the best place to re-up is at www.oinkartltd.com there is always a sale, in general cheap shit, and great giveaways.

we can officially name this summer, the summer of death. many celebrities, even fans have been struck with grief dealing with the loss of loved ones.

DJ AM’s death takes many people by surprise just because, less then a year ago he was a victim of a horrible plane crash and was a survior along side Travis Barker. I think a lot of people just assumed well, he’s had his close encounter with death..and that’s it, he’ll be good for a long time to come.

the moment I found out about his death I thought to myself; wow this is really some final destination shit. it’s a fact that when you’re meant to die, you will die and any interference with that will just put it off for some time, until death comes knocking on your front door again.

I’m just kind of baffled at the timing of all of this, to date; it has yet to be a full year since the crash (september 19th) and then it happens the same day final destination comes out? kind of like a freaky weird coincidence, especially that he dies almost a year to date of his original scheduled day so to speak.

Adam Goldstein you have checked in to your final destination, where your visit is a permanent one. may you enjoy your stay with the many late great people who have checked in with you.

hats are an autumn/winter must for me. i usually chop my hair off so it fits in the hat and rock ‘em till april. someone at new era realized that theres somethin to this hello kitty phenom, so they smartened up and made some HK fitteds. this ones my fav, peep the rest here.

at one point in my life, i had a name plate that looked almost exactly like this. it was double plated and had diamonds in it. my dad so very fucking desperately wanted me to somewhat fit into the typical ‘girl’ stereotype that he bought me things i had no interest in at the time. i was runnin around playin manhunt with boys who barely spoke english, and climbed trees with their bare feet and hands back in the dominican republic. so not into name plates/earrings/bracelets/rings. but one night i was feelin flossy and wore it out. then i got jumped, robbed and poked in ENY and i lost my shit during the chaos, but bet your ass they didnt come off with mine! i saw them bitches lookin for it and yellin for it because i put up a fight. i thought my mom was gonna kill me when i got home! i love the look of these name plates but will never bring myself to get another one because sex and the city killed its appeal for me. why the fuck would a rich white woman who lives on the island of manhattan, and is into high fashion, walk around with hood jewelry? doesnt make sense.

anyhow, im off topic, this is about a new urban arts project called ‘a love letter for you’ and its goin on in philly. this is my fav piece, go find your own.

Roxanne Shante had a hit back in the days, it was more of a battle record which automatically makes her a winrar in my book. so after she felt disenchanted once she found out what the music business was really like, she dipped. her labels contract had an agreement about payin for her education, but they tried to re neg on it. she found a dean who helped her squeeze their balls enough to make them say uncle and roxanne now has a doctorate. not bad for a teenage mom from the biggest housing project in nyc. i like bitches that are go gettas. read the whole story here.

In theaters August 28th.

“The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, ‘The September Issue,’ directed and produced by R.J. Cutler, tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the world of fashion.”

I watched an interview of Anna Wintour not to long ago, I want to say on 60 minutes? She was pretty inspiring.

The Dealers & Co. are doing it again this year. Don’t miss it!!

If you haven’t already heard Louis Vuitton is coming out with a book in mid September Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture. I love how art and fashion collide to make beautiful / bold statements. I am pretty excited about the architecture as well since that is my background.

Included in this volume are Louis Vuitton’s important collaborations with an elite group of artists, architects, designers, and photographers, such as Jun Aoki, Shigeru Ban, Vanessa Beecroft, Olafur Eliasson, Zaha Hadid, David LaChapelle, Jean Larivière, Annie Leibovitz, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Stephen Sprouse, James Turrell, Inez Van Lamsweerde, and Vinoodh Matadin.

I am soo happy to see David LaChapelle and Annie Leibovitz are in the book, they are my favorite photographers!!

You can purchase this book at Amazon for $53 which is MUCH better then the retail price of $85.

I get off seeing graffiti writers dip into the corporate world and take their money. CLAWmoney is making moves in ‘09 and I’m definitely not mad at her.

These bottles will be available beginning September 7 and continuing on for eight weeks at select US retailers.

The roster includes: Pushead, Nathan Cabrera, Jeff McMillan, Stephen Bliss, UPSO and Claw Money – the first female artist to participate in the project.

Green Label Art

By Sarah Cihat

These cards are for those love/hate relationships. Below are my personal favorites.

Available at Darkside Greeting Cards.

Fuck you.

Scumbag.

You should have been the batch
your mother swallowed.

LOL.

If you are interested in seeing Banksy’s work up close and personal there is a gallery in New York City that is selling some of his pieces along with pieces from Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Seen, Kaws and others.

The Eloquent Delinquents
41 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013

Flower doodlers tend to appreciate aesthetics and be fervently optimistic. Larger petals have a sexual connotation, indicating a passionate personality.

People who sketch their names have a healthy ego, Bubble letters reveal an effervescent disposition. And hearts show that the person believes in love.

Hmmmmmmm……..

For other doodlers…

Geometric shapes: Those who favor 3-D shapes tend to be problem solvers with a math or science bent, and they’re usually fairly reserved. A squares rough edges suggest that the person is more expressive than most.

Eyes: The large, wide open eye complete with neatly groomed brow indicates empathy.

bolivia has a cocaine bar. thats right, all you musty/sweaty ass coke fiends that pile up in the bars in bk and the l.e.s. need to get mommy and daddy to send you backpacking to la paz. because, thanks to crooked cops and dirty politics, that city has become home to the worlds first cocaine bar.

photo courtesy of dash snow. rip.

ive got the whole trip planned out for you check it: you stay here, at the adventure brew hostel. you eat free pancakes, drink microbrew on the rooftop lounge area, get wasted enough to need a bump or 2 and head out to route 36 and hit the slopes, so to speak. your hostel doesnt have a curfew so feel free to sniff your life away until you need a bed to curl up and feel like youre dying in. the menu is as follows, its 100 bolivianos/g for regular blow and 150 bolivianos/g for the ‘i cant feel my face’ blow. so if you break it down, thats $22.00 per gram for the raw uncut. the coke thats sold here, been stepped on 20 times over and costs $20 for 1/2 a gram pales in comparison.

yo im bout to become some underworld travel agent. word.

aside from the fact that nicki KILLED it, amil’s “bitch you still got 54.11’s on” had me loling for a minute. for those who are out of the loop, 54.11’s are reebok classics, thats how much they cost.

you know youre the man when niggahs are buying a can of paint with your throwie on it.

Upper Playground

these past few days have completely sucked. feels like a melt down.

I had to wake up to this song at least 3 days out of 5 during 8th grade. It was like the DJ knew to play this song at the top of the hour so people could wake up to it.

I remember listening to this album on my walkman riding my bike through the neighborhood. A time where  beepers were just being introduced and there were no cell phones. A time that if you didn’t get in touch with your friends in the morning you had to roam the hood to find where everyone was. Most of the time you would find them in the park or that one friends house where everyone could chill.

Take a walk down memory lane with me…..