BBC “Once Upon a Time in New York” [1-4]

‘What is Graphic Design’, ‘The History of UK Reggae’. Those are just the BBC features we can remember  right now. If we had a BBC stateside, we’d probably be alot better off. The funny thing is, they do better than we do on our own documovies. And this, maybe the best one we’ve seen, Goes a little something like this…. “The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk” – How the squalid streets of ’70s New York gave birth to music that would go on to conquer the world – punk, disco and hip hop. [Read more...]

The Cartel Colorways Fall 2010

-Antonio Maria Costa (@antoniomcosta) Head / UN Office on Drugs and Crime (via UK Guardian).

$352 billion was at one point the only tangible “liquid investment capital” available to some of your major financial institutions in 2008. 2 years later Bloomberg starts dropping dimes. This was the wildest news you never heard of in 2010. Not surprised. All good, thats what Wikileaks was suppose to be for. Check out the bonus video after the jump. [Read more...]