Short run of flics by the one and only Ricky Powell showcasing XLARGE‘s summer 2012 collection. Timely, as the Powell is perhaps best known for his work with the Beastie Boys, and XLARGE has a long history with the label… peep this vid for more on that, and a few more photos after the jump.
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Posted in clothes, insight, music, photography
Tagged Beastie Boys, Ricky Powell, Summer 2012, XLARGE
I made a beat for this promo video featuring the homie Ben Knight and the work of other homie Ben Tour. From the writeup,
‘Launching on Friday April 13th at Vancouver’s Gallery FUKAI, Design24 finds its inaugural reception as a new bi-annual event featuring some of the West Coast’s most reputable emerging and established artists, graphic designers and illustrators. The exhibit features the work of 24 individual artists in limited edition (10/10) screen printed runs of their work. Design24 embraces the parallels between art and design/ designer and artist; paying respect to the duality of commercial design work, its artists and culture.’
Looks to be a great show featuring some very talented artists. Happy to contribute to the project in my own way, and I think this video turned out great. If you’re in Vancouver I’ll catch you at the opening.
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Yes! This is hype on a few levels: one, we really like rad socks. For serious, quality-made socks with good height+weight and solid pattern/color are the best, and more difficult to find than you might think. Second, we like motorbikes/skateboarding/getting shredded in general, so the combo of the two is on point. Stance is a California brand doing it big in the sock game, and props to them. Enjoy this vid featuring their spring ’12 product.
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Posted in accessories, motorcycles, music, video
Tagged California, getting rad, Stance socks
Here’s a slick short video of Harlem’s own A$AP Rocky preforming four of his well-known tracks on January 29th in Montreal. Show was opened by the dude Lunice (wish we had a clip of that), then A$AP came through and got the place going buck by the looks of it… so much good NYC rap right now, from the whole A$AP crew to Vinny Cha$e to Action Bronson to Mr. Muthaf***in’ Exquire. Ups to Lookout for doing this show, and rad to know Rocky can get across the border… Van show soon?
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Presented by Montana, Graffuturism, and Catalog Creative, here is a recap video of Scott Sueme and Andrew Young’s trip to Art Basel in Miami, putting in work on both the facilitated walls and the streets. These guys are two of my favourite artists in Vancouver right now, and Young has a solo show coming up at Catalog Gallery this week, full of his highly impressive realism works. Shot by Bikes and edited by Rob Squire, this vid also features an unreleased Garde + Eames track that didn’t make the album and just happened to suit the cut pretty well. Enjoy.
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Posted in art, lifestyle, music, video
Tagged Art Basel, Catalog Gallery, Ensoe, Miami, Scott Sueme
Ever since I moved to Vancouver in the summer my main dude Rob Squire and I have had a rotating cast of synths and drum machines in the back of his Catalog Gallery, anchored by a few key pieces. We would jam out tracks, record them, and then we finally got it together to edit some down in to proper songs. Bricks is a techno record, and we decided to give it away for free, for a bunch of reasons that are a two hour conversation in and of themselves. There’s a nice review over at FACT that will tell you a lot more and you can download the LP there as well, 320 kbps files with a .pdf booklet, all fancy like. 2011 was a really great year for me and music, if you want to hear more about that check my recap over at sub|div. And of course, many thanks if you give a listen, plenty more to come in 2012.
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There has been a bit of a resurgence in rap over the last year or so, with lots of new cats coming out such as Aesop Rock ASAP Rocky, Danny Brown, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Maffew Rogazino, Casey Veggies and many more, but one that has really stood out for me is Action Bronson. The Queens bred, Albanian descent, Ghostface-esque rapper has taken it back to classic NY rap shit. One thing that has been lacking in rap and rappers for that matter is style, charisma and character, and Bronsolini has all that. He rolls with the Smart Crew, and the Woodsmen (Mayhem Lauren etc.) who are two NY crews that are really doing it right now. He recently released the mixtape Well Done, produced by Statik Selektah, the combination of the two makes for some great new NY rap that I highly recommend you give a listen to. Bronson also keeps it real in the style dept; Polo, Carhart, Knicks hats, Oakleys, and shorts year round. Keep reading for a few of his videos as well as his Action in the Kitchen video series which is hilarious…
Action Bronson & Statik Selektah – Well Done
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Taiwanese bike/accessory/clothing brand nabiis shot this video for their f/w 2011 collection, their first of three showcasing this season’s offerings. In their words,
“Each video represents a different spirit… freedom on the road, freedom from the law, and freedom from yourself. These three spirits form nabiis’ trinity. The spirit of “Gett’n Over”
Feeling the style and editing here, and using a classic Boards Of Canada track never hurst either; looking forward to the next two vids.
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Posted in accessories, bikes, clothes, music, video
Tagged Fall/Winter 2011, nabiis, Taiwan
