Visual Culture Archives - Page 5 of 6

Visual Culture: Q+A with Suze Webb of Shimmy Shimmy & No Ice Cream Sound

Words by Erin MacLeod To the internet, Shimmy Shimmy is a thoroughly interesting, dancehall-minded blog of the same name. To the real world, they’re producers of events, a range of equally dancehall-mind... Read More...

Visual Culture: Jamaica Reggae Film Festival

Words by Jesse Serwer It's been a big year for the intersection of Caribbean music and movies, from the smart reggae-and-calypso soundtrack in British director Stevan Riley's outstanding West Indies cric... Read More...

Visual Culture: Classic Limonious and Jamaal Pete Cover Art

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Our doops Scratch Famous (or is it Selector JD?) over at Deadly Dragon Sound recently went deep with an art historical reasoning on the significance of artists Jamaal Pete a... Read More...

Visual Culture: Animated “Bad Influence” From Mental Chung

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Jamaicans.com West Indian animator Reinardo "Mental" Chung of Mental Chung Creative Lab has been generating lots of attention in the past month or so with the release o... Read More...

Visual Culture: Wax Poetics Reggae Issue

Words by Jesse Serwer Our friends at Wax Poetics have focused their attention on reggae before but for the first time they've devoted an entire issue to Jamaican music from the front page to the back. I... Read More...

Visual Culture: Nicola Vassell Interview Part 1

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, photo by Martei Korley In case you haven't heard us drop her name before, Nikki Vassell is one of our favorite people. The world at large may know her as fashion model, sta... Read More...

Visual Culture: Stussy x Jamaica

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton If you hang out with the cool kids you may have already heard about the new Greensleeves First 100 Covers book from Stussy and the T-Shirt line it inspired, both featuring c... Read More...

Visual Culture: Q+A with RepJA’s Prince Graham and Omar Thomas

Words by Jesse Serwer Marrying U.S.-style streetwear sensibilities with the energy and aesthetics of dancehall's colorful dance crews, clothing label RepJA has created signature T-shirts for Tek Weh Yuse... Read More...

Visual Culture: Base Kingston

words by Eddie STATS Houghton To our knowledge, the new-brand Base Kingston--located at #11 Upper Park Manor Plaza, Kingston 8--is the only premium street-style menswear boutique in Kingston (possibly in... Read More...

Visual Culture: Darhil Crooks, Part few

words by Eddie STATS Houghton Our epic Q&A with the art director of Esquire magazine (and Gargamel music!) continues in Darhil Crooks: Part II, the Electric Boogaloo...in this segment, Mr. Crooks gets int... Read More...

Visual Culture: Darhil Crooks

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton We decided to profile Darhil Crooks on Large Up because we were pretty sure you didn‘t know that the same cat who designed album covers and tees for Buju Banton also happened t... Read More...

Visual Culture: Irie Myrie

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton When he's not repressing classic dancehall 45s on his Gold Shop label, respected colleague Dan K. is parring with elder Brooklyn statesmen like Irie Myrie, the go-to flyer d... Read More...