Pharrell Williams, Connoisseur
Men.Style.com recently caught up with Pharrell for an interview in his Ice Cream and Billionaire Boys Club store in Soho. Pharrell talks about being a connoisseur and some of his exuberant pieces, such as his iced out G-Shock and purple crocodile Hermes bag.
Fuck Clay Bennett
So its official. The Sonics are leaving for OKC next season. I was hoping that the city was going to hold them to the lease and make them stay another year. But, in extremely depressing fashion, once again money talks and they settled. So, the Sonics are officially dead. In honour of their passing here’s a tribute video from the glory days.
p.s. This sets the worst precedent for pro sports ever. Watch out, it could just as easily happen to your favourite team too.
Sidney Lo x Self Edge
This is hilarious. Self Edge and Sidney Lo put together a window display at San Francisco’s denim specialty spot, Self Edge. The fake Sidney characters sporting his Flathead attire, complete with the same background used in his 365 days of photos. The Sidney hair turned out funny, check out his blog for some good shots.
Arkitip Magazine No. 0046
I received my Arkitip in the mail the other day. Issue No. 0046 have 3 different covers from Kevin Lyons, Michael Lyon, and Ben Dury. I went with the Kevin Lyons. It came with a Beams x Arkitip T shirt as well which definitely was a nice selling feature for me. It comes as a heat transfer that I have to press on myself, only problem is an iron is apparently not hot enough. I’m not sure if I can do this myself as I’m not an experianced T shirt printer. Anybody got some suggestions or do I need to take it somewhere? The magazine has some great work as usual, with some nice clean layouts, and great photography. Definitely worth the purchase. Thanks for making dope stuff Arkitip.
Chris Bosh is funny
I always thought Bosh was a bit of a dud seeing post-game interviews with him and him with Cabbie. But I guess he’s actually got a good dry sense of humour.
The Legend of Torrey Pines
Forget Bagger Vance, given the circumstances, this is probably the best round of golf ever. Tiger hasn’t played golf in 3 months, he looked like his knee was bothering him more than Willis McGahee(yuck) and he was using his driver as a cane. Going into the last 6 holes he was trailing by 5 strokes, 2 eagles and a birdie later he’s winning. A finish like this compels me to say that this is the best performance from the most dominant golfer ever… but I don’t want to get ahead of myself.
Ikea NYC Pop up Apartment
With a new Ikea branch set to launch in Brooklyn, NYC, Ikea has taken advantage to do some great advertising. They constructed a pop-up apartment that looks like a big box from the outside, but it contains a 20” by 20” studio apartment, complete with all the trimmings. The label reads “unpack June 18″ so I would assume that is when the store will open up for business. Ikea is not new to good advertising methods, but I do really like this approach to get a buzz for the Brooklyn location. Read more
Dante Ross asks You…
“In reflecting on the culture which we live in, the community’s in which we participate in and the playing field’s that we work in I say we all need to ask ourselves this question and gut check ourselves internally. It is an age-old question one that is almost rhetorical.
DO YOU GIVE BACK TO THE CULTURE WE ALL EXIST WITHIN OR DO YOU TAKE FROM IT PERPETUALLY?
I know where I stand on this issue and I believe everybody has there own line in the sand when it comes to co-opting and monetizing the cultural movements that we tend to coexist within.
My thought is when you have a few moments to reflect put your self, your career, your motivations and your wants out of life to the side for a few minutes and think this one through it will raise your personal level of consciousness I believe and may allow you to look at the big picture if only for a brief second.
If you cant wrap your head around this thought than your walking through life with blinders on and for that I truly feel sorry for your missing out on the greatest gift you have which is:
The ability to raise the worlds collective unconsciousness and actually making your immediate social and cultural scenes a more enjoyable journey for all.”
FOOD FOR THOUGHT!
Dante Ross
NYC
Vancouver Shred Session
Some of the Vancouver fellows recently put together a little “Skate Sundays” video. You can catch some Livestock and GDFT crew members reeking havoc on innocent pedestrians before they head to the park where they belong! Just kidding, makes me wish I skated enough to do a tenth of what they are. Instead I just watch here
R.I.P. Luc Bourdon
Luc Bourdon was killed today in a motorcycle crash in his native New Brunswick. He was one of the Canucks and Canada’s brightest young defencemen. He was only 21, far too young to die. My respects go out to all his family and friends.
