Man this summer is flying by and I’ve never been more busy in my entire life. I saw that new Lil’ Mama video with T-Pain where she is either paying tribute to or blatantly ripping off the neon-safari scene from this CLASSIC Busta video.
There really is no one else quite like him in hip-hop or music in general. Unless of course, George Clinton, Buju Banton and KRS-One conceived a baby together. Also I’m kind of bummed he chopped off his dreads.
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Bounce Bounce
My 30 minute mix from May 11th’s edition of Revolutions on WERS 88.9 FM, Boston.
1. Alias “Hot Feet”
2. Egor Boss “Superfreak” (Miles Dyson Remix)
3. Beastie Boys “Sabotage” (DJ Kue’s OMG Remix)
4. Michael Jackson “Thriller” (Laidback Luke Bootleg)
5. Armand Van Helden “You Don’t Know Me” (GRUM Remix)
Get it here.
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Last week facebook announced the (un)anticipated new site layout that they had been kinda-sorta-maybe hinting at for the past few months (i.e. “change is coming…”). The “future” of the profile? Doesn’t get more apocalyptic than that does it?
Well, when Mark Slee, Product Manager for Profile changes (what a job!), linked to screen shots of the new tab-based site, the Facebook Profile Previews page and the accompanying video in his blog post, the greater majority of the facebook community lashed out once again. As we’ve seen, it’s perfectly predictable and healthy obsessive compulsive behavior on the part of facebook’s members.
But will this be worse than the day the News Feed came into existence?
Possibly.
Will you wake up with dozens of invites to join groups called “1,000,000 People Against Tabs”, “Boycott Facebook” or “New Facebook=SATAN”?
Count on it.
Your thoughts?
-Will
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Tags: college, Facebook, Millenials, news feed, Our American Shelf Life, platform development, profiles, Social Media, students, web 2.0
Rockport’s Washable Shoes
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Political Spaceship Mix
My 30 minute live mix from last night’s edition of Revolutions. Click here to take off!
1. House Music United “Yes We Can”
2. Kaskade “4 AM” (Adam K & Soha Mix)
3. Adam K & Soha “Long Distance”
4. Superbass & Tom Novy “Rocketman” (Paul Harris Mix)
5. Pryda “Pjanoo” (Robbie Nips and Boy Nunzi Mix)
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The Gossip on MTV
I’m loving MTV’s new Buzzworthy/Artist of the Week promos featuring Portland’s The Gossip. Even though, the buzz has been “worthy” for over a year now. If you can, check out the video where lead singer Beth Ditto explains how those of us born between ’80-86 who are musically active are successful products of the Michael Jackson musical revolution. I knew listening to Thriller on repeat as a three year old would pay off. My favorite The Gossip remix (done by Soulwax) below.
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People I May Not Want to Know…
I know this feature has been available on Facebook in the friend finder for quite sometime, but I really hate that it now permanently lives on my welcome page. There’s enough things to worry about on there, like birthdays, events and hilarious status updates.
It’s no coincidence that the people showing up in this window are people I’m not friends with for a reason. Take a hint, Zuckerberg!
ZING!
Photo courtesy of insidefacebook.com
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She’s got MySpace Angles
Alright, I’ll admit it. I once fell victim to the dreaded “MySpace angle”. If you’ve never heard of this cruel digital deception, you can thank me later.
The term is defined by urban dictionary as “Pictures which were specifically taken and uploaded to fool the Myspace community into believing you are more attractive then you actually appear.”
As an incoming freshman in college, my class was at the mercy of Emerson’s IT department until they decided to send us a piece of snail mail with our official .edu email addresses. So, unlike current high school seniors, Facebook was a rite of passage, not a matter a choice. This lead all of us to be extremely active on MySpace, where we formed some of our initial relationships and broke the proverbial ice. The number of attractive people seemed limitless.
Well, when that mail finally arrived and everyone raced to create their Facebook accounts, the “relationships” began to strangely diminish. It was like the people who made flirty passing comments at each other before, wouldn’t touch each other with a ten foot pole. I couldn’t believe the number of the deceived or the number of deceivers. It was truly astounding. But how could we explain this?
Facebook allowed more pictures, mostly uploaded by someone other than the user themselves. Alas, no “angle” control.
I don’t claim to have come up with the term, but I will admit that when my former room mate and I were discussing how one of our female classmates had thrown a pictorial curve ball at us, all we could say was “it’s like these angles she uses, they way she takes the pictures…it’s faux-artsy.”
It’s a wildly immitatable process that’s been done by countless people all over the world. Some regions are hotbeds for angle felons. You don’t have to know how to photobrush to look this good.
Disclaimer: Guys are definitely guilty of doing this too.
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The Crystal Method (who you probably remember) and Filter (who you might remember). Think this was probably on the Spawn soundtrack. Yep, definitely was. And I probably stayed up “late” to watch it in my tweens (long before the days of streaming video).
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Mini Mix
Will Save: Revolutions Live Mix / 4.12/08 / WERS 88.9 FM
1. Aston Shuffle “For Everyone” (Stupid Fresh Mix)
2. deadmau5 “The Reward Is Cheese” (Original Mix)
3. Alter Ego “Why Not?” (Tim Deluxe Remix)
4. DJ Die Young “In a Big Country” (Bootleg Remix)
5. Marc Romboy, Stephan Bodzin “Callisto”
6. Will Save “Zinga Stripes” (Original Bootleg Mix)
Download it here.
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