Track Listing:
Talib Kweli Ft. Kanye West and Roy Ayers - In The Mood
Wu-Tang - Take It Back

Kage-e was commonly used to entertain guests at parties during 19th century Japan. The pictures are comprised of two parts: a silhouette image (viewed first) that resembles an easily identifiable object, and a real image (viewed second) that reveals the silhouettes true identity.

According to the manifesto on jl.incrowd’s Flickr set Vintage classical album cover graphics, “It was the pioneering graphic designer Alex Steinweiss, who first had the idea of ‘album cover art’. Prior to his efforts for Columbia Records beginning in 1939, the covers to multi-disc 78-rpm ‘album’ sets of records were fairly generic - often referred [...]

Recent years have seen street art and its central figures become as mainstream as all over print tee shirts and French electronica. Today, mega-corporations are increasingly incorporating wheatpastes into their marketing mix and doing their best to cash in off the art form’s caché. Two weeks ago, the mythological Banksy, with corporate funding from Eurostar, [...]

Painted in 1819 by Japanese physician Yasukazu Minagaki (1784-1825), The Kaibo Zonshinzu Anatomy Scrolls contain 83 images based on Minagaki’s analysis of over 40 bodies that were donated to science after being decapitated for committing criminal acts. As mentioned on Pink Tentacle, “Unlike European anatomical drawings of the time, which tended to depict the corpse [...]

Barcelona is bright and beautiful. Its architecture, culture, beaches, restaurants and public spaces are world-class. Locals are warm-spirited, gentle and accommodating. Time moves slower here. Nobody cares where you work or how much money you make. It’s what you do with your life outside of work that matters. People pursue their extracurricular interests, and work [...]