Well, part three to be exact. The team at The L Magazine wrapped up their stellar series of Summer parties in honor of Absolut Vodka’s latest annual offering, Absolut Brooklyn (if you can believe it, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Boston all preceded everyone’s favorite borough!)
Tanlines kicked things off, with Memory Tapes rounding out the bill. It hit the right note. Now, for all the fun faces!
The last time African “club” music popped up on our radar was 10 years ago with the emergence Kwaito, South Africa’s answer to house music. It pretty much just sounded like a pitched down Masters at Work record and wasn’t particularly memorable.
Enter, Shangaan. Rooted in the ancestral dances of the Shangaan peoples of Mozambique and South Africa, it’s stripped down, sped up and straight crazy. If you tried to throw a happy hardcore rave in the Savannah with just a Casio keyboard from 1987, this is pretty much how it would go down. From Baltimore to Mozambique, dance music will never die. Check out these moves below (hat tip Bleeding Panda)…
The Library of Congress maintains some stunning visual records of Depression-era America. Thumbing through these Kodachrome prints is like taking a step back in time. It evokes a uniquely American nostalgia for a place and time you never knew. Enjoy.
This morning I came across a post on one of our favorite sites, Public School, and its title immediately intrigued me. I was quick to learn that Dark Youth is a Russian photographic duo (Sasha Borodinova & Leyla Masharipova) who spent their summer documenting all the wild shit they and their friends were getting into in and around Moscow. The work reminds me somewhat of Sandy Kim’s, minus all the dicks, boobs, public urination and period blood. It’s cool to see kids getting down worldwide. Click through the jump to see some images.
Putty Hill is a new independent film from Baltimore filmmaker Matt Porterfield. A few of my friends from Baltimore worked on the film including Joyce Kim and Andrew Lauman — both talented photographers. Up-and-coming pop sensation Sky Ferreria plays the lead role, helping Putty Hill earn a 4 Star review from Roger Ebert. Matt Poterfield was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Synopsis below:
Following a young man’s death by heroin overdose in a poor, working-class suburb of Baltimore, his family and friends gather on the eve of his funeral to commemorate his life. Their shared memories paint a portrait of a community hanging in the balance, skewed by poverty and a generational divide, but united in their pursuit of a new American Dream. Gifted young filmmaker Matthew Porterfield (Hamilton) casts non-actors, utilizes improvised dialogue, and skirts documentary techniques to generate an awe-inspiring realism that is remarkable for its candid emotional honesty.
Well, it’s here! Diplo’s long awaited documentary on Rio’s Baile Funk scene just dropped today. Mad Decent done did it again. We’ve only gotten a chance to peep the trailer, but can’t imagine this thing disappoints. You can cop the full version here. We first got put on to the Baile Funk phenomenon back in ’06 with Diplo’s devastatingly hot ‘Rhythm’, after the jump.
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Jake Davis is a filmmaker with a lengthy resume and deep industry connections. Philip Petit is a tightrope walker with big dreams and bigger balls. Together they just cranked out a clean little number for perennial streetwear favorite Supreme to accompany their Fall look book. It’s simple and clean, and nothing mind-blowing. But sometimes clean and simple is all you need.
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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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