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Rap 1.0: A History of the Early Hip Hop Internet | Red Bull Music Academy
If you’ve ever wondered what rap blogs’ Usenet ancestors looked like, I would heartily recommend Noz’s latest achievement in the field of hip-hop nerd archeology.
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OPEN CALL: PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE/EYEBEAM RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2013 | eyebeam.org
My former colleagues at Public Knowledge are partnering with Eyebeam to offer a really unique residency for an artist with an interest in technology policy. Spend two weeks taking a crash course in policy at the PK office in D.C. and then spend 5 months at Eyebeam in NYC working on a piece that addresses an issue of your choosing. Applications are being accepted until June 28th.
All you snitches, based freestyle
Because I’m the only vet that’s a Based God spittin
Staying based till I die, I keep lighting the flame
Welcome to Based World, I stay with a Based Girl
Young based god bought my bitch new watches
Based Poetry, still going strong.
http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis/audience.html
I’m presenting my master’s thesis at NYU ITP today at 6pm EST. Watch me talk about the history and evolution of online messageboards via the livestream link above.
rickwebb's tumblrmajig: RIP, Photoshop Pirating
I have a confession: when I was a child, I pirated software. I began pirating Photoshop from version 2.0, 1991 or so, on. I would use those bit-by-bit binary disk duplicating apps, with two 3.5” floppy drives attached to a Mac. I never read a manual. I taught myself Photoshop by patiently going…
A great personal anecdote of how the kid raised on pirated copies of Photoshop grows up to be the adult who purchases hundreds of thousands of dollars of software from Adobe. I have a legit copy of CS3 that I’ll be holding on to for many of the same reasons outlined in Rick’s post. You can pry it from my cold, dead mousing hand, Adobe.
Looks like “Invader, Invader,” the latest Kyary Pamyu Pamyu single, just dropped. Digging all the weird circuit-bent tones overlaid on top of the chirping chiptune synths, not so sure about the superflous dubstep breakdown. Undeniably catchy nonetheless. Plus, the video is straight up outer space candy.
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IMPORTANT NEWS: Lil B is into Based Poetry, is a big fan of caps lock and is on Tumblr every day, just like us.
My dude Alex gave me an incredible gift: a bootleg book of Simpsons screencaps, compiled by a French graphic designer and printed by a small publisher in Zürich.
This is My Jam.
“Digital Trends caught up with Jayasuriya and asked what inspired him to created Based Poetry. “First off, I’m a huge fan of the Based God, so there’s that. I did find that the sort of surreal, impressionistic slant to his lyrics plays really well with this kind of recontextualizing – pretty much all of the randomly-generated poems feel like they ‘work’ in a way, which is satisfying. And then there’s the word ‘based,’ which is so malleable that it can mean just about anything–that’s the glue that really holds these poems together, I think.”
Rap star Lil B gets remixed into poetry on Tumblr by a bot | Digital Trends
Digital Trends wrote a piece about Based Poetry.
