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Kraak & Smaak is a DJ/producing trio hailing from the Dutch city of Leiden.
Contrary to popular belief, Kraak & Smaak did not choose its name to phonetically resemble the words crack and smack. Kraak & Smaak comes from a Dutch proverb which means crunchy and tasty. The actual proverb is ‘kraak noch smaak’, which means if something has neither crunch nor taste, it’s like it’s nothing. They changed that around and made it sound more positive.
Fun video! Thanks Jen!
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AFGHAN RAIDERS

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AFGHAN RAIDERS are Mikey and Beans from Las Vegas, Nevada. Neither one of the electronic duo is Afghan nor do they raid, however, these generally peaceful guys have been electrifying dance floors with their infectious riffs and outrageous stage antics, which include showering the audience with gold balloons and bringing hardcore headbanging to dance music.

DOWNLOAD A FREE TRACK HERE

CHADWICK TAYLOR

I find the fashion photography business presently rather boring. No one really wants to put their pants on, as it were. There are so many people playing red rover it is repulsive. There are a few people doing good, new, original work, but the majority just regurgitate shit. It is like putting your ass on a copy machine, and then 14 people making that same copy of their ass right behind you, each one slightly different from the last. At the end, you have an original photocopy of an ass with 14 assholes in the rear view.

Read his deathbed interview

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great stop motion video! Bff! - The wolfee has a tail! haha. Wow. I don't know the last time I've laughed that hard when you were explaining your 'tail theory' :) Ruv yoU!

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Nigel Evan Dennis (A.K.A. Electric Heat) just released his first video Friday for their upcoming EP entitled, ‘Ice Cream Bones’. Great music, great design, great art. Everything's just great. He created the video himself and from what I can tell also did the album cover. amaazing.

More of ‘A Lull’ here and also download a copy of the track ‘Skinny Fingers’.
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MARCUS OHLSSON

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Photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant Discuss The 25th Anniversary Of Subway Art

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Don't die in Mexico boyfriend!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(
CLICK: doihaveswineflu.org

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Incredible photography from the Celebration of Colors, by Poras Chaudhary. The event, also known as Holi, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and countries with large Hindu diaspora. More of Poras’ images here.
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Here’s a quick demo that FAT’s [Theo Watson] put together. It uses the iPod’s accelerometer to measure how fast it’s spinning and plays the sound file accordingly. This only works on the iPod touch 2nd gen because of its curved case. He says scratching is coming next, but currently the app doesn’t know which direction it’s spinning since it’s measuring outward force.
Need this for the iPhone. :)
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THE SOUNDS

It's been a while since we'd heard from The Sounds but these days, the Swede rockers are red hot and suddenly seemingly everywhere. Their third album Crossing The Rubicon, in which they collaborated with Mark Saunders, James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins, Tinted Windows) and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne, Tinted Windows), is out on June 2nd. Their solo tour dates in the US are already mostly sold out. Did we mention later this summer they are opening for No Doubt? Right. So before they become a household name, here's a track to appreciate; "Dorchester Hotel" leads with Maja Ivarsson's intent, sexpot voice, angelic guitar plucks, and drilling drum progression before launching into a powerpop chorus.

DOWNLOAD 'DORCHESTER HOTEL' FREE HERE!!

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The Knife is a swedish electronic duo formed in 1999. The band consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer - who also run their own record company, Rabid Records.

One of the group’s distinguishing characteristics is their unwillingness to cooperate with the media or the mainstream music scene. The group rarely makes public appearances, most of their promotional photos feature the members wearing masks, and until recently, they outright refused to perform live concerts. Recently the group has showed themselves in public wearing masks formed as bird’s beaks, similar to those used by medieval doctors.

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ESQUIRE

If the fusion of video cameras and dSLRs hadn't blurred enough before, Esquire shot their June issue cover of Megan Fox in video—a purported first in the magazine world.

Rather than click and endless series of stills, photographer Greg Williams shot the cover with the 4K Red ONE video camera. Fox essentially acted out a scene for 10 minutes, the best moment of which will appear on the June 2009 cover. (Not to be wasteful of Megan Fox footage, the video will also be uploaded to Esquire's site, of course.)

It's fascinating that as digital cameras evolve, so will the roles of photographers, models and publications. I can't see traditional photography ever dying, but whether photos will always be captured in photographs is another question. [Esquire]

You can see the finished product in video on May 4 at esquire.com/megan and in pictures beginning May 10 at newsstands everywhere.

View the Moving Cover HERE.

GREG WILLIAMS

Greg's photographic style merges reportage together with cinematic lighting and composition. He began his career as a photojournalist, embedding himself in countries such as Chechnya and Sierra Leone throughout the 1990s. And then he switched to something a little less daunting: film sets. It was on those sets, capturing behind-the-scenes shots for entertainment magazines, that Williams came to appreciate cinematic lighting, an aesthetic he took with him when he decided to focus on portraiture. Because Williams wants his still images to look like movie scenes, it was a natural shift to filming with the Red, which he's been doing for a little more than a year

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