The June gloom has officially made it to Echo Park and we thought this clever, stop-mo video courtesy of Giullaume Blanchet will brighten your day.  Check out his film entitled, LAÏKA!

LOVEMADE presents THE SUNDAY MARKET!
Barracuda – Melrose, CA
6/21/09
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Where friends, family and designers get together and sell their goods, old and new at great bargains!!  Barracuda is conveniently located right across and walking distance from Sunday Fairfax/Melrose Flea Market!!  Mens and womens new, used vintage and one-of-a-kind accessories, clothing, shoes and jewelry.  Great Bargains and wholesale prices, including $1, $5, $10 bins.  →

It’s a Philly family affair as singer/songwriter SupaStar of The Rebel Yell drops by The Roots’ studio in Illadelph.  Black Thought, Dice Raw, & P.O.R.N. offer some drops, some exclusive rhymes, and a look at into their studio.  The Rebel Yell recently completed a full band performance at The Roots’ weekly jam session at NYC’s Highline Ballroom, and their debut album Love & War (produced entirely by hip-hop and soul & longtime Roots collaborator James Poyser) will be out August 4th on Rapster.

Wale and 9th wonder have finally dropped their long awaited collabo mixtape titled “Back To The Feature”.  And…it’s hot!  Download it for free here, and check out the tracklist over at Nah Right here.  Wale’s debut album “Attention Defecit” drops later this summer, but it’ll have a tough time beating this…

Shepard Fairey is arguably the most famous artist of the Arkitip alumni group, and could quite possibly be the artist most remembered of his generation. We celebrate Shepard’s methods not only because they are beautiful and effective but also because he took on the mainstream art establishment and after 20 long years, he seems to be winning. →

When I first met Brian Yu, I was struck by the sincerity of his work and the diligence he demonstrated to hone his craft.  He specializes in 3D art, illustration and photography.  We are genuinely happy to have him part of the EM editorial community.  As our featured artist this month, he illustrated the portraits for issue no. 24 themed, WANDERLUST and you can view them in the left-hand column of our site.  He also just turned us on to his redesigned website, VFX Villain: http://www.vfxvillain.com.  →

An interesting animated story of architecture told in broad conceptual strokes.  Brought to you by MAYA Design and is a companion piece to their prior short film about information.

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To learn more, visit: maya.com/the-feed/what-is-information-architecture

For the past several months, I’ve been doing my bestest to not post about Jereme Rogers, purely because I didn’t want to believe that skateboarding has come to this.  When he put out a terrible mixtape, I refrained.  When he got arrested for taking mushrooms and preaching naked on his roof, I fell back.  But, now the boy’s go, go, gone and quit his multi-million dollar skateboarding career to be a rapper at the ripe old age of 24, and I just can’t keep quiet anymore.

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“The Fall of Seven Diamonds”

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Tortoise
Thrill Jockey
(2009)
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Tortoise’s entire creative output stretches across 20 years, and the Chicago-based post-rock band has dabbled flirtatiously with several creative possibilities for rock music, combining ’70s Krautrock, free-form jazz and electronica to express their own brand of experimental music →

De La Soul – “4 More ft. Zhane” (mp3)

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Each week I rip a song from vinyl and post it up here. This week’s song is “4 more ft Zhane” by De La Soul. I missed posting the past two weeks. I want to blame it on the alcohol, so I will. Times were getting tough, and when the going gets tough, I curl up in a ball in the corner of a very dark room and rock back & forth for a little bit. But then after that, I’m a-ok! →