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Joe – Worst Case Scenario from his new album Signature

Joe Lewis Thomas (born July 5, 1973), usually credited simply as Joe, is a seven-time Grammy Award-nominated American R&B singer and record producer.

Joe’s extensive background in gospel music has allowed him to produce his albums as well as sing on them. A native of Georgia, Joe later moved to Opelika, AL; since he was the son of two preachers, he spent much time in church singing, playing guitar, and even directing the choir. Influenced early on by gospel stars like The Winans, Commissioned, and Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Joe grew to love soul legends Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye plus contemporary stars Bobby Brown and Keith Sweat.
Now that Joe has a new home with Kedar Entertainment/Universal, where he will release two new albums, he says, “It’s incredible that now I get the opportunity to, I don’t know, maybe pay R. Kelly back in some sort of side bar kind of thing.” He does stress however, that he did not know what was truly going on until after he left Jive six months ago.
Joes released his highly anticipated album “Joe Thomas, New Man”, independently on September 23, 2008. Another album, titled Signature, is due out on July 7, 2009 in Japan and the US. He’s is also working on a record with singer Ayoade Adeyinka

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Official video for Aly & AJ’s “Potential Breakup Song”. Check out Aly and AJ online at www.alyandaj.com.

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I’ve taken my hyperactive editing style a step further! Hope you’ll enjoy it!

If you want to download the audio from this video, go to
http://www11.nrk.no/urort/user/?id=36781
It’s a norwegian page where I uploaded some of my music. (Lytt = Listen to, Last ned = Download)

Oh shit, I forgot to put this in the video, and now it’s too late to change it:
Thanks to my friend Mattis for letting me borrow the drum kit. Also thanks to the person letting me use her piano, but she didn’t want her name here

And now; to you people saying I’m ripping off Michel Gondry: I’ve seen his video with the drumkit called “Drumb and Drumber”. It’s here on youtube somewhere. His video and my video are different because of one very important detail: Gondy filmed himself doing drumming sequences and LOOPED them, while I hit each drum and piano chord seperately and edited them together. This is a very big difference if you have any idea about video editing. Actually, there is a short sequence of 5 sec where he does cut the beat, but I didn’t notice this until recently, which makes me an idiot. But I still don’t think it’s a rip off, only similar. SO one question to you guys: If I write a song which includes the words “love” and “tight”, am I ripping off The Beatles?? I met Michel Gondry in Milan, Italy and asked him. He didn’t really give me a clear answer, but it seemed like he thought so. Either that or he didn’t like my clothes. Lol.

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http://www.erosentertainment.com/
Bollywood.. Anytime, Anywhere!

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Just a fun little thing i did.

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Mike Polk brings an honest take on R&B seduction.

Want to bump this in your ride? Download “Ooh Girl” for free at:
http://www.runawaybox.com/songs/HonestR&B.mp3

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This segment profiles the artist known as KAWS, former Graffiti (tag) artist turned painter and designer of limited edition toys and clothing. This segment also features some cool clips of KAWS’ art, displayed in Pharrell Williams’ Miami Home and Kanye West’s latest album cover and billboard. 

You can catch his next exhibition,
“KAWS, The Long Way Home,” February 21,— April 04, 2009 at the Honor Fraser Gallery in LA

http://www.honorfraser.com/?s=upcoming
or
http://www.honorfraser.com 

“I just started simply through graffiti and drawing on my skateboard and painting on walls and getting that small recognition,” said KAWS, known to his family as Brian Donnelly.

KAWS  graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a BFA in illustration in 1996. After graduation, KAWS briefly worked for Disney as a freelance animator painting backgrounds. He also contributed to the animated series 101 Dalmations, Daria and Doug. 

He began his career as a graffiti artist growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Later moving to NYC in the 1990s, KAWS started subverting imagery on billboards, bus shelters and phone booth advertisements. These reworked advertisements were at first left alone, lasting for up to several months, but as KAWS’ popularity skyrocketed, the ads became increasingly sought after.

In addition to NY, KAWS has done work in Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo. 

In the late 90s, KAWS began to design and produce limited edition vinyl toys, “an instant hit with the global art toy-collecting community,”especially in Japan, where this genre is well respected and widespread. More toys and later clothing were made for Original Fake, a recent collaborative store with Medicom Toy, in the Aoyama district of Tokyo where an original limited edition product is released each week.

KAWS has also participated in other commercial collaborations with Takahashi for Undercover, snowboard projects with Burton, and sneakers with Nike and Vans.

His most recent collaboration was with Comme des Garçons.

KAWS’ acrylic paintings and sculpture have many repeating images, all meant to be universally understood, surpassing languages and cultures. 

One of KAWS’ early series, Package Paintings, was made in 2000. This series, entitled The Kimpsons, subverted the famous American cartoon, The Simpsons. KAWS explains that he “found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people’s lives; the impact it could have, compared to regular politics.”

In addition, KAWS has reworked other familiar icons such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man and the Smurfs.

Through all of his projects, KAWS has successfully blurred the line between fine art and mass-produced merchandise. He uses his products to allow his imagery to infiltrate a larger audience than that of the fine art world.

The artist is currently an active member in both the commercial and fine art communities.

His work is included in the traveling exhibition “Beautiful Losers,” which started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and will be traveling through 2009 throughout the US and Europe.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (forthcoming)

Plastic Culture, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Great Britain

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Album Cover, 808s and Heartbreak, by Kanye West
Also check out:
http://www.original-fake.com

http://www.kawsone.com

Video: © 2009, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved No Infringement is intended

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GLEE GLEE GLEE!!!!!!

I aknowledge that I do NOT own this music, and I STRONGLY reccomend that you buy it on iTUNES!

ENJOY THIS GREAT VERSION!

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