The BBC on Sodcasting - Music on Mobiles

Sodcasting, according to Pascale Wyse of The Guardian is "the act of playing music through the speaker on a mobile phone, usually on public transport. Commonly practiced by young people wearing polyester, branded sportswear with dubious musical taste." If you live in London and have ever ridden round on public transport before the chances are you've probably encountered 'sodcasting'. Whether you think it's rude and antisocial or it doesn't bother you that much, with more and more youths getting access to mobile phones 'sodcasting' is here to stay.

Read more about sodcasting in these interesting pieces from the BBC and The Guardian.

Got *Food?

This is the story of The Food Guy, told to me by Likkle P . The Food Guy is the dude who sells and delivers full cooked meals including desert around south London, you can ring him or just get at him via bbm. The menu switches up everyday and he advertises the new menu on his BBM status, its genius.

*Just to inform you the term "Food," is often used to describe drugs commonly weed/skunk etc by a lot of young people.

Here's the story told by the main man Peigh

"So I'm hungry in the studio and no one really wanted to go out and get food.

As all that’s on offer, is chicken and chips, chicken and chips and MORE chicken and chips.

Of which I’d been grazing on for the past 8 dayz, even had some at 6am#dontjudeme.

Yer so after major deliberation I suggested Deliverance I was promptly stopped in my tracks by the engineer who pulled out his Blackberry and said;

“Fuck dhattt I got the *food guy”

To which I then replied;

” I don’t smoke fam.”

He then proceeded to show me a contact on his Blackberry who was in fact called The Food Guy.

For a humble £5.50

I got Chicken Curry with Rice and Peas.

A Pineapple punch.

And Pineapple Crumble for pudding.


So if you’re ever in south and stuck for idea’s on grub.

This is your guy.

He kinda looks and sounds like Fat Nasty.

Its kinda surreal, but it is what it is.

He gets it in.

THE FOOD GUY:

BB: 260E215D

NUM: 07581 347 381

Imagine that a dude rolling around with masses of grub in his whip [car] delivering it to your whereabouts for a really reasonable price, its like legal drug dealing. Without the police, jail and shady people.

Large up Peigh each and every.

Kreayshawn: As seen by Super Duty Tough Work

You may or may not have come across Kreayshawn, the 21 year old 'cinematographer, editor and rap beast' who's latest music video 'Gucci Gucci' did the blog rounds last week. I must admit at first I wasn't sure what to think. All I saw was an eccentric looking hipster white girl rapping poorly over a stripped down instrumental. Although she looked fly-ish, appeared to be having lots of fun and I recognized a few of the guys from Odd Future in the video, the music did not impress me. It did however intrigue me; as artists such as Lil B and Soulja Boy have shown, nowadays talent and good songs are not necessarily a prerequisite for success. With nearly 1,500,000 hits in just over two weeks, Kreayshawn must be doing something. I'm just not quite sure what. Then I came across this post on SuperDutyToughWork which helped to explain the phenomena which is Kreayshawn. Rumoured to have just signed a $1 million deal with Sony, this won't be the last you hear of the Cali resident.

G-Shock x Nigel Sylvester and other BMX videos.

G-Shock have just put out a new commercial online featuring BMX rider Nigel Sylvester. The video, directed by 13th Witness features the Nike sponsored rider looking cool and pulling off gnarly tricks in slow motion whilst riding around the mean streets of NY. We must admit we're a tad disappointed in this latest offering from 13th Witness, especially when we're used to watching videos like the one below:

Last week we mentioned Nike's project The Pool, where they've created a special BMX park in a soon to be demolished swimming pool in Dagenham. The video below features a recap of how the course was built and some great footage of riders destroying The Pool at a competition held there. Nike showing they still know how to make a splash.

'Keisha The Sket' and other Facebook novels written and published online.

Previously on this blog we've written about websites such as Amazon, Booklending.com and Lendle.com where you can download books for free to read on your Kindle or phone. What I didn't know until last week was that quite a few young people are writing, publishing and distributing books online using the many facets and features of Facebook.

'Keisha The Sket' is a fictional account of a young girl from North London and her romantic escapades. Written in a colloquial dialect, 'Keisha The Sket' was orginally written and distributed via text message, which would explain the spelling and grammar:

" 'Yeh so wot u on?' Ramel allerted me. He was 1 peng boi dt i had been chatin 2 4 tym. "

'Keisha The Sket' and similar tales have inspired a host of other people to write their own online novels using Facebook's Notes application. Here are a few of the more popular ones:

Memoirs of a Mean Girl From London (Jezzies, Love, Rumours and Tragedy)

The Girl Who Cried Rape

Treshaun - My Life

Whilst traditional press circulation dwindles, it only makes sense that young people are finding new innovative ways to create and share stories, text messaging and Facebook being just two methods. For example a friend of mine Maletsatsi Monareng, a 24 year old poet from South London has just published her own paperback poetry book which is available to buy online.

You heard it here first, expect to see lots more creative writing distributed through social networking applications and other digital avenues, in the near future, coming to a screen near you.

By Nick Bamigboye

Don't Watch That TV Relaunch!

Don't Watch That TV are back with a brand spanking new website! Its looking good and even though there a few bits to be ironed out there's big big plans for the site. The Dont Watch That Team are on there grind [working hard] to bring you a diverse range of music, photography, features and videos from a forever widening range of contributors, there's even talk of a Rubypseudo Network channel in the works. Check it out!

DONTWATCHTHATTV

The Popular Kids and N$RR

I've stumbled across these guys via facebook. The Popular Kids are a clothing brand comprising of 3 guys from 3 different continents who have come together to express themselves through clothing that represents them to the fullest. Assisted via 365 media [a young videographer] TPK have also released their own music videos and have quite a following.

N$RR are a hip hop collective from London said to be inspired by Japanese and Hip Hop culture, this group of young londoners are a talented bunch. A whole team including videographers, skaters, photographers, tattoo artists, dancers even actors and actresses. There's a fucking lot of 'em and they too like The Popular Kids have a strong following on Facebook and tumblr...watch out these dudes. They're doing alot.