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The other night, artists and proud New Yorkers Jay-Z and Alicia Keys performed “Empire State Of Mind” for the Yankees and their fans at Yankee Stadium. The Official video of the track is now out and its pretty sweet. I must admit, I can never get tired of an “ode to New York” Hip-Hop Record. Also check below for the Yankee Stadium performance of the single.
Now you know that hip hop has gone LARGE when The New Yorker wants to cover your work.
Obviously, acclaimed director/actor/writer Woody Allen isn’t the normal URB.com fare, but a short story of his that was just published in the New Yorker caught our attention. In his wonderfully delightful short story that somehow skewers reincarnation and villain-du-jour Bernie Madoff, called “Tails of Manhatten,” Allen finds the cultural awareness to drop “O.M.G.” and “Clock the ice on [her]” within just a few paragraphs. While the man’s films have always trumped his fiction, this short story is a worthy read.
Read “Tails of Manhatten” here.
[Found at the Vulture]
I was talking to some of my homies the other day and most of them were talking about NBA All Star Weekend. I didn’t get a chance to catch any of the festivities cause I was out doing my thing and partying and what not but apparently, I didn’t really miss anything. I did check out the Slam Dunk Contest online and it was less than impressive, until Nate jumped over Dwight. But then, all of that got me thinking on the status of basketball now a days. The Olympic team had a SQUAD, so there was no way they shouldn’t have gotten gold. So in all actuality, they didn’t really win anything. Second, the East is on the comeback trail and Lebron’s trying to help shit the pour to our coast but he can’t seem …
The Savage Planet
Video director Timothy Saccenti plans a trip to Mars
Chances are you are already familiar with Timothy Saccenti’s work-if not from our very own glossy pages then from music videos for the likes of Peaches, Jamie Lidell, Animal collective, Battles…o yeah, and a Target commercial for the designer Rogan. Saccenti takes on an aesthetic that has been described as “baroque futurism” and is heavily influenced by Le Planete Sauvage, the ’70’s animation from Rene Laloux in which a giant alien race keeps humanoid type creatures as pets. Huh?
“The Futurists were passionate about destroying the old and creating new forms of art and that is something I can very much relate to, sans the politics,” tells former URB cover photographer turned video maverick Timothy Saccenti. ” But I also tend toward the epic and emotional, a la …
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