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.

Cool new site launched by our fellow Danes at LEGO: www.legoclick.com.

"It's a little place on the Internet devoted to creativity, innovation, and the moment when ideas just CL!CK. Come to inspire and be inspired. And bring your LEGO bricks"

Note the free LEGO photo iPhone app...

Like so many others do this time of the year, we would like to suggest what we think is this year's best tracks. The songs are not necessesarily from the best albums of 2009 (but most of them are really...)

The songs are in no particular order. Just click on the links to listen...

Dirty Projectors - Stilness On The Move

Miike Snow - Animal

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

Animal Collective - My Girls 

The Rumour Said Fire - The Balcony

Girls - Lust For Life

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

The XX - Islands

Passion Pit - Seaweed Song

When Saints Go Machine - Fail Forever

Phoenix - Girlfriend

Bat For Lashes - Daniel

Before our grand X-mas lunch at I'm a komBo (will bring you photos of that later), we went through the freezing streets of Copenhagen to visit some friends and wish them a Merry X-mas. We started out at the Pølsevogn (sausage wagon), went by all the little legendary pubs, that truly mean a lot to our Danish culture, passed WoodWood and Norse, went down to Studiestræde 31 - where we might move to at some point - and ended up with a cup of varm chocolate by our friends at Ricco's. We took a few pictures on the way and created this little sequenze....Merry x-mas!!

Our good friends from I'm a komBo (Lasse & Bobby) have just opened a so-called pop-up restaurant at the A-house, where we used to reside in the old days. The restaurant is open for the month of December and it's been overbooked long before it opened. Luckily we got a few seats and are heading there on Saturday for an AIAIAI Christmas dinner. Will bring you photos next week.

The pop-up restaurant marks the opening of a new apartment hotel project at the A-house called STAY. STAY has pre-opened during the COP15 and houses part of the American delegation for the 2 weeks. Rumors even say Air-force One is landing on Friday and that they are heading straight to the A-house for a quick "STAY". The place will close down for Christmas and re-open early next year.

AIAIAI are actually part of the project STAY. As old facilitators of the creative institution at the A-house, we've been asked to provide STAY some creative concepts and ideas, making it more that just a regular apartment hotel and following up on what happened back in the house back in the days. Pop-up resaturants, music profile, creative workshops, fashion shows are just a few of the projects we're working on. Keep you posted on how it proceeds.

Check out this new blog from the nice gals, and good friends of ours, over at LA Graphic Design - They definitely know their way around art, design, architecture and just random cool stuff. Latest, we espacially like their post on the collaboration between artists Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton

The launch of Tracks Series has been a great success; in only a few weeks we've sold out our first shipment - only a small amount of peach and cream/blue are left at our webshop. For those of you waiting for the other colors to get back in stock, they'll be available again after Christmas for an early January delivery.

On top of the success we've initiated a new version of Tracks called Tracks Leather. Our partners from KiBiSi have based the design on the same principal, but with the 'house' covered by leather adding more than a centimeter to the diameter of the house. The brace is also new in that it has a crome look intead of brushed steal. We are also working on a special carrying case for this version. More on that to come. The Tracks Leather will soon be available for pre-order and will be in shops in the beginning of March 2010.

The good thing about this version is that it easily opens for different versions with different materials used to cover the house. We actually have a bunch of collaborations working on this as we speak, more on that will follow.

Our friends from The Heist have been working with Melbourne based artist Nate Gamble for a while now to present the Heist store 09/10 tee shirt range. Along with this, Nate will be selling some original works and prints. For those of you that don't know Nate, he is a Melbourne artist and skateboarder, has been working a lot in group shows of late such as the Coll-Yarra-bration show on last week with guys like Andy Murphy. If you are anywhere close you should drop by The Heist on the 18th Dec, 6.30pm for a drink or two...

As it's been a good year for our little Record Label Tartelet we have decided to gather some of our friends for a Tartelet X-Mas Marathon at Dunkel on the 18th of December. Hope to see you all for a beer or two and possibly also a snaps or two...in other words we are aiming at a good old snaps-drunk-dicknose-back-to-back-all-nighter...

Our friends and partners from Woodwood are opening up their third store in few days - this time in Vienna, Austria. Our products are going to be available at the store amongst a bunch of other cool brands. Congrats from AIAIAI!