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A$AP Rocky

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Paris New York Burger Restaurant by CUT architectures

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The Paris New York restaurant specializing in burgers offer a place combining Parisian spirit and mind New Yorkers without falling into the cliches of the genre. A black ceiling, dressed bulbs Broadway recalling dialogue with floor tile cements geometric patterns. The provision mirrors facilitates dialogue between the patina of the walls and the fuselage of the bar and the staircase leading to the upstairs room.Dressed in riveted aluminum, the bar is monolithic telescope of the staircase whose aesthetic is reminiscent of the U.S. Air Stream. The steel structure of the staircase is visible from inside kept reminding workshop bays and structures Eiffel.

Photos by David Foessel

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Bugatti Veyron concept 1945

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Snap!

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Billmatic.

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Fashion Experts Sound Off on Kanye West’s Paris Performance

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By Tim Blanks. Photographs by Tommy Ton.

Kanye West insisted that he gets a bigger kick out of his bad reviews than his good ones. In which case, he should look away now, because I’m all about the shock and awe after his performance at Le Zénith in Paris last night. West has been doing a few of these surprise club dates around Europe, but nothing about the ninety-minute show felt like it was on the fly. In fact, it played like a piece of musical theater as tightly conceptualized as Bowie’s Isolar tours, with West solo against a huge screen and his musicians tucked to the side, anonymity guaranteed by mummy-like wrapping. The screens played images of nature at its most elemental: boiling clouds, raging blizzards, titanic waves, frozen wastelands. When West was poised at the pinnacle of the canted stage, nature surging all around him, it was like he, too, had become a force of nature. And that sure was the way his relentlessly intense performance played.

But it’s always been part of West’s irresistibly twisted allure that the peaks of public triumphalism have been balanced by depths of private anguish. The balance clearly shifts. King Crimson already sang about a “21st Century Schizoid Man.” All West had to do was lift the sample. He performed last night in a straitjacket, and sang “Say You Will,” the most agonized song from 808s & Heartbreak, with arms bound and head encased in a beaked mask of white feathers. The outfit could have been West’s comment on the inescapable lunacy of fame, though he is, of course, a perfectly willing participant. But when “snow” fell from Le Zénith’s ceiling, heavy enough to blanket the audience, there was a moment when they looked like refugees. And that mask made West look more sacrifice than bird of prey.

The show revolved around his long, free-form verbal riffing. He’d bring the music down to a drumbeat or a piano chord while he fixated on a phrase or a train of thought, lost in a tortured internal dialogue. “Hendrix, Morrison, James Brown,” West named his improvisational influences later. “Nothing recent.” During a long vamp through “Clique,” he reeled off some other names by way of context: Picasso, Michelangelo, Basquiat, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs: fiercely original thinkers all, and none of them particularly troubled by conventional mores. If that’s the company West feels he’ll keep for posterity, I certainly wouldn’t contradict him. Genius smooths the rough edges of ego.

West’s foray into fashion was always colored for me by the thought that it might distract him from making music (and if he had designed clothes as well as he does that, it probably would have). “Fashion” reared its head twice last night, in the forms of a crystal Margiela mask (the covered face as an ongoing motif in West’s life and art is yet one more thing that demands obsessive analysis) and what I think was a shout-out against designers who won’t lend clothes to his girlfriend. (You’d imagine she might have enough money to buy them by this point. I’ll never quite grasp why the people who can most afford everything seem to be the ones who most want stuff for free.) But on another level, the entire evening was as designed and immaculately realized as a great fashion collection and/or show. So in the end, Kanye actually realized his ambitions. And his focus is firmly back on music, specifically on the album he has been recording in Paris. Though he concedes two new preoccupations: “furniture and pornography.” Two more designs for living that offer endless possibilities to enthrall and appall.

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Deer Antler Handlebar by Taylor Simpson

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This hand crafted genuine deer antler handlebar by Taylor Simpson is probably the coolest handlebar you can get for your bicycle!

Simpson originally came up with the concept of Moniker while participating in the World’s Longest Yard Sale on Route 127 in 2010. While traveling the sale he found a pair of genuine deer antlers a local man was selling somewhere in Kentucky. As a cyclist he thought it would be clever to create bicycle handlebars made of animal horns and antlers.

The final product was eventually put to life as a Package Design assignment for his Fall 2012 Senior Project class with Michael Gerbino at Pratt Institute.

All images © Taylor Simpson – Website

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Push the limits.

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Invader in Paris

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After filling the Jonathan LeVine booth (covered) with his tiled works during Basel Week Miami, Invader has returned to the streets in his home city of Paris recently with this new piece. Again taking elements of pop culture that interest him, the French street artist has created a mosaic featuring the Pink Panther.

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Snap!

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Mick Boogie New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013 : Sounds from the front row 7

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Tracklist –

1) Yonas Michael & Body Language: SFTFR7 Intro
2) Keys N Krates & Grandtheft: Give Me The Night
3) Niki & The Dove: DJ Ease My Mind (Body Language Remix)
4) Fare Soldi: Frum Frum
5) Terry Urban f/ Aaliyah: Inside Out
6) Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb (King Most Redirection)
7) Santigold: The Keepers (The Knocks Remix)
8) Ben Pearce: What I Might Do (Anthony’s Moving To Brooklyn Edit)
9) The xx : Sunset (Jamie xx Edit)
10) Solange: Locked In Closets
11) RAC f/ Penguin Prison: Hollywood (The Magician Remix)
12) Django Django: Default (Mr. Mitsuhirato Edit)
13) Chromatics: Lady (G.González Edit)
14) Jessie Ware: No To Love (Ewan Pearson’s Permissive Society Remix)
15) Ellie Goulding: Anything Could Happen (Birdy Nam Nam Remix)
16) The Heavy: What Makes A Good Man (Kenny Dope Remix)
17) Crookers f/ Yelle: Cooler Couleur
18) Body Language: I’m A Mess
19) Big Boi f/ A$AP Rocky & Phantogram: Lines
20) Tears For Fears: Ideas As Opiates (Peel Session)
21) Nickelus F & Drake: Number 15
22) Skrillex: Leaving
23) Cat Power f/ Angel Haze: Manhattan (Ryan Hemsworth Remix)
24) Mr. Little Jeans: The Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover)

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M-AIR-J

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Contemporary Cape Town First Crescent Bay Home

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South Africa comes with some of the most beautiful, untouched land– and when you’re living amongst it all, there’s no way that you can’t take advantage of the views. This completely glazed home by Saota Architects sits along the edge of the Crescent Bay.

The overall layout of this home is quite open with plenty of secluded areas created within each space. The master suite is a sensual space, complete with a bed centered in the room and the bathroom just beyond, with a glass enclosure shower. The space remains quite linear within the natural setting, keeping the focus on the almost 360 degree views.

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TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard Documentary

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Makers of “TPB AFK” or “The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard” the documentary film that looks into the lives of the men who started the most infamous file-sharing site in the entire world, have just announced its release date.

The documentary that was directed by Simon Klose will be free to download on February 8th at the same time that it is premiered at the Berlinale – Berlin’s international film festival.

Klose said that this is the first time ever that a film is being put online at exactly the same time as its Berlinale screening and hopes that this unusual release method embodies the principles explored by the film’s subject matter.

A press release about the release of “TPB AFK” stated:

“By sharing this film under a Creative Commons license, we hope to contribute to a serious debate about the social and economic benefits of sharing. We also hope to prove that sharing can be a realistic business model.”

The documentary was partially funded by a Kickstarter project that was launched more than 2 years ago, however production was delayed because of Swedish Supreme Court’s decision on the fate of Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde.

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Nike Air Max 95 EM “Honolulu”

nike-air-max-95-em-honolulu-1Nike produces a special limited edition drop for NONFUTURE, called the Nike Air Max 95 EM “Honolulu.” An update of the Air Max 95 silhouette that influenced Japanese street fashion with its popularity, the EM stands for engineered mesh, alluding to the construction of the tonal green or black upper the shoe comes in. Designed by Sergio Lozano, inspiration was drawn from the human body, expressing the ‘back bone’ through the hard molded shape of the outsole while the ‘muscles’ are displayed through the textured upper layered on top. Certainly a very organic looking shoe, the pair also features a reinforced heel panel and thick rope laces. The runners appropriately derive their name from the Honolulu marathon held every year in Hawaii.

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2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Teaser

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The latest edition once again sees blonde bombshell Kate Upton on the cover. The 2013 edition of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is set to hit newsstands this Tuesday, February 12.

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Where I’d rather be.

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Hood By Air 2013 Fall/Winter “Boychild” Runway Show feat. A$AP Rocky

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New York’s Hood By Air celebrated their 6th year of existence with an inspired runway show at Milk Studios with an assist from notable performance artist Boychild as well as Harlem emcee A$AP Rocky – marking the brands first ever participation at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Following the show, GQ managed to catch up with Rocky to discuss his future plans in fashion – and whether he had the desire to become a designer – with the rapper commenting, ” Nah, I’m not a fashion designer. I’ll do collabs, but that’s the most. I’ve already did collabs with a few streetwear brands, but that’s on the high end. I’ll do a collab, but I’m not fashion designer and I have no intention of going and doing that anytime soon.”

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Snap!

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