some catching up

Aight...been slackin' and so i'm going with an oversize post tonite...

Money bear.

via Like cool

A teddy bear made from dollar bills? Awesome! You can even up him [or her] up and replace the filling with your own crumpled dolla dolla bills. Awesomer! Price = $1,250.00. NOT AWESOME.


An Imaginary Life

A short film about what happens to the imaginary friends we all end up leaving behind. It's a sad part of growing up...and this just makes it sadder. All the more reason to refuse to grow up and remember that age ain't nothing but a number and a state of mind.



Ghost in the Machine

via iri5

A sweet collection of works by iri5, an artist whose specialty is non-traditional media. These works are made from old cassette tapes...impressive.




Your Inner dj.

Learn to dj in a few short classes [or even just one extended session]. DJ 4 Life offers classes in dj'ing and will teach u all u need to get those wheels of steel spinning. Hot ladies interested in you as the pictures below display not guaranteed. At least I assume they're not guaranteed. But if they are, sign me up!

Editorial update [4.25.09]: the nyTimes is biting my style!

Checkout this article.

Hotel in the air.

via Limited Hype

The world's first flying hotel, also the world's largest helicopter [to be expected when it doubles as a hotel] is set to take off this summer.




Mmm...BACON!!!

via Bacon Salt

I'm sure you know I love bacon. Well...many of us have heard of Bacon Salt:


Some of us are lucky enough to know about Baconnaise:

But the real question is, do you know about Bacon Lip Balm?

Air Yeezy's...the making of...

via complex

Article on the process behind the hyped Air Yeezy shoe. Let's of sweet pics to go with.

Air Yeezys on Air Yeezy

via hypebeast

The much hyped Nike Air Yeezy...while not available yet...made an appearance or three at SXSW on the feet of...well...Yezzy himself as well as some of his G.O.O.D. musicians. And they look fresh...Oooooooooh

Air Yeezy

via kanYe west, hypebeast, and others

it's pretty clear these are blowing up the internet...i'll let u check out the various articles for more info. hypebeast has a serious lowdown*, which kanYe clipped and linked to on his blog. nice shoes. all i gots to say.

* the lowdown actually comes from Nikepedia

3.6.09 update: ...and for more kanYe kicks, don't forget about Louis Vuitton.

additional directions...

It's become painfully clear that my blogging has fallen off in a serious way over the past whatever amount of time. In many ways I find myself disappointed. But in the past few weeks I find myself spending a bit more of my interweb surfing time perusing other blogs...blogs of a very different nature. I of course have a few mainstays and thru them I'm often stumble onto new and interesting blogs or at least posts and tidbits.

The combination of a lack of writing and the experience of other blogs...along with a bit of thinking over the past couple days and observing my silly facebook habits has resulted in a realization: When I did the most consistent writing in the place it was done with a purpose...it was really something I needed to do at that time in my life and it was a way of working and thinking thru various ideas, feelings, emotions, experiences...and so on.

But now is a different time and I find myself in a different place on many levels...that's why they say life is journey. And at this different place, it seems only appropriate to add some new direction(s) to this blog...I don't think it's time to abandon what came before as I know there will be a time and a need for such writing. But in between those posts, which are clearly more sporadic than previous times, I plan on just adding things I find interesting...be it articles, videos, songs, random funny links, pictures, and pretty much whatever. Hopefully I'll put a few things a day [I'd like to say 3 posts a day of various things of interest I come across...but I'm guessing sometimes it could be more and others it could be less.

Anywho...let's get to it...

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Telling Stories

kanYe West was on vh1's Storytellers tonite. Definitely worth checking out. kanYe is an individual often the subject of criticism and controversy but you have to respect his ability to perform and entertain. He puts on a show like few others do or even can...what impresses the most is that he takes the opportunity of performing live to take the music beyond the simple recordings and builds on them in innovative and interesting ways. You can find 10 videos from the kanYe West Storytellers here. Look for it to be replayed in your local listings...and take the time to listen. Too bad they didn't air the full 3 hours or so that it actually ran...maybe they'll make all that content available.