Archive for the 'art' Category
Own a piece of rap culture
You know the recession hit the States bad when rappers are selling their jewelry. I’m joking. Russel Simmons’ Rush Community Affairs has joined forces with a New York auction house to give you the opportunity to own a piece of hip hop’s history. On March 5th, New York’s contemporary art auction house Phillips de Pury [...]
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Tags: 50 cent, auction, bling, culture, diamond, guiness book of records, hip hop, history, jewelry, kanye west, notorious big, rappers, recession, russel simmons, tupac
Time lapse
From L.A. to New York in a convertible. You gotta love it. It’s on my to do list before my 35th gas prices get too expensive.
Video by Olivier “Twist” Gondry (Michel’s brother)
Music by Lacquer ‘Behind’
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Tags: new york, music video, los angeles, convertible, gondry, lacquer
Beauty on paper
I collect business cards. I’m fascinated by them. Why? Beside the obvious: the font(s), the color pallets, paper quality, shape and design. It’s about psychology, the creative process behind those cards that you carry around with you all the time. How do you intrigue the other, how do you advertise yourself and your business on [...]
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Tags: american pshyco, art, beauty, business card, collecting, graphic design, inspiration, pshychology
Sick artist!
I’ve been a fan of Justin BUA for a minute. Probably from the first time I saw his work in a Slum Village video. I love his paintings. I bought 1981 as a print three years ago, it’s hanging in my girl’s crib. I’ve had my eye on The DJ for a long time. Justin [...]
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Tags: 1981, art, dj, graffiti, justin bua, new york, painting, slum village, vegetarian
Inspiration is KING
For one of the projects I’m working on right now I was browsing the internet. You know, trying to get inspired. I came across this dope image entitled “Suicide King”, and couldn’t help to check out more. (and that’s how they get you…)
Check out Von’s blog, website and awesome tutorials. He also has away freebees [...]
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Tags: art, artwork, graphic design, inspiration, super cool
On the set
Addiction video set, originally uploaded by Future CEO.
They say that God works in mysterious ways. Check this out… I got an email from Shiv (Ryan Leslie’s marketing guy) that we had to reschedule our lunch to next week Wednesday or even later, because of the video shoot for ‘Addiction’ and a performance in Dubai next [...]
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Tags: blackberry, director, fabolous, God, music video, ryan leslie, set, sob's