July 2011
Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival
While the announcement that Q-Tip would be headlining this year’s Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival already had hip hop fans screaming, what sealed the deal was when surprise guests Monie Love, Busta Rhymes, Black Thought and the illustrious Kanye West appeared (see video here).
The unforgettable show signaled the finale of the 7th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival which also boasted an entire week...
PRODUCT PLACEMENT INSERTED INTO TV RERUNS
Recent years have seen an increase in ad insertions for various products in old reruns of television shows. One such example, shown above, is a recent rerun of an episode of “How I Met Your Mother,” first shown in 2007; the background on the shelf now contains a digitally inserted magazine with an ad on the back for the recent movie “Zookeeper,” starring Kevin James. Notice that in the original...
CONVERSE OFFERS FREE RECORDING SPACE IN...
The long awaited opening of Rubber Tracks, a Converse-sponsored music studio where musicians can record for free, has finally come. Five lucky bands from New York City have already signed up to use the space, and the list is growing.
The facility, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is stocked with instruments, recording software and equipment. There’s an editing studio, a practice stage and...
Alias
My motives are often introverted and emotional, but… they brand… themselves on the memory of people passing. They are supposed to inspire people to interpret the motives on their own.
Judging from the number of his pieces, Alias must rarely sleep. His artwork certainly suggests someone at odds with society: black and white pictures of hooded skater types staring at the ground, and young kids...
Where's Linda?
In the summer of 2003, posters of a boy bemoaning the loss of his ex-girlfriend, Linda, began to appear on walls and fences in the Friedrichshain district. Sometimes he looked like a boy ready to kill himself; sometimes he looked like a man ready to kill. Whichever way the artist drew him, his sad eyes always asked passersby the same question: “Where’s Linda?”
At first, people either ignored...
