Filed under: Meet ...., fashion, just informing | Tags: ACNE, Acne Jeans, Ambition to Create Novel Expressions, interview, Jonny Johansson, Stockholm
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Just because Jonny Johansson, owner and creative director @ Acne Jeans, is named by TIME magazine as ‘the man who made Acne cool’.
Wanne get to know him a bit better? Read his Time Magazine interview or another interview here. Read and learn!
Acne Jeans is a Swedish denim manufacturer and part of the Stockholm-based design firm "Ambition to Create Novel Expressions" (ACNE).
The denim offshoot began in 1997 when ACNE designed 100 pairs of jeans to distribute among friends, family and clients of the company. Before long a public request for these raw denim jeans with red stitching appeared and the following year (1998) Acne Jeans released its first collection. Ever since Acne Jeans has released two yearly collections every spring and autumn
Check out their new shop at the ‘9 straatjes’ in Amsterdam. As Johansson says: Amsterdam is an inspirational city and to be part of that and a dialogue with the people who appreciate the most interesting architecture, design and art is so important for me
A pair of vintage jeans c.1901-1922 from the Levi Strauss & Co. archives
Just because you have to check the interview with this woman Lynn Downey , the Levi Strauss & Co. archivist and historian, because she probably got one of the most tied jobs in the world ;)
As she says: ‘A lot of these guys were like, no! And they put on their jeans, got on their motorcycles and they hit the road.’
Some of the interesting holdings in Levi’s Archive:
- The “XX” – the oldest pair of 501® jeans in the world, from c1879
- 10 pairs of jeans from the 19th century
- A pair of jeans from 1938 that towed a car
- Denim jackets redesigned or decorated by Elton John, Queen Latifah, Yves St. Laurent, Elizabeth Taylor and others
- A pair of jeans that prevented a child from being burned
- Letters from Cary Grant, Henry Kissinger, Clint Eastwood, Lady Bird Johnson, and silent-movie cowboy William S. Hart
- A one-piece garment for women called “Freedom-Alls” from 1918
- A denim tuxedo jacket made for Bing Crosby in 1951
- A jacket and pair of jeans signed by The Rolling Stones
Just because we can see this performance by Kyteman over and over again…..
’Kyteman’s hiphop orchestra is immensely dynamic, divers, equally explosive and whispering, with lyrics in English and French. But above all, it is an overwhelming live experience. The orchestra has three violin players, a cellist, three horn players, keys, a drummer, percussionist, bass player and of course the trumpet of Kyteman himself.
Kyteman conducts his orchestra with a top head and a steady hand and without compromising his great trumpet playing’.
Filed under: movies | Tags: angry, carice van houten, commercial, dutch film festival, going wild
Just because our well known Dutch top-actrice Carice van Houten decided to do this funny commercial for the Dutch Film Festival.
Filed under: Music to your ears | Tags: fever ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Röyksopp, The Knife, What Else is There
Just because this video of Röyksopp is beautiful, and we’ve never seen it before.
A bit strange because the name of this girl is Karin Dreijer Andersson, she used to be in a group called the Knife, and recently released her debut solo album under the name Fever Ray in March 2009. Album name Fever Ray. Which of course, you already know from our previous posts.
Filed under: mobile pics - on the road | Tags: bike, paris, work in progress
Just because parked bikes can be picked up in a week again……sorry guys, work in progress here Paris ;)
Filed under: just informing | Tags: Born in the streets, exposition, foundation cartier, Graffiti, parijs, paris
Just because we went for the exposition Ne Dans La Rue (Born in the streets) at FoundationCartier.
Born in the Streets—Graffiti will bring to light the extraordinary expansion of an artistic movement that developed in the streets of New York in the early 1970s to rapidly become a world-wide phenomenon
Check out their web 3.0 site for a nice preview and for photo’s of the expositions their Flickr.
Born in the Streets GRAFFITI
July 7 › Nov. 29, 2009
Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain,
261, boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris – France
Just because more than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this Great Recession. Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives
Filed under: Music to your ears, photo's | Tags: static movement, wearenotyou, white stripes
Just because this photo made us think about this video.
The photo is ‘the outcome of a simple experiment, to give static images the feeling of movement’ made by wearenotyou.
Is the video of The White Stripes than the outcome of a simple experiment, to give moving images the feeling of being static?….. right….never mind.
Filed under: just informing
Just because most people know that the Fox channel isnt the most objective news source on American TV. But in a pretty recent broadcast Amsterdam is so falsely portrayed as a city of crime, drugs and anarchy, that we had to show the facts.
Filed under: Music to your ears, movies, photo's | Tags: fabolous, jay-z, when the money goes
Just because the photo footage of this new Fabolous and Jay-z video is great. Makes me think about Batmen in some way, well whatever. See it here: http://videos.onsmash.com/v/N1skSJG5gZPlxGgD
Filed under: just informing | Tags: research, university of ottawa, zombies
Just because scientists of the university of Ottawa simulated an attack of zombies with biological data from horror films. Que?
So if you don’t have anything to do……go and read this.
What concludes :)
From the statistic model becomes clear that violence is the only manner to survive an attack, if zombies would exist really. Attempts to put them in quarantine or try treat them would be doomed.
Just because Swedish O’Spada let us forget time for a moment…..just in between work ;)
Single “Time”
Thanks to The Fader @ thefader.com
Just because after our last visit we love Rooms Of Red Bull. Above the pics of some of the winners of the 5 pics contest...check them out at RORB @ Red Light district A’dam tmrw or sunday.
Chrz and enjoy the weekend :)
Filed under: movies | Tags: max en de maximonsters, Where the Wild Things Are
Just because at first I didn’t believe it. They made a movie from my favorite kids reading book; the book Max & The Maximonsters or in English named ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. Yes one of the most beloved books!!
It’s my one and only (yeah yeah, you can start laughing now) true kid book which my mom read me from over and over again!! See the Dutch picture above.
“Caus Max, Max is an explorer, who travells by a sea, and used to travell by air. Cause Max, Max is the owner of this world”.
I definitively can’t wait to see this amazing story in cinema!
Just because we are right on time with this Summertime single of Daed Prez.
Filed under: just informing, photo's | Tags: Afghan National Army, afghanistan, pieter-jan de pue, vice
Just because we just can’t imagine how it is to be there. Photographer Pieter-Jan De Pue worked for years in Afghanistan and spend time with the local Afghan National Army (ANA). He published his work in a book, a preview online .
The thing that surprised me most, is how extreme primitive they need to work. I guess otherwise is impossible looking for example at the first picture and the landscape in the back and the donkey carrying their materials.
Thanks to Vice @ www.viceland.nl
Just because our friendly mr. Lagerfeld found fashion the healthiest motivation for losing weight. No doubt it is stylish. But we think the text does make a bit of a crazy combination, it made us think inmediatly about those extreme thin models doing the catwalks.
You disagree? Read this article ‘When Is Thin Too Thin?’ from New York Times and thin think again ;)
thanks to The Coolhunter
Just because we like the way how this article is written at CNNnewspage…. “as she emerged with its enigmatic smale undimmed”
PARIS, France – Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece the "Mona Lisa" was attacked with a mug earlier this month, but the world’s most famous painting — protected by thick glass — emerged with its enigmatic smile undimmed.
thanks to CNN
