In one of the more progressive initiatives to directly reach the people in recent memory, Argentinian artist Raul Lemesoff has recently created a tank vehicle simply aimed to educate the masses. Equipping a 1979 Ford Falcon with a number of book shelves attached to the cars exterior, Lemesoff has created the Arma De Instruccion Masiva, better known as the Weapon of Mass Instruction. Frequenting various destinations throughout Buenos Aires, Lemesoff's vehicle offers passersby the ability to take a book for free, for keeps, aiding to the general knowledge of Buenos Aires' book reading public.
I have to admit that much of today's indie music remixes that line the charts of hypem and other pop music blogs by in large, miss me. How do you keep up with the constant influx of new music that characterizes this revolution we're living in? Blogs and friends I suppose, although even then it's still hard to sift through it all. Perhaps that's the job of us bloggers, although I despise the title, part of our job is to filter through it all, to provide you with what we consider worthy of your eyes and ears. [...]
"The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind." - Alan Lomax, 1991 By the time of his death in 2002, Alan Lomax had amassed tens of thousands of field recordings. The better part of his adult life had been spent documenting folk music of every stripe, from every corner of the world or pocket of culture he could find. In [...]
It's been a while since a song pulled me in like this. Of course, it helped that "BTSU", Jai Paul's lone XL release so far, had a similar effect on me. Somewhere between a delicately falsettoed "Don't fuck with me" and that monster synth wobble lay an undeniably disarming, absorbing piece of pop music, and a short-list candidate for one of the coolest records of the last year or two. As a follow-up, "Jasmine" hardly disappoints. Paul manages to pack all the slow-burning, sensitive sexy of Voodoo -era D'Angelo into a groove that sounds something like Daft [...]
There is beauty in the collaboration. With a few weeks since SXSW and a few weeks 'til Coachella, it seems hard to relate to the experiences the A$AP Rocky must be having. Partnering alongside contemporary filmmaker and director Jake Davis and photographer Matty Williams, the trio recently released this piece, capturing Rocky at a early albeit pivotal point of his career. Referencing Andy Warhol's Screen Tests from the mid 1960s, Davis placed Rocky in a portrait, juxtaposing Rocky's style against the sonic backdrop of the Velvet Underground. A simple yet poignant short, Davis' latest piece manages [...]
Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943) Describing his artistic pursuits as as "a search for beauty in its most simple (honest) form; line, shape and color," the work of Piet Mondrian remains influential to the development of abstract art in the 20th century. Most recognized for his bold, grid-based paintings, much of Mondrian's work dealt with theories of life, spirituality and the celestial. Distilling his work down to the primary colors of red, blue, and yellow along with black and white, Piet's paintings sought to visualize the [...]
Photography by Rebekkah Castellanos The vibe, the music, the atmosphere- it's all important. But at the end of the day, a great party begins and ends with great people. Friday night marked our eleventh celebration, and in our mind, provided us with an opportunity to break from the norm. This one was a little different, a little weirder, and a little looser, so for those of you that made it out, thank you for being a part of it. Thank you for being so cool, so open-minded, so [...]
While many of us make it a point to cherish the present, sometimes it's good to look back. Sometimes it's good for perspective, to see how far you've come. Yet with each day I realize that the greatest gifts lie in the journey. Because when it's all set and done that's we'll have. I wonder if Will would say the same? I wonder if he knew back then how far he would take it? Could he see the Bad Boys, and the Hitches, and the Ali's back then? We're in our Fresh Prince years right now, and they're beautiful. Two [...]
At first glance, the works from Chinese artist Lu Xinjian 's City DNA series could just as easily be arbitrary patterns, intricate, colorful graphics along the lines of Keith Haring's. But the titles of each work offers a bit more insight into the process behind its creation. Beginning with Google Earth, Xinjian turns the aerial plots of some of the world's most famous cities into stencils in Photoshop, before painting each by hand with colors based on national or local flags. As the title suggests, each work in City DNA carries [...]
What would you do if you saw somebody stealing a bike? Would you stop them or would you keep it movin'? Would you call the police or confront them yourself? These questions arise when considering the latest video from filmmaker Casey Neistat. Highlighting how easy it is to steal a bike in New York, Neistat and his cameraman traverse the streets of New York, finding public spaces to lock up his own bike before proceeding to steal it. An avid cyclist himself, Neistat's experiment serves as a cautionary tale to cyclists, as Neistat's repeatedly manages to pick off [...]
Nicolas Jaar's songs burn slow. The kind of tracks that creep into your consciousness if you let them. Jaar is all about creating an atmosphere, and usually it only takes him a few sounds to do it. When a few electronic bloops, or an echoing voice blooms into something rich and textured, it's so satisfying it can take you off guard. Space is Only Noise was a pretty stunning album, and a lot of that has to do with Nicolas Jaar's restrained approach to building those kinds of experiences. "Don't Break My Love" is [...]
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I don't think I'm alone when I say it was Kush & Orange Juice that really gave Wiz my full attention. Now, two years on the heels of Kush & OJ 's smooth, spacey soul textures, it's safe to say Wiz's position in the game is a bit different. But while "Black & Yellow" was topping charts and taking over frat parties nationwide, some of us couldn't help but notice a decline in the particular brand of lush, silky slaps that characterized his (and Curren$y's for that matter) trademark projects over the past [...]
If you've been with us for a while, you might recall a video we posted back in 2009 entitled 30 Hornets vs. 30,000 Bees. In it, a gang of 30 hornets demolish a colony of 30,000 bees after a hornet scout discovers the nest. Five times the size of a European Honey Bee, one giant hornet can destroy hundreds of bees on its own. However, for Japanese Honey Bees at least, adaptation has proven vital to their existence. Creating the ultimate boobie trap for their potential predators, the honey bees survival tactics can be considered nothing [...]
It's a subtle difference, but one that's only revealed itself once I realized I owe more money than I have. "Damn what have I been spending all my money on? Do I even have anything to show for it?" I ask myself. A couple good meals, some watered down drinks and some weed I suppose. The Misadventures of a 24 year old in Los Angeles I guess. Nonetheless, while money seems to be the one thing none of us ever have enough of, I'd argue that time is a greater commodity that's spent whether we like it or not. [...]
Death Grips - "Beware" It's hard to even know how to introduce a project like Death Grips . When Ryan asked me what I thought about them, my first response was just to say how intrigued I was by what they're doing. He told me part of what he dug so much about them was that they seemed like they didn't give a fuck, but that, at some level they did- that half of what they did sounded deliberate and planned, and that half of it seemed like off-the-cuff experimentation. I suppose it's [...]
This one's a touch heavy on rhetoric, but it's also full of interesting questions, so bear with me. Watching NASA's budget get slashed over the past few years invites a whole host of basic questions that seem worth asking. What are the ultimate aims of space exploration? What's a reasonable amount of money or resources to allocate to NASA's budget? How does our sense of national identity, our vision of the future, or our current economic situation tie into all this? Personally, I'm fascinated by space exploration, and a part of me is inclined toward a fuzzy [...]
It seems only logical that cars would be a recurring theme in Andy Warhol's work. With pop art honing in on, and poking fun at the implications of mass-produced consumer culture, the automobile represented one of American industry's biggest triumphs and most impactful contributions on a global scale. Alongside the soup cans and coke bottles, then, came numerous paintings, drawings and installations featuring Cadillacs, Fords or Beamers, a motif as emblematic of the 20th century's growing consumer society as any. The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, naturally enough, is celebrating Andy's fascination with cars with Warhol [...]
What does it feel like to blow up? For your whole life to change in a matter of months, weeks, days, or god forbid overnight . It's something to consider with it being the 2012 and all, a lot of things are about to change. Nonetheless, the question popped into my head when watching this portrait of Syd the Kid. As the renowned DJ of Odd Future, Syd's life took a drastic change when Odd Future blew up last year, catapulting Syd and her crew into a globally recognized collective. Making up one half of her own group [...]
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