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Slow posting this one!
My good friend Amar pointed ‘Made in Queens’ out to me yonks ago and it looks most excellent! The picture above says it all really - NY kids strapping speakers to BMXs - ingenious.
Read more over at the daily read - Creative Review blog.
So go go good!!!
More Grace Jones knowledge here
I’ve just discovered the Black Cab Sessions, by Hidden Fruit. Lovely idea of musicians, stripped down to just them in the back of a random cab, providing their own original and intimate soundtrack to the bustle of London life. Above is Phosphorescent, but check the Black Cab Sessions site for more sessions, including Lightspeed Champion, My Morning Jacket, Seasick Steve, The Kooks, Vincent Vincent, Noah and the Whale, and many more.
I dismissed Gnarls Barkley for a while as it got a bit of the Moby treatment - played out all day, every day thereby destroying any objective opinion forming, replaced instead with gut-reaction hatred… but revisiting the albums and listening to any new material really makes me realise their genius modern Motown soul sound. Plus their live shows, outfits, and videos are all pretty special. This one, “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” is directed by Chris Milk.
More video and song genius here.
Don’t know about the rest of you but, when I was 14, I was trying to perfect a 180 heel-flip whilst slowly beginning to realise that there was this whole bunch of people that I had not really noticed before but, who were now omnipotent and strangely appealing…yep: - girls. What I was NOT doing was sneaking into John Lennon’s hotel room to meet my hero and get his view on a few things.
This is an amazing illustrated video of that interview that Jerry Levitan has been sitting on for the best part of 40 years!! The film’s pen illustration is by James Braithwaite .
“Yo I got mad love for you shorty. I wanna listen to Boyz II Men with you.”
The Wackness is hitting cinemas shortly. Check the trailer out - 94 beats, dope selling from an ice cream cart, and Ben Kingsley as a stoner psychiatrist. Word.
Now, the real reason for this post is the mixtape (yep) that was made for the premier of the show.
THE A SIDE
1. The Notorious B.I.G. “Party And Bullshit”
2. Boogie Down Productions “Duck Down”
3. Brand Nubian “Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down”
4. GZA & Method Man “Shadowboxin’”
5. Gangstarr “Take It Personal”
6. Diamond D “Fuck What U Heard”
7. Intro “Love Thang”
8. Mobb Deep “Give Up The Goods”
9. Redman “Can’t Wait”
10. Faith Evans “You Used Love Me (Remix)
11. UMCs “One To Grow On”
12. Eric B. & Rakim “Know The Ledge”
13. Ultramagnetic MCs “Raise It Up”
14. Keith Murray “The Most Beautifulest Thing In This World”
15. Mary J. Blige & Smif-N-Wessun “I Love You (Remix)”
16. Group Home “Suspended In Time (Remix)”
THE B SIDE
1. Onyx “Throw Your Gunz In The Air”
2. Black Moon “I Gotcha Open (Remix)”
3. Ol Dirty Bastard “Brooklyn Zoo (Remix)”
4. EPMD “Headbanger”
5. Das EFX “They Want EFX (Remix”
6. Nas “Represent”
7. Total & Keith Murray “Can’t You See (Remix)”
8. Main Source “Fakin’ The Funk”
9. Fu Schnickens “La Schmoove”
10. Nice & Smooth “Old To The New”
11. Wu-Tang Clan “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nothin’ To F’ Wit”
12. Chef Raekwon “Glaciers Of Ice”
13. A Tribe Called Quest “Electric Relaxation”
14. Method Man “Bring The Pain (Remix)”
15. Pete Rock & CL Smooth “Good Life”
16. Jeru The Damaja “D. Original”
17. Lords Of The Underground “Chief Rocka (Remix)”
18. Jodecei & Raekwon and Ghostface Killah “Freekin’ U (Remix)”
19. Run DMC, Pete Rock & CL Smooth “Down With The King”
DOWNLOAD // The Wackness Movie Soundtrack - Side A
DOWNLOAD // The Wackness Movie Soundtrack - Side B
In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.
Laboratory101 has a great list of some of the most famous steadicam shots in film history. Goodfellas, Casino, The Shining, Touch of Evil, Kill Bill, Boogie Nights, The Player, Strange Days, Tom Yung Goong, and Russian Ark are all compiled onto one great page. We’ve added a few more to THESCRAPBOOK.
Interestingly (ish) Lil Wayne’s pre-video for his single “A Milli” uses the same technique.
From the amazingly slept-on ‘Ism’s and blues’ album. well worth picking up if you see it!