Mashed Up Album Art

Randomly typed this into Google and ran across this site... Thought it was worth sharing...


here is the artists story:

A little while ago I put a bunch of Wu-Tang (both group and solo) albums on my computer. 21 of them, in fact. I inherited some mild OCD from my mom, and as anyone who has seen my iTunes can attest to, it manifests itself in weird ways. I need to have decent-quality album art for every album on my computer, which currently equals over 90 gigs. The problem was that almost all of the Wu-Tang album art was horrible (ODB's two albums being the only real exceptions) -- no offense to the original designers, but as iconic as they might be they're looking pretty dated these days. So, armed with inspiration from what Olly Moss and others are doing (as written about by me here, and later by Kottke here) and a book of Blue Note Records covers, I set out to remake all 21. The first seven are here (click for full-view):

Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers - Really Good

Super nice mix. Some parts are less Beatles than others, but it all works together and compliment the Wu very well...

From the NYTimes Interview with the artist: “Uzi (Pinky Ring)” has got a lot of samples on it. There’s “Glass Onion,” then it went to an Arif Mardin version of “Glass Onion,” then when Ghostface comes in it goes to “Getting Better,” then RZA comes in and it’s a Ramsey Lewis version of “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey.” Then Inspectah Deck comes in and it’s a cover version of “Hey, Jude.” Then Method Man comes in and that’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” And then GZA’s at the end, and that’s “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road.” I’ve seen on blogs, somebody say something like, I’ve only heard two Beatles samples that I recognized in here. And to me that’s quite a good thing – you have to listen extra hard to hear them. I was purposeful not to take “Love Me Do” and put Wu-Tang with it

Skateboarding Video's from the Past

Recently found a great site that has compiled all those classic skateboarding video's from my past in one place. Perhaps not the most creative name, but still a good site - its called skatevideosite.

In the spirit of reliving the past, here is one of my favorites - the 'Falling Down' video from 101.... Love the pants and damn - thats a young eric koston!

The Complex Soundboard: Click On It!

Thanks to Matty P, an old high school friend for pointing this out ...

Blazed and Confused - Snoop re-writes ol' Heini commercial

“Como Se Dice…Como Se llama? (OBAMA, OBAMA)”

It's been 48hrs - OMG this is amazing! Get the lyrics and MP3 here.

A statistical analysis of the Rap game

see more detailed analysis here.