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Q-Tip Listening Party at Turntable Lab L.A.

Q-Tip will be host­ing an In-Store Lis­ten­ing Party for his new album, The Renais­sance, Wednes­day night, Octo­ber 15th 7-9pm at Turntable Lab L.A. Entry to the event is FREE. There will also be FREE beer and giveaways!

Turntable Lab L.A.
424 N.Fairfax Ave
Los Ange­les, CA 90036
323–782-0173

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Hollywood Says Don’t Vote

With the count­down to prob­a­bly one of the biggest choices Amer­i­cans are going face in the years to come, the Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tions will be here in no time. In an effort to get the word out for peo­ple to vote for their future, Declare Your­self1 part­nered up with some of Hollywood’s stars to get the mes­sage across. In this case, they did well using “reverse psy­chol­ogy”:

A cou­ple of bits that stood out for me are the ones from Jonah Hill and Sarah Sil­ver­man. Com­edy is com­edy. It’s just bound to get laughs but at the same time, tell the truth. “Truth in jest” right?

Any­ways, GO VOTE! Not only does it give your thoughts more weight when debat­ing things rang­ing from the Econ­omy to Global Warm­ing, but it also allows you to say “YES” when asked in the mid­dle of the debate, “did you vote?”

A cou­ple of ways to reg­is­ter online:

Voter reg­is­tra­tion dead­lines begin this upcom­ing Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 4th. Go do it now before its too late. It’ll only take a cou­ple of min­utes to reg­is­ter. Remem­ber, don’t com­plain if you can’t even exer­cise your right to vote. I hope that helps.

Update
Only a cou­ple more days till Novem­ber 4th, Declare Your­self pro­duced part 2 of the campaign:

  1. Declare Your­self is the national non­par­ti­san, non­profit voter ini­tia­tive aimed at reg­is­ter­ing America’s 18-year-olds to vote in the 2008 pri­maries and gen­eral elec­tion. DeclareYourself.com is your place for news and infor­ma­tion about the can­di­dates and issues, answers to your ques­tions about reg­is­ter­ing and vot­ing, and an easy-to-use online reg­is­tra­tion tool. Declare Your­self will give mil­lions of first-time vot­ers an active voice in their democ­racy & prove that they are a force to be reck­oned with.
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Ferris Bueller Parade Re-Enactment in NYC

Any­one? Any­one? … Bueller?

Def­i­nitely a clas­sic, Fer­ris Bueller’s Day Off is prob­a­bly one of those sto­ries that just can be applied to most gen­er­a­tions. With that said, it seems that New York artists Mina Karimi and Kara Suhey are recre­at­ing the parade scene from Fer­ris Bueller’s Day Off in the Green­wich Vil­lage Hal­loween parade. After a failed attempt early Sep­tem­ber due to weather, the duo will try again this upcom­ing Octo­ber 31st.

Project Bueller 2.0 is going to be much larger than orig­i­nally planned. We are now look­ing to recruit at least 2000 secret agents to cap­ture the spirit of the scene along the parade’s 20 block path.

(Adher­ence to the 80’s busi­ness casual dress code is optional as long as you make up for it with stud­ied 1986 dance moves and unre­strained vocal enthusiasm.)

  1. Email projectbueller@gmail.com to participate.
  2. Check out projectbueller.tumblr.com for devel­op­ing details and entertainment.
  3. Be excel­lent to each other.

Love,
Mina & Kara

Dang… this is going to be awe­some. Any­one down to go? haha =)

PS. If you don’t have the movie yet for your col­lec­tion, def­i­nitely grab one for years to come:

Google’s Project 10^100

Project 10100 is a call for ideas to change the world by help­ing as many peo­ple as possible.

Here are the points in order to participate:

  1. Sub­mit your ideas by Octo­ber 20th. You may do so by using this sub­mis­sion form.
  2. Vot­ing takes place on Jan­u­ary 27, 2009. Google will be pick­ing the top 100 ideas, of which 20 semi-finalists will be selected through pub­lic vot­ing. From there, Google advi­sory board will then select up to 5 final ideas.
  3. After the final ideas have been picked, Google will bring them to life. They will com­mit $10-million to imple­ment the projects.

I like how Google is doing this. Hope­fully, its suc­cess­ful enough that not only a lot of peo­ple con­ceive great ideas but also help the World. If any, I wouldn’t be a bit sur­prised if those 5 or so final­ist show up on TED Talks.

More details avail­able at project10tothe100.com. Good luck every­one! Let’s change the World positively.

Kidrobot Glass House Swap Meet

Kidro­bot is hav­ing their sec­ond Glass House Swap Meet this upcom­ing Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 20, 10am-3pm. It will be held at:

Glass House
200 W. Sec­ond Street
Pomona, CA

To high­light:

  • $5 shirts and hats
  • $15 bags
  • $20 hood­ies
  • plus a chance to meet the Toy Baroness herself”