Beautiful photos from yesterday’s eclipse. I was enjoying the sun/outdoors too much to take in the spectacle. At least I was amongst 1,000 people making the most of the day.
The Atlantic’s In Focus rounded up the best photos from yesterday’s eclipse. We picked out a few really stunning ones.
Asian Clipboard Guy
The Don
Yea.. yea
Smoking a escubano, guzzle my second bottle
Hope I don’t catch a homo (homicide)
Grossing our net
Simultaneously making me climb higher, heinous crimes behind me
Search but can’t find me
Fuck sadness
Had this been you havin’ this lavish
Habitual happiness at me you wouldn’t look backwards
You would have sex on condominium roof decks
So anyone move next
I’ll hit you with two techs
Rocking Roberto Cavalli no shirt on convertible Mazy
My Columbiana mommy ridin beside me
Every tat mean something, that’s my word on my body
I’ll have to lean something wit that Mossberg shotty
My niggas is ignant, put lead in yo pigment
Just cuz y’all was mad at all the years I was getting it
In 97 the six
98 the Bentley
Now it’s the Ghost Phantom
And ya’ll can’t stand ‘em but…
Crazy P: Mountains Mix
Recommended Listening / DJ Mixtape
Crazy P has LONG been a favorite personally. This mix was made for their upcoming performance at the Meadows In The Mountains Festival. If you’re out in Bulgaria, do it.
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Fujiwara Hiroshi: Lost HF Mix - House
Recommended Listening / DJ Mixtape
Fujiwara Hiroshi, the long time Japanese ambassador of taste, has uncovered another “lost mix”. Makes me miss Japan, but makes me miss New York even more.
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Leica M Monochrom
This was something of a highly wanted joke for years and now it’s a reality… well a reality for those with bottomless wallets.
Leica introduces the world’s first black and white dedicated digital rangefinder (camera for that matter).
For more information, you must learn.
Tres Records + Turntable Lab LA Present: House Shoes: The Time EP Release Party
Tuesday May 22nd from 6-8
Turntable Lab LA.
424 1/2 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA.
Delancey Music Service: Tribute To MCA
Recommended Listening / Tribute
Stretch Armstrong & Eli Escobar pay a fitting tribute to the recently deceased MCA of Beastie Boys.
A sad day indeed, but let’s remember the good times.
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Sam Tiba: Jersey Club Vol. 3 (Pelican Fly)
Recommended Listening / DJ Mixtape
Club Cheval’s Sam Tiba just made my day. A solid Jersey Club mixtape… just one question though, no DJ Lil Man?!?!
Though the mix is barely creeping past the 30 minute mark, there is a vagillion tracks on here.
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Barry Mcgee at Prism
The second exhibit of Mcgee’s work at Prism Gallery in West Hollywood shows entirely new work. The opening was held May 11th and will run through June 30th.
For more information, you must learn.
MOTW: Keyboard Kid
Recommended Listening / DJ Mixtape
So far the best genre names I have ever heard are Power Violence, No Wave, and now Cloud Rap can be added to the list of silly names that definitely seem to fit the music they adhere to. Seattle’s Keyboard Kid gives us a dose of the mostly lo-fi world that has become the next movement in rap music. The names, look, and feel make me recall the cyber world of a young Angelina Jolie in Hackers. Cool looking cyber punks with laptops that project the screen image onto your face with outstanding refresh rates… only I don’t think they thought it would be so trill. I’m with it… for the most part. I just like when weird rappers really were weird and not a product of the internet. Exciting times!
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Wonkavision
These are my two contributing factors to the world of the Wonka meme.
Weed Temple: Lunar Miasma - Impermanent Nature
Tune in and tune out. Dreamy soundscapes, drone washes, and cinematic bliss.
Originally released in February 2012 in an edition of 135 tapes from the KILLER label SicSic Tapes (I think the spirit of Stunned Records travelled all the way across the globe and settled in this German imprint, coming back to the sourceof the kosmische power), this tape by Greece’s whiz…
HVW8 x Lisa Leone
This past Friday Hollywood saw many firsts. HVW8 Gallery opened their latest show featuring cinematographer/photographer Lisa Leone. Though her work is undeniably amazing, this was her first solo show. “Then” exhibits Leone’s very personal photography of the world’s greatest Hip Hop artists ranging from the late Guru to Eazy E as well as a neighborhood posse only New York can birth such as Debbie Mazar, Marisa Tomei, and RSC’s Pop Master Fable. For the occasion, HVW8 + Leone printed a very small run of books (100 copies) that is still available via their website. The book marks the first venture into printed matter for the gallery and I am glad to have grabbed a copy before I headed out.
KCRW’s Jeremy Sole was on hand for the private event, DJing a classic New York set that kept Leone’s crew on the floor all night. The other first was a bit more personal in the fact that this was my first time going out since I moved to LA a month ago and having a great time. Ironically enough, the party felt like the New York I fell in love with years ago.
