​"2011's most un-hyped rap release has arrived" - finally in my postbox and crates too ... "It's by a group so under-the-radar that even its record label, All City, or the photographer who shot the mysterious image on its album's cover, Sue Kwon, have no idea who the two people in it are - other than that the duo once went by the name "The Midnight Eez" and claimed a home base somewhere deep in the Bronx." (the village voice, sound of the city)

Follow the village voice link. A very good statement to which there is nothing much to add; about this release, it being a "fond reminder of the wholesome joy of putting faith in the music" back then and the situation of being recognized as an artist or not ...

What I can most definitely say after listening to it several times is this: a very solid and emotionally varying - 30 minutes long - journey through 14 (very well remastered) instrumentals produced by "The Midnight Eez" between 1995 and 1996. A comment i made about one track called "night walk" earlier this week: "in a state of inner peace while listening to this". And I have nothing more to say than that. Very much recommended this one and - on top - it comes for a veeeery reasonable price. As long as supplies last i suppose!

Thank you All-City for digging this one out and making it affordable for anyone buying records and trying to support artists.

We are very excited to announce: The HELP FOR JAPAN "Secret Postcard" Art sale presented by Francesca von Habsburg/T-B A21, Elsa König, Elsa Okazaki and Andrew Standen-Raz.

The HELP FOR JAPAN Charity Event for the Red Cross, held on April 17th, 2011 at the Pratersauna in Vienna, will be one of the largest line-up of leading musicians, artists, fashion designers & locally based businesses seen in Vienna for a long time. 3pm till ...
The event is a natural outpouring of solidarity and assistance from Vienna's artistic community to the victims of the catastrophic events still unfolding in Japan.



The event includes international DJs and live acts, such as Peter Kruder, Rodney Hunter, Dorian Concept, Bauchklang, Microthol and [dunkelbunt], a fashion sample sale by Wendy & Jim, Ute Ploier, Anna Aichinger, Mühlbauer and, following in the steps of the successful charity art sales held for the last 15 years at the Royal College of Art in London, HELP FOR JAPAN will also present a charity sale of original, "one-off" postcard-sized art from the following leading and emerging artists:

BEN-DAVID ANAT, OVIDIU ANTON, JOHANNA BRAUN, CANDICE BREITZ, JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER, ANETTA MONA CHISA & LUCIA TKÁCOVÁ, DJ SPOOKY, THOMAS DRASCHAN, BARBARA EICHHORN, EVA ENGELBERT, CHASE ERACHI, MANFRED ERJAUTZ, KERSTIN VON GABAIN, DOROTHEE GOLZ, DANIEL HAFNER, MARLENE HAUSEGGER, FLORIAN HECKER, JEPPE HEIN, LUKAS HEISTINGER, MATTHIAS HERRMANN, JUDITH HUEMER, KATSEY, SUSANNE KLOBASSA, IVO KOCHERSCHEIDT, KARL KÜHN, MARKO LULIC, CONSTANTIN LUSER/STEFAN ARZTMANN, MAHONY, CARSTEN NICOLAI, MICHAEL NIEMETZ, IRIS NITZL, RITA NOWAK, ANNELIES OBERDANNER, ELSA OKAZAKI, JULIAN PALACZ, GERNOT PETJAK, DEREK ROBERTS, CONSTANZE RUHM, VALENTIN RUHRY, FIONA RUKSCHIO, LISA RUYTER, HANS SCHABUS, MAX SCHAFFER, EVA SCHLEGEL, yours truly SIRA ZOE SCHMID/MARKUS OBERNDORFER, ELFIE SEMOTAN, DEBORAH SENGL, NEDKO SOLAKOV, A. C. STANDEN-RAZ, ESTHER STOCKER, JUERGEN TELLER, MARTIN VESELY, BILL VIOLA, SALVATORE VIVIANO, KAY WALKOWIAK, HERWIG WEISER, ERWIN WURM, NATALIA ZALUSKA ... and many more!

A friend of ours aka mr jazzmen from germany has some nice "little" project called YOUSPOTS going on. For the last few months he and some friends has been working on this website that enables you to share and find spots, runs and locations for all sorts of (extreme)sports, ... The site just recently launched and now it's time to share spots and extend the database to build a community and a world wide web of extreme sports locations, meet-ups etc. ... enjoy.

Homie BUSK has got a little "christmas" GOODIE for all of you out there ... a nice "paper toy" limited to 15 color variations that you can randomly download from his webiste cmod.at. SHOCKING NEWS: my BUSK paper ape jumped from the window sill wednesday 11am CET trying to escape the photo shoot; be careful, those apes are unpredictable!

moreover there is a really nice interview about his work, inspiration, thoughts on graffiti, ... and a portrait i shot some "little while" ago on lecool.com.

modify the city ... and have fun folding! i got 4 already ...
peace, sirlensalot

Dear friends and family ... I'm going to start rolling up a little bit of our history from now on. A history that somehow started before we even realized that it would become our's too... Cause of course some of us were still shitting in the pants back then. It was the mid 80ties, that should be the beginning of a long era in Gmunden's "Freestyle Sport" and "Creative Mindz" history ...

In the first photo (1987) you will find two of those guys responsible for lots of that ... our dear long time friends Gerald Loidl (first from the left) and former flatland world champion Richard Vobr (second from the left). Both part of the "BMX Team Gmunden". I sadly never met the others as far as I remember, but in the back you see another really good friend of ours, that would accompany us over the years in various shapes and forms: The Ghetto-Blaster! Blaaasting Hip-Hop into my ears from the first day I remember joining the "Sportplatz-Force" in 1994. There are lots of stories I could tell from here, but for now i just want to "HOLLAAA!" at those who cleared the way for generations to follow.

And that's what all you "Skaters and BMX-freestylers" out there that enjoyed this pre-heated nest in Gmunden back then and the ever growing skatepark and freestyle sport community should do too. Hold still for a moment, think back and ... "HOLLAAAA!!!"'

Without the effort of Gerald, Rick, Mario, Rudi, ... a lot would have turned out different i suppose and maybe the one or other would have worshipped anything else but a miniramp, skateboard or bicycle. I'm writing this post, because i think it's important, to bring into our mind again, that there was a time when new ramps and obstacles were not suddenly falling from the sky. A time when we used to build those wooden ramps on our own; having the will to create!  (and of course we had a ghetto blaster in 1995, what did u think?!).
I can only speak for myself, but I think I don't do any wrong by saying that a part of this possee, the various groups existing within it and the freedom we all somehow experienced together changed and shaped my life. And I also believe that this time and this place where lots of us met, was also leading some of us to what they do now ...

... being free mindz, doing whatever they do, but doing their thing, making films, taking photos, doin graphics, producing, nerding on music ... and cars of course. KEEP CREATING my friends & DO YOUR THING!!!! Thx for one part in my personal "school of life" FAM!!! And to some of our friends that got lost along the path, R.i.P ... we won't forget the time we all had together!