We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze

Mark Portillo’s sassy grayscale GIFs are nostalgically dithered and faded, recalling endless pilgrimages through The Oregon Trail on so many early Macintoshes. On his blog, Drop Me Off In Harlem, Portillo sketches celebrities, animals, and everyday objects for his very brief animated GIFs, usually comprised of fewer than 10 frames. Who doesn’t love a good GIF? Especially when it’s a Freaks and Geeks homage:

Diplo and Switch’s DJ supergroup, Major Lazer, has been providing plenty of irresistable summertime jams with tracks like “Hold The Line (feat Mr. Lexx and Santigold)” and “Pon De Floor” off their LP Guns Don’t Kill People– Lazers Do, an insane dancehall concept album about “a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984.”

Major Lazer also just released a rad new mix last week for the clothing label Mishka’s “Keep Watch” series. The mix is a must for any discerning lover of life, worth the download alone for the uhholy juxtapositions of artists as diverse as Rye Rye, Bjork, and Ace of Base. Major Lazer even managed to slip in a new track of their own called “Baby Riddim,” which boasts devastating rhymes from a post-pregnancy M.I.A. Download the whole mix here, or check out Switch’s “Baby” remix over at The Fader.

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If you are one of the few people who haven’t seen their much-blogged renditions of various classic rock radio gems you should definitely spend some time today at the PS22 chorus blog. A new take on a trusted model, there you will see what it’s like to be a school kid growing up in the internet age- singing with Stevie Nicks at Madison Square Garden, recording with Passion Pit, and vibing out with daytime talk show hosts the world over. You know, kid stuff.