PARALLEL PARK

a place where things intersect

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This sansula is used in the funky kalimba beat on Shabazz Palace’s, An Echo From the Hosts that Profess Infinitum.

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Today it still resonated after hearing it last night. I had to search for it. Glad to come across it on 'postmodern antiquities'

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winter’s lament: the bill beau trio crying live at the blueport lounge (1958)

“Found this on a recent dig in Mt. Washington this past aturday…my friend Gabe actually came across this record first, but handed it off to me because he already had a copy. This is the standout cut on the album, and feels like the perfect way to bid farewell to those winter blues.

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QUAKERS - FITTA HAPPIER (VIDEO)

Guilty Simpson & MED featured MCs. Quakers is a 35-person hip-hop collective, centered around three producers - Fuzzface (Geoff Barrow), Katalyst (Ashley Anderson), and 7Stu7 (Stuart Matthews). Quakers 41-track album is out now on Stones Throw. http://stonesthrow.com/quakers http://itunes.com/quakers Director Eric Coleman Cinematography Jerry Henry Editor Laith Majali Cameras Jerry Henry, B+, Mike Park Producers Marybell Chavez, Eric Coleman

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waiting for that magic moment but this rare light is a trip right now #solareclipse #052012 (Taken with instagram)

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#frosty #window #branches #soft #light (Taken with instagram)

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GEORGIA ANN MULDROW 

Born to musical parents in Los Angeles, California, Georgia Anne Muldrow surrounded by music of all types and origins. To this very day she carries the same spirit. That makes her instrumentation and songwriting so unique. She has worked with trailblazing underground artists such as Dudley Perkins, Rickie Byars Beckwith, Madlib, Wildchild, M. E. D. , Big Pooh, Prince Po, The Visionaries, Casual, Jimetta Rose, and Eagle Nebula as well as commercial artists like Mos Def and Erykah Badu. Georgia is part of the new generation of musicians who can produce, rap and most amazingly sing. She won the World Wide Music Awards Best Jazz Album of the year for her solo album Ocotea in 2011. When we asked her to remix Suite for Ma Dukes she told us "Im going to do it like I was sitting in that night with the Orchestra..."

TIMELESS : REMIXED (Available on Mochilla)

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DUB PLATES AT TUFF GONG

Distant Relatives : Part 2

Directed and Produced by B+ (Mochilla) Edited by Luke Lynch

Part 1 : HOPE ROAD Part 3 : TRENCHTOWN ROCK

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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Since the 1970s, Sugimoto has worked on his photo-series entitled, Theaters, in which he photographs auditoriums of American movie theaters, and drive-in movies, during showings. The exposure time used for the photograph corresponds with the projection time of the film. This allows him to save the duration of the entire film in a single shot. What remains visible of the film’s time-compressed, individual images is the bright screen of the movie theater, which illuminates the architecture of the space. That its content retreats into the background makes the actual film a piece of information, manifesting itself in the (movie theater) space. As a result, instead of as a content-related event, film presents itself here as the relationship between time and spatial perception. 

"One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious."

- Hiroshi Sugimoto

Heike Helfert (Source: Cat. Thomas Kellein, Hiroshi Sugimoto, «Time Exposed,» 1995, p. 91)

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HELVETICA (2007)

nice intro

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John Baldessari The Pencil Story 1972 - 1973 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York © John Baldessari Colour photographs, with coloured pencil, mounted on board

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TV Buddha (1974) - Nam June Paik Paik's possibly most famous video work was produced as a gap-filler for an empty wall in his fourth show in the Galeria Bonino, New York. Shortly before the opening, he hit upon the idea of making a TV viewer out of an antique Buddha statue once purchased as an investment. The subsequent addition of a video camera meant the Buddha now watched his videotaped image on the screen opposite – past and present gaze upon each other in an encounter between Oriental deity and Western media. During the 'Projekt '74' exhibition in Cologne, Paik took the Buddha’s place in his recent creation, suggesting the implicit antithesis between transcendentalism and technology was equally present in his own personality.

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DENNIS HOPPER: Photographs 1961-1967

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Futura Bold Oblique over graphics. Supreme heads, this is where it came from. Artist: Barbara Kruger 

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SIDEBAR #12: PHOTOGRAPHER BRIAN CROSS / B+

Interview w/ Oliver Wang (soul-sides.com)

Even if you’ve never seen Brian Cross aka B+ in person, you’ve definitely seen his photography. Starting in the early 1990s, B+ has become one of the premier music photographers of the past 20 years, especially (but hardly exclusively) in the hip-hop community.

B+ is also one-half of the L.A.-based production outfit, Mochilla, who’ve put out the renown Keepintime, Brasilintime and Timeless series. And, he’s author of one of the best books ever written about hip-hop in L.A., It’s Not About a Salary.1 Suffice to say, of all the folks I’ve met through the Cali music scene over the last 15 years, B is one of the folks whose work and dedication is a constant source of respect and amazement.

He was kind enough to roll through the home studio on a sweltering July day and though, ostensibly, I wanted to have him contribute to the summer songs series, I also wanted to use the opportunity to talk about his career arc (I, for one, had no idea he was a former student and protege of Mike Davis though that fact suddenly made total sense to me in the context of his work), his interest in South American music, culture and people, and the greatest that is Labi Siffre. (In a special “bonus beats” section after the formal podcast ends, we also rap about his working with Damian Marley, bringing more Timeless shows back, and why you’ll have to pry his Hasselblad from his cold, dead fingers.

Play The Sidebar #12: Brian Cross / B+ Subscribe to this and future podcasts.

Music in this episode: Quantic: Cumbia de Mochilla Volume 10: Pistolgrip Pump instrumental Freestyle Fellowship: Convolutions Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz Ensemble (Madlib): Horace Above the Law: Murder Rap DJ Shadow: Midnight In a Perfect World B+: Track 2 & 3 (from Sertão Madrugada) Afrosound: Caliventura Birdsong Radio George Duke: For Love (I Come Your Friend) Tune-Yards: Gangsta Labi Siffre: It Must Be Love Suite for Ma Dukes: Fall In Love The Cure: Pictures of You Damian Marley and Nas: As We Enter

Related links: Allan Sekula’s “The Body and the Archive“ Mochilla 10 Year Show @ The Summit, S.F. Thundercat’s cover of “For Love (I Come Your Friend)”

Notes: *Cross is also at work on Ghostnotes his first formal monograph. ↩