The spark that let the Civil Rights Movement rolls around San Francisco followed by a film crew in 1963. The documentary Take This Hammer first broadcasted in 1964. Writer James Baldwin’s freestyle rhetoric lights firestorms. Check it here. The American Dream and the American Negro By JAMES BALDWIN I find myself, not for the first time, in the position of a kind of Jeremiah. It would seem to me that the question before the house is a proposition horribly loaded, that one’s response to …
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My interview with Japanese artist Ikeda Manabu is in the newest print issue of Hi-Fructose, Vol. 29. According to their site, “this issue features a beautiful cover by the amazing Eric Fortune and a very special 16 page Sketchbook insert byFemke Hiemstra, featuring beautiful reproductions of her graphite work. This issue also includes an extensive feature on instilation/street artist Olek, the hyper detailed works ofIkeda Manubu, new paintings from Jennybird Alcantara, Japanese artist Hikari Shimoda, painter Kehinde Wiley, the book sculptures of Georgia Russell, the ink …
Netherlands tech designer and inventor Dave Hakkens is trying to kill two birds with one stone; reduce disposable cellphone pollution by using upgradable phones with interchangeable parts. They’re called Phonebloks. It’s a noble idea and it looks cool minus the round Apple corners (who seems to be content with treading water after their leader died). Hakkens had his first go at trying to raise funds was through kickstarter for what he called a Plug Book. His goal was $45 G’s. …
RJD2’s “Her Majesty’s Request” video gets the too cool for school Willie B, LES treatment. Take a New York City tour. Watch these kids paint the backdrop through clowning and pop locks. The instrumental is classic RJ, funky crushing drums on some early 80’s guitar riff. Don’t hurt yourself rappers. This single is off his album, More Is Than Isn’t, out October 8th on his own label RJ’s Electrical Connection. This is his first album in three years. After the Mad Men show, along …
Pusha T’s “King Push” is cracking the door open and letting the light leak out. D-boy, dope boy, whatever, it’s dope, produced by Kanye West and…Joaquin Phoenix, that dope actor that does weird shit like make a mokumentary about becoming a rapper. Who was was he modeling after, Anticon[not a slide, seriously was it]? Pusha sewed it up at the end, “Let’s have another look, just get a little closer/Rage against the machine, black Zack de la Rocha.” My Name Is My …
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