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.
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.
Korean artist, Yong Ho Ji is by far one of my favourite sculptural artists around. The life-sized tyre sculptures are the artist’s way of reminding people of their responsibility to nature. The impressive detail of muscle form looks intimidating, are actually held up by steel, wood and styrofoam, and the collection has been exhibited at Gana Art in New York and around the world. Yong Ho Ji’s sculptures are classified according to herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, and are comprised of animal or animal and part human.
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.
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….
‘Sacred Ink’ is a photographic and multimedia installation exhibition by Cedric Arnold.
‘Sacred Ink’ features over 45 large format black-and-white photographs taken in Thailand, as well as sound, video and multimedia projections. It explores this unique subculture, its rituals, symbols and people.
Known in Thai as “Sak Yant”, the tattoos are a testament to the complex spiritual makeup of Thai society, incorporating elements of Buddhism, Animism, Brahmanism and Hinduism.
This house was designed by David Jameson Architect and is inspired by barcodes. Great space and I love that they could incorporate a little rooftop terrace.
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.
These are dope! Literally! One of my favourite colours and a nice clean classic sneak. Available now at Crooked Tongues.
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.
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)
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.
ZEVS’ first solo exhibition in Tokyo at Art Statements will be held in two floors and will develop two distinctive themes. For ZEVS, liquidating logos (chosen amongst the most powerful brands, leaders of their consumption fields: sport, food, fashion, etc.) was never a frontal attack on their power or against consumerism. The persuasion power that these brands hold is what fascinates ZEVS. His centers of analysis have therefore always been Humans and their ongoing confrontation with temptations – seduction acts from brands – in the city, in public spaces, and against which they fight….or not.
This exhibition opens on September 2, 2011, running through the end of the month.
Art Statements
3-2-12 Ebisu-minami
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-0022
Japan
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.
Photographer Appuru Pai presents a fantastic series of photographs taken on the Japanese high speed rail line, Yurikamome.
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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