The Embassy: Archive

Apr 1st

Empire Strikes Back →

India’s Tata Motors buys both the U.K.’s Jaguar and the U.S.’s Land Rover. It drinks their milkshake. (It drinks it up.)

Apr 1st

O Canada, Have You No Balls?

We just willingly surrendered our right to protect our own borders. Click.

Apr 1st

Mar 31st

Mar 30th

Rob Swift

Swift educated himself with the classic turntable beats of the early ’80s New York playground pioneers while listening to funk and jazz at home. “My dad was a salsa and meringue DJ,” Rob says. “My brother learned how to scratch and do all the hip hop deejaying stuff on my dad’s equipment (without his permission) and I’d sit there and watch him. My older brother...

Mar 29th

Mar 28th

1 note

Mar 28th

Mar 27th

“I’m posting a link about the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.”

– The Ministry of Truth

Mar 27th

“It wasn’t meant to be a retaliation, it was meant to be a…...”

– The Ministry of Truth

Mar 27th

“I’m gonna create an anti-Muxtapes online community”

– The Ministry of Truth

Mar 27th

“One of [Hillary] Clinton’s laws of politics is, if one candidate is trying...”

– Bill Clinton in response to Hillary’s controversial “Red Phone” ad.

Mar 26th

Muxtapes?

Muxtapes. The Tumblr community loves it, but for some reason I’m put off by it. It’s almost too cool. Upload tracks, send a link and there you have it; a perfectly sculpted mix tape that loads quickly and can be accessed by anyone, anywhere (even, I think, on a mobile.) So what’s up with the copyright restrictions? This is like a painfnul mirage: the kind of web invention...

Mar 25th

Watch

My childhood: Mario Paint. The first videogame I ever played was also the most ridiculous; captured beautifully by the fearsomely witty game-geeks over at GameTrailers and ScrewAttack. PS: Why the fuck does the ‘cancel’ button never fucking work? Fuck.

Mar 25th