Danish-based rockband Kashmir (see website or on Wikipedia) just released their new album Trespassers today.
This is for all you lazy souls that like to hear the album first before buying it. Choose one of the mirror sites below:

http://rapidshare.com/files/343071595/Kashmir-Trespassers-_Deluxe_Edition_-2010-ADK.rar
http://uploadbox.com/files/4983b670cc
http://depositfiles.com/files/9gt8z3ryc
http://hotfile.com/dl/26310559/a9ae9b5/Kashmir-Trespassers-(Deluxe_Edition)-2010-ADK.rar.html
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=3a1e55e

I don’t host any of this myself – just the messenger. Buy the real stuff and support the band if you like it. Please.

Cheers!

A friend of mine recently showed my a little game called “World of Goo“. A little skeptical in advance based on the bizarre name, I checked it out – and I was stunned!

Amazing artwork, beautiful graphics, impressive physics engine and a perfect balance between simplicity and gameplay possibilies, I was blown away. After geeking it for 2-3 hours I concluded that this might be the coolest little game I have tried in a long time. Everybody that has played other physics simulation games before (like Pontifex bridge builder) will love this one – guaranteed!

The concept: Put simply, the game is a construction simulator where you have to build towers, bridges or even vehicles from goo balls and transport your goo to it’s destination. Different types of goo, creative maps and multiple construction solutions delivers the variety.

Here’s the official gameplay appetizer below (or alternative version on YouTube):

You can grab it yourself here and it’s available for both Windows and Mac (+ Linux). Pay what you think it’s worth.

Have fun and happy goo’ing!

Secondly: My postflow here at the blog had a sudden death in the middle of my South America adventure. Yes, I am sorry for the lack of videos and photos lately, but it’s so time consuming and expensive (internet in NZ and Aussie is off the roof compared to SA). When I get the time, I will make a “World Trip Best Of” compilation to share, that will give a good insight in all the amazing experiences I had in Chile, Easter Island, Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia.

Thirdly: I updated the Google Map with my (almost) complete travel route – check it out here (I haven’t updated NZ and Aussie completely yet, it will come). For anyone considering doing backpacking abroad, I definitely recommend the whole route as a perfect combination of culture, people, nature, adventure and party. Only thing to consider: it is more time consuming that one might think to backpack, and even small distances can take a lot of time if you want to get the full benefit. I could easily have spent more time in both South America and Australia, and frankly, I only saw a tiny part of what the continents have to offer…

Last but not least: I am off for my next adventure – one month of InterRail around Europe! Matter of fact, at the time of writing this post, I am sitting in the train towards Hamburg in Germany (currently arriving at Rødby to take the ferry from Denmark to Puttgarden in Germany). Our route is somewhat unclear right now, but we will most likely make it down Western Europe (including Amsterdam), cross over the Alps and then up north through all of Eastern Europe.  Ahh, so good to be going again… H. C. Andersen was right: Travelling IS life!

So long – stay tuned!

Start your virtual haircut by pressing play below:

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• Download Mp3
• On YouTube if you prefer

Here’s another few holophonic audio illusions if you crave more: One Man’s Blog

One of the chapters I’ve just finished describes a range of different internal employee codes and procedures that contains different meanings. I’m not sure what is true, if anything, and it would be great if anybody could elaborate on it with me. Nonetheless, it’s cool – and even more cool if it proves to be true!

Hotel

• Starts playing “Blue Danube Waltz” – evacuate the building

Hospital

• Paging “Nurse Flamingo” – fire in the building
• Paging “Dr. Blaze” – fire in the building
• Paging “Dr. Green” – a patient comitted suicide
• Paging “Dr. Blue” – a patient stopped breathing

Hard Rock Café

• “Elvis has left the building” – servers/waiters need to go to the kitchen to what dinner special has sold out

Broadway theater

• “Elvis has left the building“ - fire in the theater

Gorcery store

• Page “Mr. Cash” – call for an armed security guard
• Calling “Freight check to Woman’s Clothing” – somebody is shoplifting in that department
• Page “Sheila to the front” – somebody is shoplifting in the front of the store

Airport

• Paging “Mr. Amond Silvestiri” – there is a terrorist with a bomb
• Paging “Miss Terrilynn Mayfield“ - anthrax in the building

Store (in general)

• Announcing “need for quarters for checkstand five” – signaling a hot girl is at the checkstand

Any additions? I will be happy to update the list if you have any additional info or corrections.

Ad for a new Nintendo Wii game featured on YouTube – check it out: http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

I encourage you to see it twice to get all the details

• Bizarro

  They once were on the back of some danish free daily newspaper – not any more. Gone, but not forgotton. Great humor!

  

  

  

• xkdc

  For the geeky masses – great simplicity and i love the nerdy humor!

  

  

  

• Wulffmorgenthaler

  By far the greatest comic strip I’ve ever seen- some screwed stuff going on in their heads!

  

  

  

Some time ago, i watched the cinema movie Control with my good friend Nicolaj. It’s a very emotional movie about the life and tragedy of Ian Curtis and Joy Division. It’s all in b/w, very stylistic and unique in it’s sense of filming.

When you leave the cinema seats after the lights get turned on, you’re left with a mixed feeling of both fascination and melancholy. Especially the sad ending really hits you where you’re softest. Recommended to everyone

Here’s a few of Joy Divison and New Order’s (the orginal members continued with a new name after Ian’s death) most popular songs:

Joy Divison – Love will tear us apart
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Joy Divison – She’s lost control
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New Order – True faith
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New Order – Blue monday
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New Order – Crystal
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Thanks to everyone at Camp Unknown for a great time, was fun meeting so many new people. For everyone’s interested, here’s a link to the Facebook Group page.  Even though the music olio has been criticized by many for the lack of blockbusting artists, i’d argument the selection was indeed very good. Many different genres we’re represented and i discovered a few great bands myself – some of them:

• MGMT (Kids + Time to Pretend + Electric Feel)
• Hot Chip (Ready for the Floor)
• Band of Horses (Is There a Ghost + The Funeral)
• Digitalism - Clubbing, hardcore!
• Slagsmålsklubben - Awesome Amiga/Nintendo retro-synth from these swedish guys
• However, there still was alot great bands i did’nt get to see/hear (either caused by drunkiness or laziness, who’s to blame)

The most favourable concerts were, in my opinion:

• Radiohead – Great use of screen effects and lightning, and with Karma Police for a sing-along ending, it went off beautifully (reactions from the audience here)
• The Streets – You gotta give it to him, the guy delivers. With the “everybody takes off their shirt and go low”, it was an awesome scene show)
• The Chemical Brothers – Full-blown party mood, with great effects and intense beats.
• Worth mentioning was also Hot Chip, MGMT and Band of Horses as written about above, great stuff..
• Do also check out Soundvenue’s all-in-one page for a summary

For everybody who have a hard time letting go, here’s some photos to accompany your memories + an moody clip from Soundvenue.

The drunken brawling, the candid openminded people, the extremely overpriced Nachos and, not to forget, the girls… Ughh – bring back the Orange Feeling!

By the way, video and photos from Tanzania (Kilimanjaro) is coming up – stay tuned..