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Interesting stuff I found on the web last week

2012-01-23T23:58:00.000Z

..and the personification/machinification what's generally wrong with the world today:

I think we should take the Halloween decoration down before the neighbours call the police

2012-01-14T23:16:00.001Z

White Punks On Dope/TV

2012-01-09T20:57:00.001Z

When I was a pre-teenage village punk I was in love with Nina Hagen. I had heard her on a record that my older cousin had. There she was on the cover of the record.. all punk hair, smoking a fag, looking like Malcolm McLaren personally manufactured her in his Punk Lab. She was a trained opera singer and grew up in East Berlin, her mother a famous actress and her dad.. he was probably a Marxist terrorist or some freedom fighter in South America.

So, that's her version of White Punks On Dope by The Tubes. She wrote some great German lyrics for her version about hanging around and watching the telly, delivered in her weird operatic dada language. It was everything that my parents didn't understood condensed in a couple of minutes. Perfecto.

I later actually met her when we supported her at an open air festival in the late 90s. I was very late for that gig because for some strange reason I got there by train instead with the others from Berlin in our shitty little rent-van and there were two towns with the same name and I ended up in the wrong one and then had to take a taxi to drive for ages to the right town, so everybody had to wait for an hour for the support band to start which was quite embarrassing but I remember her having a chat with us afterwards and she was very sweet and even knew our band.

This is The Tubes' original version which is also one of my favorite tracks from this era..

Cafe Racer Pictures

2012-01-08T03:25:00.001Z

I finaly bought a motorbike. After years of denial I got a 1973 Honda CB125 S from Ebay which I christened 'Piccolo Bastardo'. The breaks are a bit shit but it's very loud, so I might survive because you can hear me coming from 10 miles away.

I like the idea of a bike in the living room

Next year I might upgrade to something bigger, but not too big. I like the idea of a small, light bike. Maybe something like this:

But that's $8000, so that's not really realistic, huh? Fuckin' hell.. where do I get $8000 from?! Maybe I should put Adwords on this blog & make some dosh with you and you and you ; )

Here are some nice bike alternatives..

I think this is my favorite:

It comes with a knuckle duster. Nice detail.

Sexy bike moto blogs I like:

Corpses From Hell
Bubble Visor
Ze Last Chance Garage Du 78

Disclaimer:

I nicked the pictures above from all over the web. If you have the publishing rights to any of them, please drop me a mail [supaswag at gmail.com] and I'll take them down if it's a problem for you.

Pictures are back!

2011-07-26T23:24:00.001+01:00

Where have they been? They were hiding, the little bastards. Actually, I was hiding them from myself because I fumbled around with the access to my Picassa web albums and by mistake set the access to the photos that are on the supaswag blog to private. Blogger can't fetch them from Picassa - no pics on the blog. Amazing. Or something.

To celebrate, I will share one of my favorite pics with you. Enjoy!

That's my band In Love. We only play once a year in Berlin. Maybe you'll catch us one day ; ) We also have a dancer. She's called Bone Bitch.

Where have all the pictures gone??!

2011-06-27T12:53:00.002+01:00

A month ago all pictures dissapeared from my blog posts. Is it a sign to start something new?

Or move everything to Wordpress? o_O

Update1: There seems to be a problem with auto-loading pics from www.picasaweb.com.

Test pic uploaded from desktop:

Kitchen Design - A Handmade Tale

2011-03-23T12:46:00.001Z

The UK’s desire for handmade kitchens and bathrooms highlights a modern twist on nostalgia. It’s often said that the British have an over-developed love of nostalgia. And so what if it’s true? After all, there’s nothing wrong with celebrating the best lessons from the past and preserving tradition while looking forward.

And it’s this kind of nostalgia that’s central to the recent resurgence in popularity of bespoke and handmade kitchen designs that reference the past, while at the same time integrating modern innovations. Resurgent British design values are concerned not with trends and fads, but with timeless class and elegance. Hence, British kitchen design in the present is being defined through reference to architecture of particular eras, to the solidity of trusted materials, the use of balance and space, period details, and by a sense of finely crafted understatement.

It’s not just how kitchens look once they’re installed, either. Bespoke kitchen companies speak glowingly of their close-knit relationship with their teams of skilled craftsmen; harking back to a time when trades were a lifelong commitment. They encourage their clients to savour the importance of traditional joinery techniques like mortice and tenon joints, and handcrafted period details like pilasters and moulded dentil cornices – this craftsmanship has become a luxury, and its vocabulary a promise of quality.

Traditionally minded though it may be, that’s not to say that this new take on heritage doesn’t have a few ingenious tricks up its sleeve. Modern space savers like pull-out larders and pop-up spice racks hide clutter; appliances are cunningly disguised, resulting of course in a kitchen that looks less modern and more traditional as a result. Materials also appeal on the basis of heritage values, but wood choice and types of grain, pattern, variation, texture and so on are more varied than ever as bespoke kitchen makers source their materials (responsibly of course) from a global marketplace.

And to differentiate their services, the companies concentrate on a different kind of history – their own. It’s a case of the older and more distinguished the better; the likes of Smallbone Of Devizes is forever associated with the hand-painted kitchen and unfitted kitchen innovations, for example, and other bespoke makers proudly incorporate techniques carried over from other vanished industries, like boat building.

It’s not just kitchens that are benefiting from this timelessness. The luxurious haven of solitude that is the bathroom is similarly well catered for. Hand-carved stone slabs and bespoke cabinet furniture are available for your private sanctuary, and the period option is a popular choice reflected in the ranges of many design company portfolios.

It’s not that Brits are dismissive of the rest of the world’s design know-how. Flick through the glossy catalogues of any bespoke kitchen, bathroom or handmade furniture designer, and you’ll regularly spot elements of German, French, Italian, American and Japanese aesthetics. The desire to make exotic interior design statements or blend different cultural reference points will never leave the multicultural British psyche after all.

It’s more as though we’ve seen what’s on offer and opted to return, time and again, to a bit of luxury based on traditional values. And that’s surely the ultimate compelling argument for investing in one of these top-end handmade kitchens or bathrooms – heritage will never fall out of favour, and the traditional will remain eternally stylish.

Did I just write about expensive kitchens? I sure did. Watching Masterchef for six years in a row has left a deep mark.

Popes & Cunts

2011-02-06T15:55:00.002Z

PLUS!

Not the Pope's son [possibly not a cunt]

Not George Clooney [still possibly a cunt]

Mega Shark vs. Santander

2011-01-02T16:11:00.001Z

'Mega Shark VS Santander' 2011. $100.00 - For sale by the artist. Please contact us.

Just remember..

2011-01-02T15:21:00.000Z

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

By reddit_user13

Happy New Year

Crazy Caravans

2010-11-08T18:04:00.010Z

Have you ever been caravanning? No?! Well, checking out this madness on two [or more] wheels, it looks like hours of fun.

The last time I stayed in a caravan was in Bisbee/Arizona on my honeymoon trip. We stayed for a couple of days at the Shady Dell vintage caravan park in an 1957 El Ray which was beautifully restored and equipped with all sorts of period accessories. They even wired up the original radio so it only played 50s rockabilly. Sweet.

So, here we go.. Caravanning - Where the cool and the very un-cool mix effortlessly.

Home Sweet Tiny Home

Yes, birds love caravanning. Seriously.

And bunnies love it too!!

And royal midgets.

You can caravan on the water..

..in the air

..even in the future!

You can caravan in the past:

On a motorbike:

In a river:

In good company:

In disguise:

In style:

In even more style:

You can take everybody you know on a trip:

Or you can go on your own:

You can be patriotic:

Or reflective:

Folky..

..or Rock & Roll

..or alternative

You can even race caravans

But whatever you do..

..be careful

..and transparent.

Respect nature

..and be creative.

Don't be a jerk:

And whoever you are and wherever you go: Never forget that you are towing a caravan!!

If I got you hooked on the caravan experience I can recommend a place called Woolacombe, a caravan holiday park in North Devon directly next to the sea. We stayed there once and had a great time.

HAPPY CARAVANNING!!

Keep On Joaquin

2010-10-13T22:07:00.007+01:00

So, after the bearded cat is out of the bag and Joaquin Phoenix is our favourite stuntman now, Jedda sent me her new video. Here's what she said:

I'm a film student at College of Fine Arts in Sydney Australia. I just recently made this funny animation in After Effects after seeing Joaquin Phoenix's 'Im Still Here'

I put it to this track by Deep Sea Arcade who have been getting heaps of Blog attention lately

Check it out....

BERLIN - International city of mystery

2010-10-10T18:50:00.002+01:00

Great food

Outdoor Karaoke

Great friends

New vs Old

Boring vs Epic

I do miss driving round America

2010-07-30T01:04:00.001+01:00

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

2010-07-13T12:17:00.002+01:00

Hi folks

I haven't updated the blog much since the beginning of the year. That is down to the fact that I went traveling in the US, which resulted in the American Road Trip blog, and also spent much more time on Twitter and other social media time wasters. It's just so much quicker and, working on the computer the whole day, I mostly can't be bothered to also spend my evenings staring at the laptop. I am also not sure where to take this blog. Everybody has a fucking blog and the point of Supaswag as a blog needs to be re-defined. I started this blog because I loved the idea of sharing all the beautiful and weird stuff that I found while browsing the net but other people who do that as a full time job probably do that in a better way. I have to come up with something unique, otherwise I feel that I'm just wasting our time.

See you on the other side ; )

ps: If you are bored of reading blogs, here's a good book

The new simplified Facebook privacy controls

2010-06-02T01:33:00.003+01:00

Really Mad Men

2010-05-05T00:24:00.001+01:00

I always ask myself why Mad Men is called Mad Men. Are these really mad men? Are these people mad because they chain smoke or are they mad because they fuck everything that doesn't move quick enough? Or is it a pun on [M]Ad Men? Anyway.. here's hope for the series finale - when the masks will come down.

Life Instructions

2010-03-07T17:19:00.001Z

1. Have fun

2. Do not hurt people

3. Do not accept defeat

4. Strive to be happy

"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge." Eckhart Tolle

Now switch off the computer, go outside and spread some good vibrations.

*CYBERHUG*

On The Road.

2010-01-14T09:29:00.001Z

The first change in 2010 is that I will not go to work. For four weeks me & the lovely Sharmila will travel from San Francisco to New York by car to celebrate our honeymoon. You can read everything about it on our USA Travel Blog

Predictions 2010

2009-12-31T20:06:00.004Z

- In the year 2010 we will all commute to work on hoverboards.

- In the year 2010 we will all train our bodies while asleep.

- In the year 2010 we will all eat 'space food'.

- In the year 2010 we will all own a flying electric car.

- In the year 2010 we will all have a computer.

- In the year 2010 we will all be online.

- In the year 2010 we will all log into a simulation of our own brain to fix problems.

- In the year 2010 we will all solve the problem of global warming.

- In the year 2010 we will all go on a space holiday.

- In the year 2010 we will all read more books.

- In the year 2010 we will all have a robot who's doing the household stuff for us.

- In the year 2010 we will all be able to control our own patch of weather.

- In the year 2010 we will all be connected to all other possible computers via quantum entanglement chains.

- In the year 2010 we will all also live in augmented realities.

- In the year 2010 we will all make contact.

- In the year 2010 we will all watch smooth running video streams.

- In the year 2010 we will all be healed by nanobots.

- In the year 2010 we will all be safe.

- In the year 2010 we will all speak Esperanto.

- In the year 2010 we will all have to shape who we are.

The media feeds us with impressive attack ads, appealing PR ads, and sometimes repulsive propaganda. Even when we agree with what we view, it is vital that we become harshly critical of those who attempt to control our minds. Attack ads can be powerful. They warp the facts and use lies to change how the viewer feels, and to change beliefs. This is a sickening and undemocratic process. In the future, in our complex world it is vital that we be free from manipulation, so we are able to make logical decisions about what is best for us.

Our system has controlled our way of life, and will continue to control it for decades to come. The advertising and marketing strategies in our profit driven system have a big impact on what we want in life, what we tolerate, and what we value. It has had an impact on the desire of people to use prescription drugs excessively, to become overweight, to smoke, to accept an unhealthy lifestyle, and to believe we must continually buy things in order to enjoy life. In addition, television ads pick on the vulnerable. They manipulate children, control the types of toys they want, and make them (and myself) want breakfast cereal that isn't much better than candy.

So, instead of getting what we want, we wind up with the way of life that our system has created for us. Most people are willing to accept a garbage lifestyle, because that's what they're used to, that's what their friends do, and that's what advertising messages subtly pressure everyone to do.

Can we change our system? Our system won't get better if we tear things apart. In spite of major flaws, our system has proven to be better than other systems.

We can improve things by working within the system. We need to take the situation seriously, face the negative information, decide what needs to be done, and then actually do something about it. It's a difficult task.

Good luck my friend ..and remember: In the year 2010 we will all live forever.

peace_xxx

More Stuff..

2009-12-26T13:16:00.000Z

This is some of the shizzle that has been lying around since weeks. There's a lot of *change* coming to this blog after I'm back from America in February, so bear with me ; ]

And remember: The pen is mightier than the penis, which is mightier than the sword. Or something..

Take care,

supaswag

The Four Stages Of Life

2009-12-26T11:08:00.000Z

1. You believe in Santa

2. You don't believe in Santa

3. You are Santa

4. You look like Santa

YMCA

2009-11-15T01:27:00.000Z

BOOOOOOOM!

2009-10-18T00:15:00.006+01:00

Dave Barnes

Voodoo Top Hat

2009-10-14T21:20:00.004+01:00