Mar16

Western Digital, LaCie Hard Drives Merge Form and Function


Photo Credit: Western Digital

The days of clumsy, oversized external hard drives have come to an end. Once nothing more than desktop drives packed into office-standard casings, portable drives have matured into quiet, sleek and (dare I say?) sexy accessories. A necessary storage device in today’s information overload/hoarder culture, manufacturers know there’s nothing inherently cool about portable drives; this underlying fact presses them to offer innovative features, enhanced functionalities and improved aesthetics to entice consumers who are looking to protect their data. Of all of the companies in the portable drive game, Western Digital is the one to beat.

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Mar10

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s New Film and Footage – The Radiant Child (Video)

Jean-Michel’s rise and fall has to be categorized as one of the greatest and worst points of the 1980’s.  Had he continued on in his life and career he would have surely been been America’s first and most prominent black artist.  But he didn’t and SAMO is gone forever left only to live on in the few photos and moving images that we have of him.  Thankfully there are people like Tamra Davis to remind us.

Tamra was a close friend of Jean’s and had been compiling footage of the artist at the time of his death.  What she amassed on the celluloid were interviews, rarities, and behind the scenes peeks into Jean-Michel Basquiat’s life.  When he died she put them all away, no one ever saw the footage.  Fast forward 20 years and she finally decided …

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Mar09

U-N-I “A Love Surpeme 2.0″ Documentary & Release Party 3.9.2010 (Video)

U-N-I record release party tonight @ the Blue Monkey in Hollywood. Maybe you live under a rock but the video for “Hollywood Hiatus” goes in. The shows I’ve seen them do at SXSW last year and the Viper Room in Hollywood with Big Pooh and Joe Scudda were no joke. Come out tonight and see it all live.

5521 Hollywood Blvd blue monkey hollywood

A Love Supreme: U-N-I & Ro Blvd. – The Documentary (Teaser) from DRG Films on Vimeo.
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 http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-love-supreme-2-0/id353609541

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http://www.amazon.com/Love-Supreme-2-0-Bonus-DVD/dp/B0034KOUWM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1268081084&sr=1-1


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Mar09

MURS debuts “Fornever” at Listening Party

There hangs an exquisite watercolor painting of boxer Mike Tyson in his prime. He is draped in championship belts, that menacing look in his eyes, the signature gold tooth barely visible beneath his steely profile. The greens, reds, yellows, and blues give life to the portrait against the whitewashed wall. It is a sharp, if not overly self-evident, reminder that champions are not made overnight. In the adjacent room hangs similar paintings—one of all-star San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and another of Hall-of-Fame linebacker Lawrence “LT” Taylor. A boxing ring sits center floor. The crowd of neon du jour twenty-somethings eagerly awaits the arrival of their champion. He is late.

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Mar09

Respect 11 Year Anniversary Featuring DJ Rap

It’s hard to imagine doing anything for 11 years straight.  Especially when considering the club scene in Los Angeles, where promoters sink or swim, genres live or die and venues change their names regularly just to attract new audiences.  Yet somehow the Junglist Platoon crew has managed to perservere, cooking up a successful recipe for their drum and bass night, RESPECT, which has managed to feed fans a weekly feast of jungle music since they first opened its doors in 1999. Age ain’t nuthin but a number to these guys, who have pulled in packed houses for years, establishing RESPECT not only as a staple within the LA underground music scene, but also as a leader in the U.S. dnb movement.  RESPECT has powered new talent to the surface while also headlining legendary forefathers–including everyone from Roni Size to Shy FX to Pendulum–who have all flown in from across the globe to rock out at the event.

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Mar09

Remembering BIGGIE (and Tupac) with Full Documentary Stream (Video)

There is certainly a much-deserved outpouring of commemorative stories today for the one and only B.I.G., and this is a full stream of the 2002 documentary investigating his and Tupac’s deaths.

“In 1997, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G.) were gunned down in separate incidents, the apparent victims of hip hop’s infamous east-west rivalry. Nick Broomfield’s film, Biggie & Tupac introduces Russell Poole, an ex-cop with damning evidence that suggests the LAPD deliberately fumbled the case to conceal connections between the police, LA gangs and Death Row Records, the label run by feared rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight.”

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