Just because we are off to Norway this week. And yes Norwegians play it safe, they don’t risk that much. For example they are not allowed to gamble, it’s prohibited to drink Red Bull and it’s even prohibited to play with fireworks. But putting a little fence on top of this 605 meter high cliff named Preikestolen is too much asked for? Anyways it’s named as one of the amazing places to experience around the world by The Cool Hunter

I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy

Lyrics:
I know just what your mama said
Always misunderstood
Gotta tell you something
I saw it in your eyes

I think I left your back seat
And now it’s always good
I fell asleep from day 
And all the promises

There’s a lot of people
That let their will to say
I’ve got a lot of friends

And they’ve got beautiful eyes
That make my heart feel surprised
And you notice it
And that’s the truth
That’s the truth

Have me to you
I shine along underneath your view
I’ll be the one
To let you know when you’ve come undone

I like the stars in the sky
And watch the moonlight go by
I’ve got a lot of friends

Just because archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak shows in this documentary of the BBC that by using satellites to probe beneath the sands, she has found hidden cities, temples and pyramids. She heads off to Egypt to discover if these magnificent buildings are really there…..the dream of every archaeologist.

At this moment it’s possible that only ONE PERCENT! of the hidden wonders of Ancient Egypt have been discovered. But now, thanks to a pioneering approach to archaeology, that is about to change.

This might be THE opportunity to get to know and learn more from this great Egyptian civilization than we’ve ever learned before. The discoveries can include these of  pyramids, temples and obelisks and may teach us about many of their (way behond) knowledge and systems. Such as that of mathematics, medicines and of building-, production- and agricultural techniques. Not to forget; the Egyptians did not only build the Great Pyramid of Giza, but aswell build the first known ships. Egyptian had amazing (yes that’s right) glass technology, new forms of literature, and the earliest known peace treaty. Egypt left a lasting legacy. Its art and architecture were widely copied, and its antiquities carried off to far corners of the world. Its monumental ruins have inspired the imaginations of travellers and writers for centuries. A new-found respect for antiquities and excavations in the early modern period led to the scientific investigation of Egyptian civilization and a greater appreciation of its cultural legacy.

Just as an example; the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years and was constructed over an ONLY 20 YEAR period. The mass of the pyramid is estimated at 5.9 million tonnes. I know, now you think ‘well well, that’s heavy’…. But just to give you a ‘visual’; Based on these estimates, building this in 20 years would involve installing approximately 800 tonnes of stone every day. Similarly, since it consists of an estimated 2.3 million blocks, completing the building in 20 years would involve moving an average of more than 12 of the blocks into place each hour, day and night.

And all of that, without any of modern technologies. Scarry no?

Just because Marc Quinn is a gifted artist and made this inceptional sculpture of Kate Moss .

Besides that, Marc is wellknown for his work ‘Self’. His so called signature piece in the art world. A frozen sculpture of the artist’s head made from 4.5 litres of his own blood, taken from his body over a period of 5 months.
Self was bought in 1991 for a reputed £13,000. In April, 2005, Self was sold to a US collector for £1.5m.

Just because Flying Lotus in one of the best experimental multi-genre blablabla, and this os one of our favorites beats.

Just because Amsterdam most exciting night of the year is coming closer,  Nuit Blanche (literally White Night, All-Nighter or Sleepless Night in French) Amsterdam. Nuit Blanche is an all night long artfestival that takes you on june 18th on an urban expedition by night. We give you an update of this years program and event details;

Nuit Blanche Amsterdam 2011
7 location
12 hours (19.00 – 07.00)
passe partout TICKET 12 euro (BUY!)
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1. Experimental music & photo exhibition / location: Brakke Grond
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A wide range of musicians will be installed, especially for the festival night. At the Brakke Grond you will help the Flemish band Kapotski build an interactive music installation made out of worn-out kitchen appliances, old vacuum cleaners and converted record players. Donate all your bad bargains and broken power tools and witness how they become part of a musical machine full of industrial noise and unexpectedly beautiful sounds!

At the same time, the photo exhibition (Re): TILT shows how human manages to remain standing in the midst of chaos. All the works on display are by talented photography students from Breda, Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. In another area, SLAVE, better known as the organisation behind the extravagant parties at the Supperclub, presents their Arts and Culture Program. Expect the unexpected from this platform for artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, poets and everything in between. The afterparty with the cutting edge DJ line-up by KISS Escort, guarantees you will dance the night away.
2. Eddie The Eagle / location: Magna Plaza
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Eddie the Eagle Shopping Center introduces the Post shopping, where expertise and creativity are not on sale, but based on personal growth.

Nuit Blanche linked the Eddies to the Magna Plaza,… which proved successful! Not only for one night they will withdraw this temporary artistic warehouse, but for the entire month of June! Expect previews, premieres of exhibitions, workshops, performances and theater. It’s all about gaining experience: ‘products’ can be purchased and fair physical and mental prices will be asked. An economic model in which experience will be exchanged, shared and paid. You can visit the Shopping Center in the Magna Plaza during regular opening hours in the month of June. Tickets for Nuit Blanche will be for sale on location as well

3. Crack Light District / location: metro station of the North/South-line at the Rockin.

For everyone who has ever played with the shutter of a camera, but never realized what the opportunities are. Join a Light Art workshop in the metrostation at the Rockin.
For inspiration you can go to location nr 2; Magna Plaza (which is on a walking distance) which shows an exhibition by world’s best light painting artists.
Camera and toold, do it yourself!

5. North by Northwest / location: (new) Eye Film Institue
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The EYE Film Institute Netherlands will soon be located at the IJ-promenade in Amsterdam-North. The new building happens to be located where the gallows used to be in mediaeval Amsterdam. During a sneak preview performance in the brand new EYE building a cinematic initiationrite is being held every half hour to scare away any possible demons.
In a Dome next to the building, Subbacultcha presents acts and music with films chosen by Eye. One of the highlights is Amsterdam based noise-sample duo The Moi Non Plus, live re-scoring David Lynch’s surrealistic debut Eraserhead (1977).

5. Guerrilla Restaurant / location: secret

During Nuit Blanche Amsterdam their will food all the night according to three shifts. The first one starts at 19.00, the second shift starts at 23.00 and the last one, for the always hungry people, at 03.00.
What will be cooked, the location and who will entertain the guests is top secret. Tickets are for sale at Café Struik (Rozengracht 160) from May 12th!

For sure theres’ much more to come!

So if you wanne know what to do june 18th make sure you follow them on facebook or check the photo overview of Nuit Blanche Amsterdam 2010

Just because Ed Sheeran, is only 20 years old but is already one hell of a story!  We don’t know where to start; with his amazing song Little Lady together with Mikill Pane, his age of only 20, his intens lyrics, the way he beated James Morrison, his sofa surfing story, his going on my own to LA story or his collaborations with almost all big grime artists.

Little Lady:

She’s just under the upper-hand.
And goes mad for a couple grammes.
And she don’t wanna go outside, tonight.
‘Cause in the pipe she’ll fly to the motherland and,
Sell love to another man.
It’s too cold outside, for angels to fly.
For angels to fly.

Just a short bio;
In 2009, he played 312 gigs. Ed said that he read an interview with James Morrison that said that James had done 200 gigs in a year, so Ed said he wanted to beat him on this number. When he ran out of money, he left his flat he was renting and started ‘sofa surfing’ around London, he has been doing this ever since, even after he signed his deal.

In April 2010, after leaving his old management company, he bought a ticket to LA, with no contacts other than one poetry night. He played open mic nights all over LA, before being spotted by Jamie Foxx who invited him to stay at his house and record for the rest of his stay. Throughout 2010, Sheeran’s fan-base grew incredibly by YouTube, together with also getting credit from The Indepent newspaper, England football captain Rio Ferdinand and even Elton John.

On 9 January 2011, Sheeran released his final independent EP, No.5 Collaborations Project featuring appearances by lots of grime artists. With this EP, Sheeran gained mainstream attention for reaching number 1 in the iTunes chart without any promotion or label, selling over 7,000 copies in its first week.
His first headline tour around the UK sold out in a matter of hours.
One of his other hits is his cover of Jamie Woon – Wayfaring Stranger .

Check the guy’s facebook.

Lyrics of Little Lady:

Listen little lady,

This is just the worst way to spend your birthday,

It’s thirty degrees, Thursday.

You work late, you is with a perv making dirty fake love in his Mercedes.

Lady, the word rape
sums up events that take place every night.

You wanna get up but you know your legs will ache if you try.

And you remember that your punter went crazy last night,

You drag yourself to the mirror to check your face, then you cry.

Forget the visit to the clinic you were booked in for,

You’ll make a trip to the Whittington where they’ll look at your jaw.

They’ll be inquisitive and ask about your business for sure,

They’ll know your fibbing if you say you got hit by a door.

But young woman your pimp sees you as nothin’ but a dumb hooker,

Medical attention could be fatal

‘Cause the cunt wouldn’t ever let a doctor near someone that’s getting dough
for him,

‘Cause next you got poxy authorities sticking their nose in.

She’s just under the upper-hand.

And goes mad for a couple grammes.

And she don’t wanna go outside, tonight.

‘Cause in the pipe she’ll fly to the motherland and,

Sell love to another man.

It’s too cold outside, for angels to fly.

For angels to fly.

Little lady,

Your mind you’ve made up,

Your injuries you can’t hide with make-up.

You need some medical advice, you make up,

A little lie to say
just in case the Doc opens his eyes and don’t decide to play dumb.

With any luck you’ll see the same guy that stitched your top lip,

Last year when your pimp just lost it.

He wouldn’t recognize you if you stared him in the face anyway

‘Cause all the Herroin is making you age,

But your a heroin for taking the strain of being a prostitute and punching back
the funds you have left, go where you from using money gram.

Mother had to get you out of the motherland, to study,

That was all she struggled to have a single daughter with the upper hand.

Little does she
know, your never coming back

She put you in her brother’s hands only for him to formulate another plan

He’s the fucking cause of your appalling state this summer

Fancy that? You came to London to get pimped by your Uncle, Damn.

She’s just under the upper-hand.

And goes mad for a couple grammes.

And she don’t wanna go outside, tonight.

‘Cause in the pipe she’ll fly to the motherland and,

Sell love to another man.

It’s too cold outside for angels to fly,

Now a angel will die, covered in white

With eyes closed, and hoping for a better life

This time I’ll fade out tonight,

Straight down the line.

Little lady,

Your trembling with fear,

Your skinny frame kinda resembles a deer,

Your sitting facing a detective oh dear

The meddling nurse couldn’t just leave it,

She’s only gone and made it much worse calling police in,

She’ll never know the gravity of the damage she’s caused

Your causing scandal going mad in the ward now,

The copper’s trying to calm you,

Telling you he won’t let no one harm you

The same question he keeps trying to ask you,

Who you working for?

He’s talking to you like your worth more than a dirty whore

Your having a conversation you could be murdered for

Your learning more about exactly why you need bring him or her to court

He’s kicking knowledge you ain’t ever heard before

Just before he leaves he reassures you that he knows that it’s hard

He underlines a mobile number you can phone on his card

Begs you to use it he’s useless if your ganna to be stupid

‘Cause a answer hasn’t come from your bruised lips

You’re on your own,

You’ve gotta go and give your pimp what you owe,

You reach your door and then it dawns that you’ve been followed home

Before you turn around you feel a cold blade on your throat

And then a voice says ‘where you been bitch I wanna know.’

No prizes for guessing who it is resistance would be foolishness,

You open the front door, he boots you in

There’s something new in him, he’s silent now

That fills you with terror

Get your alibi straight you could be killed for an error

He towers over you, the six inch knife catches the sunlight

At this point, your life flashes before your eyes

Your handbags dropped and all the contents are all over the floor

Despite the mess there’s only one thing that caught his eye.

And in the moment of rage he brutally murders his niece and dumps her body in
the boot of his Merc’s in the street.

Little lady left this earth in the
worst way, all because she got a card on her 13th birthday…

And we’re all under the upper-hand.

And go mad for a couple grammes.

And we don’t wanna go outside, tonight

Cos in the pipe she’ll fly to the motherland

And sell love to another man,

It’s too cold outside for angels to fly

For angels to fly,

Fly, Fly

For angels to fly, to fly, to fly.

Angels to die

Just because Belgium filmmaker Koen Mortier made his second film; 22 mei (22nd of may), which you can see in Cineville from tomorrow on.
An interesting story about a guy named Sam. Sam works as a security guard in a shopping mall on the day of May 22, which seems to be yet another day.. But if he smokes a cigarette outside, disaster happens. In the shopping mall a guy with a backpack full of exposives blows himself up.
…Sam has not noticed him. Or did he? Slowly Sam, overwhelmed with guilt, is looses the grip on reality.

Because of the  movies soundtrack we found this Belgium band namend The Bony King of Nowhere….awesome track and videoclip. Listen their whole album ‘Eleonore’ here.