Destroyed Clay Art

Destroyed Clay Art by Artist Martin Klimas.

Klimas drops knick knacks made of china and photographing them with a high speed camera.

Interestingly Dope!

Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood

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Opening Night at Gordon Ramsay

If last night’s debut of Gordon Ramsay caught you in a rare state of unpreparedness, you should know that the large bar area has three oversized tables, one of which is a giant communal slab—so there's plenty of room for a spontaneous, non-reservation meal until word gets out. (Uh, oops.) Herewith, our thorough summary of Night One, in convenient list form:

Customers at bar at 5pm sharp: 5

Giant golden lights pivoting over the bar that would be equally suitable over a dentist's chair: 2

Average price of nine specialty cocktails: about $16

Percentage sampled in the name of research: 66

Rank of the Spiced Pineapple Mojito among all contenders: 1

Highest recorded ratio of staffers to customers in the bar area: 14 to 2

Private dining rooms: 5

Items on bar menu utilizing bacon: 4

Items on dinner menu utilizing braised pig's heads: 1

Towering mullets: 1

Toweringly mulleted men who donned sunglasses to move from bar to table: 1

Lonely-looking women who appeared to have been stood up: 5

Percentage whose dates eventually showed: 100

English-accented obscenities overheard from behind the kitchen doors: 0

Sightings of Ramsay himself: 0

HUGE ASS art project.

"So we like Jets and this is an interesting project involving many Jets. DHL & artist Eric Nordenankar came up with this new art project over our lovely planet Earth. Using a GPS tracker and a lot of weird flying on board DHL flights, the following sketch appeared. No wonder DHL packages rarely arrive on time! UPS is working on a color version as we speak."

LA's answer to the Hamptons... kinda...

New Yorkers have officially instated "summer Fridays" (all the better to reach the Hamptons before sundown), and we think it's high time to bring the concept west.

We're not the only ones, either—Villa Malibu is now leasing summer properties by the water, with all the perks of a getaway and none of the difficulties of actually...getting away.

Available for anywhere from one to three months from June to August, the fully furnished residences come in varying sizes and layouts—but expect plenty of outdoor space with the requisite Malibu view of glistening ocean and towering mountains. Sure, you could still make it to the office, but you could also make the office come to you (or neither).

When you're feeling social, hang out with your similarly leisure-minded neighbors at the pool (or, if things seem to be going well, even inside your private cabana). And when you need to stray from the villa, summon a beach porter, who may be entrusted with the task of getting you, your date, your lunch and your (well-hidden) alcohol to and from Zuma Beach.

From which spot you're likely to think, "Yeah, New York can keep those Hamptons."

Villa Malibu, 6487 Cavalleri Rd (at PCH), Malibu, 866-526-6096

10 Visual Illusions in 2 mins.

Flashing Lights Video 2.0

"Kanye West's original Flashing Lights video which was co-directed by Spide Jonze along with Kanye himself, could be considered one of Kanye's most controversial music video. In it, Kanye is driven off into the desert by a women who bludgeons West to death for supposedly cheating on his girl and being caught by the paparazzi's "flashing lights". Here is a look at a new video for Flashing Lights which is much less violent but still portrays the essence of "Flashing Lights". In this video, you follow a girl (presumably a model) and her glitz and glamorous lifestyle which ends in nothing but tragedy."

I love the concept of this video a little more than the 1st, probably becuase it's not as dark. I thought the original video was very creative, but didn't really capture the entire essence of the track. This version however, AMAZING...

Complex X Crooks & Castles

A collaboration of Complex (Canada) and Crookes & Castles, they release this shirt to celebrate Complex's 10th anniversary. SO HOT!

Ice Cream Burger.

The week is always longest just before a holiday weekend—and when Friday finally comes, you want to kick things off with something new. Something strangely nostalgic. Something cold. Something...at a bar.





You know, like a plate of Ice Cream Burgers—part of the new bar menu at Noé Restaurant inside the Omni Hotel.



Think of it like a combination plate of sliders, but with ice cream as the meat and macaroons as the bun. Since it's on the bar menu, no need to bother with actual dinner first—just head upstairs, grab a stool at the counter and order your "burgers" with an Irish coffee. (Chef's choice.) When the plate arrives, you'll find a surprise assortment of house-made mocha, strawberry and vanilla patties (depending on the day) between poppy, sesame and almond macaroon buns. (Just like Mom never used to make.)



If after your dessert you feel like you might need some, uh, dessert, then you're in luck, because the chef (Glenn Ishii) has also created an assortment of cereal-flavored ice cream. Your childhood favorites like Cap'n Crunch, Apple Jacks, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Honey Nut Cheerios have all been taken to unprecedented new territory.

Perspective Chair

The chair below is called Perspective. It was designed by Pharrell in collaboration with Domeau & Pérès who built it and will be making the additional chairs. The chair, as well as another chair design and a table will be part of a show in Paris at the prestigious Emmanuel Perrotin Galerie. The show will be from October 21st 2008 until January 10th 2009. The chairs will be available in a few colors and only 4 of each will be sold. The chair below represents the love between a woman and man.

“I had often wondered what it’s like to truly be in love,not lust for once..So I decided not to ask what it was like in someone else’s shoes or what it was like to sit in their seat..I decided to sketch out my own experiment; the perspective chair.”

I love it! Kinda weird, but I love it!

Pioneer Projection Dome

This is such an awesome exhibitor booth. Pioneer erected a dome in the middle of the dessert and had a 360 projection projected onto the walls, ceiling, and surrounding. I LOVE THIS! This shit is sooooooooo dope!!! It really puts you into the party. The visuals are done by a live VDJ. Great song selection. Another plus to this was that it was air conditioned! Kept us out of the 100+ degree heat in the Vegas dessert. There was also this pretty cute girl working for pioneer (that never hurts).

Scion "Hot Lava"

Here is the sneak preview of the new Scion, fittingly named "Hot Lava". As you see in the video, the VP of Scion is annoucing the release of this car at the Scion United shoot this past weekend. This is the 1st view of the car. It will not be released until next month. Enjoy!

*sidebar...I really enjoyed the presentation of the car. Very well done. Sorry for the distortion on the video. I was literally 2 feet away from the suspended speaker stacks.

Scion United Video

This is the inside of the tent that was sprung out of the bare dessert floor. Fully functioning, air conditioned venue. Truly AMAZING. The production guys for this event are the same people that do the dessert raves Electric Daisy Festival, Juju Beats, etc. I'm especially digging the circular truss rig with the 360 projections and most of all, the plasma tubes that create the backing for the main stage.

Scion United Shoot preview

Here's a preview of what we saw at the Scion United Shoot out in Boulder City this past weekend.



Here's the stage that they erected in the middle of nowhere that Redman and Flo-Rida performed. It's amazing the lighting and visuals that they had set up for this.

Once I get more photos up, I'll post as well as the vids I shot before my camara batteries craped out on me.

"retiger"

"I always wondered if there could be handicapped animals and apparently there are."





"that those exotic white tigers you see in rap videos and Las Vegas magic shows are the product of extreme INCEST!

It is extremely rare for a white tiger to be born naturally. tiger breeders must mate white tiger brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers together in millions of incestuous combinations to satisfy the never-ending demand for white tigers by insecure rap stars and homosexual magic acts."

*credit to eatskeet

Extinction of the most precious animal of all...

Ladies and Gentleman I am talking about the endangered GUMMY BEAR. Lately I've been noticing that they stopped carrying the brand of gummy bears I grew up with, Heide. I've tried many other kinds but none of them could live up to the chewyness of the original Heide brand gummy bears. I've gone to many locations of CVS, 7-11, and other candy shops but to no avail. So the next time you see Heide brand gummy bears on the shelves, pick up a pack and enjoy before it's too late and they go extinct.

Hundred Dolla Bills Look @ You, Look @ You...

It's ouuuut........

She wanna lick my wrapper...

I've been waiting for this to drop for a minute now. I heard he played this backstage at the 1st nights Glow In The Dark Tour in the Nokia Theater as he was playing connect 4 (from an earlier post I had). It's finally out. LOLLIPOP REMIX!!!! Lil Wayne KILLED IT!!! Kanye KILLED IT!!!

Lil Wayne ft Kanye West - Lollipop (remix)



Flush Out the feeling of me bein the shit
Cause I was leavin skid marks on everywhere I sit
I am everywhere, Im it
Like hide and go, I can go anywhere,
Eeney-Meeny-Miny-Mo, Im In yo
Neighborhood area, cd thang, tape deck, ipod, ya girlfriend
and she say I got great sex, safe sex is great sex
better wear a latex, cuz u dont want that late text, that "I Think Im Late" Text

Damn... I guess that's what enough cough syrup can do to you. And now for the Yeezy shit!

lollipop lollipop her breasts just like dolly part-on
she Ride my spaceship til she hit the top
that hit the spot, til she asked me how many li-li-licks do it take til she get to shop
don't worry why my wrist got so freezed
tell her girl like Doritos, that's not your cheese/nacho cheese
tell her friends like Fritos, I'm trying to Lay
I can only have one and I ain't trying to wait
this is song with wayne so you know it's gonna melt
but you ain't finna murder me like everybody else
i'ma rap like i got some type of respect for myself
i don't do it for my health man
i do it for the belt man
i do it til the death
til the roof get melt
100 degrees drop the roof
so the coupe don't melt
man the flow so cold, chicken soup won't help
we need four more hoes, we need ohhhhohhhohhhohhh
you know what it is when we outta town
we ballin too serious and you outta bounds
so come here baby girl, you now fuckin with the best in the woooorrrld
lollipop
the best in the WOOOOOORLD!!!!

Nike x Beijing Olympics Stadium

"One of the highlights in Chinese architecture will take center stage later this summer as Beijing's National Stadium, dubbed the Bird's Nest will host a large portion of the Olympic events this summer. To commemorate the stadium and its significance, the cornerstone of Nike's footwear segment, the Air Force 1 has been reinterpreted in the style of the Bird's Nest. The black leather upper is marked with details similar to the same ones seen on the National Stadium which has earned it the aptly named nickname."

*taken from hypebeast

All the girls standing in the line for the bathroom!!

This video is super dope. I love their innovative style of thinking and their direction. So refreshing...

The Price is Right

I know this has nothing to do with anything cool in pop culture, music, art or fashion, but I HAD TO post this. It's too funny for me not to share with you all. If every eposide of The Price is Right is THIS entertaining, I'm gonna need to start TIVOing it. Enjoy...

Make sure you watch it all the way through. It's worth it...



"Meet Kim. Kim was a contestant on this morning’s The Price Is Right, and something tells us that during that 14 hours she spent waiting on line to make it to contestant’s row, Kim never once realized she was destined to become The Most Doomed Price Is Right Contestant Ever. Now, to be fair, Kim clearly got caught up in all of that “lowest bid without going over jazz”, and completely botched her opening bid. But that second mistake… that was all Drew Carey’s doing. And Kim… she deserves better than that. Let’s hope they threw her a few extra well-deserved boxes of Rice-A-Roni in her consolation prize."

The Decapitator

"The London based Decapitator has gained his fair share of notoriety for his counter-culture exploits replacing the heads in various advertisements with a bloodied and decapitated mess. Uniqlo is the latest company to come under fire from the gory artist as a series of ads were hit."

click the link above for more of his previous works.

Sampling Dictionary

"Hip hop in the U.S. may have hit a lull, but it's far from dead. At home, hip hop fanatics have started to dig deeper for rarer singles from the late 80's and early 90's, and overseas it's still huge. Take Japan for example, There, it's respected to the fullest. So, leave it to them to compile this huge hip hop sample reference book for all your digger needs. They've literally done all your research for you in this huge 241 page dictionary of hip hop artists, organized alphabetically by name, track name and the songs sampled for the track. Includes all big name hip hop artists from 2 Live Crew to Z-Trip, including even hard to find, obscure artists like Siah & Yeshua Dapo to Kartoon Krew. It even has dictionary style printing on the sides for quick flipping by alphabet. Yes it's all here in this one inexhaustible book, because you can't really take the internet with you to records stores(yet). Although it's an awesome reference, I'll warn you that the inside cover does say, "All data are not necessarily accurate." Don't fret though, I feel they threw that in there so some nerd doesn't 'cause a fuss 'cause one sample is wrong. For the most part, it's pretty spot on. Also has a list of the ten commandments of digging on the back, in broken english, "Don't forget to keep turning on your equipments." They do give you some good tips like, "Go through the records stores A-Z, even the boxes on the floor," this has always been a secret of mine. But they forgot the most important rule to digging, "Never bring your girlfriend with you." It's like the girl equivalent of a guy gettin' dragged into Sephora. "

PURE HOTNESSSSSSSSSS....

N.E.R.D. T-Shirt

Such a dope shirt! I want...

Peter Gronquist:“The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show”

This is such an awesome exhibit. It's on display in Los Angeles right now.

"The artist presents blinged out faux-designer weaponry such as Paul Smith rockets, Louis Vuitton electric chairs and Pacman bombs. Some pieces look really nice and are well fabricated, such as the Louis Vuitton chair, others came off a little cheap, which does not really work if you enter this kind of art. Since he is working with high fashion branding, the pieces also have to look that way. Images via Notcot.

G-Shock

"Entering its 25th year of service, Casio G-Shock has become a dependable and trustworthy purveyor of durable timepieces at reasonable prices. Although a bigger phenomenon amongst Asian markets, nevertheless the G-Shock has managed to stay contemporary with new styles to compliment its reliable classics. This months releases include the G-Shock Project Team Tough Special Edition, Glorious Gold Pack, various G-LIDEs (including the much talked about In4mation collabo) and the futuristic looking G-8100. "

So hot! I've been trying to get my hands on the Frogman but in white, released a few years back. The clear is pretty dope though.

I just don't get it...

Interesting...I have nothing more to say.

The World's Biggest...

China has always had a thing for having the world's largest... i.e. the world's longest wall-the great wall, the world's longest hallway-summer palace, the world's largest square-Tienanmen square, etc. The newest addition to the list of world's best/largest/longest/biggest...

"A 20,000 square foot wall of computer-controlled LEDs in Beijing, the largest of its kind ever built.

The wall manages to power itself completely using only the sun. The GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall, designed by Simon Giostra & Partners and Arup, uses thousands of solar capture cells attached to each of its glass panels to charge up during the day and then release light shows at night. It's the first time perforated photovoltaics laminated in glass have ever been used in a building in China. The wall is a combination of three textured panels in low-, medium-, and high-transparency glass, employed together to create a "continuous carpet" of flowing design that's actually roughly 7 feet deep. The wall will showcase low-resolution LED imagery."

at least they're being energy efficent about it...

Stencil Art...me likey

"In case you’ve been living under a rock, London is playing host to the CANS FESTIVAL this weekend, a huge show of stencil art with over 40 international street & graffiti artists participating, including movement figurehead and onetime rebel BANKSY, who masterminded the entire affair. These photos represent the first look at his work in the show. Located in an unused Eurostar terminal at Waterloo on the capital’s South Bank, the very legal festival intends to showcase one of London’s most popular tourist attractions in a safe, controlled setting. We’re not exactly sure why it’s called the “Cans Festival” instead of the more obvious “Stencil Festival,” but we are surprised Sir Banksy himself is taking center stage in the show. The gangster move would have certainly been for Banksy to shun participation in the festival while dropping an illegal bomb of massive proportions elsewhere in the city as a movement-leading show of force. Who knows, it’s a long holiday weekend in Fogtown, perhaps our man’s got something up his sleeve yet. Meantime, here’s what Banksy had to say about organizing the show: “Graffiti doesn’t always spoil buildings, in fact it’s the only way to improve a lot of them. In a few hours with a couple of hundred cans of paint, I’m hoping we can transform a dark, dirty, neglected hellhole into an oasis of beautiful art. I’ve always felt anyone with a paint can should have as much say in how our cities look as architects and ad men, so getting to cover an entire street with graffiti is a dream come true, or as some people might call it, a complete and utter nightmare.” The show is being sponsored & organized by PICTURES ON WALLS, an East End printmaker that produces limited-edition screenprints by Banksy and Faile, among others. Tonite marks the VIP first-look debut of the show with A-listers like Kevin Spacey strolling through the tunnel, cocktails in hand, admiring the Street Art in spacious privacy before the sweaty masses are admitted on Saturday with an expected 75,000+ fans expected to descend on the show."

*Taken from Supertouch

Air Race Aftermath

After a great trip to SD for the Red Bull Air Race, I come back burnt as shit! The weather was GREAT, I just wished I wore some sunblock. I had NO IDEA I was gonna get burnt so bad... Anyways, here's a video taken by the friend that I attended the race with. I'm definetly gonna try to go again next year.



Here's another vid from Red Bull

Extremist

This is why I love Kanye...he's entertainment...he's real. He tells it like it is muthafucka!

This is his response to the review of his Glow In The Dark Tour at Seatle (his first show) by Entertainment Weekly.

"Yo, anybody that's not a fan; don't come to my show. For what?! To try and throw ya'll two cents in? Ya'll rated my album shitty and now ya'll come to the show and give it a B+. What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist. It's either pass or fail! A+ or F-! You know what, fuck you and the whole fucking staff!!! I know I shouldn't dignify this with a comment, but the reviewer threw a jab at all the artists. I just wanna know when was the last time you enjoyed yourself. If you can't have fun and lose yourself at this tour it's a good chance you're a very miserable person. I actually feel sorry for you guys. Your job forces you to not have fun anymore. Grab a drink, holla at some nice girls, and party bitch!! You don't know shit about passion and art. You'll never gain credibility at this rate. You're fucking trash! I make art. You can't rate this. I'm a real person. I'm not a pop star. I don't care about anything but making great art. Never come 2 one of my shows ever again, you're not invited and if you see me...BOW!! This is not pop, it's pop art!"

Crocs

I've always hated crocs and don't understand what people see in them. I'm sure they're comfortable and help your back if you're standing all day, but they look like ugly as shit. FINALLY, someone bold enough to agree out loud. I'm loving this...I took this off of www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net. Kudos to you!

"When I see people wearing Crocs, I know immediately that we have nothing in common, and that we could never be friends or have any meaningful kind of relationship. They come in every color imaginable yet look bad with every other article of clothing ever created. The only thing that goes with Crocs is social ostracism.



To their credit though, Crocs serve as an excellent idiot barometer; you can tell a lot about people wearing them. For example, Amazon.com suggest products that other customers have purchased based on the item you're shopping for. Here are the suggestions for Crocs:
When it comes to shoes, there are usually three deciding factors: quality, price, and style. Some shoes are cheap and stylish, but poor quality, while others are stylish and durable, but expensive. Crocs usually go for $30-$60, which doesn't sound like much for a shoe, until you consider that what you're really paying for are melted pellets squirted into a cast-iron mold in some province in China. Crocs have the rare combination of being expensive, poor quality, and ugly. It's quite a feat for one shoe to suck this bad.

People who wear Crocs go on and on about how comfortable they are, and how it's supposedly odor resistant because it's made out of some kind of anti-bacterial foam. Great point, dipshits! You know what else it's resistant to? You getting laid. Then as if the shoes weren't disgusting enough, Crocs introduced a product called "Crocs butter" that's supposed to restore that illustrious injection-molded sheen to those gaping holes they call shoes:

You know that feeling you get when you're full and slightly nauseous and you burp and you can taste the partly digested food in the back of your throat? There isn't a word in the english language to succinctly describe it, but I will hereby refer to it as: croc-butter."


Thank you for this commentary...it made my morning more enjoyable.