trumped
Just left the office to grab lunch..
mad comotion on the block...jakes got the streets blocked off...
turns out someone working on the new Trump SoHo building fell off..
1 dead others injured..
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January 14, 2008
Good Luck Next Year, Haha
Terrell Owens gets emotional after Dallas lost to the Giants on Sunday. He was upset over the attention the media was giving teammate Tony Romo for vacationing with pop star Jessica Simpson. "You guys do that, it's not fair. We lost as a team," Owens cried.
My opinion....HA!!!
Rich White Play of the Week
Citigroup could write down as much as $24 billion due to subprime and credit-related losses. In addition, the company could lay off as many as 20,000 workers as part of a comprehensive plan to slash costs and raise capital.
January 13, 2008
Stolen Dunks
I dont know if this has ever been posted, but this is a hilarious video. Also, unless you're spider-man, i dont suggest you try this at Rival Skateshop unless you want to be at the mercy of the Mr. Ponte's "Attitude Adjuster"
January 12, 2008
Winter Solstice
It's that time of year again..
Proof7 will be dropping the "Winter Solstice" a biannual aesthetic record of the worlds top designers and artists.
This years Solstice will release at the Bread and Butter show in Barcelona.
Inquiring minds can reach out to info@proof7.com
January 10, 2008
A moment with Billy Blast
Billy Blast takes a moment to discuss the streets, proof7 and politics.
part 1
Aww Fuck..Here We Go Again
Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.
The video from Sunday's incident shows small Iranian boats swarming around U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz. In the recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes."
I'm no geopolitical expert, but the voice on that recording sounds super, SUPER fake. Like a bad evildoer impression that a villain in an Austin Powers flick would do. It truly looks like fuckhead Bush is trying to get some Middle East beef poppin' off in Iran before he hands over the crown to the next puppet in a handful of months.
King Stampede Radio
King Stampede radio on the airwaves every second and forth Thurday
Not much banter and a lot of mucic.
Sickkk
Check this commercial....Belveeee recognizin the art community... Vincent Gallo, Terry Richardson, Ace Boon....check it...pretty cool.
Smiley Face, the movie
Rated R for drug content and language.
New York Magazine gives rave reviews..
"Anna Farris gives the comedic performance of last year as a struggling actor who accidentally eats her roommate's pot cupcakes and spends the rest of the day in a haze trying to replace them."
The one film shown at Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto last year was not some European meditation on the Middle East but this stoner comedy featuring a talking dog and Carrot Top. Smiley Face, just out on DVD but still playing at the IFC Center, is a welcome 180-degree turn for Gregg Araki, who last directed the pedophilia drama Mysterious Skin. Anna Farris gives the comedic performance of last year as a struggling actor who accidentally eats her roommate's pot cupcakes and spends the rest of the day in a haze trying to replace them; co-stars Danny Masterson and John Krasinski are not to be missed as sci-fi-obsessed creeps, one of whom might be having sex with human skulls. — Mike Bilandic
KICKBALLERS
This week we take a trip down to DC and our boy Diallo Sharif’s dope shop KickBallers. Located in the Georgetown shopping district and carrying everything from specialized decks, apparel, to designer toys, and of course P7. KickBallers appeals to everyone and anyone who’s trying to stay fresh. Check out their site to stay up on new kicks, clothes,and events.
KICKBALLERS
3285 1/2 M St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
tel 202.337.1260
fax 202.337.1261
January 09, 2008
and the winner is ...
Proof7 Holiday collection look book now available for your viewing pleasure.
Make sure to check your local retailer for those P7 Garments.
Red Grey Dunk
Only 25 pairs.
break it to make it
Escaped New Jersey inmate José Espinosa was arrested last night just six blocks away from lockup.
Espinosa was one of two inmates that escaped.
Other escapee James Blunt is still at large. There's still hope...
25th hour..
Prodigy was granted one month of extra liberty before beginning a 3 year jail sentence for gun possession.
The time was granted to allow Prodigy to line up medical treatment for his sickle cell anemia.
January 08, 2008
O so this is rock bottom
Please buy some of Gary Coleman’s shit off Ebay, or at least hook dude up with some lotion.
January 07, 2008
The Come Up
Performance Enhancing Drugs
Roger Clemens is now in the process of filing a defamation lawsuit against his former trainer who told investigators that he frequently injected the baseball star with an assortment of performance enhancing drugs.
Clemens just looks like a cheater
baseballs great.
January 04, 2008
A Subway Worker’s Legacy, in Art Form
The New York Times takes a moment to reflect on the life and artwork of subway worker Marvin Franklin.
Writing about Marvin Franklin, the artist whose work is on view at the New York Transit Museum from this week through March, it feels natural to focus on the details of his premature and unsettling death — Mr. Franklin was a 55-year-old subway track worker who was killed by a train in March – and on the profound effect that his passing has had on the friends and family he left behind. (A subsequent review found numerous safety lapses and prompted the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to order a series of reforms.)
What can get lost is Mr. Franklin’s art itself, which, by all accounts, was one of the major loves of his life. Friends describe him working at an awe-inspiring pace, filling up a 120-page sketchbook about every two weeks. “It was his life. It was the blood that went through his veins,” Mr. Franklin’s wife, Tenley Jones-Franklin, said at the museum on Wednesday.
On top of that, colleagues at the Art Students League of New York, where Mr. Franklin studied for the last decade, profess admiration for his ability and work ethic.
One, Mark Hagan, whose time at the league overlapped with Mr. Franklin’s, called him “a true folk hero.”
For all that, though, the exhibit at the transit museum is the first show ever dedicated to Mr. Franklin’s art. Part of that, no doubt, is the result of his belief, expressed to several people, that he was not ready for such a recognition. But it is also, some of Mr. Franklin’s friends say, a hint at the politics involved in New York’s art scene, and a sign of the difficulties of an artist following his own muse can face getting noticed.
“It’s a little sad seeing this,” Mr. Hagan said, surrounded by Mr. Franklin’s paintings, sketches and etchings, “because a lot of this work was probably around five years ago. Why’d the guy have to die to get recognized?”
Edwin Lynch, a member of the Salmagundi Art Club who curated a show of artwork by city workers in which Mr. Franklin took top honors, said Mr. Franklin did not possess career ambition that drove him to seek fame, but rather channeled his energy into fully capturing his subjects, who were often homeless people in the subway system.
Mr. Lynch is planning a show of Mr. Franklin’s pictures of the homeless, to run at Salmagundi in July and August. “He did this kind of emotional capturing which is to say, ‘These are not just people who are lost,’” Mr. Lynch said. “To make them out not to be tragic characters but to make them out to be a piece of beauty, I don’t know how he did it. I think it’s magic.”
Mr. Lynch argues that since the mid-20th century, when abstract expressionism and abstract and pop art flourished in the city, figurative or representational artists like Mr. Franklin have been overlooked by the establishment of critics, museums and galleries.
“The theatrical, playful side of art, the promotional side of art, took over in the 1950s, and Marvin said, ‘I’m not going to be a part of that,’” Mr. Lynch said. “I feel so strongly about the fact that he was a traditional artist, who by his own heart, straight out of Queens, landed and said, ‘This is the way I want it.’”
Should the pendulum of critical taste swing back, he argued, Mr. Franklin’s art is the type that will benefit. “The heart of art, the real feeling you can get from art, comes from something like this,” he said.
Sam Goodsell, a friend of Mr. Franklin’s who studied with him at the Art Students League of New York, said of Mr. Franklin’s art: “It deals with subject matter that a lot of people don’t want to see. It deals with the homeless. People take the train and literally walk over them during rush hour.”
Mr. Franklin established a bond with his homeless subjects, Mr. Goodsell said, getting to know many of them by name and often packing extra lunch to bring them.
This, for better or worse, may signal another way that Mr. Franklin was out of step with his times. Harvey Dinnerstein, an artist who taught Mr. Franklin at the Art Students League, said Thursday that much of the current figurative art that is embraced by the cultural establishment can feel cynical or distanced from the people it depicts. By contrast, he said, Mr. Franklin was a working-class artist marked by his insight and compassion.
“What distinguished his work, I think, is that it was not alienated,” Mr. Dinnerstein said, “and it identified with the human qualities of his subjects.”
Too Legit to Quit
Hammer back at it again with his very own dance website. Dancejam users will have the opportunity to upload home made dance videos on the internet.
be easy, get your whole crew wet, we in the club doin' the same ol two step.
January 03, 2008
it's offical
we on youtube...
NYE 2008
P7 in the streets
roof before the storm
Our old college buddy Greg came out to celebrate the New Year....hes old P7 familia
Larry Greg and Deena
Kissy Kissy
Pop Off
Happy New Year
Kid Twist
Concealer
pop pop pop
Open
P7 2008 Get ready for a BIG year. Plans and Plots....2008 DONT HATE!
He must have had a good night.... my resolution is to end up passed out on the subway one night this year.
More Aruba....
a lil more Aruba and NYE
Our Money Grows on Trees
Checkin the view
electric heat
Burny burn burn
PEDESTRIAN
Took a trip out to Philly last month and took some time to say what up to our boy Drew at Pedestrian. With dope art on the walls and fresh cloths on the racks Pedestrian is always worth a visit. If your lucky they might even throw a Royal in with your next purchase.
PEDESTRIAN
252 SOUTH ST
PHILA, PA
January 02, 2008
Oh Word
hmmmmmmmmm
real nice.....
You decide...........
SVSV / Futurecraft Against Fraudulence
Early 2003, in New York City, Serum Versus Venom™ (SVSV™) was born out of conversations about design and consumption between David Gensler and Christopher Bevans. Our goal was to first understand the origins of real value and then produce a brand that defined luxury in the modern age. We felt that to produce a modern luxury brand it was essential to root it in utilitarian traditions and craft. Before SVSV took the form of any actual products, a carefully conceived philosophical framework was developed - this ideology was named Futurecraft™. This newly developed philosophy serves as a set of “laws” which dictates how we design, run our company and develop our brand. In short, Futurecraft™ is about taking that which is old (knowledge, craft, values) and colliding it with that which is state of the art. Futurecraft™ is the embrace of the significance of time - understanding that value can never be rushed. Over the years, these values have fueled and continue to fuel the growth of SVSV™, The KDU™, and related brands.
We have been blessed to work with some of the best designers, artists and creative professionals building the SVSV™ brand. In early 2007, the decision was made to expand SVSV™, launching Futurecraft™ as a stand alone brand that is dedicated to helping people and the environment. As we plan to debut our new brand at market we have learned that past members of our team have committed a great fraud against us. These cowards have attempted to plagiarize our entire brand, designs, language and imagery. They have deceived and defrauded the press, retailers and the design community as a whole. Rather than give anymore attention to these frauds, we would rather thank our friends and the community that have and continue to support us.
True creativity is about pushing boundaries, breaking rules and reinventing, but it should never involve breaking the law and stealing at the expense of others. If you can not stand on your own creative ideas, you do not deserve to call yourself a designer and have no place in the global creative community.
Time rights all wrongs, eventually frauds are seen for what they truly are.
We will defend what is rightfully ours.
Courtesy: The KDU
Vacanze
Aruba
i have been going to Aruba for the past 15 years or so with my family....amazing island...the best weather on the planet and a perfect place to get some lamping done.
Need that Proof 7 garb for the islands don't leave home without....
Our whip had Diesel....apparently Jesse does too...check the shirt
Lifes a Beach
Nice Shirt
P7
Pirates rolled up on the beach...didn't hurt anyone but had great chron
Relax
Travel Pack...essential for any island Vacation.
Claiming Territory
Represent
Long night.....
P7 TREES
Jesse and Ryan...down by the beach boyeeeee
hermanos
The sun was set
VACANZE
Pimp C
Nike produced a 1 of 1 Pimp C sneaker....thanks for the Info Heppler www.hypebeast/blog/robheppler
1999
Sopranos first season now available via HBO Demand.
Aim high
Meagan Harper of Oregon was recently arrested for having the second highest recorded level of blood alcohol content.(bac) She managed to blow a .55 which is about seven times the legal limit of .08
The highest blood alcohol content ever recorded belongs to William Ashley the 3rd.
but i can so beat that.
December 30, 2007
Live at BB Kings
Courtesy: Pat
December 29, 2007
Burner
doin' that do
December 28, 2007
Bill Blast
20% off the next merk... new years special
The Lobster Dunk
Boundless Radio
Most Wanted
The FBI's most wanted bank robbers, violent criminals and terrorists will soon appear on 150 digital billboards in 20 cities nationwide.
The company is donating the eight-second spots, which will also feature photographs of missing children. The company can add new information to the signs within minutes.
December 27, 2007
P7 Holiday Card
Happy Holidays to you and yours
Boundless Exclusive
Proof7 sits down with Boundless crew for an insightful 5 question interview. This online exclusive available Boundless NY.
Streets Is Watching...
Reuters is reporting that FBI is moving ahead with its plan to spend a billion US taxpayer dollars on what it calls the Next Generation Identification system, which it aims to make the largest biometrics cache in the world.
If this plan is successful, the feds will have a comprehensive database of every man, woman, and child's face, fingerprints, and palm patterns.
Time to break out the V for Vendetta masks and tell Big Brother "FUCK YOU".....
Tracy Morgan
Grab A Bag
December 26, 2007
Fresh
From coast to coast P7 is stinking up the country…Being represented in the dopest fucking shops around the country, this week we take a look at my boy Calvin Lau’s spot SoFreshKicks out in Cali, Fresh is killing the other coast with exclusive clothing, events, and the Freshest Kicks. If you ever find yourself on the west side, go by Fesh and see who else has “Premium Diesel”.
Fresh Address: 2328 Bowditch St
Berkeley, CA 94704
Listen Up
Keyser Soze
mcskillit
December 23, 2007
Politics and Power
LOX
The Lox set to preform in NYC for the first time in over five years. The show will be taking place this Thursday the 27th, at the BB Kings Blues club.
Tickets are $26 in advance $30 the night of the show.
Top Ten
December 21, 2007
Boundless !!
Proof 7 Holiday Collection now officially available via BoundlessNY.
As always, much appreciation to the boundless crew for holdin' us down.
Make sure to to get some of that fine Proof7 accoutrement before its all smoked out...
Picasso
Brazil - Two thieves broke into the San Palo Art Museum on December 19th and left with two prized paintings, one of which is a Picasso estimated to be worth $50 million dollars. The other painting by Candido Portinari is valued at $5million.
Nothing else was stolen.
December 20, 2007
Happy Birfday
don't sleep...
Brownies for Santa
You will need one box of brownie mix (get that betty crockers with real chocolate syrup)
1/2 cup vegatable oil
2 eggs
1 oz of chronic (don't be cheap)1 cup nuts of your choice
Grind up your SD into a powder, you can use a blender and grind it, or a coffee grinder, once its a nice powder, set it aside.
Next you will need a skillet like pan or just a med size pot, put the required oil for your brownies in the pan and heat the oil on a med-low heat, add your shake powder and continue to stir it constantly for about 5-7 minutes, once it has a nice smell it's done, if it smells "hot" you might have cooked it too long, you are going for a nice, kinda nutty-toasty smell. Once you've achieved that aroma remove from heat and let cool.
Then mix all ingredients together in a mixing bowl (remember to let the oil/shake mixture cool or your eggs might turn scrambled)
Then in a greased, no less than 9", square pan add your mixture and bake in a preheated oven of around 325 degrees for 20-40 minutes (depending on your box of brownies).
One box of brownie mix should yeild about 18 good-sized brownies.
P7 Costa Rican Compund
December 19, 2007
Politics as Usual
Making Due in the Cold
Manny Fernandez of the New York Times reports on disturbing living conditions in the Bronx.
"Henry Wren’s home is a two-bedroom Bronx apartment. But he and his family do not live there so much as survive there.
Residents dress for the outdoors even while indoors, wearing scarves and hats. They use the stove as if it were a fireplace, huddling around it with the burners aflame and the oven turned on. They wash up in the mornings with water heated in pots. At night, the temperature drops to the low 30s in the stairways and hovers in the 40s and 50s in the rooms."
Their building, a five-story walk-up at 1277 Morris Avenue, has been without steady heat and hot water for months, he and other tenants said.
In one living room, the television set is the only source of light after sunset, because the light fixture in the ceiling is broken. In one kitchen, a chunk of the ceiling has fallen. In a bedroom, a wide swath of greenish-black mold covers a wall. Space heaters sit on rickety milk crates and chairs. The roof leaks.
“I might as well just close down the house and go sleep on the steps,” said Mr. Wren, a 56-year-old newspaper hawker, who lives in Apartment 53 with his wife and son. They are among the roughly 25 men, women and children who live in the building.
Theirs is a dismal, surreal housing arrangement that seems as much out of Kafka as Dickens. While Mr. Wren and other tenants live heat-free, they also live rent-free. Several residents said they had not paid rent in months because of the conditions. No one uses a key to get into the building because the front door, which appears to be broken, is always open, day and night. No one seems to know who the landlord is these days.
And though the building has not had heat or hot water, it does have a super, a sad-faced man who lives in the building. The man, who did not want to give his name, says he keeps the place up as best he can, but he does not get paid. He said there had been no heat because the oil tank in the boiler room had been empty for weeks.
“I can’t face those people,” he said of the tenants. “They don’t have no service. It’s terrible, and there’s nothing I can do.”
On Friday, city housing officials delivered fuel to the building and sent a contractor to repair the heating system. By Saturday night the heat and hot water had been restored, though some tenants were only cautiously optimistic.
“I’m not keeping my hopes up,” said Kevin Hardy, 44, who lives in Apartment 43. “I don’t know how long it’s going to last.”
The 16-unit tan-brick building, built in 1916, was recently added to a list of the 200 most poorly maintained apartment buildings in New York City. According to the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the building has been cited for 181 of the most serious kinds of housing code violations in the past two years. The city says the landlord owes it $16,880 for emergency repairs including work done on defective staircases and sagging floors.
The owner of the building is a limited liability company called 711 Nostrand Avenue, according to city records. Lawyers for the housing agency have sued the company in Bronx Housing Court five times since 2005.
Three of those cases were for inadequate heat and hot water, and one is still pending; a hearing on that case is scheduled for Dec. 28. The agency sued the company for other violations in 2006, and a judge ordered it to pay $2,000 in civil penalties. Because many of the violations were never corrected, agency lawyers planned to ask the judge to impose additional fines at a separate hearing later this month, housing officials said. The city has already collected nearly $6,000 in court-ordered fines.
Housing officials appear to have had as much difficulty recently contacting the company as tenants say they have had. Owners of apartment buildings are required to register with the agency every year, but the last valid registration for 1277 Morris Avenue was made in March 2003, housing officials said. Since the building was put on the city’s worst cases list in November and is now part of a new program designed to crack down on negligent landlords, housing officials say they have been unable to contact representatives of 711 Nostrand Avenue LLC.
Fire Isiah
Season ticket holder Jason Silverstein was kicked out of Madison Square Garden last night for holding up a " Fire Isiah" sign during the Knicks vs. Pacers game.
Today's issue of the Daily News includes your very own " Fire Isiah" sign for the next Knick blowout.
They can't kick us all out ...
Follow Up: Daily News
December 18, 2007
KS X DS X Arnette
King Stam