By now you nerds know that I gotta hit you with a flintstone vitamin or two every once in awhile. Jay hasn’t posted in a New York minute, but now he seems back to business as usual. Its funny because I found myself hesitant to post my thoughts on one of the greatest wins for American history as well. I guess I’m waiting until I have the right words to describe everything that is about to go down. I feel like its almost a contradictory win but more on my thoughts later. For now, here is Jay…
Flintsone Vitamins
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Nov 08
cARTer & Fall Out Boy On the Importance of Voting
A quick clip featuring the homie Carter and Fall Out Boy on why each and every one of you nerds need to vote. I’m not gonna tell yall who to vote for (Obama), but just make sure to vote damnit!
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Oct 08
FreshBook: E Pluribus Venom by Shepard Fairey
One of my favorite artists releases a must have piece for the coffee table and book shelf. In his latest book titled E Pluribus Venom (meaning: From Many, Venom), Fairey features pieces from his 2007 show at the Jonathan Levin Gallery in New York City. The title is a play on words of E pluribus unum (From Many, One), the Latin phrase that appears on U.S. currency.
Fairey’s intended meaning: the myriad strands of American society, culture, politics, business, and media today conspire to create an environment that, both literally and figuratively, is poisonous. I get the feeling my conservative friends that bashed me (or attempted to), will take some more stabs at me for this post. If you guys missed out on the comment bashment, be sure to check it out…very amusing to say the least.
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Oct 08
FreshArt: Death to Television, Long Live Internet!!
Ok so that isn’t the actual name of this piece and I have no idea of the title nor creator. This was spotted over at Infart and their site is in French (I think). So anybody out there that can translate, throw me a frickin’ bone here. Until then, we’re sticking to my title…
Blood splatter close-up inside of post…
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Oct 08
FreshArt: Please God, Save Us (Book)
The cover art of this book says it all. With art by Derek Hess and text by Cleveland area politician, Kent Smith, this book is sure to stir up some emotions and question the current “powers” that be. “Please God Save Us” takes a variety of hot topics, ranging from religion to government and everything in between, and displays them in a thought-provoking and witty book. “The art itself was created as an outlet for my frustration with the current administration,” Hess says. “And I was obviously very frustrated as I produced enough pieces for an entire book.” Be sure to catch their book signing at a city near you throughout October while spreading their ideas and thoughts. Tour dates below:
Oct 10 2008 7:00P
“Please God Save Us” book signing at Visible Voice Books in Tremont @ Visible Voice Books
Oct 16 2008 7:00P
“Please God Save Us” book signing at North Water St. Gallery in Kent @ North Water Street Gallery
Oct 17 2008 5:00P
“Please God Save Us” book signing at Eide’s Entertainment @ Eide’s Entertainment
Oct 17 2008 8:00P
“Please God Save Us” book signing at Jester’s Court Tattoos @ Jester’s Court Tattoos
Oct 24 2008 7:30P
“Please God Save Us” book signing in Ann Arbor @ Lucky Monkey Tattoo Parlor
Oct 25 2008 4:00P
“Please God Save Us” book signing in Chicago @ Blue 13 Restaurant
Oct 28 2008 7:00P
“Please God Save Us” book signing at Joseph Beth in Legacy Village @ Joseph Beth Booksellers in Legacy Village
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Sep 08
WTF: Jamaican Family Skin Bleaching
So I’ve heard about this whole bleaching thing here and there, but I didn’t realize it was out of control like this. I love my Jamaican people but c’mon….put the bleach down! I thought we were passed the days of dark skin people wanting to be light skin. As a matter of fact, I thought dark skin has been “in” ever since Wesley Snipes first came on the scene. What irony….caucasians with the tanning phenomenon and blacks bleaching……go figure. All jokes aside though, we really need to break the slave/master mentality of thinking. And that goes for black, brown, white, yellow, puple……..everybody. That’s my positive rant for the day, I’m out like trout.
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Sep 08
My Open Letter to Record Labels
Dear Mr. Record Label Guy,
I have noticed that you have been scrambling since 2000 trying to figure out how the internet works, but the answer is right in front of your face. Instead of trying to put file sharers and bloggers in jail, you need to take advantage of what’s going on in cyberspace.
For those of you not familiar with the subscription model, this is the napster/limewire like service where you pay x-amount of dollars per month for unlimited access to mp3 files. Now throw streaming internet radio into the mix (i.e. pandora, last fm, etc.) and you have yet another outlet that is reaching millions of listeners daily. As everyone knows (except for you suits), first week record sales are no longer important nor do they measure the success of an artist (just ask Usher or Mariah). A new system needs to be put in place for artists. Album sales probably won’t exist anymore in the near future so you’re going to have to start thinking of how revenue can be made by cutting deals with different services while using albums as promotional tools (just ask Prince or Radiohead). I think it’s obvious that listeners don’t want to pay for music unless there is some sort of benefit/product that is being offered. So please, wake up and smell the hard drive (pause) and start putting some thought into these artist’s future instead of throwing a bunch of crap at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Sincerely,
Fresh
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Sep 08
Beating The Little Hater by Jay Smooth
This is by far one of my favorite vlogs from Jay over at Illdoctrine.
This video is a mandatory must see for anybody who is ambitious (or awake as I call it). Watch this once a day if you have to….I do (??).
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Aug 08
Abraham Maslow’s 8 Ways to Self-Actualize
- Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you
- Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
- Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
- When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
- Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
- Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
- Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.
- Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don’t like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses – and then finding the courage to give them up.
