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The Wilderness Downtown


Could Arcade Fire be any hotter right now? I mean, we’re all for pushing the boundaries of music and multimedia…but seriously, could you leave some creative projects for the rest of us? YOU’RE MAKING US LOOK BAD.

Earlier this month the crew from Montreal were busy selling out Madison Square Garden and bringing on Terry Gilliam and all his quirky charm to run the webcast. Now they’re working with Google to bust out some cutting edge HTML 5 interactivity. If you’re running Chrome as your browser, absolutely do give this a spin…and don’t worry about the pop-ups. It’s all part of the show.

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In my mind, one’s personal phone photo archive might be the most intimate look into their lives and how they see the world. I have thousands of pictures that I’ve taken on my phone. Some are are of friends, some are of strangers, some aren’t of people at all. Some are for me, some are for family, and some are for girls that I’m trying to woo. In the case of xyxx, David McLaughlin and Kimberly Warner, two ‘slightly twisted lovers,’ their correspondence is based completely in phone pictures. Instead of emails or text messages, these two communicate in photographs — as they put it, ‘an ever evolving game of tag with no rules or expectations except to simply be present, and that’s the beauty of it.’

The photos they’ve come away with are often nothing more than a little girl dancing, or a streetlamp in the night. They manipulate the photos in their phone applications, but that’s about it. They’ve come away with some stunning images, and it’s a beautiful project that stands on legs of its own as they share it with the world. They have an art show and a book coming out on September 2nd. See some of the pictures along with the flyer after the jump.

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The Rap Map

So, I’m not sure how old or new this is, but I came across it this morning, and I got incredibly pumped. Rap Genius, the encyclopedic website for all things hip-hop, has created a comprehensive map using Google Maps to provide (often humorous) event details on specific places across the country referred to in hip-hop songs throughout history. Here’s an example:

Marcy Houses

I’m from Marcy, I’m varsity, chump, you’re JV
— From “Brooklyn’s Finest” by Jay-Z

Marcy is the project where Jay-Z grew up. It’s located in the rough Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant (near the boyhood home of Biggie Smalls, and was a hotbed of drug-related crime during Jay-Z’s childhood in the 1980s. Memphis Bleek is also from the Marcy Houses, but he never used his boyhood connection to Jay-Z to further his rap career or anything…

As it turns out, the Rap Map let me know that the project in which Jay-Z grew up is about a 1 minute walk from my apartment — pretty syked on that. Biggie and Mos weren’t too far either… Visit The Rap Map here.

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Tron Legacy — Comic Con Trailer

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In honor of Comic Con’s massive geek-off (which, I am dying to know what kind of insane geek/fetish/drug parties people are getting into), Disney has released the latest trailer for their 3D epic Tron Legacy.

We’ll be waiting till December for this one but I think it’s safe to say that Legacy will be setting a new benchmark for the shape of 3D films to come. Oh, and Daft Punk is composing the score? It’s on. Merry Christmas mom, your oldest son ate a weed brownie before the movie.

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iPhone 4 and FaceTime Create Sex-Chat Jobs

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Well, that didn’t take long did it! Looks like those pervy lil’ chat-rouletting fanboys have whipped up the latest soon-to-be-banned use for Apple’s new iPhone4 FaceTime video-chatting capabilities — interactive porn.

A craigslist ad shows that a New York City company has already begun staffing for an

“Online interactive pornography firm where woman will use the iphone 4 to video chat with potential customers”

Are the alt-porn loving throngs from Los Feliz to the Lower East Side conspiring to bring us the real Look At This Fucking Hipster (As in, “no really, look at this fucking hipster)? Steve Jobs’ anti-porn policies are widely known. But I suppose where there’s a will, there’s a way. We’ll have to keep our collective eyes on this one. Here’s to getting more face time in 2010.

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Tiny Vices Releases iPhone App

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Tim Barber’s online gallery & image archive, Tiny Vices is now available as a free app for your iPhone & iPad. I’m not sure of the frequency of the updates (hopefully constantly), but there is a ton of amazing work by some very talented photographers to be discovered.

Be sure to download it from the iTunes store here.

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Watch Girl Talk’s Samples in Real Time

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As I’m sure most of you know, Girl Talk (Gregg Michael Gillis) is well-known for his (banging) eclectic mashups and wild samplings. For the first time, you can listen to his 2008 album, Feed the Animals, while watching, in real time, the samples that are occurring from song to song. It’s a pretty rad idea, and very much worth a look, which you can do here. Have fun wasting an hour or two this morning.

via Pedestrian TV.

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EA Skate 3 Intro

If you were at all impressed by the job EA did with their jail-inspired intro for Skate 2, you’re sure to enjoy the new intro for Skate 3. This 5 and a half minute piece follows the production of the skateboard (obviously intertwined with some comedic bits), from the lumberjacks chopping down the trees to the silk screening of its graphics, and all the skaters in the game play the roles of the workers throughout. It features a lot of familiar faces like Koston, Carroll, Dill, Rob Dyrdek, Jerry Hsu, etc. This one’s a treat.

Check out the intro for Skate 2 after the jump.

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