CrackRock is ‘lekker bezig’. He’s been working on his own little island in The 5 Minutes Museum for the last month. I’ve visited a while ago and coming saturday the 11th of july it’s the last time to actually see all the work. From 18.00-22.00u their will be the finessage.

Photo: at TwistedStreets, Boudewijn Bollmann

“Imagine your own island. Who wouldn’t want one for themselves? Just to step out this hectic world, but even more to create your own world. One where you are the king. Not for 5 minutes, but for always.”

MU gallery added another good expo to their list; ‘Hier en Daar’ (Here and There) shows a selection of works from 20 promising artists and designers from Breda and Eindhoven, all born after 1970. They show their new work in two groups both in Eindhoven and in Breda’s KOP gallery. They will switch the work on the 25th of June from location to location.

We’ve visited the opening in Eindhoven and here some snapshots. Some by myself and some by Mr. Bollmann (you can see the difference)..Rop, our first supermodel, was selected and made an amazing piece of work, showing the old way of animation in this carroussel filled with images:

Gijs Gieskes always great music players:

Some more:

Here the video:

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Hier & Daar from robertanderson on Vimeo.

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Ontourist Baschz has been working on another great piece of work lately called Masterpiece 2.0.
Together with Selfcontrolfreak they’re claiming to make the first ever canvas with Web 2.0 approach.
Hmmm, how does that work? Be amazed…this canvas interacts with its visitors, who can affect the proces and final outcome of this animation.
By adding an object to the animating canvas (’introduce object’), dressing the characters with your shirt design (’shirt ‘em’) or giving yourself or a friend a role in the next scene (’cameo app’) you will add new animation to the canvas. Besides you’ll also get a one-off high resolution image of one of your animation frames, created and signed by Baschz…for only 10 to 50 euros!

Too much talk, check it out yourself here and follow the whole process live through their webcam. SICK.

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We present our Spring Summer 2010 ‘Stranded Ontour’ collection at Bread and Butter Berlin from 1 - 3 July.

We like to invite you to visit us in our booth in the Sports and Street area, number SPR 02.13 and to join us for an Ontour after tradeshow drink on thursday the 2nd of July at Kickback Berlin.
Kickback is a great sneaker / clothing boutique and our first German customer from back in the days. We will celebrate the presentation of our new collection with some free drinks and music
in the chilled out Friedrichshain area, from 19 till 23 hrs.

For a roadmap from Bread and Butter to Kickback, click here
Hope to see you next week in our booth and afterwards for some drinks!

Our Patta colab is now available in their online store! Check it out here

Man, been so busy preparing the new sales season that I couldn’t really catch up on the blog…next week Bread and Butter, new samples coming in, new collabs coming up, photoshoots…quite manic but the puzzle is coming together again. Looking forward to show our new stuff next week! Last sunday we did a photoshoot for our SS10 collection, here some snaps:

Sending off the results for printing now, looking gooood. Thanks to Boudewijn for the photography at Twisted Streets, Sophie and Roger for modelling, Christoph and Daniera for keeping us company and Timboektoe for the food.

Amsterdam boutique Patta will celebrate its 5th anniversary coming weekend. As kick-off of an impressive list of colabs that will be released this anniversary year, they’ve hooked up with us for their ‘Patta Ontour 2009′ sweater. We’ve already been working together for years and got inspired by ‘touring gear’;
On the back of the sweat all brands that are involved in the Patta 2009 tour are announced and a set of seperate badges are part of the package, based upon the time when you bought badges of your
favourite band to stitch on your jacket, bag or cap.

In general a soft, lightweight  crewneck, perfect for the summer that will be released saturday the 20th of June. Limited to 100 pieces, only at Patta on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal and on their online store!

Tommorow it’s Celebration time!

Photography: Boudewijn Bollmann www.twistedstreets.nl
Model: Erwin Thomasse www.powerblastmovement.com

At he moment Hilde and I are in South India, to follow up some Ontour production and sampling in one of the factories we work with. We’re here now since a couple of days, our first time in India and and we love it. We had some days off and we visited the Kerala area, Munar and Thekkary to be exact. Nature is amazing here and we stayed in some unbelievable places. Here some snaps of the last couple of days. I’ll post more when I’m back in Holland cause my camera is packed!

And I’m having fun as you can see;)

Yes, we started counting…in about 6 weeks the complete Ontour team will be in Berlin showing our S10 collection at Bread and Butter! As you might have heard they’ve moved the complete circus back to where it all started..Berlin. We have sweat memories thinking back at the last edition in Berlin, where we showed our Sliced Ontour collection. So we can’t wait heading out there. This time the location will be the city airport Tempelhof which looks amazing, imagine our booth in the following pictures:)

The final floorplan is also clear now and it looks like it’s going to be fun again…CTRL, Les Sixpacks, Die Wemotions und DRMTMs, Staple, Penfield, Gourmet, Sabre and our Japanese distributor Haka (Products Classics) from Raddlounge and Blues will be our neighbours!

Hope to meet you there in boothnumber SPR 02.13 Sports and Street area.

For the launch of our ‘Tonight’ SS09 collection on Freshcotton we did this special project with North Face and Lowlands…one Freshcotton customer was picked and won 2 tickets for Lowlands festival and 1 North face x Freshcotton x Ontour tent to camp on Hollands best outdoor festival. Arthur is the lucky bastard and he should feel really lucky cause the tent came out really nice and Lowlands announced some new names like Faith No More, Grace Jons, 2 Many DJ’s, Blocpart, Calexico, Dizzee Rascal…Hopefully I can find this tent somewhere on the campsite to take some picts in use! Here a small preview: