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Archive for April 19, 2013
James Blake Overgrown
Dj Koze Amygdala
Allison Weiss Say What You Mean
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito
Kool Moe Dee featuring Chuck D and KRS-One
Shadow Art: Sex Style. Unity by Bohyun Yoon
I’ve seen some pretty impressive shadow and reflection art projects lately and Korean artist Bohyen Yoon‘s Unity installation is amongst them. Besides the human sexuality aspect, part of the intrigue of the project is that the shadow installation is constructed of a milieu of disjointed, morphed individual pieces seemingly without context, their intent hidden until light is illuminated upon them. But even then it’s not the illuminated pieces themselves but it’s in the shadows, where the light is hidden that the shapes form together to reveal the whole and cohesive image. To the old adage that you can’t have light without dark, here the absence of light means nothing without the light and the whole means nothing without each piece being in concert with one another. Kind of like sex.
Read more and see some more photos of the installation, here.
Via MyModernMet.com, “Provocative Shadow Art Created Through Suspended Body Parts & GaksDesigns Tumblr
Free Download for the Week: Nick Hook, Without You (+ a Mini Spiel on Scion & the Arts)
Scion is one of those companies that really put the question to the forefront as to whether there can be legitimate positive symbiotic relationships between corporations and subcultures or if it’s simply called selling out/exploitation. While still on the fence, it’s probably been over a decade and they’ve worked with/boosted the career of pretty much every visual and musical artist I respect so I might just have to call it a net positive. Even if their interest isn’t purely altruistic, I’ll take my friends and peers getting some shine out of it rather than more Shaq Buick commercials.
Now that you’ve waded through that monologue, you get a little prize. Nick Hook has been on the dj scene in Nyc for awhile and now Scion is offering up his Without You Ep for a free download. Along the lines of Electronica/Hip hop (generic, lame comparison could be made to Flying Lotus, sorry) Nick Hook also calls in some help from the likes of El-p, Gaslamp Killer, MachineDrum, and more. Get yourz, here.
Lobbyist for the Garlic Industry
When asked the inevitable D.C. question “So, what do you do?” I lie and tell people I’m a lobbyist for the garlic industry. Mostly because in this town it is believable and if someone knows I have computers skills, I’m bound to get calls about their printer not working.
Tuesday Forecast: Better Late Than Ever
Here’s a bunch, look through’em. And take note, there’ll be another special edition on friday previewing the special releases for Record Store Day this Saturday!
Advice for Young Adults
I’ve read a lot of posts written for people who are just starting their career. They are filled with countless platitudes: Max out your 401k, be nice to the people below you they may be your boss one day, do something you love, blah fucking blah blah blah…
Here are the two pieces of advice I’d give at a graduation speech.
1) You are probably not going to change the world, get over it.
Very few people change the world, shit Bill Gates has a shit ton of money and resources and even he has yet to make it happen.
2) Your job should be thought of a way to get money and nothing else.
To quote Danny DeVito’s character in Heist “Everybody needs money. That’s why they call it money.” If the business objective at the top of a resume stated the truth “My goal is to get the most amount of money from your company while doing the least amount of work” I’d hire that person in second.
Though it sounds like a bit of a scam Die Broke
Category: bad at life, DCDan, Frustration, Rant |
Tags: career advice, I spit the truth to the youth
