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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 09, 2008
Bernie Mac RIP
August 07, 2008
Jocking Jay-Z
" chill baby girl, my girl is here "
August 01, 2008
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 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 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.
July 14, 2008
Run for cover!
Feds spell out FREDDIE-FANNIE backstop plan...
White House Will Ask for Authority to Buy Stock...
Not expected to help more companies...
Government as the Big Lender...
'Unmitigated Disaster'...
President Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling...
Oil rebounds to near $145 barrel...
Chavez says could reach $300...
PAPER: 150 banks nationwide could potentially fail over next year...
SEC WARNS WALL STREET: STOP SPREADING THE FALSE RUMORS...
July 11, 2008
RIP
This is a catastrophe...these fuckin assholes at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn let a women in the emergency room die, and no one did shit....she was in the waiting room for 24 hours and received no medical attention...than she fell over and died. I'll be quite honest...i don't vent much but the authority systems and health care systems are FUCKEEDDDDDDD. Half of the people working in these positions are not qualified....all you gotta do to be security, or police, or a nurse is graduate high school and take a couple courses...these uneducated assholes are in charge of peoples lives and they have proven in this instance to be worthless....if motha fuckas werent so stupid maybe they would screen the degenerates given these jobs a little better.....i bet half the people in the video above dont give a fuck about helping people or saving lives....they are in that room with that dead woman cuz they have kids and now have to work a dead end job that they dont give a fuck about to support them.
The people who let this women die should be fired and stoned in the street.(middle east style).
FUCK THE SYSTEM!
July 09, 2008
GONZO
From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life-his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and much more. Narrated by Johnny Depp.
June 05, 2008
Yesterday
Yesterday we had to do some test shooting for a larger shoot we are producing this weekend.
Push it to the limit
Vinny on the floor of Emerald pub with a dog on his face
This is the oil that kept the Menorah lit for 8 days.....it was supposed to last for one night but lasted for 8...Bong Bong
Last night was the KS Redbull party....
Serg and Danielle were there reppin propper
The Triad....and yes that is P7 garment Laurence is wearing and yes it is smell Proof7.....Get familiar with your eyes cuz you def wont smell us.
June 04, 2008
David Altmejd
Standing in David Altmejd’s gothic-surreal show is like being in a forest of freakish giants from the dawn of time. Nine twelve-foot-tall colossi tower above you like oversize werewolves, rotting Wookiees, or sculptures of pharaohs from some sci-fi porn planet. It’s an Oedipal grove of powerful deteriorating fathers and beautiful but monstrous sons. These creatures have mirrored derrières, plump penises decorated as if by a jeweler, gashes in colorful torsos, dozens of hands holding giant testicles or crystalline daggers. One figure has a peacock encircling each thigh; two have twisting energy fields or stigmata sprouting from hands and heads.
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JR ART
JR is 25 and he owns the biggest art gallery in the world. He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not the museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, beauty, freedom, identity and limit. He is an artivist, extract of artist and activist.
May 30, 2008
Big L
Happy Earthday ..
May 30, 1974 – February 15, 1999
May 29, 2008
Proof7 Presents-THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
PROOF7 X REcap Development partners X NEWSALON, present "The Greatest Show on Earth"A weekend art festivities : Parties and a Fund Raiser for www.childrenofbellevue.org
Location - One Seventh Avenue and Carmine
Date - June 5th through Sunday June 8th
Thursday - 7-10pm (Private Opening)
Friday - 7- 9pm (Opening Reception)
Saturday - 4 - 7pm Viewing * Party 7 - 10pm
Sunday - 5- 8pm (Closing Reception)
Featuring the Works of :
LESNY JN FELIX (Self Thought)http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesnyjnfelix/1206130390/in/set-72157603532980693/
ALISON BLICKLE (Hunter) www.alisonblickle.net
PETER DEMOS (Hunter) www.peterdemos.com
THOMAS SPOERNDLE (Hunter) www.thomas-spoerndle.com
YULIYA LANINA (Hunter) www.yuliyalanina.com
May 13, 2008
Raided
NEWARK, Ohio -- A Licking County teenager was arrested this week and charged with giving marijuana to a toddler. Angel Dailey, 16, pleaded not guilty to two delinquency counts of corrupting another with drugs and one charge of child endangerment.
Dailey is the daughter of a Licking County man arrested in March during a drug raid at his Pataskala home, according to an assistant prosecutor.
The DEA stepped in because of his possible connection to the case against Dailey's father, Donald Dailey. Oswalt said no local charges will be filed against the 18-year-old if corresponding federal charges are filed.
Donald Dailey was arrested in March after federal investigators pulled out $3.2 million in cash from the walls of his home at 6397 Watkins Rd. Authorities carried out 2,100 pounds of marijuana from a trailer parked in the driveway. Donald Dailey's brother, Tim Dailey, also was arrested.
May 09, 2008
5:00 Traffic
Eddy Islands was in town from Costa Rica for a couple days...hes building a dope resort on the island....cant wait to chill beach side....anyway since Ed was in town we had to bless him wit the sour.. check his eyes haha.
There was a Sean Bell protest the other day blocking the entrance to the Holland Tunnel....We watched from our office window.
The Riott police came out to say what up
People were interlocking arms and stopping the cars from entering the tunnel....i have mixed feelings on this....I think the Sen Bell situation is FUCKED UP!.....and i think those cops should go to jail....but blocking the tunnel while hard working people are commuting home at 5 o'clock is bullshit. Like go rally in front of the police station or a government building but interrupting innocent peoples lives is bullshit.
people in their cars were gettin pissed off and started driving towards the protesters...look how close the people are to the cars....feel bad for home boy in the Audi people were yellin in his face.
So people protested and wouldn't get out of the entrance to the tunnel so they got locked....i seen the cops put cuffs on about 15 people...they brought out the wagon. This system is so messed up its hard to address....all i can say is i give credit to those willing to be arrested for there beliefs....i dont agree with blocking traffic but it is a noble thing to do none the less.
May 06, 2008
Suuure
A bank employee inspecting a foreclosed house in Fontana stumbled upon a thriving business: more than 2,000 mature marijuana plants, part of a drug bust valued at $4.5 million...
tuck yo shit
The NYPD has conducted 145,098 stop and frisks during the first quarter of 2008.
The Six Best Jokes From Chris Rock Show at MSG
At the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night, Chris Rock brought his A-game, even if we'd already read most of his good lines in recent profiles. Here are the best of the rest:
1. Calling for a hit on Flavor Flav: "He needs to be killed. Flavor Flav must be killed. I'm serious" — because he worries that Republican operatives will try to use Flav to bring down Obama. "Would you vote for somebody who has anything in common with Flav?"
2. On his neighbors: "[My only three black neighbors are] Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest singers of all time, Denzel Washington, one of the greatest actors of all time, and Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers of all time." His white neighbor? "A dentist. And he isn't like the greatest dentist in history either. I had to host the Oscars to get that house — a black dentist in my neighborhood would have to invent teeth."
3. On John McCain: "We don't need a president with a bucket list. Who's going to be his VP? A nurse?"
4. On Clinton's experience: "My wife, we've been married 10 years, but if she got on stage now, y'all wouldn't laugh at all."
5. On Obama: "We've never seen a black man so cool — that wasn't in the music business..." ...and Reverend Wright: "Have you ever met a 75-year-old black man in this country that wasn't angry? I mean, they have a few reasons."
6. On voting: "They don't want you to vote. If they did, we wouldn't vote on a Tuesday. In November. You ever throw a party on a Tuesday? No. Because nobody would come."
May 05, 2008
Tropa De Elite
"In 2006, a book by sociologist Luiz Eduardo Soares and one BOPE officer and a former policeman, Major André Batista and Captain Rodrigo Pimentel, provided a semi-fictional account of the daily routine of the BOPE as well as some historical events, based on the experiences of the latter two. The book was controversial at the time of release, and reportedly resulted in Batista being reprimanded and censured by the Military Police. The book was controversial in its description of the BOPE as a "killing machine", as well as detailing an alleged aborted assassination attempt by some police officers on then-governor Leonel Brizola.The book has been made into a movie, Tropa de Elite, directed by José Padilha (the director of Bus 174), with a screenplay by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Bráulio Mantovani."
This movie makes City of God look like a walk in the park. Elite squad is the best movie ever made, I dare you to challenge. BOPE
May 01, 2008
ALIFE TOKYO
ALIFE Tokyo has opened and this is their 4th retail location. It seems like all successful core brands in the US are makin the move.
ALIFE TOKYO
3-15-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo
JP 150-0001 - TEL: (03) 5775 0200
INFO: www.highsnobiety.com
April 30, 2008
MARCH FOR FREEDOM THIS SAT !!!!
Thats what the smell PROOF is for
Police busted nearly 400,000 people for carrying small amounts of pot in the last decade, making New York City the world leader in marijuana arrests, civil rights advocates said yesterday while unveiling a study criticizing the war on drugs. Police officials countered by saying the report was flawed and misleading. The study by Queens College sociologist Harry G. Levin titled " Marijuana Arrest Crusade" accused police of targeting minorities.
April 28, 2008
Street Art
This is sick....looks like it could be the work of space invader.
April 25, 2008
REAL BOXING
Traditional boxing from northern Nigeria is fast, brutal, and has few rules.
The men who dedicate their lives to it are wanderers, itinerant labourers in search of fame, or the sons of boxers - born into the ring.
"Dembe", as it is called in Hausa, is exceedingly dangerous. Serious injury, and even death, are a real risk.
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Top 3 Must See - Tribeca Film Festival
Wackness
Summer of 1994. The streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop and wafting with marijuana, and Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is spending his last summer before college selling dope, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, and crushing on his stepdaughter (Olivia Thirlby).
Elite Squad
Fresh from its Golden Bear win at Berlin, and one of Brazil's most controversial films, Elite Squad is a searing look at the corruption of the special police force in the volatile slums of Rio. As one cop desperately tries to get out, two naive recruits see if they have what it takes to get in.
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
Rucker Park. The mecca for all street basketball players. In Beastie Boy Yauch's super-energized documentary, eight of the country's top 24 high school players participate in the first "Elite 24" tournament on the same court that helped turn Dr. J, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Wilt Chamberlain into legends.
Fresh from its Golden Bear win at Berlin, and one of Brazil's most controversial films, Elite Squad is a searing look at the corruption of the special police force in the volatile slums of Rio. As one cop desperately tries to get out, two naive recruits see if they have what it takes to get in.
April 24, 2008
Tourch Teams
More protection against terrorists is coming to a subway station near you. Starting Thursday, special bomb teams, known as "Torch Teams," will be toting submachine guns and bringing bomb-sniffing dogs onto the platforms and into the trains.
April 16, 2008
Whoo Kid & Tony Yayo - Pow Radio pt.10
April 08, 2008
The Wire - Brooklyn Edition
Michael Brick of the New York Times reports on an intricate Brooklyn drug trade...
It was a big show of force: 60 people under arrest, 5 gangs vanquished, more than 200 criminal charges, a $1.5 million narcotics enterprise shattered and an urban village of 3,500 liberated.
His choice of words signaled an aggressive change in prosecution tactics. Prosecutors planned to file felony conspiracy charges. That approach, long used against Mafia suspects, could produce sentences unheard of among the housing project’s pushers, lookouts and addicts: life in prison.
Again and again in the years to come, similar raids concentrated on housing projects in Coney Island, Fort Greene and East New York. The numbers peaked with the arrest of more than 140 people at the Red Hook Houses in 2006. Nearly all the defendants were charged with first-degree conspiracy, their bail set at $100,000, sometimes $1 million. Tenant associations and community boards lavished praise on the district attorney.
But soon, the strategy stumbled at the courthouse steps.
Judges rebuked the prosecution tactics. Juries rejected the conspiracy charges.
And after six years, eight major operations and more than 500 arrests, no one has been convicted of first-degree conspiracy. Instead, many defendants have spent a year or more on Rikers Island, awaiting trials that in the end never come. Typically, they plead guilty to lesser crimes, are sentenced to time served and then are released.
Continue reading "The Wire - Brooklyn Edition" »
April 07, 2008
Downtown TV
So last week Downtown TV came thru with Lesny J. Felix and Liam McMullin to interview us as see what was good
Brad Digi was there to liven things up for the camera
Make sure you pray
April 03, 2008
Thomas Holton
The Lams of Ludlow Street," a photographic essay tracking first-generation Chinese immigrants.
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard St., New York, NY 10013
Courtesy: nymag
March 31, 2008
'Leggie Blonde'
Flight of the Conchords
March 25, 2008
Generation Kill
From the creators of the Wire...
Available in June
March 17, 2008
East vs. West
New details regarding Shakur's 1994 shooting at Quad Recording Studios...
"Newly discovered information, including interviews with people who were at the studio that night, lends credence to Shakur's insistence that associates of rap impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs were behind the assault. Their alleged motives: to punish Shakur for disrespecting them and rejecting their business overtures and, not incidentally, to curry favor with Combs.
The information focuses on two New York hip-hop figures -- talent manager James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond and promoter James Sabatino, who is now in prison for unrelated crimes.
According to this information, Rosemond and Sabatino, infuriated by what they saw as Shakur's insolent behavior, enticed him to the Quad by offering him $7,000 to provide a vocal track for a rap recording."
Not in China ...
Access to YouTube.com, usually readily available in China, was blocked after videos appeared on the site Saturday showing foreign news reports about the Lhasa demonstrations, montages of photos and scenes from Tibet-related protests abroad.
March 13, 2008
G-UNIT "Rider Part2" + Papoose Ready For Round 2
Always bet on 50.
March 07, 2008
Gravy to play The Notorious One
It's been announced that Brooklyn rapper Jamal Woolard (a.k.a. Gravy) will play Notorious B.I.G. in the forthcoming Fox Searchlight biopic Notorious. Woolard, a non-actor, is probably best known as the guy who got shot in the ass near radio station Hot 97 in 2006 but went upstairs and gave an interview on the Funkmaster Flex show anyway. As Nah Right and Idolator point out, he'd been rumored to have won the role almost two years ago (pre-ass-shooting), so those open casting calls last October were probably just a publicity stunt (meaning producers likely didn't even watch our audition tape!). Still, we're not too disappointed.
Continue reading "Gravy to play The Notorious One" »
We Need To Step Our Game Up
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Letters claiming responsibility for the bombing of a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square arrived in the Washington offices of several members of Congress on Thursday, just hours after the blast, authorities said.
Police are searching for a hooded bicyclist seen on a surveillance tape just before an early morning bombing at the office, according to the FBI.
The letters sent to Capitol Hill contained at least one picture of the station, apparently before the attack, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Police knew of fewer than 10 of the letters that had been received by members of Congress, a second law enforcement source said.
The letters were all received by Democrats, another law enforcement source said.
They contained a picture of a man standing in front of the recruiting station with the statement "We did it," according to an e-mail sent by the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and obtained by CNN.
"He is standing in front of it with his arms spread out and he's attached his political manifesto," the message said.
An e-mail sent to members of Congress from Capitol Police described the letters as arriving in 5-by-8-inch manila envelopes. The e-mail warned recipients not to open them, but to contact police immediately.
Continue reading "We Need To Step Our Game Up" »
March 05, 2008
Get your weight up, not your hate up
no more 20's in chicago ...
Chicago city council has persuaded the Health Committee to ban possession of "self-sealing plastic bags under two inches in either height or width"
The movement to ban the baggies came after a council member reportedely picked up 15 bags on a recent Sunday afternoon stroll through a West Side park.
March 02, 2008
Juvenile Jr.
Juvenile's daughter and her mother were found dead in their home last week.
The killer is believed to be 17 year old Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr, who is also believed to be Juvenile's son.
February 29, 2008
Higher Learning
“My basic idea is to try to professionalize the industry and have it taken seriously as a real industry, just like beer and distilling hard alcohol,” said Richard Lee, 45, an activist and pot-dispensary owner who founded the school in a downtown storefront last fall.
Courtesy: Boundless
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Can We Live ?
For the first time in U.S. history more than one out of every 100 adults are in jail or prison.
America now holds the rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator.
Up with hope, down with dope.
February 19, 2008
Winter
February 14, 2008
Heath Ledger
Art or not?
from: www.Supertouchblog.com
February 08, 2008
Jay-Z " Classic Gangster" by Flipout & Jay Swing
1. Jay-Z vs. Ice-T - Intro
2. Jay-Z vs. Boogie Down Productions - Pray
3. Jay-Z vs. The D.O.C. - American Dreamin’
4. Jay-Z vs. Big Daddy Kane - Hello Brooklyn 3.0 feat. Lil Wayne
5. Jay-Z vs. Kool G. Rap - No Hook
6. Jay-Z vs. Public Enemey - Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)…
7. Jay-Z vs. A Tribe Called Quest - Sweet
8. Jay-Z vs. Slick Rick - I Know
9. Jay-Z vs. Beastie Boys - Party Life
10. Jay-Z vs. Eazy-E - Ignorant Shit feat. Beanie Sigel
11. Jay-Z vs. Too $hort - Say Hello
12. Jay-Z vs. D-Nice - Success feat. Nas
13. Jay-Z vs. Run D.M.C. - Fallin’
14. Jay-Z vs. Eric B. & Rakim - Blue Magic
15. Jay-Z vs. N.W.A. - American Gangster
February 04, 2008
No more Montel
Shortly after Montel Williams went off on a live Fox news show about the lack of news regarding troops dying in Iraq after they asked him about the death of Heath Ledger, CBS opted not to renew Montel's show and instead air highlights for the remainder of his contract.
Story- rhymeswithsnitch
January 31, 2008
Jay-Z - Pray
January 30, 2008
peace...
you fascist fuck
January 19, 2008
Yes Rasta by Patrick Cariou
December 28, 2007
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 21, 2007
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 17, 2007
Kimbo on ESPN
December 03, 2007
dont get beat on eBay
Tony Starks had intentions to sell a hat on eBay, but ran into problems with one of them internet gangsters. Ghostface claimed the hat has "been in front of Halle Barry" but i guess that wasn't enough.
Courtesy: NYmag
November 19, 2007
Take this bitch to rehab
At a concert over the weekend Amy Crackhouse took coke out of that stupid beehive hair cut for a quick mid performance pick me up. Classy
November 15, 2007
K.Gates
Much respect goes out to our friend K.Gates, K.Gates a New Orleans rapper has just signed a deal with indie label Extreme Entertainment.
After making his debut on BET’s Ultimate Hustler in 2005, New Orleans native K. Gates is back and Hustling even harder.
Extreme Entertainment is the home of Baby Boy da Prince, who’s single "The Way I Live" went on to sell 3 million ring tones on Extreme/ Universal Republic Records.
When asked about his decision to sign with Extreme, Gates responds
"I always support New Orleans first, and I saw what they did with Baby Boy and I said let’s get it."
November 14, 2007
Burn
Cali- Federal and State laws continue to clash over Medical Marijuana usage...
After being hired for a computer tech position Gary Ross was required to take a drug test. Although Ross had failed the screening, he had legal documentation allowing him burnage to alleviate back pain.
The case has made it all the way to the Supreme Court.
Ross will be represented by the nonprofit marijuana advocacy group. The Oakland-based group said it has received hundreds of employee discrimination complaints in California since it first began tracking the issue in 2005.