transcendent

fever ray remixed by bassnectar. go to about 1 min in. listen to it with the bass all the way up in headphones. I'd say it feels like having liquid ecstasy dripped all over your body.

Calma animation x Karen O

Yest another reason why Calma is amazing.
A new music video from The NASA Project: "Strange Enough," featuring Karen O. of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fatlip from Pharycyde, and Ol Dirty Bastard of Wu Tang (which is reputed to be his final recorded track). Animation art by Stephan Doitschinoff aka Calma.

Blu's new stop motion wonder

a full year in the making.

doubt into hope

Herakut have long fascinated me, and the day I met Jasmin (one half of the duo) was seriously one of the better days I've ever had. She is so authentic and intelligent and genuinely talented. The cool, but sometimes even frustrating thing, is that she doesn't seem to know how amazing her and her artistry really is and so when she sent me a long email about her recent struggles with doubt and how she battled those thoughts and fears by embracing hope through her work, I was really flattered. She was so open and I could relate to much of what she had to share.
This is the new video she sent along explaining their last 6mos. Their short films always amaze me. The text, the imagery, the editing. Hera always makes me happy.

Rainbows in Rio

I finally learned more on this amazing rainbow project in Rio. "The initial idea of the Favela Painting project has always been to paint an entire hillside favela in the center of Rio, visible to all inhabitants and visitors."
I gotta see this in person some day.
www.favelapainting.com/

feels like summertime today

remember when old school hip-hop videos always featured the rappers chillin and/or dancing with a bunch of girls -- and everyone actually looked relatively normal and were friends who actually knew each other? I should have been born about a decade earlier. I would have rocked a mean crimped half-ponytail.

can't get enough

of my inspiring friend Kristin here. bad days? not here.