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The Best Studio in the World, at the Best Island in the World: Black Rock Santorini
Black Rock Studio Santorini from Alexandros Maragos on Vimeo.
Black Rock is a combination luxury villa and world class recording studio located on the magnificent Greek island of Santorini. Build in a style that combines modern and traditional Cycladic architecture, Black Rock blends perfectly with the Aegean landscape. A heaven of inspiration and tranquility between sea and sun, offering a breathtaking panoramic view of the Aegean sea, and the volcanic islands.
Black Rock Studio won the Best New Studio In the World title by Audio Pro International Industry Excellence Awards 2009. A judging panel of over 100 industry experts and executives, including some of the most respected figures in the business, voted & gave the title to Black Rock.
Santorini voted as the Best Island in the World by Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards 2011 NYC. Santorini is a new World’s Best Island Overall winner, moving up from its No. 6 ranking on last year’s list of Top Islands Overall and displacing the Galápagos from the No 1 position.
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Nike SB: The SB Chronicles, Vol. 1 Teaser
“The SB Chronicles, Vol. 1” is the new feature-length Nike SB video project. It is the first of three films in the “SB Chronicles” video series, and will premiere online December 3rd, 2011 at 7 PM EST. Starting December 10th, 2011 it will also become available for purchase on iTunes.
Shot entirely in HD, “The Nike SB Chronicles, Vol.1” was filmed on location around the world in the streets and parks of Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Dubai, and the United States. “The Nike SB Chronicles, Vol.1” was by shot by Jason Hernandez and showcases full parts from Nike SB team riders Youness Amrani,Chet Childress, Clark Hassler, Stefan Janoski, Lewis Marnell, Daniel Shimizu, Grant Taylor, and Wieger Van Wageningen, as well as an eclectic soundtrack featuring artists selected by the skaters themselves.
“The SB Chronicles, Vol. 1” will be premiered at physical locations across the globe (Los Angeles, New York, Tampa, London, Paris, Milan, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo,) as well at SB dealers worldwide.
However, anybody anywhere in the world can take part in the simultaneous interactive online premiere by tuning into nikeskateboarding.com/sbchronicles at the world-wide event time of December 3rd, 2011 at 7 PM EST to watch the complete video, get an inside look at the various premieres, and ask questions in real-time to the Nike SB team riders featured in the video, as well as director Jason Hernandez, after the premiere.
Check out the teaser now at Nike SB.
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Armless Man Dreams of Teaching
Fan Ling, 21, studies at the library of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. Fan lost his right arm and most of his left arm, and one ear after being hit by high voltage wires at the age of 6. Fan says he wants to teach in less-developed areas after graduation.
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i’m watch
Designed by Italian company Blue Sky. “I’m Watch” is the first “smartwatch” based on the Android system, a custom version of Android 1.6. The watch runs on the Freescare i.MX233 processor, packs a 1.54″ capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 200 x 200 pixels and fitted with 4GB of built in storage, 64MB of RAM. Its 450mAh Li-Po battery will provide about three hours on speakerphone use or up two days in standby. It also packs in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, but has not WiFi. It is available to preorder for €300 and shipping will commence on the 30th January 2012.
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Domo Genesis: Under The Influence Mixtape
Odd Future affiliate Domo Genesis has released his Under The Influence mixtape through Twitter. The Wolf Gang member takes on Snoop Dogg’s “Boss Life,” Scarface’s “Guess Who’s Bizzack,” Kanye West’s “We Major” and features Tyler, The Creator, Casey Veggies, and more. Download the mixtape below.
Under The Influence Tracklist:
1. Mission Statement
2. Boss Life
3. Guess Who’s Back f/ Casey Veggies
4. L-Boy’s Interlude
5. More Clouds f/ Remy Banks
6. Whole City Behind Us f/ Ace (Tyler, The Creator)
7. Respect
8. Let’s Smoke
9. Glory
10. We Major
11. Shine
12. Mind Games
13. Benediction
15. Smokemon
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Striver’s Row: Wale’s Ambition
Striver’s Row Presents: Wale’s Ambition from Fresh Start Productions on Vimeo.
Maybach Music’s Wale recently released his highly-anticipated sophomore album, “Ambition.” Hitting shelves November 1st. Many congrats to Rick Ross’ latest protegé.
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Eames Movie: The Architect and the Painter
One of history’s greatest design duos are to be celebrated in a new documentary film, Eames – The Architect and the Painter. Charles and Ray Eames were amongst the most gifted, prolific and important designers of the 20th century, putting their hands in everything from architecture to furniture design, painting and film. This new documentary explores the lives and influence of this dynamic couple, from their work to their marriage and the cultural icons they have become beyond their passing. The film will debut in theaters on November 18th, and it will be available for purchase on December 13th. [preorder $26.99 at amazon]
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Duck Sauce: Big Bad Wolf (NSFW)
Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf [Official Video] from Israel on Vimeo.
A-Trak and Armand Van Helden who together make up the group Duck Sauce have just released the visuals for their latest dance single “Big Bad Wolf.” Without giving away of the NSFW-hilarity, director Keith Schofield delivers us a very comical video as we follow two characters throughout their eventful day.
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HK Halloween Highlights 2011
I was well informed leading up to Halloween weekend in Hong Kong that this would be the biggest weekend of the year. With over 76,000 people passing through LKF (central bar/club/restaurant district) all drunk and dressed in costume. I was pumped! A few costume ideas were thrown around amongst the boys, but with the launch of Battlefield 3 on PS3. Johan, Jeffrey and I knew we had to dress up as some sort of armed enforcement. So Jeffrey being the HK local, took us to a place called Mong Kok which seems to have a street for everything (including sneaker street) that was lined with shop after shop of military gear. Every countries uniform to every type of weapon you could imagine. And these aren’t just some plastic water pistol type of guns. They’re gas powered BB Guns that can do some serious damage. I then found out that there’s a hobby called ‘War Games’ where groups of people go out to abandon warehouses and basically play war games. It’s one of the amazing things about living in foreign countries. You’re always amazed by interests other cultures have.
Getting back to Halloween. After purchasing a SWAT outfit, pistol, machine gun, laser pointer (that could shoot a laser beam over 500m). Johan was US Marines and Jeffrey was a crazy Paratrooper. We were ready to storm LKF! But hold on. What about cops on the street and security guards at the venues? Were they going to be cool with us all just cruising the streets packing heat and then let us into clubs??
Jeffrey: “No worries! It’s Hong Kong!”
Me: “Really?? Because I don’t wanna get my guns confiscated or have a real gun pulled on me”
Jeffrey: “Don’t worry. I spoke to my copper mate and he said Halloween weekend is the only time you can take them out”
Me: “F#ck I love Hong Kong”
And he was right. We were waving our guns through the crowd, sniping girls from 100m away with our lasers and doing raids on clubs and bars. They loved it! We got so many free shots from the venues because they loved our costumes. It was definitely one of the best weekends I’ve ever had. Once again Hong Kong never ceases to amaze me.
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Jay-Z Interviewed by Steve Stoute on “The Tanning Effect”
Check out part one of the exclusive interview above, featuring Jay-Z discussing the meaning of his joint album with Kanye West, Watch the Throne, which debuted at number one in 23 countries; on his epiphany that his music has a substantial impact on mainstream America; and on being an unpaid spokesman for Cristal champagne.”
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Mirage: The Full Experience by Rip Curl
Rip Curl has again created a technological world-first by capturing full-tilt surfing action using a “30 camera Array” — a line of cameras firing consistently as surfers ride towards and past it. The results are unique “frozen moments of time” – that can be viewed in a combination of angles for a true in the round perspective.
Rip Curl and TimeSlice, partners in the overall development, used GoPro HD video cameras to freeze an infinite number of moments that could be viewed. The major benefit being a better way of catching all the performance surfing the Rip Curl team riders were doing, rather than just a fraction of it.
Combining their world class surf team of Mick Fanning, Owen Wright, Matt Wilkinson, Dillon Perillo and Dean Brady with the multi-frame array of cameras, gave them a Matrix style suite of “Mirage Moments”, which pull the viewer in to the image, stalling there for long enough to enjoy a great move, before travelling down the line through the footage to the next Mirage Moment. The viewing metaphor for surfing in itself.
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Pillow Fight Gear
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A burn production: Never Extinguish
A burn production: Never Extinguish from Burn on Vimeo.
One of the coolest most dramatic Skateboarding vids I’ve seen.
Rune Glifberg joins burn units Jonas Skrøder, Dany Hamard and Hugo Maillard as they defeat the elements on the streets of Buenos Aires.
Create. Inspire & stop at nothing.
‘Never Extinguish’ — a burn production, directed by Ash Bolland.
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Nike Sportswear Air Yeezy 2 Black/Pink
Seen in a black/pink colourway with a glow-in-the-dark outsole. The use of materials and the noticeable heal design. Give the sneaker a very sci-fi look to it that I’m digging. Maybe not an everyday kick but with the right get-up they could be the sweet head turner at the next Com Truise DJ set.
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