Imaging Apartheid, a project I’ve been working on for the last few months is getting set to launch this Wednesday evening at Casa del Popolo. Despite my long-standing beliefs on the issue (and on the implicit ideological implications), taking a vocal stand on this; by calling apartheid apartheid and working actively for the cause of Palestinian liberation, is not an easy position for me to take. Which in my mind, makes it all the more important to do so now, clearly, firmly, and lucidly.

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The Otesha Book: From Junk to Funk! was one of the first books I ever designed from start to finish (on 100% post-consumer stock and printed with vegetable inks no less), circa 2004, and I’m still very proud of it.

Six years on, the Otesha Project (official site | facebook page) just posted a pretty little photoset of the books hanging out in the wild and I was reminded of all the hard work and fun I had while designing and producing it in collaboration with Colin, John and the Otesha girls. This was a great, efficient, effective and worthwhile project that is still paying dividends (of the social variety) today. Thanks Otesha!

More about the book here.

Beautiful, intriguing, crafty and smart work by Alex Egger at Satellites Mistaken for Stars. Really loving the hand drawn type on the site, looks like a lot of work…

I’ve been really enjoying this sublime mashup by San Francisco DJ wait what for the last few months, and recently found out while checking his site that the inevitable law suit has come down and the album is no longer available for download.

“…a small part of me hoped that the music industry would have seen the value in spreading a piece of art that melded two disparate performers’ work together, thereby introducing each artist to a new audience, but they must’ve been too busy suing 9-year-olds downloading mp3s to have figured that one out….”

Nonetheless you can still enjoy the full album on his Sound Cloud page, it’s definitely worth the listen.

I Built Myself A Metal Bird – Thee Silver Mt. Zion from Constellation Records on Vimeo.

Going to see them this Friday and Saturday at the Ukranian Federation. If anyone wants to meet up for pre/post drinks, please hit me up. I’m gonna be as happy as those little kids, can’t wait!