From the archives. Young Kaden Campbell, who skates at the Skatepark of Athens (SPOA) on the east side near Wal-Mart, flies out of the deep end of SPOA’s bowl during an August 2008 competition.
a silver mt. zion - “Stumble then rise on some awkward morning”
Trippy video.
via: shorterexcerpts: “Moya” - Godspeed You! Black Emperor — In honour of Canada Day, here’s my favorite song by a Canadian (Montreal, ON) band.
I love the Montreal bands. I hope to visit there one day … soon.
Really amazing piece. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this until recently, and I’m glad it’s out there for all to see. Catch more of Harrison’s critical writing and visual art here.
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
RT: PasteMagazine — Let the Right One In American Remake Planned For 2010 http://tr.im/qsG3
It’s the last day to donate to help out the new locally organized GameCamp! Athens. Here’s the lowdown:
This is a children’s camp set to be launched this month at the University of Georgia (exclamation point is intentional, btw!). GameCamp! is part of a proven program in Texas and Louisiana that teaches participants about video game design, helping them gain 21st century skills in the process. The kids will be designing games based on social issues to help give their work further relevance to the world around them.
Teaching kids mad skills by way of video game design? And with social issues to boot? BRILLIANT!
We’ll be running a story on this written by April Moore Skelton shortly.
Jim McKillip on the keys, Chris Enghauser on bass, and Tony McCutchen on drums are PrimeTime Jazz, and they are the house band Wednesdays at 7 at the Porterhouse Grill downtown.
If this had been around when I was a kid, are you kidding me? I’d have BEGGED to go here. They should be wait-listing people in Athens, are you kidding me?
