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Urban Sign & Crane's Big Break via the 40/40 Club

Seth Davis' Urban Sign & Crane sign company has grown quickly sparked by an opportunity to create an elaborate sign for the opening of Jay-Z's 40/40 Club in Atlantic City.

QN5 Concert Flyer Rant

QN5's PackFM takes on the issue of concert flyers produced by other folks.

D-Nice Journal Moves, Launches Photo Gallery

The D-Nice Journal has moved and photographer D-Nice has launched an online gallery.

There's not much up at the moment but he's got a lot of great photos and I expect it will get rich with content in due time.  The new blog has a nice new look as well.

Not to give D-Nice a hard time at all but I would suggest using Feedburner for all feed services, that way you can keep all your subscribers without their having to switch over manually to a new feed.

I could have easily missed the We Have Moved post and not caught on for quite a while given that this isn't a high volume blog.  I've lost touch with blogs that I like for months at a time in such situations so I'm glad I caught this post.

Again, no disrespect, just some blogger details that can help maintain continuity for your fans who are most likely consuming quite a bit of online media these days.

Update:
D-Nice is nice!  He thanked me for some additional observations but I thought I'd leave up the Feedburner comment because that really does make it easy to move without having so many details with which to deal.

Danny Simmons & Floyd Hughes' Graphic Novel '85

Danny Simmons & Floyd Hughes - '85

I'm not so interested in covering the business activities of the families of rappers or hip hop business people which is why I've generally ignored Rev Run's little cash cows, though they're off to an impressive start.  However Russell Simmons' big brother Danny Simmons, along with artist Floyd Hughes, has released a graphic novel '85, based on his novel Three Days As The Crow Flies, that takes place in a scene that has long held my interest from a distance, first of space, then of time.

Downtown 81 starring Jean-Michel Basquiat

Though '85 doesn't sound like it has any hip hop focus per se, that was a key time for crossover activity between the hip hop scene and the East Village art scene.  The biggest artists associated with graffiti, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, did not have a significant association with hip hop but traditional graf artists did briefly crash the gallery system and a few went on to build significant bodies of work within that system.

Which reminds me that I need to move Downtown 81 further up my Netflix queue.

More on Danny Simmons:
Check the Corridor Gallery site or hit the book signing Saturday, February 23rd at 6 pm [334 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn].

I couldn't find a decent Floyd Hughes site.

More on Jean-Michel Basquiat:
Peep the Brooklyn Museum's Street To Studio.