Came across this co-release from Stones Throw and Adult Swim today... still trying to get my hands on Vol 1, but here's a couple cuts from Vol 2 I am enjoying immensely:
Roc C - Living for the City
Percee P - Reverse Part 2
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
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fourth of july dress code & party staples: carrera sunglasses, budweiser bathing suit, levis jorts, band of outsiders wife beater, ribs, beer and US coast guard koozie, straw cowboy hat, and kim wild singing "kids in america".
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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ss 09 purple fashion. property of mr. boston johnson
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Picked big flower (sry plant)...I. Do try to keep it to 1 per month and that's like 4 per year. And only take if there are others on it.
(Official ML flower picking, rule no 2, MLRB)
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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in an engaging new york times piece called "blink twice if you like me" evolutionary ecologist Dr. Lewis shares her research on the beautiful light show mating ritual of fireflies and effects of darwin's sexual selection.
the natural firework show we see at night is actually male fireflies fly through the air emitting flash patterns for females looking on in the grass below. in a field with hundreds of male fireflies, it's not uncommon to find only two or three females looking for a mate (like the bachelorette^100). females observe the light show, and select mates based on the number of flashes emitted, and the pauses between each flash. some female species respond by emitting a flash at precise intervals between the male flashes.
“Most people don’t realize there’s this call and response going on," dr. lewis explains as she flashes a photinus greeni penlight back at the males. "it's very, very easy to talk to fireflies."
eager to explore how female fireflies were picking their mates, she created a computer-controlled light system in her lab that mimiced firefly flashes and observed which patterns the females responded to.
she also discovered the existence of these so-called "nuptial gifts" males carry in the abdomen filled with beautiful coiled proteins injected with their sperm (see photo below). the nuptial gifts can double the amount of eggs a female can lay in her lifetime, and dr. lewis deduced that some female species pick their mates based on their light patterns that are directly correlated to the size of their protein/sperm packages.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
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american conceptual artEEst jonathon keats has concealed a nine word story on the cover of opium magazine that will take 1,000 years to read. each of the nine words is masked beneath varying amounts of blank ink. overtime, ultraviolet light from the sun will burn away the black ink overlays, revealing the forbidden text below at a rate of one word per century. the work of art speaks to the postmodern world and our increasing reliance on synopses, the fastforward button, hyperlinks, etc. keats explains:
“like most people, i live my life in a rush, consuming media on the run. that may be fine for reading the average blog but something essential is lost when ingesting words is all about speed. my thousand-year story is an antidote. given the printing process i’ve used, you can’t take in more than one word per century. that’s even slower than reading proust."
A friend of mine sent me this solid disco mix he just finished: link
Tracklist:
Elvis Presley - Crawfish(Pilooski Edit)-Dirty / Jakki - Sun Sun Sun- Pyramid / Boredoms - Ant 10 Lindstrom Remix-Avex Trax / Hercules & Love Affair - True/False Fake/Real – DFA / Ian Preece- Super Fuzz(Disco Mix) - Mettle Music / T & T- Don’t Stop - Music Factory / The Revenge – Cadillac - Jisco Music / The Polyamorous Affair – Merry Go Round - Winter Palace / Gui Boratto – Shebang - Kompakt / Glossy – Burning Love – Glossy Edits / Casino Boy – Jobsagoodun – Jisco Music / Lindstrom & Prins Thomas – Claudio- Eskimo / Mickey Moonlight – Interplanetary Music – Ed Banger / Woolfy vs. Projections – Neeve (Tropical Heat Mix) – Permanent Vacation / Zombi – Sapphire (Escort Remix) – Relapse Records / Talking Heads – I Zimbra – Sire / Apollo Sunshine – Singing to the Earth(Mickey Moonlight Remix) – Black and Greene
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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bob bogle of the ventures checked out today at the ripe old age of 75. let us honor his memory and delight in his surf guitar vibrations.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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film theorist david bordwell recently blogged an article on jacques tati and his art direction/production design partnerships with artists jacques lagrange and pierre etaix. while definitely worth a read, i found the images were what really packed the punch.
this is lagrange's sketch of the ultra-modernist house featured in mon oncle. the top third of the image is the house/garage in profile. below that in the bottom two-thirds is a bird's eye rendering of the property.
here's tati's realization of lagrange's sketch (left) along with a model constructed for a current exhibition in paris celebrating
the 102nd anniversary of tati's birth
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and here are some of etaix's sketch's of m. hulot. by the time of these sketches, tati's famous character had already appeared in les vacances de m. hulot, but, notably, only in his vacation garb. we see here how hulot came to acquire his trademark trench coat, hat, and pipe.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
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Been a little electro'd out lately and found the antidote in some fine NYC horn-power:
The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon
El Michels Affair - C.R.E.A.M.
Lee Fields - Love Comes and Goes
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
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new york magazine recently compiled a list of the year's best hip-hop dances. here's what they came up with:
1. as seen in hurricane chris's "halle berry (she fine)" music video. While moderately swiveling your hips and bouncing your shoulders, hold one hand arm's length away from you, with its palm toward you as if it were a mirror; with the other hand, rhythmically pretend to dab your makeup.
on men.style.com, kanye west spills his 10 summer fashion essentials that include a levis jean jacket and this beautiful lanvin seersucker dinner jacket. "i could wear it with a t-shirt, i could wear it in new york with a dress shirt. it embodies everything i like to be and do in fashion, riding the line between luxury and casual. it speaks volumes," he explains. here, here, kanye.
urban outfitters is selling some eye catching ipod skins that feature the work of keith haring (shown), lyle owerko (shown), alberto cerriteño, nathan spoor, nanami cowdroy, jen lobo, lawrence yang, derek prospero, amy sol, kozyndan, colin thompson, and ric stultz.
$15 at urbanoutfitters.com.
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Friday, June 5, 2009
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watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time. when we are in water we are not in this world.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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