I am currently crying robot tears…

Jack Spade and K-Swiss have announced a collaboration surrounding the first reprinting of Take Ivy, a book of photography featuring shots of sharply-dressed bourgeoisie during the 1960s.

There’s no disputing that Ricky Powell was there at the golden age of hip-hop – he’s got the photos to prove it, tons of them, and a few stories to tell as well. In the early 90s he earned himself a cable access show called Rappin’ With The Rickster. VHS recordings of the shows have been restored to DVD for this newly released Rappin’ With the Rickster DVD courtesy of NY connoisseurs, Five Day Weekend.

Honestly, there isn’t enough room to list Brian Eno’s great contributions to music, art, design, politics, technology and conceptual thinking. The man just doesn’t stop: he’s signed a new record deal with always-forward electronic label Warp Records, with a full-length release planned for November, entitled Small Craft On A Milk Sea.

“Detroit Lives” is about, as Knoxville puts it himself as we see him drive around Motown in a mighty classic muscle car, an attempt to “see what’s goin’ on other than all the bad stuff you here in the news.”

The largest graffiti festival hits the walls of Islington, London this weekend featuring Europe’s top artists. Coined as the “International Wall Street Meeting,” MOS will showcase aersol styles from France, Greece, Germany, Spain and across the UK along with fresh live music.

The romance of Sunday league football is the subject of Reality Football by photographer, Alan Powdrill. A real labor of love, it has taken him three years to complete. The images are a reminder that the Beautiful Game isn’t about 7-figure salaries, it’s about grit and determination and that unexplainable buzz you get from kicking a football about, and getting covered in mud.

It’s difficult not to be seduced by these images of innocent teenage romance from director Tyrone Lebon, who was commissioned by Mount Kimbie to create a visual score for ‘Would Know’, the first single off their hyped debut album, called Crooks and Lovers.

The Monotron by Korg looked like a genius move when we first encountered it: a genuine analog synth, priced for recession-era hipsters at a cool sixty bucks! But them we got our hands on an actual Monotron, and…. WOW.

London’s most beloved art-house theatre, Curzon Soho is currently exhibiting The Gainsbourg Catalogue – a group illustration show paying homage to the film and musical works of this eccentric icon.

Duke University’s exhibition, The Record, is a massive examination and expansion of the circular, dusty, untenable, near-perfect vinyl-pressed recording. The show has every medium under the sun: photography, painting, performance, sculpture, installations, video, and, but of course, sound.

Gavin McInnes is a dickhole. Seriously, screw this guy:

Nearly three years ago The Bordoms, the mutable beast, set up a concert under the Brooklyn Bridge that they called 77 Boa Drums, a forest fire of seventy-seven drummers playing in a magnitude worthy of their task; to bind humanity together in one giant amazing drum circle inspired by Japanese creation myth and galactic metaphor.

The songs beachy background dah’s, it’s bitter spine and the Rod Stewart-type break takes us all back to an interesting little place.

Nerds, unite: we’ve found some vintage videogame buried treasure.

Graffiti sculpture? Taking the Graffiti Analysis project into flabbergastingly innovative new territory, Sculptures makes tangible the movements and end results of graffiti.

The Art of the Stompbox looks at the industrial and artistic development of pedals throughout the last century, with a special focus on the livingly designed and technologically precise pieces of art now being produced.

サッカン, or Sakkan, is a painter I know nothing about – I’m asking for information as much as I’m giving it. If anyone has any further information on this artist, please forward it along.

Someone loved Mortal Kombat so much they got a bunch of well-known actors together over a weekend to shoot a trailer-as-pitch for a reboot of the franchise. The video now sits with over four million views, but is that enough to get Warner Bros (the rightsholders) to take a second look?

Obviously, Kurt Cobain is one of those voice-of-a-generation types. Therefore, it’s not surprising that there’s now a museum show devoted to his cultural influence. What is surprising is how freakin’ cool the show—entitled “Kurt” and running at the Seattle Art Museum until September 6th—ultimately comes off .