Remember two summers ago, when all you could listen to was Chromeo’s Fancy Footwork (yes, you– oh, c’mon, admit it)… Well, here comes Tiga‘s Ciao! to the rescue with tracks such as “Sex O’Clock”, “Luxury”, and “Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore”. Who doesn’t want to dance to the likes of Soulwax and Gonzales (best known for laying down beats for Feist)– who are all over this album. Plus this video is basically the goods (not only bc the resize makes it look dirty):
Benefit concert at Union Pool tonight. Details below…
The North Brooklyn Story Project will throw a benefit concert, on April 28, 2009, to raise funds for their oral history project. The concert will be held at Union Pool (484 Union Ave) at 8pm. Performers include The Blue Album Group, Rebecca Schiffman and The Roulettes. Suggested donation for the event is $5. The concert is being held to raise money for recording equipment that the North Brooklyn Story Project will use to document, share and store the stories of Greenpoint and Williamsburg residents.
Get more info on Going, or for more info on the performers click through the jump!
“Epic Fail”, Lolcats, and Denial of Service Attacks are all presents that have be granted to us by the lovely 4chaners. If you have never been introduced to 4Chan, then now is the time to definitely learn because Moot was just voted Time’s most influential person. And, this was no small feat. Anonymous spent many man hours hacking the website. Music Machinery has the full story.
Hasn’t the FAA ever heard of Photoshop? We know a half a dozen unemployed designers who could have pulled this off—sans building evacuations and mass panic—in 20 minutes. We’re glad to know our tax dollars are being spent wisely. Give us a holler, Mr. Caldera…. we’ll send you a few resumes.
The new Ducktails video is blowing up allover the web. It features the fun video direction of Alice Cohen (who may be better known as part of Philly’s influential underground The Vels.)
Some hep cat looking for wacky trendsetters in Williamsburg, just sent us this. From the mailbag:
WILLIAMSBURG TYPES NEEDED Do you Rock Your Own Style?
WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR THESE TYPES/LOOKS:
DJ’s
Hipsters
Musicians
LES Types
Williamsburg Types
Artists
Rockers
Dancers
Performers
Street Artist
Graffiti Types
Hip/Nerd Look
And all other super cool folks!
Impossible Casting (impossiblecasting.com) is seeking the coolest New Yorkers for upcoming paid advertising campaigns. E-mail us some pictures at submit (AT) impossiblecasting.com. About US: Impossible Casting is NY’s premier casting companies. We cast models, actors and real people for TV, Film, commercials and Print. We also find a lot of our best people right off the street.
They forgot about grifters, bearded neo-hippies, and this dude, who is definitely rocking his own style: image via
Who are the latest locals rocking their own style? We haven’t seen the above or the Goth Pilgrim in a while. Let us know in comments, and please… SEND US PIX!
For the past few months we have been compiling together our favorite funny and fucked up clips from TV, Movies, commercials, and the internet and tomorrow night we will be presenting this video. Our friend Peter O’Connell is coming up from Baltimore to do some commentary with us and he has some other treats lined up as well. If this doesnt sound like enough, we also have Hannibal Burress stopping by to do some stand up comedy.
This event is not only going to be totally hysterical, it’s doubling as a benefit for fellow publication SHOWPAPER. Be sure to pick up a free copy around the ‘hood. So be there, or else we’ll know you hate fun: 9pm @ Market Hotel, Tuesday April 28th
When I first moved to Greenpoint, there were two publications I checked out to get my bearings. The first I now write for– the second was the Williamsburg Greenpoint News & Arts. Proving that it’s never too late to go digital, the publication has just launched its new website. Here’s what they had to say:
The site features a blog covering neighborhood happenings, along with some of the stories from our monthly paper. We’d like people to still pick up the print edition when they see it, so we’ll probably be keeping a few
stories offline, at least for the first couple weeks that the paper is out. (But it’s free anyway, so we’re not asking too much, I hope.)
This and this should put the media’s sensational coverage in perspective. Turns out, we’ve dealt with this before:
On the cold afternoon of February 5, 1976, an Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike.
Within 24 hours, 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Mass., was dead, killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19, which took 500,000 American lives and 20 million worldwide.
Two weeks after the recruit’s death, health officials disclosed to America that something called “swine flu” had killed Lewis and hospitalized four of his fellow soldiers at the Army base in Burlington County.
The ominous name of the flu alone was enough to touch off civilian fear of an epidemic. And government doctors knew from tests hastily conducted at Dix after Lewis’ death that 500 soldiers had caught swine flu without falling ill.
Though the “vaccine” killed close to 50, the swine flu of 1976 ended up killing one person. [image via] Update: 1976 Swine Flu Propaganda [via]
