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Please excuse this interruption in programming, The Publics will return with a new site in early February. IN THE MEANTIME, check the PBLKS tumblr for a fresh dose, daily.

Eek-A-Mouse: Triple Love

Dert Floyd: Untitled (from the west-side of the moon beattape)

Scotty Coats & Wes the Mes: Double Fisted (Prins Thomas Disko Miks)

Drums of Death: Dodfucksupanescorttune

The election of Vancouver’s first Gen-X mayor comes at an auspicious moment, as the luxury condos that have come to define our skyline are now knee-deep in a great tide of misery that’s spilling in through the peace arch. While Hawaii’n-punch profiteers like Gordon Campbell seek to reassure us that we’re all snowflakes, the creeping proliferation of for-sale signs and the deserted holes of aborted mega-developments are harder to ignore than a pregnant ex-girlfriend.

Classic pre-riots Cube with production from Boogiemen, samples courtesy of BB-King, James Brown, Parliament and The Five Stairsteps.

Documentary about men who have made life partners out of sex dolls. Amazing collection of ultimate weirdos.

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Playlist:

AZ – Talkin’ Gangsta
Quantic Soul Orchestra – Something that’s real
Madlib – dirty crates snippet
Skream/Warrior Queen – Check It
88 Keys – Another Victim
Scientist – Steppers
LoDeck & Omega One – Other Worlds
The Ohio Players – Funky Worm
Onra – Dark Sea
Jay Electronica – Exhibit A
Michna – Third Orbit
Skeletons – Boom (Money)
Sixtoo – Jackals and Vipers in envy of man [part 8]
Scientist – Chemistry
Jay Dilla – Airworks
88 Keys feat Bilal – M.I.L.F.
Oh No – Basement Interlude
Jay-Z – Lost Ones
Oh No – Higher
Oh No feat Roc C – Move
LoDeck & Omega One – Still Cambodia
Lee Scratch Perry – Black Panta
Sam Sparro – CottonMouth
Dub Syndicate – Wellie
Busy Signal – Tic Toc
Michna – Levitation
Jay Dilla – U-Love
Odyssey – Our Lives are Shaped by what we Love
Oh No – Gladius

If you haven’t seen any of the Dirty Handz films, this is a good place to start. A massive underground success, the films document various high-profile graffiti crews throughout Western Europe.

From the Dirty Handz Productions site:

The other specifically European aspect of the graffiti scene is the voyage. Thanks to the InterRail pass in particular, international exchange among the communities of passionate train writers occur frequently. This allows them to benefit from the concentration and and exceptional diversity of the different urban, regional and national transportation networks, with the hope of being able to collect rolling trophies.

Copenhagen

Stockholm

Hamburg

Munich

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Re-designed my tumblr today…oh boy, when the new pblks.com site gets up the internet is going to be in for some serious business!

When I’m not eating neon chickenwings in Koreatown, drinking americanos on Main, or having a pint in Gastown, I can generally be found lounging in one of the countless pho spots in Vancouver’s discreet and relatively unknown Vietnamtown district. Here are some snaps of the neighbourhood I took a while back.