Wednesday, February 25, 2009

3D Rooms

you know all it takes is a little patience, skill, and imagination...

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...but i have neither so i guess there won't be any 3D stuff in my room.

Auction of the century.

I'm sure you heard of the upcoming Michael Jackson Auction on April 24th and the rumored 200+ things being auction...i think they underestimated a little...b/c The auction company, Julien's, just released the auction catalog and its 240+ pgs worth of stuff...below are a few pics from this catalog...

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His arcade collection (50+ pgs) could have rivaled some arcades in japan (10 yrs ago)...

He also had thing for life sized dolls...the Red Power Ranger, Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and Bruce Lee are just a few...

Stuff that is missing from this auction: 
-Sly Stone and the Family catalog (Publishing Rights)
-Beatles Catalog (Publishing Rights)
-Elephant Man remains
-Bubbles
-hyperbaric oxygen chamber
-a bottle of Jesus Juice
-and the real E.T. (I know MJ has him)...

To see the rest of his MJ's auction Catalog click HERE.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Welcome to Heartbreaks Vid

One of the few tracks that I like from 808's

Is it just me or does this song sounds better w/ the video...

Welcome to Heartbreaks Vid ft. Kid Cudi


Speaking of Kid Cudi...I'm ready for your album to drop homes...

nice vid although it looks like this one

Idea vs The Enemy

The drawings below, by Scott Campbell, depict the concept of "An Idea and the Enemy of the Idea".

“Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
~Winston Churchill

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Moby Dick vs. Captain Ahab & crew


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Little Red Riding Hood vs. The Wolf


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Teenage Lovers vs. Jason


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The Beatles vs. Yoko Ono


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Native Americans vs. Gen. Custer and Co.


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Titanic vs. Iceberg


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James Dean vs. Porsche 550 Spyder


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Jesus vs. Romans


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Marie Antoinette vs. The guillotine


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Cesar vs. Brutus & the Liberatores


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Amy Winehouse vs. Drugs


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Sea Lion vs. Commercial Fishermans

Click HERE for more of Scott Campbell's work.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Black Dynamite!

I gotta see this when it comes out!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Twelve Animals

“Twelve Animals” is a series of illustrations by graphic artist Kentaro Nagai. Nagai rearranges the continents of the world 12 animals represented in the Chinese zodiac. They are currently on display at the Media Arts Festival at the National Art Center, Tokyo until February 15.


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The Boar


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The Ox


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The Dog


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The Dragon


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The Horse


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The Monkey


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The Rabbit


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The Rat


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The Rooster


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The Sheep


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The Snake


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The Tiger


source: ctothjl

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Raphael Saadiq in Concert

Raphael Saadiq is on tour promoting his latest album, The Way I See It, and he is coming to Atlanta on March 28th!!! Get your tickets now...

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see you there...

Time for some action

I've dusted my F3 off, loaded some film and its ready for some action...

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promise to post pics sooner than later...

I'm a...

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i really really like the Space Odyssey pics in the header above but after watching Pulp Fiction the other night I've been thinking about switching em...

just another random thought...

Mix Tape Guide/Rules

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Just thoughts...

This post orginated from another unpublished post I wrote a while back...It was a post about music and how I discovered certain songs. Within this post I mentioned how I would wait by the radio (FM 92.3, Tha Beat) to tape 2pac's Do For Love when it first came out. It was nineteen nighty seven yall and it was my intro to the art of making a mix tape...

When I say mix tape, I mean the processing of combining together various songs to create some form of cohesive emotion and/or feeling on an Cassette Tape and not on a playlist and/or cd...

The art of making a mixtape required the mastery of the play, record, and pause button. Nowadays it is a lost art form...but w/ the advancement of technology that is understandable...

Let me stress the use of a Cassette Tape. Unlike a CD and/or Playlist, a cassette tape lacks the ability to skip from song to song, the mix tape needs to be considered in its entirety. This requires the mix tape creator to consider the transitions between songs, the effects caused by juxtaposing a soft song with a loud song, and the overall "narrative arc" of the entire tape.

"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick it off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with "Got to Get You Off My Mind", but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules..."
~excerpt from High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Circa 1968

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers the little things long after you have forgotten everything..."
~Aaron Siskind

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
~Dorthea Lange

You might not recognize the city in the picture below but it was Atlanta in 1968.

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pic snap'd by old shoe women