Snoop Dogg - Third Monk

Jan 5, 2015Jun 17, 2016

A$AP Rocky: SVDDXNLY – VICE Documentary (Video)

“SVDDXNLY” chronicles the ascension of one of raps brightest young stars, A$AP Rocky. From home videos and interviews with friends and family, to the very first seminal moments of his career caught on tape, Rocky takes viewers behind the scenes into his life as he takes A$AP from Harlem, to the world.

A$AP Rocky: SVDDXNLY Part 2

In part two, VICE takes a look around A$AP’s tour bus studio and Rocky opens up about his late brother.

A$AP Rocky: SVDDXNLY Part 3

In part three, we learn about the genesis of the A$AP Mob and Rocky shows us around his house.

A$AP Rocky: SVDDXNLY Part 4

In part four, Rocky hangs out with fashion icon Jeremy Scott, learns a “secret handshake” form Kathy Griffin, and soaks up some game from Snoop Dogg himself.

A$AP Rocky: SVDDXNLY Part 5

In the final part of “SVDDXNLY” A$AP reflects on his success and looks to the future. We also hang out with Schoolboy Q, Riff Raff, Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa, and Chanel Iman.

Aug 31, 2014Jun 17, 2016

You’re Dead! – Psychedelic Afterlife Animation with Flying Lotus

‘You’re Dead!’ is a shamanic pilgrimage into the psychedelic unknown of the infinite afterlife.

A sonic, visual and metaphysical fusion of technological innovation and technical virtuosity that amounts to a transcendent, mind-expanding plasm that could only exist between our world and another.

The enduring universe of Lotus’ supporting cast has expanded and evolved to feature in order of appearance, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Captain Murphy, Snoop Dogg, Angel Deradoorian, Thundercat, Niki Randa, alongside mindblowing original artwork by Japanese comic book artist Shintaro Kago.

The album isn’t about the end, it’s really the beginning.

It’s a celebration of the next experience.

It’s the transition and the confusion.

It’s not ‘hey you’re dead.’ It’s ‘hey you’re dead!

– Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus’ new album You’re Dead will be released on Oct 6, 2014. Preorder at iTunes or Google Play

Jul 21, 2014Jun 17, 2016

The Distortion of Sound Quality in Music (Documentary)

The Distortion of Sound is a documentary about the decline of sound quality and how technology has changed the way we listen to music. It will open your ears and inspire you to reach for richer, more soul-stirring musical experiences

The last two decades have seen a striking decline in the quality of sound and listening experience. Compressed music, MP3s and streaming, have diminished the quality and flattened the emotion.

Marketing gimmicks and convenience now take the place of excellence.

Feb 26, 2014Jun 17, 2016

Succesful Stoners With Influence

Public perception of cannabis is changing, it’s time to identify people who have used cannabis and achieved high levels of success or influence.

This list of stoners is based on “power to influence cultural and social attitudes, political clout, individual wealth, and a person’s media profile” – not just on popularity or support for marijuana policy reform.

For more public endorsements of cannabis, check out our list of influential people who actively support decriminalization.

	Jon Stewart, The Daily Show Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high? – The Daily Show
	Bill Gates, Microsoft As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice… – Bill Gates Biography
	Lebron James, NBA Superstar James also revealed he and his teammates smoked marijuana one night after getting access to a hotel room in Akron. – ESPN
	George Clooney, Actor The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there. – The Weed Blog
	David Letterman, Late Show I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night. – Cannabis Culture
	Robert Downey Jr, Actor Robert Downey Jr. said he started smoking weed at age 8. – NBC New York
	Hugh Hefner, Playboy Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses. – Drug Policy
	Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot…and that’s how I got to know the people ‘half in’ the society of my high school and we waved at each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes. – SF Chronicle
	Rihanna, Singer Kush rolled, glass full… I prefer the better things! – Daily Mail
	Johnny Depp, Actor I’m not a great pothead or anything like that… but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol. – Playboy
	Oliver Stone, Director I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast. – T he Raw Story
	Bill Maher, Real Time Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana… About 50,000 times. – Youtube
	Morgan Freeman, Actor Never give up the ganja. – The Guardian
	Angelina Jolie, Actress The one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly – I hate feeling like that. – Metro
	Snopp Dogg, Rapper It makes me feel the way I need to feel. – Esquire
	Matt Damon, Actor The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and step-father. – Weed Quotes
	Barack Obama, President When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point. – Youtube

> Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Users | Marijuana Policy Project

Feb 13, 2013Jun 17, 2016

Psychedelic Technicolor Pop Icons, Technodrome1 Art Gallery

Technodrome1 (Joshua Williams), takes pictures of your favorite icons and adds a hit of acid to them. The neon bright color pallet instantly draws you as you admire his images covered in graffiti-like technicolor strokes.

Some of his favorite artists include people from the past and present, pop and not such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basqiat, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Picasso and Mr. Brainwash. He likes to try to illustrate what being a kid was like and hopes those fun aspects are shown in his art.

Some people don’t even know what the fuck it is and that shit blows my mind. Like, “What’s a Technodrome? I’ve never even seen Ninja Turtles.” I don’t even know how that went over your head, for real [Laughs]. That shit is like a staple. Especially for our generation, they had to have seen Ninja Turtles. I don’t know why I fell in love with that cartoon; it’s so weird. What the fuck? Them niggas was all potheads eating pizza and talking about surfing. That shit goes hard and they beat niggas’ asses, b.

Wu Tang Clan – Technodrome1

Beavis – Technodrome1

Daft Punk – Technodrome1

Kendrick Lamar – Technodrome1

Mario Shroom – Technodrome1

The RZA – Technodrome1

Magneto – Technodrome1

I’ve always liked Frank Miller and Jim Lee comics and I always tried to copy their style. Some people are like, “Yo, you can’t do that, that’s cheating, that’s biting.” But now as an adult I realize that I do that unconsciously with stuff I like and it comes out in my work and I’m not even trying to copy somebody. I see something that I think is fly, it stays in my mind and it comes out.

Kid Cudi – Technodrome1

Batman Vs Joker – Technodrome1

American Psycho (Christian Bale)- Technodrome1

The color schemes I use can only be explained in one word: Acid [Laughs]. You could put that in there because I don’t know why I use these colors. Sometimes the colors vibrate and I wasn’t even trying to do that. Like the pieces that look 3-D or with the pieces that have tiles in the background.

Lana Del Rey – Technodrome1

Taxi Driver (Robert De Niro) – Technodrome1

Snoop Dogg- Technodrome1

Griffith (Berserk)- Technodrome1

Rocko’s Modern Life – Technodrome1

ASAP Rocky – Technodrome1

Wednesday, The Addams Family (Christina Ricci) – Technodrome1

Megatron – Technodrome1

> Technicolor Geekery with Technodrome | Girl Gone Geek Blog

Feb 4, 2013Jun 17, 2016

Gregory Bojorquez – Capturing Los Angeles (Photo Gallery)

Gregory Bojorquez has been photographing the people and places within Los Angeles for years. Whether capturing women in Hollywood, his hot lady friends, crime, or musicians, he keeps it raw and in your face.

Take a view of what inspires him to document LA culture in its various manifestations.

Lincoln Heights Park
My friends and I were drinking wine in the park and my friend Michelle started riding a swing. I timed the shot and snapped my Rolleiflex just as she paused at the peak.

No Cruising
This photo was taken at a gas station in Montebello on a Sunday night. Sunday nights in the summer time were cruise nights on Whittier Boulevard, which is about a mile south of this photo. The police started pulling over everybody and harassed them to discourage the cruising. Some of the cops had their guns drawn on the occupants of the low riders as one cop yelled into his speaker that I was in the line of fire.

Snoop
I shot this photo on the street in front of Snoop’s house. He rolled and smoked three blunts in about an hour.

Tony Ward Downtown
I was shooting a suit story of my friend, model Tony Ward for a magazine in Paris that was doing an ‘Icon’ issue. I wanted this establishing shot with the Downtown skyline to tie the spread with Los Angeles.

Jan 31, 2013Jun 17, 2016

The Marijuana Majority, Quotes From Public Supporters of Decriminalization

Marijuana Majority exists to help more people understand the simple fact that supporting commonsense solutions like regulating marijuana sales and ending marijuana arrests are mainstream positions and that there’s no reason those who support reform should be afraid to say so.

	Morgan Freeman, Academy Award-Winning Actor It’s just the stupidest law possible… You’re just making criminals out of people who aren’t engaged in criminal activity. And we’re spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can’t win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It’s stupid – The Daily Beast
	Danny Devito, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Even if one doesn’t smoke pot one has to see the benefits of decriminalising it! – Twitter
	Joe Rogan, Comedian & UFC Commentator People say, ‘Well you can abuse marijuana’… You can abuse cheeseburgers too, you don’t go around closing Burger King… If people…commit crimes while on those drugs they should in fact be punished, but you can’t punish someone for something that hurts no one. – YouTube
	Rosario Dawson, Actress I’m for the legalization of marijuana, absolutely… We’ve got a lot of things that we need to be putting our focus and attention on and it’d be really great to take it off of joints. – CNN
	Carl Sagan, Astrophysicist Is it rational to forbid patients who are dying from taking marijuana as a palliative to permit them to gain body weight and to get some food down?… That’s a highly irrational official government position – YouTube
	Elijah Wood, Actor Wilfred The whole notion that marijuana is illegal is past the point of ridiculousness... To be honest, I’m not really much of a pot smoker… But I’ve always been an advocate. I just feel it should be decriminalized. – High Times
	Quentin Tarantino, Filmmaker It’s slavery… All the reasons that they have for keeping this going are the all same reasons they had for keeping slavery going after the whole world had pretty much decided that it was immoral. It’s an industry. – George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
	Bill Maher, Comedian & TV Host It’s like gay marriage. These things that we believe are third rails, and then somebody has the guts to challenge it and they find out, ‘Wow, the American people actually are ahead of us. – HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher
	Seth Rogen, Actor There are probably 400 people getting murdered at this second, and these two cops are taking an hour to write up my court summons for smoking a joint... That just seemed so…ridiculous to me. – Playboy
	Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California These [recreational marijuana users] are incredibly upstanding citizens: Leaders in our community, and exceptional people. Increasingly, people are willing to share how they use it and not be ashamed of it… These laws just don’t make sense anymore. It’s time for politicians to come out of the closet on this. – New York Times
	Brad Pitt, Actor The drug war is actually being used to hold a portion of our society down... It’s criminal in itself… The only way to end the war on drugs is to take the profit out of it… We have to look at the what-if-everything-was-legal and people were allowed to make their own choices. – Huffington Post
	Bill Clinton, 42nd President I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment. – Rolling Stone
	Snoop Dogg, Rapper Go to Amsterdam where it is legal and you see that the crime rate is nonexistent. There are people riding on bicycles being happy and it’s because of the environment that’s provided by the legalization of marijuana. Hollywood Reporter
	Jack Nicholson, Academy Award-Winning Actor The illicit drug market funds terrorism and — this is a huge problem in America — fuels the foreign gangs. More than 85 percent of men incarcerated in America are on drug-related offenses. It costs $40,000 a year for every prisoner. If they were really serious about the economy there would be a sensible discussion about legalization. – Daily Mail
	David Duchovny, Actor I’m all for legalization. I don’t think it would lead to any more use. Everybody I know, if they want to, has smoked pot. The fact that it’s illegal doesn’t stop anybody I know, so why not allow everybody to benefit from it? It would be billions of dollars of tax revenue. – Shockya.com