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September 11, 2008
August 27, 2008
Uber Cool
August 23, 2008
August 22, 2008
This is Great
Vaguely famous rapper Soulja Boy is currently taking heat for the above Cribs-style video (cleverly titled "Rich Nigga Shit") in which he blows his nose on money and drives a Segway across his carpeted living room. Vulture, however, would like to congratulate him on his lovely home and commend him for doing exactly what any perfectly reasonable person (including us) would do with a modest fortune. A small mansion, Gucci sheets, and a bathrobe with his name embroidered on the back (which, truthfully, looks totally sweet) are hardly Hammer-size expenditures. And if Soulja Boy can't roll like this, what's the point of working in the first place?
Story: NYMAG
August 21, 2008
Streets are Watching
Damon Dash and his wife, fashion designer Rachel Roy, are in danger of losing their two Manhattan apartments to foreclosure.
According to bank filings, Dash and Roy owe $7.3 million on the two properties and foreclosure proceedings have begun. Dash and Roy failed to meet monthly mortgage payments of $78,500 on the two pricey properties.
Lately, Roy has been struggling to keep her company afloat in a fluctuating economy. And no one knows what Dash does for a living after he sold his stock in Rocafella Records and Rocawear to former business partner Jay Z.
Janet Launches New Lingerie Line
August 20, 2008
THE Suite
August 19, 2008
1968- Take to the Streets
I found myself in a crowd of people against the glass window of the Haymarket Lounge at the hotel on the corner. The police walked into us, spraying Mace on everyone and clubbing people. I remember somebody shouting that a woman was having a heart attack. This was a big mass of humanity being crushed. And as the mass fell backwards, my back was to the window, and I could hear this glass breaking. And all of a sudden the whole window collapsed, and everybody fell into the bar, where delegates were sitting there drinking and talking as if this was routine for a political convention. The police came charging in after us, and there were people all over the place, bleeding, cut. They were just arresting anybody who looked like they didn’t belong in the hotel. I don’t know what happened, but I walked out. I don’t even know where I went.
http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/politics/index.html
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/reliving-the-1968-democratic-convention.html
August 18, 2008
When "you won't" has its downfalls
Sticking an ash can in a corona bottle will most definitely shatter the bottle.
No one got hurt
JUST THE BEGINNING..
On Sept. 7, 2006, Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, stood before an audience of economists at the International Monetary Fund and announced that a crisis was brewing. In the coming months and years, he warned, the United States was likely to face a once-in-a-lifetime housing bust, an oil shock, sharply declining consumer confidence and, ultimately, a deep recession. He laid out a bleak sequence of events: homeowners defaulting on mortgages, trillions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities unraveling worldwide and the global financial system shuddering to a halt. These developments, he went on, could cripple or destroy hedge funds, investment banks and other major financial institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.....
Read up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17pessimist-t.html
August 15, 2008
Stick Up Soldiers
Russian Soldiers cought on camera - robbing a bank in Georgia.
August 14, 2008
godbody
The U.S. and Poland signed a preliminary accord today that will allow for 10 U.S. interceptor missiles to be based in the eastern European country, completing a defense system that Russia opposes.
The U.S. has agreed to Polish requests including modernization of its armed forces in exchange for the location of the missiles
Heineken Ice Bucket conversion
This was a design called Regalera. Ice bucket then water your plants. Two birds, one stone, and a cold beer - great!
Greg Gossel
I like the pop art inspired pop art.
2042
White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004.
Laser cuttings
Cool Design. Lasers can do some amazing things. Design Ignites Change is the campaign this poster was created for. Thanks Not Cot
The price we pay...
Slavery to Consumerism.... Or is it?
August 13, 2008
Let there be light
Jersey Shore got slammed this past week, took cover and snapped a photo
August 12, 2008
Online Assault
The websites of Georgia's government have been under denial-of-service attacks for weeks, with Russian hackers fingered as the culprits.
Key Georgian commercial Internet servers - remain under sustained attack from thousands of compromised PCs aimed at flooding the sites with so much junk Web traffic that they can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors."
Phelps
pause.
August 11, 2008
We Told Ya
Bong Bong!
Nice Ones
Dope new Dunk High SB called the Shoe Goo'S......they drop in september.
NY attacked
August 09, 2008
Bernie Mac RIP
August 08, 2008
knocked
Maryland - When the shooting stopped, two dogs lay dead. A mayor sat in his boxers, hands bound behind his back. His handcuffed mother-in-law was sprawled on the kitchen floor, lying beside the body of one of the family pets that police had killed before her eyes.
After the raid, Prince George's County police officials who burst into the home of Berwyn Heights' mayor last week seized the same unopened package of marijuana that an undercover officer had delivered an hour earlier.
Police claimed "Trinity was an innocent and random victim of identity theft. Apparently, so were four or five other county residents whose names and addresses were stolen and used as addresses on drug packages,"
story stolen from : BaltimoreSun.com
August 07, 2008
Jocking Jay-Z
" chill baby girl, my girl is here "
August 06, 2008
Swimming in China
I'm at a lack for words.
Pineapple Express NYC Premiere
Went to the premier of Pineapple Express last night...mad funny!
Seth Rogen is mad funny in person
The whole cast and director....Movie was mad funny....make sure you get nicey nice before you go see it.
August 05, 2008
Heiress / Model
Oh Ms. Hearst. Me likes. Me really likes. Good career move. I'm sure she has a great personality, which is all Edro cares about.
Princess Mariana
What $600 K per week will get you these days. Not to shabby, but the Russians need a little more haha.
Marqués de Riscal
A 43 room boutique hotel in Spain designed by Frank Gehry
August 01, 2008
Lesny Flex Art Show
We sponsored Lesny's art show at Gallery Bar last Wednesday. Here's a clip from the party....
Izza Kizza
Thanks goes out to Izza Kizza for taking some time out of his busy schedule to come chop it up at the P7 offices. Click the link to download his new mix tape... fire
Snoop D O DOUBLE
After Snoop Dogg's tour bus got pulled over yesterday on Interstate 45 in TX for expired tags, cops smelled chronic. They searched the bus and found 2 OZ's. Two dudes in Snoop's entourage, immediately claimed ownership and were taken into custody. Both posted $1,500.00 bail. Snoop was on board but was not touched......That's that west coast G shit LBC shit.......bong bong!
Staple x New Balance
Staple is back with another Pigeon sneaker...this time produced by New Balance.....haven't heard anything in the streets yet...will update when we start hearin the buzzzzz.
Thanks www.hypebeast.com
July 31, 2008
Vory v Zakone - "thieves in law”
Stemming from the prison camp's of Joesph Stalin - the Vory v Zakone have grown into one of the most influencial criminal organizations in Russia.
The members follow a strict code of rules and came to power in the criminal world by opposing the strict Russian government.
Michael Schwirtz of the New Times reports on a recent raid in an attempt to capture elite members of the Vory.
MOSCOW — It is unclear why they gathered. A police statement said it was to discuss “escalating problems of the criminal world.” Some insiders spoke of a conflict between Moscow crime bosses and of a looming underworld war reminiscent of the bloody battles of a decade ago.
Whatever the reason, when leaders of Russia’s criminal elite convened on a yacht in the Moscow River recently, the police moved swiftly to stop the meeting.
In black masks, with weapons drawn, commandos pounced from a hovering helicopter onto the roof of the yacht, starting a media frenzy when they briefly detained 37 men known here as Vory v Zakone or “thieves-in-law.”
Vory must have no ties to the government, he said, meaning they cannot serve in the army or cooperate with officials while in prison. They must have served several jail sentences before they can qualify. They should not marry.
Whatever the reason, when leaders of Russia’s criminal elite convened on a yacht in the Moscow River recently, the police moved swiftly to stop the meeting.
In black masks, with weapons drawn, commandos pounced from a hovering helicopter onto the roof of the yacht, starting a media frenzy when they briefly detained 37 men known here as Vory v Zakone or “thieves-in-law.”
A Mafia-like caste forged in the Soviet gulag, the Vory v Zakone maintain a hallowed place in Russia’s criminal lore, something akin to the notorious Five Families in the annals of New York crime.
Though the Vory’s influence appears to have waned, Russians have long had an affinity for the group, perhaps because it has come to symbolize opposition to the country’s often arbitrary political and legal practices, academics and other experts say.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, the Vory v Zakone “hit platinum,” said Andrei D. Konstantinov, a journalist and novelist who has written about criminal subcultures. “Everyone started to sing about this topic, to talk about it, to make television series, write books,” he said. “It became fashionable.”
In the last 15 years the Vory have spread around the world, from Moscow to Madrid to Berlin and Brooklyn. They are involved in everything from petty theft to billion-dollar money laundering schemes, while also acting as unofficial jurists among conflicting Russian criminal factions.
Born of Stalin’s prison camps, the Vory grew into criminal barons that kept order in the gulags and governed the dark gaps in Soviet life beyond the reach of the K.G.B. While the Communist Party held a steadfast grip on government and society, they had something of a monopoly on crime.
With their own code of ethics, hierarchy and even language, they formed a society in opposition to rigid Soviet conformity, surviving on theft and black market dealing when not in prison.
When the Soviet Union fell, the Vory emerged from the broken country’s peripheries to exploit the legal chaos. By all accounts, they infiltrated the top political and economic strata, while taking command of a burgeoning mafia that spread murderously through the post-Soviet countries.
The Russian news media covered the raid on the yacht this month with apparent delight. The major channels showed scenes of commandos marching the handcuffed gangsters single file to waiting buses.
Most were later released for lack of evidence connecting them to a crime. The authorities did not explain why they had conducted the raid if they had no basis to bring charges against those detained.
Some speculated that a major crime boss, Tariel Oniani, had organized the meeting to discuss a conflict with a rival don, Aslan Usoyan, known as Grandpa Hassan. The rift, reports said, threatened to erupt into a full-scale war.
“There will be war and there will be blood,” said the operator of vorvzakone.ru, an Internet portal that monitors the activities of the Vory. He insisted on anonymity because of the sensitive nature of his work. He said Mr. Oniani was at the meeting and detained, but not Mr. Usoyan.
In an interview with the newspaper Vremya Novostei, “Grandpa Hassan” denied rumors of impending violence.
“We are peaceful people and don’t bother anybody,” he said. “We are for peace, in order to prevent lawlessness.”
In fact the Vory have been linked to numerous brutal murders in the post-Soviet period. Authorities have accused them of ordering contract killings and carrying out kidnappings and innumerable financial crimes.
To be inducted into the Vory’s society involves a life devoted to crime, and, traditionally, an adherence to a strict ethical code, said Aleksandr I. Gurov, an expert on Vory who headed the organized crime units of the Soviet Interior Ministry and the K.G.B. He is now chairman of the commission on ethics in the Russian Parliament.
Compared with the Mafia in Italy, Mr. Gurov said, the Vory “have less rules but more severe rules.”
Vory must have no ties to the government, he said, meaning they cannot serve in the army or cooperate with officials while in prison. They must have served several jail sentences before they can qualify. They should not marry.
Ethnicity has rarely determined whether someone can join the club. Today, Mr. Gurov said, most Vory, even those active inside Russia, are from other post-Soviet countries and are not ethnic Russians. Then there are the tattoos. Just as a Russian Orthodox icon depicts the pious works of saints, the elaborate tattoos that the Vory wear detail their criminal exploits. They also indicate rank and occupation.
In modern Russia the Vory have a certain allure, in part because of their association with prison life.
“Very many people have passed through prison, even those who have had no special connection to the criminal world,” Mr. Konstantinov, the journalist, said. “This is a theme that has been very relevant for many families.”
This intimacy with imprisonment has spawned a pop culture particular to Russia, in which the Vory and other criminal elements have taken center stage. They recently went Hollywood, vividly portrayed in the film “Eastern Promises,” which won the top award at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Mr. Konstantinov said the film was the most accurate depiction that he had seen.
Still, despite all the celebrity, the Vory no longer seem to wield the power they once did.
According to criminologists, in the late 1980s and the 1990s, as capitalism seeped in, new criminal players entered the field. Mr. Gurov said that unlike most Vory, the top leaders of the newcomers were college-educated, and these new gangsters swarmed into the legal void left by the Soviet Union’s collapse to snatch up lucrative shards of the shattered empire.
At first this new criminal class worked in tandem with the Vory, who helped arbitrate the gang wars that bloodied the streets of Russia’s major cities during the 1990s. In the last decade the Vory have suffered a declining influence, analysts generally say, as competitors with stronger ties to big business and the government squeezed them from their traditional niches.
“Vory are still strong in gambling and retail trade, but their significance in Russian economy and society is rather low,” said Vadim Volkov, a professor at the European University at St. Petersburg, who has researched criminal societies in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Estimates of their numbers in Russia vary. Rashid G. Nurgaliev, the Russian interior minister, said recently that just under 100 remain active on Russian territory today, though others dispute that count.
“This is just funny and does not correspond to reality,” said Oleg B. Utitsin, editor of the crime section in the weekly Argumenty Nedely. “No one knows how many there are, not even the Vory.”
McCain
good ol' u.s of a.
July 28, 2008
Google Execs Launch Rival!!!
http://www.cuil.com
What is Cuil?
Cuil is a start-up search engine… started by three FORMER SENIOR GOOGLE EMPLOYEES! Yikes! Now that’s stiff competition. They say they can index faster and cheaper than Google.
When can I start using Cuil
Check it out right now! The site launched last night, and already Cuil has 120 billion sites indexed. “Search 121,617,892,992 web pages” it says on the front page on the day of the launch.
What’s the buzz in blogs about Cuil?
“Where Cuil excels is with the related categories, which return results that are extremely relevant,” TechCrunch says. “Cuil does a good job of guessing what we’ll want next and presents that in the top right widget. That means Cuil saves time for more research based queries.”
Who’s behind it?
With $33 million in funding, Cuil was founded by three former senior Googlers. Tom Costello, the CEO, Anna Patterson, VP of Engineering and Russell Power.
Sooo Hottt!!!
LeeLee Sobieski
Judith Supine takes Art from Street to Water
Judith Supine brings street art to the water....The east river to be exact....this is taking things to the next level....I can't wait to see where this takes things and how the coast guard reacts.
Crazyyyy.
Thanks www.Supertouchblog.com
July 27, 2008
Zoo York Guerrilla Marketing!!!
If you think you know something about guerrilla marketing, you don't know shit... Branded Roaches. Next Level.
I'm glad someone out there still has some creativity. This is brilliant haha.
See the video its sick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1rQkvViIEg
July 25, 2008
P7 at A SUMMER CAMP
My lil Cuzo Jeff rockin the Crest at camp...play on playa.
mmmmmmmmmmm
I'm the biggest narc that you've seen thus far
Hip Hop is Hollywood....
Thats a huge bitch....
July 24, 2008
West Coastin
Kani Ashford a dear friend of the fam was kind enuff to model a couple T's for us on the west coast....His Pops Giles shot these pics....Giles is a very talented fellow and P7 Familia.
Bong Bong and DTKLAMF
aRE YOU doWN?
Proof 7 in the streets of LA
tREES
Stick em up
street dreams
P7 gets in between
Thanks homies...appreciate the love.
July 23, 2008
Fuck off....
with this stupid shit... Apparently in Michigan they're attempting to enforce a seemingly crazy ruling, based on indecent exposure law, whereby sagging trousers could result in a stern warning, a fine, or even a prison sentence, depending on just how much buttock is on show. This helpful infographic appeared in the Detroit Free Press so that readers could be fully aware of the legality of their, er, position.
Hep your Game Up
Our dearest Friend Bobby H has relocated to the west coast and is making some magnificent moves....i think this is what's called manifest destiny folks...Proof 7 crew are strong advocates of Mr. Hepplers views....we hope Mr. Phil Knight feels the same way....Bong Bong.
NIKE X QUESTLOVE
Nike Air Force 1 x QuestLove....these come in a couple different versions.
Lesney Flex
July 22, 2008
Colt 45 Artist collaborations
Colt 45 artist collaboration series.....oooooooooohhhheeeeeeeee....On corners around the world Colt 45 drinkers will now be considered artsy....whose gonna make the clear paper bag accessory first?
July 21, 2008
Last Annual BBQ
Last annual BBQ....Jesse lookin very luxurious in an old school P7 T
Dave had the chicken skewers and burgers on smash...My lil cousin Melissa came to say hello.
Grandma was lampin
L fishburn takin in some rays.
Wave pool
cannonball
MC Wolly....."what you lookin at?"
cake off
Proof 7 ATHLETIC CLUB
Steve aka: Young Summer aka: Prodigy akak: duke da God
Mean Mugs and Big Hugs
Than sergio through a grape or some shit and it hit larry in the eye.... :(
Dark Knight Breaks box office record
The New Batman Picture "The Dark Knight" Broke the weekend box office record grossing $155 million dollars, Beating the leading competitor spider man 3 by over 4 million.
Black Hole a racist term?
Texas county official accuses the reference of the scientific term "Black Hole" as a racist terminology.
READ up
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80143,00.html
July 20, 2008
Washing up to a beach near you
July 18, 2008
Andy Dickhead
Comedian Andy Dick was arrested on drug and sexual battery charges. Dick was nabbed in a Murrieta, California parking lot after he allegedly groped a 17-year-old girl and then pulled the teenager's tank top and bra down, exposing her breasts (the incident occurred outside a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant). During a subsequent search, police discovered a small amount of marijuana in Dick's pants pocket and a single Xanax pill for which he did not have a prescription. An "extremely intoxicated" Dick was booked into the Southwest Detention Center on $5000 bail.
Story: SmokingGun
July 17, 2008
V MAG
V magazine doin that do
Throw up your set
Hand signals captured on videotape are once again being scrutinized around the NFL. Only this time, it's not the New England Patriots studying them for a competitive advantage, but league officials in search of a more sinister message.
The NFL, concerned that some players might celebrate by flashing the hand signals of street gangs, has hired experts to examine game tapes and identify the gestures.
"There have been some suspected things we've seen," said Milt Ahlerich, the league's vice president of security. "When we see it, we quietly jump on it immediately, directly with the team and the player or employee involved to cease and desist. Period."
Ahlerich says the league has long warned its players about the influence of gangs and other forms of organized crime, but that those admonishments have intensified since the 2007 killing of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams, who was gunned down after an altercation involving known gang members.
The issue of athletes flashing signs gained national attention in April when Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics was fined $25,000 by the NBA for making "menacing gestures" as he walked toward the Atlanta Hawks' bench during a game.
While acknowledging that he wasn't "into the etymology of gestures," NBA Commissioner David Stern took immediate action after league officials examined video of the incident.
"And our decision is that there were two menacing gestures," Stern said at the time.
Speaking broadly, he added, "I guess I would say that the league is sending a message that says you're the best athletes in the world, play the game. OK? And you know what, if you get baited, don't take the bait and let's play. . . . We're not going to let it degenerate into something else, period."
Partly because of that episode, the NFL decided to make the identification of gang signs a point of emphasis this season, and has called on the resources of local and national authorities to learn more about gang culture.
"We were always suspicious that [gang-related hand signals] might be happening," said Mike Pereira, the NFL's vice president of officiating. "But the Paul Pierce thing is what brought it to light. When he was fined . . . that's when we said we need to take a look at it and see if we need to be aware of it."
NFL game officials will not be responsible for identifying gang signals but will alert league headquarters of anything unusual or suspicious they see. League executives declined to outline what action might be taken against offenders, but Pereira said, "it will be dealt with harshly. The commissioner is not going to stand for gang signals on the field."
Ahlerich does not believe the problem to be widespread in the NFL but says the league has spoken to some players about their use of hand signals. He declined to identify the players.
First-year players were counseled on the matter at the recent rookie symposium, and last year a video on the dangers of gangs was required viewing for every player in the league.
The way some players see it, there is guesswork involved, even for the experts who are studying game video.
"Guys come from all over the country, and who knows what they're really doing?" said Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Dennis Northcutt, adding he cannot remember seeing a gang gesture in his nine NFL seasons. "People have got signs for their kids, signs for their fraternities. How do you differentiate who's really throwing up gang signs?"
Northcutt gave an example.
"This is a gang sign," he said, touching his index finger to his thumb to form a squished OK sign. "But at the same time, it's a sign for a personnel group."
Pereira said the gang experts take those factors into account and are very thorough when investigating gestures that appear suspicious. They are on the lookout for "symbols, clothing, jewelry or other items that would signify an association with criminal gang enterprises," Ahlerich said.
That's not unique to the NFL and NBA, nor is it limited to professional sports.
In an e-mail, NHL spokesman Frank Brown said Tuesday his league has "a general prohibition of profane, vulgar or inappropriate gestures (i.e., the throat slash). I am not aware of there ever having been reason to employ a gang expert."
July 16, 2008
Absolut Vodka: BEASTIN'
Shit is hilarious. Kanye is beastin'.
Step your marketing game up. And to those not perceptive enough, this is a new campaign for Absolut Vodka.
Action Jackson
Rampage Jackson, a well known UFC fighter who was just defeated by Forrest Griffin was arrested yesterday for a hit and run. Apparently Jackson was under the influence of something and he smashed in to two cars, rode up on dividers and sidewalks and endangered a lot of pedestrians.....the cops had to pull out on him to get him out of the car.....i wouldt want it with this dude even if i had a gun...he's crazy.
July 15, 2008
More FIddy cent
Viatamine water vodka louge
Taylor and Friend