Bansky vs. That Thing Called Global Warming

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Happy Holidays

2010 at our doors

A wonderful gretting from the folks over at Wolff Olins...

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Video by Michael Ciancio!

The Best of 2009

Nothing more than going a trip forces you to pack up your iPod with your favorites....

After 6 weeks on the road, I am back home in Switzerland and have made a complilation of my favorite tunes of 2009:

Albums:

The XX - xx

Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement

Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and a Sound

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below

Little Dragon - Machine Dreams

Joe Purdy - Last Clock on the Wall

Various Artists - Dark was the Night

Yacht - See Mystery Lights

Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain is a Mouth

J. Period - J. Period Presents the Notorious B.I.G.

Tracks:

John Frusciante - Before the Beginning - The Empyrean

Modest Mouse - The Whale Song - No one's first and you're next

Bishop Allen - The Ancient Commonsense of Things - GRRR

The Heartless Bastards - Out at Sea - The Mountain

Vetiver - More of This - Tight Knit

Ben Howard - Cloud Nine - These Waters EP

Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið - Found Soungs

Bon Iver - Blood Bank - Blood Bank EP

Bibio - Lover's Carvings - Ambivalence Avenue

Noah & The Whale - Blue Skies - The First Days of Spring

Pearl Jam - Just Breathe - Backspacer

Phoenix - 1901 - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Boogie - Tell 'Em What your Name is

Bassnectar - Art of Revolution - Art of Revolution

Patrick Watson - Man like you - Wooden Arms

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of RAA - Hometowns

Volcano Choir - Island, IS - Unmap

Bowerbirds - House of Diamonds - Upper Air

Eels - Prizefighter - Hombre Lobo

The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You - EP

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Tamacun - Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Elizabeth & The Catapult - Taller Children - Taller Children

Vollmar - Tell the Dirt - Tell the Dirt

Beirut - The Akara - March of the Zapotec & Real People

Yim Yames - Behind that Locked Door - Tribute To (The Beatles)

Brother Ali - Us - US

P.S. any song about Elephants:

Rachael Yamagata, Warpaint, Damien Rice, Laura Brino, Andrew Bird, The White Stripes, Aaron Thomas, Bishop Allen, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Vashti Bunyan