Ice Cube and Eames

'...plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A, I gotta say, Today was a good day!'

In possibly the most unlikely pairing ever, here is Ice Cube celebrating his home city and one of it's more famed Architects: 'Eames'. Here Cube can be heard likening the choice of mass produced elements in design to sampling in music. Certainly I think that any true art reflects the developments in society as a whole and this is one of the reasons why Hip Hop has been such an important art form and cultural development...it is the ultimate in post-modernism. The beauty is, it came about in a pure and innocent way. I doubt Afrika Bambaattaa cared too much about the parallels!

Moving 'offhiphop', here is more info on Charles and Ray Eames:
http://firstrunfeatures.com/eames/


ashwan note: source for this post came from a Guardian article by Steve Rose which is available HERE