I wanted to post but I had nothing good to say. My homie George (who I’ve been drinking with all day) suggested I let you all know about this cool trick: if you replace the letter “o” with the letter “i” in most words, you sound totally Australian!

Take the word “rope” for example. Switch the “o” out for an “i” and give it that Aussie twang, so when you say “ripe” you sound MAD AUSTRALIAN!

George, the keeper of this excellent secret, is one half of a really cool group called Javelin. You can check out their music and videos and music videos here.

This mixtape of new NY rap was assembled by the good people at Associated Minds, a music collective/record label based across the pond in the U.K. The mix features several Shark tracks, along with music from a bunch of Shark homies too. Pretty cool.

You can listen on Mixcloud, or download the podcast on itunes.

The Modern Shark office and webstore will be closed until Sat. August 20th. So if you place an order through the site this week, please be aware that your stuff won’t be shipped until we reopen. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The above picture is meant to summarize what vacation means to a Shark.

From Geti’s new album “Family & Friends”, out now on Anticon. Learn more at dude’s funny-named website.

I emailed Snafu asking him to send me some stuff for the blog. He sent me back a bunch of pictures of his ingrown fingernail. So yeah, here we go…

I wrote him back to clarify whether or not he wanted me to post these. I waited about 2 minutes and then I decided that I wanted to post them anyway. This gauzy one is terrible. But wait, the next one’s way worse…

Oozy Oozebourne. Digit custard. Sorry everybody!

Tone Tank was captured in this superfly wood cutout by NYC artist and Shark homegirl Z Behl, as part of her Wooden Army installation in San Francisco’s Bluxome Point gallery. Pretty fucking cool. Also featured in the installation are wooden versions of Kray, Safe, and (music video director) Paul Korzan, among others.

You can see more of the Wooden Army and more of Z Behl’s work here.

A classic track (from waaaay back in 2005) from New Rap Order representative King Guttah 1st. When this beat dropped through the speakers, folks would literally bum rush the stage to hop up and rap along. I know cause I used to do it too.

Mega shout out to the homie Jeru Gabriel out in Arlington, Texas for blessing us with this super cool portrait. This little blog space doesn’t quite do it justice, but you can see a bigger version by clicking the image or by clicking here.

And you can see more of Jeru’s gorgeous works here.

Happy Monday yall.

America, 2011. Click the image to see it bigger, or click here.

Who has the time to say Snafu’s Dispatch anymore? Snafpatch yo.