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Two Free Downloads You Should Check Out
Dominique Young Unique is a 19-year-old rap talent from Florida I recently introduced here. Dominique has finally released her long-awaited “Domination Mixtape“, an incredibly fresh and eclectic mix of stuff she’s currently into. Click here to directly download the complete (zipped) mix and here for the Soundcloud page where you can check out the tape. From here it’s just gonna take another click to a mash-up record called “The Notorious xx“, for which a 24-year-old New Yorker called “Charlie” has laid the raps of Mr. B.I.G. over the beats of the self-titled album of the still omnipresent The xx. If that sounds like an interesting project to you don’t hesitate download to the record here because there are signs that its days are numbered. Oh, and please let me know as soon as any of the links stop working!
Dominique Young Unique – Domination Mixtape
The Notorious xx
The Smarteez: DIY Heroes From Soweto
The Smartees are a group of young fashion designers from Soweto/Johannesburg who due to the lack of affordable brand name clothing have started to design their own stuff. Their style is usually described as a mixture of the European colonial chic and a traditional African clothing, although I guess that’s just a very limited description. The photographes below show the awesome work of a guy called Kepi Mngomezlu and have been taken by Jonty van Zeller, a young British photographer. Zeller has recently travelled to South Africa to organize fashion shootings with the Smartees for his dissertation. You find more pictures of his pictures on his blog. I also recommend checking out this post on Dazed Digital for some pictures and a little short film taken by Chris Saunders during the research for an article that will be published in the magazine’s South Africe special. He also holds the copyright for the picture on top of this post. Let the hype begin.
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LYNN and HORST: The Ugly Underwear Contest
The guys over at the awesome fashion blog LYNN and HORST have just officially opened the voting for the worst piece of underwear 2010. You can vote for 17 strong submissions: Along with a picture of the contestants in their ugliest piece of lingerie comes a color scheme, a song that fits to the piece of clothing and a small statement by the contestants. Click here to take part in this amazing competition.
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Good Blogs: 5 Promising Artists On Tumblr
Artist: Jamal Vrno, Michigan
Tumblr: vrno.tumblr.com/
Artist: George Chamoun, Stockholm
Tumblr: georgechamoun.tumblr.com
Artist: José Manuel Hortelano-Pi, Madrid
Tumblr: picasio.tumblr.com
Artists: Elijah Burgher, Chicago
No tumblr, but a blogspot page: ghostvomit.blogspot.com
Artist: Hollis Brown Thornton, Aiken
Tumblr: hollisbrownthornton.tumblr.com
Dapper Dan: Style Means Substance
Although its main focus lies on questions of fashion, it doesn’t really make sense to call Dapper Dan a “fashion magazine”. It’s rather a magazine that according to its publishers was created for an unconventional and bohemian type of man, for guys that don’t really care for the latest trends and instead search for things with “substance”. And although (especially as someone who lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg) I believe that this way of thinking is itself part of a bigger trend, Dapper Dan is one of the most beautifully designed and exciting magazines you can get at train station kiosks at the moment. The first issue SS2010 came out around two months ago and it features, amongst other stuff, interviews with Damir Doma, Lucas Ossendrijver and Jürgen Teller. I just hope these guys don’t run out of money before they are able to print the second issue. Check out Dapper Dan’s website or the nice blog of editor and photographer Vassilis Karidis for a little preview of issue #1. I also posted three of Karidis’ pictures of his Damir Doma shoot for the magazine below.
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Available Now: The Shirt
The first year of CATCH FIRE has now passed by and I hope you all had as much of a good time as I had. I’m really proud of the fact so many people visit the site daily and that the feedback I get is so good. As you can see I got myself a birthday present: Stefan from Butchqueen, a new shirt label for a new generation of fashion-conscious bears, has designed both a new header for the site and a CATCH FIRE shirt, which is available from now on at the Butchqueen webshop (click here for a higher resolution of the motive). So if you have caught fire over the past few months or simply like the idea of a shirt that’s got the chest hair on the outside click here or on the following button to get this nice piece of clothing:
Free Download: Kalup Linzy’s “If It Don’t Fit” E.P.
I just found out accidentally that New York based performance artist Kalup Linzy (who I have already mentioned here) has given UbuWeb the permission to make his 30 minute EP “If It Don’t Fit” E.P. available online for free. The record was created by Linzy in conjunction with an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in summer 2009. The record is devided into two parts, on the first three tracks Linzey songs over electronic beats, while the second half consists of four live tracks with a rather classical 70s soul instrumentation. Click here to get to the download page.
Good Blogs: MAFIA-HUNT
MAFIA-HUNT has got a focus on fashion, photography and design. It is run by Mel Paget, an Art Student from Canada, who uses the site to document her internet findings. I really admire her good taste and her sense for all sorts of beautiful and at the same time “unperfect” things (a nice example is an awesome image blog “Them Thangs” she recomments on her site). You can also check Paget’s own artistic work on her webpage. Oh, and I guess I should also mention her two tumblrs (1, 2) and the MySpace page of her completely crazy music project Eyeball Sandwitch.
http://skelemitz.wordpress.com/
Good Blogs: Queer the Pitch
Queer the Pitch is one of these very simple but pretty entertaining blogs I haven’t saved in my blog reader but I visit regularly and can’t stop clicking myself through it everytime I open it. Its content is just a really really trashy, campy mixture of pictures and videos, a lot of them sorted by funny categories such as “annoying PETA”, “japanese political incorectness” or “glamourizing smoking”. So if you’re planning to spend your Sunday evening in bed, this may be a nice opportunity to waste some time in a good way. Click here to get there.
The Downlow Radio Celebrates Valentine’s Day
The New York City Downlow is “the world’s first travelling homo disco”, a mobile venue that seems to work like a soundsystem and is run by Block9, a set and environment design team from London. If I got this right, the whole thing started at the Glastonbury Festvial of Contemporary Performance Art in 2007 where the founders of NYC Downlow hat the idea of building up at replica of a bombed-out NYC tenement as a space for parties and all sorts of drag performances that were supposed to revive the spirit of the the disco culture of the late seventies (click here for a video from 2008 to get an impression). Since last year the team of the Downlow now also runs its own radio station The Downlow Radio which allows people to listen to and download a bunch of regularly updated and sometimes pretty amazing DJ sets. This month they are doing a special promotion for Valentines Day featuring sets by Tee Cardaci, Nacho, Horse Meat Disco, Filthy Luka and Schnezzy. Click here for the website.
Good Blogs Short Cuts: All About …
… Queer Gay Cinema:
… Hercules & Love Affair:
… Campy Stuff:
… Queer/Gay writing:
… Dyke Culture:
2 Free Web Mags: WLFT / Prayers For Children
Both mags show pictures of various young artists – WLFT (I think it means “We Like To Fuck”) focusses on photography and combines pictures of all sorts of genders and sexes, while Prayers For Children perceives itself more clearly as a queer zine and shows all sorts of artwork. If you’re an artist yourself this may be a good way to publish some of your work online, both mags seem to be always searching for contributions.
