Hip Hop Heartbreaks Mix
A quick mix I made for (or is it in spite of?) Valentine’s day weekend. Download the mp3 mix here or watch some videos linked in the tracklist below.
On The Road Again (Q-Tip Remix) — The Jungle Brothers feat. Q-Tip
She Dippin’ Around — Mos Def vs MF Doom
Renee — Lost Boyz
You Got Me — The Roots feat. Erykah Badu
Mistakes Of A Woman In Love With Other Men — Slick Rick
Postal — Souls of Mischief
Passing Me By — The Pharcyde
Let Me Watch — MF Doom feat. Apani B. As Nikki
Oxycontin, Pt. 2 — El-P feat. Cage
Round & Round (Remix) — Jonell feat. Method Man, Kool G Rap & Pharoahe Monch
Break Up (The OJ Song) — Murs
Ex Girl To Next Girl — Gang Starr
Selfish — Slum Village feat. Kanye West
Feel The Heartbeat — Treacherous Three
It Is What It Is
Whether you deem 2×4’s monograph, It Is What It Is, a complete success or frustrating and hollow, you will likely find the title undeniably appropriate. The book (a 1000-page “catalog” designed in conjunction with an exhibition in Tokyo last year) has earned mixed reviews. Each page contains 1 full-bleed image, the sum of which is intended to be “a blurry telling of a blurry story.” Or, as explained in the brief foreword:
If a picture is worth a thousand words, do these thousand pictures tell a story? Critics of this book will say no, while praise calls it “a sensory experience, a McLuhan-esque technological extension of the eye.” If you believe 2×4 owes you a narrative look into their studio and work history, you’ll likely find this book less valuable than the 2.5″ of bookshelf space it will occupy. If you don’t already find the idea of self-published monograph overly pretentious, maybe you’ll like it for what it is.
Seven on Seven
Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new –be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine– over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th.
Art
Cao Fei
Evan Roth
Aaron Koblin
Monica Narula
Ryan Trecartin
Tauba Auerbach
Marc Andre Robinson
Technology
Jeff Hammerbacher
Joshua Schachter
Matt Mullenweg
Andrew Kortina
Hilary Mason
Ayah Bdeir
David Karp
HTML5 Canvas Experiment
Check out this HTML5 demo. With the combined capabilities of HTML5, Processing and jQuery, I wonder about the future of Flash on the web. Vimeo has an HTML5 video player, and even Josh Davis and North Kingdom’s own sites are no longer Flash (on WordPress, no less). I’m not predicting the end of Flash, but I’m curious to see how its purpose evolves on the web.