Monthly Archives: August 2009

Cosign Presents Kid Color

Cosign Presents is back with Chicago’s most lovable DJ, Kid Color.  Kyle Woods came out to Chicago from Cali with nothing but a keen taste for 70s disco and a dream of making the kids dance.  And dance they did as Kyle painted the town with his high energy sets everywhere from Wicker Park’s sweaty [...]

Original Projects, A Social Network For Ideas

Have an idea that you want to see realized but need that extra collaboration or motivation?  Sign up and post your invention, business or art on the new innovative social network Original Projects.  Project centers around helping young thinkers find others of the same ambition to help bring their dreams to reality, find a home [...]

Optic Overload: Zach Wolfe

Who decides what’s relevant in hip hop now?  Why ask… hip hop hasn’t always been the artistic force that it once was in the golden age.  But its a new game now, with a new aesthetic and new drive to stay relevant, innovative and still make a little money all at the same time.  Enter [...]

Cosign Exclusive - Julian Schnabel’s “Miral” Production Shots

Exclusive production shots from “Miral”, the new film by Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Basquiat) staring Willem Dafoe and Freida Pinte shot on location in Jerusalem. Here, we see 1st AD Sebastián Silva (Babel, Titanic) directing the extras on a controlled set in the heart of Jerusalem as Willem Dafoe (playing Eddie) [...]

Wah Do Dem

Wah Do Dem, means “what they do” in the Kingston, Jamrock vernacular.  Its the name of a new feature from young Brooklyn filmmakers Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner who decided to pack up a Panasonic HVX200 and some great actors when Ben won a raffle to take a luxury cruise over the beautiful island of [...]

Akai vs. Ableton - the APC 40

Two front runners of digital production, Akai and Abelton have colabed to bring the first dedicated midi controller for Ableton Live, the unmatched production software for live performance.  Designed by the same engineering team responsible for Akai’s iconic MPCs, the APC40 features a slew of fancy lit buttons (109) nobs (16) and faders (9) that [...]