Finally decided to blow the dust off of my Muxtape account and put it to work. So here goes… no real order, just a simple (and very random) playlist of tracks that I’ve been amping lately: The Gureala Muxtape. Btw, feel free to favorite me!

(sidenote: Wordpress 2.5 is starting to get a little glitchy on me! Anyone else having any issues?)

In addition to WaxPo, Monocle is another mag that I’m checking for pretty hard these days. The blend of World Affairs, Business, Culture and Design in each issue is just right for a curious minded individual like myself, and the look and feel (literally) of the mag is unlike any others that I’ve seen before. It’s almost like reading a newspaper in mag form.

Recently, I stumbled across this fascinating, albeit lengthy, behind the scenes essay w/flicks by Dan Hill (Monocle’s former Director of Web and Broadcast) that details that creative process that went into constructing Moncole’s online presence–from layout and fonts, to details on camera types and editing software used for online video production, to podcasts and mobile content, it’s all covered. Definitely worth the read.

[H/T: Mag Culture]

Obsessing over records & Reading other blogs

a.k.a. SLACKING (with a purpose in mind).

Longest break I’ve taken since the first post went up last November.

Shame on me.

I’ll be back behind the boards this week!

Ha!

[via Nah Right]

A behind the scenes look at one of the best music magazines on the scene right now, Wax Poetics:

[H/T: Darien]

So I’m watching one of the major cable news networks this morning, you know, getting my a.m. dosage of politico speak, when all of a sudden the attention shifts to the political views of none other than 50 Cent. Talk about a moment straight out of left field; one complete with the standard (non-hip hop) media pronunciation of his name, “Fiddy”. For a minute I thought it was some kind of April Fool’s joke. As it turns out, 50, who was a Hillary Clinton supporter earlier on, is now throwing his support behind Barack Obama:

I applaud 50 on the move, however, the really odd (and in some ways interesting) thing about all of this, is the amount major media attention that this story’s received–CNN, Wall Street Journal, LA Times (not to mention, the various media outlets that have mentioned the story during their on air reports). It’s pretty crazy. I wonder though, does this story matter to them because it’s 50 Cent (outspoken, controversial rapper) at the center of it all? Or because it’s 50 Cent (outspoken, controversial rapper and the establishment’s unofficial hip-hop representative) at the center of it all? You have to wonder.