Merlin's Talk - toward patters for creativity

Lil Wayne teaser - Prom Queen

video will premier on Jimmy Kimmel Live this coming Tuesday. His new album “Rebirth” drops May 19th.

Sneaker Con at New York Times Square

Sneaker Con Buy/Sell/Trade Event
Sunday March 1st, 2009 12-7PM
669 8th Avenue Between W. 42nd and W. 43rd St.
New York, New York

Blackberry vs. Apple

I thought this video was great marketing done by Blackberry.

Great line: “The world’s first touch-screen BlackBerry, Nothing can touch it."

ADIDAS ORGINALS house party

It's the house party to end all house parties and you're invited. From sport to street styles, we've been outfitting the world in 3 stripes for decades.

Now it's time to celebrate 60 Years of Soles and Stripes and we're doing it like only adidas Originals can. All our friends are here including David Beckham, Katy Perry, Kevin Garnett, Missy Elliott, and Mark Gonzales.

All the celebrities, athletes, and kids who have helped make us who we are today. And with everybody under one roof, things are going off.

Looks like fun

Frankie Table Lamp

So I recently moved into my new spot and am in need of more lamps because apparently a lot of the rooms do not have ceiling lightging so I have been doing some research and thought I'd share this with you all, it is a bit scary for Jackson and Mason but it's still a cool idea to have.



Here's more info. about the Brazilian artist:

Designer Fernando Akasaka continues to impress, this time with his new piece - Frankie, a skull-shaped table lamp with eyes that emits piercing light beams. Using luxe materials like those in his recent and fun Cowboy Junkie saddle stool, the 11-pound light features interchangeable, colored LED or halogen bulbs. Because these options are different wattage power, customers can control the degree of fierceness they'd like for their light source.

As with many of his pieces, customers can choose among sterling silver plated, polished nickel, gold plated or polished bronze. Contact him for prices and order info.

fakasaka@fakasaka.com

hanging with Poster boy while he's working

Let me know if you have seen his work around town. I have not seen his pieces yet.

Who is Richard Chai?

No Fashion till Brooklyn

“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.” –Jean Cocteau

60 years of soles and stripes

Title : ADIDAS GLOBAL DOMINANCE
Theme : ADIDAS GLOBE & HISTORY
Colorway : BLUE/WHITE/multi-colored prints
Production : 1 OF 1 CUSTOM
Event : ADIDAS 60th years of soles and stripes house party

This pair of Adidas Pro Model was custom-made as a tribute to Adidas's 60th Anniversary. Basically, the design revolves around the 60 years of achievement and global dominance of this sporting giant. Pictures of sports legends, historical moments, landmarks, endorsements and inspiring world class athletes were included in the collage, based on the Adidas globe concept.

ADIDAS GLOBAL DOMINANCE by HYPETHETIC will be featured at the upcoming Adidas 60 Years of Soles and Stripes House Party on 27 Feb 09, TIMBERLUX Warehouse, Singapore.

The TV infomercial Boom

Interesting how A bad economy means big business for infomercial products:

Red Bull 45s Coming To Seattle - All-Vinyl - Thurs, Feb 26,

Riding through the concrete jungle

It's Your Ride from Cinecycle on Vimeo.

Damani My Adidas video

Damani created a special music video titled My Adidas. With homage to the original adidas music video with Run-DMC, Damani playfully rhythm about his EQT B-Ball Low, including all of its attributes.

Old Shea Stadium - ready for the new

Terry Richardson X Natasa V for Purple Magazine

Purple #11

Want to know what models do when they are being photographed?

Nike Sportswear Event tonight

Exclusive shopping event tonight.

Time: Thursday, February 19, 2009
7:00- 10:00 pm

Location:

21 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10013.

212-226-5433

Check out these fresh Umpire jackets in two different colorways...baseball season is coming real soon and hopefully the Phillies can do a repeat.

OBEY X JDILLA

Obey has produced a commemorative J Dilla print limited to 400 pieces.

50 prints will be released at a charity event on February 22nd in Los Angeles.

The print goes for 55 USD.

MY NEW FAVORITE TOY/TOOL

The NY Post

The NY Post has been getting more and more edgy with their cartoons. Check out this controversial image that they put up recently

Passion Pit by Sleepyhead

Passion Pit's debut EP Chunk Of Change, directed by The Wilderness

Iphone coasters

These coasters come in the classic icons that are used on the iPhones interface and you can pick these up now at Menino for $60 sixty dollars.

KAWS opening at Honor Fraser, Saturday, Feb 21

Mazzi - Walking Blog #23 (R.I.P. Big L)

Just caught this over at Mick Boogie's blog...pretty dope....

All Gone 2008

By far one of my favorite books done by Michael Dupouy who covers all the freshest designs that was put out during the year and covers a lot of designers that collaborate. I hope one day Jask gets a feature in the book...look out our new designs for this Spring and Summer!

Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream

Audrick Style has officiallly launched

Jayda Audrick is having a launch party for her new launch of www.audrickstyle.com at the Saint James Boutique located at 1045 madison Avenue between 6-8:00 pm.

Don't forget to RSVP.

Final Fantasy XIII Japanese Trailer

Excited about this...

straight kiss no chaser

One of the best kept secrets in NYC watch Jadakiss spit the verse from "Big Dogg Status" ...hot track

He actually dropped two mixtapes this week....straight crackalackin!

You all need to listen to Audio Herion and Kiss my Ass but I must say for Jadakiss....
as far as a dope album that you must own or hear . . . . for some reason he does not fit in those categories.

Kiss is a more hit or miss type of rapper.

When he is in his lane, he's one of the nicest.
But when he does tracks like redo gospel songs . . . .that just does not fly with me.

I'll put it like this . . . Jada gets better when the production is better.
Imagine if he had a better production team . . . then there would be no stoppin him. For instance, imagine Jada rapping over Just Blaze, Primo, illmind, or Large Professor

Lil Cease is back - letter to B.I.G.

Glenn Brown's Hunky Dory

Check out this painting Glenn Brown - Hunky Dory 2005 ©
The Artist courtesy of Tate Liverpool

This is a dope image (above)

Glenn Brown was born in Hexam in 1966. From 1984 to 1992 he studied at Norwich School of Art, the Bath College of Higher Education and then trained at Goldsmith’s College. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2000.

One of the most revered painters of his generation. Brown borrows from art history and popular culture, working from the images of Dalí, Auerbach, Rembrandt, science fiction illustrators and many others to investigate the languages of painting and how images are read by the viewer. Brown is fascinated by how reproductions of paintings distort the qualities of their originals. Size, colour, surface texture and brushwork are elements by which original works are transformed from the familiar into the alien. Working from books or projecting reproductions onto a blank picture surface, Brown wildly embellishes his source material. Naturalistic colour becomes putrid or kitsch, figures are elongated or enlarged into the grotesque and heavy impasto, although painstakingly copied, is rendered entirely flat.

The exhibition, which includes over sixty paintings, sculpture and several new works, will be arranged to reveal the artist’s diverse painterly strategies and preoccupations. Rooms will be dedicated to the artist’s obsessive and meticulous copying of brushwork with works including You never touch my skin in the way you did, and you’ve even changed the way you kiss me (1994) and Telstar (1995). His relentless appropriation of Auerbach, returning to the same work again and again in order to transform the head of a figure is realised in works such as Kill the Poor(2000) and The Real Thing (2000). Further rooms will reflect Brown’s playful use of kitsch and the sublime, through which the artist radically displaces familiar works by Dalí, Fragonard and John Martin. Brown’s perceptive processes will also be explored. Often placing formal and aesthetic concerns over original subject matter and meaning, details from well known-works are isolated, manipulated, becoming subject matters in themselves.

Twestival starts today in NYC supporting a good cause

Twestival starts today throughout the world you can find out what kind of events are going on in your city.

Twestival is organized 100% by volunteers in cities around the world and 100% of the money raised from these events will go directly to support charity: water projects.

The mission of Twestival is right now 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us. Many communities in developing nations often have a plentiful supply of clean drinking water just below the ground, but no way to get to it. This is where charity: water and their partner organizations come in. Drilling a well can cost from $4,000 - $12,000 USD and many living on less than $1 a day cannot afford one in their community, even if the money is combined.

Today, 100+ international cities will be hosting a Twestival to bring Twitter communities together in an effort to raise money for charity: water. Twestival is organized 100% by volunteers around the world and 100% of the money raised from these events will go directly to support charity: water projects. By rallying together globally, under short timescales, for a single aim on the same day, the Twestival hopes to bring awareness to this global crisis.

Livestock hostsJeff Hamada's Contribution to the Converse 1Hund(red)

EVENT IS THE RELEASE PARTY FOR JEFF HAMADA'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE CONVERSE 1HUND(RED) ARTIST SERIES AT OUR WEST 4TH LOCATION. ALL, YUP ALL PROFITS FROM SHOES PURCHASED AT THE EVENT WILL BE DONATED TO THE GLOBAL FUND.

Inglourious Basterds

Another Quentin Tarantino coming to a theater near you. Still in production

Helpless by Headstrong feat. Shelley Harland

headstrong-hq.com/
myspace.com/shelleyharland
http://keithoutit.com

What will happen for 2009 and on

Me and those dreamin eyes of mine

I wonder what D'angelo has been up to?

The Record Industry vs. the People

Here's a recent (2007) of how the Record Industry is moving (doubt its changed much) and boy are they in it for a ride for the next few years. Especially generating revenue.

* Arista is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony BMG
* Atlantic is owned by the Warner Music Group
* BMG is the German half of the Sony BMG partnership
* Capitol is owned by EMI
* Elektra is owned by the Warner Music Group
* Interscope is owned by Vivendi’s Universal Music Group
* Lava is owned by owned by Warner Music Group
* Loud is owned by UMG
* Priority Records is owned by EMI
* Maverick is owned by the Warner Music Group
* Motown Priority is owned by Vivendi’s Universal Music Group
* SONY is the Japanese half of the Sony BMG partnership
* UMG is Vivendi’s Universal Music Group
* Virgin Music is owned by EMI
* Warner Music Group is Warner Music

The next Music Bubble...

As always, Japan is already way ahead here. Check out what their electronic shows look like (esp. 3:30min in). An army of circuit bending in Japan is definitely showing the world how progressive they're going.

White Winter Hymnal

Fleet Foxes video for "White Winter Hymnal", directed by Sean Pecknold, off the band's self-titled Sub Pop 2008 release.

Trader Joes commercial

Now I thought this was creative... one of the folks from carlsfinefilms shot an unathorized commercial shot with a Palm Treo and accidentally breaks the phone.

Check it out.

MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense

Check out what these students from MIT Media Lab who developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen.

The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they're done. Now tell me are we living in a cool time period or what...we're not far from the Minority Report folks...



The gestures can be as simple as using his fingers and thumbs to create a picture frame that tells the camera to snap a photo, which is saved to his mobile phone. When he gets back to an office, he projects the images onto a wall and begins to size them.

When will the drama stop

Shepard Fairey, the visual artist who created the iconic “Hope” poster of Barack Obama, has filed suit against The Associated Press, according to court documents. Last week, The A.P. said in a statement that the poster, based on an A.P. photograph taken by Mannie Garcia in April 2006, requires its permission for use of the image, and that it is seeking credit and compensation for its use in Shepards's works.

In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in NY, lawyers for Shepard Fairey are seeking a declaratory judgment which would rule that Fairey’s poster does not infringe on The Associated Press’s copyrights and is protected by the Fair Use Doctrine. The complaint also seeks an injunction enjoining The Associated Press from asserting its copyrights against Shepard Fairey, his company, Obey Giant, and anyone in possession of the poster or works derived from it, as well as a jury trial.

I was reading this article in the NY Times art section and this is the update with whats going on with A.P. and Obey founder Shepard Fairey over the famous Obama "HOPE" Poster.

Which side are you on?

Radiohead at the 51st Grammy Awards

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Now if you're not all about the mainstream....then maybe you can check out Fujitsu's E-Reader which is BIGGER and in COLOR!!!

MOMA Monday nights: Art Jumping

No plans tonight? The MOMA opens until 8:45 pm tonight, the first 600 ticket buyers after 5:30 p.m. receive free admission on their next visit....

The Moma even has a twitter if you want to follow them.

www.twitter.com/MuseumModernArt

Tokyo! Trailer

In TOKYO!, three visionary directors come together for an omnibus triptych examining the nature of one unforgettable city as it’s shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and run amok) inside an enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated Japanese megalopolis — the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo. This film addresses the timeless question of whether we shape cities, or if cities shape us — in the process revealing the rich humanity at the heart of modern urban life.

This film releases in the NY on March 6th and LA March 20th.

What is crowdsourcing?

Jeff Howe explains what crowdsourcing is.

#$@k off! A valentine riot in BK

Google Latitude

Bamboo Flash drive with a Post-it

A USB drive with built-in sticky notes to write down all of my passwords...

Some say this is cute and lame but some say its pure genius and lazy! you make the call.

Think you know Lil Wayne or as he prefered to be called Wayne

He's been in the industry since he's been 12 years old, one of the hardest working artists in the industry, Katie Couric got to talk to him 1 on 1 last night for a Pre-Grammy special and here is what he had to say.

Here's a fact: ...did you know his real name is Dwayne?

Is it a journey or a destination folks

Apparently Evan Williams does not even know but all in all he gives a great explanation about how Twitter works and how it can be useful to get up to date information.

via TED

The Death of Newspapers?

Newspapers have been and remain by far the largest source of news coverage and analysis in any city or town no question because without the newspapers there would be no sheets for other media outlets such as TV, radio stations, magazines, websites, and etc.

It's interesting how the classified sections are becoming scarce thanks to websites like Craigslist, oodle, usfreeads, onlineclassifieds, and etc.

What is sad is that these major newspapers give out their the columnist’s work for free to the online medias. The younger generations rather read on the inter webs, and on top its just much cheaper than walking to the store and buying the print and also its saves paper for the environment and it is not slowing down at all because that is the way the market is shifting.

Now a days you talk to anyone everyone mostly go on website to get their most up to date news, even now because of twitter, I can get tweets sent from the NY Times, CNN, and any other media outlets for up to date info. instead of me going on the website, they send me a tweet about up to date information......so the web landscape is definitely shifting and all the big corporations are also moving towards the shift

Did you know that after reading the Atlantic, that "Newspaper penetration—the number of households looking at a paper—now amounts to less than 18 percent of the population, compared with 33 percent back in 1946. In its home market, The New York Times has a dismal 7 percent penetration. The New York Times Company, which, like the rest of the industry, used to reap tremendous profits, is one of the many publicly traded newspaper companies that have lost well over half their market value in the past two years. Just this past year, shareholders of publicly traded newspaper companies have lost 83 percent of their investments."

Quite scary, so how long do you think the Newspaper will last? Only time will tell and I will leave this quote from a veteran photographer named George Guthrie is talking to a young journalist. Guthrie says, “People do awful things to each other. But it’s worse in places where everybody is kept in the dark. Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light.” So what happens when people start caring about this and there is no more investigation?

Will papers become local news sources? It seems like thats the only survivors in town.

Quite scary don't you think...

ATO Matsumoto Shoes

You have probably seen Kanye West rocking the Ato shoes but check out these new colorways they released.



You can find them Revolution

I'm really diggin these, wish they sold these in the states! so many fake sites that are selling them, so buyers BEWARE!!!

New York Comic Con comes to the Big Apple

You can find out more at www.nycomiccon.com

Want to work for the Central Intelligence Agency?

Who wants to work for the agency? Contact Jason Linetsky.

Internet 2008 numbers and its growing more and more

The Wild Side of Bale

You gotta listen to this audio behind the scenes of the new Terminator that Christian Bale is.

Christian Bale went nuts on the set of "Terminator Salvation" a few months back, threatening to stop production and beat some serious ass. The incident was audiotaped, and it's amazing. It happened on the set after a director of photography accidentally ruined a scene by walking onto the set.

Bale lost it, screaming, yelling and threatening to quit if the bosses didn't fire the dude.
Film execs sent the tape to the insurance company that insured the film in case Bale bailed.

Check out the remix, I'll tell you, people are getting so creative on the interwebs.

100 percent LED watches

Designer/director Hironao Tsuboi

You can find out more here:

Alicia Meyers "I wanna thank you"

Even though its Monday, had to drop this video for you all.....here's a garage classic back in 1984.



About Alicia Meyers:
Vocalist Alicia Myers was a charter member of Al Hudson & the Soul Partners, which later became One Way, before she departed in the early '80s for a solo career. She earned a Top Ten hit with "You Get the Best From Me (Say, Say, Say)" in 1984, although her strongest record was the gospel/soul "I Want to Thank You" in 1982. Myers made four LPs for MCA during the '80s. ~ Ron Wynn

Year: 1982
Producer: Kevin McCord / Irene Perkins

Introducing 1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial

This was the commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh Computer to the world.

Jay - Z and Radiohead=Jaydiohead

You can check out this mashup by Minty Fresh Beats who created a Jay-Z X Radiohead mashup.

Snowboarding Protest ad

Directed by Daniel Eskils

Nigo's crib

Beating Hearts at Love

My friends the Serrano Family hit me up today so I wanted to pass this along to you all. Miss Martinez along with the J.E.M. foundation planning on holding a fundraiser next month.

If you're free and around on Thursday, February 5th, stop by Love, it's the J.E.M. Foundation's (our non-profit) 1st fundraiser supporting the Arts.

Proceeds will go to the Harlem School of the Arts.