Murakami
Collaboration sculpture, created between Kanye West and legendary super-flat artist Takashi Murakami. The piece follows the re-occuring Kanye bear theme, created in a gold sculpture.
Artist Advice: J. Cole
Shout Outs to Feltonamus @www.pardonmeduke.com, I see you on the J. Cole shoutout!
Our dude J.Cole giving advice to up and coming artist on www.iamjabari.com. Artist take heed and notes, it could work for you.
Props to Jabari for this cool segment!
Source via: PardonMeDuke
Video: Lebron James, More Than A Game
I don’t know if it’s cold in the room, or if it’s the film. Featuring NBA great, Lebron James as himself, More Than A Game goes for inspirational and never backs down. More Than A Game takes a group of five guys from inner city Ohio and puts them on a long hard road to a national championship.
In theaters October 2nd
Perspective Chair x Pharrell
Pharell does work. There is something eerily beautiful about the Perspective Chair. I love the relationship of the male to the female, somewhat sexual in nature, but so much more. Absolutely intelligent design. Pharell Williams is the artist behind this design. He collaborated with Domeau & Pérès to create this chair, another chair and table that will be part of a show in Paris.
Video: Black Dynamite
This is the story of 1970’s action legend Black Dynamite. When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
The G.O.A.T., Michael Jordan
The best to ever do it. The G.O.A.T. (greatest of all-time), Michael Jordan was inducted into the Hall of Fame Sept. 11, 2009; but don’t think he’s ready to go into the pasture and graze, as he described to Michael Wilbon. In Jordan’s induction speech, MJ’s thank you list went well beyond friends and family. There was the coach who cut him. The player who dissed him. The media who doubted him.
Anyone who ever provided Jordan with motivation to become a better player.
When I watched MJ’s induction speech, I thought back to when my brothers, Chris, Al, and I would watch the games out in the living room. Every time we got out the house and stepped on the court we tried to emulate MJ, everyone in Wingate did, whether it was on the monkey bars, tryna Rock-the-Cradle with our tongues out, or on the courts tryna hit that last shot.
Conversation with Michael Wilbon after the jump.
Negative Space
Hans Haacke: The 9-11 Poster Project
Hans Haacke: The 9-11 Poster Project
Hans Haacke’s Poster Project appeared on scaffolding’s and walls throughout New York City from March 11-25, 2002. Personally, I think Hans Haacke’s Posters effectively represent all the emotions that come along with remembering Sept. 11th better than any other poster or “We Will Never Forget” slogan. He uses the negative space as a symbol of the missing tower – that is what I saw when I after I looked a second time. When you first look, you also notice what is behind his poster. And that is what I feel is effective in his design. Everyone continues to live their lives, carrying out there day-to-day activities, however the void of the towers can never be filled.
I don’t even remember ever seeing or actually noticing these Posters throughout the city because I was oblivious to detailed and everything other than Yugi-oh cards and video games. Ha ha, I was about twelve or thirteen at the time.
R.I.P Mario, 8yrs..
Wax Poetics
The other day I started a design internship at Wax Poetics. Wax Poetics is a bi-monthly hip hop, jazz, latin, funk, and soul musiq magazine. I didn’t know anything about Wax Poetics prior to applying for the internship, but its a magazine you turn to if your trying to find out about and discover new musiq, and I love musiq. Each issue delves into the history of the topic genre featuring iconic figures, as well as new rising stars. It’s not like other magazines you subscribe to. You don’t want to throw out any past issues of Wax Poetics because it’s like throwing away a textbook, each issue is flooded, cover to cover, with history.
Let’s see where this internship takes me.
el fin.
Entourage Season 6
I missed the first episode of season six because I was coming back from the beach on Sunday. Ugh, fml! I was hoping to catch the re-run on Monday @7pm, but no luck. Monday’s episode was from Season 4, I believe. Anyway, catch Entourage on Sunday’s at 10:30
Creativity 100
After making 35 stops in downtown Brooklyn, on my way home from work, I picked up this Graphic Design book by Mark Oldach for $8. Creativity for Graphic Designers has a neat presentation and appears to be one of those sophistacted books you find at your school bookstore. I haven’t read pasted the panel and the contents page, but from my understanding it’s aimmed to help you create and develop fresh ideas, and keep those ideas flowing project after project. Let’s hope it’s not one of those cliche books.
After The Storm
After work on Friday, on my way home, I tried to conceptualize new ideas from old ideas and designs, and some ideas to put on paper as well. I’ve been thinking about mixing medias, using P R I S M A C O L O R markers and watercolours to get the start of a new look-book. Anyway, after the storm, around sunset, the sky was beautiful. It was maybe sepia toned. I wish I got the shot somewhere else, but my room window sufficed, and was convenient. I had to lower the aperature on my camera to get the color and the silhouette. I like the urban feel, the color looks great. I definitely need a Nikon.
NYC Red
Keep It Surreal!
R.I.P Michael Jackson
The Lights Dimmed & The Curtain Closed On The King of Pop, Michael Joseph Jackson, dies at age 50. This news is extremely sad, almost unfathomable.
Heal the World – Keep It Surreal!
Some of my favorite MJ songs are definitely from his Thriller album: Wanna Be Startin’ Something, The Girl Is Mine featuring Paul McCartney (classic), Thriller, Beat It, Billie Jean, and my top favorite, Human Nature.
What’s your favorite song?
Vintage Coke Cans
Source via: inspiredology.com
News Stories: Leroy Smith Exposed (1/4)
I am the master motivator. The “Mastervator”. Who else could claim that?”
Video: Leroy Smith – The Man Who Motivated Michael Jordan
Let the motivation begin!
More Leroy Smith at www.getyourbasketballon.com
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it’s dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
Written by Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)
The good thing about being optimistic is that you get to see something truly for what it is, rather than what it’s not. Stop. Just marvel over the rose that grew from concrete and all else is trivial. Judge something for what it is, and what it over-came to get where it’s at, regardless of what’s wrong, the mistakes, or imperfections. LOVE. LIVE. LIFE – PROCEED. PROGRESS.
el fin.
Think Print
I got a new font today and I was eager to try it out, so, here it is! It’s Ballpark Weiner from DaFont.com if you’re trying to find it. I’m loving it right now, I think it’ll definitely be useful for future projects. It’s always good to have an arsenal of good fonts to represent your style of design of course.
Design Ignites Change
Design Ignites Change challeneges students to use design thinking to explore and create solutions for pressing social problems.
Creativity holds enormous power for fostering positive social change. Instilling this ideal in the next generation of creative professionals is core to Design Ignites Change, a collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices and Worldstudio. Design Ignites Change promotes and encourages talented high school and college students across the country to use design thinking and innovation to create messages for, and solutions to, pressing social problems.
Each year, participating colleges, universities and high schools engage with their students to create work that addresses powerful social topics ranging from issues of diversity, homelessness, hunger and gun violence to scarce water resources, sustainability and endangered species. The students are encouraged to develop actual projects that are visible in, and beneficial to, their local communities; projects that stimulate thought, dialog, action and ultimately change.
Find out more at www.designigniteschange.org.
Surf for the Cause
Surf for the Cause is a fundraising group whose mission is to make a difference in the lives of those living in Third World Countries, one wave at a time. Every year thousands of surfers travel the globe to ride the most perfect waves the ocean has to offer.
Surfing the world, rebuilding, and raising money for various charities.
Surf for the Cause was started by a group of guys doing what they love. They simply made an organization out of it – surfing waves around the world & in return they make quality of life better for those who preserve these waves and inhabit those poor countries.
Visit Surf for the Cause
Video: A Spike Lee Joint!
Check it out! Kobe Bryant: Doin’ Work on ESPN.
Award-winning director Spike Lee is visiting Bristol, Conn., and the ESPN campus to talk about “Kobe Doin’ Work.” Check here for the latest from his various past and present on-campus interactions. You can watch “Kobe Doin’ Work” on Saturday, May 16 at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.
Video preview after the jump!
A Spike Lee Joint x Tribeca Film Festival
Celebrities came out for for the Premiere of Spike Lee’s new movie ‘Kobe Doin’ Work’ at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on April 25, 2009 in New York City. Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert DeNiro, director Spike Lee and Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal attend a screening of “Kobe Doin’ Work.” And Professional Footbal Player Chad Johnson and Spike Lee exchange information.
ESPN Gala Presents “Kobe Doin’ Work” At The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. The mission of the TribecaFilm Festival is “to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience.” The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan. The Tribeca Film Festival has become one of the most prominent film festivals in the world.
Controversy or Art?
Controversial painting by Michael D. Antuono
The context of this painting can be interpretted in many ways, Antuono leaves the interpretation to the viewers.
Chad Harris
Broccoli
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