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KANYE WEST INTERVIEW SHORT VERSION

KANYE WEST INTERVIEW SHORT VERSION

These are selected clips from an interview with Kanye West conducted by Tomas Koolhaas in October 2013 for his film 'REM' -a documentary about his father, the architect Rem Koolhaas.
 

CONTEXT:In May 2012 OMA (Rem Koolhaas's architecture firm) designed a temporary pavillion for Kanye West at the Cannes film festival. The purpose of the pavilion was to screen a film purpose-made by Kanye West that was shot using seven cameras recording simultaneously from different angles. The pavilion housed seven separate screens, each one showing a separate camera angle. Despite the innovative nature of the film and the pavilion itself the entire endeavor received only a limited amount of coverage in the mainstream media. 

The i-D One Issue, No. 1, 1980

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Ruth Glass

Ruth Glass (born Ruth Adele Lazarus, 1912–1990) was a German-born British sociologist.

Glass's work reflected her belief "that the purpose of sociological research was to influence government policy and bring about social change".

A lasting legacy is her coining of the term 'gentrification', which she created to describe the processes by which the poor were squeezed out of parts of London as upper-class ghettos were created.

Between 1935 and 1941 she was married to Henry William Durant, the statistician and pioneer in the field of public opinion polling. She married David Victor Glass, a sociologist and demographer, in 1942.

Stop making

Some hard 2 digest wisdom courtesy of: Bob Lefsetz
Thanks Nate @ tumblr

"The album is dying in front of our very eyes.

In other words, what kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where Katy Perry’s new album “Prism” only sells 287,000 copies in its debut?

One in which everybody’s interested in the single, and no one’s got time to sit and hear your hour plus statement.

This is not emotion, this is statistics. The shelf life of news is shorter than ever. The shelf life of art… You blink and it’s done.

I’m fine with you preaching to the choir, making an album for your fans. You gotta go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do, with whomever…

But if your plan is to increase your audience, spread the word and make money, suddenly the album just isn’t working. The youngsters are streaming singles and the oldsters are staying home. How do I know? Elton’s album isn’t even in the Top Fifty and McCartney’s album barely broke 20,000 this week, and there wasn’t a better oldster hype than for these two projects. People just don’t want ‘em.

So what’s the industry to do?

Have a rethink.

In other words, hype doesn’t work.

No one had more hype than Miley Cyrus, but “Bangerz” didn’t even sell 45,000 copies this week. She can go on SNL, tweet her life away, but it’s not moving the needle. Lorde is selling as much as her without the benefit of scorched earth, proving that quality music is as good as hype, but…she’s not burning up the chart either.

We’ve turned into a nation of grazers. And the artist’s job is to constantly be at the smorgasbord. Not to deliver one big meal that is picked at and thrown away, but a constant presence in the public’s face.

Media cannot be limited to the album release date. It must be a 24/7, 365 day a year effort. Same with creativity. If your track gets traction, more power to you. If it doesn’t, go back in the studio and make more.

In other words, if you’re sitting at home bitching that you’re not making any money because the Internet stole your business you’re RIGHT! There are so many diversions that no one’s got time for mediocre anymore. They just want superior. As for piracy… If you think “Prism“‘s sales are low then you believe people are leaving AT&T Wireless because of Skype.

Yes, AT&T’s subscriber numbers are declining. Oh, they’ve got some new iPad accounts, but contract subscribers are moving on to the cheaper T-Mobile and the better Verizon. Castigate me all you want, but the statistics don’t lie.

Just like these album numbers.

If you’ve got a concept album, go ahead and record it. If you’re only interested in selling a little, be my guest. But if you want to penetrate the consciousness of a large group of people and grow the pie, an album isn’t working. Hell, it’s not even working as a revenue model!

Labels are no longer in the record business, they’re in the star business. How to maximize the revenue of an individual or band in as many media as possible, in as many ways as possible. Yes, while you were bitching about piracy your whole business model disappeared.

If music were the government it’d need a new hit. What I mean is the debt ceiling debate is history, the government needs a new hit single to stay in the public eye. But if it was run by musicians, they’d keep imploring people to read about the debt ceiling debate and the government shutdown. But the public has moved on.

You put out these albums and in almost every case, the public moves on in a matter of WEEKS! A few bought it, they heard it, and they’re satisfied, and left waiting for years until you grace them with a new release. The rest of the public is just waiting for a hit single to burble, and if it does, they’ll tap their toes and snap their fingers and ask WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU GOT?

And what you’ve got had better be just as good as the hit.

No one wants album tracks anymore. Not unless they’re every bit as satisfying as the hit.

So it’s not only classic rock acts who are no longer putting out albums, soon no one will do it. Oh, it won’t be soon, because artists think making albums is part of their DNA, going into the studio and making a ten track “statement.”

But that’s like saying typewriters have to be an office fixture. And you can’t post online unless you write in multiple paragraphs. And texting must be abandoned because it’s not in depth enough.

The goal of a musician is to be AHEAD of the audience.

Right now everybody’s behind.”

Saturdays Surf NYC’s Co-Founders Talk About the Brand

While it first started out of a passionate love for surf culture, New York-based Saturdays Surf NYC has turned into a seriously influential force. Colin Tunstall, Morgan Collett and Josh Rosen all co-founded the brand back in 2009, continuing to spearhead its numerous operations. Amongst other things, this includes running a coffee shop, designing a full range of menswear apparel, and also curating a namesake magazine with non-advertisements and rare interviews. All of this takes an unfathomable amount of work, surely, but the powerful trio has so far pulled off each progressive move with grace and casual vibes. Here HYPEBEAST got a moment to catch up with the guys in New York for a conversation on Saturdays’ creative process, beach culture in an overtly metropolitan city, why they chose to expand in Japan, and the future of the brand itself. Enjoy the interview below.

http://hypebeast.com/2013/11/saturdays-surf-nycs-co-founders-talk-about-the-brand

With New Launches, i-D and Dazed Embrace Digital-Age Dynamics

i-D and Dazed, two of fashion's most respected youth-focused media companies, are adopting new digital-age approaches to content, platform and monetisation.

LONDON, United Kingdom —  Today, British style bible i-D, which was acquired by global digital media and publishing group Vice Media in December of last year, is overhauling its online presence with an innovative video-driven experience. The move will be swiftly followed, next Monday, by the launch of Dazed Vision, “the in-house video arm” of Dazed Group, independent publishers of Dazed & Confused, DazedDigital.com, AnOther Magazine and AnOther Man.

In recent years, the media habits of young fashion consumers have changed dramatically. And the new launches — by two of fashion’s most respected youth-focused media brands — reflect a media landscape that’s being radically re-shaped by the dynamics of the Internet, giving rise to new approaches to content, platform and monetisation.

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/nov/18/terry-richardson-fashion-shameful-photographer?CMP=fb_gu

OPEN - ARTI - Chief Boima e Venus X talk (Full)

 new york, the internet, money, history, music, culture, diplo and much more.

The West Indian Front Room Part 1,2,3&4

The sacred secretes and significant of the best room, the parlor. 

Check this shit bruh!

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http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1219103/rise-lorde-tells-marketers-millennials?DCMP=EMC-CONMarketingDailyBulletin&bulletin=marketingdaily

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqsSTOv-wWM

http://www.ommas.com/post/65688274245/stop-making-albums

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/richard-littlejohn-wrong-about-jack-monroe-daily-mail

https://vimeo.com/18910788

http://bntl.co.uk/site/the-west-indian-front-room/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/supreme-skateboarding-clothing-underground-fashion-store-chinatown.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JBArCgGzE

Kanye West Unreleased 2002 Interview With MTV

Ethiopia Skate | A Message to the World

This is the story of a group of kids in Ethiopia bringing the world of skateboarding to their homeland. Abenezer Temesgen, the young founder of Ethiopia Skate, uses skateboarding to empower the youth to find their own voice. With only 7 boards between 25 kids they ask for help from the world community of skaters as they enter a new frontier of skateboarding. We just want to skate.

One Minute Wonder 43 - Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu is an artist and a proud mother of three. Born in Dallas, Texas she released her iconic debut album Baduizm in 1997 and was hailed as one of the leading figures of the neo soul genre. She has since released other influential albums such as Live and New Amerykah Part One & Two. Badu is furthermore an avid activist and heads her own charity organization, B.L.I.N.D., providing community-driven development for inner-city youth through music, dance, theater and visual arts. This is Erykah.

Major Vs Minor Leagues- Ebro talks to The Combat Jack Show

Brits spend one in 12 waking minutes online

The average Briton spends one in every 12 waking minute online, racking up around 43 hours of web activity each month. This is almost double the time spent online in 2010, where the monthly average was 22 hours.

This increase has been matched by efforts from the advertising industry to keep us well supplied with ads when browsing the web: companies spent £3.04 billion in the first half of 2013 delivering adverts to mobile devices and PCs.
Averaged across the 46.1 million internet users in the UK, this meant that over the first 6 months of 2013 companies spend £66 per head supplying us with adverts.
Spending on mobile ads experienced a noticeable boom, up 127% from the first half of 2012 to the first half of 2013 to hit a grand total of £429.2 million.
Analysts suggest that this is due to high numbers of smartphone ownership (over two-thirds of the population or 68 per cent of us has one) and the rise of faster mobile data.
The introduction of 4G networks in the UK has seen the spend on video advertising for mobiles shoot up 1,260%, from £1.7 million in the first half of 2012 to £23.0 million in the first half of 2013.
The research from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC also looked at exactly what online activities attracted consumers most, with entertainment being the largest single draw, accounting for 22 per cent of online activity. This was followed by time spent on social networks and blogs.
Commenting on the findings, Tim Elkington, Director of Research & Strategy at the Internet Advertising Bureau , said: “Nothing illustrates the internet as an entertainment platform better than the fact that over one in five minutes online is accounted for by entertainment, and that advertisers spent almost 1,300% more on mobile video than a year ago.”
“With smartphone penetration crossing the two-thirds landmark and the successful roll out of 4G, 2013 could be the year when advertising spend on mobile crosses the £1 billion threshold,” said Elkington.