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Nothing says ‘good time’ quite like Ninja coming onstage in his Pink Floyd boxers and performing ‘Beat Boy’, something that I was fortunate enough to witness at le National last night, when I went to see Die Antwoord with Stefan.

People who follow me on ye old Twitter saw me gushing over how fantastic the show was, and for good reason. It’s probably one of the best live acts that I’ve seen. What they lacked in budget and visual pazzaz – boner inducing videos of naked chicks rubbing each other aside – they more than made up for in terms of pure fun.

What surprised me the most was the diversity of the crowd; which was equal parts scene, hip, punk, nondescript and girls, and everyone was really into it. In fact, I kind of lost my proverbial shit when they opened with ‘Enter the Ninja’. I even moved a little. It was crazy!

So yeah, if you’ve listened to their music before and even remotely enjoy it, I’d recommend you go see them live because they’re fucking epic. So epic in fact that we might catch them again in NYC since we’re already here and they have a showed scheduled for the 24th.

July is shaping up to be a very busy – albeit fookin’ amazing – month for me; full of travel, live shows and fried chicken.

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Vitamins Design came up with an interesting solution for Samsung in order better acquaint consumers with their spiffy new smartphones.

Via Mike Jerugim

I’ve been taking a break from design lately – chalk it up to physical and mental exhaustion – which is kind of a drag but on the bright side, it has rekindled my love for videogames that aren’t Street Fighter in a big, bad way.

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I wanted to wait a little before posting my impressions of the iPad. Now that I’ve lived with it for about a week, I think I have a pretty good idea of how it’s integrated itself into my day-to-day routine.

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Arrivals & Departures – the vernissage for Concordia’s Design Art and Computation Art programs – is happening today at 5 pm in the EV building located on the corner of Ste-Catherine and Guy.

I have two pieces being put on display, one a personal project called (UN)TETHERED and a collaborative papercraft piece done with Dominic Liu, Peter Fortune, Stefan Spec, Sean Yendrys, Brian Li Sui Fong and our slave-driver, Kyosuke Nishida.

It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of Concordia’s design program but I was pleasantly surprised at some of the work that I got to sneak a peak at. I’m not saying that my faith in the program is restored… Just that you should come take a look for yourself. Maybe you’ll even find something that you’ll enjoy (like the free beer!).

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> Intro video by Francisco Acevedo

I honestly don’t know why I like South African Zef-Rap act Die Antwoord so much… But I do.

Props to Nicolas for pointing them out to me.

They’re taking over! Aaaaaah! (via @stefanspec)

I stumbled upon Sayaka Kajita Ganz‘s work while in search of new sources of inspiration. Breathing new life into discarded household objects, Ganz uses them to construct her amazing and dynamic sculptures. The true beauty of her work, however, resides in giving renewed purpose to things that had none. As she so beautifully puts it:

“By building these sculptures I try to understand the human relationships that surround me. It is a way for me to contemplate and remind myself that even if there is conflict right now, there is a way for all the pieces to fit together. That even if some people don’t feel at home here and now, there is a place where they belong and that they will eventually find it.”

Check out her stuff here.