Last night we had a good start with our new expo, Random Order, at Alley. Again we had a full house! It’s always nice to see that so many people like what we do at the gallery, but the free beers probably did their part of the job too. So thank you Vedett. :)

Of course this means we had to say goodbye to Them Or Us… I usually buy something from the expo, so every time I can take a piece of it home for my collection.

For this new expo we invited Erosie, Graphic Surgery, Zward and Bier & Brood. While Zward and Bier & Brood provided us with an awesome display in our window, we had Erosie and Graphic Surgery working on a wall painting. Which you can see in this little video.

More pictures from yesterday will be up soon on our Flickr page.

It has been a busy week. But between all the work and being sick, I luckily found the time to finish up the new GizMag PDF (with one mistake though :) but I managed to correct it). It’s another issue I’m very proud of. It has some great artwork in it, and I’m very happy with all the work the artists put in the interviews again. It’s amazing I’m still having so much fun with it after 2 years. And there are some awesome things coming, just wait and see…

Check out the new issue, download it from GizMag.eu. Or check out the Issuu version.

It’s a screenshot from the terrible film “Surfer, Dude”. The subtitles say “There is phone call for you”. I’m not sure who is doing the translations over at Prime (film channel of Telenet), but I do not think this sign (done by a surfer chick) means there is phone call waiting. Hang loose! :)

Oh, and another one, Prime. Be careful how you shorten titles… certainly for family films…

This is a rather bad, blurred, unfocused snapshot of the upcoming GizMag PDF. I know. But I’m very thrilled about it, it’s going to be super sweet! This picture is part of a work from Simon Kim, he was selected from the Society6 Grant I organized a few months ago. He’s very talented, and I’m very excited to show you his interview. I’m not going to spoil anything, so I’m not revealing any of the other artists. You’ll just have to wait and see.

Belgium can’t handle a little bit of snow.

I knew this was coming, but I still forgot about it yesterday… Exactly 2 years ago (yesterday), GizMag went live with its first web issue! In the past 2 years, the magazine gained more visitors than I could ever imagine, which is awesome! So thanks a lot everyone! I won’t bore you with the technical details, but I am going to brag a bout it. :P The last few months the amount of visitors is slowing growing again, and so are the downloads of the PDF issues. When I first started, I told myself I wouldn’t continue if I didn’t get to 100 visitors a week. And I can assure you that we left this number behind us, even on a daily basis, a long time ago.

I’ve been thinking about trying to do some new things with the magazine. Actually a lot of people asked me for a print version, so who knows, if enough people are interested in it… But I’m not promising anything… I think the hand-written interviews are a big success, I get a lot of positive feedback on it from readers and participating artists, and I’m always amazed with the result. So we’ll keep doing that for sure!

For now, keep a look out for the next PDF issue. Which is going to be super awesome!

Update: I did some more digging in the archives, the website was launched on 08/02/2008! :)

Great new issue of Ammo Magazine!

So I’m back using Last.fm… after a 6-month-one-man-protest… I still think it’s discriminating to charge everyone but the UK, USA and Germany, for using their radio. But anyway… I’m back because I missed the recommendations.

I had Fink in my iTunes wish list for some time, but never got around to download it. This week it popped up in my recommendations, so I decided to give it a listen. At first his music sounds like your typical “guitar picking singer-songwriter”, but you can clearly hear it comes a long way. Fink used to make ambient trip-hop beats (which I totally recommend as well), but for some reason decided to chance course after 6 years. I think his music is fantastic, but I don’t expect any less from the Ninja Tune label. If you want to start somewhere, I would try his latest album Sort Of Revolution.

Next on in my recommendation list is Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I’ve actually heard their hit single, Heads Will Roll, on the radio a couple of times, but it never got stuck in my head. Until now. The band consists out of 3 people, where Karen Orzolek is responsible for the vocals, who I also heard singing on the soundtrack of Where The Wild Things Are.

Last one, for now, is Beach House. I don’t actually know them from Last.fm, but it was recommended by Marmushka. It’s an American band playing indie dream pop, whatever that means, but it sounds great. A good place to start is their latest album Teen Dream.

Update: Oh, in case you want to “friend” me on Last.fm, you can search for KiddoMono (dumb username I know, but I’m stuck with it now).

I should also make another mixtape, and I love making it for someone else, but… Well… Let’s just leave it with “I don’t have the time anyway”.

If you are on Flickr, have you used Flickr Galleries? It’s pretty fun to create your own sets with other people’s photos. Since the feature came out, I’ve been searching for photos to put in a gallery, and today I have my first one finished. I have 2 more in progress, and some ideas for the future.

This is one is called True. It’s about real beauty and real photography. They have soft lighting and soft colours. What I like in these photos is that they feel like home. Yet, none of models are really showing their faces. So the photos still have a certain mystique around them.

Take a look at the gallery. Hope you like it.

I’m planning to create a soundtrack with this. But I guess that will take me some time… Maybe later.