Imagine what America would be like if we have the first female leader and a black Vice? One thing I know for sure; they wouldn’t fuck up as bad as what the Bush adminstration had done for the past seven plus years. Still the Clinton-Obama possibility is quite thin. Why? Chris Rock had a halarious point on why we would never see a black VP while the President is white. Not that Rock’s view is to be taken seriously, but I still would love to see that he is wrong.
Witness Jay-Z’s improvisational skills at work through the clips showing his recording session of “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” with Timbaland and “Lucifer” with Kanye West. Like jazz musician, Jay-Z works on the spot. He doesn’t write down his rhymes. He just comes into the studio with his producer, listens to the beats, select the ones he likes, and lays down his vocals.
The new left-aligned layout is for Be Ti. Your archangelic face never fails to place a smile on my grumpy face. Thanks baby!
From Yellow-Cab driver to drug deal to sex shop to Goldman Sachs, “The Profit Calculator” breaks down how New Yorkers make their money.
A lengthy piece on Hillary Clinton’s stand on war:
So it was hardly a surprise that as Clinton took to the campaign trail, journalists and voters repeatedly tried to ask her whether her 2002 vote was a personal “mistake.” She has never said it was. Instead, she told “Good Morning America” that the vote “turned out to be a terrible decision for everyone” and on MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” she acknowledged that “those of us in the Congress” had made “a lot of mistakes.”
The logo for the London 2012 Olympic Games aims to convey “dynamic, modern and flexible.”
A short, well-executed clip on Typographics directed and animated by Boca & Ryan Uhrich.
Three iPhone’s commericals showing off its visual GUI. Very cool!
The Iceman Cometh “is a life-size platinum skull set with 8,601 high-quality diamonds. If, as expected, it sells for around $100 million this month, it will become the single most expensive piece of contemporary art ever created. Or the most outrageous piece of bling.” I wouldn’t be surprised to see a rapper sports this skull on their chest.
Charles Mungus’ “The Clown” is a mesmerizing storytelling improvisation narrated by Jean Shepherd. Here is Mingus’ own word on the piece:
I felt happy one day. I was playing a little tune on the piano that sounded happy. Then I hit a dissonance that sounded sad, and I realized that the song had to have two parts. The story as I told it to Jean Shepherd, is about a clown who tried to please people – like most jazz musicians do – but whom nobody liked until he was dead. My version of the story ended with the clown blowing his brains out, with the people laughing and finally being pleased because they thought it was part of the act. I liked the way Jean changed the ending; it leaves more up to the listener.