Archive for January, 2009
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So I doubt anybody reading this site has ever heard of rapper B.o.B. Well, here’s your introduction! This video is his take on the legendary Beatle’s song “All the Lonely People”, and he delivers an intense commentary on social interaction and the human psyche. Besides being on the cover of XXL magazine, as one of 10 to watch in 2009, B.o.B is headlining a viral revolution that facilitates artists to release dozens of songs and videos each month–online. The future of rap, and music altogether, exists within this medium, and those who sleep with get left behind. Oh, and for a little shameless self-promotion…I’ll be interviewing B.o.B this Thursday, so be on the lookout for the print version at www.thacartercartel.com 
Will Levin of Jewish Robot did this video making fun of Obama stumbling his lines on inauguration day. Pretty funny, but I would’ve liked the vulgarity to be about 10-times what it actually was. 
Jesse Epstein did this quite funny video featuring who else but the Obama action figure?!? The pseudo-doc follows him around the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, which took place in Park City, Utah over the past two weeks. Check it out as mini Obama runs into Robert Redford, a fake Zack Braff, and even Stephen Soderbergh, who had the audacity to admit he didn’t vote for him! Thanks to Jesse and Natalie Difford for putting this together.
Ben Hamburger is a student at Eckerd College and an up-and-coming artist who specializes in oil painting. This is a series he completed on various media theories. The first is the cathartic theory which suggests media violence contributes to real life violence but does not trigger it; the second is the hypodermic needle theory which says media messages are directly injected into the brain; and three is the desensitizing theory which suggests people are becoming hardened by media messages. For more information on Ben Hamburger, or to buy one of his paintings, please contact hamburbk@eckerd.edu. 
This is the kind of progressive shit that makes art an unbelievable outlet for all types of creation. I liken this sort of avant-garde art form to the work of revolutionaries Keith Herring, Shepard Fairey, and even Bansky. Start with an idea, develop your passion, love, live life, proceed, progress.
Sorry if I’m beating this whole Obama T-shirt thing to death but I think this one with the man himself and MLK is real nice. By clothing brand FRESHNES. The New York Times did a fantastic photo-journalism expose on people around the world watching and reacting to Obama’s inauguration. Here are some of the more pogniant photos. Kisumu, Kenya
Lima, Peru
Sadr City, Iraq
Kogelo, Kenya
I don’t know who did this, or why, but it’s really scary. Morphing the old and the new into a middle photo that could tear the soul out of the happiest baby in the world. Hey! Enjoy!
It seems like Shepard Fairey is everywhere. His popular clothing company Obey has revealed this really nice Obama tee. Head over to Karmaloop.com and pick one up!
Ron English and crew threw up this billboard in Los Angeles earlier this week. I don’t know if everyone has seen his poster amalgamation of Barack and Abraham Lincoln but it’s pretty sweet! Both Jason and I have framed versions hanging in the crib.
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