.
Be a tourist in your home-town. More Adventures in the Local- Friday Night Dog Walking in E5.
Hood By Air Video 08/09
street wear with a load of swagger. Somewhere between Butt magazine and the Source. check what's new with these multi-media high rollers with their ridiculous amounts of projects and the SS09 collection at
www.hoodbyair.com.
gang gang dance LIVE ft Tinchy Stryder
Tim & Barry TV Doin it again. Really liking their new found zeal for ghetto graphics.
graveyard girl
kim & jesse
After working on the first two videos for SATURDAYS=YOUTH with Matthew Frost (Graveyard Girl) and Eva Husson (Kim&Jessie), M83 is now extending an open call to fans to submit their best video interpretations of "We Own The Sky", their latest single from SATURDAYS=YOUTH.
Anyone who wants to submit an entry has until February 20, 2009 to produce a video for "We Own the Sky" and upload it onto the youtube contest page
http://www.youtube.com/group/m83
If you don't know about 'Form' 696' you better get to know, quick! In a nutshell it's a risk assesment form that the Metropolitan police and 21 London boroughs are rolling out that makes it mandatory for anyone hosting a gig or clubnight to fill out and submit or risk facing 6 months in Pentoville or a £20,000 fine. It's long and beaurocratic but worse it has faced criticism for having alterior motives to racially profile audiences.
The form urges promoters to state whether 'a particular ethnic group is attending' so that the po po can assess risk. Feargal Sharkey, the former Undertones frontman is leading the opposition as CEO of UK Music, the musicians' rights body who are against form 696. Sharkey reckons that black music is being targeted by the Met and his views are supported by other leading questions on the form: "Music style to be played/performed (eg bashment, R&B, garage)", reads one section, while another gives examples of types of musical artists as "DJs, MCs, etc".
The main problem is that the Police become the key decision makers in what musical genre is high risk, so you can guess what that means. No more decent Raves. I can't see many panpipe nights beings shut down or indie club nights. So if you wanna keep going out raving sign up to the facebook group/petition and save a slice of what makes this city special.
If Feargal don't get his way, hold tight for a new dawn of illegal raves. which means long trips to fields just outside the m25 crammed into your mates shitty little car, muddy trainers from dancing in fields and the fear of increased violence at lawless parties. so start petitioning.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42439007135
Notorious Trailer
and a random youtube comment review posted about an hour ago
cdumeohyeah says:
"This movie was byfar one of THE worst biopics I have ever had the displeasure of actually seeing. The movie was not believable for a second, WAAAAAAAAY to predictable, everyone cast in the movie did not look nor sound like whom they were supposed to (especially the fatass playing Biggie). The MC Hammer movie on VH1 made a couple of years ago was much better....THAT is how bad it was."
released in US this week, coming to UK soon. gonna watch it still
I am not a number
Actor Patrick McGoohan died earlier this week leaving behind a legacy of starring in and co-producing what was possibly one of the best Tv shows ever, The Prisoner.
For anyone who hasn't seen an episode of The Prisoner, imagine the bastard child of original Batman , 1984 and Dr Who and you are getting somewhere close. It's deep stuff and thats worth downloading.
Apparently ITV are 'reinterpreting' The Prisoner in partnership with American cable channel AMC due for air later this year. R.I.P. the free man, lets hope they do him proud.
Back2Life dvd mixtape volume one alphabetical beginnings available exclusively at GoodHood, 41 Coronet Street, London,
N1 6HD www.goodhood.co.uk
A DVD mixtape featuring Short Films, Documentaries, Music Videos, Ideas & Art, Interviews and Performances.
Original Trailer
"...a cross between Lord of the Mics, Sniffin Glue and Louis Theroux."
The Back II Life DVD Mixtape Takes you on an audio visual journey from A-Z on an adventure through the everyday, a city travel show through London Town with visuals to make your head nod. From Hype MCs to cornershop queens. From City Dwellers to Phone card Sellers, from esteemed makers to up and coming rump shakers featuring exclusive interviews, performance, Short Films and music videos by the hype and the un-hype, the famous and the invisible, the local and the international. This City called London and the Future World Beyond.
The 'sweetshop tour' happened in December 2008. 100 FREE copies were available from 3 newsagents around London on specific days.
doing it again x-mas bonanza 
'Doin' it again' trailer
got a new house
Rajah the OG stockist
Via Timeout i just found out about this project called Bling Ya Bike run by Lamonte Johnsons at Brixton St Vincent's Community Centre. You can take your bike their and have it pimped out by some local young people. Funded by the mayor of Lambeth the scheme seeks to encourage creativity through artistic expression and offers an opportunity for communities to realise their artistic potential. Young people can either have their own bikes blinged in an attempt to make them less dependent on branding and more dependent on their own expression and taste or be part of the team that fixes up the bikes thus stimulating their creative energy and encouraging participation in positive excercise.
Johnson explains: ‘I use the bikes as a medium. We deal with a lot of issues like gangs and trying to use skills in a more positive way. The bikes can be the first chance to pull the kids back.'
big up Lamonte and all the creatives working for social change on whatever scale! City Hall, town hall or church hall.
http://www.artworksdirect.org/index.htm
photo by Matt Benson
Big SALE going on at AllCaps where you can cop one of the Glens Vodka homage sweats (sick) seen modelled by Mr Mira above or a range of other cornershop/cheap liquor inspired tee's. Brings back good memories of me walking down streets pouring out half a can of coke with a bottle of the cheapest vodka at the ready on my way to the local youth club to chat up girls and play pool (panda pops in the pool table pockets to save money).
Economy steez that keeps it blighty. good work
http://www.allcapslondon.com/
yola inside by rob wonder
These guys know how to have some video fun. Zone 3 knock up some sick youtube mashups staight outta a-town and with a 3 min webisode series kicking off soon I hope they make amends to the current state of internet TV. Which is to have bags of potential to exist and excite on multi-channel platforms but up to date pathetic in its content and delivery. Did u see Kate Modern?
watch some of the trailers by going to the url below
http://www.atownstories.com/
http://www.adriansosebee.com/
Real life Princes
The original foreign prince hero
Tonight's BBC 3 show 'The Undercover Prince' is 'Coming to America' in the real. The series follows 3 princes on the quest for love in the UK; Crown Prince Manvendra, India's first openly gay royal, his Royal Highness Prince Africa Zulu from Zululand and Prince Remigius of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The three Princes will share a 2 up 2 down in Brighton, get an ordinary job, and live amongst us common peeps for the duration of their search. Sounds like a good watch, but surely wont surpass it's film inspiration.
Watch it Tonight on BBC 3 at 10.30
This is an experimental Hip Hop opera with an all star cast. Nas, Biggie, Jay-Z, Ghostface, Raekwon, Samuel Jackson, Laurence Fishburne and Delroy Lindo. It's a crime drama/coming of age tale of three ficticious characters growing up in a crime ridden city. The project explores the icon of the gangster in modern media and weaves musical history and gangster film history into an operatic music based story of brotherhood and survival. An homage to 90's New York Hip Hop, "City of Gods Son" is the redefinition of the remix featuring legendary soul singer Joe Bataan.
go learn more at www.cityofgodson.com
A government white paper on social mobility which came out yesterday revealed something we probably already knew- british education is still not the level playing field its intended to be. Infact, the report shows it is even more difficult for kids who don't come from middle or upper class families to ascend the social strata in 2009 than it was in 1997, despite the hard work put in. Long gone are the glory days of the grammar school scholarship back in the 50s, which changed the lives of generations of families to come. A whole host of new obstacles have sprung up. Today's is a grant free world of perpetual Internships, providing you have the right hook ups and know how to get them in the first place.
You only have to glance at the London Paper Party Pages at the mini Winstones and the Allens to see how the hook up works in the entertainment industry. It's no surprise that it extends across the spectrum. There's nothing you can do to prevent people using their networks for the benefit of those closest to them. It's only natural. So the governments policies to bolster the education system are welcomed, but I wonder how far this will go to turn the tide? What we really need is more make or break TV. Law Idol anyone? Surgeons Academy?
Heres a big shout out to all the self starters out there who've made their own contacts, (with a little help from some of the supporting institutions, supportive parents ) and a song from a good old working class hero, mark e smith.
Adventures in the local- Paks in Dalston High Street Hair Superstore Extraodinaire. See more here: www.flickr.com/photos/nefatron
London Short Film Festival is back with a whole host of screenings and film related events at venues accross London town all this week. To (kind of) paraphrase the good kids from 'Why Dont You?' Switch of your TV set, and go find a comfy seat in the cinema instead. Tonight's focus is 'Sound and Vision' at the Roxy, an evening with Zan Lyons, Thinksync Films and Warp Records.
http://www.shortfilms.org.uk/
Say the word Denmark and the first things that come into my mind are Lego-Land and top quality Bacon. But new year, new cultural radar. I can now add Danish art collective Superflex to my narrow word association game. Next Friday Superflex have their first ever solo London show at South London Gallery and will be following up 'Burning Car', (made in the wake of the civil unrest in Paris) with another visually captivating slice of destruction, designed to make you think. For 'Flooded McDonald's', the crew created a life-size replica of the interior of Maccy D's, only to fill it with water, hence the title. Eventually the fuses blow and the lot (staff not included) becomes submerged in what I imagine is a spectacular mess. Wait and see.
Read more about their antics and ideology here:
http://www.superflex.net/
See the show
http://www.southlondongallery.org
January 16th- 1st March
South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
Text taken from the Scotsman.
SCOTLAND takes justifiable pride in a history of invention that has given the world the telephone, television, radar, penicillin and even cloned sheep. But now there are claims that the land of Burns and bagpipes is also the ancestral home of rap music.
Academics insist that the roots of the bombastic form of spoken-word music stem from the taverns of medieval Scotland rather than the mean streets of the Bronx and Brooklyn. They claim the contemporary art of the rap battle is a direct descendant of the ancient Caledonian art of 'flyting', where feuding opponents settled scores by trading ever more elaborate insults.
According to the theory, Scottish slave owners took the tradition with them to the United States where it was adopted and developed by the slaves themselves, emerging many years later as rap. American academic Professor Ferenc Szasz is convinced there is a clear link between the robust verbal feuds of old Scotland and the rap contests of the contemporary United States.
Read Original Full Story Here http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/entertainment/Scotland-takes-the-rap-for.4825815.jp
Times are a changing, our beloved Highstreet is getting glossier by the day. Woolworthless has gone and numerous contenders line up for their turn on the chopping block. But with demise comes re-invention and none more ridiculous than Norwich Union and it's Blockbuster name change. It's positively desperate featuring a ramshackle bunch of celebrity endorsement. Bruce Willis, Dame Edna and Ringo Starr take us on a Hollywood style name change. It's beyond weird. what's next? maybe Rumblelows come back with American investors and put out an advert in-between celebrity big brother with Samuel L Jackson selling dishwashers through biblical threat to a regional families or Bradford & Bingley change their name to Brad-Bing with Brad Pitt and the gay one who married Monica on friends holding hands and skipping down the street to Bradford & Bingleys new Aerosmith penned jingle.
This bothers me greatly
