Kuro Enigma

Posted on 7th Jan at 1:03 PM, with 77 notes

$NEWEST/LATEST @miauniverse gif I madeeee:) OK so earlier I said this gif would be different to all the other ones because it had a meaning behind it and I would explain why—> and here goes: M.I.A has released 3 albums so far. Arular(2005) Kala(2007) /\/\ /\ Y /\ (MAYA)(2010) and She is due to release the 4th album (Matangi) this year. In a interview back in january, Maya stated that the new album would most likely sound like a mash up of the all the previous albums and I was inspired by that. IF you look at EACH letter, it represents each era and If you look at each dot between the letters, you can see its the actual cds of each album. The “M”: Arular era, I recycled and edited some of m.i.a’s old stencil work, moved it around and fit it into a “M” I designed and glitterized it. it is followed by the arular cd on the bottom. The “I”: Kala era, this is the one I started with really, I used a still from the birdflu video, changed the shape to look more like an “i” and glitterized it, then I put the Kala CD on top of the “i” to act as the DOT:))))) The “A”: Maya era, this picture was always my favourite of the jamie martinez gifs and when I was looking for something I could shape into a “A”, I immediately thought of this, it took so fucking long but I got there eventually and ofcourse the Maya cd acts as a full stop between the I and A:P and last but not least some shameless promotion for the new album ☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞2012 MATANGI Motherfuckers, throw out all of the garbage and noise you were listening to before, BECAUSE YOU ARE REALLY GONNA WANNA HEAR DIS P.S IF you are seeing this on your dashboard PLZ PLZ PLZ look at it on my tumblr page in full effect/size THANK you Goodnight$

NEWEST/LATEST @miauniverse gif I madeeee:)

OK so earlier I said this gif would be different to all the other ones because it had a meaning behind it and I would explain why—>

and here goes:

M.I.A has released 3 albums so far.

Arular(2005)

Kala(2007)

/\/\ /\ Y /\ (MAYA)(2010)

and She is due to release the 4th album (Matangi) this year.

In a interview back in january, Maya stated that the new album would most likely sound like a mash up of the all the previous albums and I was inspired by that.

IF you look at EACH letter, it represents each era and If you look at each dot between the letters, you can see its the actual cds of each album.

The “M”: Arular era, I recycled and edited some of m.i.a’s old stencil work, moved it around and fit it into a “M” I designed and glitterized it. it is followed by the arular cd on the bottom.

The “I”: Kala era, this is the one I started with really, I used a still from the birdflu video, changed the shape to look more like an “i” and glitterized it, then I put the Kala CD on top of the “i” to act as the DOT:)))))

The “A”: Maya era, this picture was always my favourite of the jamie martinez gifs and when I was looking for something I could shape into a “A”, I immediately thought of this, it took so fucking long but I got there eventually and ofcourse the Maya cd acts as a full stop between the I and A:P

and last but not least some shameless promotion for the new album ☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞☛☞2012 MATANGI Motherfuckers, throw out all of the garbage and noise you were listening to before, BECAUSE YOU ARE REALLY GONNA WANNA HEAR DIS

P.S IF you are seeing this on your dashboard PLZ PLZ PLZ look at it on my tumblr page in full effect/size

THANK you

Goodnight

Posted on 25th Nov at 11:45 PM, with 13 notes

THOSE M.I.A FANS THAT TRIED TO START CALLING EACH OTHER AND THE M.I.A FANDOM…”THE TAMILS”

NOPE!

I’m going to stick to “the worldtowners” thnx

Posted on 10th Nov at 6:27 PM, with 11 notes

Wed, November 7, 2012 ‘M.I.A.’: Humberto Interviews M.I.A. on Her New Book

‘M.I.A.’: Humberto Interviews M.I.A. on Her New Book

by HUMBERTO LEON

On Sunday OC, MoMA PS1, and Rizzoli hosted aCONVERSATION between our dear friend M.I.A. and the museum’s director Klaus Biesenbach on her brand new self-titled art book. Maya and OC go way back; I met her for the first time at the NYC dive bar Max Fish in 2005, when she was in town to promote her groundbreaking album Arular. From that moment on, a lasting bond was formed. In 2008, M.I.A. sold Oakely Run, her limited-edition line of super-bright, body-conscious clothing, exclusively at OC. And in 2010, OC co-hosted the launch party of her third album, /\/\/\Y/\, at PS1.

Maya’s stunning and colorful 192-page tome, which isAVAILABLE AT OC, chronicles her work as an artist and musician from her art school days to her albums, followed by the start of her N.E.E.T. label and the Vickileekx mixtape that gave the world a taste of “Bad Girls.” Maya’s exacting aesthetic vision and her self-reliant approach to creativity is something that we share, and it has always been mutually inspiring. I caught up with her about her book; find out what she had to say below.

Photos by Matt Kelly

Humberto Leon: Let’s talk about the time we first met at Max Fish. I remember giving you a friendship necklace that my friend made for me to give.
M.I.A.: YES!!!!!! When I was at the Kenzo show, the handle on your Kenzo cookie boxes reminded me of it and I told your mum that. That’s how you literally roped me into being your friend, and our lives have been weaving in and out ever since.

HL: In 2008, you sold your limited-edition line Oakley Run exclusively at our stores, and in 2010 we partnered to launch /\/\/\Y/\ at MoMA PS1. What about our creative processes do you think has led us to intersect so much over the years?
M.I.A.: We can hang and you’re not scared of me. I think we are products of the same era, and we try to represent the multicultural face in a changing global clusterfuck. We can both come together, and it’s not competitive or brand, brand, brand. It’s more like an understanding and mutual respect.

HL: Through your music and your visual art, you created your own platform to talk about the Tamils, which no one was doing in the media until Wikileaks forced the world to acknowledge the Sri Lankan government’s crimes. In a similar way, Carol and I have always sought to create a platform for the brands no one is really talking about in order to tell their story, instead of stocking brands that are already out there and that everyone already loves. What has been the biggest challenge for you in telling the story of the Tigers?
M.I.A.: Before I made music, I worked in a shop called Euphoria in West London. Sadly they no longer exist, but they also had a similar vision to yours. It’s great that you’ve fought and won a battle against commercialization by maintaining your identity, but that opportunity doesn’t exist for everyone.

The Tamil situation was a case study in how backers choose what they are going to back. For example, more people were killed by Rajapaksa in a week in Sri Lanka 2009 than were killed by Kony over a 20-year period, but the media backed that situation and 80 million people saw Jacob telling a story on YouTube. But cellphone footage of a Tamil kid beamed straight from the killing field didn’t get measured by the same values.

HL: The war between the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Tigers is said to have ended in 2009. Is it really over? How is the post-conflict era being represented in the international and domestic Sri Lankan media, and how does it continue to affect your family?
M.I.A.: The international media are still kept out and Tamil people are still prisoners in their own home, or lack thereof. The gov’s describes what happened as democracy, but it’s in no way a poster for democracy. The Tamils don’t have equal opportunities in their own country, and they still live in constant fear of being abducted if they speak out. Here’s a VIDEO on the UN debating Sri Lanka’s war crimes.

HL: Steve Loveridge’s forward reminded me of my friendship with Carol, which also dates back to our undergraduate days. Can you talk about how you’ve collaborated together over the years, and what that relationship and process is like? How has it evolved over time as you’ve grown in parallel?
M.I.A.: Well it’s the story of the tortoise and the hare; I run fast, but he wins the race. Then I do life and he comes, stays when I’m having drama, he disappears, then when I really, really need him, he gives me grace.

HL: What was it like going to school at Central Saint Martins in the late 90s? Where did you guys hang out and see shows?
M.I.A.: Steve and I used to get drunk and sleep in the park a lot when we didn’t have money to get home.

HL: What did your dorm look like?
M.I.A.: We didn’t have dorms, but my room was always mad R&B and everyone else hated it. We had another friend who graduated with better grades who later became a stripper, but when we were at college, we used to go to her stripping auditions a lot, so that’s where we used to get drunk.

HL: You contributed an original art piece to our own Rizzoli book, which came out in September and chronicles Opening Ceremony’s past 10 years. How did the work come about?
M.I.A.: At the time I wrote it, I wasn’t writing music but was just writing. I felt I’d seen it all and done it all. Now, I feel like I just started.

Shop the M.I.A. Rizzoli book HERE or in OC stores

Humberto with M.I.A. and Spike at the OC 10-YEAR PARTY

Posted on 4th Nov at 10:44 PM, with 6 notes

M.I.A

RIGHT NOW AS I POST THIS AT THE MOMA PS1 DOING THE ARTBOOK LECTURE.

picture by: https://twitter.com/allisharaman

side note: she is always wearing that yellow jacket everywhere:D its the same jacket in the bad girls vid too

Posted on 3rd Nov at 9:52 PM, with 10 notes

$TAKE 2! NEW @miauniverse gif ! I was going for 3D NO GLITTER OR LAYERING STUFF THIS TIME! considering the fact that I read up about how to do this last night and have never done it before and also its my very 1st time using photoshop….i think its alright tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ *UPDATE: I upload it earlier and it was PERFECT size but fucking tumblr and its 1oookb rule for gifs fucked with me and the gif wouldnt move because of it so I had to resize it about a 1000 times and finally it accepted it, I know its small…but I hope you like it either way, I couldn’t figure out any other to make it move, tried tiny pic and removing every other frame etc. ¨ the full size is on my twitpic page http://twitpic.com/ba1zcw$

TAKE 2!

NEW @miauniverse gif !

I was going for 3D

NO GLITTER OR LAYERING STUFF THIS TIME!

considering the fact that I read up about how to do this last night and have never done it before and also its my very 1st time using photoshop….i think its alright tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*UPDATE: I upload it earlier and it was PERFECT size but fucking tumblr and its 1oookb rule for gifs fucked with me and the gif wouldnt move because of it so I had to resize it about a 1000 times and finally it accepted it, I know its small…but I hope you like it either way, I couldn’t figure out any other to make it move, tried tiny pic and removing every other frame etc.

¨

the full size is on my twitpic page http://twitpic.com/ba1zcw

Posted on 3rd Nov at 4:41 PM

Back in the gif making game again!
Working on something right now, I REALLY hope you like it.
its not like the other ones i have done, no glitter or layering

Posted on 6th Sep at 7:57 PM, with 25 notes

NEW M:I:A SONG AND VIDEO!!!!!!!!

! 〠_〠 !

!〠_〠NOT〠_〠!

! 〠_〠 !

Meet Anjulie and her new song headphones.

she had this jazz indie artist thing going on a couple of years ago but it looks shit has changed since then.

I

SERIOUSLY

CANNOT

DECIDE

WHETHER

THIS

IS

A

REALLY

HALFASSED

TRIBUTE

TO

THE

WHOLE

KALA ERA

M.I.A

OR

JUST TO STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSST AND MOST BLATANT RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFF I HAVE EVER SEEN.

people ripoff m.i.a all the time and they are not even subtle….but this is just insulting our intelligence.

see the gobsmacking shit for yourself.

p.s.

please, please listen to the lyrics….its like someone opened up a laptop….opened microsoft word and then typed shit with their ass and when they looked back it, thought it would make dope lyrics.

wagwan with this camel shit?

Posted on 17th Jun at 7:16 PM, with 281 notes

#BADGIRLSREMIX GIF! 6 DAYS TO GO! Bad girls remiix

@MIAuniverse fans @RyeRye fans @AZEALIABANKS fans @missyelliott fans NEED TO JOIN FORCES.

WHEN IT DROPS, TWEET (#badgirlsremix) THAT SHIT LIKE ITS YOUR LAST TWEET.

THIS COLLAB WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY, no joke. 2 of the most groundbreaking&trailblazing female rappers and 2 of the freshest new female rappers in one fucking bomb ass trackkkkkkkkkkkk.

IN A TIME WERE IT IS COMMON TO DISS EACH OTHER AND BEEF BECAUSE OF INFLATED EGOS, THIS COLLAB HAS THE POTENTIAL TO REALLY CHANGE COURSE OF ALL THE FUCKING NONSENSE BECAUSE YOU HAVE GREAT ARTIST COME TOGETHER TO CREATE GREAT SHIT, WHICH IS SOMETHING HIP HOP HAS BEEN NEEDING FOR THE LONGEST FUCKING TIME AND IT IS UP TO YOU, TO US TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS RECOGNIZED.

WHEN IT DROPS MAKE IT TREND IF YOU ARE MUSIC LOVER/HIP HOP LOVER/WANT TO SUPPORT FEMALE RAPPERS ETC. ETC.

it really reflects badly on us the audience if it doesn’t tbh, EVERYTIME justin bieber grows a pube that shit is all over the trends, THIS(#badgirlsremix) needs to trend.

6 days to go, Ill try to make as many gifs as I can to promo, tell everyone you can to hype it up;)

lets learn from the mistakes we did last time When the bad girls vid dropped, we weren’t organized…some of u guys were tweeting different hashtags so we only trended in LDN.
THIS time the star power and fan base multiplied by 4 and we will be prepared for this shit. GET CRACKING GET GET CRACKIIIIIIIN #BADGIRLSREMIX

ADDITIONAL INFO:

although I try to avoid using the ying yang symbol I made exception for this because I used the m.i.a bandana she posted up on twitter the other day as the reference when making it.

additional link(yesterdays gif)

#BADGIRLSREMIX

http://kuroenigma.tumblr.com/post/25254043122/badgirlsremix-gif-7-days-to-go-bad-girls

Posted on 17th Jun at 12:49 PM, with 89 notes