Once again we're waving the flag for HuskMitNavn. This time he's done the cover for French Clark Magazine, which will hit stores this week. I guess it's somewhat related to his upcoming exhibition in French speaking Bruxelles at the Alice Gallery. If you're not able to atend the exhibition starting late March you should at least consider picking up this magazine instead. Apart from his new blog that I mentioned recently, he's just done a make-over of his official site. Loads of new drawings and features. Great stuff!

We still don't know what to think of the story regarding Sarah Palin and her entourage generously helping themselves to a load of our headsets at the Silver Spoon Gift Suite in Hollywood during the recent Oscar Week. Palin and her crew apparently liked what they saw: Overheard by someone there we trust: "These would be great for working out." They must be doing quite a bit of working out. Apparently, they the Palin crew made off with 40 pairs of our headsets! Good Grief.

Speaking of the Oscars, congrats to Joachim back by the way, who won an Oscar for best short film - The New Tenants - thumbs up!!

Click on the picture below to view the article from E! Online...

I've always liked the idea music-discovery sites and I've found a lot of new favorites while browsing around. My major issue with those sites, however, has always been that they keep interrupting me with new distracting features rather than just letting the music speak for itself. Thesixtyone takes just the right approach to that problem. No unnecessary comments, tags, or album covers, just the music and a nice big backdrop. Enjoy the community of upcoming artists' finest work in the "Hot" playlist or choose one of the mood-specific ones (like mellow, smooth, or trippy) to find just the right track. I wish all music services could pull of a design this clean.

Friend of the house and partner on several little projects HuskMitNavn will exhibit with American artist Lydia Fong (a.k.a. Barry McGee) later this month. It will be interesting to see their setup, how they choose to integrate their art. From talking to HuskMitNavn it sounds like a pretty fun setup - looking forward to seing it...HuskMitNavn also launche a new blog a few months back, good stuff!

The Last Night

Exhibition: 25.03.2010 > 28.04.2010

Opening: Thursday the 25th of March 2010 > 18.00

A few months back Christian and I visited Jesper and his crew from Teenage Engineering to talk about different projects. In their Soedermalm garage Studio we found everything from mint condition Ferrari's and Lamborghini's to a complete workshop, stocked with a laser cutter, CNC router, tools and even a music studio full of vintage synthesizers for sound experiments. Quite an inspiring work setting where pretty much everything can be done/made. Although most of their time is put into developnig the highly anticipated OP-1, they also spent time on different creative assignmets. The Absolut Choir is one of their most spectacular projects done, but jesper has also directed spots for companies like Sony, Volvo, Ikea, H&M, Mitsubishi etc. When we visited, they were actually in the middle of shooting this New Balance project and the studio was full of shoeboxes and weird settings, some of which you can see from the films. As with their reqruitment campaign for The Swedish Armed Forces, they once again demonstrate an all around command of storytelling, performance and visuals with a great little twist of humor. Thumbs up to jesper and his crew for finally launching this New Balance project. Below is just a teaser to the project, you can download the iPhone App to get the full feel of their idea evolving every day...Enjoy!

...and here's our 7th Mixtape by the way. This time it's from Tomas Barfod, one of the Tartelets. The titel is Desert Mix. You can click on the tape below or on the Mixtape Equalizer on the left side bar. If you prefer one of our earlier version Mixtapes, they are still available in the Pop-up Faritilizer player. Hope you'll enjoy it.

Tracklist:

1. Acoustic Lady – Hudson Mohawke
2. My Halo – Atlas Sound
3. Bitterljuv – Lugnet
4. She’s The One (Original Mix) – Caribou
5. Flajd – Lugnet
6. Opium – Svengali
7. I Found The F [Original By Broadcast] (Original Mix) – Gravenhurst
8. Melody Melody – Giana Factory
9. Crystalised – The XX
10. Everytime I’m With You (Ft. Jason Lytle) – Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse
11. Operation Costs – Lusine
12. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Servo
13. Blue Steel – Bot’Ox
14. Brown Rice – Don Cherry

We like our own mixes, but from time to time we like to promote others as well. "Ostinato" is a music blog started by Philippe - a graphic designer, art director and co-founder of the swiss fashion brand called +41. On Ostinato he posts weird mixes in any kind of styles, fields, genres made from his friends. Each mix is available at Colette, they all come in the same package (ziplock black opac, black CD, gold sticker), no branding, no track listing only some info about the style of music, who mixed it and the duration, that’s it. Each one have its own symbol on a sticker to make them recognisable, the music is burned on black CDs and the title of the CD is engraved on it and all the CDs are numerised as limited to 41 pieces. Every mix is available one month after its released as a free download on the blog.

Here's a few new colourways of our beloved Pipes. This time we've initiated a project where we - from time to time - will launch new colours inspired by things that have somehow had an inpact on us through out the years.

The first one is inspired by the legendary Nike Air Trainer 1 tennis shoe that we've all  - including John McEnroe - played with/in back in the days. It came out in 1987 as a cross trainer shoe project, but soon became a hit as a tennis shoe and it was even used in the NBA at one point. The idea and colourway has been re-launched several times, but nothing really matches the good old original one. Hope you like our translation.

The second vesion of our new pipes is inspired by the one an only beer - Gold Tuborg! Also known as "the golden lady" the beer hit the market in 1895 and was actually meant for export markets. Instead it quickly became only a national product for the Danes - and they/we loved it (we have no intentions of following this market strategy though). At the old A-house, where we used to have our club, we served the gold beer instead of regular pilsner and we even served it in a can (as the one you see on the picture). People loved it and Tuborg realized that this beer had been down-prioritized way too much through out the years. The second year of our clubs existence, we had Tuborg convinced to make us customized Gold Tuborg vending machines, which became a great success. Today these vending machines are spread all over town as an alternative to line up in the bar. Anyway hope you like the two new colours, they are available in our webshop and soon also in shops world wide. Cheers! (Skål!)

We just stumbled upon these great photos of the incredible concept of Dazzle Camouflage, which was actually the inspiration for our graphic nerd Mix, when he designed the cover for our Pipe lookbook. The background story is, that during World War I, British artist and naval officer Norman Wilkinson was facing problems because of very effective German U-boats and was thinking of ways to dodge the torpedoes. By a stroke of genius he thought “It’s not where you are it’s where you’re going” and therefore came up with the idea of Dazzle Camouflage (also known as Razzle Dazzle in the United States). The idea was to use bright, loud colours and contrasting diagonal stripes to make it incredibly difficult to gauge a ship’s size and direction. It was cheap, effective, (and looks so cool!) and widely-adopted during the War. Check out the incredible photographs below...

Our good friends at I'm a kombo have just announced their next pop-up restaurant. This time at one our favourite afterhour bars, the legendary Andy's Bar. It's a 5 day event (23-27 February) with room for around 40 guests per night. Bobby, one of the chefs, gave me the following keywords: Frozen Champagne & ditto fish, candy breadloaf, sing-a-long. Not sure how that really fits together, but they'll surely pull it off. Make sure you book real soon if your in Copenhagen one of these days. Book at popup@imakombo.dk.

To see a few pics from the first popup at the old A-house click here.

In Danish we call this "mesterligt!!" And Terry, we hope you'll consider shooting our next campaign. We have super budget (at least 500 US), so pls send me an email at fj@aiaiai.dk to discuss further....Thx!

And for those of you who want this delightful calender click here!

Our friends from Libertine-Libertine has just finished their campaign for A/W 2010. The campaign features a bunch of weird inventions by British artist Tom Gottelier. With all the wood, fire and gunpowder we imagine it must have been a pretty dangerous photoshoot - luckily no one got injured. Have a look at Sacha Maric's nice photos below.

We are very happy that we have been able to convince the cool girls from LA Graphic Design to share some of their design/fashion finds on our blog - see below and understand why....

"Each to his own" they say, and LOVE magazine has definitely complied with this fact for their Spring Summer 2010 publication. Lovely ladies Lara Stone, Daria Werbowy, Kristen McMenamy and Jeneil Williams are posing with stretched rubberbands for the 4 different covers shot by super team Mert & Marcus. Nice!

Our birthday is coming up on Saturday the 30. of January. We celebrate it at VEGA in Copanhagen and it's joined by our good friends and partners from Tartelet Records. The line-up is massive, with liveacts from Germans Wareika and Brand Brauer Frick. On this link you can see a video of Brandt Brauer Frick in Berlin, just to get an idea. Apart from the two liveacts we'll have a range of "Tartelets" playing and we're even setting an AIAIAI Team (Frederik, Mix, Arne and Kasper), it'll be good fun. Apart from celebrating our respective birthdays we are also presenting and testing some new versions of our TMA-1 DJ project and we are super exited to see how they function and sound - think we are getting close. We'll be serving you loads of drinks and beers from 11PM, so if you're anywhere near, pls make sure you don't miss this B-bash.

Tartelet x AIAIAI Birthday bash

VEGA Nightclub

23-01 free entrance / free beer

For guestlist write us at boef@aiaiai.dk

Right now everybody's writing about the new iPad, ladiladila. We obvioulsly like Apple an all, but instead we would like to direct some attention towards a project we've been following closely over the last few years. The OP-1 it is and it was just presented at the NAMM show last week. Audiofanzine.com promtly had it topping their list of the best music gear found at the show. Not surprisingly really. The OP-1 is developed by our Swedish friends from Teenage Engineering and it's a master piece. Its bold simplicity, yet super intelligent interface is going to blow away all you aficionados and even further. Thumbs up to Jesper and his crew! To check out more pics and details on the project click here.

We just came back from the ”Bread & Butter” exhibition in Berlin, which took place in quite an interesting historical building: The Tempelhof Airport. Tempelhof has been designated as an airport since 1923 and in 1941 the current terminal building was taken into use. At one point it was among the largest buildings in the world and Norman Foster described it as ”the mother of all airports”. An impressive sight! Anyway, we were on the “1st floor” – a section for young and upcoming brands (read companies with limited funds!) situated rather remotely in the very corner of the old airport. On the lower left corner of the collage you can actually see the view from the "1st floor" and surely we where quite delighted not to be part of that borring, traditional-tradeshow-atmosphere down there. Instead the "1st floor" kind of reminded us of the old A-house days, with the small almost ramshackle rooms, where we could do whatever we wanted. Some local artists had installed the walls with some simple art, super well suited for our little setup. Our friend Rolf from HAY had helped us with some cool and simple furniture and Bo from I'm a kombo helped us with little fun play-stop-pause-rewind cookies that people could enjoy with their coffey from the next door café. Thanks to Rolf and Bo. Altogether it was three well-visited days in company with our friends from WoodWood, Happy Socks and Libertine-Libertine. And hey, we even got to try out the legendary Berghein Panorama Bar – quite an experience!

Even if the thought of classrooms scares your creative soul, the Rethink Scholarship should get your creative juices flowing. Their attempt to spread the news about their $ 18 000 scholarship makes your childhood pop-up books look terribly outdated and sets a new standard for creativity with 'analog' tools. In an age of increasingly cheeky attempts at viral succes, this video is refreshingly genuine and surprising. Now go apply!

Our friends from LEGO have just launched a line of Mini Figures perfect for collectors. Series 1 consists of popular iconic figures from the LEGO world. Due for a 2010 release the series is made up of 16 figures, each blind packed, so you’ll have to shop around to get the whole collection, but as they are just $2 each, it won’t empty your wallet.. Series 2 could be a curated series, who knows?

We have always been big fans of WK interact's aggressive work. Here is a new large piece he has made in Paris. Check out more of his work here.

Our good friend Jon "Joshua" Schumann recently received a Swedish Grammis. He won the price for producing Kent's latest album "Röd". Jon is also helping us on the upcoming DJ project, the TMA-1 Headphone, which is to be launched this comig summer. Congratulations Jon - you certainly deserve it!

On the 18th of January we are heading to Berlin to take part in the Tradeshow Bread & Butter. We will have a room on the 1st floor with our friends and partners from WoodWood and it'll be great fun. We have loads of exciting meetings set up, but if you're anywhere close, please stop by...The exact location is the new fashion-meets-art area called '1st Floor'. We will be in the room right next to the bar...hope to see you.

It was an untraditional "Christmas Lunch" rejuvenating our understanding of how to eat food. Eating from a trash can, from a lamp and from a Christmas tree. Kind of strange, but at the same time rather amusing, especially looking at everyone else around the table and how their face expressions evolved through out the night...try it! Rumors say they've found a new venue and will be doing another round sometime in February. their website will keep you updated.

We are very happy to start 2010 with the 9th ep from Tartelet brought to you by the Tartelet founders Tomas Barfod and Frederik Bille Brahe. Tickle song have been lying around on our harddrive for some time but like a good redwine it has been ageing very well, and now it is ready to be released.

The original is a house song but sounds like it could have been played by Herbie Hancock. It features a teasing synthesizer solo, edgy live bass and live drums. To notch it up Tartelet asked Falko Brocksieper known from great releases on Sub Static and Tuning Spork to remix it and he has made a stripped down dark dubstep-disco version. Tartelets newest Danish talents Emil Viril & Chesper made a very efficient house remix.

You can retrieve the tracks from this link. Enjoy...

First off was our Twitter account and now we've also created a Facebook account, here it is.

For the record, this is my first contribution to the AIAIAI blog. I usually blog about music at goingotherplaces.com, and I hope to keep you entertained on here, too, in the future.

Until 2010 gets its own soundtracks, the Dutch playlist-portal 22tracks has invited 22 different genre-experts to each pick their favorite track released in the last year from one of 22 different genres. The tracks include Breakage's cutting-edge dubstep, Japandroid's noise pop, and Lindstrøm's pleasant vibes, but also visit more experimental grounds with Steve Reich's compositions and a healthy dose of reggae, jazz, latin, and jazz thrown in for good measure. Don't let the genre-craze intimidate you, the tracks are all solid and well-worth a listen until 2010 delivers its own soundtrack.