Social-Creature

boreta, ooah, edIT, kraddy four guys on keyboards does not a band make, but when they’re laptop keyboards it’s a whole new breed of musical act. last night the glitch mob dutifully slayed the LA crowd at the kingking on hollywood blvd. it was the first time in a long time (too long) that all [...]

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following on the heels of the previous post musing about the acceleration of cultural evolution, i thought it might be a good idea offer some kind of more concrete context for the process of how culture gets created. this video has been circulating for a few years at this point, but for anyone not familiar [...]

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1 2 3 That’s the speed of the seed A B C That’s the speed of the need You can dream a little dream Or you can live a little dream I’d rather live it Cuz dreamers always chase But never get it – Aesop Rock: “No Regrets” there is some kind of undeniable human [...]

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as a marketer you realize that it’s not so much that you’re really setting anything up for sale, it’s that everything already IS for sale, and you’re just helping it along. so it’s not so much that i’m bothered by the selling of “enlightenment,” (there’s been buddha statues on-sale for millennia, and what are THOSE [...]

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i moved my blog and everyone disappeared! i’m really missing the three people who used to read this blog. where you at? if you come back, i’ll get you on the list. (bring a friend, and i’ll put you down +1). in my previous post i wrote about how hip hop culture offered the first [...]

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it’s hard to comprehend this now, but before hiphop there was no such thing as a racially integrated culture. when hiphop came down from the bronx and created the roxy in downtown NYC it brought with it not just a fad, but a complete cultural shift that was ushering with it a racially integrated lifestyle. [...]

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after spending more time hanging out with just consonants than a writer really has a right to (php, ftp, css, html–i’m totally over my quota, i’m kind of scared to know what kind of overage charge i’ve incurred from the vowels), i’m happy to announce that www.social-creature.com is finally fit to see the light of [...]

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according to Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation, afrika bambaataa defined the four elements of hip hop as djing, emceeing, breakdancing, and graffiti. of the four, only graffiti makes a case that its conception was a little more immaculate. in truth, it’s the only element that can actually even pursue [...]

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i find the synchronicity of elements that shape the development of culture as fascinating as its effects. like the random mutations of evolution that become brilliant adaptive advantages, there’s almost a kind of magic to these whimsical convergences of what retrospect makes appear like fate. a butterfly flaps its wings in the concrete jungle, and [...]

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you ever have that feeling that you’re living in the future? like you’re driving on these strange elevated chutes, and whether or not to have kids is now a choice, and you have no need to think about WHERE food comes from, it just generally appears at the beckoning of a shopping cart. it’s pretty [...]

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