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Attracting people’s attention by his unique music style and reliable performance techniques, Chinza Dopeness has just launched his first solo album, “100%RAP” on 16th of September, 2009. All songs for the album were made in collaboration with leading producers and artists in the Japanese Hip Hop scene. Here is a digest interview article from SHIFT with Chinza Dopeness who creates new style of rap by mixing various kinds of music such as HIP HOP, reggae, blues and funk.
New York is a fast city that goes even faster if you have a lot of money. It’s not uncommon for people to pay in excess of $1000 USD a month for an average room in an even more average apartment, and it’s no secret – the expensive cost of living here makes the grind that much harder. However like any place, there are some simple pleasures that the city has to offer that also give you a chance to inhale, exhale and remember why you love New York. And the best thing about ‘em? They’re free.
Before Banksy and Andy Warhol, there was Leonard Lye… Born in New Zealand in 1901, Lye was largely self-educated and developed a life-long passion for motion, energy and the possibility of composing the two as an art form. At the turn of the century, his artwork not only contributed to a shift away from traditional art and helped bring about the rise of modern art, but he also pioneered new and innovative art forms that continue to inspire artists today.
A new exhibition at London’s St Martin’s Lane Front Room, shows rare photographs of artist Jean Michel Basquiat riding the 80’s downtown New York club scene, taken by GRAY bandmate Nicholas Taylor. The exhibition also features never-before-seen black and white images of the couple playing together in the infamous experimental band GREY, whose legendary Mudd Club residency brought them praise from Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, who called them “possibly the best band on the planet”.
Though it looks like British photographer Anne Hardy has just stumbled on these abandoned rooms – a science lab, a basketball-littered storage cupboard, a dusty Christmas-tree filled living room – this is not the case at all. Hardy has, in fact, spent months – two months for each set-up on average – sourcing each artifact, each decoration. That collection of weights and weightlifting trophies? A bounty of jumble sale finds. The derelict greenhouse, sanctioned by bio-hazzard tape? A mélange of second-hand pot plants and possessions from a particularly successful trip around the city skips. She’s spent hours moving each object maybe 5cm this way, 10cm that, to see where it perfectly fits. The seemingly accidental visual details – the clustering and stacking of things, the trodden-in dust and dirt are all her doing. Details in a larger story. A work of fiction.
Tsukuda Hiroki’s Solo Exhibition “Recollections”. These drawings recall, to me, a kind of architectural plans for future space stations. These are Hiroki Tsukuda’s new works, a series of drawings titled “Imaginary Land”, which has been exhibited at one of Tokyo’s hip gallery NANZUKA UNDERGROUND. Just started out with an opening reception held on September 26, the exhibition welcomed viewers with 10 new drawings and a 8-meter-long big wall drawing. |
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