by | Feb 2, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker The Obsessive Beat-Making of Madlib The producer’s new album, “Sound Ancestors,” a collaboration with Four Tet, distills his eclectic, globe-trotting approach to sampling. By Hua Hsu Illustration by Saddo Madlib has always seemed more concerned...
by | Feb 1, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from GMA Network Dubai creates ‘space court’ for out-of-this-world disputes DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai announced Monday the creation of a “space court” to settle commercial disputes, as the UAE—which is also sending a probe to Mars—builds its...
by | Jan 28, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Vanity Fair “You Meet Insanity With Insanity”: The GameStop Redditors Who Upended Wall Street Are Doubling Down by Jessica Camille Aguirre Wall Street can seem like a citadel, so it is with unreserved glee that many have kept tabs on the GameStop saga this week....
by | Jan 22, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Vanity Fair Transformative Life Kitt’s 1989 autobiography, Confessions of a Sex Kitten, tracks an icon’s incredible journey from abused child to outspoken star. BY HADLEY HALL MEARES GERAINT LEWIS/ALAMY. Eartha Kitt was many things: a nightclub chanteuse who...
by | Jan 21, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from WIRED He Made a Viral Bernie Meme Site. Now He Has to Keep It Going Nick Sawhney’s “Bernie Sits” puts Sanders anywhere on Google Street View. by BRIAN BARRETT BY 9 PM ET last night, Nick Sawhney knew he was in trouble. Just a half hour...
by | Jan 4, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from The LA Times Why the end of Flash animation marks the end of an era for creativity on the web By CAROLINA A. MIRANDA A message to uninstall Flash appears above a Flash-based work of art by Rafaël Rozendaal titled “Future Physics,” from 2007.(Screengrab by...
