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Friday, November 30, 2012

Pharrell Williams Interviews David Salle & KAWS (Video)


Press play. You might learn something.

Pharrell does this thing, ARTST TLK, where he sits down with world renowned artists and great thinkers and such to speak about their personal philosophies. Pretty dope stuff each time. Why there's a naked girl that comes in halfway to refill water glasses and no one makes any sort of acknowledgment is a little beyond me. I would've probably smacked that ass.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Rick Ross Is GQ Magazine's "Bawse Of the Year"

I would've posted this shit off that photo alone. This big ass brother had some year.

"...let's all stop smoking blunts; let's smoke out of papers."

Link: Rick Ross: Bawse Of the Year

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Photo Op: @Nicoreys For Staple Design Headquarters

Yo, that new Staple office in Midtown is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Shout to the conglomerates.

*Here's another photo of Jeff. Instagram: StaplePigeon

Street-Famous Graf Writer COST Interview w/ Vandalog

A little bit of newfound respect for an old school guy who touched upon some marketing genius in his day.

"... I was in my relationship with my ex, heavily and I was happy and in love. And it put me in a place where I couldn’t paint. My apartment was a studio and she convinced me to convert it into a home, like a living room, a bedroom. So there went my studio. So she actually was detrimental to my artwork, when I look back. At the time I was happy with her and I was like, “Okay, let’s make a house into a home,” type of thing. But now, I want my studio back. So you know, sometimes things that seem really good in your life at one point, you look back a little later on, 5, 10, 20 years later and you might say, “Wow, that was good then, but was that really good for the grand scheme of my entire existence?” 

V: Would you change anything if you could? 

COST: Now looking back I’m like “What the fuck? What was I doing? I should have been painting and producing,” and I was hanging out and traveling around going upstate to the New England area, down south to Florida, like up and down the east coast a lot. Just chilling out, running my business, and now I look back and there’s this big gap where I didn’t do work. So I need to make up for that now, before I’m dead. But you know, I don’t really have regrets. It’s part of my life. It puts me exactly where I need to be..."

Continue reading here

Big Sean Drops Red Italian Leather adidas Originals "Detroit Player Pro Model II"

These are crazzzzzzzzy. Fuck, I need. Shout to Sean.

Dropping exclusively at Puffer Reds (in Michigan) on December 1st. Complex talks full details with adidas Originals Design Director Brian Foresta here.

Watch Spike Lee's Michael Jackson Documentary "Bad 25" Right Now (Video)

If you haven't watched this yet, I promise you're playing yourself. It's so good. Michael was a beast. Long live the music.

Shout to Hulu.

Supermodel Gisele Being Sexy For Terry Richardson

Here's my most recent entry for "Shiny photos of pretty bitches by Terry". Gisele is kind of gorgeous though.

Few more

Saturday, November 24, 2012

"You Want It You Buy It You Forget It"

Words, & opinion-art by Barbara Kruger for the NY Times today.

"Guerrilla Fashion: The Story of Supreme" - NY Times

Great look into the mind of one of the illest brands to do it.

Huge lines, once endemic to its New York flagship in SoHo, now form at satellite stores in Los Angeles, London, Tokyo and other cities. The current issue of British GQ Style, a men’s fashion bible, hails Supreme as “the coolest streetwear brand in the world right now.” And the Berlin culture magazine O32c called it “the Holy Grail of high youth street culture.” The Business of Fashion site called it “the Chanel of downtown streetwear.”

Continue reading here

Lil Wayne's "No Worries" Fear & Loathing-Inspired Video, & MTV Interview


I like this.

MTV has a dope half an hour long interview you can watch filled with advertisements in-between and all here. Wayne talks everything with a bunch of clarity. He says Kanye and company (design collective DONDA) is doing the I Am Not A Human Being full album packaging.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Jordan Bred 4's Available Now

Not resting easy till I pick up a pair or two of these at retail price. Fuck.

If you don't care to pay a little more try Mentalkicks.com

New Video: Young Jeezy - Get Right (Official)


Been too long since some dope rap video shit came out. Jeezy gets things right again.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

T.I.'s "Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Heart" Album Cover Kills

This shit is dope. And I usually hate mainstream rap covers.

*Still waiting on clarification on who designed this. Will update.

Maybe Cleanest Nike Air Force 1 Ever, Foamposite Max Black Friday 2012 Release

Stupid. Just stupid.

More pics, details.

Playboy Africa November 2012 Cover Is Incredible

Best cover on stands right now.

*Hate being that guy but my instagram from 2 months ago.

Monday, November 19, 2012

12.12.12 Sandy Benefit Concert w/ Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Alicia Keys, The Who etc.

Billy Joel and 'Ye alone make this shit kind of epic. Not to mention proceeds go to helping Hurricane Sandy victims.

More information can be found here.

"And I don't need rap, man, I could've did photography"

Finally got around to getting a few photos I've taken in the last year all in one place.

Official Vintage Ralph Lauren Site Bringing Back Infamous Polo Bear Collection (Photos)



This little guy in the different outfits was probably one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with the RL brand early like I did. I'm sure that's the case for most kids running around trying to get fly in the 90's.

Go here and vote for your favorite.

Obama Family Boarding Air Force One (Photo)

Love this.

Props to NYT Photographer Doug Mills

Friday, November 16, 2012

By Any Means & Hood Chef Present “By Any Meals: A 5 Borough Food Drive.”

You gotta give it up for kids working hard to make a life for themselves and the people around them yet still taking the time out to give back any way they can. I want to send a special a shout out to the By Any Means team for doing just that, and I urge you to make whatever small or large donation you can toward the cause. It's a great one.

This Thanksgiving 2012, By Any Means will launch its first annual charity initiative “By Any Meals: A 5 Borough Food Drive.” Our goal is to raise enough money and collect enough non-perishable goods for at least 500 people to have a hot plate of Turkey with all the fixings, as well as a bag of food to bring home with them on Thanksgiving Day. 

More information here

Awesome Minute & A Half Kanye Verse On Rihanna's New "Diamonds (Remix)"

More Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Great 'Ye verse.

"voices in my head, I need choices in my bed, ahhhhhh get out my fuckin' head, it's just me and my bad bitch"

(DL link)

Rihanna 777 Interview w/ Facebook


Talking that real. I really like a lot of the stuff she says.

And fuck my life, naked on GQ:

New Balance x Size? x @StaplePigeon 577 "Black Pigeons" + Free Pair Details

Sure to be another major release from the family at Staple Design. On sale tomorrow at Reed Space NYC at 12 noon (there's a line already). Buzz aside, them shits kind of kill.

Jeff & Co. are being ever so kind in giving a pair away free, too. Can't really go wrong, buy a dope tee, maybe win sneakers. Details here.

Jay-Z - HD Performance Barclay's Center Footage "Dead Presidents/Can I Live"


That kid Hova came a long way.

"We shine, they feel the ambience, y'all niggas just rhyme"

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

New Flume Album w/ T.Shirt Featured "On Top", Debuts At #1 On iTunes

This is pretty cool. Did a record for my man Flume's new album that just dropped on top of the Australian Music Top 100 charts. Like, I'm talking #1 on the charts. Rolling Stone reviewed it and even singled out the feature, going as far as mentioning "LA rapper T-Shirt" haha. I'll take it. Shout to Flume and everybody at Future Classics on the great job.

"On Top (feat. T.Shirt)"


Stream + buy new FLUME album here now.




Thursday, November 8, 2012

Lady Gaga Releases Her Mix Of Kendrick Lamar Song "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe"


This is mad interesting. I think I like the album version better but this is nice.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Obama Wins Over Country For 2nd Term (Amazing Photo)

Yup.

Photo by Doug Mills.

Vintage Kate Moss Photos Via New Rizzoli Book Out Now


New Vanity Fair article inspired a little bit of a search for some of the outtake shots of Kate you may or may not think are the supermodel's most ravishing.

Full VF slideshow here, photos from new Rizzoli book.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

"An Ode to Creative Work" by Behance



Need a little bit of this every now and then.

Via StapleDesign

ELECTION DAY

I do my best not to speak out of my ass most days. If I don't know much about something you won't catch me acting like I do. So in order to say these next few sentences it took me reading a bunch, listening a bunch, and flat out educating myself. Obama is the stronger candidate on the major issues I think most people [should] care about. Not to mention, our President and deserves a full and fair 8-year term to do his best for our country. Get out there and vote.

*New Video* Comatose - Nina Sky


Nicole and Natalie bring us further into their brand of R&B/Dance with style and grace, off their latest EP. Directed by Alex Lee & Kyle Wightman.

New Steel Tipped Dove Beat Tape "ZAPHOD"

When this kid is on he's really on. I'd tell you which joint on here I love the most but I might put raps on it. 

Listen/cop here for $2.

This kid is the fucking arts. Support the fucking arts.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

New York Magazine Stunning Cover Photo Of A Dark City

Support print. Because look at this shit it's awesome.

"The easiest part of a harried three days came Friday around noon, when we met to settle on the cover. A photograph taken by Iwan Baan on Wednesday night, showing the Island of Manhattan, half aglow and half in dark, was the clear choice, for the way it fit with the bigger story we have tried to tell here about a powerful city rendered powerless. We crammed back into the conference room, raced to finish our pages, and hoped, like other New Yorkers, that everyone would find the lights on when they got home." 

On newsstands now.

Email From Louis C.K. Hours Before Hosting SNL For The First Time


I'd go ahead and say this is one of the best guys to ever get the mic.

He just sent this:

Hello. Its louis here. I'm clacking this to you on my phone in my dressing room here at studio 8H, right in 30 rockefeller center, in Manhattan, new york city, new york, america, world, current snapshot of all existence everywhere. 

Tonight I'm hosting Saturday Night Live, something I zero ever in my life saw happening to me. And yet here it is completely most probably happening (I mean, ANYTHING could NOT happen. So we'll see). 

I've been working here all week with the cast, crew, producers and writers of SNL, and with Lorne Michaels. Such a great and talented group of people. 

And here we are in the middle of New York City, which was just slammed by a hurricane, leaving behind so much trouble, so much difficulty and trauma, which everyone here is still dealing with every day. Last night we shot some pre-tape segments in greenwich Village, which was pitch black dark for blocks and blocks, as it has been for a week now. 

Its pretty impossible to describe walking through these city streets in total darkness. It can't even be called a trip through time, because as long as new york has lived, its been lit. By electricity, gas lamps, candlelight, kerosene. But this was pitch black, street after street, corner round corner. And for me, the village being the very place that made me into a comedian and a man, to walk through the heart of it and feel like, in a way, it was dead. I can't tell you how that felt. And you also had a palpable sense that inside each dark window was a family or a student or an artist or an old woman living alone, just being int he dark and waiting for the day to come back. Like we were all having one big sleep over, but not so much fun as that. 

This is how a lot of the city is still. I know people in queens, brooklyn, Staten Island, new jersey, all over, are not normal yet. And not normal is hard. 

And here at 30 rock, these folks are working so hard this week. There are kids in the studio every day, because members of the crew and staff had to bring them to work. Many people are sharing lodging. Everyone is tired. But there's this feeling here that we've got to put on a great show. I'm sure it feels like that here every week. But wow. I feel really lucky to be sharing this time with these particular good folks here at SNL. 

In about 5 hours we'll be going on the air. I'll do a monologue. And we'll show you some sketches that we wrote and try to make you laugh. I'm gonna look really dumb in some of this stuff. But I don't care. Its awfully worth it. And I'm really excited. 

Anyway. I just wanted to let you know. If you watch the show tonight, when Don Pardo says my name and you see me walking out, all the shit in this email is what ill be thinking. I'm a pretty lucky guy. I hope you enjoy the show. 

Thanks. 

Louis C.K. 

Live. From new york. Its saturday night. 

If you're home tonight, put on NBC at 11:30/10:30C.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Dope Behind The Scenes With @Nas For Clash Magazine (Video)


Still looking like a fresh 17 year old. And the hat still got just the right amount of tilt.

Size? x Staple Design x New Balance Coming Soon (cc: @jeffstaple)

Staple & crew teasing us with the above photo in anticipation of a new sneaker about to kill. Stay tuned.

*Photo by Trashhand

Kate Moss Covers Vanity Fair December 2012 With Her Tits Out

Ask me why I love this bitch's look so much and I couldn't give you a straight answer. Her tits are close though. They're close.

Few more here

Pharrell Walks Around L.A., Talks New Book, Does A Signing Etc.


Never a lack of inspiration from this guy.