Tyra Banks is now a single, self-serving woman. According to The New York Post , the America’s Next Top Model host has split with Brooklyn businessman John Utendahl after three years of dating – and subsequently embarked on a quest to find herself and her faithful roots in Bali. “Tyra has gone away with a female friend and has been island-hopping, visiting Bali and taking a spiritual retreat,” a source tells the newspaper . Have no fear, though fans. We’re sure Banks will return and make everything about herself again in no time. [Photo: WENN.com]
‘I have never met anyone from Roc Nation,’ ‘X Factor’ whiz kid tells MTV News. ‘I’d love to, but I’m not signed right now.’ By Rob Markman Astro Photo: MTV News Yes, they both rep Brooklyn to the fullest, but Jay-Z has not signed “X Factor” ‘s rap wunderkind Astro. “I don’t have a check or a contract, so as far as I know, I’m not signed,” the 15-year-old MC told MTV News when he stopped by our newsroom on Monday (December 5). Last week, rumors that Hov signed the L.A. Reid-backed Astronomical Kid began to swirl online but the upstart rapper shot down the buzz. “I have never met anyone from Roc Nation. I’d love to, but I’m not signed right now to anyone,” he said. “Nobody ever hit me up about that — just go on the Internet and it’s up there. But I’m not signed as far as I know.” On last Thursday’s episode, after giving a Michael Jackson-themed performance the night before, Astro was eliminated from the competition. Not that he was sweating it. “Hey, man, it’s for the better,” the MC told “X Factor” host Steve Jones during his exit interview. “The only reason I’m mad is ’cause I don’t get to see my girl that lives in Cali, but I will be back. … I love my time. I’ve gained a lot of fans. People got picket signs tonight. I wish y’all the best of luck.” Astro wowed judges with his initial audition for the show when he rapped his own original composition, the viral hit “Stop Looking at My Mom.” And during his “X Factor,” run he took hip-hop hits like Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” and Jay-Z’s “Show Me What You Got,” effectively making them his own by adding new lyrics to the already popular beats. Now that he is off the show, the Brooklyn whiz kid is looking forward to getting back into the studio and eventually signing a deal. “I just want to be in a place where I’m comfortable 100 percent. I just want to be able to release my music, do my movies, [and] everything is fair,” he said of his dream deal. “I just want to be able to have fun doing it. I don’t want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I’m doing for fun. As long it’s not a job then you’re straight.” Related Artists Jay-Z
Mitt Romney is airing his first ad in Iowa. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Washington Wire Discovery Date : 01/12/2011 01:34 Number of articles : 2
Make: Live‘s Hackerspace Roadshow takes you on a virtual journey to hackerspaces around the globe. Above, makers from NYC Resistor in Brooklyn, NY demo their projects including an Inspector Gadget inspired pop up book, a TV-B-Gone NES Light Gun, remote controlled HAM radio base station, and stylish RFID-blocking wallets. Subscribe to the Make: Live Podcast Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : MAKE: Blog Discovery Date : 01/12/2011 19:00 Number of articles : 2
Here’s a video of a beautiful sequence of light projections that appeared on the side of the Verizon building – “Bat signal style” – while tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street participants marched across the Brooklyn Bridge tonight. It’s the latest thing, called ” laser gaffiti ,” it was quite breathtaking and you really must see the whole thing. Still images at Grave Wisdom. Open thread below… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Crooks and Liars Discovery Date : 18/11/2011 02:19 Number of articles : 2
Brooklyn MC hints at possible involvement in West’s G.O.O.D. Music compilation album. By Jocelyn Vena Theophilus London Photo: Getty Images Given their similar aesthetics and emotional rhymes, it’s no surprise that Theophilus London and Kanye West have plans to team up — on something. When MTV News caught up with London this week, he teased that he and Yeezy have some sort of collaboration on the horizon. “He’s working on his G.O.O.D. Music record soon,” London said, not mentioning whether he’s involved in that project. “I’m just happy to be affiliated with him. We email each other back and forth and tip each other off on different fashion things. He’s just a good friend. Right now, I can’t say anything else about that, but he’s just a good friend.” West announced last month that he was working on a G.O.O.D. compilation album , even citing a time frame for when he wanted to drop it. “Goodmusic. The album. Spring 2012,” he tweeted , providing just enough information to get fans excited for what’s to come. These days, Yeezy is on the road with longtime pal Jay-Z on the Watch the Throne Tour . London already caught the show and has only the kindest words to say about it. “I went to check out the Watch the Throne Tour; it’s amazing,” he said of one of two Madison Square Garden shows. “I recommend it.” While Kanye tours with Jay-Z and decides what his next move with London is, the Brooklyn MC is riding the wave of being included on the “Breaking Dawn- Part 1” soundtrack with his song “Neighbors.” “When they asked me do it, I was very privileged and pleased. I wanted to do a super emo song about neighbors and how neighbors are very important,” he said. “A lot of people are freaking out, but it’s a whole new fanbase for me. I’m just so stoked that all these cute girls that like vampires hear my song.” What kind of collabo do you want to see between ‘Ye and Theophilus? Share your ideas in the comments! Related Artists Theophilus London Kanye West
Make: Live’s Halloween bash featured action stylist Anney Fresh, electrically-enhanced pumpkins aka “hack-o-lanterns”, and a costume parade by attendees at the party hosted by MakerBot in Brooklyn, NY. Matt and Becky open the show with an homage to The Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Craftzine.com blog Discovery Date : 27/10/2011 20:10 Number of articles : 2
Jennifer Aniston’s banana routine may be a tease in Horrible Bosses , nude on DVD and Blu-ray, but Mr. Skin knows some sexy scofflaws who aren’t quite so skingy. Nude on Blu-ray, Jennifer Jason Leigh shows her tasty twosome as tragic trollop Tralala in Last Exit to Brooklyn , and Chloe Sevigny mainlines T&A as a drug dealer’s dame in Mr. Nice , nude on DVD and Blu-ray. Also nude on DVD, racktastic redhead Doira Baird will put a ten-gallon hat in your pants in the Western South of Heaven, and Maria Bello will make you swell-o baring beautiful boobs in Beautiful Boy . Plus, stick out your thumb and hitch a ride with the 80’s softcore sinsation The Hitchhiker , which features nudes from stars like Shannon Tweed , Kelly Lynch and Virginia Madsen and hits DVD this week for the first time ever: Writer Hubert Selby Jr. penned the book that Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), a story of borough losers, drug addicts, whores, and transvestites, is based upon. And base it is. There’s hardly an attractive character in the plot. When you begin rooting for the child molester then you know you’re in dangerously depressing territory. One-time-only skinster Maia Danziger provides half the nudity here. The other half goes to Jennifer Jason Leigh playing another one of her light and airy roles as Tralala, a hooker who is gangbanged outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. All aboard! Rhys Ifans plays Howard Marks, AKA “Mr. Nice”, the Welsh drug smuggler whose empire was built on connections with the IRA, the Mafia and MI6, in the British biopic Mr. Nice (2010). Chlo
Mos Def — multitalented rapper/singer/actor — has always looked for new challenges as a performer. Now he’s readying his next project — two concerts with this weekend with the acclaimed Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra . And TheUrbanDaily was there to see it. Peep the exclusive video below of his rehearsal of the song “Revelations,” arranged for the orchestra by award-winning composer Derek Bermel , and performed under the direction of Alan Pierson. (The drummer, Nate Smith , is sick!) Mos Def and the Brooklyn Philharmonic will be performing together twice, on Saturday, October 8 at 12:30 p.m. at the Restoration Rocks Festival in Brooklyn, NY; and on Wednesday, October 12 at 7:00 p.m. at the World Financial Center in New York City. Click here for details and here to purchase tickets.
Gay xenophobia in Serbia, burgeoning “Occupy Wall Street” protests gained labor unions joining the fight along with 700 arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The New Civil Rights Movement Discovery Date : 02/10/2011 02:40 Number of articles : 2
