Archive for February, 2008

barak obama gets the air force ones

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

He be stylin’ now…the shoes were pimped out by a kid named Van20 apparently, his MySpace has more details. Here’s what he had to say about his work …”I got a jones for drawing, customizing shoes, airbrushing, painting..any type of art, writing, and just relaxing and enjoying everyday GOD gives me… He has truly given [...]

sunshine has no soundtrack

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Danny Boyle believes that 70 % of the film experience comes from the sound. The visuals can’t live on their own. They lose their meaning. Its a sad state of affairs then when the soundtrack to Sunshine is currently not available. Underworld and John Murphy created a masterpiece that currently no one can purchase.
The lawyers [...]

calibration from mars volta’s omar rodriguez-lopez, free mp3

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Calibration (is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) is the debut rock/electronic fueled solo record from Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. The CD, LP and digital download were released on February 5, 2008 in the US and UK & Europe through N20 Records an underground American indie label known for hard hitting drum and bass, J-Pop, J-Rock, rockstar [...]

johnny knoxville takes it in the ‘nads for the team..

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

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A short but sweet movie clip (well not so sweet for Johnny…) He tells CNet how it went wrong.
Tell us about your injury. How did it happen?
“We were doing a tribute to Evel Knievel for our takeover (of MTV) this Saturday. During the filming, I decided I could back-flip a motorcycle. They had [...]

mia paper planes remix by dfa

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

This just in via Matt Wright at IODA and the Nialler9 music blog.
MIA – Paper Planes (DFA Remix)

nemo design retires the couch

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

When you need an ‘A’ team you gotta hire an ‘A’ team…watch Nemo guys ride the big green couch through the streets of Portland to its final fiery, Burning Man-style flaming end..

tokio hotel, mashing up musical styles…

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Tokio Hotel fans. Pic by Rahav Segev for The New York Times.
It’s funny how new bands break through the white noise. I heard about Tokio Hotel last week from Justin Kistner who runs the Metafluence blog. At lunch he mentioned that the Roxy, a club on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip had noticed that comments about [...]

obama mac, clinton pc?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I’m not sure about this story. What are we meant to discuss here? That the Mac is an agent of change, or that the PC has the largest market share but is seen as dull, old-fashioned and less sexy? Feels like a story for a story’s sake.