovanews.com

Sydney and Wellington

Got back from Sydney and Wellington on Monday.  Sorry for the lack of updates.  Here's an album to make up for it somewhat.  In it you'll see a lot of blue sky, and a guest appearance from my brother Wiremu.  That's his ring.  The markings are a Cabbage tree, a telegraph pole, a crucifix,  a fern frond and a Nikau palm.  It's made by his friend Ashley Hilton (ashleyhilton at paradise.net.nz).

OK, flying to Delhi now, gotta love ya and leave ya...  taxi's waiting...

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Apples to Apples

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1.
The judge picks a green apple card from the top of the stack, reads the word aloud, and places it face up on the table.

2.
Players (except the judge) choose the red apple card from their hand that is best described by the word on the green apple card played by the judge. Players quickly place these red apple cards face down on the table, according to the following rules –

3.
The judge mixes the red apple cards so no one knows who played which card. The judge turns over each red apple card, reads it aloud, and then selects the one he or she thinks is best described by the word on the green apple card. The player of the selected red apple card is awarded the green apple card played by the judge.

4.
To keep score, players keep the green apple cards they have won until the end of the game.

5.
The judge collects all of the red apple cards played during that round and discards them into the box bottom.

6.
The card tray, and the role of judge, passes to the player on the left. The new judge deals enough red apple cards to bring each player's hand back up to seven.

7.
Play continues following steps 1-6 until someone has earned enough green apple cards to win the game!

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