Maestro Knows 7th Letter

Maestro Knows - Episode 6 (7th Letter) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo.

One of the best things about this show is the music. I've never heard this version of Walk on By before

Jay-Z Recreates All His Covers

While I'm not anticipating Jay's new album as much as most other people are, I am really feeling this commercial put together with him and Rhapsody. I don't know the entire stuff on that deal but I'm sure Nah Right or 2dopeboyz have a lot of that info

Now available at Standard ATL

A Bathing Ape Leather Riders Jacket = EXPENSIVE

Videos from YouTube while In Class

The Great Question

How to spend a weekly three day weekend? I'm pretty sure it is common amongst most college students that have good sense enough to schedule all your classes on the days between Sunday and Friday. In respects to my friend Jordan(now to be known as AIR), freshman don't know these rules as of yet. Luckily, or unluckily depending on reader, traffic prevented AIR from arriving at his class on time by a good percentage of the class period.

Being that we had an entire Friday to get into some mischief, the three of us(counting Liz as well) decided to take a quick ride out to the Southern, capitalist, version of San Francisco. Soon enough, the musketeers completed the task of trying to play a broke game of guitar hero in best buy, stopping at a corner store looking for Wynette with no avail, stopping in the modern day comic book mecca of Atlanta, Criminal Records, the site of AIR's misfortune of spending blindly on "7's". We quickly found ourselves at a playground similar to that of something one would imagine Lost Boys training on.

With towering contraptions built to hold even the heaviest of young tikes, and some sides designed to trap smaller more nimble kids up in high dead ends allowing the big bully to beat up. The craziest of all childhood self propelled rides had to be the design of the spinning pole of dome. It creates a feeling of flying speeds, even though truthfully it is much more decreased. I don't know if that is a word now that I think about it, but I do believe that more of these Fridays must be spend on the town with good friends.

Southern Sunday

I know not all of this is southern but this is awesome music so what the hell

Putting the Pieces Together

Some people would believe that running a company should be done solely by a single person to save the need to split up revenue, but in my personal opinion when a group of like minded, talented, and vision-filled people come together to build up a structure, that structure becomes something grand similar to that of a tower or castle. One of the first things needed for the construction of a towering behemoth is a designer, and while I thought I could handle this role successfully, it has been proven that a more steady hand is needed to carry the pen and pencils gracefully over the paper. That hand comes in the form of Frank Dunson, a North Carolina raised Atlanta native that lives for drawing. When I say he doubled my output of designs faster than I could say go, it is not a over statement. Can't wait to get some more designs from him on the computer.

photography by Liz Avent

Trailer Thursday

Fox News Sucks

Creep by Hiroshi Awai

Any streetwear soldier stationed in Atlanta, knows Standard to be the main destination for all things cool, but the good people over there are beginning to up the ante with offerings from higher end brands. Such are these pieces from Hiroshi Awai's line for Creep. I've never heard of this line or this designer before, but much information will be googled by tonight. Really classic American apparel infused with an Asian influence is the definition for something that can't go wrong. Too bad I'm broke as a joke with no punchline(not really a funny thing at all)

Raekwon - House of Flying Daggers f. Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah & Method Man (Video)

Music Monday

Just some random music videos I remember and wanted to put up.

Southern Saturdays

Panther Prowl Vol. 1/Sign of Things to Come/Best Thang Smokin' Young Dro

The first Friday of the school year could very well be a sign of the things to come. It could go very wrong due to wrong, unthought out decisions such as not opening the door for an RA and then having the cops called on your party in the Commons(yes this really did happen) On the other hand all of the right decisions could be made thereby producing a highly enjoyable experience throughout college.

Any returning upperclassmen know that when a panther prowl is announced, not that high of expectations come along, but the first one of the year a very big different was presented to the student body of Georgia State University. Happily the Spotlight Program truly stepped up their game with the inclusion of the ever rolling, best thang smoking Young Dro. Yes, I do mean the Grand Hustle signed, White Boy Black Boy swag inventor Young Dro.

If there is one thing GSU students, and Atlanta college students as a whole know how to do well is party in large numbers and get the word out quicker than the trains run through MARTA. Counting that we heard from well informed "bird" that there was only a limited amount of wristbands available to see the free Dro Show, my friends and I decided to arrive a bit earlier than the seven o'clock door opening time. Unfortunately we weren't the only ones who got that information.

After a hardy night of the usual free hamburgers and drinks, karaoke, extreme pixie sticks, Fight Night Round IV, Grand Theft Auto IV, long lines, and lots of anxious young black teens. Dro hit the stage in the ballroom of the student center and officially tour it up. I gotta give props to him for giving a private show to one of the fastest growing colleges out. By the end of the very long night I was worn out somewhat annoyed by aggravating underclassmen, but was able to fall asleep next to my beautiful woman, and wake up the next morning. I know for sure now that the year will be a great one.

Peace and Love.

P.S.

It feels like much more than a week has gone by, which only gives me even more optimistic belief for the year to come.

P.P.S.

Most of these photos were taking by Liz Avent. My awesome girlfriend and photographer.

More Jay Footage

JAY ELECTRONICA "Dimethyltriptamine" LIVE IN ATLANTA from dj sol messiah on Vimeo.

No, I'm not putting up Run this City(I feel it sucks honestly), but I'm finding some more Jay Electronica footage from Atlanta from less than a week ago. If you weren't able to witness the show live, you missed out on something great.

The Arcade Fire - Wake Up

Mishka NYC 2009 Fall Collection Lookbook

It's wonderful to witness the evolution of the brands you love to wear, and even marvelous to witness this change from season to season while also carrying on their themes and aesthetics. Mishka is one of my favorite brands which is obvious when counting how many of their gnarly tee shirts in my wardrobe, and it is particularly awesome to see the New York reppers ever broadening their selection of items coming for their Fall Collection. Everything from denim to flannel shirt and scarves, and even a leather jacket that I feel I must have. Whatever though, enough talk and more pictures.

A better explanation of the collection and the full lookbook are available over at MishkaNYC

MSFT ASYLM TV

MSFT ASYLM tv from Ian Labat on Vimeo.

Jay Electronica Live in Atlanta

So glad I was here to witness this in person.

Blog Roll 8/15/09

I'm basically tired of posting random things from around the web to get a bigger count of things on my blog, and since I'm sure to change that around the time when the full website drops, I might as well start these things I call blog rolls. Basically what a blog roll is, is anything I like enough to post on my blog, but since I'm plan on being as far from unproductive activities such as looking up different objects that are far out of my reach multiple times a day. Well here it is, the list of things I like that have been uploaded around multiple online blog/magazine websites around the net.

Mastermind Japan 2009 Fall/Winter Lookbook.

There's an undeniable presence of high production and attention to detail present in these photographs. As a aspiring fashion designer it's hard not to love the use of fur within the collection. Gives it a royal look, while still having a radical emotion radiating from the articles of clothing.

Beams 2009 Fall/Winter Lookbook

The european aspect of the clothes were so eye-catching that I had to include it. The style seems to be drawn straight from something you would see on The Sartorialist

Play Cloths 2009 Fall Collection

It's Play Cloths, what's not dope about that?

Uniforms for the Dedicated 2010 Spring/Summer Lookbook.

Their presentation really intrigues me, I have to look up more on this company.

Hellz 2009 Fall "Style Warriors" Collection

Because no one likes a sausage fest, and every guy loves a bad ass chick.

all taken from Hypebeast.

The Knux Interview

THE KNUX INTERVIEW | ROCK THE BELLS, DENVER from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo.

I'm so excited bout this next album.

Complex Sound Board

Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So Maybe No

If there was more R&B guys like Mayer, and BJ the Chicago Kid, Rich Hil, and Mike Posner I would probably like modern day R&B more than I do now. Shit like Birthday Sex and the rest of the stuff on the mtv and vh1 have no soul behind it. This was just gonna be about Mayer Hawthorne, but I decided to post videos from my favorite singers.

Shotgun Shell Humidor

Now if you don't exactly know what a humidor is, I didn't either. I feel rich people just name things to sound more expensive, but that's beside the point. The Beretta gun manufacturer was able to capture my love of both guns and cigars, which I feel I must explain. Not the love of guns because that comes from a healthy appetite for video games and action movies, but I feel I must explain the cigar love because while I believe cigarettes to be disgusting, cigars for times of celebrating. If you have the ability to smoke a cigar everyday then by my philosophical math that must mean you always have something to celebrate which is a good way to live. Now I don't know much about the capabilities of a humidor, but the guys over at Gourmet wrote something about flavor saving technology and a capacity of eleven standard sized cigars.

The three bald Italian guys over at Gourmet always seem to impress not only because have been able to capture my entire attention of the sneaker head within me, but they also present a lifestyle much different from what one would expect out of a shoe company that started out by what I feel perfected the Jordan silhouette, then being sued by Nike, and then coming back harder than ever. They're understanding of luxurious life gives them the ability to present something that is hard to accomplish, a shoe that is not solely fresh on the level of streetwear, but also higher fashion worlds without a feeling of pretentiousness.

Wiz Khalifa Interview with Fab5 Ent

Stress of Birthdays

While October 9th may be a little less than two months away, my father asks me what it is that I want for this day of day's that is mine; other than a car of course. While some readers may have thoughts of "this spoiled ass", I am in fact stressed by this by this question, because unlike Super Sweet Sixteeners, I do not find joy in asking my parents for my crazily expensive wants. I much rather have the ability to go out and work for what I want, but finding a job has proven to be the pain in my rectum similar to that of prostate exams. This does not mean I won't ask for something that I want, it just means that I feel the need to limit myself to only one big buy.

So far the only things that I truly want for my birthday is money to support my numerous endeavors such as this clothing brand and dj equipment, a pair of Gourmet shoes which I have decided will be the primary source of sneakers for now on, or a pair of Monster Beats headphones. I was gonna include some items to further evolve my style, but I'll do that once I find revenue.

Cee Lo Has Spoken and It Will Happen

Goodie Mob is coming back for a show.

Wiz Khalifa How Fly

Bad Kids

Cool Rappers in Japan

Movie Trailer Monday

How Fly

I'm sure if anyone is as excited as I am they don't wanna read any of this bull.

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