2008 - networking project across europe

Freitag, 15. August 2008

...Liège

guided by alex friends billy and gusto we got...


billy & gusto (they are living in a very productive house in bxl shared by musicians and artists)


... first impressions...


... of liége. we arrived there after midnight in the middle of a street fest, four days of crazieness. walking through the chaos we finally arrived @ our new home...

an old post office completely empty serving local artists as artelier. it would actually be the perfect location.

3rd day brussles...

we finally hooked up with alex deforce... strange how things work out. he contacted me a few months ago asking me for feedback on his blog on-point.be & the video blog on-point.tv. besides the blog there are free mix cds for download, and some very nice interviews withmartha cooper, flying lotus, christian prommer and josé james to name a few...

check it its dope! (click the image to get there)

(click alex's pic 4 his myspace)

that other night (2nd) day in bxl i remembered and thought it couldnt be wrong to try and contact him. our host still didnt really answer any calls... so the third day in the morning gladly leaving the horrible hotel at lemonnier we meet alex. guess what, right... he lived only two tram stations from midi. so we packed our stuff and got movin.

that day we did a wonderful interview with him telling about his work as (video) journalist, painter and his new profession... we meet up with billy

(one of alex's coffee paintings)
check his port folio!


the next funny thing happening was two friends of alex picking us up at the "place de bourse", taking us to liége where we hooked up with friends of aurelie portois. clay chose her as the only person out of like 5000 people being from belgium on a myspace search. suddenly...