I’m leaving London. Going to be working across the Atlantic in NYC for a year. I wish – hol’ tight for YiNYC.
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Beautiful, came across this a few weeks back through Y&Y friend Olan. Photographer Matt Gillespie visited New York for the very first time and has managed to capture the essence of the city in these magnificent set of photographs. They’re so vibrant and delightful to look at – he’s photographed everything from people, architecture, taxi’s and even a little tilt shift technique. Serious dopeness, have a gander after the cut.
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I’ve been sitting on this video for the past few days, why? I wasn’t sure if I would do the video any justice with my words. It’s one of them videos that will leave you speechless, both visually and audibly mind blowing. Spoken word has been around for yonkers but to me it feels like 2011 has been the year that it’s real emerged into the mainstream spotlight. Striver’s Row is a collective of talented NYC-based spoken word artists including college junior Miles Hodges, who recites his poem ‘Harlem‘ in this video. It’s a tribute to the NYC district – every word that comes out of his mouth is a bullet, powerful. The visuals by the exceptionally talented Andre Wagner of AbstractElements is equally as good. Watch it on the reverse, you won’t regret it.
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Dayum! another amazing Flickr find. Meet Simon Gardiner, a Lancashire based photographer who primarily focuses on reportage/documentary and sports photography. However his individual work is what I’m going to feature. He’s captured some incredible architecture and inner city scenes like the one above which uses the vortograph technique, an abstract form of photography that utilises kaleidoscope repetitions by photographing objects through triangular arrangement of three mirrors. The rest of his photographs aren’t quite as crazy and Inception-esque. He describes his passion for street photography “I like shooting streets, the streets are full of life with a story behind every street photo. The photographer captures the scene and the viewer discovers and interprets the story behind the shot.”. That’s exactly what he’s done in the following shots after the cut, have a gander! certainly inspired me to explore a new style of photography.
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Harlem rapper, Ema the Kid talks about his frustration with modern media influences on women and their desire for plastic enhancements, to which he likens to a heroin addiction, over this Selasse produced beat. Interesting concept. I haven’t heard of a rapper speak specifically about this subject on a song for a while, and with the likes of women like Kelly Rowland discussing theiar body battles & plastic surgery in the press recently….Ema the Kid’s chosen subject is very topical. Hit the jump to check out this visual offering beautifully filmed by On.CutFilms.
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I met eXquire at the Fool’s Gold afterparty in New York. Amongst the rappers, music industry socialites and booty clapping strippers there stood a charismatic, 6″4 26-year old sporting an impressive array of necklaces and a huge smile. No Jesus piece or facade in sight, I was instantly intrigued by this guy. Later my friend introduced me to him. Exquire, a rapper from Brooklyn, New York who my girl (a Hip Hop dj and good friend who’s opinion I trust) told me had a Biggie Smalls vibe about him. Say what? Some Youtube searches and a mixtape download later, and here I am bumping eXquire’s debut mixtape, Lost in Translation, singing along to an array of comical, narrative, alcohol-induced and somewhat colourful choruses. Here I pick my favourite tracks from eXquire’s mixtape, be warned…this is most certainly explicit content.
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I would love to give you guys a breakdown of the episode but I haven’t actually had time to watch it myself. Rushing to get ready for work and not looking forward to the sauna-esque commute on the Central Line. In fact, I’ve started going in a little later than I used to but can’t do that today with the Monday morning meeting. Right I’m off to try and make it in London, hop on after the cut to see a few statesiders do the same in New York.
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