MIA: Money Intellect Art

so you know how when you go into an urban outfitters the people who lay out the store have this way of just bombarding you with cool shit? (if you don't know what I'm talking about then take a trip to your local urban outfitters please) you'll just walk in thinking yeah lemme get this shirt or this new hat or something, then you end up being there for so much longer than you'd expected just looking at all this stuff? i mean this happens to me pretty much all the time cause i'm like a fucking squirrel and get distracted easily, but i'm pretty sure it also happens to normal people . not only are there all these cool clothes to look at, but all these accessories as well: nail polish, headphones, jewelry, furniture. . . and then they have these books. but not just normal books-- really cool ones, like the ones you see when you walk by, but can't help but to turn back and skim through. so last week i went into the urban on 72nd and i walked by this book with a bright ass cover that said MIA. i opened it and ended up looking through the entire thing. it's basically this really cool compilation of album artwork from her three albums, "Arular", "Kala" and "Maya". i was really impressed, her work has a reoccurring theme of patterns, bright colors, random shapes and sketches, but there's also lots of film photography and some song lyrics. i know MIA's an artist in the musical sense but i didn't know she fucked with Photoshop and printmaking too. one of the reasons i really like her is because you can see so clearly how her creativity shines through in her work . yeah she probably has a stylist and a manager or publicist that make her look good, but she still retains her own self image . this book is just very raw and makes her more than just another new age rapper but really portrays her as a super creative individual, which i personally think musicians tend to have trouble with these days. and watch the video belowwwww, it's awesome.