26 June 2006
Started kissing everything in sight...
I've been super lazy on this blog. And I'll continue to be super lazy on it as long as the summer is here and I'd rather spend every minute possible in the sun sweating & smiling. But here's 3 links for you to check out:
1. Oliver is killing it with summer tunes.
2. For anyone in Miami with a tongue for Africa, go have photographic taste.
3. Check out El Michels Affairs instrumental of the Wu's C.R.E.A.M. Lovely.
Photo: my studio, late at night on June 21, 2006.
23 June 2006
Will Kwan in Porto, Italy
The amazing Will Kwan has something happening in Italy. I'm totally too far to check in to it, but if you're anywhere closer... it's probably quality. Go, have a look, and let me know about it. More info:
AROUND
Bernardo Giorgi
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Will Kwan
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
a cura di Gigiotto Del Vecchio
30 Giugno fino al 15 Settembre 2006
Opening 30 Giugno, 18:00
Galleria Enrico Fornello
Via Paolini, 27 - 59100, Prato, Italy
Tel.+39.0574462719
www.enricofornello.it
++++++++++
AROUND
Bernardo Giorgi
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Will Kwan
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
30 June - 15 September 2006
Opening 30 June, 6pm
Galleria Enrico Fornello
Via Paolini, 27 - 59100, Prato, Italy
Tel.+39.0574462719
www.enricofornello.it
AROUND
Bernardo Giorgi
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Will Kwan
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
a cura di Gigiotto Del Vecchio
30 Giugno fino al 15 Settembre 2006
Opening 30 Giugno, 18:00
Galleria Enrico Fornello
Via Paolini, 27 - 59100, Prato, Italy
Tel.+39.0574462719
www.enricofornello.it
++++++++++
AROUND
Bernardo Giorgi
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Will Kwan
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
30 June - 15 September 2006
Opening 30 June, 6pm
Galleria Enrico Fornello
Via Paolini, 27 - 59100, Prato, Italy
Tel.+39.0574462719
www.enricofornello.it
20 June 2006
Mobb Deep Video Special
Shook Ones Pt. 2
Put em in Their Place
Cobra
In the culture of hip hop, where posturing is sometimes seemingly everything, it's always refreshing to see Mobb Deep do their best. They don't shift their image, they don't play nice for kicks, they aren't rhyming about the newest fashion but instead they consistently do what they're excellent at: posturing as the toughest tough guys in hip hop. The Shook Ones Pt. 2, my personal favourite, is a super straight forward video. The director weaves short street narratives with straight up shots of Havoc & Prodigy addressing the viewer. The weave is uncluttered and just seems to honour the uncluttered rhymes and dark beats. Cobra, makes a nice little reference to La Haine or maybe they just shot that video in Paris. Either way, branding strategists take note.
Your crew is featherweight / My gun shots make you levitate.
Put em in Their Place
Cobra
In the culture of hip hop, where posturing is sometimes seemingly everything, it's always refreshing to see Mobb Deep do their best. They don't shift their image, they don't play nice for kicks, they aren't rhyming about the newest fashion but instead they consistently do what they're excellent at: posturing as the toughest tough guys in hip hop. The Shook Ones Pt. 2, my personal favourite, is a super straight forward video. The director weaves short street narratives with straight up shots of Havoc & Prodigy addressing the viewer. The weave is uncluttered and just seems to honour the uncluttered rhymes and dark beats. Cobra, makes a nice little reference to La Haine or maybe they just shot that video in Paris. Either way, branding strategists take note.
Your crew is featherweight / My gun shots make you levitate.
I'm baaaaaaaaaack
Sometimes I fantasize about living on the side of a mountain in Asia, twirling cherry blossoms in my fingers and stuff, but then I get online and it's nicer being a hermit while still connected to the entire universe. Hello World.
The above image is an early map of the Internet - from back when it was still known as ARPANET and everything. It's from March 1977 actually. That's not that old considering color monitors weren't common place back then.
I need some help putting together a map of a complex community. Holla!
Image via: Visual Complexity
19 June 2006
13 June 2006
Locked Out - Day 14
I haven't had steady internet for 14 days now.
I'm still alive.
Barely.
I'm disjointed. Relationships seem severed, slightly. I feel out of touch. I can't google things, and can't waste time checking stuff needlessly, I don't know who has messaged me on myspace. Email all of a sudden has taken a back seat to telephone. Telephone is more immediate, less mediated, and more live. The reliance on phone in a way, has freed me. But I know I'm constricted in a different way.
I haven't been downloading music or getting steady porn or reading my blogs and net hook ups are brief; when I do get internet, I download my email and send my email out. The computer is less terminal and less communication hub and more tool. My work, when I use this tool for work, is focused. When I force music out of this harddrive, the music seems purposeful. It's also because I'm on a Mac now. It's apples and oranges. It's a computer but it's pedigree is else.
Poland plays Germany. I don't know what time. To check online seems laborious. I wish I could turn on the TV. No TV. No Cable. I'm at a internet cafe anyway. Different mediums for different purposes.
Mediums & Massages. It all kind of makes more sense now, Marshall.
Damn I need a neck rub.
I'm still alive.
Barely.
I'm disjointed. Relationships seem severed, slightly. I feel out of touch. I can't google things, and can't waste time checking stuff needlessly, I don't know who has messaged me on myspace. Email all of a sudden has taken a back seat to telephone. Telephone is more immediate, less mediated, and more live. The reliance on phone in a way, has freed me. But I know I'm constricted in a different way.
I haven't been downloading music or getting steady porn or reading my blogs and net hook ups are brief; when I do get internet, I download my email and send my email out. The computer is less terminal and less communication hub and more tool. My work, when I use this tool for work, is focused. When I force music out of this harddrive, the music seems purposeful. It's also because I'm on a Mac now. It's apples and oranges. It's a computer but it's pedigree is else.
Poland plays Germany. I don't know what time. To check online seems laborious. I wish I could turn on the TV. No TV. No Cable. I'm at a internet cafe anyway. Different mediums for different purposes.
Mediums & Massages. It all kind of makes more sense now, Marshall.
Damn I need a neck rub.
04 June 2006
It's been hectic.
Minor deadlines. Visitors from foreign places. A hunt for a new place to live. Then my computer dies. Dang. Deadlines are dead. The mini heat wave rolls through. Visitors go. I move. Then I buy a Apple 12" PowerBook G4.
Can you say flux?
My new place is lovely. 2 rooms, no roommates, sunny, a balcony and small little jaunt from the park, and just past the park all the shopping I'll ever need. However, my new place is in need of a love seat, some chairs, a table, and a dish rack. Buy me a Marc Newson designed Dish Doctor. I love you.
P.S. Damian Hirst is at it again in a big way.
Minor deadlines. Visitors from foreign places. A hunt for a new place to live. Then my computer dies. Dang. Deadlines are dead. The mini heat wave rolls through. Visitors go. I move. Then I buy a Apple 12" PowerBook G4.
Can you say flux?
My new place is lovely. 2 rooms, no roommates, sunny, a balcony and small little jaunt from the park, and just past the park all the shopping I'll ever need. However, my new place is in need of a love seat, some chairs, a table, and a dish rack. Buy me a Marc Newson designed Dish Doctor. I love you.
P.S. Damian Hirst is at it again in a big way.
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