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Bernardí Roig

1 March 2012
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Bernardí Roig has just the right amount of weird darkness to his work. He is a modern multimedia artist who explores moods of loneliness, desire, death and immortality. Originally a sketch artist, Roig went on to explore sculpture, photography, and video to create what is now being referred to as the new conceptual minimalism. The human figure is the conceptual center of his work, what he calls his solitary man. These are casts of real people combined with light in a variety of ways. Read more »

mechanical mirrors of daniel rozin

30 January 2012
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One of the most beautiful marriages that can happen is between art and technology. One of the most striking examples of this is mechanical mirrors of Daniel Rozin. Each mirror has the warmth of analogue media and the brains of the digital world. If your not familiar, how you’re able to read this and view anything on the internet is by way of the thousands of little pixels in your monitor displaying 1 color at a time. Read more »

white sabbath technique experiment

26 January 2012
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This is something we’re calling the White-Sabbath Technique experiment. The what and why we’ll get to in a second. How the idea was inspired was by 2 old metal bands, Black Sabbath and White Zombie. What is interesting about these 2 bands other then both of them being named after old horror flix is that their music conveys the same feeling as the movies they are named after. This got us thinking Read more »

Projection art of Rashad Alakbarov

22 January 2012
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Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan is doing some crazy things with light. Using transparent and solid objects he’s able to create stunning shadow scenes. In the main scene above he bends the light with transparent paper airplanes to form the picture. He takes the scene with the mans face made from old dirty water bottles to the next level by the character of the room it’s projected in. Read more »

middle finger to SOPA and PIPA

18 January 2012
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This station is now operational

10 January 2012
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If February 3, 1959 was the day music died, then January 9 2011 was the day music turned into a zombie and came back for brains. At The Drive-In put a cryptic message on their twitter that said Read more »

not a man purse, a man bag man

22 August 2010
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Carl Meadow

UrbanMan vs City with your host Carl Meadow

heavy metal in baghdad

10 July 2010
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heavy metal in baghdad

Tyler Jackson

I know, I know I’m a little late on this one but I just got a chance to watch it. Heavy Metal in Baghdad is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen period. After the movie ended everyone who was watching it with me sat in silence with our mouths open for a good 10 mins. The documentary follows the only metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda, from 2003 – 2006. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been next to impossible (for example they arn’t allowed to have long hair and head banging to them resembles the way that Jews pray, and we all know the only Jewish – Muslim friendship out there is probably Chromeo). After the fall of Saddam’s Iraq there was a brief time where real peace seemed possible but that hope, as we all know, quickly died with the rise of the bloody insurgency. The band endures through being refugees to having all their instruments blown up when their practice space is hit with a scud missile. It will completely change your thinking about the war in Iraq and really gives you a good perspective of the generation of Iraqis growing up in the thick of it. If your a musician this will especially hit you hard. Below is the trailer for the film but you can buy it here, watch it on netflix here, or watch it for FREE here.

new mortal kombat movie… kinda

28 June 2010
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sub zero mortal kombat

Tyler Jackson

So holy shit this looks awesome. Is Mortal Kombat coming back again? Well possibly. When I first saw this trailer I immediately thought because of the quality and caliber of actors that this MF was a done deal and was in production, but not so much. Aparently this was a proof of concept done by Kevin Tancharoen to sell the suits at Warner Brothers the new darker concpt for the rebirth of Mortal Combat. Apparently Warner Brothers was ready to move forward with production when Threshold Entertainment (Hollywood Intellectual Property Management and Production Company who owns the rights to mortal kombat) filed new breach of contract lawsuit and stopped the thing dead (lawsuit fatality!). Buuuuut this trailer has been getting such a huge buzz online that I think someone is going to pick it up and pay off Threshold because when there’s that much money to be made in hollywood someone will find a way. For now check out this bad as look at the possible new Mortal Kombat movie.

theJams list 2

18 June 2010
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JuneJames

Tyler Jackson

Got some fre$h tunes here for you people. First up is this KiD Cudi jam that he colabed with MGMT and Ratatat for. You might know of KiD from the poker face sampled song Make Her Say he did with Kanye (kanyes verse is the nasty btw) or the Day N Night jaunt he did, either way this track is rad. Person L is the singer from The Starting Line’s new band… well I guess not new because this is their second album but believe you me this album is a solid mother fucker. It has an old school rolling stonesish feel too it mixed with bad ass, gasoline, and a cigar. This track will give u a good feel of what it’s about. After that we go on to Sleigh Bells which is a noise pop duo based out of Brooklyn, NY. Real interesting stuff, nothing really like it out there now. Geographer has a pretty unique style too, not nearly has hard has Sleigh Bells but still has a little of that electronic feel mixed with some old world cello action. Lastly I threw in some old school swing jazz from france from my man Django Reinhardt. His guitar style is so rad and a feel musicians can learn a lot from how he does his string slides and verbratto. It would be a great style to try to work into more modern music but is still dope in the orginal context. Oh yea and he only had 2 good fingers on his fretting hand… total bad ass. Enjoy!

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