STAPLE X.

Colette / To Elect by Colette

Congrats to STAPLE DESIGN on making it through their first decade. To commemorate this milestone they've joined with 25 artists, creatives and organizations to make their latest 'Anniversary Collection'. Each collaborator was given an anagram (personally selected to be apt for them) to use as the basis for their design, resulting in impressively inspired results...

The Staple Anniversary Collection will be arriving in 707 shortly, including a very limited supply of pigeon hats...

Nameless / Salesmen by Kimou Meyer

Praised / Despair by Deanne Cheuk

{images courtesy of Jeff Staple's Blog}

THAT'S HOLLYWOOD.

LA's gotta have the highest concentration of famous people anywhere in the world. The result of this is paparazzi outside every 'hip' bar, restaurant or store every single day...

This was the crowd of photogs outside the Mondrian at lunchtime on a weekday. Basically if you walk out wearing dark glasses you're guaranteed a fleeting feeling of fame as they all look up to work out who you are, before dropping their lenses an instant later in disappointment. Turns out they weren't trying to get spyshots of the glamorous 707 lifestyle, but of Posh Spice who'd been eating a couple of tables over...

by the valet parking at Barney's department store

THE CITY OF ANGELS.

Arrived in LA a few days ago... some blog posts from there coming soon...

BEASTIE BOYS COLD KICKIN' IT LIVE.

The final stop of the GOOD VIBRATIONS festival was at Fort Canning in Singapore last Monday, and sporadic rain, missing acts, sound problems and drunken stage rushers couldn't stop the Beastie Boys from bringing down the house... Officially starting at 4pm, most of the crowd didn't start turning up until around 7.30, just in time to catch Agrikulture (DJ's Anton & Hogi's band) and headline acts Cut Copy, Jurassic 5 and Beastie Boys on the main stage, and Ursula 1000 on the secondary DJ stage. Everyone seeemed to be there for this one, including the guys from Surrender, SBTG, Killer Gerbil, and Indo friends all over...

Agrikulture

Cut Copy

Jurassic 5 (with great visuals)

Although missing some of the energy of seeing these bands in other venues (or countries...), as the evening wore on, and the alcohol sank in, the crowd definitely began to get into the swing of things, boosted by a slick performance by Jurassic 5, before getting crazy when the Beastie Boys finally came on at 12.15pm.

don't they cut off your arms for doing this in Singapore?

Their set included faves from across their back catalogue including Brass Monkey, No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn, Bodymovin', Intergalactic, Sabotage and an incredible mixing solo by Mixmaster Mike... Even after a couple of decades, they've STILL got it...

HIGHS: bumping into friends from singapore and jakarta at every turn. mixmaster mike's turntable session. jurassic 5 doing concrete schoolyard. security vs. the stage climber.

LOWS: bumping into friends from singapore and jakarta at every turn. never-ending lines for the bar. rain. missing expletives (f**king sanitized lyrics!). more rain. no VIP section/bar (yeah, we're pampered wimps). sleep-inducing after-party.

Overall congrats are in order to Donovan, Chris and the rest for doing a great job in bringing the festival to Singapore...

Killer Gerbil customized a car for sponsor Subaru

THE ULTIMATE.

While most eyes are set on spring fashion week trying to get the latest info on the next "IT" bag, the people behind Slow and Steady Wins The Race have already taken it a step further with the "Ultimate" bag. This bag has it all. Literally. ALL the infamous IT bags combined to hang off one shoulder. hmmm...

Balenciaga, Hermes, Gucci, Chanel, you name it, it's all there looking like a Mangga Dua remix. Too magical or too much to handle? You decide. It's sold at Ooga Booga online store for a mere $300. As for us, we'll stick with the classics.

{posted by Lisza}

BJORK VS. DIDDY.

Gif animation is where it's at... hilarious. To view from the start either reload the page, or wait for it to loop around.

To see the sequel check MILKFAT.COM

THANKS.

Many, many thanks to D. at Nike Singapore and the elegant Ms. P in Indo for these latest gifts... Both are premium models specially released for the AF1 25th anniversary. The mid-grey ones are super-clean and one of the best AF1 colourways we've ever seen. The dark grey and red are the 'Moses Malone' version taken from the 'Original Six' series. This series is in honour of the six players in the dream team that Nike put together to promote the Air Force 1 when originally released.

The 'Original Six' are now available at the Nike Members Only store and soon at 707ANNEX.

above image from FRESHNESS

The Original Six

LEXUS SPY SHOTS.

The latest Lexus SUV spotted doing secret hot weather testing in South Jakarta. Not sure when the official release date for this vehicle is...

DISSECTED COMPANION.

Kaws' Dissected Companion (original colourway) with rare Kozik Monger

Thanks to Alvin at Ambush/Surrender for hooking me up with this... Currently on display in our Kemang store. Not so many thanks for the crazy hangover after an unsavoury bar-crawl with him, Mark Eley (Eley Kishimoto) and Colin (graphic designer, graf artist).

Mark, Alvin and Colin. They are as dodgy as they look.

MILE-HIGH SOCIETY.

More proof that there's too much cash in the hands of the wrong people... Some recent photos of the private jets of the Sultan of Brunei (first 3 photos) and Russian President Putin, and . Not only do these planes take you across oceans, they also apparently take you back in time to the early eighties...

WOLFMOTHER.

Bergas apparently sold his soul (didn't know he had one) for entry to the recent London gig by retro-rockers WOLFMOTHER... These guys may have come a long way since being called one of Rolling Stone's 'top 10 bands to watch in 2006', and recently winning the 2007 Grammy for best Hard Rock performance but it seems they still know how to rock a crowd...

The first time Sydney’s WOLFMOTHER came to London we missed it. So when they came in February for the second time, we couldn't pass... Tickets sold out in 3 minutes!

The wait was worth it. Energy and melody, pure, raw, heavy Zeppelin metal as Wolfmother was unleashed from it's cage! Andrew Stockdale (vocals/guitar), Chris Ross (bass/keyboards) and Myles Heskett (drums) were completely in tune with the crowd and delivered a mad headbangers-ball performance.



Hard hitters included Woman, Apple tree, Dimension, Colossal and our favorite Joker 'n' Thief which properly destroyed London's Hammersmith Apollo. They also covered Led Zeppelin’s Communication Breakdown like a true prodigy. Just like living high school all over again! The crowd was pumped, with a wild mosh pit and beer-in-the-air served all night.


Visit their label site MODULAR PEOPLE for more interesting new music from Avalanche, Cut Copy, The Presets and more.

ACE!!

{posted by BERGAS}

PICKING UP GOOD VIBRATIONS.

whoever drew the poster has obviously never been to Singapore

Australia's GOOD VIBRATIONS festival is hitting Singapore today for the first time since its inception in 2004. With two stages and a line-up headlined by the Beastie Boys (with mixmaster Mike AND Money Mark!!), Jurassic 5, Cut Copy, DJ Dan and Indonesia's very own Agrikulture, this promises to make Singapore history. Photos of the event to follow... Big thanks to Chris and the Kinemat crew for the VIP pass.

HAPPY BIRD-DAY.

Belated Happy Birthday to Winfred and Hanin at AKSARA records... Atrocious pun in title attributed to Dinda, we take no responsibility for this humour failure.

WET AND WILD.

Not sure how much media attention this has been getting abroad, but there's been a little bit of rain in Jakarta recently... These photos are of our street after the first deluge. Using typical Indonesian initiative, the guy with the cart was ferrying people across for about a buck a piece. Capitalism is alive and well in Indonesia. Now if only we could get our office internet and electricity running properly again we'd be happy.