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How come nobody told me today was Shakespeare’s birthday? Just because he’d be an impossible 455 years old, I guess. I’ve studied some Shakespeare (mostly by force) but never fully embraced the common perception that his works are hard to understand. Almost every sitcom has an episode where a frazzled high school or college student struggles to interpret Shakespeare; it’s almost as common a plot device as a card/pool shark trying swindle a main character out of some money. I guess that’s what made Dr. Foster (Roscoe Lee Browne) so important to the 90’s Cosby franchise: he appears in…
Hip Hop Is Dead., Nerdy Stuff, White People Is Funny. »
No, I didn’t make up that clever play on words. Knitta Please is a “graknitti,” crew and they basically posse out and tag public urban spaces with knitting. All cozies, all the time, and they are not to be reckoned with. I personally prefer yarn to spray paint but I can’t imagine Ramon from Beat Street going out with knitting needles in his hands. I guess another pillar of hip-hop culture has toppled. Check out the sideshow below for more examples…
Hip Hop Is Dead., Nerdy Stuff »
The Fleshmap project studied the lyrics of 10,000 songs from eleven different genres to document how often each body part was mentioned. If you look at the graphical representation of the results, one of these things is just not like the others. Before you say that they wasted time proving what we already know, check out the site and the rest of the project – it’s got a lot of really artistic/nerdy/academic components.
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