by admin | Mar 24, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Education
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently gave DC 122 million for their high schools. (as an aside, i’ve been an Apple guy for the last few years because Windows sucks so bad…but as evil as Windows is pitched to be, it’s hard to argue with Bill...
by admin | Mar 23, 2007 | Afrofuturism |
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by admin | Mar 22, 2007 | Afrofuturism
I’ve long been interested in the power of branding. In how our bodies are used by corporations to advertise products and lifestyles along with them. In how we sometimes use branding and flip the meanings–one of the reasons that University of Michigan...
by admin | Mar 18, 2007 | Afrofuturism
Detroit is a city that has approximately 900,000 residents. At its height, 2 million called Detroit home. Most see the blocks upon blocks of empty space and see ghettoes. I see something else entirely. In a city of roughly 880,000 people, there are just two...
by admin | Mar 11, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop |
Hip-hop doesn’t exist without the break beat…the funkiest part of a track, sluiced away from it and used on its own. Nate Harrison created a 20 minute documentary on the “Amen Break.” Odds are that while you’ve never heard of it,...
by admin | Mar 7, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Crime and Punishment, Urban Politics |
So my piece on medieval urbanism got a hit from my friend Jesse Walker at Reason Magazine. And through that hit I got turned on to Bryan Finoki and Subtopia. I should’ve known there’d be a resource like this… Anyway, hitting a link at random I...
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