“Once Upon a Time in New York – The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk” Documentary

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The BBC has presented an amazing new documentary  called “Once Upon a Time in New York – The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco & Punk,” exploring how the squalid streets of ’70s New York gave birth to the punk, disco and hip hop movements that then went to spread all over the world. The BBC have made the documentary available in three parts to view on Youtube, well worth a watch.


“In the 1970s the Big Apple was rotten to the core, yet out of the grime, grit and low rent space emerged new music unlike anything that had gone before.

Inspired by the Velvet Underground, a new wave of ‘punk’ rock emerged in lower Manhattan including The New York Dolls, The Ramones and the Patti Smith Group. Meanwhile, downtown loft parties held by gay New Yorkers heralded the birth of disco, which would eventually spawn the ultimate club for the privileged few: Studio 54. The swanky mid-town discos were out of bounds to black New York so in the Bronx DJs such as Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa created their own parties, heralding the birth of hip hop.

With David Johansen, Patti Smith, John Cale, Richard Hell, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc, Nile Rodgers, Chuck D, Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein, Fab 5. Freddy, Lenny Kaye, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Syl Sylvain, Nicky Siano, David Mancuso, DJ AJ, David Depino, Jayne County, Leee Childers, Nelson George, Victor Bokris and Vince Aletti.”


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Performing Street Monkeys of Indonesia

#rebloggings (which seems like it's the only thing i have time for on here these days, hopefully original content soon)
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Performing Street Monkeys of Indonesia: "Dozens of Macaque monkeys are chained to a cage in “monkey village”, where their owners train them to perform on the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia.

The Performing Street Monkeys, which you can see in the gallery below, earn nothing more than small change as they mimic humans in silly outfits and masks.

These kinds of monkeys can be seen in many countries of south Asia. Kids take them as fun, owner take them serious business. People passing by give coins to monkeys owners.































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Guernica / Rebecca Bates: A File Sharing Program That Proves the Cliché
We are a species of voyeurs. We people watch, scavenge, Facebook stalk in the hopes that we might steal a glimpse into the private lives of our peers.

To satisfy this urge, recent Parsons grad Justin Blinder has created Dumpster Drive, a file sharing application that mimics the act of digging through someone’s trash.


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An interesting thought, all this this seems a bit more like a swag bag to me. And I wonder if there’s not a sort of “afterthought” feel here — “Congrats on your degree. Oh, and since you’re done with that, here’s some stuff that will maybe help you make a living. Good luck.”


But I can’t really get a clear sense of the content, so maybe I’m selling it short.

I thought they did this last year, but I couldn’t find it anywhere in my archives. What they really ought to do is give these tools to students when they *start* school, and teach them for the next couple of years how to use them.



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