Social-Creature

Do you like Reggaeton? This was a question an old friend asked me while visiting in L.A. We’re both from Boston, where most people have never heard of Reggaeton. And I hadn’t either, until I moved to Southern California. If you don’t know what Reggaeton is, it’s: A form of urban music that became popular [...]

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I noticed something interesting the other day in the trailer for the forthcoming 2012 movie. At the end of the trailer, (which–though the movie stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, and Thandie Newton–doesn’t include a single star, instead giving off a distinctly Baraka-like “documentary” feel, depicting only Buddhist monks and a typically [...]

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HBO has created a monster with the promotional campaign for True Blood, a new TV series from the creator of Six Feet Under, set to premiere September 7th. AdAge (which has a nice little video about the campaign here, but no way to embed it elsewhere) explains: While they’re only one part of the larger [...]

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Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. – Andy Warhol It is totally disconcerting to discover a book that pretty much compiles your insights and articulates them back to you. Buying In: The [...]

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Have you seen these billboards? They’re all over the place: Been wondering what the hell that’s all about, maybe? Well, answer #1 goes like this: Hope people have been seeing the billboards that I have put up around town. I think its important everyone knows how much Sarah Marshall SUCKS! How she does look fat [...]

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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 brand [...]

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“THIS TRACK JUST MADE ME PREGNANT” – Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic at the New Yorker, waxes poetic about the Glitch “Lazer-Bass” Scene. Read more… Like this? Share it: Tweet

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“We read to know we are not alone.” – C.S. Lewis in retrospect, it’s not so surprising that while i was studying film in college i was also producing art and music events as an extra-curricular activity. i joke that producing a movie and producing an event are pretty much exactly the same process, except [...]

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get your post-apocalyptic designer dream on… Illuminated is a new animated series being created by some of the people behind GNN (Guerrilla News Network), Phong.com (Eminem’s “Mosh”), Pod Collective, Broken Saints, and ConceptArt.org. illuminated.com and while you’re looking at that you may also want to look at this: how to share illuminated and this: how [...]

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“the biggest problem americans have is what cereal to buy in the cereal aisle.” -my dad (who spent the first 56 years of his life in the USSR) i’ve been watching my friend sarah write about her adventures in crazyblinddate land, and it’s gotten me thinking. sarah explains: CrazyBlindDate.com was started by the folks who [...]

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