If you think the title of this DVD sounds like a struggling foreigner's attempt to describe his trip to New York City during the formative years of a cultural revolution, you would be pretty much spot on in your assessment. Filmed in New York City in 1986, 'Big Fun in the Big Town' chronicles [...]

Pick-Up Basketball, New York City
Description:
700+ Playgrounds; 500,000+ Players; 8,000,000 Stories . . .
DOIN' IT IN THE PARK: PICK-UP BASKETBALL, NYC is an independent documentary directed by Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau. The film explores the definition, history, culture, and social impact of New York’s outdoor summer b-ball scene, the worldwide “Mecca” of the sport.
In New [...]

A Film & Video project in Torino, Italy by Paolo Campana 
A trip into the grooves, Vinylmania is a 75 minute feature length documentary about an object that has never lost its soul: the vinyl record. An epic love story, the film is filled with fascinating characters and internationally recognized artists including PHILIPPE COHEN SOLAL (Gotan [...]

On April 18th our good friend and homie Ceazs Hernandez helped organize an art/design/jewelry exhibit on the rooftop of the 1010 Wilshire. With free entry and free beer/wine, it got pretty crackin' and the vibe was right.
Artists Ray McCray (one of my favorite LA Jazz-related artists, with the immaculate Miles And Monk In The Sky [...]

CHARLES MINGUS: LIVE IN BELGIUM, NORWAY, SWEDEN 1964 – reference copy – Full Footage.
Charles Mingus – Bass
Eric Dolphy – Sax
Clifford Jordan – Tenor sax
Jaki Byard – Piano
Dannie Richmond – Drums
Johnny Coles – Trumpe
Live In Belgium 1964:
So Long Eric
Peggy's Blue Skylight
Meditations On Integration
Live In Norway 1964:
So Long Eric
Orange Was The Color Of Her
Dress, Then Blue Silk
Parkeriana
Take [...]

I recently came across the Minimoog sofa, and had to find out who was behind it. After checking out the Woouf! site, I found a bunch more dope designs/pieces that they had created and a little background behind the company and artists. The artists are Escif, the Brosmind duo and David M. Buisán, who all have a different background and bring [...]

This is s really cool line of designs by Birmingham, UK-based designer Rob Ricketts. I don't have too much info on him or the designs, but I'll share what is on the site where I found the work. 
“Program Your 808"
• 4 poster series
• 2011
A series of informative posters detailing how some of the most notable [...]

Mat Miller is a Oxford, United Kingdom based designer/illustrator whose I just recently came across. I was immediately a fan. Information on him was scare, besides an artist statement that appeared on multiple sites. Some of his pieces, like his Streaming Eye entry into the Creative Review Illustration Annual, have a nice write up behind the [...]

 
 
Here's a short, but sweet, documentary on records collectors, audiophiles, pressers of long lost Rock records and an inventor who takes his records to the park. Such an array of characters condensed into a much too short film, it can only leave you wanting more. 
A portrait of Vinyl collectors and producers and aficionados. From the [...]

 
 
"This is a jam session…"
This is a jam session, directed by Gjon Mili, and released by Warner Brothers in 1944. Jazz heavyweight  Norman Granz was editor and the techniques used to produce the film were groundbreaking at the time. It is rare footage of the performers, for most of the musicians it was their only appearances [...]