Benji’s end-of-year radio shows have always been the sort of mixes you tape or download and keep for posterity, and this year is no exception. We’ve been really enjoying them over here, and we hope you do too. Benji also kindly answered some generic end-of-year questions for us… 



“If you’re looking for all the attraction of being in a biker gang–the camaraderie, the adventure, the shared purpose, the open road–minus all the criminal activity and the long and brutal initiation process, look up your local Moped Army branch.”

Our time is preciously limited, so we’d like to draw your attention to some founts of inspiration information you may not have considered previously. As the cold winter sun sets on Kspace, please move your attention to these unexpectedly great websites we’ve discovered this year.

The Sneakerpedia is hoping to create an open source collections from sneaker enthusiast around the world into one hub that notes each shoe’s respective histories and variations. Who better to promote this, then Bobbito Garcia, author of “Where Did You Get Those?; New York City’s Sneaker Culture 1960-1987” and host of ESPN’s “It’s the Shoes?”

A lot of the time, it’s difficult to understand what goes into creating a great piece of art when you’re only confronted with the finished project. So here are a couple of videos of artists at work. Shhhh. Don’t disturb them.

Are you excited for Tron: Legacy, which is finally coming to theaters this Friday? Have you been following every lead and leak and specious rumor surrounding the film’s Daft Punk-composed score?

On show until February 2011 at the National Portrait Gallery in London is this annual award show for emerging talent in the world of contemporary photography.

Not exactly the catchiest book title in the world ever, but it’s another notch in the bed post for the publishing arm of Stuart Baker’s Soul Jazz records.

Don’t try this at home, boys and girls.

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies – no it’s not a gallery or a clothes shop, which has led to some scratching of heads amongst the inhabitants of the area – would-be monsters can purchase a complete range of comestibles including edible human preserves as well as cosmetics such as Fang Floss and Zombie Mints.

If you’ve never bought a men’s magazine in your life, you’ll be relieved to know that on this day, of all fine days, with a copy of Manzine tucked away in you man-bag, you can finally claim your rightful place alongside the other men of this world.

Arcade Fire gets the Spike Jonze treatment in their new video for “The Suburbs” – his first for the band after their close collaboration on Where the Wild Things Are.

LONDON – The first weekend of the Jazz Festival has seen its fair share of fireworks already. Robert Glasper brought youthful swagger onto the stage: body-popping and covering anything from Herbie Hancock to Nirvana. It was a glimpse into where jazz is headed.

A performance artist in tangent and presentation, androgynous in toto, but principally a thereminist – Armen Ra has built a career that culminated in his album made up of reworked Armenian folk songs.

LONDON – A new generation of urban explorers doesn’t seem to have any ulterior motive other than the buzz of walking through abandoned buildings and the unexpected discoveries that these might yield. The places range from swimming pools to munitions factories to power stations and even the house where they filmed reality TV show, Big Brother.

LOS ANGELES – The first exhibition of Perry’s paintings, drawings and video art opens at the Dem Passwords gallery in West Hollywood this week

Every week, for 52 weeks, T-Shirt Party create a new design that gets printed on plain white, Fruit of the Loom, soft cotton tee, and is delivered to your door, smelling fresh as a newborn kitten.

Does street photography have to be taken on the street? What if you’re standing on the pavement, does that count? And what if you’re in a park where, technically, there are no streets, but you spot a guy dressed up in a canary-yellow bear suit taking pity on a distraught stranger on a bench. What if you take a photo of that?

INFLUENCERS is ultimately the victory of style over substance – fantastic shots of New York and a beautiful soundtrack featuring Robert Glasper and Akiko, but not too many original insights from these well-groomed talking heads.

LONDON – In Kensington Gardens, you may enhance your autumnul reverie by four Anish Kapoor sculptures which you can forage for amongst the foliage like a giant Easter Egg Hunt for adults. Somewhere between a Hall of Mirrors and a satellite dish, the pieces continue the artist’s taste for reflective surfaces and manage to be both futuristic and oddly archaic.