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Contemporary Design, Art, Photos and Music from artists you have seen and heard, but may not know

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Jennifer Packer (born 1984) is a contemporary American painter and educator based in New York City. Packer's subject matter includes political portraits, interior scenes, and still life featuring contemporary Black American experiences. She paints portraits of contemporaries, funerary flower arrangements, and other subjects through close observation. Primarily working in oil paint, her style uses loose, improvisational brush strokes, and a limited color palette.

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Jess Farran is a photographer and Art Director. A graduate from the Savannah college of Art & Design graduating Magna Cum Laude also earning a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography while double minoring in Advertising and Advertising Photography. 

Creator of the zine Descendre. a newsprint book that crosses physical and metaphorical boundaries in accepting and finding love. Her work has a very instinctual and honest quality, inspired by the feelings of love and heartbreak her work gravitates towards the portrait modality, but her work is by no means of singular expression.  

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The Human Touch

The speed at which we embrace technology and allow it to automate our lives is soon to become a life once of science fiction and an everyday reality. Us vs. Them, the battle of Flesh vs. Tech. This battle exist now, as technology accelerates the economy; it simultaneously destroys it. 

The advent of computerized jobs that are replacing the human touch, that are algorithmically solving problems that once took humans hours, days, months, and years to unravel are potentially putting us in a self-destruct mode. As we compete against computers for jobs that once filled our lives with hopes of prosperity and security, we seek the alternatives that can fill the ever-growing void and sustain the substantiality of the human touch.  

Is their a war in the foreseeable future? A mass scale Terminator: Judgement Day style war? Will the streets be flooded with robots that have programmed themselves to eradicate the human race after we strip it of every resource available? Maybe it will be something more insidious; as tech progresses and continues it’s all encompassing nature, it will emerge within us, the dividing line between human and computer will become thinner and thinner until we are in true cyborg fashion.  

This concept is nothing new, but as we continue to debate unemployment rates and and let our government justify low wage employment and write it off as helping balance the economy. We should take time to delve deeper and better understand the world we live in. In it’s complexity, we may be able to find a simple solution, a singularity; something that helps bring us closer to a universal understanding. 

In many ways technology can be the answer to all our problems, if used correctly we could end world hunger, lower incarceration, regulate the energy crisis, and save the environment. We are in a time where we’re going to experience a massive shift in governmental policy, environmental policy, pro-choice policy, race relations, and technological advancements. 

These are interesting times we live in, as they’ve always been in every preceding decade. A day will most likely come, when we as humans no longer view ourselves separately from technology; and it is merely just an appendage of our own body. 

Will this merging of the worlds be our demise or will it push us forward to a self-governing utopia? 

Written By: Quincy Cabal

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Where Do We Go From HERE?

Finding and creating visuals is an important and sometimes grueling feat. The visual element to any project can help heighten the experience and emotion the artist, publisher, musician, produce writer, etc… is trying express. It can elevate an experience, it can help whatever it is you’re doing become more cohesive, direct and effective.

Today we are in a hyper visual age. The sentiment “judge a book by its cover” is practiced now more so than ever, its becoming the contemporary thought process. With the aid of social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, and Musicly, we obsessively scroll and view feeds and then decide if what we just saw is worth a read, like or emoji. Vanity is at all time high, your self-worth can almost be equated to the number of likes and followers you’ve accrued on your personal pages.

I’ve thought this over many times, and as much as I find it frustrating, I continually embrace these platforms with open arms. In fact, I feel like I almost have no other choice, it’s either tune in or drop out and as many times as I’ve tried the latter, I always find myself coming back. In many ways this 24/7 worldwide connectedness is bring us into a highly aware phase of our evolution as human beings and a planet.

Images and information are being produced so rapidly; with less effort, less thought and vision that the idea and meaning of experiencing reality is changing. We are moving away from Macro entertainment ( movies, docs,and set timed television ) and having more micro viewing experiences; not entirely replacing the macro one’s, but viewing them in a different way. Viewing them at a higher-speed, on our own schedules, without interruption of commercials and a weekly viewing times.

Is this diminishing how we interpret the things we are seeing and hearing? Or is it a gradually enhancing our thoughts and moving us to a higher-level of understanding of how we view the world and ourselves in it. I believe this rapid increase of social media platforms can help aid in the process of self-actualization, a term coined by Psychologist Abraham Maslow.  

For those that are unfamiliar with the term, here is a concise definition Self-actualization - the realization or fulfillment of one’s talents and potentialities, especially considered as a drive or need present in everyone.

In many ways these platforms can help us find our creative nature, and what better way to find yourself than expressing yourself creatively. That being said, these platforms also contribute to the over abundance of trite, and uninspiring productions and philosophies. Technology is all encompassing, it dictates how we brand and market ourselves, products and our creations now and there’s no way to escape it.

I guess it’s a matter of coming to terms with where the world is going and finding how we best fit into it. The resistance may be a waste of your time unless you’re an innovator and an active participant in the development of technology. The world is fated for an immersive virtual existence, whether we comply or not 

: Quincy Cabal

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Big Sean - Bounce Back 

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David Wojnarowicz September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art world 

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The official music video for "Happy Home" off of Onuinu's debut album, Mirror Gazer 

Directed by: Andrew Sloan

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Many Faces Of David Bowie

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David Bowie - Space Oddity ( Live )

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Karim Huu Do transforms a hellish relationship breakdown into a disturbing slice of cinema. 

Absolutely Brilliant!

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Karim Huu Do’s mindboggling short film, in collaboration with Last Night in Paris.

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Tucked between the buildings in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, is the colourful Pigalle basketball court. Contesting the words of a Fox News reporter who labelled this a “no-go zone”, director Cyprien Clément-Delmas, and the Parisian youth have come together to show an alternative side to the story; a neighbourhood bursting with life, creativity and diversity. Directed by Cyprien Clément-Delmas Executive Producer Céline Roubaud Producer Mélody Calmels Production Company Caviar Paris Line Producer Charlène Richardeau Director of Photography Benoit Soler Assistant Camera Arthur Hennequet Second Assistant Camera Jodie Arnoux Gaffer Thomas Gareau Runner Margaux Bennet Editor Edouard Mailaender Colourist Mathieu Caplanne, Nightshift Sound Mix Charles Vetter, Turtle Cuts Music Walled City by GENER8ION on label Bromance Stylist Rich Aybar Stylist Assistant Natacha Voranger Second Stylist Assistant Céline Bischoff Fashion credits ACNE DRIES VAN NOTEN ISSEY MIYAKE PIGALLE RICK OWENS ROCHAS SIMAME PLONGEE VETEMENTS VIVIENNE WESTWOOD YOHJI YAMAMOTO Cast Grégory Robert, Dustina Muchuvitz, Léa Lavabre Kids Niko, Ablaye, Melvin, Lyva, Paul, Amine, Florian, Saycou, Killian, Andrew, Mary, Jean, Nash, David, Meggy, Bilal, Regis, Lauren, Sophia, Lilia, Hadrien, Steven, Swan Global Group Director of Film & Video Ravi Amaratunga Head of Video Jack Robinson Head of Creative Bunny Kinney Video Commissioning Editor Declan Higgins Production Coordinator Tom Ivin Development Producer Kate Villevoye Development Producer Matthew Whitehouse i-D France Director France Clément Corraze Editor France Tess Lochanski Production Coordinator Eulalie Juster Assisting Editor France Micha Barban-Dangerfield Junior Editor France Malou Briand Rautenberg

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DIIV - Dopamine ( Official Single )

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King Krule Grew Up

Made with his brother Jack, Archy Marshall's A New Place 2 Drown is a raw, intimate tale of becoming an adult.

http://www.anewplace2drown.com/

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Never-before-seen pictures from on the set of Kids

Alongside newly unearthed behind-the-scenes polaroids, the film’s costume designer Kim Druce-Sava recalls her memories of working on the cult film