LOS ANGELES PEOPLE: We are pleased to announce the chance for one lucky egotripland reader to win a pair of tickets to UCLA’s JazzReggae Festival 2013. Taking place on Sunday May 26th and Monday May 27th, it’s a 2-day extravaganza of music, art, food and more. Read on for details and contest rules. …MORE
1. Prison Yard to Paris Photo LA: How an Art Market Hustle Put a $45K Price-Tag on Prison Polaroids.
Los Angeles prison photo collection sells for big bucks. But will the same resources be dedicated to finding out who’s actually in these photos and who took them? By Pete Brook.
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Ricky Powell hits NYC landmark Washington Square Park to feed some squirrels and do a little girl watching then visits a gallery showcasing one of the Rickster’s Beastie Boys portraits in the front window, all captured in Super 8 by Jason Goldwatch.
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Last month, our own resident soul 45 connoisseur “Chairman” Jeff(erson) Mao dropped a guest set at Toulouse, France’s Toulouse Soul Club – one of the best soirees of its kind in the world. Although, honestly, there isn’t really a soiree of this kind elsewhere in the world – unless there’s a rare soul night at which the residents drop Funk Flex bombs and Jadakiss’ cackle between their impeccable selections (like team TSC does) that someone didn’t tell us about. …MORE
Gensu Dean is a beat-ician wholly dedicated to the traditional codes of making tracks. Armed with hip-hop’s classic piece of production hardware, the SP-1200, and his 7,000-piece vinyl collection, the Dallas, Texas product has earned a growing legion of fans …MORE
What’s freakier than erotic Japanese cartoon art? Erotic Japanese cartoon art from the wild and crazy ’70s. Behold the eye-popping work of esteemed artist Keiichi Tanaami in his provocative short animated film The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors. …MORE
Really feelin’ this one. The sizzlin’ “REDEF Remix” of K-Def‘s “The Fundamentals” (featuring the talents of Blu and Quartermaine) does not appear on the recently released The Exhibit LP, but it’s certainly worthy of inclusion on anyone’s playlist. …MORE
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