Portishead - MachineGun 12″

I Just had an hallucination yesterday in Lyon’s Virgin MegaStore… The 12″ import version of Portishead’s Machinegun was sold for 5 euros… Man, 5 euros is what you pay for 20 cigarettes in France… So here it is :

This is a really nice 180g vinyl, with something really special about it. One side of the [...]

Introducing Ben Sharpa !

Born in the rugged ghetto slums of Soweto, South Africa in 1979, Ben Sharpa (aka Oh Kaptin My Kaptin, or simply ‘Kap’ to his friends and fans) experienced the full force of the brutal Apartheid regime and the revolutionary turmoil that surrounded the struggle against it.
While Ben was still a young child, his father took the [...]

JFX Party IV

Me and my homies will be in Paris on october 10th. The occasion for me to print out a nice 15cm squared flyer on 250g grey metallic chromolux :) (this is just a pdf to jpg.. I’ll post pics of the final print asap)

This 4th JFX Party is going to be wild : playdoe, aku-fen, [...]

Wordpress 2.6 upgrade

Good job from the wordpress labs. V 2.6 offers several improvements :

Post Revisions: usefull for wp-as-a-cms use cases
Press This! : post from wherever you are on the web
Theme Preview for admin : thought it would never come !!! Happy to throw up my handcoded version of this tool and use wordpress one, since it’s [...]

Flex looking, Drupal Thinking.

I’ve been playing quite a lot with Flex these years. Since I use flash actionscript for more than 10 years now, I’ve seen Flex - from its beinning - as an immediate and coherent future for Flash Apps.
By the way, Flex’s capabilities and power always appealed me, but I was missing something.
Within Flash, retrieving data [...]