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First those awesome boat shoes, now these. Loving vans vault LX stuff lately.
Cycling clothing line Cadence’s fall collection is looking great.
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“Typical cases of structure damage show portions of or whole buildings collapsing, but this is the first time that I see a building perfectly toppled.”
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I have been eyeballing the REALxHUF collaboration decks since I saw them in the DLX Real summer09 catalogue. A little something for the wall instead of the pavement. Looks like they are available at HUF now.
Got up WAY earlier than I normally do this morning. I wanted to check out the Potrero skate park when it was empty and I could embarrass only myself. Considering I have basically zero experience skating parks, transitions and concrete the whole thing was massively intimidating. After I few college tries I got a *bit* comfortable and managed to ride around a bit. Once the kids showed up I secluded myself in the deep end of the pool and practiced pumping. All in all a good first go. No biffs. Key takeaway - buy full set of pads and helmet. Ended the morning with a cruise along the Embarcadero and took the above shot. If I turn into a morning person something is UP.
Preview of Generic Man fall shoes. Generic Man (generic surplus) and Common Projects are by far my fav shoes at the moment. Cool to see their new season of stuff looking funky… but not too funky. Typically it seems shoe companies start out fairly minimal with subdued colors and clean designs only to go the opposite direction as they get more seasons under their belt. I hope Generic Man will maintain the super clean aesthetic.
Interview with Untold, one of my favorite bass/dubstep/funky produce…
“For me beats need to keep a consistent tempo and be arranged into mixable structures. I only use one palette of drum sounds in a tune, but that palette might have lots of subtle variations. Those are the only rules I set when I’m writing, but that said I’m making tunes to be played in clubs - its design not art.”
Thanks for the link Rob.
One photo from the sampler PDF of a book called Raving89, a collection of the author’s personal photographs from the UK’s acid house scene in the late ’80s.
Worms is one of my favorite simple/oldschool games of all time. I’ve had many good nights glued to the couch with friends playing worms. Some of the recent “3d worms” games have been laughable, but I am psyched to see the new one come out the Wednesday for xBox arcade. Prepare sheep launcher.
Demo of the stanton DJing system with gestural/touch interface. So much innovation/messing around in the digital DJ space… I wonder what the numbers are like for that industry.
I was at 111 Mina gallery in SF this sunder afternoon for a baby shower (yes a baby shower). It was an awesome baby shower, probably the best one I will go to in my lifetime… Or at least the bar is set VERY high. Amongst the volley of things contributing to the awesomeness (Bar Crudo catering, mmm) was the art of SKINNER who has a show at the gallery right now. The pieces in the show were most of sweet monsters. There were also humongous dungeons and dragons dice hanging from the ceiling. It was really nice. And the fact that is was sprinkled amongst a baby shower (for a boy) sealed the deal.
Fall preview for one of my favorite labels, Wings+Horns. Fashion, turn to the left.
