24 Hour Karate School

An old school track of the finest kind, Mos Def's 24 Hour Karate School has the same touch producer Ski Beatz brought to the third rendition of Hova's Blueprint. Get ready for the new new year.

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'What's Under Your Mask?'

German illustrator Adrian Pavic has composed a series of beautiful prints celebrating the masked icons of Western society. The masks of Darth Vader, Batman, Silence of the Lambs and Point Break all have something to say about the ways in which we construct our own identity in relation to these mysterious silver screen stars. In a decade that presented the possibility for every individual to be famous, it is interesting to think of the cinematic ways those identities found their footing.

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JMay x Ellen

GMail Holiday Cards

I can't seem to keep up with this blog of mine. Soon. I promise. For example, the good people at Google recently offered a series of GMail themed holiday cards. The cards were available for postage to American addresses for a brief period. Nonetheless, you can still download and print the lil' doozies on your home computer and spread some cheer. I've downloaded the high resolution image and used it as a wallpaper. Tres cool.

Two more sleeps till Santa.

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Dogmatic Gourmet Sausage System

Inspired by its butcher origins comes the new flagship storefront for the Dogmatic Gourmet Sausage System. The communal butcher block dominates the space with retractable cantilevered seating 'to avoid free standing furniture'. A Sausage Wall of Fame flags one wall; the other features the history of Dogmatic baked into ceramic tiles. Lighting above appropriately hangs from meat hooks. Judging by the glass paneled menu, a handmade soda, turkey sausage and side of grilled asparagus will run you $8.50. This is no street meat.

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Shusei Nagaoka

Sci-fi artist Shusei Nagaoka rose to popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, taking album art hostage and describing a period in our collective culture when our necks were craned upwards. It occurs to me that while these illustrations exist on the periphery of a George Lucas space ship orientation, Nagaoka's work imagines these images as both possibilities for the not so distant future and a fun bit of imagination.

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