Category: events

  • 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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