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HK Urban Terrain
I love riding my fixie in Australia but unfortunately Hong Kong isn’t the best town for fixies. All the hills and the roads and footpaths are so dodgy. Not to mention the 24 hour traffic of cars, trams, buses and people. So I recently took up Mountain Bike riding. There’s a huge MB community in HK but most of the spots take a bit of planning to organise a mini van or ferry to get to the tracks. That sucks for me because I never know when I’m going to have some free time, so instead I’ve taken the challenge to find some urban terrain around the city. I’m still getting my head around all the gears and weight distribution when going down stairs and off drops, but it’s f#ckin’ fun! I love any sport with an element of danger and gets the adrenaline going. Here’s a few pics burning around central.
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adidas Originals: All Originals, Iconics Commercial 2011
See how many big names you can spot.
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Kanye’s Black Book
Selita Ebanks
Candice Swanepoel
Sian Honeybell
Kate Upton
Alina Puscau
Kanye is building quite the black book of ladies any man would dream of. Just in the past week alone the rapper was spotted having dinner with Australian supermodel Sian Honeybell (cool last name) at the Maritime Hotel in NYC. He’s also been spotted with Victoria’s Secret models Kate Upton, Candice Swanepoel, Selita Ebanks and Romanian model Alina Puscau at his album after-party.
God speed to you Mr West. You’re living the dream.
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Adam Kimmel + Carhartt Collection
Adam Kimmel’s signature collaboration with classic American workwear brand Carhartt. Will this be the collection that will help Carhartt get a foot into the door of higher end fashion circles. I love their gear for their basics.
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Jay-Z & Kanye West: Otis
For me personally Jay-Z and Kanye’s new album ‘Watch The Throne’ lived up to all the hype. I love an album I can continue to listen to and appreciate more and more of the songs each time. Spike Jonez was called in to direct the first film clip off the new album. Only these two dudes could chop up a Maybach and turn it into a Mad Max style ride.
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The Sartorialtwist
Great little spin-off of the well known street fashion photographer The Sartorialist. Check out the website and refresh the page to see a new combination each time.
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Street Dreams
When I was a teenager, I lived and breathed Skateboarding. ‘Study time’ after school for me was spent skateboarding on the front driveway and every weekend. Especially Friday nights were some of the most memorable times for me meeting up with all my skater buddies in the city to explore the city terrain like a pack of rats. Sometimes we’d have a crew 30 of us take over the streets bombing hills and weaving in and out of traffic. It was the natural high it gave me and the fact it didn’t matter if you were a private school or public school kid, 9 to 5 paper pusher or living off government hand outs. We all shared a love for skateboarding and it taught us all a lot about appreciating different cultures.
I stupidly gave up skateboarding after I finished school and only continued to surf on the weekends, but after moving to Hong Kong I don’t have the luxury of beaches on my doorstep anymore so a friend has motivated me to get back into skateboarding as a form of exercise and to re-channel that love of the sport and help it inspire my creative work. I obviously no where near as good as I was before (which is so frustrating) but I’m loving it and it’s a great way to explore a new city. On the way home from this session I bumped into a few of the local boys – Francis and Paul. Who run some of HK’s top clubs and bars Fly, Volar.
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Converse by John Varvatos ‘SJV CT Double Zip Hi’
John Varvatos’ grunge and punk inspired designs have been seen on Converse sneakers since 2001. The shoe’s upper is made of soft black leather and have two zips alongside the laces that are made out of suede; complete luxury in a shoe. The black and white cons are timeless, so it’s nice to see a little ‘tweak’ to them without taking away from the original looks.
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Pharrell on Mary J. Blige New Music
Jermaine Dupri released some footage from the studio where Pharrell talks about the new Mary J. Blige album. Jump to the 6:50 mark if you want to get right to the point….
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Boardwalk Empire Season 2 Trailer
With the second season of How To Make It In America just around the corner and the season 2 of Boardwalk Empire premiering on HBO September 25th. There’s going to be some good watching in the coming months.
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adidas Originals Etrusco “Hemp”
These are dope! Literally! One of my favourite colours and a nice clean classic sneak. Available now at Crooked Tongues.
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Justice “Audio, Video, Disco” Album Details
Ed Banger’s Busy P dropped one of the new tracks from Justice yet to be released album, entitled “Audio, Video, Disco”, during his DJ set at the 2011 Hard Fest in L.A. last weekend. Joseph Tsai attended the gig and recorded the tune via his iPhone. The quality isn’t the best but it’ll get your mouth watering for more.
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Forbes Cash Kings 2011: Hip-Hop’s Top 20 Earners
This is interesting to see who’s actually setting the pace in the hip hop game and is walking their talk. Or in this case ‘rhymes’.
The full Top 20 list follows.
1. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, $37 million;
2. Sean “Diddy” Combs, $35 million;
3. Kanye West, $16 million;
4. Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter, Bryan “Birdman” Williams, $15 million (tie);
6. Marshall “Eminem” Mathers, Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus, $14 million (tie);
9. Aliuane “Akon” Thiam, $13 million;
10. Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges, $12 million;
11. Cameron “Wiz Khalifa” Thomaz, Aubrey “Drake” Graham, $11 million (tie);
13. Pharrell Williams, $10 million;
14. Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley, $7 million;
15. Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, Onika “Nicki Minaj” Maraj, $6.5 million (tie);
17. William “Rick Ross” Roberts, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Armando “Pitbull” Perez, $6 million (tie);
20. Faheem “T-Pain” Najm, Bobby “B.o.B” Simmons, Jr., $5 million (tie)
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Gant Rugger in Collaboration with Close Up and Private Fall/Winter 2011 Collection
This collaboration with Sergei Sviatchenko from Close Up and Private and Gant Rugger’s Stockholm-based designer Christopher Bastin has some great pieces coming out for fall/winter and has been nicely shot.
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Fam-Lay: Beach Cruiser
Fam-Lay – Beach Cruiser from Illusive Media on Vimeo.
Artist Fam-Lay has released a video for his song ‘Beach Cruiser’ as produced by Chad Hugo / EJ & $teve Bollmann. Gotta nice summer vibe to it.
Tokyo Drift
I may not live in Tokyo anymore after Japan was sadly hit by a natural disaster early this year. But after relocating to Hong Kong it’s great to still be able to jump on a plane and be in Tokyo in 3.5 hours. While I was in Tokyo late last week and over the weekend I caught up with one of my best mates Ume for a few Umeshu’s and some great local food. He showed me a couple of new haunts around Azabu and a mate of his who works at the fish markets took as for a private tour around the markets riding on the back of a fork-lift. Ha! Good times!
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C.P. Company Goggle Beanie
C.P. Company is probably best known for its goggle jacket. Taking a general military inspiration, the brand has translated the goggle feature into a beanie for Fall/Winter 2011. It’s on my list for winter!
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