DESEDO FILMS

My Hawaiian surfergirl Zhara just sent this picture and a note that “the horse, rainbow and colors are all real. life is fucking great.” So for those who are reading this today in NYC, where spring is winking, I beseech you to finish them taxes, go outside & engage First Life to the fullest.

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 around. And a damn good one at that. But is the rapid adaption of new processes something that inherently improves […]

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 mass culture radar. Soon a raft of them cool brands will have ads featuring Asian breakers, a new […]

This one is for all my XHTML/CSS heads out there:

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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.
…the proliferation of media voices and sources enabled by the internet has allowed a more nuanced and less gangster voice of young black […]

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.

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shout to Josh S for the OG report and Josh K for sending it our way.