Enjoy this uber-cute animated video courtesy of Ninja-tune artist, Mr. Scruff!

Mos Def
Downtown Records
(2009)
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Fans of Mos Def have anticipated the Brooklyn MC’s return to form ever since his acting foray and genre explorations in the past decade. The late nineties are often considered to be his prime. He had a strong debut with Black on Both Sides and a near-legendary collaboration with fellow Brooklynite Talib Kweli as the Black Star duo. While Mos has never exactly fallen off or failed to interest his listeners, it’s certainly clear from the past decade that he’s interested in transformations, some which have not always sat well with his purist fans. →

College friends Ken Leung and Dana Chin left their finance jobs, dropped out of their jewelry 101 class at FIT and instead decided they wanted to do things on their own terms. In 2004 they hooked up with like-minded designer Doori Chung and worked collaboration pieces for her Spring ’05 runway show. →

EM: Occupation and Position.
PEARSE: Events organiser for B-Music in Barcelona. I also help out with labels such as Twisted Nerve, Finders Keepers Records and Nosordo, as well as selling fine wine and Spanish ham on the side.

EM: What neighborhood do you closely identify with? What makes your community so unique?
I have travelled a lot and moved around a lot over the past twelve years (I have lived in Manchester, Barcelona, Chicago, London and am now back in Barcelona) so I don’t really feel that much about any neighourhood, which is a shame. →

Sean Bones Premiers His Film Wah Do Dem at LA Film Festival
Regent Theater & Landmark 4 – Los Angeles, CA
6/20/09 & 6/24/09
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Musician, Sean Bones, just revealed his new feature-length film, Wah Do Dem (What They Do) and it will be premiering at the Narrative Competition Round of the LA Film Festival on June 20th & 24th. He recently screened the film in New York to a sold out crowd in Tribeca at The Anthology Archives (and Damon Dash was there)! →

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Flux Salon presents a Solo Art Exhibit
Flux Salon – Venice, CA
6/18/09
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Flux is proud to present Geometry of Ruins, a breakout solo exhibition and salon by Brazilian artists Andrezza Valentin and Guilherme Marcondes. This exhibition is the poetic exploration of modern ruins and their power to raise contradictory feelings in us. In front of our dreamy eyes they reveal themselves as magical and mysterious. →

Hans Godo Fräbel Transforms Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Now through January 2010 – German-born artist Hans Godo Fräbel, a founding father of modern glass sculpture, incorporates more than 400 of his sculptures into the gardens and rooms at Phipps. “Phipps’ visitors loved our Chihuly show →

Photo Source: AFP

Protestors in Tehran, Iran have taken to the streets to protest against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmandinejad. Supporters of reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi believe that the election was rigged and unfair against. Three thousand Mousavi supporters chanted “Down with the dictator” in Tehran on Sunday. In European cities  →

The battle over whether bone-thin models should be stalking high fashion catwalks and gracing the covers of the world’s most influential magazines is still in high gear. A new twist is that British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman has made a bold statement against the “size-zero” practice by issuing a letter to a few of the most notable houses in the industry, asking them to rethink their sample sizing and make a wide sweeping effort to shift the trend back towards “normal” models. →