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X: Mark of Collaboration

For the first time Arkitip handed the curating responsibilities for the issue edition to an outside source; namely, Alex Calderwood and John C Jay. Both of them had join forces to create an edition of Arkitip born from a provocative dialogue between unique individuals from their own personal network of creatives.

This special issue of Arkitip celebrates the power of collaboration with the empowerment of technology,culture’s admiration and the opportunity to exchange ideas across time zones, lifestyles and disciplines. It shown that the art of collaboration has been renewed by a new generation raised on digital media and global connections.

Get a copy HERE

Maestro Knows – Episode 2 (Mr. Cartoon) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo.

Maestro Knows is an online show based around Levi Maestro’s day to day life. Taking place primarily in Los Angeles, Maestro shows you LA through his eyes. In his latest Maestro Knows episode, he took time to ride with LA’s legendary Mr. Cartoon. Quality stuff not to be missed !

How many of us had grown up in the era of the Boombox and how many of us still own one ?

Introduced commercially in the late 1970′s, Boomboxes ( also known as Ghetto Blaster ) are associated with 1980s phenomena such as breakdancing and hip hop culture.  Portable, Loud, Bassy and often Flashy in design, it’s the essential arsenal of it’s generation as compare to our iPod genetation.

npr:music had run an article titled A Eulogy For the Boombox by Frannie Kelley taking a rewind to look at the Boomboxes era and how it had defined a part of American’s music history.

” Back in the day, you could take your music with you and play it loud, even if people didn’t want to hear it. 150 decibels of power-packed bass blasted out on street corners from New York City to Topeka. Starting in the mid-’70s, boomboxes were available everywhere, and they weren’t too expensive. Young inner-city kids lugged them around, and kids in the suburbs kept them in their cars.”

npr:music – A Eulogy For the Boombox

More Boombox Goodies here : Boombox Birth 1976 -1980, Cool Boombox

Those who still own one of these gem do kindly drop us a mail of your collection !

Last weekend saw Colorado-based Airwalk sponsored a beach clean-up event in conjunction with The Oahu chapter of The Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches.

Airwalk pro surfer Anastasia Ashley participated in the clean-up effort and speak on environmental threats affecting our beaches and oceans. Airwalk and Ashley also gave away an exclusive Anastasia Ashely X Airwalk signature shoe to the first 25 attendees for the event.

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前Black Flag主音，傳奇人物 Henry Rollins公佈了的”Frequent Flyer” 演講行程細節, 由1月12日於英國開始，繼而到其他歐洲主要國家如德國，瑞典，奧地利等進行，之後就回到北美洲，由2月17日於加州展開，一直到其他主要大城市像紐約等等。

Legendary Henry Rollins, the former Black Flag frontman, has announced details of a North American spoken word tour called the ‘Frequent Flyer’ tour. Starting in California on February 17, the tour will see him covering cities from New York to Montreal. Before that, Rollins will be on a European tour beginning in the UK on January 12 taking him through major European cities from Germany, Sweden, Belgium and Austria etc.

詳情可到Henry Rollins 的網站 21361.com
More deatils at 21361.com

NIKE 剛上載了一段預告片是由國際影星／導演周星馳制作，以長江7號和少林足球作參考內容，帶出了NIKE為（RED）所推出的鞋帶，而這雙鞋帶也同時帶出了愛滋病在世界上的問題，也藉此把所得的善款幫助非洲裡受愛滋病影響的22，000，000患者。這個短片快將推出，密切留意！！

NIKE Hong Kong had just updated a video produced by Hong Kong actor/director Steven Chow for NIKE’s and (RED) “Lace up, Save Lives” Project. “Lace up, Save Lives” is a project to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. A unique pair of NIKE (PRODUCT)RED™ shoelaces has been released at Nike stores worldwide. One hundred percent of the profits from (NIKE)RED laces will be split equally between The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which funds AIDS programs that provide medicine for those living with HIV, and Nike football-based community initiatives that deliver education and understanding around HIV/AIDS prevention. This unique partnership delivers programs that both medicate and educate.

觀看預告片請看這連結 Click link for Video: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/video/video.php?v=102258786465568&ref=nf

另外各位請一起參與（RED)行動，購買鞋帶之餘更推廣給更多人留意愛滋病的問題吧。
www.joinred.com

Think Silly上回在９月的MILK誌發起了相機生活的專題和訪問後取得極大回響，從而把Digital Rangefinder, 4/3系統的數碼相機推動成為一個潮流，各位讀者爭相購買以至出現缺貨情況，連帶二手市場，菲林鏡頭等全部價格回升等瘋狂行動相繼出現。也由於不少人買不到那一期的MILK誌感到後悔，加上為了滿足各位海外讀者的慾望，終於Think Silly 團隊把這個相機生活的專題和訪問完完整整地重現在Think Silly裡！

訪問裡除了Think Silly的TK外也找來了潮流教父藤原浩，名攝影師夏永康﹠Romain Bernardie James，吉田的領導人物LEO等談及了各位對攝影的熱誠,喜好,也能看到各位使用不同相機拍出不同感覺的照片,從而領略什麼是拍照。另外也有以相機為主題的服飾配撘，提供一些造型給大家作為參考去配襯自己的相機。

於Think Silly 的相機生活的專題 : http://www.think-silly.com/feature/camera_feature/

Steven Harrington, a L.A based artisit and designer, would not be a stranger to those who had been fan of Arkitip’s Art offering. Having participated in the Arkitip “Highmath” group exhibition in 2008 in Berlin, a collaboration with Kidrobot, his works include a series of skateboards for Element, and as co-founder of National Forest Design, projects for the Urban Outfitters Catalogs, Burton Snowboards and the Nike Ole Mural. He was also invited to be a contributor to Incase’s Curated by Arkitip series, creating a laptop sleeve and iPhone Slider. Steven Harrington had also been asked to design Arkitip’s fifty-second issue edition.

Drawing influence from images, fashion and music, Harrington uses the term “contextual objectivism” to describe his work.

Check out the prints at available at Arkitip today.

Blacknuss is an independent editorial project by Giorgio Di Salvo which aims at bringing together a limited but well-chosen number of artists who are drawn to the book’s unifying theme: darkness. In other words: abjection, sadness, gloom, despair, horrifying pain, depression, anger, rage. Basically: all that is dark in the world.

The authors involved for the first part of this project are Erik Brunetti of FUCT, Marco Klefisch from milanese design firm Marte, Le Messie of False, italian illustrator Scarful, TJ Cowgill of Actual Pain, Luca Barcellona, Pane from italian art collective Why Style, and Giorgio Di Salvo from VNGRD.
Blacknuss is published in a very small run (100 numbered copies) and is completely hand made in Italy. Every copy comes packaged in a custom sleeve with an additional booklet. Available at unotre Store.

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我們剛整理好一篇文章關於中港兩地的滑板文化和HKIT店的5週年紀念品, 詳盡故事可以在以下找到.
We did a feature about the skate culture in HK and CHINA & HKIT 5th Anni., so check the full story after the jump!

特此鳴謝kit415, 泰仔的幫忙, murderfreak 為英文翻譯! 大家亦可以在10月1號出版的yoho雜誌找到!
Special Thanks kit415 & ThaiChai for the help and murderfreak help for translate!

www.hkitstore.com
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EDGE – Perspectives on Drug Free Culture is a documentary attempting to present a history of  a youth movement that originated in the early 1980′s,  connected through the US Punk and Hardcore music scenes with bands like Youth of Today and Earth Crisis, that has become a worldwide phenomenon.

Giving witness to their perception of the movement, and how their life and career is affected by it, are Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi), Ray Cappo (Youth of Today, Shelter) and Karl Buechner (Earth Crisis, Freya)

Furthermore, EDGE explores the lives of 10 individuals and see how their decision to live ‘poison free’ has changed the world for them.

EDGE is produced by Michael Kirchner and Marc Pierschel and will premier in NYC on October 3rd 2009 . News of a DVD release will soon follow.

Check out the Official Site & BLOG for news and updates !