This is what we are talking about! Playing for Change is a multimedia movement to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. Check their cover of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” by a group of diverse Global Citizens! Cheers for putting us on to this one Albert!!

Big thanks to Aspecks’ newest affiliate Kaizen Star for the photographs and text for this article. Oh and Kaizen Star is also responsible for the fresh beat you can hear playing in the video – is there no end to Kaizen’s talents?!!!

Secret Wars, by definition is an artistic battle, where creative wits on either side of a wall do battle with black markers on white boards. Teams of three seasoned graffiti warriors, collide to a soundscape of house and funk, while spectators and revellers watch in awe and anticipation. Secret Wars takes place in secret locations and  luckily enough the Aspecks team were both hip and nosy enough to scrall down the details and get down to Shoreditch for the 2010 Euro League when it arrived in London.  As we arrived at the “hush hush” venue, which was jam-packed with other nosy people, London’s graffiti’s warriors were just assembling battle plans on one side of the room, whilst three Welshmen, and a sheep some 151 miles away from home were representing Cardiff on the other side.  Shifting between the two rooms, at first one could see no real difference between the two designs, but after a while as the fog began to clear, it seemed that although London was holding the fort at home, Cardiff were keeping their poker face on. Perhaps, it seemed they might have an ace or two under their sleeves. London’s team took a wild stab at Tom Jones “It’s not unusual to be loved by No One”, and Cardiff seemed to be taking a dig at the Royal Family. However as time went on and a few more black markers were disposed of, it was clear that Cardiff really did have an ace, and their depiction of “Maggie’s Farm” was undeniably inventive.

More text and pictures and an exclusive video of UK Beatbox Champion Reeps One after the break…

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R.I.P. Guru of Gangstarr.

Check the social commentary in the rhymes. A true poet. He will be missed.

Big thanks and props to Aspecks’ Affiliate Ben from Something Else Photography for all these exclusive photos as well as this insightful post…

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Transportation (of people and goods) seems a benign topic on the surface of it. However, when one start to think of its role in our daily lives (i.e. its facilitation of human progress and interaction); we begin to realise how it should not be taken for granted. Transport networks are the metaphoric “blood circulation” of our global society’s  on both a micro and macro scale. Transport facilitates trade and travel which bring people together.

Now imagine a world where you’d be able to eat dinner in New York and have dessert in Paris less than an hour later having traveled there by train.  Unfathomable?

According to the video above; by 2099 it may be possible.  However; China is one nation taking bold strides to develop our global transport networks today.

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