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At its root, hip-hop has always mixed tech and middle-finger D.I.Y. with open-source. It’s why there are so many different “purple drank” recipes on the web and the raison d’être of the Urban Dictionary. Enter the Graffiti Research Lab — one of the more novel embodiments of all three of these things, but with the backing of the art establishment.

You might have missed the last time when G.R.L. got the MoMa invite, or thought that [...]

As piracy remixes the old business models of music and film, the money ‘lost’ doesn’t disappear, it just gets spent elsewhere.

When I was a teenager, I’d spend money on music in the act of fleshing out my personality - (both publicly and privately) - Rolling Stones/Tribe Called Quest/Blues Traveller, etc… Each $12 CD added what I felt was another aspect to myself. And since the 90’s things done changed - thanks [...]

Be ye a CEO of the Corner or the corner office, you’ve gotta know what those on the street are saying about your brand.

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Last week Robin Hafitz from Open Mind/kb+p gave a great
presentation about how the walls of public/private space are melting. One sign of these times is the sex tapes and commando-flashing tactics of Brit/LiLo/Paris. The recording and sharing of sex is no longer in the back room, but
writ large, and as Robin noted, Barbie and Ken aren’t just dating, they’re making porn.

Robin’s talk came spinning back into my skull today when I learned [...]

Willingly or no, every artist who throws his hat in with another set of creatives becomes a part of a marketplace of ideas. The quality of that marketplace — the quality of ideas bandied about within it — will determine how much that artist can gain from his cohort.