Is there a chance that our rapid rate of discovery on the web is simply too fast to be useful? The so-called web 2.0 has created many bursts of useful or at least nominally cool applications that we in turn ogle and rush to begin using. Muxtape being the flickr of the month this time [...]
The 2 strongest troupes from the MTV hit America’s Best Dance Crew, Jabbawockeez and Kaba Modern, help to illustrate that US BBoying is now very much ‘an Asian thing’. While Asian agency in hip-hop has been big since the late 90′s (turntablism + sneaker culture being the strongest), it’s now gonna go pop on the [...]
This one is for all my XHTML/CSS heads out there: I hate to sound like a broken record on this one, but umm: …the nerd who is possessed wholly of a black American masculinity is a specific character that enjoys a renaissance today even as the hip-hop world continues to project a cartoonishly grotesque opposite. [...]
If Cadbury didn’t move you, artist Sander Plug has some Dutch chocolate on tap. Honestly don’t know what anthro to add to this, but I’ve been watching it on repeat. It’s an artfully rendered execution of what many a lad did to their GI Joes, or a Barbie Doll, if vexed with sis. —- shout [...]
