Beats and boobs: two of the best things in the world, together again. What more could you ask for?

Thursday, Sep 27th, if you live in the SF Bay Area and love either art, music, food, fashion or ta-tas, you should definitely attend Beats4boobs. The event is put together to raise breast cancer awareness in the Bay Area community, and this will be their biggest boobs yet. Sorry, biggest event yet. I’m easily distracted.

This year’s celebration will be the largest Beats for Boobs fundraiser to date, aiming to raise $15,000 to support Bay Area organizations specifically devoted to the eradication of breast cancer through research, education, screening and treatment.

Check out the Beats 4 Boobs web site for more information on the event. And if you go, be sure to watch my friend Colleen shake her stuff while fire dancing with her troupe at around 10 PM. She’ll be the hottest one spinning poi.

Congratulations are in order to our homie Conceit, whose “Scissors and Glue” video was voted the winner of the On the Rise Rap Competition and is now featured on the front page of YouTube. To celebrate this stunning victory, the fine folks over at Gurp City are streaming Conceit’s Wasted Talent mixtape for the next three days absolutely free. Cop that shit here, and if you dig it, hit your boy up for a copy of the disc. Check the video below, and also be sure to download the video for “I Will Go” over at Synthesis Radio. Congrats Conceit and Gurp City. Now where’s the new MC Oroville mixtape?

I began reading The Lovely Bones (by Alice Sebold) sometime on Tuesday. Although undoubtedly a feminine read (aka, chick lit) this novel pushes those boundaries and has a androgynous, unsentimental feel. So far, a teenage girl is ruthlessly murdered by a neighbor, Mr. Harvey. She “floats” to heaven and proceeds to tell what happens after her death on earth as well as inside her lonely little heaven.

Highlights (so far) include

-Dog finding her elbow

-Mr.Harvey sticking her body in a safe and removing that in a sinkhole

-Me losing my page

-Me spilling something sticky on book

-Her father smashing boat in a bottle

I know that the synthesis blog site (woot woot!) doesn’t usually cover books. However, Sebold has written an inversed novel. I mean, heaven is made to be a dark place and the murder was described as an art. Maybe some 21st century female Edgar Allen Poe type thing? I’ll keep you posted.

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For those of you in the LA area, Giant Robot is curating a show at the Scion Installation LA in Culver City. The show, titled “To the Masses” features the work of Caroline Hwang, Ben Woodward (his piece, “Heart Out,” is pictured above), Feric, Dan-ah Kim, Brian Ralph, Eishi Takaoka, Kohei Yamashita, Olaf Ladousse and French. “To the Masses” runs from August 25th through September 8th, with a reception on the 25th from 7 to 10 PM. The gallery is located at 3521 Helms Ave. (at National) in Culver City, CA.

Our friends down at Scion present To The Masses

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