Entries Tagged as 'hybridity'

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

hipster screamo southern rap

I got an email a few days back that read:
fromjustin boreta
subjectif the glitch mob went screamo
dateWed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:35 AM
http://profile.myspace.com/brokencyde
prepare yourself
But I was getting ready to head out to San Francisco for the PSFK conference, (and to be perfectly honest, was kind of scared by the whole idea being proposed in the email’s [...]

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

culture seeks its level

In Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter explain that really, there was never any conflict between the two to begin with. Counterculture hinges on, and consumer culture consists of, the expression of your lifestyle/identity. Whether you’re choosing to wear Nikes, Doc Martens, or some crazy obscure Japanese [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2008

adore adore

heard a track on indie 103.1 a couple of weeks ago by a dude named yoav and really dug the sound, then i checked out the lyrics last night, and was completely sold. with songs about the nightlife underbelly (”club thing“) and celebrity culture (”adore adore“) it’s like social psychology insights on a guitar–with [...]

Monday, February 18th, 2008

consumer insight is funny

“You’re just perpetuating the stereotype by acting all stereotypical.”
- deleted line from tony scott’s domino

i have no idea about the racial background of the individual(s) that publish stuff white people like, but does it even matter?
as lenny bruce said, it’s not the word itself, but the censorship of the word that gives it its [...]

Friday, December 14th, 2007

“cake or death?” and other user experience design options to consider

after mentioning him in the previous post, i ended up going on what can only be described as an eddie izzard bender.
a self-identified “male lesbian,” and “action transvestite” (you know… “running, jumping, climbing trees… putting on makeup while you’re up there”: action transvestite), izzard is also fluent enough in english and french to do [...]

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

non-definition as a defined identity

The goal of all human activity can’t be reduced to the leaving of descendants. Once human culture was firmly in place it acquired new goals.
- Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee

right as i was in the process of rereading the third chimpanzee (i had to read it in college for sociobiology, and recently realized i’d forgotten [...]

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

marketing mixed

just came across the mixed chicks line of hair products, and thought it was awesome. kind of like the same way that i find my best friend (whose mom is white and dad black) ordering a half vanilla half chocolate milkshake at a diner awesome. (i’m telling you, should hear HOW she orders it. that [...]

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

my so-called quarterlife

marshall herskovitz & edward zick + the quarterlife crisis + the rise of the creative class + myspace =

marshall herskovitz and edward zwick aren’t simply geniuses, they are CONSISTENTLY the only ones creating television programming that reflects the real struggles of an entire generation.
thirtysomething was before my time, (though i do know it as [...]

Monday, August 20th, 2007

even more queer once you’re used to it

this weekend was the 27th annual sunset junction music festival, a kind of cross between oldskool urban summertime carnival and indie rock block party. think: stale cotton candy and amusement park rides, local shops and art galleries trapped in the warpath shelling beer, dancing in the streets to mobile soundsystems, and the major stages [...]

Monday, August 13th, 2007

what does a web entrepreneur have in common with a fashion designer?

when i worked at house of blues, every so often we’d have social events with all the other people working in l.a.’s concert marketing industry. people from goldenvoice, livenation (at the time this was a separate company from house of blues), nederlander, etc. lots of people in attendance had even worked at one of [...]