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An exhibition called “Illegal Art” was held last July 25 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery. It was created in order to support the unsuccessful legal challenge to Congress’ latest copyright extension. This whole idea is created by Carrie McLaren, the exhibit’s curator. The artworks being display consist of featuring audio and visual exhibits, a full length CD, and several films, which are recontextualized by certain artists using other people’s artistic creations without permission. The whole idea is, in fact, to create a feasible enviroment for an artist to express himself/herself without any copyright permission.

To know more, check the article about this museum exhibit here.

This person might not have anything to do with arts or design but… Maybe art is. This is Talent’s Text section anyway. Anyone ever heard of Nujabes? A guy with lotsa cool hip-hop music in his mind. He is also the person behind the soundtrack for anime Samurai Champloo. That is how I discovered his music anyway.

Here’s what they gotta say about him at Last.fm :
“Jun Seba is a Japanese hip-hop music producer who records under the name Nujabes. He is also an owner of “tribe,” a record store in Shibuya, Tokyo, and runs Hyde-Out Productions, an indie record label. He has released two CDs in Japan, Metaphorical Music in 2003 and Modal Soul in 2005.

He has also contributed music to the soundtrack of Samurai Champloo, an anime which blends a setting in feudal Japan with modern anachronisms, especially hip-hop music.

In addition to Japanese artists like Shing02 and Minmi, he has collaborated with underground American hip-hop acts Cyne, Apani B-Fly, Five Deez, Substantial, Fat Jon and with British rapper Funky DL.

His music is known for a strong cool jazz influence, frequently using samples from artists like Miles Davis and Yusef Lateef.

He is also a member of the production duo “Urbanforest”, an experimental collaboration with Nao Tokui (appearing on the Lady Brown 12″).”

For his Discography, check this link, Discogs.

P/S: Did you notice how he get his name Nujabes? His real name is Jun Seba. If you reverse each word individually and then join them, you will get Nujabes.