A new friend to the twbe, and a old friend in general, Photographer Gregg Greenwood. Check out his work!

Do you really want to know how the record business works? Do you care? It’s kind of like the “the wizard of oz” effect, what’s behind the curtain stays behind the curtain. Well if you’re in for an interesting read, check out this piece in the guardian by Simon Napier.

“The life and crimes of the music biz,…EMI, like Decca, manufactured hi-tech equipment for the government, mainly for hospitals - brain scanners and the like. None of these companies had been set up first and foremost for music; they made records for extra profit. It was a wonderful trick they’d learnt. They bought vinyl cheaply; added a label, a song and a sleeve and sold it expensively.”

We stumbled across this on NIN.

Announced last week, open for business today, medical marijuana Vending machines. Two medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles have installed pot vending machines. They’re accessible 24 hours a day and monitored by security guards. From Thrillist:

Images Maps 2048After cinching up your doctor’s consultation, hit an AVM location to get your prescription approved, fingerprint taken, and a prepaid credit card loaded with your profile: dosage (3.5 or 7 grams, up to 1oz a week) and strain preference (choice of five, including OG Cush and Granddaddy Purple, the mildly hallucinogenic forebear to Prince). Then day or night, all you do is hit a machine and walk away with enough vacuum-sealed, plastic-encapsulated cheeba to adequately treat your illness.

Via The Thrillist.

Taryn Simon photographs some of the most top-secret, highly restricted areas in the world. Her latest book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, took four years to assemble as the photographer gained access to research facilities and government offices hidden from the public. “I felt like I was discovering a new landscape in America, a new terrain, morally and politically,” she said.

The book dives under the surface of society with images of decomposing bodies and radioactive waste, deadly viruses and an outdoor recreation area for death-row inmates. The result is an all-access pass into America’s best-kept secrets.

Transatlantic Submarine Cables Reaching Land(pictured above).
These submarine telecommunication cables extend thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean before reaching this endpoint in Avon, New Jersey. They transmit as many as 60 million simultaneous conversations. “There’s a humor because the cables are so important, yet they look so unguarded and unimportant,” Simon said.

Photo: Taryn Simon, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Via Wired.com

You need to know who Christian Marclay is. Born in 1955 Marclacy is presently a visual artist and composer based in New York. Marclay is a former lecturer of video collage and sound at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducted a summer workshop.

Marclay’s work explores connections between sound, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramaphone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collage, critic Thom Jurek describes Marclay as perhaps the “unwitting inventor of turntablism.” His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the mid-1970s, was developed independently of hip hop’s use of the instrument, and though not well-known to mainstream audiences, Marclay has nonetheless been described as “the most influential [turntable] figure outside hip hop.” Via Wikipeidia.

Check out the mini documentary of You Tube.