Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty

Shepard Fairey, the Los Angeles street artist, has entered a guilty plea in his criminal case with the Associated Press. The artist pled guilty in a New York court to one count of criminal contempt for destroying documents, manufacturing evidence and other misconduct in his case involving his "Hope" poster of Barack Obama.

the Scream

The Scream expected to fetch $80 million when it is auctioned this spring... only version with a frame hand-painted by the artist.

Skateboarding

For Skateboarding and the City from Nathan Factor Sacharow on Vimeo.

WholeFoods

In my always ongoing attempts at eating better I have been reading the WholeFoods blog - it's packed with really good information about nutrition and good habits. There's some info on what's on sale and stuff too, but mostly good tips on eating better. Check it out here. WholeFoods blog.

GHOST RIDER

my absolute favorite comic rag as a kid, the hollywood movie - notsomuch. I loved Ghost Rider, got me through some tough pre-adolescent times. So reading this is sad and frustrating on a personal level as well as from a copyright point of view.

FTA:
"Marvel forces Ghost Rider creator to stop saying he's Ghost Rider creator.
After nearly five years of bitter and depressing legal back-and-forth only slightly ameliorated by the fact that it concerned a biker with a flaming skull, Marvel has won a lawsuit that forces Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich to stop identifying himself as “Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich,” simply because he is the creator of Ghost Rider."

Roxx TwoSpirit

some pretty neat designs

Google's New Privacy

Interesting stuff to consider....
FTA:
"Up until March 1, 2012, the data Google collected on you when you used YouTube was carefully cabined away from your other Google products. So, in effect, Google could use data they collected on YouTube to improve and customize the users’ YouTube experience, but couldn’t use the data to customize and improve user experience on, say, Google+."

TurnTable Kitchen's Top 10 Reasons to Buy Records

solid list and dead on!

FTA:
"For me, the ritual involved in playing my records is delicious. I’ll thumb through my record collection delightedly examining the spines of the records in my library before my fingers come to rest on the album I’m seeking. I’ll carefully pull the record out and remove the LP from the jacket. I examine the surface of the record in the light for dust and, if necessary, swiftly brush off any lint or dust that has collected. Next, I carefully place the record on the platter and clamp it to the spindle. I quickly blow on the stylus to remove any dust or fuzz that has collected there before lifting and subsequently lowering the needle to the record. The soft thump I hear when the needle makes initial contact with the vinyl is alone worth savoring. If music is a religion, then this is the sacrament."

Type Matters

Nice letter to Brad Bird of Pixar from Matthew Butterick on the use of the font Verdana in the latest Mission Impossible movie.

"Verdana is a Microsoft font designed in 1996 designed to optimize the legibility of small text on low resolution computer screens. It wasn't intended for large size text on high resolution movie screens."

Read the letter here.

DC Comics ReBrands

New logo

Read about it here.

Denver Post Interviews Local Hero Jason Heller

"I grew up in a solidly blue-collar family full of truck drivers, waitresses and convicts," Heller said last week. "I know it sounds like a bad country song, but it's true. I'm one of the first people in my family to attend college."
Read it here.

Jason, enjoy the kudos and credit you deserve every stitch of it! Can't wait to keep reading what's next!

RIP King Stitt

"No matter what the people say

These sounds leads the way

It’s the order of the day

From your boss deejay, I, King Stitt

Haul it from the top

To the very last drop !"
- King Stitt

Rest in Peace Ugly One!

Vinyl Sales Increase 39% in 2011

My Top Ten for 2011

In no particular order:
the Men - Leave Home
Tommy Guerrero - Lifeboats & Follies
Wooden Shijps - West
Moon Duo - Mazes
Shimmering Stars - Violent Hearts
Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
Unfact - split
DeathGrips - ExMilitary
All Pigs Must Die - the Blessed Void
Trash Talk - ep
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Unentitled
White Hills - hP-1
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
Cult of Youth - Cult of Youth
Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure
Weedeater - Jason the Dragon

I'm sure I'm forgetting something......

Bantam Boards

I might have to get one of these!

GLOBE BANTAM from GLOBE on Vimeo.

New Banksy Piece

aw yeah!

Great Men

Check this mind blowing cover of this Gang of Four classic. Thanks for the link Dana!

White Girls on Facebook

15 Things white girls do on FaceBook, so funny.

Does Time Exist?

Complex organisms die. Sad though it is in individual cases, it’s a necessary part of the bigger picture; life pushes out the old to make way for the new. Remarkably, there exist simple scaling laws relating animal metabolism to body mass. Larger animals live longer; but they also metabolize slower, as manifested in slower heart rates. These effects cancel out, so that animals from shrews to blue whales have lifespans with just about equal number of heartbeats — about one and a half billion, if you simply must be precise. In that very real sense, all animal species experience “the same amount of time.”

heavy shit on a Wednesday morning....

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