![]() ![]() It’s the sort of day-in-the-life poetry that a lot of the most celebrated hip-hop is known for, but coming from a gangly redhead who lives in the middle of nowhere, it feels original, goofy, and a little sad. I grew up in the suburbs, where everyone hates one another, goes “Debt Collector,” a mumbly track that also mentions buying blunt wraps at Cumberland Farms, or “Cumby’s,” a regional convenience store. On his own songs, Lucas raps about living in Western Mass. This fall, he’ll head on tour with Wiki, the Manhattan rapper best known as a member of Ratking. “He’s good at keeping everyone together and giving everyone their shine.” Lucas is also probably the scene’s most visible character. “It’s been his ship since day one,” says Sen Morimoto, a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist who’s known Lucas since middle school. He puts in work every day to keep energy up: booking shows, emailing music blogs, and selling one-off merch pieces via Twitter DMs. Within the scene, Lucas is like some combination of coach, starting forward, and team mascot. Some of their songs seem to want to be taken seriously, and there are plenty of earnest moments in the Dark World catalog alongside all the jokes. A lot of their music is just as ambiguous, not just defying genre but also frequently defying normal standards of taste. It’s a label and a collective, though its members don’t often use those words, choosing instead to call it a “syndicate” or resisting classification entirely. It’s catchy and a little bit dumb, an unpolished afternoon project that sticks with you.ĭark World is a group of 20-plus boys, most of them from the woodsy towns of Western Massachusetts. Filmed on VHS then crudely edited in iMovie, the video is a no-budget, vaguely gothic posse showcase that happens to be set in a barn. The stumbly beat was made by Nick Atkinson, 20, who goes by Ghost, and the song features Cooper’s angelically reverbed voice too. DJ Lucas - is probably the closest thing Dark World has to a “hit.” Lucas raps on the track, his flow growl-like. With nearly 47,000 YouTube views at the time of this writing, “Creme De La Creme” - a murky earworm by 22-year-old Lucas Kendall, a.k.a. It’s avant-garde in an innocent way: the production is tinny and cheap-sounding, and something about Cooper’s vocal just feels off, as if English wasn’t his first language. In the clip, he sits backwards on an old wooden chair and exaggeratedly mouths the words: She say she wanna dance with me/ But she don’t know how. Handy, a baby-faced singer who records as Lucy. For a portion of the video, he wiggles around in a down comforter, like a lumpy caterpillar with a human head.Ī few dozen clips later, there’s an unhinged ballad called “She Say She Wana” by Cooper B. When the song starts, Gods Wisdom’s delivery is coarse and phlegmy and slurred, sounding sort of like chopped-and-screwed screamo or some kind of evil, bedroom-pop approximation of crunk music. ![]() ![]() It opens with footage of sitcom legend Roseanne Barr talking about the CIA mind control in Hollywood. There’s a homespun video for a sort-of rap song called “Christian Dior,” for example, that was made by a 22-year-old named Ruvi Ender Arnold, who records as Gods Wisdom. Find out more at his gallery site.Dark World’s YouTube page is easy to get lost in. Terry prints his photographs on metal and they are available at a reasonable price. Sometimes the wind blows off the mountain, sometimes it blows into the mountain, and on those most special of days, it blows straight up to the sky! The wind makes a wonderful dance partner and Terry snapped shots capturing the beauty created by model, fabric, and wind. Terry grabbed his camera, a model, and 15 yards of fabric he just happened to have lying around, and set out on his adventure. You can see them just off the highway to your right, as you enter from Los Angeles, this little pile of sand as if the mountain split a seam. Terry's first geographic adventure was out to the sand dunes just north of Palm Springs. He found this place to be a dichotomy of people: one set basking in a verdant oasis and the other set struggling in a city that was barren and dry. He was immediately taken with his surroundings both geographical and societal. In the Fall of 2009 Terry moved to Palm Springs from Minneapolis. He may have previously directed performers onstage into great configurations and stage pictures, he now collaborates with the four elements: Wind, Water, Earth, and Fire. Terry Hastings discovered photography after years in the theater and performing arts. The sensual details of this Water series are both crystal clear and beautifully distorted, remininding us of a Southern California childhood growing up in swimming pools. Celebrate the pool parties of Southern California with these gorgeous painterly abstractions by Terry Hastings. ![]()
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