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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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  • Playing With Food

    Is it me or can you see the silhouette of a city ? I wonder if the inventor of Lego was inspired by octopus. What do you think of when you see the image below ?

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  • Even More Different Values of HSBC

    This is the third and last batch HSBC’s ads that I have gathered.  Just more examples of the juxtaposition of three different images and one word, or three different words and same image.  The other two posts are here: The Different Values of HSBC, and More Different Values of HSBC. Disclaimer: I do not have

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