Here in Vancouver we have an area called the downtown eastside—more specifically we have a street called east Hastings. This is what it’s like… (click “read more” and press play on the song)
(Photos by: Jordan Todd (except for a few of them))
Here’s some footage of Common showing Vancouver some love at his recent show with N.E.R.D. He does pretty well, and even mentions the Vancouver Grizzlies! Big thanks to Glenda for the “exclusive video privileges..”..
Chill sunday afternoon painting.. 20 feet in the air on an aladdin lift, by one of Vancouver’s graffiti forefathers: Dedos, of AA Crew.
Sorry, I didn’t get an interview or anything. I’m not an investigative journalist—I just blog! I mean, I got some photos, what else do you want from me?? Just playin’ … I probably would have made the effort to chat with him and ask a few questions but as you can see, he was busy.. and high up in the air. He couldn’t even really hear me the first two times I asked him if it was cool that I took the photo above. Check out the rest of the photos from today after the jump…
Come check it out tonight! Click here to see some older artwork by Dre, aka. the dude I started this blog with, if you haven’t already.
Opening reception is tonight (September 5th) from 7 to 11pm!
Plank Gallery // 165 E. Hastings, Vancouver
(Runs until September 7th)
Our friend Doug over at The Publics just had his latest piece published in Vice. Brace yourself for a strange journey through a side of Vancouver that is seldom seen (and for good reason) in the article below:
“Yvonne came from Hong Kong a couple of months ago. She was told she would able to get modeling work but has given up hope and resigned herself to lying around all day in her live/work brothel. Her pimp told her she will be moving to Calgary soon, so she wants to see the ocean once again before she leaves.” (- Douglas Haddow, Vice Magazine)
FULL STORY:
TRAPPED FOREVER IN SEXUAL SLAVERY, EH?
(I also strongly recommend you make The Publics one of your daily interweb stops. Dude definitely holds it down over there, on the daily. (Sorry for posting this without “propa” authorization dude… but I can post what ever I want!))
Sneeze Mag issue #2 is out. Pick it up down on Water Street if you have an extra $2 and want to support a local publication!
So the Adbusters “hipster” article that caused so much controversy (written by: Doug Haddow, read it here) has now also inspired a party. I guess they’re trying to show that they’re unfazed by the article by embracing its title and using it as their own. Or maybe the organizers aren’t like the thousands of hipsters that got all mad about it, and just think it’s a funny name for a party.
Aren’t there like two or three different types of people that get called hipsters right now though? Check out the current issue of XXL or one of those other mags. They have Wale, Kidz In The Hall, Mickey Factz and the Cool Kids in there featured in some article about the “hip(ster) hop” new school or something. (Who stole the term I made up last November, by the way? Everyone, I guess.) I don’t know if those dudes signed up for that (probably not!) but I’m glad I don’t fall into the category based on any of the hipster criteria of either article.
More info about all the “controversy” after the jump…
MOOD MUSIC:
CAGE: SCENESTER
We stay posting the homie’s mixes and he stays killin’ it every time he releases them…
Track list after the jump.
DOWNLOAD:
DJ NEOTERIC: AUGUST MIX
PREVIOUSLY:
DJ NEOTERIC: MARCH MIX
DJ’S WE LIKE: VANCOUVER EDITION REVISION
Apparently this came out some time in 1993, and it has that type of golden-era vibe. I definitely don’t have anything negative to say about this track—it’s very soulful and even the singing is decent. Over-all, it almost sounds like he was a fan of Pharcyde, Digable Planets and/or A Tribe Called Quest back when he wrote this.
K-OS: MUSICAL ESSENCE
(Via a comment on Jeff Hamada’s Rascalz post)
BONUS MATERIAL:
RASCALZ F. BARRINGTON LEVY & K-OS: TOP OF THE WORLD
(Obviously every Vancouver head knows this track but for our out of town readers, peep game ^)
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