The Sowmya Life » Randomness

Want to work for Twitter? High production value need not apply

Sowmya K — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:19:07 +0000

This is so bad, it’s good. Twitter.com released a funny video to entice new job applicants. Despite its access to high technology, this was clearly done on iMovie by a toddler.

Video: 40 talks recording/what a lovely young man!

Sowmya K — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:06:03 +0000

Canadians really are some nice fellas. I stumbled upon (translation: was trolling Drake’s official website) this cute video with Drizzy’s bff/producer Noah “40″ Shebib. I really can’t understand the technical recording jargon he throws around, but what a lovely and inspiring scamp he is. OVOXO.

Boo + goons = best (early) birthday treat

Sowmya K — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:18:51 +0000

My homeski Jenn knows me waaaay too well. She sent me an early bday treat featuring Boo, the world’s cutest dog, as well as one of my favorite rap goons, Plies. The duality here really represents the essence of Sowmya.

Gza lectures at Harvard, snags sea monkeys + kicks it w/Junot Diaz @TheRealGZA

Sowmya K — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:02:27 +0000

This may be the greatest press release I’ve received in awhile so I just had to share it in its entirety. All I want to know is, does Gza need a new, racially ambiguous best friend? I’m so there!

Gary Grice aka GZA/The Genius, a founding member of rap supergroup the Wu-Tang Clan, lectured to a standing room only crowd about his Clan, his craft, and his creativity on Thursday, December 1 at Harvard’s Science Center. The lecture, hosted by the Harvard’s Black Men’s Forum, was followed by Q&A and was open to the public.

GZA talked about childhood influences like nursery rhymes, The Last Poets, kung fu movies, particularly Bruce Lee. He also discussed a broad range of inspirations: “the unique complex design of a spiderweb”; sports, though he’s not a fan, led him to write “Queen’s Gambit” in which he uses the names of many football teams; television forensics shows opened the door to “Exploitation of a MIstake.” To the delight of the audience, GZA cited rhymes from the aforementioned songs as well as a couple others.

GZA shared his scientific and spiritual world view: “every being and object within the universe is connected somehow, whether visibly or invisibly, I saw that in the lab today: from micro to macro…the deeper one sees into life, the wider life opens itself to one, you see that from working in the lab.” He closed with some life advice: “Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity and never stop learning.” He hopes to continue lecturing throughout the world.

While in Cambridge, GZA visited with a number of others on the MIT campus. Phil Richardson from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute told him about his study of the flight patterns of the albatross. John Rinn took the rapper on an exclusive after-hours tour of the Broad Institute the joint Harvard and MIT biomedical research center where he showed him a real time genome sequencer. Soon after the tour started, Eric Lander, leader of the institute and co-chair of Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology stopped by. Penny Chisholm, MIT marine biologist, showed GZA around her lab and gave him a sample of prochlorococcus, a photosynthetic ocean bacterium. Additionally she gave him a fully sealed ecosphere containing four brine shrimp aka sea monkeys, which he immediately named Larry, Mo, Dave, and Curly. David Kaiser and GZA discussed black holes, grey holes, teleportation, and quantum physics. Over at the Media Lab Tod Machover showed GZA his “Opera of the Future” and Ethan Zuckerman’s Civic Media team illuminated their ideas on how technology could shape a better world. On the creative side, GZA met his now “homeboy” Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author. The two discussed their processes and hip hop.

My abusive relationship with Blackberry ends…

Sowmya K — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:38:05 +0000

After much contemplation and soul-searching, I finally gave up my abusive relationship with Blackberry and RIM and found a new boo, the iPhone 4.

Sans the sucky typing (my fingers are chubsters, I’m sorry) and giving up my venerable BBM group (RIP #noHomers), the iPhone is pretty much amazing. All of my music + camera that takes discernible photos + apps galore = a better life.

Good music: Yelawolf, Eminem and Gangsta Boo (you read that right)- “Throw It Up”

Sowmya K — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:02:19 +0000

I’ve been hearing buzz about the somewhat strange collaboration between Yelawolf, Eminem and Gangsta Boo for a while and it doesn’t disappoint. Marshall spits effortlessly over this piano-laden beat and GB adds a dash of 90s throwback flava to the mix. Is a Three Six Mafia reunion album not far away? We can only hope…

Yelawolf f. Gangsta Boo & Eminem, “Throw It Up” by The FADER

I walk like a pimp/my misadventures with the sidewalk

Sowmya K — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:07:35 +0000

Last night I had a lovely date with the asphalt as I tripped into the sidewalk while yakking on my phone. The result? This fashion-forward boot on my foot for the next six weeks and a bump on my ankle the size of a grapefruit. If anyone asks, I got it during a very heated basketball game with fellow boot-rockers Drake and J. Cole, k?

Sippin on some sizzurp…my new bobblehead friend Paul Wall

Sowmya K — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:23:25 +0000

This is the greatest bobblehead ever! Rapper Paul Wall complete with icy grill + purp in his cup. Thanks to Jenn

“I’ll take Range Rover for $800, Alex”

Sowmya K — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:24:33 +0000

Nerds who don’t know about Cam’ron make me sick. Just watch.

Drake’s emo musings on love…but why does he have to like ‘True Blood’?

Sowmya K — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:24:49 +0000

Color him emo! Drake talks Rihanna, loneliness and other mushiness in the new Elle. I can take it all but does he HAVE to like True Blood?! Ughhhhh!

Source: UD