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Having sat idle for too long, my old friend and personal design site Filter9 has undergone a transformation. Rather than exist a static collection of music, art and etc, it’s now a flowing collection of music, art and etc that I will be updating continuously as new works roll out.

Featuring my personal art and photography (some of which are available for purchase), it also showcases music from a community of undiscovered artists who forge ahead regardless of the world around them. Oh, and some of my tracks are in there too. (wink).

Here’s to a new F9. Hope you like it.

“Oh, By The Way,” the new box set from one of my all-time faves, Pink Floyd, is a lucious site created by Bloc Media. It’s sort of like a full-screen version of CoverFlow, but even better.

I love the interaction and the intro animations. Superb work.

Snopp Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction” video is generating a lot of buzz (over 1,000,000 views on YouTube), partly due to it’s campy, retro goodness, but for me, it’s simply a great song! Snoop sings and pretty well, I might add. Either he’s had coaching or he’s been hiding this talent from us all this time.

At a time when people were writing him off as yesterday’s news, he still grabs attention and the occasional hit. True that he is a legend, but I can only imagine in this day and age how hard it is to compete, considering the low quality output of radio-ready music these days. It’s always good to see something “musical” that is wide-reaching and high quality.

For me, it’s a small, elite group that produces current music worth listening to. In Hip Hop, it includes, but isn’t limited to artists like Kanye West, The Roots, Common and Mos Def. Artists who, for the most part, are largely appealing to an aging demographic. Great to see Snoop bringing some love to the mix, punched up with a strong dose of humor.

I was already a huge fan of The Sopranos (formerly on HBO), and found myself drawn in by the sublime music selections put together by music editor Kathryn Dayak and in part by the show’s creator, David Chase. Mr. Chase was instantly put in a lofty place when I learned he discovered A3’s remix of Leonard Cohen’s brilliant “Woke Up This Morning” (iTunes link) aka The Sopranos theme song on KCRW, a favorite station of mine back in L.A.

The HBO site has a complete episode guide, with a listing of music tracks for each episode, some with links directly to iTunes. I am probably the perfect candidate for their target demo as I have pretty diverse taste in music, running from classical to punk to hip hop to metal to electronic and so on. I picked up several tracks, including Buddy Miles, James Gang, Willie Bobo, Diana Ross, Husky Rescue and Los Lobos.