In honor of the passing of the Beastie Boys’ quiet legend, Adam “MCA” Yauch, we will be doing a special Beastie’s track each day this week. We start with the incredible bass bump of Ill Communication‘s “Root Down.” RIP, MCA.
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Seeing that our friends at The Citrus Report spend their Mondays featuring all that is good with Madlib and his universe, we can’t believe they missed the new Madvillainy 2 box set featuring this incredible 12-page mini-comic. As Jeff Jank told Juxtapoz this morning, “comic was done by James Reitano who did the Madvillain “ALL CAPS” video. The concept here was to continue the next episode where the CAPS video left off cliff-hanger style. We went all out with ’70s-80s comic book details, a letters page with a real letter, 8 track tapes, etc. The album itself is Madlib’s personal version of the album. The LP comes with 2 records, the comic, and digi download card.”
Peter Callesen made this incredible piece of paper art/paper sculpture/skeleton, which to us shows the power of plain white paper. Callesen writes on his site to the same effect: “Lately I have worked almost exclusively with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and performances. A large part of my work is made from A4 sheets of paper. It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to, and at the same time the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with different meaning. The thin white paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic theme of my works.”
And for the record, as a kid these books were our “trash” reading, like what we read when Don Quixote and The Call of the Wild got a little too heavy for us. Do kids even read anymore?
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Rest in peace Elizabeth Taylor. Thank you for your incredible talent, extraordinary beauty, and tireless humanitarian work. Everyone else please watch Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and wonder why the world doesn’t make Elizabeth Taylors and Paul Newmans anymore.
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“Los Angeles is a great town for eats. We have food trucks, Farmer’s Markets, gourmet cafes, tons of chain restaurants and authentic mom & pop establishments to choose from,” writes Juxtapoz contributing writer, Trina Calderon. “I caught up with the lovely Zio Fulcher [curator of Scion’s PALATE exhibit ] and asked for some backup on how this incredible show came off the ground.”
“Los Angeles is a great town for eats. We have food trucks, Farmer’s Markets, gourmet cafes, tons of chain restaurants and authentic mom & pop establishments to choose from,” writes Juxtapoz contributing writer, Trina Calderon. “I caught up with the lovely Zio Fulcher [curator of Scion’s PALATE exhibit ] and asked for some backup on how this incredible show came off the ground.”
