Das Racist’s new album Relax is going to own my commute this month.

I’ve given it a listen. I’m on the second rotation. I don’t understand the lyrics yet, but I’m convinced they’re geniuses, even if my introduction to them was a song about Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

I’m obsessed, and you will be too.

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Marty McFly’s shoes are being auctioned. Shoes. Plural.

The 2011 Nike Mag shoe won’t have power laces, but a pinch of the shoe will trigger LEDs light to turn on. 1,500 pairs are only available through Ebay.  The auction ends on September 18. All proceeds will be donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

 

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(Via Alison! and CSMonitor.com)

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Young talent, loop recorders and video remixers on my first hosted youtube playlist!

Annie Gaus asked me to create a music set for our Revision3 Youtube playlist experiments.  These are 7 of my favorite music things on youtube right now.  7 of MANY favorites, so these are truly my current faves.

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A shining light in a hip hop wasteland

Look out Southern Hip Hop. Here comes the Irish Northwest. And they have good things to say.

Ben Haggerty, known by his stage name Macklemore, is a hip hop artist based in Seattle, Washington. Macklemore works with Ryan Lewis (Producer) Andrew Joslyn (Violin), Owour Arunga (Trumpet) and Zach Fleury (Drums, Guitar, Bass), Noah Goldberg (Piano)

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Active Child: My “Feeling This” album this week

Saw this rolling around the heavy rotation feeds in rdio. Feelin’ it. Yup.

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LA Light by Colin Rich captures Los Angeles at night via time-lapse

This project took Colin Rich 6 months to shoot and does a great job of capturing LA’s vibrance at night.

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Hipstamatic tips and tricks with @docpop

Doc Pop of Sincerely Inc. walked us through his favorite iPhone photo tips and tricks in last weeks Appjudgment.  Use these methods to get the most of the Hipstamatic app for iOS devices.

 

This episode’s top stories:

Amazon is testing a slick new site design, perfect for tablets


 

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Oona… Still Rocks: Aksumi remixes his daughter again.

You might remember a much younger Oona vocalizing, expressing, and “flipping out”, her way into your heart in her bizarre 2008 viral hit.

She, and who I presume to be her mastermind father are back with what could very well be an even better performance.

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The Post Secret iPhone App Teaser

The “trailer” might come off as overdramatic, but so does the concept for Post Secret, and that has turned out to be one of my longest running go to web sites.

 

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