Music Monday - Nightwave

UK based Slovenian Nightwave, formerly known as 8Bitch is someone that many of you may already know by now and if you don't you are sure to find out this year. A close friend of the Glasgow based Lucky Me collective, Nightwave makes electronic music, DJ's and is also a vocalist (she recently collaborated with her boyfriend Rustie on his album track Surf). A real multi talented individual she has also done some acting in her time including parts in UK Police drama The Bill. She is also a Judo champion!

With a few releases under her belt on the likes of labels such as Svetlana Industries and Unknown to the Unknown which has helped put her on the radar in the dance music scene. But more recently it's her DJ'ing that she has been gaining attention, her very eclectic tastes and talent are obvious in her sets as she plays whatever she wants, bouncing between techno, classic chouse, grime, r n b, juke, hip hop and everything inbetween.





Her talent has resulted in her being selected as a participant in the world famous Red Bull Music Academy where she will have been given the best opportunity and teaching to hone her art. If her RBMA set at the Sonardome during the Sonar festival in Barcelona a few weeks ago is anything to go by she has really stepped her game up with a set that blew Sonar away.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU DID SOMETHING FOR THE FIRST TIME

Eastpak, have launched their new advertising campaign, catchily titled:
'When Was The Last Time You Did Something For The First Time'.

The older you get the smaller the chance it'll happen, so stay young and get involved, for me it was so long ago, i'll need to figure my next 'First Time' out

Visit the website at  www.whenwasthelasttimeyoudidsomethingforthefirsttime.com .

 

 EASTPAK, the authentic urban lifestyle brand, has unleashed its new 2012 creative campaign into the world. A celebration of the path less travelled, the campaign inspires us to seek out new experiences, break new ground and invent new ways to enrich our lives and our urban environments. Which is why every element of the 360° media campaign centers around one challenging, thought-provoking question: “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

We all dream about the future. We all make plans. And we all make promises to ourselves. “I’ll do that one day,” we say. But most of the time we break those promises and that “one day” never comes. Developed by the Brussels-based communications agency, Satisfaction, the 2012 EASTPAK campaign is all about helping us keep those promises, by reminding us of the things that truly inspire us; by making us think about the things we really live for, and by suggesting simple ways we can live more fulfilling lives and add meaning to the cities we live in.

Because life in the city is all about transformation and metamorphosis, invention and reinvention, evolution and revolution. The urban environment is in constant flux. You can either move with it, rebel against it or give it new meaning and direction.

John Israel, Satisfaction: “We believe that by living out a new experience we share a part of ourselves with the people around us. Finding new sensations helps us find new things out about ourselves.  Looking at something differently broadens the mind, just as much as seeing something for the first time. It's all in the action, the taking of that first step. Which is why we asked members of our community (between 20 and 28) to send us their experience ideas. This information formed the basis of our campaign.” 

The 2012 European EASTPAK campaign will be released on 21^st May 2012. It is a 360° media campaign containing visuals and movies filmed on location in St. Paulo by Arnaud Uyttenhove in Febuary 2012, featuring real people living out real experiences.

So what about you? When was the last time you did something for the first time?

             www.whenwasthelasttimeyoudidsomethingforthefirsttime.com

The country life (PM)

Way to go, having such a great time in the face of such horrible art!
And way to go, Chickpea, on ingeniously using the Gaia themed workshop idea to spark people's interest in going away for the weekend.
She is like a magical pied piper, luring the people away from the city with the sound of her LOLs.

It just so happens that I went to the country this weekend too. With Neville, Scampy and Banana.
We didn't do any workshops but we did have a wonderful time.
Highlights included:

• Friday night's dinner of rump steak with fried egg on top (I only want my steak like this now)
• the multiple massages Banana gave me to fix my sore back (thanks Banana, you truly are the best)
• the giant bathtub that soaked in all Saturday afternoon
• Neville's purchase of packets of fun size Flake and Cherry Ripe, which I totally smashed
• ongoing hilarity. 

Mate, I actually started thinking while I was away that we should start a Miss Soft Crab savings account and one day buy a weekend in the country. Don't you think that would rule?

The country life (AM)

I don't know what you all did this weekend but I know that I spent 24 hours in the country and if I didn't feel so damned tired from having such a wonderful time I'd be feeling really refreshed and wonderful! What a great time! When I left on Saturday morning I felt normal, fine, you know, normal. By the time we got where we were going and people were asking, "How are you?" I was beaming and saying ,"YEAH! Really good!" And that was just after the drive!

LB, Baby and I went to a little place outside of Daylesford on Saturday for a delightful stayover with Chickpea, Strawberry, Lala, D-Digs, the Harnesenator and E&J. It was a NYE reunion. Chickers organised it and after her initial email attempt to organise the weekend had got no response, she repackaged it like this:

  Mother Gaia WORSHIP WEEKEND 

 Celebrate the WINTER SOLSTICE!!!!!! 

  Realign your CHAKRAS !!!!!!!!!!! 

 Balance your SPIRITUAL MERIDIANS!!!!!! 

 Awaken your KUNDALINI!!!!!! 

You can bet everyone got on board pretty much immediately! There were even going to be workshops.

Lala: A guided mushroom experience

Strawberry: Phatbeatz

Chickpea: Fluoro art

J: Menstruation

D-Digs: Aesthetic Enlightenment: Natural fibre's and their relationship to purification and  harmony and Go-Go for Gaia

Harnsenator: Areola reading

E&J: Sweat lodge construction & levitation

As you can see, it promised to be a pretty wonderful and enlightening weekend. And boy, the mudbrick house we stayed in really came to the Gaia party, check out this "art" that was on the wall. 

It's like a giant, metal, my family sticker! And that is just one of many. It was everywhere. In the house, around the property. My eyes got so full of ironwork art. *Shudder* There was the most hideous cat metal art on the wall. I tried to photograph it but my camera rebelled and the photo didn't work out.

It turns out, in fact, that ironwork art is really big in the Hepburn area. Why they wanna ruin the natural beauty of that place I don't understand. 

And in case you are interested in what my bedroom looked like, here is the chenille bedspread. It really lifted the room.

The only "workshop" I experienced was some impromptu go-go (for Gaia) before dinner. Sadly I was putting Baby to bed during the levitation workshop. I could hear the squeals of delight as "light as a feather, stif as a board" was performed with success.

I did partake in a pretty wonderful and feminist game of scrabble. If you ask me I got the best and most appropriate word. I wonder if you can tell which one it is.

Yesterday I had the skinniest sandwich in Daylesford I have ever seen.

But the nature guys! The nature!

Hottie of The Week - Emilia Clarke

Star of Game of Thrones and all round beauty Emilia Clarke claims the Hottie of The Week title today. The English born actress has grabbed everyone's attention with her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

If you haven't watched Game of Thrones yet get to know, it is truly gripping and made all the better with Emilia Clarke.

Crooks & Castles - Airgun

US streetwear giants Crooks & Castles famous Airgun print sweat's have just landed instore at Fat Buddha. The brand began life back in 2002 by Dennis Calvero and Robert Panlilio to bring a different element to the realm of streetwear. Now in 2012 the brand is as big as ever. The airgun sweat comes in a variety of colours and prints shown below.

All of the prints shown above and more T-Shirts and Hats from the brand are available online and instore at Fat Buddha Store now. You can check it out here.

HUF - Death From Above

The new Death From Above 6 Panel Volley hat from famous San Francisco brand HUF has just arrived instore at Fat Buddha Store. HUF-founder Keith Hufnagel grew up skateboarding in the gritty streets of New York City's late-80s. In those days, skateboarding was simply not accepted: it was punk rock, it was hip-hop, it was a counterculture of outcasts misunderstood by the masses. It was a way of life that would ultimately shape Hufnagel's outlook on life.

In 1992, Hufnagel moved to San Francisco to pursue his passion of skateboarding. He turned professional soon after, providing him a rare and rewarding opportunity to travel the world by means of his skateboard and the industry that supported him. Brought up by the very 'do-it-yourself' approach that came along with skateboarding, Hufnagel saw an opportunity to give back to that same community which had raised him, and opened a small boutique in 2002 on an offbeat block of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, the first of its kind. Its aim: to bring together under one roof the most respected brands that the skateboard, streetwear, and sneaker communities had to offer.  He named the shop HUF, and it quickly came to be recognized as the Bay Area's premier purveyor of hard-to-come-by goods.

With its rapid growth and popularity, Hufnagel found the necessity to launch his own line, HUF, assimilating into one label what he felt epitomized skateboarding, streetwear, and sneaker fashion. Since its inception, HUF has evolved into an independent manufacturer of premium apparel, footwear, and skateboarding goods, and us guy's here at Fat Buddha Store have always regarded the brand very highly.

The Death From Above 6 Panel is available in the camo colour shown above as well as Gold, Slate and Black and you can pick it up online here or ask in store.