The Dreamer

postdubstep: AlunaGeorge - Just A Touch (Official Video)

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:54:13 -0400

postdubstep:

AlunaGeorge - Just A Touch (Official Video)

thetangential: Best/Realest Tweets of the Week, 6/3-6/9/12

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:04:06 -0400

thetangential:

Best/Realest Tweets of the Week, 6/3-6/9/12

thatpaperlife: Paper Plates - Frank “This that awesome rap,...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:19:48 -0400

thatpaperlife:

Paper Plates - Frank

“This that awesome rap, Nigella Lawson snacks…”

…..musical offerings from one of issue #1’s contributors

Tarif for Stuff: Three suggestions to a starting designer

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:02:57 -0400

Tarif for Stuff: Three suggestions to a starting designer:

tarif:

Well..Let’s give this a shot. It’s always useful to think about these things in structured terms. I should warn you though, this could be long (I tend to be verbose at times).

So, if I would have to distill what I think you should do, as, or to become, a graphic designer (and to enjoy the…

contemporaryartdaily: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven at Mu.Zee

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:53:41 -0400

contemporaryartdaily:

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven at Mu.Zee

Sharing Poetry: Donald Finkel, "Hands"

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:25:37 -0400

Sharing Poetry: Donald Finkel, "Hands":

sharingpoetry:

The poem makes truth a little more disturbing,
like a good bra, lifts it and holds it out
in both hands. (In some of the flashier stores
there’s a model with the hands stitched on, in red or black.)

Lately the world you wed, for want of such hands,
sags in the bed beside you like a tired…

Kuvva Blog - Celebrating Creativity: Alessandro Pautasso

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:23:59 -0400

Kuvva Blog - Celebrating Creativity: Alessandro Pautasso:

kuvva:

View set on Kuvva.comAlessandro Pautasso aka Kaneda from Turin - Italy (30 July 1982) is a graphic designer and illustrator whose specialty lies in vector art and mixed media. He began drawing when he was a child, under the guidance of his mother who is a painter. It was when…

postdubstep: Azealia Banks - Fuck Up The Fun (produced by...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:59:43 -0400

postdubstep:

Azealia Banks - Fuck Up The Fun (produced by Diplo)
Mrs Banks does it again. With her new jam “Fuck Up The Fun” she slaps her competition in the face. With tunes like “212”, “Liqourice” and this one her debut is destined to be a banger. Congrats!

dddmagazine: R.I.P. Adrienne Rich, feminist poet who wrote of...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:53:00 -0400

dddmagazine:

R.I.P. Adrienne Rich, feminist poet who wrote of politics and lesbian identity.
On the role of the poet, she wrote, “We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.” Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012)

rudieyoungblood: Zebra Katz ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx - Ima...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:30:56 -0400

rudieyoungblood:

Zebra Katz ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx - Ima Read

Introducing Zebra Katz, the rap character that grew out of Ojay Morgan’s immersion in New York’s gay performance art scene. ‘Ima Read’ sees Katz over a sparse 808 loop that somehow doesn’t get repetitive, as he delivers each verse with a wry smile and an authoritative stare.

‘Ima Read’ is out on Diplo’s Jeffree imprint on Mad Decent - it blows my mind this track’s been sitting on Zebra Katz’ SoundCloud for two years and it’s only since the February video release that people have been taking notice (myself included). I’d also love to hear more from Njena Redd Foxxx - there’s a few live clips online but some sort of mixtape would be perfect.

Check out Zebra Katz’ ‘Champagne Mixtape’ below - such a good set of bassy rap shit to zone out to.

- F

vicemag: Photographic Moratorium - Sexy Milk

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:29:16 -0400

vicemag:

Photographic Moratorium - Sexy Milk

thetangential: Brand New Power Point Themes for the Design...

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:08:46 -0400

Dubstep

Holga

Zany!!!

Smashed Helvetica

Kinda anime?

twee.

thetangential:

Brand New Power Point Themes for the Design Trends of 2012

-Becky Lang

vicemag: Kony Baloney Following the resounding success of its...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:54:52 -0400

vicemag:

Kony Baloney

Following the resounding success of its YouTube launch, the KONY 2012 video and movement saw a barrage of criticism from the darker corners of the internet. As someone who has worked in propaganda for a long time, I’m concerned that people all over the world are sending money to an organization that is fundamentally different to what they imagine it is. And even as interest wanes across the web, there are still lots of unanswered questions. Like the ones I came up with to ask Invisible Children representatives after Kenny Laubbacher, head of “artist relations” for IC, invited VICE to interview members of IC at the organization’s offices in San Diego immediately following our original KONY post. Kenny claimed that our post was “pretty massively misinformed and quotes a lot of bogus sources.”

Naturally, we wanted to set the record straight, but since then we have been punted to their PR people, had our meeting pushed back a week, and given the runaround when asked if someone at IC would be willing to participate in a quick interview over the phone. A last ditch attempt to get some answers dissipated today – Jedidiah Jenkins, the ‘Director of Ideology’ (or in the words of IC, “essentially the brand manager”) contacted us by email saying he was willing to give ten minutes while he and CEO Ben Keesey waited to get on a plane to a film festival. But in the time it took to receive the email and get the line set up, it was too late – they had boarded. ‘JJ’ was totally bummed. Hopefully he’ll have a chance to answer questions at a later date, but for now we’ve been forced to run this piece, which now amounts to what will hopefully be our final overview onKONY 2012 and IC, without quotes from the film’s creators.

Like lots of people, my biggest problem with KONY 2012 is that their now synonymous film makes no mention of IC cofounder Jason Russell’s Christian beliefs. This is especially troubling given that he’s not just a regular church-goer but an active evangelist. All signs point to this being an intentional omission that could even be interpreted as being part of a larger overarching media strategy.

“The trick is to not go into the world and say ‘I’m going to baptize you, I have an agenda to win you over’,”Russell said to a group of Christian students last November. “Your agenda is to look into their eyes, as Jesus did, and say ‘’who are you, and will you be my friend?’ Like he did to the prostitutes, the tax collectors and the fishermen.”

IC’s financial statements show substantial donations from the National Christian Foundation—an anti-gay, anti-abortion grant-making fund that helped Ugandan politicians put together legislation making homosexuality subject to the death penalty. Invisible Children’s supporters include other right-wing, anti-gay heavyweights like the Caster Family, who funded the campaign for Proposition 8 in California.

The following is a quick rundown of how KONY 2012 plays around with facts and figures to support its agenda:

Russell claims that Joseph Kony is the world’s worst warlord. The list compiled by the International Criminal Court lists the indicted in order of the dates of indictment for their alleged atrocities, not “badness.” In defining “badness,” many experts regard genocide as more serious than crimes against humanity and war crimes. If you take this view, the “worst” person on the ICC’s list is Omar Al-Bashir, president of Sudan. If you don’t take that view and think that genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes are equally bad, the “baddest” person on the list is Ali Kushayb, with Ahmed Haroun a close second. Both are indicted on the basis of their actions in Darfur. Ahmed Haroun is the Governor of South Kordofan State in Sudan, and therefore not all that difficult to find. Omar Al Bashir travels internationally, with impunity.

The ICC list is not a list of all the bad people in the world, just those who have been subject to investigations of “situations.” Only “situations” in Uganda, Darfur, Kenya, DR Congo, Libya, Cote D’Ivoire, and Central African Republic have been investigated by the ICC. Atrocities committed elsewhere in the world don’t count. The men on the ICC list are not the worst people in the world, they are the worst people in some parts of the seven places listed.

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Signe Siemensen

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:29:50 -0400

Signe Siemensen

The Tangential: How the English Version of ‘Girl with a Dragon Tattoo’ Accidentally Reveals Everything Dumb About Hollywood

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:28:40 -0400

The Tangential: How the English Version of ‘Girl with a Dragon Tattoo’ Accidentally Reveals Everything Dumb About Hollywood:

thetangential:

One thing that made Inglorious Basterds so powerful was that it took a quiet, historical fantasy – Jews killing Hitler – and blew it up to fantastic proportions, in a way that felt real. Quentin Tarentino is good at that trick of grounding fantasy in grit. The only movie I’ve seen since then…

letmypeopleshow: Animal Magnetism: Hi and Hi by Trenton Doyle...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:25:01 -0400

letmypeopleshow:

Animal Magnetism:

Hi and Hi by Trenton Doyle Hancock, a mural installed at the entrance to the pediatric imaging suite at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. The piece was the initiative of RxArt, a nonprofit that enlivens the sterile spaces of hospitals by placing original art there.

vicemag: “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:43:00 -0400

vicemag:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” Too fast to live, too young to die. Like a really pretty girl smoking a cigarette, and her makeup is smeared and her stockings are torn but she’s still a total babe. That’s why I stay up pretty late, go to a lot of concerts. Because I just want to live, surround myself with the living. Crackle crackle crackle. #fireworks. All I see is fireworks. Cause baby, you’re a firework.”

––Jack Kerouac

Sophie Nicoll - skeletoninpencil2008

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:37:00 -0400

Sophie Nicoll - skeletoninpencil2008

postdubstep: MTHRFNKR Magazine x Invader MagazineInvader...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:36:51 -0400

postdubstep:

MTHRFNKR Magazine x Invader Magazine
Invader Magazine is the new project by the German online magazine Amy&Pink.
If you like platforms such as MTHRFNKR, Neon and Vice, you will love this shit. And the best part of it is, that the founder of MTHRFNKR is part of the team.

“Natürlich findet ihr hier den neuesten Shit aus Mode, Musik, Games, Technik und Kultur. Mit diskussionswürdiger Meinung und unglaublicher Aktualität nur so vollgestopft. Ohne Zweifel lassen wir hier Artikel vom Start, die einschlagen werden wie eine Bombe. Die zynisch sind. Und ehrlich. Und direkt. Weil wir das können.”

Step 1: Read our introductory text: “The Invader erobert das deutsche Internet”.
Step 2: Read MTHRFNKR’s take on the German rapper CRO: “CRO: Wichsmaterial Für Mitläufer”.
Step 3: Like and follow the shit out of us on Facebook and Twitter.

Video

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:51:12 -0400