UCLA’s Hip-Hop Congress and Broccoli City Organic Lifestyle presents an intellectually stimulating panel discussion that explores the materialistic, misogynistic, and violent images portrayed in hip hop music videos. A celebrity hip-hop-affiliated panel will be present to contribute their opinions on these important social issues. Read more…
Stussy’s documentary of the great Hip-Hop producer, J Dilla continues with the last of the three part series. Part 3 continues to tell the story of the producers life in Los Angeles after his move from Detroit. Read more…
Gotcha!!!!
You’ve seen it in futuristic movies and now it’s here. Recognizr is an application that lets users point an Android smartphone at a person and instantaneously view their online presence. It premiered last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Developed by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), the new technology allows users that opt into the service and submit a photo to the computer-vision program. If I point my phone at you, Recognizr scans your face, sends a 3-D model signature to a server which matches the face to a photo in its database, and sends back the name along with social media links, including your Facebook, Skype, Linkedin and Twitter account (oh yeah, sh*t is real). Read more…
