Lazy weekend of videos for you people out there.  Here’s a little documentary on just how those glorious LPs get made and wind up making you so happy.
I think it would be amazing to own the master record of any of a number of my favourite albums.  There’s something special about having the very first edition of something.

Marwa Yasmine Abdou is a young Canadian photographer with a surprising amount of talent.  And it’s been a long minute since we’ve even tried to do an art-related post, so I figured now was the time to change all that.

This one is sort of lazily made, but is still interesting for those of you who are still catching up with the trend that vinyl is making a serious comeback.

Vinyl Revival from Max Henstell on Vimeo.

It’s rare to find females into the art of beatboxing, so it’s always nice to see someone who performs as well as this girl.  To be fair, she does choose some pretty bad songs to include in her little set, but there’s no denying she’s got some skills.

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing.

[Update: Her name is Julia Dales, and she's a 17 year old Canadian.  She's also the winner of the first ever Beatbox Battle Online World Championship.  Props to her!]

We don’t offer a lot of fashion-related coverage here at 4080, but in the interest of mixing things up and expanding our horizons, here’s a list of the 12 best cartoon inspired shoes from nicekicks.com.  From sneakers inspired by Quagmire to kicks based on all five robots on the Voltron Vehicle Team, the list has some pretty fresh creations.
Check ‘em all out here.

It’s become a tradition that Dave Barry will release his “year in review” article each December, and I’ve started to look forward to them.
This year is no exception.
Some highlights:
-In politics, Barack Obama addresses the issue of why, in his 20 years of membership in Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, he failed to notice that the pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is a racist lunatic. In a major televised address widely hailed for its brilliance, Obama explains that . . . OK, nobody really remembers what the actual explanation was. But …

Maybe the most professional of the early hip-hop film classics, Beat Street was released in 1984 and tells the story of aspiring superstar* b-boys from the South Bronx.  Unlike its contemporaries – think Wild Style and Krush Groove – Street transcends camp and, even today, remains more than a mere curiosity of hip-hop’s original Golden Age.  A genuinely decent film, it will make you wish you were present for that fleeting period when being a b-boy meant dabbling in all four of hip-hop’s elements and fights were settled on the dance floor rather …

A couple of days ago our boy Twice dropped a link to a movie called Freestyle – The Art of Rhyme.  It got me thinking about some of the classic hip-hop movies that’ve been made over the years, and I figured it’d be dope to post a couple of ‘em here on 4080 for your viewing pleasure.
The first in the series is perhaps also the best: Wild Style.  The story of a graf artist called Zoro, the movie features some of the biggest name in early hip-hop.  The best part …

Yeah, it’s a terrible pun.  Which is unfortunate considering how dope Paul Dateh and his unique take on hip-hop are.  A classically trained violinist, Dateh attended Los Angeles’ Thornton School of Music where he was introduced to improvisational jazz and eventually hip-hop.  Check out the video to see his unique, but undeniably ill, take on a number of hip-hop classics by Tribe, J5 and Ghostface.

Courtesy of Soul Bounce.

I can’t tell you how much I love the internet.  It’s the eternal time-waster, but it also lets me get exposed to things I never would have seen otherwise.  Playing for Change is just one such example.
This movie (brought to me courtesy of Metafilter) is fascinating.  The filmmaker went to a variety of different countries all over the world, and had different musicians sing/play along to the song Stand By Me.  He then layered the tracks together and created a pretty amazing song.  Check it out below.