With his rising celebrity as one of LA’s best DJs, and his indie record label “Dim Mak” (which means the touch of death in Chinese) gobbling up all the hottest indie bands and now his Dim Mak clothing line that’s on every hipster’s xmas list (I’m totally obsessed with the hoodies), the incomparable Steve Aoki can’t seem to do no wrong and boy is it paying off — in spades.

Steve Aoki’s blurbs:

Dim Mak media cartel, ground zero. A record label as a tangram. It all started in a small room in a college co-op books, records, magazines, one-sheets, records, stickers, records, records, and records. People filing in, one at a time or three at a time, hands being given where needed. Support is free. Passion is free. Silkscreened Pretty Girls Make Graves posters aren’t free, but that’s nothing personal. Everything else is.

Found on: Steve’s Myspace page

Must reads:

Steve Aoki’s website

Dim Mak Collection

Next On The Decks w/Steve Aoki

Audrey Kawasaki creates airy, delicate images of girls. They’re usually submerged in porcelain skins and have a sense of vulnerability that makes them both fastidious and alluring.

Audrey Kawasaki’s blurbs:

The themes in Audrey Kawasaki’s work are contradictions within themselves. Her work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet disturbing. Audrey’s precise technical style is at once influenced by both manga comics and Art Nouveau. Her sharp graphic imagery is combined with the natural grain of the wood panels she paints on, bringing an unexpected warmth to enigmatic subject matter.

I hope to own one of Audrey’s paintings one day - soon.

Found on: Audrey Kawasaki’s Myspace page

Must reads:

Audrey Kawasaki’s website

Audrey Kawasaki’s Live Journal page

Margaret Cho is one of those comedians you either love or hate and in my case, I happen to love her - not because she was the first Korean female I remember seeing on network television, ironically on a show called: “All-American Girl” (Chinese extras on MASH don’t count!) she’s also super smart, punk-rock-sassy and her razor sharp humor is lethal.

Margaret’s blurbs:

Margaret Cho was born Dec. 5, 1968 and raised in San Francisco. “It was different than any other place on Earth,” she says. “I grew up and went to grammar school on Haight Street during the ’70s. There were old hippies, ex-druggies, burnouts from the ’60s, drag queens, and Chinese people. To say it was a melting pot - that’s the least of it. It was a really confusing, enlightening, wonderful time.”

MC, your most recent post on your blog really helped get my head straight - komapsumnida!

Found on: Margaret Cho’s Mypsace page

Must reads:

Margaret’s Website

Margaret’s Blog

Margaret Cho - Asian Chicken Salad

Tokyo Streets is a DVD entirely dedicated to the urban trends of modern day Tokyo; chalk full of cutting edge fashion, art and music, Tokyo Streets will immerse you into the world of Harajuku and it’s many subcultures.

Tokyo Streets blurbs:

Extravagant fashion, up-coming designers, musicians, painters, acrobats, street dancers and clolorful crowds as seen against the background lights of modern Tokyo, a city wide awake 24 hours a day.

Found on: Tokyo Streets Myspace page

Must reads:

Harajuku Fashions

Harajuku Guide

FRUiTS Tokyo Street Style

With an eye for the yummy and a knack for crocheting, this DIY punk rock maven is redefining the world of accessories with her interpretation of wearable food.

TWINKIECHAN’s blurbs:

I make silly food-themed scarves. I have been crocheting goodies like tiger-head Kleenex cozies, frog hats with dangly legs, and BBQ pork bun plushies for my friends and family since I was ten years old. When my Grandma Wendleton first taught me to crochet in the 80s, I made lots of misshapen brown squares for a long time and called them “mini blankets.” You have to start somewhere!

I have a website at at TWiNKiECHAN.COM, but I’m also kind of bad about updating it, and I need to figure out how to re-organize it!

Remember kids, the key to staying warm and yummy is: accessorize! accessorize! accessorize!

Found on: Twinkie’s Myspace page

Must reads:

There is currently a small thingie about Twinkie Chan in the lastest issue of Pearl Necklace Zine.

Go to eBay now! And pick up a zine! (view more)

Created in a software company in Tokyo, he was supposed to serve as a generic face for software interfaces, a simple non-offensive design but something happened - a group of rogue Designers discovered him and gave him a name, his name is TEEDO.

Teedo’s blurbs:

Before August 13 2006, I was an Icon! Yes! I was trapped in a world of Software. You may have seen me on a Pocket PC, Smartphone, Palm or maybe a chat room; this was my prison, this was my living hell. But then I was freed, giving a real identity and removed from the confinements of digital software. Now I have been unleashed into the world, a place where none of my peers have ventured before a place where I plan to reek havoc and destruction. The corporations that created me now fear me, fear what I might do, fear what I already know. My name is Teedo, I am not an icon.

With dreams of being hit up on walls of every major city on the planet, in the form of street Art, my boy Teedo is well on his way and remember, he’s not an ICON.

Found on: Teedo’s Myspace page

Must reads:

Teedo’s Flickr Photo Gallery

Bansky “Wall And Piece” Book

“Bexel Studio: The Empire of Pixel” is the brain child of 22 year old Bexel Boy: with an eye for detail and an imagination that’s out of this world, he rocks each pixel as if his life depended on it.

Bexel blurb:

Bexel was founded in 2005 by thailand graphic designer, Best Thongsuk who is studying at Rangsit University. Later on Oat Limp, from the same university joined the group in 2006 as a sound engineer & song writer and “Bexel Art : The Empire of Pixel” is our slogan.

We have produced both visual design and sound which includes Pixel Graphic Design, Motion Pixel, Pixel Character, Pixel Toy, 8-bit Sound, Digital Music, recording, Illustration and Every Thing of Pixel.

I’m not sure what applications and techniques Bexel Boy is using, but whatever they are, it’s working, cause the results are nothing short of pure unadulterated pixel art goodness!

Bexel Studio is located in Bangkok Thailand — rock on!

Found on: Bexel Myspace page

Must reads:

This Island Pixel

YMCK 8-bit Music

Mari Musicaux isn’t just your average concert hall prodigy — no, she’s much more then that. With a passion for industrial and electro music and her punk rock looks that kill, you would never think she’s a classically trained pianist but once you hear her performance of Mozart Piano Sonata streaming from your Myspace music player, you know you’re listening to something special.

Mari’s blurbs:

I am in my final year at The Purcell School (for young musicians), where I receive professional music education, in performance. Currently I study 4 levels and hope to continue studying academic music and sequence music after school.

Look up the definition of eclectic in the dictionary and you just might find a picture of Mari Musicaux.

Found on: Mari Myspace page

Must Reads:

Mari’s Myspace image gallery

ROLLING STONE’S 20th ANNUAL HOT ISSUE just proclaimed Vietnamese American model and aspiring Hip-Hop artist, Tila Tequila as the Most Popular Girl on Myspace.

Tila’s blurbs:

Tila Tequila has done it all on her own, and definitely on her own terms. She’s an internationally known star who has built her network of fans literally, one friend at a time. What’s more, she has the email addresses of all of her friends, who wouldn’t want that sort of access to their fans and crew?

The self-described “American Hellcat,” Tila’s internet shenanigans have also earned her the title “The Baddest Bitch on the Block,” at least according to her Myspace page and with over 1,428,055 Myspace friends and her hit song “F*** Ya Man,” I believe her — booyah.

Found on: Tila’s Myspace page

Must Reads:

Tila’s interview on MSNBC

Tila Nguyen Eros Zine interview and photos

Tila Fashion site

Ingredients

- 4 in your face Japanese punk rock goddesses
- 2 cups of The Runaways
- 1 dash of Godzilla radioactive breath
- 3 sprigs of Shonen Knife
- 1 tablespoon of The Go Go’s (optional)

Cook the 4 punk rock goddesses in beer till tender, add the 2 cups of The Runaways (slowly) and let boil for 20 minutes.

After boiling for 20 minutes, add 1 dash of Godzilla radioactive breath, but be careful not to add more then 1 dash or you might get fried, now gently stir in the 3 springs of Shonen Knife and bring to a simmer. Let simmer for about an hour…if you like, you can add in 1 tablespoon of The Go Go’s for taste.

That’s it, you now have a steaming pot of GGH — now go get yourself some.

GGH’s blurbs:

Female punk rock band Gito Gito Hustler! Formed in 1995, the band has released several albums and toured both the US and Japan numerous times. There newest record Gito Gito Galore, was released in March of 2005.

FYI; GGH goes really well with a nice tall glass of Sapporo - Yummy!

Found on: GGH’s Myspace page

Must Reads:

Gito Gito Hustler website

Git Gito Hustler - Last.fm

Born in Oklahoma and raised in Tokyo, Olivia Munn rocks the cable airwaves as one of the hosts for “Attack of the Show“; a G4TV program that focuses on technology, gaming and pop-culture news. She also hosts a podcast that showcases the best videos found on the web called The Daily Nut, look for it on iTunes.

Olivia also has a new movie coming out staring and directed by Rob Schneider called “BIG STAN” where she plays the role of Maria, Rob Schneider’s receptionist.

Olivia’s blurbs:

I grew up in a big family. Five kids. My mother remarried when I was 2, to a man in the Air Force. So, we moved around A LOT. We spent most of the time in Tokyo, Japan. I loved it there and can’t wait to go back.

Olivia is the only reason why I still watch G4TV these days so be sure to tune in and get it while it’s hot!

Found on: Olivia’s Myspace page

Must Reads:

Attack of the Show Hosts

Attack of the Showkyo!!! (view more)

A native of Seattle, HeavyGrinder currently resides in Los Angeles where she is part time student, model and full time DJ. At age thirteen, she began to actively pursue her love of music and being on center stage by taking up vocal training and modeling.

After years of traveling and successful model work, she made her way to L.A. in 1998. It was in the City of Angels that she realized her new love, cozying up to the sounds of underground dance music, captivated by the power of the DJ and the reaction of the crowd.

Heavygrinder’s blurbs:

Music is an unspoken language… A way to express feelings and emotion… Speak through the music, not through words.

Found on: Heavygrinder’s Myspace page

Must Reads:

Heavygrinder’s Website

Heavygrinder Interview

There’s been an escape from the planet of the BAPES, I repeat, there’s been an escape from the planet of the BAPES!

I’ve been rockin BAPE gear forever now, yes, way before Pharrell started wearing BAPE BBC tees on MTV and way before all the bootleg stuff started showing up at swap-meets across the country…don’t get me started.

Anyway, I was at a party the other night and someone asked me who started this cultural phenomenon and I told him, it’s a dude named “NIGO“. You mean JIGGA he replied back with a puzzled look on his face…ah, no, NIGO (too late) - now totally enamored with himself and his answer, he started into “jigga who, jigga what?” - yeah, that’s him.

NIGO’s blurbs:

I never set out to become Japan’s hottest fashion designer or an internationally famous arbiter of style, or to show young people how to rebel without losing their cool. But the fact that I am now one of the most influential movers and shakers of our generation does not strike me as particularly odd either. In fact, I focus on my passions, rather than on society’s expectations, as the secret of my success. I never planned too far ahead, wearing a T shirt and jeans plus two necklaces and a giant watch dripping with hip-hop quantities of bling. I just tried to do what I love and create the things that I wanted to create — I LIVE IN MY OWN WORLD

As long as there ignorant fools like the one I met at that party, I think I’ll be rockin my BAPEs for awhile longer - yay yay!

Found on: Nigo’s Myspace page

Must Reads:

Vintage Kicks

BAPE Website

What do I do with my robot girl?

This age old question has been debated on forum boards and in IRC chat rooms for decades now and for millions of Otakus out there, it’s a very serious problem.

Lucky for all us, EMO grindcore master, “Mochipet” just pulled a Dr. Phil to shed some light on this taboo subject.

His new track tittled: “Ellen Allien - Robot Girl” featuring Ellen Allien on his new album “Donkey Disco” helps to expose the inner “robotic” demons and the turmoil that many in the Otaku community have to deal with — all along, raising some much needed awareness.

Mochipet’s blurbs:

Born in Taiwan R.O.C. to rocket scientist father and kindergarten teacher mother, David Wang (a.k.a. Mochipet) did not get his start in music until the age of 15, when the urge of metal guitar overtook him in Livermore California. Rocking through a set of 2 in speakers and a cheap stiletto six-string, David Wang conjured up the forces which began his music adventure.

So what do you do with your robot girl? Well, Mochipet may not have the answer you’re looking for but what he does have are fat beats, hypnotizing samples and a great track and new album you have to get.

Found on: Mochipet’s Myspace page

Must Reads:

New Album “Donkey Disco”

I’m Teaching @ SFSU again… (view more)

Aloha from Hawaii, the island of pixels and the home of KG the ultra fresh designer and creator of islandpixels.com. KG designs and contributes to various types of media, mainly pixels and podcasts.

His latest project is a collaboration with Ceito ATV another hot designer I discovered on Myspace.

If you’d like to get more information about the project, click on the link below.

HOW TO GET:

the IPXLS vs C ATV collab sticker

Found on: IPXLS Myspace page

Must Reads:

IPXLS Flickr pics

IPXLS Blog