An illustration for Seinfeld nerds

I’ve just seen this via @chrispetescia on Twitter – a Seinfeld illustration. Click here to have a look and click here to see the reference list. Very impressive.

I had quick look around around the site (it’s called You Fail and it’s a collection of design work by Kiersten Essenpreis)  those illustrations are on and I like these pics of He-Man getting his bowl cut refreshed and Skeletor at the dentist.

The Hippest Trip in America (Soul Train documentary)

ORIGINALLY FROM HEAR THE SOUNDS BLOG

Update:  Megaupload has been fayedunawayed here’s the Soul Train doc on Youtube. The video below has been removed but if you click here you can still check it in segments…

Don Cornelius: Gamechanger. RIP.

Here’s a really good VH1 doc on Don Cornelius’ Soul Train with lots of talking head interviews with Cornelius, Chaka Khan, Eddie Levert, Aretha Franklin and Nelson George (every documentary on black music must have input from Nelson George, it’s the law) as well as some fantastic archive footage. Recommended viewing! I don’t think I got that across properly so I’m going to have to go all caps – RECOMMENDED VIEWING.

Also, a Time Life 9-DVD box set of Soul Train episodes has just come out too which looks tip top.

Part 1

Part 2

(download both parts before you unrar)

The only chance we got to see Soul Train in Britain was via the mid 80s UK version that was hosted by Jeffrey Daniel from Shalamar. The music that was on it was the soul stuff at the time like Aurra, Light of The World -basically the boogie stuff that people are feeling now, as well as clips from the 70s shows. I’ve got three video tapes of this series somewhere – if I ever get the time to figure out how to convert those into the digital then I’ll share it with you. In the meantime here’s a clip of the SOS Band doing The Finest on 620 Soul Train from Channel 4.

Behind The Beat: Late 80s hip hop BBC TV programme

Here are some clips from a programme I used to watch when I was a youngster – Behind The Beat, part of BBC 2′s youth programme schedule called DEF II that was Janet Street Porter’s brainchild. Other programmes that they showed was Snub TV, Rapido and Dance Energy. It was also the slot to watch The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air -around 6pm on weekdays. I used to have a lot of the Behind The Beat episodes on video tape but I think they’ve all gone now. Watching the Public Enemy at the Hammersmith special while eating my dinner turned my 11 year old brain inside out.

Massive shout out to Gizmo from Skratchworx and TheOriginal808Beats for putting these clips up on Youtube.