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Kanye West’s enthusiasm for the design of high end toys has rather overshadowed his predecessor Pharrell William’s almost Warholian zeal for the brightly coloured, cartoonish and iconic. Predating Kanye’s Takashi Murakami collaborations, Pharrell’s work with Nigo for his Bathing Ape imprint pushed the mainstram rap world’s patronage of brightly coloured, blocky cartoon animas. Pharrell went [...]

The magnificently quotable Kanye West delivered some rather interesting insight into the psychology behind the latest wave of style blogs such as jjjjound in his recent interview for the OMM
While one should have no illusion that for a great many of these blogs, the appeal is the prospects of “monetising” or at least getting some [...]

I have long been a fan of the Vocoder, and the Talkbox, but it was not until seeing this rather wonderful clip via Boing Boing of Pete Drake using perhaps the first scratch built Talk box with pedal guitar that I had ever considered the difference between the two.

There are some wonderful collective endevours and advancements to be made through efficient social networking- “crowdsourcing” applications, like Mechanical Turk, have minaturised the units of economic exchange of work for income to mere button presses. The community shares the load of dull, unedifying activity, rather than allocate it to a serf class, and shares in [...]