Media whore

Happy Christmas to all Toejammers out there.  Here’s a little gift of a video of GBS launching a new plane back in the 30’s, dropping a few one liners and generally just being a media whore.

The Chinese…a great bunch of lads

Spose this is the official Toejam Christmas bash, a day late but nonetheless, a dame fine party if last year is anything to go by.  Tanked up revellers on the happiest day of the year, full of slow booze and leftover food.  Good times ahoy.

Check out all the details about Father Ted Day at The Bernard Shaw here

Jump jump jump jump

Fight fire with fire and use the internet to top yourself online.  That is, kill all your online Facebook/MySpace/LinkedIn etc profiles and go back to the simple life.

Tempting.  Do it here at the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

Via Swissmiss

Truck-u-like

Ace realism paintings by Brooklyn artist Kevin Cyr (also responsible for this bicycle/RV mongrel) of battered old mostly American trucks and delivery vans, tags and all.

Here’s more to feast your eyes on:

Yaay for the environment

Chevy unveils their new futuristic Volt car to the world.  A car powered with, wait for it…batteries.

This dance is so entirely irrelevant and almost mocking of the car (imagine you were the crew who worked on this project and this is how your bosses presented it) that you wonder whether they are subtly trying to undermime the car and its sales so they can go ‘told ya so’ and g back to the business of making 10L jet turbine SUV’s for real men (and mom).  Either that or they have stumbled on a viral masterpiece.

The Chevy Volt Dance via Engadget

Electric Wire Hustle

3 Kiwis from New Zealand knocking out some exceptional future funk.  Unsurprisingly championed by the likes of Benji B, these guys are cut from the same cloth as The Black Seeds but with a bit of Steve Spacek or even a bit of J Dilla on the production thrown in.

Check out the slick vid below for their latest track perception (which samples Inside my Love by Minie Ripperton)

Here’s their MySpace

Streetview

An exhibition of screen grabs from Google Streetview around the world by Jon Rafman.  The mind boggles at how many miles he traveled sitting at his desk over 12 months looking for this stuff.  Captivating exhibition mind and you can read about it at Artfagcity below.

Via Art Fag City

Taking bookings now

It’s easy to take this for granted or be a bit cynical about it with the pace of technology development these days but it is now possible to book a flight to space.  Just read that again, you can book a flight to space.  Just go to virgingalactic.com and book your seat in the same way that you might book a flight on Ryanair to Bristol.

The people carrying Spaceship 2 is still in testing and the price tag is still expensive at $200,000 but its a few quid shy of the €30,000,000 or so that various tycoons have been paying in the last 10 years to hitch a ride aboard Russian space missions.

Spaceship 2, the world’s first commercial spacecraft, will start flights from the Virgin Spaceport in New Mexico from next year with evil genius and project funder Richard Branson booked on to the first flight with his family.

Incredible stuff.

Via Design Boom

The future is here…again

Its not a Notebook, its not a Tablet, it’s a ‘Booklet’ and Microsoft are apparently putting the same effort into it that they put into the Xbox, and that didnt do so bad.

It also exists in the real word, even though the video is obviously an animation of sorts, but various nerd sites tell us it’s nowhere near the production stage.   But, with the competitiveness out there you can safely bet you will be seeing this in the not so distant future.

The workflow on this, if it’s as good as their idealized video here, is pretty amazing, bridging the divide between paper and screen pretty successfully and intuitively.

Via Gadgetcrave

Toejam Xmas Carbot Sale – This Saturday

Toejam Xmas Carboot Sale

Saturday 12th December 1pm – 7pm

Free Entry

Roll up roll up, the Toejam Carboot Sale is back again this Saturday.

As usual the yard is full of cars and stalls and we’ve laid on lots of little bits and pieces aswell.

The Bits and pieces you will find out the back of The Bernard Shaw this Saturday in no particular order include…

The Big Blue Bus

Pizza’s from our double decker Pizza Kitchen

Gammy Christmas Jumpers

From the Gammy Xmas jumpers guys
Ice Cream Van Djs

Nic James, Tom Beary & Orlando

Christmas Trees from www.irishxmastrees.com

Handpicked from the Noble Farm in the Wicklow mountains, from 4ft – 12ft. They also have Xmas Tree decoration kits. Touch/smell your tree, buy the tree, drag it home or have it delivered.

Warm Apple Cider

Also from Wicklow

Sweet & Savoury Crepes

From Crepes in the City

Dutch Tubs

Yes, hot tubs out the back.

Bernard Shaw Coffee House coffee

Top coffee from our Kiwi barista Jordan

Mulled Buckfast

Tasty as hell

Hooka Pipes

Arabian pipes on the bus

and thats not even mentioning the 30 odd cars and stalls!

The Toejam Carboot Sale runs from 1pm – 7pm this Saturday (december 12th), with entrance through the pub.

As always the party continues inside into the wee hours with Nic James and Melodee putting down the electro boogie, b-more and bass.

Check out the Event Listing for the full details, check out the Toejam Facebook and Bodytonic Forum buzz and then of course there’s the Toejam Blog which youre on right now

See you Saturday.
The Bernard Shaw

11-12 South Richmond Street

Portobello

Dublin 2

Ireland

P: +353857128342
E: john@bodytonicmusic.com

W: www.thebernardshaw.com

Very smart altogether

3D posters – why has it taken so long?

Some more of them at Behance, Via Hundertmark Blog

Not dead baby, just takin’ a break

So, with rumours abound that the Toejam Blogging division had died in a private jet crash, we thought it time to say no, we still here, just otherwise engaged.

We got some bumper Toejam events coming up especially the Xmas Carboot Sale coming up on December 12th which is going to be finger lickin good.  Full confirmed details will be up here in the coming days but for the moment, wrap your eyes around this and how some simple editing can turn this sweet familiar scene on its head…..just listen to the music Marge….

Taylor McFerrin – Live at Toejam

Powerful stuff genetics. Taylor Mc Ferrin, son of the man who gave us ‘Dont worry be Happy’ and ‘Thinkin’ about your body’ plays a live show at Toejam in The Bernard Shaw next Saturday.

We’re going to turn this into an all-dayer aswell, kicking off with a Red Bull Music Academy discussion with Taylor and others around 4:30pm, followed by the Choice Cuts (our co-hosts on this one) lads holding court until Taylor comes on later in the evening with his one man show.

Taylor McFerrin is the son of classical conductor and vocalist Bobby McFerrin. Taylor is a forward thinking human beat-box, capable of reproducing an array of bass, percussion and studio effects with unerring fidelity. Heavily championed by Gilles Peterson and soul/house enthusiasts around the globe, Taylor has released his music labels like Brownswood, Blue Note, Big Dada and the now defunct Rude.

Following in the footsteps of his father, Taylor is an extremely talented artist originally hailing from San Francisco but residing in Brooklyn. Taylor just announced a special free show in The Bernard Shaw on Saturday 21st November which will be announced in full next week.

We will have more details like set times and DJs in coming days, but for the moment click around some of the links in this post, stick it in your diary and tell your friends. And dont forget, its Free.

In the mean time, Here is an exclusive free download, spread the word and see you on Saturday 21st,

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Bodytonic Forum buzz on this gig here

Full Event details here

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Taylor McFerrin – Broken Vibes by choicecuts

 

Carboooooooooooo

The Halloween Carboo’ Sale (see what we did there) is upon us this weekend and a bumper one it is too.  We are well stocked with stalls, boots, food, drink, music and general dis, dat and de udder.  This time however, it’s fancy dress time and we gots the prizes to make it worth while sticking on the ape suit a few hours earlier.  We are adding to it all the time but on the list of prizes so far are…

Green 19 Voucher
Coppinger Row Voucher
Jo’Burger Voucher
Pair of tickets to see Orbital in Tripod
Voucher for Circus Store in Powerscourt
3 T-Shirts from Turtlehead.ie
10 Topshop Goodie Bags
Helmut Newton Playboy Coffee Table Book

….and there’s more on the way.

Here’s some of the other stuff happening, from food to music, in too in no particular order…

Nic James / Chewy / Rosie Assquake / Orlando (True Stories) / Crepes in the City / Bubbleboy / Hugh Cooney & The Hugh Cooney Spook Booth / Bethlehem Falafel / Return of the Living Dead (full screening) / Buckfast Icecream / Bobbing for razor laden apples

A jolly good day or your money back.

Carboot Sale runs 1pm to 6pm with party all night in The Bernard Shaw.  Full event and venue details here

On what charges?

more about “On what charges?“, posted with vodpod

New developements in the crazee world of street art. Plenty of potential in this.”Multimedia performers Sweatshoppe have been wheat pasting buildings with moving images all over New York. Mapping video projections to LED-lit paint rollers, Sweatshoppe lay their projections on a surface, paint-stroke by paint stroke. They call new digital performance style “Video Painting”.How it works: The software controlling the video was written in Max. The paint roller does not use any sort of paint, it simply contains green LEDs. The software tracks the color green and outputs the x y position which are sent to drawing commands and the strokes are textured with video.Sweatshoppe is video artists Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw. They plan on eventually releasing the software, but only after it is much more refined, buffed up with features and is user-friendly.”

Via Wooster Collective

Skkkkatttter

This Saturday Toejam resident Nic James is joined on the decks by Dr
Pong resident Skkatter, formerly Dublin’s number one electro nerd, now
Berlin’s number one electro nerd (well, at least in the top ten, there
are more of them there). Skkatter will be bringing his favorite REAL
electro party joints to shaw while Nic will be trying not to embarrass
himself by asking if Justice is electro. Check out Skkatter’s
fantastic new mix here:

Classic jams from the past and the future!

Downlaod the MP3 here

1) Mantronix – Needle To The Groove [Warlock Records]
2) Warp 9 – Beat Wave [Prism Records]
3) Whodini – Haunted House Of Rock [Jive]
4) Gescom – Boogie Down Bronx [Skam]
5) Datashat – Stop The Message [Handsette Recordings]
6) Whodini – Magic’s Wand [Teldec]
7) Paul Hardcastle – You’re The One For Me [Ariola]
Egyptian Lover – Freak-A-Holic [Egyptian Empire]
9) Men At Play – Dr. Jam (In The Slam) [Rush Records]
10) Chester Louis III – Ho’Break [Devon Records]
11) Bar-Kays – Sexomatic [Unidisc]
12) J.K. – +10 Funk [Rephlex]
13) Morris Day – The Oak Tree [Warner Bros. Records]
14) Frankie Bones – Automatic Rhythm [The Last Label]
15) Midnight Star – Midas Touch [Solar]
16) Luke Vibert – Countdown [Warp]
17) Her Bad Habit – Jamaica Center [Citinite]

Speaking of McFerrin

We are really excited about this one, in association with our good buds Choice Cuts, Taylor McFerrin plays Toejam on November 21st!

Taylor McFerrin is the son of classical conductor and vocalist Bobby McFerrin. Taylor is a forward thinking human beat-box, capable of reproducing an array of bass, percussion and studio effects with unerring fidelity. Heavily championed by Gilles Peterson and soul/house enthusiasts around the globe, Taylor has released his music labels like Brownswood, Blue Note, Big Dada and the now defunct Rude.

Following in the footsteps of his father, Taylor is an extremely talented artist originally hailing from San Francisco but residing in Brooklyn. Taylor just announced a special free show in The Bernard Shaw on Saturday 21st November which will be announced in full next week.

Here is a free download, spread the word and see you on Saturday 21st, more details on this event next week. Let us know what you think

Check out the previous post on the Toejam Blog to see some Taylor in action.  More to follow

Meet the McFerrin’s

This is Dad…

And this is Junior…

Nice, huh?

Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera

Here’s another one in the OCD series, cardboard artists Kiel Johnson, known for making large replicas of every day items out of cardboard, took it upon himself to make a twin lense reflex camera, entirely out of cardboard, that wait for it…actually worked! No use in the rain mind you.Nice vid.

more about “Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera“, posted with vodpod

Janelle & Kia

Check out this Janelle Monae track. Audio Redbull it is, it’s a bit punk, a bit rock, a bit Motown…like something The Black Eyed Peas or Outkast might have done 5 years ago, as sung by a Little Richard/James Brown drag queen. Cracking song but just as interesting is that it comes courtesy of the Kia Soul Collective. Yes, Kia as in the car manufacturers but they have a interesting take on the purchasing of corporate cool.

The collective consists of film makers, designers, musicians, producers, DJs and entrepreneurs such as MGMT, Santigold, herself above, Jonas & Francois (who make vids for the likes of Justice), Jeffrey Kalmikoff (one of the main guys behind jumbo online t-shirt store and design community Threadless) and a few others.

On one hand they are expanding the pool of glory they can reflect in but with every major brand seemingly chasing the music/festival route it stands out a little as a daycent idea

Download Come Alive (The War of the Roses) by Janelle Monae here

And check out the Kia Collective video on Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Threadless below

more about “ENTREPRENEUR « Kia Soul Collective“, posted with vodpod

Via Putmeonit