shield your eyes

Kulawy and Ober’s clean-cut appearance was crucial to HBO’s initial decision to reach out to Magrudergrind, because the original idea was to write them into the show as bit parts. “The whole idea is that RJ and myself are colleagues that work on Capitol Hill,” Kulawy says. “We’re in this super high-level position within the government, and it’s real stressful.” So to blow off steam after work, the pair rip things up as part of a grindcore band. Kulawy and Ober might have even had some lines had the original concept worked out, but “they flew that idea out the window.”

Ingrid Dabringer has shifted her interest from maps to x-rays in her recent work with some really intriguing results.

Dabringer on her work:

Body of Work is a presentation of colourfully illustrated X-rays presented on hospital imaging light-boards. As an artist I am continuously interested in the tools of humanity. Through the use of X-rays, shapes are created through the imaging and flattening of the human body. An entire alternate reality emerges through how humanity sees itself and the structures it uses for self-analysis.

Human tools define our civilization’s values, progress and intentions. By using X-rays I am able to quite literally comment on how we see ourselves. Importantly, it’s also how we see ourselves when the “chips are down,” when we’re vulnerable. North Americans are systematically taught to look for answers outside of themselves; to trust empirical evidence over intuition. Yet with x-rays it comes full circle in that we go outside of ourselves to look inside ourselves. And, although the natural organic lines and forms of anatomy are lyrical and soothing, they also speak to our human fragility…

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staceythinx:

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annicka:

watch this video of drake joining the weeknd in LA to perform Crew Love (for the first time ever). amaaaaaaaaaazing. drake surprises at 1:15 or so (h/t).

for reals, though, i am in love with this video. 

definite-choice:

thecavebear:

MCA playing bass for the Cro-Mags.

1964 - infinity and beyond.

shit yeah

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“If you talk of public service and the public interest, one of two things will happen. They will either call someone to take you off to a mental institution or they will accuse you of smoking something very expensive.”

bell hooks, All About Love

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“As part of the Coral Reef curriculum he also performed community service, spending time working at Samoa Victim Support Group, a center for survivors of sexual abuse, including children.

‘That was a pivotal moment,’ he said one afternoon at Bristol Farms, a supermarket near his manager’s office. One of the things Earl Sweatshirt had been prized for as a rapper was his extreme imagery, bordering on vile. ‘You can detach imagery from words,’ he said, adding that he ‘never actually pictured’ the things he rapped about. (‘Lyrics About Rape, Coke, And Couches Will Be Blaring In Your Ears,’ was how ‘Earl,’ the album, was advertised on Odd Future’s Tumblr when it was released in March 2010.)

By the time he began working at the center, ‘I had already come to the conclusion that I was done talking about’ that sort of subject matter, he said, but coming face to face with young people who had suffered in that way was overwhelming. ‘There’s nothing that you can — there’s no — you can’t evade the — there’s no defense for like — if you have any ounce of humanity,’ he said, the feeling swallowing the words.”

Earl Sweatshirt is back from the wilderness

“81,542 people have died of AIDS in New York City as of August 16, 2008. These people, our friends, are rarely mentioned. Their absence is not computed and the meaning of their loss is not considered.

2,752 people died in New York City on 9/11. These human beings have been highly individuated. The recognition of their loss and suffering is a national ritual, and the consequences of their aborted potential are assessed annually in public. They have been commemorated with memorials, organized international gestures, plaques on many fire and police stations, and a proposed new construction on the site of the World Trade Center, all designed to make their memory permanent. Money has been paid to some of their survivors. Their deaths were avenged with a brutal, bloody, and unjustified war against Iraq that has now caused at least 94,000 civilian deaths and 4,144 military deaths.

The deaths of these 81,542 New Yorkers, who were despised and abandoned, who did not have rights or representation, who died because of the neglect of their government and families, has been ignored. This gaping hole of silence has been filled by the deaths of 2,752 people murdered by outside forces. The disallowed grief of twenty years of AIDS deaths was replaced by ritualized and institutionalized mourning of the acceptable dead. In this way, 9/11 is the gentrification of AIDS. The replacement of deaths that don’t matter with deaths that do. It is the centerpiece of supremacy ideology, the idea that one person’s life is more important than another’s. That one person deserves rights that another person does not deserve. That one person deserves representation that the other cannot be allowed to access. That one person’s death is negligible if he or she was poor, a person of color, a homosexual living in a state of oppositional sexual disobedience, while another death matters because that person was a trader, cop, or office worker presumed to be performing the job of Capital.”

- Sarah Schulman in The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

Chavez all day.

bublog:

Sup it’s me BUB. GUESS WHAT. Today is the last day to win a photo date with me. My dude is auctioning a 2 hour hang time/professional photo shoot with me to raise money for our dear friends whose newborn son had to have multiple heart surgeries. They are the sweetest people and they deserve all the support they can get. Plus I want to hang out with you!

Obviously, you’ll want to bid on this.

START-UP MILESTONE: We have our very own liquor-book shelf. Who is coming over?

Refused played a secret show at the Acheron last night. Was lucky enough to get a heads up right after the Terminal 5 show and be one of the 200 ppl there. Was murdered when they played “Rather Be Dead.”

Big news! Who is going to help us design our Safe Slope punk vests? But for real, if you are interested in being a volunteer in our Safe Walk program, email safeslope@gmail.com.

White Lung at 538 Johnson. They sounded amazing this weekend. I can’t wait for the new album.