Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Gregory Allen!


My homie Nige sent me this snapshot off his iPhone the other day. It's some downtown guerrilla advertising for Gregory Allen. The Toronto based luxury dress designer/retailer line that has been featured in Complex, Peace, and Ask Men among other media outlets. I'll be putting up more info about the line soon...and perhaps even a Gregory Allen x go&d exclusive!

New Love Locked Coming Soon...LOL



Via Kanye's Blog

Here's the newer artwork with perfected type 4 all design snobs lol...

Sidebar... if you don't like autotune... too bad cause I love it and have been using it since the College Dropout!!!


The new version is currently being mastered. Also, to attest to the autotune claim, he had used it on Workout Plan. I hope the hook is different on the new version...but we'll have to wait and see what's what...

Nike Windrunner 82 Video



Music by Teenage Bad Girl. Directed By Jonas & François of El Nino. Jonas and François are recently coming off the fame of Justice's "D.A.N.C.E.", and Madonna's "4 Minutes" and have done some great work with this video. The music is pretty dope too!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Louis Vuitton for Vogue Japan.

Photography : Daniel Sannwald. Art direction : Gary Card and Daniel Sannwald.
Stylist : Shun Watanabe. Model : Brett Lloyd.

Via Fubiz Photographer Daniel Sannwald creates some amazing shots for the latest Vogue Japan magazine. A three dimensional black and white visual of Louis Vuitton Damier that plays on Daft Punk for inspiration. More pictures after the jump.

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Mean Shoe Game...


Just in time for fall, Quoddy Trail, a shoe company started by the Shorey family of Maine, USA:

...has been making moccasins for generations, beginning with Harry Smith Shorey, in the early 1900s. Started in Downeast Maine, near the shore of the Passamaquoddy Bay, we make traditional moccasin styles using time-honored techniques and quality materials. Each process is done by hand — cutting, skiving, stitching, and handsewing. This is handsewn to the “tip” with locked stitches to ensure comfort and durability, the two most important benefits of moccasin construction. All styles, soled or unsoled, have full leather sock liners (not just half) and heel padding for added comfort and cushioning.


These joints are wild, and are only $236. Available at South Willard

The Freshest Water Ever!

Tasmanian Rain, the premium bottled rainwater from Tasmania, is now available for home delivery and at certain luxury hotels here in advance of its official U.S. launch next year.

The remote Australian island where it originates has the cleanest air on the planet according to the World Meteorological Organization, which is important since Tasmanian Rain never touches the ground.

The company says that gives it an edge in purity over any spring water, which can contain contaminants as a result of human byproducts that cannot be completely filtered out. Furthermore, Tasmanian Rain is a carbon neutral company, and only bottles their water in 100% recyclable glass.

So far it's been picked by several Ritz-Carlton hotels for their VIP suites, the Trump International in Chicago and Las Vegas, the Tides and The Biltmore hotels in Miami and the Four Seasons in Jackson Hole.

Tasmanian Rain is also about to launch in Dubai at the Jumeirah Hotel Group. Home delivery prices are $60 for a case of 12 750 ml bottles and $75 for a case of 24 375 ml bottles, available for order here.


Via Luxist

Miracle at St. Anna - Spike Lee Joint!



Oscar? I don't know...but I am seeing this opening night!

mmmm...mmmm...Vote!


A brilliant, yet simple t-shirt that blends politics, Andy Warhol, and Shepard Fairey all together in a way that leaves me only wishing that I came up with it.

Via Kempt

Clive x go&d x Format Mag x Five&Dime

Last week my homies Nige, Fresh, and myself hit up the Five & Dime show in downtown Toronto. Really cool event...and if I wasn't fasting I would have definitely indulged a the abundant amount of beer that surrounded me. Nonetheless, I stopped by the Format Mag booth and was introduced to their mascot Clive (pictured above)...More photos of Clive HERE

The Strength of Mother Nature...

This is crazy! Hurricane Ike has caused horrific damage to Texas. The natural disaster has completely cleared entire towns! Leaving such a degree of devastation, that there are even reports that the news media aren't being allowed to report on it in depth.

As frustrations mount over delays in providing basic supplies to survivors of Hurricane Ike, the first glimpses of previously inaccessible areas revealed a string of ghost towns reduced to rubble.

Until Monday, authorities prevented residents and media from entering or flying over areas of the Bolivar Peninsula, a sliver of sand that sits across Galveston Bay from the city of Galveston.

Bolivar may have been the hardest hit by Ike's 110 mph winds and estimated 16-foot storm surge. Towns all along the peninsula were virtually flattened by the treacherous winds, rain and floods from Hurricane Ike.


Read the rest of the story HERE.

Kardinal Offishall ft. Lil Wayne & Pusha T - Swag

Via Nah Right...and to all my patriots, make sure you pick up the Not For Sale record!

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Tina Fey IS Sarah Palin...LOL



I didn't get to see this last night, but here the opening segment from SNL...Tina Fey rips the Sarah Palin impersonation!

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hipster breakdown...



"...I'm not fond of the tight jeans, day glow colour look, but I wasn't fond of the wearing 50lbs of gold chain look either and still love Slick Rick..."

Word.

Will Smith to play Captain America...



There are rumours all over the Internets' that Will Smith has been tapped to play Captain America. This all is the result of an interview Derek Luke gave to MTV where he said that he heard Will Smith was offered the role. Adding “just shows you how times have changed.”

Now if this is true, it would be pretty big news. However I am little unsure weather Will would play Steve Rogers the classic (white) Captain America. Or Isaiah Bradley, who according to the storyline was the first person to receive the super soldier serum (you have to know a little bit about to comic to get what that is all about), and who is black. We'll have to wait and see how this plays out...

275K Champagne...imagine what it would cost in the club!

Some vintage 1907 Heidsieck champagne that's been sitting on the bottom of the ocean for the past 80 years is being sold for $275,000 a bottle at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow.

Over 200 bottles of the long-lost, perfectly-preserved bubbly were salvaged from a shipwreck off the coast of Finland, Russian newspaper Komersant reports. At the time of the accident in 1916 the wine was on its way to the Russian Imperial family.

The Ritz-Carlton, where top suites go for upwards of $15,000 a night, is now offering them at $275,000 a bottle, making it the world's most expensive champagne. Sounds like the perfect drink for all those oligarchs.


Via Luxist