We’ve heard the Biggie Smalls mashup with Frank Sinatra, but this beat remixing of Sinatra definitely surpasses the prior mixing. No extra rapping here, only a funkified classic.
FRANK SINATRA BEAT UP BY APPLE JUICE KID
Posted in AUDIO, Music For Your Eardrum with tags Apple Juice Kid, Frank Sinatra, Get Right Music on December 27, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoPosted in Food For Thought, TEXT with tags C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, The Modern Spiritual Problem on December 26, 2010 by ToroToroTokyo
“The present represents a process of transition, and that man may account himself modern who is conscious of it in this sense…”
C.G. Jung’s The Modern Spiritual Problem in “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”
Posted in Food For Thought, TEXT on December 26, 2010 by ToroToroTokyo
Si jeunesse
savait,
si vieillesse
pouvait
GATHER ‘ROUND
Posted in AUDIO, Music For Your Eardrum with tags Hi-Definition, Lupe Fiasco, Snoop Dogg on October 21, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoGLAD TO THE BRINK OF FEAR
Posted in Food For Thought, TEXT with tags On a Certain Blindness of Human Beings, William James on August 13, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoThe occasion and the experience…are nothing. It all depends on the capacity of the soul to be grasped, to have its life-currents absorbed by what is given. “Crossing a bare common,” says Emerson, “in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.”
-William James, from “On a Certain Blindness of Human Beings”
GOOD DESIGN IS FELT
Posted in Art, FULL FEATURE, VISUAL with tags APKNR, Graphic Designer, Nicolas Richard, Samuride, We Do It on August 6, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoCODEORGAN
Posted in AUDIO with tags Codeorgan on August 6, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoWhat would a website sound like? We’re not talking about the choice of music for ambience. Instead, we’re talking about the actual sound that the website would make…if it had a musical voice, that is.
CODEORGAN is a very 1980′s style website that analyses the “body” content of a given site and translates it into song. It first analyses the websites’ qualities, stripping through all codes not found in the A to G scale…qualifies the most frequently used ‘note’…determines which type of synth to use depending on the complexity of the site…chooses a drum loop depending on the ratio of formulas, aaaand a few other things to whip up unique song for your website of choice. Check out the “About” for a more detailed description. Check out the website to ‘synthefy’ like its 1985.
IN THE DARK
Posted in Videos, VISUAL with tags In the Dark, Kyle Couture, Mark Wojda on August 6, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoHere is a followup to a previous post on Mark Wojda and the peak into the underground rollerblading world. The video posted below is a trailer for an upcoming documentary on top rollerbladers from the East Coast U.S.A & the world. The trailer is sure to grab your sentiments!
MOTION
Posted in Art, VISUAL with tags David Krugman, Photography on August 6, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoCHANSON
Posted in Food For Thought, TEXT with tags Chanson, Jacques Prevert on July 30, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoQuel jour sommes-nous
Nous sommes tous les jours
Mon amie
Nous sommes toute la vie
Mon amour
Nous nous aimons et nous vivons
Nous vivons et nous nous aimons
Et nous ne savons pas ce que c’est que la vie
Et nous ne savons pas ce que c’est que le jour
Et nous ne savons pas ce que c’est que l’amour
Jacques Prevert
MARK WOJDA
Posted in Food For Thought, FULL FEATURE, Music For Your Eardrum, TEXT, Videos, VISUAL with tags In the Dark, Kyle Couture, Mark Wojda on June 7, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoFor the interest of full disclosure, the following isn’t about the current state of rollerblading’s industry or the lack of media exposure…It’s simply about what rollerblading has given me and the positive culture and community behind it…Not to mention how badass it’s become…
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HAIKU
Posted in Food For Thought, TEXT with tags Haiku, James Simone on June 7, 2010 by ToroToroTokyoThere is some…contention…surrounding whether contractions are appropriate to use in haiku. To that I can do nothing but attest to the bizarre nature in which this Biblical piece came about – being what you might call the opposite of religious – and so I find myself loathe to change anything.
Sodom (our Lot in life)
“don’t look back,” he says
strong hand taking mine, we run
but i have to know
It’s probably garbage. When I woke up this morning, for whatever reason, I was thinking about curiosity – so strong as to defy logic – and the haiku poured forth in the ensuing seconds before I fully had time to really grasp what was happening.
By James Simone




