Not long afterwards I’ll be going to Skopje along the same lines as last year when I was in Sarajevo. This time we have the results of last years workshop, the living room of the future.
I’m back in Berlin not long afterwards for a look at object based media and how machine learning can work together for the future of storytelling, quite similar to TOA 17 but more exploring and more I can talk about now compared to then.
I read about dormouse chocolates in my feed and was excited to hear they have opened a shop in Manchester. I met them at the cococarunners event in takk a while ago and quite liked their chocolate although generally too milky for my personal tastes but they have darker too and they are good too.
Originally I thought it might be a technical problem with that one trainer but it turned out to be much more that just a one off. I actually bought 2 of them in different colours and slightly different style but had to send one back to Adidas for a full refund. They also offered a refund on the other one but I wanted to keep it as I kinda hoped superglue would help things. They did give me a part refund anyway.
They were excellent about it all, can’t point the finger at them for customer service. but I’ve carefully wore the other pair.
However in almost a 2 years since I bought them and wearing them here and there mainly during summer, I looked at them again to see if I could fix things with glue, sponge or something else. I noticed something else was not right with the other shoe too.
To explain from the pictures; the blades (as they are called) are quite solid to support the weight of the wearer. The blades are set at a angle, so they slightly bend giving an amazing but slight bounce to walking and running. I can’t tell you how amazing it feels, and I’ve worn all types of trainers including Nike Air. I still remember wearing them on a walk form Check point charlie to krutzberg while on the Mozilla retreat in Berlin.
But the rigidity nature makes it not good with the usual bending of shoe. There is some give but not enough and ultimately the rigid blades break away from the base unit. Not in a loose your heel in a street vent style but rather it cracks away from the base. This is where I was applying super glue but it would last a certain amount of time before the glue would break again.
To be fair the reviews are not that impressive either, no idea what they would write if they had it longer. To me it was clear as day for me when the blade break had happened on the opposite shoe in the exact same manor.
I think Adidas may have gone too far with the blades and the Adidas A3 & Bounces were a better idea for general use. Especially when it came to traction with the floor. Having too little actual contact with the floor made any hint of rain on the road a hazard for walking on. It s a real shame because they are incredibly engineered trainers.
Some will say over-engineered? Maybe thats why I love them so…?
On the first night of the holiday in Barcelona, we were hit by something of a biblical thunderstorm. It was super humid, so its hardly surprising.
Experiencing almost biblical thunderstorms in Barcelona tonight. It's quite incredible how regular the lightening is and dense the rain fall
— Ian Forrester | cubicgarden@mastodon@cloud (@cubicgarden) September 6, 2018
There is a video but it was so rainy you can’t really see much, so got the Pacemaker out and started mixing late at night. The mix was much longer but I had to cut it back due to some very dodgy mixing as I likely started to fall a sleep.
The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute was a political demonstration conducted by African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony on October 16, 1968, at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. After Smith and Carlos won gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the 200-meter running event, they turned on the podium to face their flags, and to hear the American national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Each athlete raised a black-gloved fist, and kept them raised until the anthem had finished. In addition, Smith, Carlos, and Australian silver medalist Peter Norman all wore human rights badges on their jackets. In his autobiography, Silent Gesture, Smith stated that the gesture was not a “Black Power” salute, but a “human rights salute”. The event is regarded as one of the most overtly political statements in the history of the modern Olympic Games.
John Carlos and Tommie Smith made headlines across the world when they raised the black power salute on the podium after winning in the 1968 Olympics. That protest brought them death threats, and they were expelled from the games.
Another Pacemaker device mix from Finland, this time a lot longer and a lot less polished but its got a certain charm which I quite enjoy. Note the Helsinki scorching remixes, as it would be rude not to play it in Helsinki. Theres quite a few classics in this mix and they still sound good.
Enjoy!
Love Stimulation (PvD love club mix) – Humate
Intruder – Armin vs MIKE
My Beat (Jan Driver mix) – Blaze
Opium – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
Reflection (Extended mix) – Ferry Corsten
Mass Noise 2015 – Fred Baker & Seb B
Running up the hill (Jerome isma-ae bootleg) – Placebo
Helsinki Scorching – Super8 vs Dj Tab
Ligaya (Hiver & hammer remix) – Gouryella
Circles – Robert Nickson
Against the Flow (Astuni & Manuel Le Saux Extended relift) – Stine Grove
Madagascar (Ferry Corsten mix) – Art of Trance
Delores – Indecent noise
Out of the Blue – System F
Everythings been written – 8 Wonders
Imagineer (Alex M.O.R.P.H remix) – Lange
Gouryella (Extended mix) – Gouryella
Without you (Dogzilla dub mix) – Dogzilla
Helsinki Scorching (Alex Morph remix) – Super8 vs Dj Tab
Can’t even tell you how many mixes I have done over the last few trips but I’m slowly picking out the good ones and uploading them to my Mixcloud account.
I really enjoyed doing this mix on my pacemaker while enjoying a coffee near the Amos Rex, and happened to capture the scene of space intruders (really models dressed up in space clothes) climbing over the outside. Its a short one and you will see intruder by Armin vs MIKE is in there twice, as it was fitting with the stampede of space intruders.
Madagascar (Ferry Corsten mix) – Art of Trance
Love Stimulation (PvD love club mix) – Humate
Running up the hill (Jerome isma-ae bootleg) – Placebo
Reflection (Extended mix) – Ferry Corsten
Mass Noise 2015 – Fred Baker & Seb B
Intruder – Armin Vs MIKE
Opium – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
Blood Angels (Chris Liebing Mix) – John Starlight
Amino Acid – Tau-Rine
Intruder – Armin Vs MIKE
My Beat (Ambassador extended remix) – Blaze
The Expedition (Indecent noise remix) – Armin Van Buuren and Markus Schulz
