Recent Notes on Mexico

Ladies with Lassos

Four women known as the Cowgirls of Color have found a niche within the rodeo community.

By LINDSAY PEOPLES

Photographs by CHADWICK TYLER

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Jonas Lindstroem made it look sexy

sorry, not sorry

27 Pulse survivors

Family members and first responders share their stories. Read their stories here.

"That night at Pulse, he was missing. We were celebrating our birthdays together. I didn't know where he was. When I got outside of that I ran like crazy and I forgot I was with Chris. I went back. I didn't care. I went back and I found him in the m… — "That night at Pulse, he was missing. We were celebrating our birthdays together. I didn't know where he was. When I got outside of that I ran like crazy and I forgot I was with Chris. I went back. I didn't care. I went back and I found him in the middle of the road, screaming. We hugged each other like we never hugged before." – Ramses Tinoco, survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, friend of Chris Brodman.

NVR Forget

MUVA

The Smackos disco45 12" remix of this one particular track from the soundtrack of the 1985 "The Falcon & The Snowman" movie, first heard in the Legowelt Resident Advisor mix from a few years ago. Check those melancholical bassoon clarinet patches from the EMU EMAXII and little blobs of Other People Place influenced style modulated SH101 riffs. Get it at http://nightwindrecords.blogspot.nl/2016/08/this-is-not-america-smackos-emax.html

"Wendy from Wendy's"

http://lobstertheremin.com/album/youll-understand https://www.facebook.com/RossFromFriendsMusic https://soundcloud.com/rossfromfriends https://www.facebook.com/distanthawaii

The Hot New Hip-Hop Producer Who Does Everything on His iPhone

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a talk about "design thinking": practice and paradox. One of the moderators complained (and made assumptions) about younger artists not being versed in classical techniques (i.e for fillmmakers it would be splicing actual film together or using a bolex as a oppose to using premiere to edit or using a digital camera).

The moderator hated how "bad" design has become. My eyes rolled in the back of my head so hard.

I agree, there is too much noise - there's mediocrity in all disciplines. However, the democratization of technology has allowed those previously without access to traditional ways of producing art, a way of creating outside of their disciplines.

Process is important, but so is performance and intent.

Anyway, read the full article on Steve Lacy here