DESEDO FILMS

Vampire Weekend dropped it hot this week and got met with both Kisses and Bronx Cheers. Maybe it’s my preppy roots and culture, but these kids are alright with me. As one sage said: “[This is just] the inevitable graduation of privileged indie kids into their rightful social milleu. Drop the post- art-school ‘ghetto’ chic of most recent Brooklyn arrivistes and you get…this band.” VW keeps it realer than most of us [...]

“Crank That” content occupies 5 of the top 100 YouTube videos. Advertising and Academia have written great articles and case studies about the Soulja Boy phenomenon. Even Disney let copyrights slide to join the party. Yup, it’s a new media coup.

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So…the line “Superman dat (h)o!” means? It aint just some nonsensical wordplay.

Last fall there was a flurry in the blogosphere about the lyrical ‘translation’, but it didn’t [...]

Editors Note: The below text is a follow-up to Raafi’s now-famous post about Black Nerds.
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Over the past couple months I’ve had to do a lot of soul searching over exactly what the word “nerd” actually means and found myself in a sort of Potter Stewart limbo. After all, blogging about what it means to be a nerd isn’t very cool, but I digress. My fragmentary notion that the black nerd is an emerging presence in [...]

In the NYT yesterday, Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote about the quirks and qualities of Bernard Tschumi’s Blue Building on the LES. A while back my good friend, musician and genius phrase-ologist Olga Bell mused that if a Rubik’s Cube wrote a poem, it would be Blue Building. Inspired, I took some photos and thanks to mo-graph artist Matt Garton at R/GA, tried a little experiment. It’s just a test of what could be, but thanks [...]

Seagal does Blues. He even uses one of those BK voice over guy accents. You can’t make this stuff up.

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