Iverson's "Practice" Hip Hop Style

Everyone wants to be like Mike

Indian Thriller:

RIP Michael Joseph Jackson

All about the FAT CAP chairs

Inspired by the small, seemingly inconsequential things in life, designer Sander van Heukelom looked to something as small and trivial as spray can caps as the inspiration behind a line of chairs. Designed for his solo exhibition in Amsterdam titled The Artistry of the Cap”, the two-piece collection includes the “New York Fat Cap Chair” and the “Hooded Fat Cap Chair”.

About the artist:

Sander van Heukelom (1972) already began experimenting with typographic design and graffiti as a teenager.

Although his basic style has not changed much since then, his current work makes use of many different materials, such as styrofoam, plexiglas, synthetic resin and wood.

Sander, who is a graphic designer by profession, draws his inspiration from his extensive travels. After five years spent travelling around the world and teaching kite surfing on several continents, his creativity has taken wing. Sander is now known especially for his three-dimensional typographic sculpture and paintings with spray can and resin.

He also makes other various art objects, of which a few are shown in this portfolio.

You can look into this further here.

via 12ozprophet

Introducing the iphone killer

At a press event in London, manufacturer HTC unveiled its new Android-powered Hero handset. While the previous two Android devices, the G1 and the Magic, were a little ugly and underpowered, the Hero manages to combine sleek good looks with serious power.

Boasting a 5 megapixel autofocus camera, AGPS, digital compass, gravity-sensor, 3.5mm stereo headset jack and expandable MicroSD memory, the hardware is way ahead of previous Android handsets. It’s Teflon-coated to stay clean too.

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Choc Blocking

Today's photo at the Bunker....by David

Tyson

This is one film I would like to see soon along with Star Trek and Up

At the movies this Wednesday

This Wednesday @ Tribeca Cinemas presents the movie Hori Smoku.

Time: 7PM - midnight
Location: 54 Varick Street

You can check out the trailer here: www.horismokumovie.com

Massive Gundam Robot

Right now over in Japan a life-sized replica of a Gundam RX78 Mobile Suit was recently built on the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay.









Now the Gundam is so large that you can see it from inside Odaiba station. It’s also very visible now on the way over on the Yurikamome line.

It's up until 31 August 2009, so go see it while you can.

Here are the directions:

1.) Take the Yamanote line (Shinagawa, Tokyo, Ueno, Shibuya, and Shinjuku JR stations all are on the Yamanote line) to Shimbashi station.
2.) At JR Shimbashi station, follow signs to the Yurikamome Line. It is in a seperate building.
3.) Purchase a ticket for 310 yen for Daiba station.
4.) When inside Daiba station. Take a left and look out the window. You will see it. Just get ground level and head that direction. I perfer to take the North Exit and the right stair case down. But you can also take the stairs near the statue of liberty and make a left.
5.) The Gundam is in North Shiokaze Park.


via Moe Passion

Nightlife Preservation Community presents....

When I grow up

I wonder who the stylist for this video.

A Flyby

I finally was able to find good footage of the Air Force one flying over Jersey City a few weeks ago.

Check it out

Yessian Music - Pepsi Commercial

Superflat First Love by Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton

Full short film celebrating six years of collaboration between Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton.

To mark 6 years of collaboration and the release of the Multicolor Spring Palette, Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami just released a colorful anime short film as a sequel to Murakami’s “Superflat Monogram” anime short from 2003.

Entitled “Superflat First Love” the film showcases a school girl experiencing all the fascinations of Murakami’s characters which are part of his latest project with Louis Vuitton with this mystical journey starting outside the store.

The Amazing Internet

Here's a throwback folks, circa late 80s early 90s CBC video about the growing phenomenon of "Internet"

The Porsche way

Visit - http://germancarscene.com/2009/06/15/... Clip from the new 'The Porsche Way' DVD. Starting with the lifetime achievements of Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche, the film focuses in eight chapters on the development of the famous sports car manufacturer, proceeding from one decade to the next.

If you want to buy the DVD, you’ll have to take a visit to the Porsche Museum in Germany as that’s the only place it is currently available (price is about $35 US).

via Luxuo http://www.luxuo.com

Champions AGAIN!

With a city with no budget to spend on a parade, The Los Angeles Lakers are the 2009 NBA champions
Click the jump for Kobe’s post game interview with ESPN. Orlando Magic just did not want it as bad as LA, now we have Hedo leaving the MAGIC as a free agent.

Will Ferrell on Man vs. Wild

The simple things of life

via highsnobiety

Human Camera Man

This is pretty insane, check this video out.

Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.

You can find out more info about Brain Man on 60 minutes here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/26/60minutes/main2401846.shtml

Diggin the new ATO -Baseball High Trainers

Just hope they come up with some better colors for the trainers, not feeling the colors for the spring/summer.

Still on the Grind 38 years strong - Tony Mignone

Looks like Park Slope’s only record store will keep on spinning the hits - at least for another three years. The legendary Fifth Avenue Record and Tape Center has found a new home just three doors down from its current spot at 439 Fifth Ave. Owner Tony Mignone will be evicted from that location at the end of the month, the Daily News has learned. “I’ll give it another shot,” said Mignone, 72, who’s been running the little neighborhood shop, simply known locally as “the record store,” for 38 years.

via Frank151

When you walk in, you really feel like it takes you back in the day when there was no internet. He keeps it old school, I actually stoppe by Tony's spot a year ago when my friend Dijitaal was living out there. I was able to speak to him and scoop a lot of classic tapes from him mostly Jazz from John Coltrane to Thelonius Monk and even found Reachin by Digable Planets and Public Enemy's Fear of the Black Planet.

Jack Conte the internet Musician

Radiohead cover

Danger Mouse's new visual project

NYTimes piece on the new Dangermouse project - a collaboration with many folks, notably including David Lynch, whose photographs are being released in a book included with a blank CD-R of the audio.

yeah, a blank CD-R.

While the source of the blank CD-R is apparently a contract dispute with a previous label, the more pho-ic element is that he's simply included a blank CD-R and (implicitly) said "go find a leaked version via P2P" rather than release an album with a label he's got a dispute with. Essentially he's just selling the packaging.

You can read more details here

Fatlip on the video Passing me by

REWIND goes behind the scenes of iconic hip-hop videos with the artists themselves. Fatlip of the Pharcyde talks about the "Passin' Me By" video.

Here's the video for those that never seen it.



http://www.deliciousvinyl.com From their debut Delicious Vinyl album "Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde".

Blue Lobster Danger

One and Done....

Last night marked the first night of the NRF playoffs and our dance with the Air Force 1 squad was probably one that'll go down as one of the best games in NRF history. Everything that characterizes a playoff game was there last night - the intensity, the raucous crowd, the ref's bad calls (so bad that the refs quickly left the building after this one was done...and I mean QUICKLY). Unfortunately, we were on the losing end of this one.

With only about 10 seconds left in regulation and a 4pt lead, we can only blame ourselves for this one. AF1 ended up winning it on a layup with 0.3 seconds left in overtime.

It was a pleasure playing with you guys this season, Team Terminator.

Until next season....

Kanye West ft. GLC & Consequence “Spaceship”

The High Line Finally Opens

After years of lawsuits, government bullsh*t and miles of red tape, the High Line finally opened up! Taking an old abandoned above-ground subway track, NYC went through alot to turn this into an outdoor park for a city that needs as much plantation as it can get.

Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival in DUMBO

THE 5th ANNUAL BROOKLYN HIP-HOP FESTIVAL TAKES PLACE JUNE 20TH 2009
12-8 PM
EMPIRE FULTON FERRY STATE PARK
DUMBO, BROOKLYN

Artists

Pharoahe Monch, DJ Premier, Styles P, Dead Prez, Smif N Wessun, Grand Puba, J Period, Torae and Marco Polo, Tiye Phoenix, Keys N Krates
DJ Parler
DJ Misbehaviour
Metermaids
Hosted by Ralph McDaniels

Second Stage
Donny Goines, Nyle, Eagle Nebula, Brown Bag All Stars, Children Of The Night

The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival 2009 will take place on June 18th, 19th and 20th. Events include a retrospective photo exhibit of the first four years, a kick off party, Family Day, The Main Day, and the Official After Party.

This is a free event
Family Day and Main Day are June 20th at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, 1 Main Street, in DUMBO Brooklyn from 12p.m. - 8 p.m.

For more info check out the Brooklyn Bodega Site.

Prince Paul - A prince among thieves

John Perry draws from life on NYC subway

via Frank 151

meet Damien Walters

What was the highlight of last night

I'm not sure if it was Steve Colbert who got an order from President Obama to get his hair shaved or Zack Morris played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar on the Jimmy Fallon show.
I hope they get the whole cast, so far I've seen the Principal, Mario, Jesse, and the show has been trying to get a reunion of all the members from "Saved by the Bell." I have an inkling it will be Screech next, there's only a few left, check Zack Morris jam with the Roots.

You guys can decide.

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Rabbits gone wild in Canada

The campus of the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, has an expanding colony of rabbits. Decades ago they were mostly feral and gray, but now -- after years of pet owners dropping unwanted bunnies -- the campus rabbits have a different look.
More at: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com

Happy Birthday Tetris

Tempa T

Wow....this track get's me pretty hype....i'll put this in the fight tracks category....

THE MAN WHO MOTIVATED MICHAEL JORDAN

You might remember a post we put up a few days ago on this man. Well now you can get the full entree at Leroy Smith's new website. Check it out and motivize your game!!! 

preparing for the changing of a new guard

So it has been quite busy for me in City Hall just handling the past few elections in town and I must say it has been an enormous experience working for the Mayor and how much you learn when you work with such a political and also powerful figure for a small city. You have a new breed of press which includes the National & local media all the way to down to the local bloggers in town that now have also are coming up with the help of twitter and other social media tools.


(CSPAN bus)

From the ballot drawing to now a run-off election because everyone wants this thriving city that once was a neighborhood of mostly italians, dutch, and irish.


(ballot drawing for run-off election)

It will be quite interesting who will be the next leader of our city which we will find out next week and the candidates are hard at work as we speak rain or shine. I have been seeing flyers and tweets daily and folks wearing the color green and the color blue shirts flocking all throughout town like it's a celebration month for Earth day.

I mean earlier this week down in Edison, N.J. a 70 year old lady named Antonia Ricigliano ousted the former Mayor of Edison- Jun Choi, you can read it here: http://bit.ly/w9FT2

From what I heard she had the whole township's Democratic Committee backing her and Mayor Jun Choi had some tough decisions to make and had some issues with the Police Union. I respect Jun Choi and he is an inspiring person I look up to because I contacted him through Facebook, figured I would get some PR guy working behind him but it was him

On top we have Governor John Corzine who earlier this week had a special visit from Joe Biden endorsing him and supporting Corzine for the election for this coming November.

As you can see in the political world is quite busy in New Jersey, will keep you posted on how it turns out next week.

The Mayor asked me to take a few photos for his future memoirs....it's been great but we must move forward and establish a new guard for this city.




So don't forget to vote this Tuesday, this is a reminder to all poll workers to stay cool. Voting is for everyone and each one does count

NRF Playoffs - Road to MSG

My first year in this league, we had the pleasure of playing the championships at MSG...We missed it last year after getting ousted in the 1st round of the playoffs ...

This year?....

This year is different...

New squad...New mission....And new kicks....

That's right. I'm so hyped about this year that I went out and copped new kicks (K. Durant's McDonalds All-American Blue Chip Supreme) just for the playoffs. I'm so ready....LETS GET IT!!!....

Tank man 20 years since, documentary 1 of 8

Today marks the 20 years since Tank man was fighting for freedom at Tiananmen Square, China on June 4, 1989. The actual shot starts around 3:25.

Remember those that died for freedom on June 4th, 1989.

Check out the video:

Get your Basketball on!

Super Viral Brother's Video

Video for the first single from upcoming Super Viral Brothers debut album “Wires In Love”, remixes comes from Dada Life, Stay Gold & Maskinen.

EHX Effectology for the guitar players out there

via crunchgear