Category: events
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Bar 13 @ NYC Part 2
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r62hjQYFYKo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] Here is another video of Ollie working the deck at Bar 13. Very focused, he managed to ignore the drinks, girls, noise, and lights. I guess a DJ has to filter out all the distractions, and concentrate on counting the beats, lining up the tracks, … a matter of ear-hand-eye coordination. Ollie has a Serato…
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Bar 13 @ NYC Part 1
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvgSi4aS6SI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] My friend Ollie went to DJ school last summer and had started playing at parties and bars downtown. I went to see him spin at Bar 13 (University Place and W13th St) before I left NY. Selina was his roadie-groupie/manager, bopping away, and handing out his business card. I gathered that DJ-ing in NYC is…
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Landing In Switzerland
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0OidBDlWBE&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] This is a video of a landing plane and a moving train. It was shot just before my flight landed at the Geneva airport and contains near the end a short clip of my train from Geneva to Neuchâtel. It captures the moment of my first landing on Swiss soil as a foreign worker.…
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First Post from Europe
Hello. Bonjour from Switzerland. 恭喜發財 Kung Hei Fat Choy ! We wish you all a Prosperous New Year of the Tiger and Happy Valentine’s Day. With the opening of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the start of O Carnaval in Rio, what a busy weekend ! We are back online. The biggest adventure has just…
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Moving Across The Pond
As many of you may know, we are moving from Edgewater, NJ to Neuchâtel, CH. The movers are coming this week. Every thing is being packed for shipping. The chaos has been overwhelming. We will be living in a hotel and out of our suitcases for about two months (until we find a new home).…
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Honmaguro Oh-Toro from Mitsuwa
One of my first posts on this blog is about the public demonstration of cutting up a 680-pound bluefin tuna at Mitsuwa supermarket. It was posted here two months ago. Amy, Jason, Sue and I went to Mitsuwa, and I took pictures and videos of the demonstration. According to blog statistics, there are a lot…