Still Love Shoes

It’s been a little while since I posted shoes, I think, and I was getting a little itchy. Adidas is dropping the ZX 800 this fall in black and pretty blue, which is my favorite color. That is a color, right, pretty blue? And, why do I want to write colour…damned brits.

(High Snobiety)

3D Guernica

I was talking with Pops and Danno the other day about artists. and I mentioned Picasso. Of course, my brother and father are a lot smarter than me and discussed the business savvy Picasso combined with his genius at art. I’m sure my comments hung around, “I really like Picasso, his stuff is pretty.” However simple, I do find his work pretty, as well as brutally visceral; shattered portraits and landscapes. Guernica is one of my favorite artworks of all time, and if you care to, you can head to the wiki for some intro info. Artist Lena Gieseke created a 3D model of that work, and you should definitely check it out. Fairly amazing, imho.

This Chair Makes Me Think of Pollen…

…which makes my nose itch. Just looks like a flower, y’know, fuzzy and all. Anna chair designed by Ayala Serfaty, manu’d by Aqua Creations.

(Thanks Yeezy)

Hickey Fall

I don’t know much about Hickey, but their fall line caught my eye. It’s pretty preppy, but not in a plaid shorts on guys sort of way, but rather in an intellectual, collegiate way (Love the elbow pads). Which is good with me, because I like to hide my scorching insecurities underneath my nerdiness…word, Lacy, I do read Adorno for fun.

(Acquire Mag)

Custom Mishka

Mishka is one of my favorite small companies. From their designs, which lean toward the edgy and controversial, to their marketing, which is more than controversial, Mishka releases some great clothing that is definitely Macy’s ain’t have this, if you know what I mean. Adding to their impressive original releases, Mishka just launched their custom store, where you can mix and match colorways and designs until your tiny, blackened heart is content.

(Freshness)

Bitmap Jewelry

Mike and Maaike took bitmap images of famous jewelry and made some nice leather accessories from them, referred to as Stolen Jewels. Pretty stuff, plus it makes me think of the scramble suit in A Scanner Darkly. Word to Keanu.

(Word to Kanye, too)

Get Drank

I think my brother told me about this first, but I finally saw their press release and website and it is as good as anything this side John’s winery. Drank is essentially, or ostensibly, legal syrup, which is just great for the kids. What it really is is valerian root, melatonin and rose hips (now, that’s gangsta). Drank, the first “EXTREME RELAXATION” drink, promises to “slow your role,” and “may cause one to lean.” Nice.

(ProHipHop)

Vinicius Costa

Vinicius Costa is a Brazilian designer who specializes in motion and illustration in 2- and 3-D. Kinda nice.

(IdeaFixa)

Color Coded Library

If you know me, you know that I like books a little bit. I form little forts of them around me wherever I sit. Gift and a curse, I assure you. Reading a lot of the books tends to make it a little embarrassing when you go over someone’s house for the first time, because you have to obsessively scan the shelves while trying to engage in witty banter. The whole shebang’s an ordeal. However, you can go to libraries and stare at the books and no one can tell you from the homeless people. Designer Valeri Madill has created a nice color coding system for libraries, and methinks it would do a lot more for the Carnegie than the cafe section, or whatever it is.

(Thanks Yanko)

Sly Fox…

…So, I have to post the lyrics of at least one of the songs from the new Nas album. I could’ve picked any one of them, to be honest, and it would be light-years ahead of anyone else spitting right now. I don’t know, some of the songs on there…I’m not sure I’ve heard better in the last decade. I’m glad I grew up on Nas. I think of my pops taking Penny to Dylan concerts, and it driving her crazy that you can’t understand him. I hope when I’m 56 I’m taking wifey to Nas concerts, and she’s pissed cause he keeps cussing and using that word…you just ain’t hearing him baby…Like Timmy said, ” Nas is that dude.” Yessir!…enjoy. (p.s. I didn’t censor anything, because I’m too worn out to really give a fuck. However, I’m sorry if you’re offended, maybe just don’t read it. Plus, The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records did enough of that already on this one. You should be happy.)

Sly Fox

The sly fox
Cyclops
We locked
In the idiot box
The video slots
Broadcast
The Waco Davidian plots
They own YouTube, Myspace
When this ignorant shit gon’ stop?
They monopolizing news
Your views
And the channel you choose
Propaganda
Visual cancer
The eye
In the sky
Number five
On the dial
secret agenda
Frequency antenna
Doctor mind bender
Remote control
soul
Controller
Your brain holder
Slave culture
Game’s over
What’s a Fox characteristic?
Slick shit
Sensin’
Misinformation
Pimp the station
Over stimulation
Reception
Deception
Comcast digital Satan
The Fox has a bushy tail
And Bush tells
Lies and Foxtrots
So I don’t know what’s real

Watch what you watchin’
Fox keeps feeding us toxins
Stop sleeping
Start thinking
Outside of the box and
Unplug from The Matrix doctrine
But watch what you say Big Brother is watchin’

Watch what you watchin’
Fox keeps feeding us toxins
Stop sleeping
Start thinking
Outside of the box and
Unplug from The Matrix doctrine
But watch what you say Fox 5 is watchin’

The Fear Factor got you all rattled up
O’ Reilly
Oh really?
No rally needed
I’ll tie you up
Network for child predators, settin’ ‘em up
Myspace pimps, hoes, and sluts
Ya’ll exploit rap culture, then ya’ll flip on us
And you own the post, and ya’ll shit on us
What is they net worth?
They gon’ try to censor my next verse?
Throw ‘em off the roof neck first
While I’m clicking my cursor
Reading blogs about the pressure they put on Universal
It gets worse while I’m clicking my mouse
While they kickin’ my house
They figured us out
Why a nigga go south
It’s either he caught a body, no sleep they watchin’!
I watch CBS
And I See B.S.!
Tryin’ to track us down with GPS
Make a nigga wanna invest in PBS

Watch what you watchin’
Fox keeps feeding us toxins
Stop sleeping
Start thinking
Outside of the box and
Unplug from The Matrix doctrine
But watch what you say Big Brother is watchin’

Watch what you watchin’
Fox keeps feeding us toxins
Stop sleeping
Start thinking
Outside of the box and
Unplug from The Matrix doctrine
But watch what you say Fox 5 is watchin’

They say I’m all about murder-murder and kill-kill
But what about Grindhouse and Kill Bill?
What about Cheney and Halliburton? (Halliburton?)
The backdoor deals
On oil fields
How’s NaS the most violent person?
Ya’ll don’t know talent if it hit you
Bringin’ up my criminal possession charges with a pistol (pistol)
I use Viacom
As my firearm
And let the lyrics split you
Who do you rely upon?
They shoot shells at Leviathan
I’m dealing with the higher form
F**k if you care how I write a poem?
Only Fox that I love was the red one
Only black man that Fox loves is in jail or a dead one!
Red rum
Political bedlam
Don’t let the hype into your eyes and ear drum
Murdoch on Fox
Not 18 with Barracas
And he hate Barack cause
He march with the marchers

I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth.
Not the biased truth
Not the liar’s truth
But the highest truth
I will not be deceived
nor will I believe
In the Propaganda
I will not fall for the Okey-Doke
I am tuned-in

Watch, cause they’re watching
Watch what you’re watching

Better watch, cause they’re watching
Watch what you’re watching

Me-Me-Media
Misleading ya

Watch what you’re watching