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I’ve done a little research, got the official koan magnifying glass out, super sleuthed and…. it turns out that this isn’t a brilliantly produced piss take by a think tank of comedy masterminds at the apogee of thier creative genius. No,  this is infact SERIOUS, its all 100% genuine, from the beat boxing soundtrack to the phrase “graffiti revolution” and then all the way to the “FRESHHHHHH freshhhhhh freshhhhh” part at the end, all real.

just picked up a new copy of this book by Cedar Lewisohn,
It’s a nice book, that has a lot of reading and some nice older pics.
seems pretty comprehensive.
Cedar has been working at Tate Modern Gallery for 2 years putting this book together.
it’s well resourced and he’s been in touch with some great names, old and new

i got to meet him last year and help him get in touch with some dudes.
keep an eye out for melbourne’s very own ‘crate man’ team
neat

also:
this is totally worth a read :

Mostly true by Bill Daniels
if you can find a copy.
great stories about origins of graffiti, freight trains from 1890’s -1980’s
nice layout etc, 
contributions form Barry McGee and Meta
only $12AU

 

oh and

Daruis and Downey
great first perspective wrting
great sense of humour
if you purchase it from wooster – you get a great dvd documentary to go with it

Michael Phelps looks like Telly from Kids.

This was spotted in Scotland, no points for placement.

If Ben Totty fron D’nuts was a 7:13 minute piece of video….

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Douglas Haddow posted an essay on the Ad Buster site, dramatically titled : Hipsters : The Dead End of Western Civilization. He seems to be making the point that commercially packaged counter culture for middle class kids is something new, it ain’t. Outside of that and the cranky overtones its a summary of the cliches and foibles of these wacky kids is causing some amount of controversy on both sides of the fence and is worth reading.

thanks Kano

Recently was wondering what happened to DontBelieveTheHypeBeast and did a search, turns out the blog is apparently still going in the form of satchelofgravel.com.

Since the sites first incarnation, street wear in general has reached a critical state of self recognized embarrassment, crapping itself in public and being more for plebs than ever before.

In fact even the most deluded tubby white boys secretly realizing how wak they look in micky based designs, rap lyrics, bubble shoes and flimsy Supreme caps, so you’d think that the blogs humor would loose its poignancy in the face of obviousness in the subject matter.

Think again, it’s still great. And whats more the above mentioned satirical drought has caused them to compliment the content by pointing the same wit on flicks and music, resulting in awesomeness.

And here i was thinking i was alone in my disdain for mediocre ‘acts’ like Cool Kids, Kayne, MIA and the host of other trendziod hip-hopsters who produce banal music of no value outside of giving uncultivated audiences a banner to huddle under; and bang, this comes along and i feel revived.  Again, its a great blog.

Check it out. www.satchelofgravel.com

With the Apples master stroke of ubiquitous computing, the Iphone, set to destroy humanity once and for all with a release later this week here’s a list some 3rd party apps.

MXtube
can download youtube vids to your phone to watch offline.

Iflickr
Put your photos straight onto flickr- there is other programs that do this but this one is the best.

Snapture
Replace your camera with this-it has a few things like zoom and it’s easier to take pics b/c you can hit anyware on the screen to shoot.

Flashlight
you would be amazing how many times that has come in handy- you can even use it as a mini light box.

Icopter 
Dumb simple game – highly addictive.

Pocket touch  
change songs in your pocket

Touchpad pro
lets you use your iphone as a mobile touch mouse pad for your mac. really useful.

And of course the NES and GENESIS emulators.

Enjoy, thanks Rone.

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