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- Courtesy of Sigourney Salley
The Final Frontier.
Temperley London Sends NYC Fashion Love.
Fashion powerhouse Temperley London is doing it once again. Following the success of last year’s presentation, the Brit-born label will be doing a digital installation for their Spring/Summer 2010 Collection at this year’s “anti-Bryant Park” hot-spot MILK Studios.There is one little twist that will make all fashion crazed “wish I was in New York right now” overseers happy. If you are bold enough to miss work and/or ditch school, then they have a pretty cool contest for those willing to take the risk! By entering one has the chance to win an all-expense paid trip that includes: airfare for two, a two night stay at the Hotel Thompson LES (Stylist Rachel Zoe’s NY dwellings), a meal at Shang, and of course tickets to the presentation. Oh and lest we forget, a private consultation at the Soho store along with $1000.How I wish I didn’t live in NYC already…but all is not lost, I will be at the presentation. I’ll be the girl with the Stubbs & Wootton velvet slippers…and although they might read “SNOB”, don’t hesitate to “HELLO!”- Courtesy of Sigourney Salley
NO #$%*ING REGRETS
“Remember that time you were wasted and thought it would be a good idea to get a tattoo on your leg of Maury Povich shaking hands with Sasquatch, but your friends talked you out of it at the last second? Well, some people don’t have friends.”
– No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever
Traditionally, people use tattoos as a means of self-expression. Most times, this self-expression comes off as artistic and thoughtful. However, others just get way out of hand and come across strange as hell. Aviva Yael & P.M. Chen went on a year long crusade scoping out tattoo conventions and studios throughout the country in order to find the most random, comical, strange, terrifying, and downright out of this world tattoos.
What they found helped to create the gem that is No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever. The book contains countless images of all sorts of tattoos accompanied by hilarious captions. Each page makes for a laugh out loud moment, and solidifies itself as a must read.
Hip-Hop Hopping Away?
Somewhere between the pop love-fest of Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” and Puffy’s dancing in shiny suits to shake off pre-millennial tension, hip-hop had a message.
One of the earliest political rap songs, Grandmaster Flash’s “White Lines” track about cocaine use and addiction in the early 80s, was followed by a succession of other messages as people in urban communities across the U.S. and around the world struggled to express what was going on in their hoods and the importance of getting the word out NOW.
In Somebody Scream: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power (Faber and Faber; released today), journalist and author Marcus Reeves explores the dynamic between the music and the politics that gave shape to the lyrics and the genre in the 80s and 90s. Placing hip-hop in a 30-year context of urban political movements, Reeves hopes, will keep us from focusing on a few bad headlines (of which there are plenty — you know what I’m talking about).
Erika Parkins: Hip-Hop seems less political now than it did in the 80’s or even the late 90’s with the rise of “conscious” rappers such as Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common and Dead Prez; why do you think that is?
Marcus Reeves: Well, the tone [of hip-hop] has been changing for awhile. Rap can be divided into two periods, before “The Chronic” and after “The Chronic”. “Chronic” came out of the L.A. riots [of 1992] and you had rappers speaking about aggression, white supremacy, police brutality, and the government’s hand in what was going on in the community.
After the LA riots, the Time Warner rap controversy, the rise of police brutality, and the rap brouhaha between Clinton and Sistah Souljah, there was prevalent and accessible material for rappers to talk about.
Then comes an album like “Doggystyle”, out of Dre’s camp, by his protégé and homeboy Snoop, who represented the next wave.
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I Heart TYPOS
When French electro “semi-god” duo Justice comes out with a new video, you can expect an exciting series of multi-hued images that will satisfy your eyes’ deepest fantasy. The video for “DVNO” from the “†,” album was directed by none other that Mr So Me. In this 3 minute video, the graphic designer bombards us with a multitude of words in a range of amazing fonts and colors, confirming his compulsive obsession for the art of lettering. Will “DVNO” know the same fate as its predecessor, the now classic “D.A.N.C.E”? I’ll let you judge for yourself…
Talib Delivers
Lately, I’ve really been jockin’ Talib Kweli, and have been moved (yet again) by his conscious flo, inspired from his revolutionary stance and pumped by the powerful culture he embraces and strengthens. I’ve been pulling out old classics from the Black Star album, Reflection Eternal, The Beautiful Struggle - each with tracks that helped to mold me as an MC, a person, and a part of the hip hop movement itself. Although the last 2 albums he released kind of slid past me, and I never got the chance to cop them, last week I randomly came across the video that recently came out for the track “Hostile Gospel” (Deliver Us) from his newest project Eardrum. Watch it for yourself, but I have to say, I’m getting some of those goosebumps that Talib was giving me back in 2000. The video was shot in Lagos and directed by Andrew Dosunmu.
The Best of Both Worlds
French graffiti artist Fafi doesn’t need any introduction. She first started painting on the walls of her hometown Toulouse, back in the early 90’s and now her ultra-sexy fafinettes can be seen all over the world. From Montreal to Paris, Mexico to Amsterdam, Tokyo to Bali, the provocative pin-ups have caught the attention of graffiti lovers the world over. With time Fafi’s style has evolved, and she’s created her own imaginary world, the Carmine Vault, where the Fafinettes live alongside Hmilo, the Hillminis and Birtak. After a series of successful collaborations with Adidas, Coca Cola, Le Sportsac, and MOB, this graffiti queen is now teaming up with MAC Cosmetics. For their Spring collection, the cosmetic giant approached Fafi to create three Fafinettes that would appear on compact powders, lip-glosses, mascara, bags and much more. The limited-edition line featuring Ermine, Monoka and Eriko - the three fafinettes- is out next month so watch out for the launch party scheduled for February 13th at New York’s Bendel’s. The colors are amazing, the illustrations are cute! Ladies, this a must-have for Spring!
Just Like Honey
Behold the dopest music video you are ever going to see… EVER. Erykah Badu is opening her latest studio album New Amerykah, Part One: 4th World War with the single “Honey” produced by 9th Wonder. Check the authentic vintage album cover remakes (Chaka Khan is my favorite) and the Andre 3000 nod. The album drops on her birthday February 26, 2008. And like the sister said - don’t forget to support your local record store.
British Invasion
UK sensation Estelle will be performing at SOBs tonight with Hi Tek for one her first appearances in NYC. The 27-year-old who’s made it into Rolling Stone’s “10 Artists to Watch in 2008″ list is the first artist to be signed to John Legend’s Homeschool Records. Estelle, the daughter of a Senegalese mother and a Grenadian father, is a well established artist in the British Hip Hop scene. She produces, writes her own songs and owns a record label called Stellar Ent. Most recently, she opened for Kanye’s while on his British tour. With an album due next February, it seems that 2008 will definitely be a terrific year for this talented sistah. For more on tonight’s show go here. And here’s little treat: