MY SWEET WATERFALL

Published by Seth Tjeerd Veenstra, "My Sweet Waterfall" highlights Culture, Creativity, and Community in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Tonight I’ll be watching Allosaurus rock the Casbah alongside Canadian hip-hop legend Buck 65. The Hamilton-based electro-pop duo make dance music with an appeal to heads, hearts, and hips. Live, Allosaurus perform hyper-melodic synth lines, soaring vocals, and weighty lyrics with a fun-loving, nerdy energy.  Their debut full-length, “Old Solar” was just released a few months ago on Other Songs Music.

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Hosting an open mic in Hamilton, I’m consistently blown away by our city’s artistic talent. The more I explore online, the more I realize I’m just seeing the tip of the iceberg. Just today I discovered Mubarik Adams a.k.a. Emay (pronounced “M - A”), a Hamilton based producer and MC. I love how in this song he evokes both hope and yearning by wrapping his rhymes in a warm haze of sounds, while still giving it confident momentum.

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5 Questions on Graffiti

1.) What did graffiti look like two hundred years ago? 

2.) Do graffiti artists abide by a code?

3.) Why is tagging more popular than stenciling or other picture-based forms of graffiti?

4.) In what ways are tagging and corporate branding similar?

5.) When archaeologists dig up the remains of our city a thousand years in the future what will the graffiti tell them about our culture?

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