Is Your Webcam Spying On You?

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By: Nate Anderson & The Young Turks

“See! That shit keeps popping up on my fucking computer!” says a blond woman as she leans back on a couch, bottle-feeding a baby on her lap.

The woman is [read full article]

Russia’s Rich Hiring Luxurious ‘Ambulance-Taxis’ To Beat Moscow’s Traffic Jams

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By:Tom Parfitt

Police in Moscow are to carry out checks on ambulances after reports that emergency vehicles have been fitted with [read full article]

Listen Global, Act Local & Los Rakas

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Article by: Mamba

Video by: Mamba

Photos by: Mamba

On Friday, March 15 at Noon, I made my way to the east side of Austin, TX to attend this event called [read full article]

Beatsofreen – Coloured Dreams

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By: Mamba

Delving deep into the Dutch beat landscape, is an artist who goes by the name of Beatsofreen. He hails from Utrecht, and his new EP ” [read full article]

House Shoes Presents : “DREAMS – B.I.G. Re:Imagined”

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By: Mamba

On March 9th, music producer / DJ, House Shoes sent all of his producer friends around the globe some Biggie Smalls Acapellas for them to remix. Lo and be behold, the result came out extraordinary! Below is the result :) [read full article]

Jay Shells Drops “Rap Quotes,” His Most Site-Specific Street Art Project Yet

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By: Aymann Ismail

After schooling New Yorkers on etiquette via numerous unsanctioned interventions, artist Jay Shells channeled his love of [read full article]

The Beat Junkies Had a Scratch Cypher & Diamond D Showed Off His Stripes

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Photos by: Mamba

Video by: Mamba

West Coast Legends The Beat Junkies make their way to SXSW to put on a top notch DJ Show. Accompanying them was DJ Expo and House Shoes who are also Los Angles resident DJ’s. The event kicked off [read full article]

Stones Throw Records Sets The Stage a Blazin’ @ Red 7

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Article by: Mamba

Video by: Mamba

Photos by: Mamba

Stones Throw Records made an appearance again this year at SXSW, and this time they collaborated with Forcefield records. The event kicked off on [read full article]

Justin Timberlake – Suit & Tie (ft. Jay Z) (Ta-ku Remix)

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By: Mamba

Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z made a smashing hit this past valentines day titled - “Suit and Tie”. The track is basically a mix between [read full article]

ReCREATE : ATX | ALL DAY LIVE ART @ SX 2013 (recap)

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Article by: Mamba

Photos by: Mamba &  Grimnasty

On the third official day of SXSW, HOPE Campaign & Empty Kingdom put together a spectacular all day graffiti event titled ReCREATE : ATX. The event consisted of [read full article]

Learn How To Be An MC from Del The Funky Homospaien

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By: Mamba

Del The Funky Homospaien – The founder of Hieroglyphics out of Oakland, Ca took the time out of his busy schedule to teach the world how to MC. In this tutorial Del goes in depth about [read full article]

This Is The Modem World: The Dark Side of Google Glass….

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By: Joshua Fruhlinger

I want to be excited about Google Glass — I really do. I saw Robocop as a kid and dreamed that, one day, I too could walk around with a HUD that would feed me information on call, receive messages and record the world around me.

But now that years have passed and I’ve witnessed [read full article]

Erykah Badu – Back In The Day (Puff) remix by: Sista’ Stroke of Brick City House (THROWBACK)

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By: Mamba

Back in September 2003 the multi – genre and talented Erykah Badu released an album titled – Worldwide Underground. On that project she made a hot single titled – “Back in the Day (Puff)”, which reached number 62 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Three years later [read full article]

The History Of Water Torture

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By: A & W

In its broadest sense, water torture simply relates to a wide array of techniques that incorporate torture while using water. Torture is defined by [read full article]

The Harlem Shake Is Not Being Represented Properly

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By: Mamba

It’s a flash mob full of a bunch of white people that use the word ‘ghetto’ as an adjective doing a dance that they poorly-appropriated from hip hop culture, but they don’t even do the dance, they just jump around like idiots, and middle America eats it up with a trend-spoon for the next two, maybe three weeks, tops.

- Heather Day Burt

 

Certain ppl like taking the names of things created in the hood & making them “user friendly”.

- Buddrow von Leezington

 

How come nobody is doing the old harlem shake? How you just gonna take the name of a previous dance and put it to another dance?

-Burt Lancaster

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This 1922 Kodachrome Test Footage is Strangely Bewitching

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By: Joan Neuberger

This clip is a very early, full-color Kodachrome film made by Kodak in 1922 to test new film stock and color processing. It is a lovely [read full article]

DJ SUN Releases His New Album Titled – “100″

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Article by: Mamba

DJ Sun out of Houston, TX has been in the DJ and electronic music scene for 20 years, and has done a radio show for 18 years on 90.1 kpft and counting. When I first hit the scene in 2004, Sun’s name was already well established. I remember attending events two to three times a week, and I would always see DJ Sun spin at the following venues and restaurants [read full article]

Rippy Austin presents: Patiently Waiting

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I just wanna be free in this crooked world where cash rules. All that’s irrelevant, music is what I be. – Rippy Austin

By: Mamba

Rippy Austin reigns out of Sunnyvale, CA, and is a producer, singer and an mc. This whole project titled – “patiently waiting” , feels like [read full article]

Adventurous Woman To Give Birth To … A Neanderthal Baby?

By: Alan Boyle

Pioneering Harvard geneticist George Church suggests that the day is coming when we’ll want to reverse-engineer the Neanderthal genome and pass the now-extinct creatures’ advantages to our own progeny. All that’s needed would be an “extremely adventurous female human” to serve as a surrogate mother.

During an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Church was asked whether [read full article]

Do ‘The Good Rich’ Exist?

By: Hamilton Nolan

We live in a world in which wealth is distributed in a wildly unequal way. A tiny few have billions of dollars, while many more have nothing. Though the reactions to this persistent and growing state of inequality span the ideological spectrum, it’s fair to say that most people [read full article]