Back in 2009 Aspecks featured a documentary entitled “In the Hands of Gods” where five British freestylers harnessed the power of their football skills to fund a trip to Argentina to meet Maradonna. Now, four Harvard graduates working together on a group project have taken the power of football literally and created the sOccket, a football that captures and stores energy during normal game play to be used to later to provide real, environmentally-friendly energy to power electrical appliances like LED lamps, water sterilization devices and mini refrigerators. This group project evolved into Uncharted Play, Inc. which was founded by Jessica O. Matthews and Julia C. Silverman as a platform to voice their belief in the power of play and the value of sustainable innovation. sOccket attempts to address the compelling energy needs of 1.5 billion people living without electricity. Every 15 minutes of play with the ball generates enough power to light up an LED lamp for 3 hours.

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The Global Citizen Jam is to be a fundraising event seeking to raise money for Cais Maloka (a sustainable community project in Colombia) and the Aspecks Global Citizens Campaign (as Aspecks seeks to expand its operations to Accra, Ghana). The Global Citizen Jam will be held in Club Surya (156 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JL by King’s Cross Station), which is an eco club completely furnished with recycled materials. The dancefloor lights are powered by kinetic energy and the whole club is powered from renewable sources!

Plans for the Event

The event will run from 9pm – 4am and entry will be £8 before 11pm and £10 after. The first 50 people will receive a FREE Aspecks t-shirt!!

There will be some live performances during the evening and a host of DJs spinning a wide variety of music genres from around the world. There will also be separate Merchandise Room where you will be able to find out more information about the Cais Maloka project and Aspecks t-shirts will be available to purchase along with merchandise and promotional material from featured DJs, artists, performers and promoters. A professional photographer and camera crew will film the event.

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We’ve spotted the trailer for a documentary named Portobello Rd by our friends at Longbelly Entertainment (featured above in the post entitled Ancestral Voices) and thought we should share it:

“Portobello has such a fascinating history from originally being a farming area to becoming widely known as cultural melting pot which led to housing one of the biggest street festivals in Europe, the Notting Hill Carnival. The film is widely told from the perspectives from those who know it the most…the locals. With statements from the market traders, shoppers, and local residents the spirit of Portobello and the entire community comes across strong allowing the viewer to embrace the passion behind the area, whilst gaining information on the history, culture and diverse fusion of the community.”

“The film sets out to discover whether there is a genuine threat to the market covering issues such as commercialisation, increasing property prices plus other social changes within the area. The discussion is played out by various interviews with various parties including the local authorities, market traders and the community themselves.”

“Movement never lies,
It is a barometer telling the state of the soul,
Weather to all who can read it.”
-Martha Graham

IRC Dance Movement is a beautifully shot and choreographed three-minute music/dance short film by Seb. from Shueti, for the rocking Dutch breakdance, hip/hop crew Illusionary RockAz.

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More video of them in action here.

Adam Tensta from Sweden with this cool video here entitled “Like a punk”. A head nod to those people who defy convention and laugh at the prospect of being stereotyped: