An upcoming Air Max 1 Essential looks a lot like it could easily be dubbed the AM 1 Pigeons (or Un-Pigeons). Although these weren’t designed by Jeff Staple, they look just as eye-catching as if they had been. Sporting a leather and mesh upper, they are slated to drop next month but UK retailer End is already accepting pre-orders.
More images below.
pic and info: End
Craft Design have designed the interior of a contemporary loft space in London, UK.
Designers: Craft Design
Photography: Armando Elias
DJ, producer, poet, and general renaissance man Rich Medina has been at the forefront of his various professions for years, always executing each project with ineffable grace. Here we find the Philadelphia native as the physical canvas for the latest from Amsterdam-based OntFront. The lookbook, photographed by Marc Haers, finds Medina outfitted in choice casual and formal offerings from their light, airy menswear collection. Here we find OntFront's handmade double-breasted blazers, sharp square-collar shirts, and denim dress bottoms accompanied with selections from Generic Surplus, Brixton and other detailed pieces. Enjoy the lookbook above.
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J. Cole unveils the official tracklist to his forthcoming sophomore effort, Born Sinner, arriving June 18. The standard edition of the LP features 16 tracks with the deluxe edition including five additional tracks which Cole is calling, Yours Truly 3. Born Sinner includes guest spots from Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, Jhené Aiko, Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors, James Fauntleroy, and Bas. Hit the jump for the complete deluxe edition tracklist.
01. Villuminati
02. Kerney Sermon (Skit)
03. Land of the Snakes
04. Power Trip f. Miguel
05. Mo Money (Interlude)
06. Trouble
07. Runaway
08. She Know f. Amber Coffman
09. Rich Niggaz
10. Where’s Jermaine? (Skit)
11. Forbidden Fruit f. Kendrick Lamar
12. Chaining Day
13. Ain’t That Some Shit (Interlude)”
14. Crooked Smile f. TLC
15. Let Nas Down
16. Born Sinner f. James FauntleroyYours Truly 3 (Deluxe Edition)
17. Miss America
18. New York Times f. 50 Cent & Bas
19. Is She Gon Pop
20. Niggaz Know
21. Sparks Will Fly f. Jhene Aiko
1. When your body meets fresh sheets after a long shower.
2. When someone genuinely laughs at your lame joke.
3. When you walk out of an overly air-conditioned building into the summer air.
4. When the clerk at the grocery store is super nice rather than making you feel almost guilty for making them do their job.
5. When you’re at a concert and the band plays your favorite song.
6. When you wake up to the smell of breakfast.
7. When you see a shirt you really want and there’s only one left but it’s your size.
8. When you’re running late for work and you get all green lights.
9. When you’re watching something alone and it’s so funny that you laugh out loud.
10. When your outfit is super stylish and super comfortable.
11. When you make the basket.
12. When you buy something on sale but you didn’t know it was on sale.
13. When your tummy hurts and one big burp makes it go away.
14. When you lose a couple pounds without trying.
15. When you take all your coins to the bank and it’s more money than you thought it would be.
16. When you wake up early and realize you have several hours to sleep until the alarm goes off.
17. When you peel off a nice large chunk of skin from the sunburn.
18. When you have a cold and both nostrils open up for a few minutes of sweet mercy.
19. When it’s your birthday and someone way cooler than you writes on your Facebook wall.
20. When the stain comes off in the wash even after it sets in.
21. When you need more time to get ready and your friend texts you first because they need more time.
22. When someone posts a picture of you online that you haven’t seen and you look damn good in it.
23. When you think you’re out of clean underwear and you find one pair hiding at the bottom.
24. When you’re the only one in the movie theater.
25. When you fall in love with a song the first time you hear it.
26. When the fridge is fully stocked and the snacks overfloweth.
27. When you find an old gift card that still has a considerable balance on it.
28. When your friends’ parents are really easy to talk to.
29. When your bed head looks kind of awesome.
30. When a song you loved in 1998 comes on the radio after you completely forgot it existed.
31. When ordinary food tastes like heaven.
32. When a stranger compliments you.
33. When someone surprises you with your favorite candy bar.
34. When the clothes you put on are still hot from the dryer.
35. When you sing in unison with your friends.
36. When you hear your name in a song.
37. When someone finishes the chore or task you were dreading.
38. When you get it right on the first try. 
    
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American sport shoe manufacturer Saucony releases a fresh new "Premium Pack" of its popular Grid 9000 model. Choosing a special blend of smooth suede and premium leather for the upper and breathable mesh at the toe box, the shoes are distinguished by the three-hole Saucony logo panel on the sides. Other features include the long tongue pull tab and padded ankle closure.
Available for $90 each, the "Premium Pack" Grid 9000s are available in your choice of tan/green, black/grey, and navy/orange colorways, and can be found now through Feature Sneaker Boutique.
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Having sported everything from Flywire support and three-dimensional metric motifs to leopard, tie-dye, and safari prints, Nike's much-celebrated Roshe Run is set to hit Nike Sportswear accounts with an all-over tiger-stripe camo pattern in a predominately black colorway - a design that's now joined by a green edition. Like its Black/Black-Sail-Mercury Grey counterpart, the Vintage Green/Vintage Green-Sail-Gamma Green iteration of the kicks boast a familiar tiger camo motif throughout their ripstop nylon upper as matching rope laces and a padded mesh collar are paired with a contrasting white sole. For those in Japan, the "Green Tiger Camo" Nike Roshe Run is now available to pre-order online via atmos while a release is expected at NSW accounts across the globe in the near future.
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from After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931)
And suddenly she was immensely calm and indifferent to anything that had ever happened or could possibly happen to her. It was like that. Just when in another moment your brain would burst, it was always like that. She sat placidly with her knees rather wide apart, and her eyes fixed calm.
She felt nothing, except that she was tired and that she wished to be left alone to rest there, quietly, in the darkened room. It seemed to her that she had been there forever and that she always would be there, and that getting up, moving, would be impossible. But they must leave her alone, leave her alone. Then even that thought left her. She floated…floated….And shut her eyes.
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The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid of nothing. Which came first?
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She was a shadow, kept alive by a flame of hatred for somebody who had long ago forgotten all about her.
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Then she had got up and looked at herself in the glass. She had let her nightgown slip down off her shoulders, and had a look at herself. She was tall and straight and slim and young – well, fairly young. She had taken up a strand of her hair and put her face against it and thought how she liked the smell and the feel of it. She had laughed at herself in the glass and her teeth were white and sound and even. Yes, she had laughed at herself in the glass. Like an idiot.
Then in the midst of her laughter she had noticed how pale her lips were; and she had thought: ‘My life’s like death. It’s like being buried alive. It isn’t fair, it isn’t fair.’
She could not stop crying. It had been as if something terribly strong were struggling within her, and tearing her in its struggles. And then she had thought: ‘If this goes on for another year I’m finished. I’ll be old and finished, and that’s that.
Of course, she had thought that sort of thing before. But always vaguely – and there had not been anything vague about the way she had thought last night.
from Voyage in the Dark (1934)
Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn’t fantastic any longer, it’s inevitable. The inevitable is what you’re doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn’t do. That goes for everybody.
from Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
The thing is to have a programme, not to leave anything to chance – no gaps. No trailing around aimlessly with cheap gramaphone records starting up in your head, no ‘Here this happened, here that happened’. Above all, no crying in public, no crying at all if I can help it.
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At this moment a taxi draws up. Without a word he gets into it, bangs the door and drives off, leaving me standing there on the pavement.
And did I mind? Not at all, not at all. If you think I minded, then you’ve never lived like that, plunged in a dream, when all the faces are masks and only the trees are alive and you can almost see the strings that are pulling the puppets.
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In the middle of the night you wake up. You start to cry. What’s happening to me? Oh, my life, oh, my youth….
There’s some wine left in the bottle. You drink it. The clock ticks. Sleep….
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Not to think. Only to watch the branches of that tree and the pattern they make standing out against a cold sky. Above all, not to think….
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But when I think ‘tomorrow’ there is a gap in my head, a blank – as if I were falling through emptiness. Tomorrow never comes.
And there we are – struggling on the small bed. My idea is not so much to struggle as to make it a silent struggle. Nobody must hear us. At the end, he is lying on me, holding down my two spread arms. I can’t move. My dress is torn open at the neck. But I have my knees firmly clamped together. This is a game – a game played in the snow for a worthless prize….
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You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That’s the past – or perhaps the future. And you know that there is no past, no future, there is only blackness, changing faintly, slowly, but always the same.
‘You want to know what I’m afraid of? All right, I’ll tell you…I’m afraid of men – yes, I’m very much afraid of men. And I’m even more afraid of women. And I’m very much afraid of the whole bloody human race…Afraid of them?’ I say. ‘Of course I’m afraid of them. Who wouldn’t be afraid of a pack of damned hyenas?’
Thinking: ‘Oh, shut up. Stop it. What’s the use?’ But I can’t stop. I go on raving.
‘And when I say afraid – that’s just a word I use. What I really mean is that I hate them. I hate their voices. I hate their eyes, I hate the way they laugh…I hate the whole bloody business. It’s cruel, it’s idiotic, it’s unspeakably horrible. I never had the guts to kill myself or I’d have got out of it long ago. So much the worse for mme. Let’s leave it at that.’
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All that is left in the world is an enormous machine, made of white steel. It has innumerable flexible arms, made of steel. Long, thin arms. At the end of each arm is an eye, the eyelashes stiff with mascara. When I look more closely I see that only some of the arms have these eyes – others have lights. The arms that carry the eyes and the arms that carry the lights are all extraordinarily flexible and very beautiful. But the grey sky, which is the background, terrifies me…. And the arms wave to the accompaniment of music and of song. Like this: ‘Hotcha – hotcha – hotcha….’ And I know the music; I can sing the song.
from her Paris Review interview (1979)
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don’t matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.
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I’d planned to die at thirty, and then I’d push it on ten years, forty, and then fifty. You always push it on. And then you go on and on and on. It’s difficult. Too much trouble. I’ve thought about death a great deal. One day in the snow I felt so tired. I thought, “Damn it, I’ll sit down. I can’t go on. I’m tired of living here in the snow and ice.” So I sat down on the ground. But it was so cold I got up.
from Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (1979)
I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.
This post is part of Tao Lin Day. To read more posts in this series, click here.
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from [mostly talks, I think]:
You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
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My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
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I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.
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Culture replaces authentic feeling with words. As an example of this, imagine an infant lying in its cradle, and the window is open, and into the room comes something, marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a transformative hierophany of integrated perception and the child is enthralled and then the mother comes into the room and she says to the child, “that’s a bird, baby, that’s a bird,” instantly the complex wave of the angel peacock iridescent trans-formative mystery is collapsed, into the word. All mystery is gone, the child learns this is a bird, this is a bird, and by the time we’re five or six years old all the mystery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words. This is a bird, this is a house, this is the sky, and we seal ourselves in within a linguistic shell of dis-empowered perception.
from The World Could Be Anything (1990)
All our previous positions are now exposed as absurd. But people don’t draw the obvious conclusion: it must also mean then that our present situation is absurd.
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The mode of communication of [octopi]: they become their linguistic intent. This repertoire of blushes, dots, stripes, traveling fields, color changes. And, then, because they are soft-bodied they can quickly reveal and conceal all parts of their body very quickly. So if you watch an octopus in communication its surface texture is changing, its color is changing, and it is hiding, and revealing—it’s dancing, and it’s a dance of pure meaning, perceived visually by the object of its intention, which is other octopi.
So, compare this for a moment to our method of communication. We use rapidly modulated small mouth noises. As primates we have incredible ability to make small mouth noises. We can do this for up to six hours at a stretch without tiring. No other thing we can do approaches the level of variation with low energy investment that the small mouth noises do. A person using a deaf-and-dumb language is exhausted after forty-five minutes. But a problem with the small mouth noises mode of communication is: I have a thought, I look in a dictionary that I have created out of my life experience, I map the thought onto the dictionary, I make the requisite small mouth noises, they cross physical space, they enter your ear, you look in your dictionary, which is different from my dictionary, but if we speak what we call ‘the same language’ it will be close enough that you will ‘sort of’ understand what I mean. Now if I don’t say to you, ‘what do I mean?’ you and I will go gaily off in the assumption that we understand each other.
But if I say to you “do you understand what I meant then” you say “yes, you meant that you don’t want to sit with Harry and Sally because their pending divorce makes you uncom”—I say “no, that’s not that I meant: I meant—” So there’s misunderstanding because the dictionaries are not matched. Now notice what’s happening with the octopi. There is no dictionary. Both parties are seeing the same thing because my body is my meaning. I become my meaning. And you behold the meaning I have become. I am like a naked thought. Not even a naked nervous-system. More naked than that. I am a naked thought, in aqueous space, unfolding in time. I maintain this is why octopi eject clouds of ink: it’s so they can have private thoughts. Because if you can be seen you can be understood. Well this is a perfect model, condoned by nature, for the kind of transformation we want to lead our culture toward.
And I don’t think it’s that outlandish. Our previous animal totems were chosen unconsciously and were rather unfortunate, I think: I take the totem of the 19th century to be, um, the horse, expressed as the steam engine. And the totemic animal of the 20th century is the raptor, the bird of prey, expressed as supersonic fighter aircraft, which is just, you know, the leanest, meanest machine you can get together these days. But these mammalian and avian images are too close to the rapacious heart of the primate inside us; embracing an image of the soul like that of the octopi is permission for a strange and alien kind of beauty to be let into our lives.
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Someone said language was invented to lie; well, in a way, that’s true, because of the problem of noncommunication. As soon as you have something to communicate there’re places where you don’t want the message to go, so this creates a very interesting problem. If I were twenty years old I would go into marine biology just to spend some time with [octopi].
from “A talk given at the invitation of Ruth and Arthur Young of the Berkeley Institute for the Study of Consciousness” (1984) collected in The Archaic Revival (1991)
We are not primarily biological, with mind emerging as a kind of iridescence, a kind of epiphenomenon at the higher levels of organization of biology. We are hyperspatial objects of some sort that cast a shadow onto matter. The shadow in matter is our physical organism.
At death, the thing that casts the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases. Material form breaks down; it ceases to be a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustained against entropy by cycling material in, extracting energy, and expelling waste. But the form that ordered it is not affected. These declarative statements are made from the point of view of the shamanic tradition, which touches all higher religions. Both the psychedelic dream state and the waking psychedelic state acquire great import because they reveal to life a task: to become familiar with this dimension that is causing being, in order to be familiar with it at the moment of passing from life.
The metaphor of a vehicle—an after-death vehicle, an astral body—is used by several traditions. Shamanism and certain yogas, including Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the pysche.
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History is the shock wave of eschatology. In other words, we are living in a very unique moment, ten or twenty thousand years long, where an immense transition is happening. The object at the end of and beyond history is the human species fused into eternal tantric union with the superconducting Overmind/UFO. It is that mystery that casts its shadow back through time. All religion, all philosophy, all wars, pogroms, and persecution happen because people do not get the message right. There is both the forward-flowing casuistry of being, causal determinism, and the interference pattern that is formed against that by the backward-flowing fact of this eschatological hyperobject throwing its shadow across the temporal landscape. We exist, yet there is a great deal of noise. This situation called history is totally unique; it will last only for a moment, it began a moment ago. In that moment there is a tremendous burst of static as the monkey goes to godhood,as the final eschatological object mitigates and transforms the forward flow of entropic circumstance.
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What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty toward what [Alfred North Whitehead] called “concrescence,” a tightening gyre. Everything is flowing together. The “autopoetic lapis,” the alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything flows together. When the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum, the monad, able to express itself for itself, rather than only able to cast a shadow into physis as its reflection. [...] It will be the entry of our species into hyperspace, but it will appear to be the end of physical laws accompanied by the release of the mind into the imagination. [...] As one closes distance with the eschatological object, the reflections it is throwing off resemble more and more the thing itself. In the final moment the Unspeakable stands revealed. There are no more reflections of the Mystery. The Mystery in all its nakedness is seen, and nothing else exists.
from Trialogues at the Edge of the West (1992)
When I look at human history, I see the accumulation of a sense of urgency long before anyone started worrying about ecocide or population. It’s almost as though the world soul is the thing that wants to live and, sensing instability, it is trying to build a lifeboat out of the clumsy material of protoplasm. The world soul may actually sense the finite life of the sun, and it may be trying to build a lifeboat for itself to cross to another star. How in the world can you cross to another star when the only material available is protoplasm? Well, it may take fifty million years, but there are strategies. They have to do with genetic languages, and with developing a creature who deals with matter through abstraction and analysis, eventually creating technology. This is all an enzymatically mediated process, a plan in the mind of the world soul to survive.
…why this increasing urgency, century after century? For fifteen thousand years, there has been increasing anxiety and the following of increasingly irrational chreodes. Only if there is a problem with the stability of the environment do the last ten thousand years of human history make any sense. This problem has created history as an evacuation, a frantic project to find a way out. That’s why things have been allowed to tear loose, to poison the oceans, to strip the continents. The world soul, I think, is in communication with us in the culminating moment of human history. Everything is being scripted for a purpose, and toward an end unglimpsed by us but tied up with the survival of everything.
from True Hallucinations (1992)
[Sand dunes] bear a resemblance to the force that created them, wind. It is as if each grain of sand were a bit inside the memory of a natural computer. The wind is the input that arranges the grains of sand so that they beam a lower-dimensional template of a higher-dimensional phenomenon, in this case the wind. There is nothing magical about this, and it does not seem mysterious to us: wind, a pressure that is variable in space. In my thinking, the genes of organisms are grains of sand arranged by the ebb and flow of the winds of time. Naturally, then, organisms bear the imprint of the inherent variables in the temporal medium in which they arose. DNA is the blank slate upon which the changing temporal variables have had their sequin and relative differences recorded. Any technique that saw into the energetic relationships within a living organism, such as yoga or the use of psychedelic plants, would also give a deep insight concerning the variable nature of time.
from Evolving Times (1995)
The way in which [the internet] will dissolve boundaries is by making us transparent. To each other. I mean, I can imagine a child of the future, we all bring home our drawings to stick on refrigerators, and things like that—in the future we won’t stick them on refrigerators, we will stick them in our website. And everything will go into our website. And by the time we’re 25, or something, our website will be the size of the American Museum of Natural History. And you can wander through it. And as a gesture of intimacy you can invite someone else to wander through it. Well that’s who you are—it’s your imagination. And, I think, in a sense, I’ve said, at times, that: The cultural enterprise is an effort to turn ourselves inside out. We want to put the body into the imagination, and we want the imagination to replace the laws of physics. With these technologies we can probably do that. But it’ll have to run on psychedelic design principles, or it’s certain to be a mess.
from True Conversations with Terence McKenna (1999)
“I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there.”
from The Last Interview (1999)
I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you’d have no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to people and hear what they have to say, it’s a kind of blessing. It’s certainly an opportunity to grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that you’re going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. [...] It makes life rich and poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears.
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When I think about dying, the thing that surprises me is how much of the future I regard as history, and how I don’t want to miss it. I want to know how it all comes out. I haven’t a lot of money riding on my vision of things, but I would like to know how the universe came to be, what’s up with extraterrestrials, where biotech is going, where the Internet is going, about robot/man space-flight to the outer planets. Because the next century will be it. We are on the brink of a posthuman existence, or we are into the early phase of the posthuman existence. So what’s it gonna look like? What’s it gonna feel like?
This post is part of Tao Lin Day. To read more posts in this series, click here.
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With each new season comes a new beginning, a renewed desire to pursue & achieve goals and a new collection of thoughts waiting to be shared with the world. New Regime has always been at the forefront when it came to perfecting the blend of music, art & fashion. The latest Spring/Summer 2013 Collection is no different and continues to embody the blend by using expert craftsmanship, cutting-edge design techniques and the latest materials.
Remaining on its path of exuding youthful confidence & rebellious individuality, the New Regime Spring/Summer 2013 Collection derives its inspiration from reminding us all to live life to the fullest. From their bomber jackets to their velcro strap-backs, patterned skirts & boldly descriptive tank tops and t-shirts, they continue to display their ability to make a seamless transition to the latest trends while leading the way and remaining unique. Check out the rest of the collection below.
I woke up this morning to find out that Nathan Fielder had come up with a hilarious new relationship-related prank last night as described in his Tweet below.
Here are some of the funnier (or disturbing) responses:
@nathanfielder well fuck. twitter.com/NotSoAir_Jorda…
— Jordan Sauceda (@NotSoAir_Jordan) May 29, 2013
@nathanfielder Rapid fire replies will not stop. And he knows I’m reading them. twitter.com/TLChace/status…
— Tracey (@TLChace) May 29, 2013
@nathanfielder 10 mins, 14 missed calls , and 8 texts later… Shes starting to jump to conclusions….. via.me/-cgg4x8w
— Brett Pfeiffer (@VANS_WESTLY) May 29, 2013
Thanks a lot @nathanfielder twitter.com/CurseOfBenitez…
— benitez ex machina (@CurseOfBenitez) May 29, 2013
@nathanfielder I think she’s mad..? twitter.com/SeanBarkerSt/s…
— Sean Barker (@SeanBarkerSt) May 29, 2013
@nathanfielder 15 minutes until my life was threatened twitter.com/patwlo/status/…
— Patrick W (@patwlo) May 29, 2013
And what prank wouldn’t be complete without an example of it going completely wrong?
@nathanfielder thought it’d be funny but now I completely regret it. 2 years down the drain. twitter.com/david_p_pina/s…
— David Pina (@david_p_pina) May 29, 2013
If you’re brave (or crazy), feel free to repeat this prank with your significant other and post a link to a screen cap of the conversation in the comment section.
Disclaimer: SBM or its affiliates will not accept blame or responsibility for any ensuing break-ups. On the bright side, if your relationship ends from a simple prank it probably wasn’t that strong to begin with. Additionally, I’m sure we have plenty of eligible bachelors and bachelorettes among our readers willing to be your rebound – assuming, of course, you’re attractive.
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Hot on the heels of the ASICS Gel Lyte V OG comes this "Brasil" colorway of the same model. This bright colorway features a green suede and micro mesh upper with a yellow tongue, yellow and blue heel and a yellow lining. The midsole is predominantly white with hits of blue on the heel. A particularly nice touch is the gum rubber outsole. Look for this shoe to reach select stockists soon.
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AO Studios have designed the interior of an apartment in Bishan Town, Singapore.
From AO Studios
There are obvious advantages to being in the design profession when it comes to renovating a home and it made all the difference for an architect’s new home in Bishan Town, located in central Singapore. The main priority, like many other Singaporean homes, was to enlarge the feeling of the spaces in the apartment and ensure that it was spacious, free flowing and clutter free.
Having the advantage of a third bedroom which was not needed at present, the dining room was moved into the spare room. Unlike the usual practice of breaking down walls to incorporate an open concept dining and living area, no walls were broken down here as the couple preferred a large isolated living room to entertain guests and for movie nights. However, in order to fit a six-seater dining table, chairs and bookshelf into the spare room, space-saving ideas would have to be incorporated ingeniously.
To accommodate the dining room basics and also allow for better usage of space, a portion of the partition walls between the new dining room and guest room was removed. This was to accommodate a three-way sliding door system which was designed to allow the dining room and guest room to be more easily accessible with a larger entryway and to create a conducive social area for the couple to entertain in. The new and improved sliding door system also allows for an added illusion of space for both rooms while still allowing each room to maintain exclusivity when required. When guest stays over, the three-way sliding door ensures that the guest bedroom serves its purpose and stays private. It also allows the guest room to combine with the dining room to create an extended living space for the room.
An extensive feature wall that conceals the service areas and flows right through the home binds the spaces while creating a seamless language with light wood grain finishes. All the original swing doors were also replaced with pocket sliding panels that hides away when not in use. This space-saving solution also means that less room is taken up by the opening and closing of doors, thereby giving the home a voluminous vibe.
The whole idea was to devise a series of sliding door panels throughout the apartment so that the home could be segregated into different sections when it is needed. Compartmentalising the living room and other spaces is a perfect way to minimise wastage when the air-conditioning is switched on to minimize energy consumption. However, most of the time the living and circulation spaces in this 1300 square feet apartment just flows into one another providing clutter free spaces which boast minimal fuss.
Designer: AO Studios
Photography: Alvin Oh
The saga continues with the newest colorway from the ASICS Gel Lyte collection. Using the iconic Gel Lyte III, the sneaker is dressed with a clean white, black and neon upper using a fusion of mesh and smooth synthetics. Staying true to its craft, ASICS features the signature split tongue and GEL cushioning. To accentuate the sneaker even more, subtle accents of infrared are found on the underlay. These sneakers are available now via the KITH NYC online store for $120 USD.
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Horst Architects have designed Hotel Seven4One in Laguna Beach, California.
From the architects
This thirteen room boutique hotel in Laguna Beach, California, was recently renovated and remodeled by the local firm of Horst Architects. The project reflects a forward-looking, contemporary design aesthetic while at the same time, a contextual response to Laguna Beach’s historic cottage aesthetic, such as the adjacent historic Orange Inn which was established in 1931.
The facade is composed of reclaimed wood, Corten steel and a two-story green wall. The reclaimed wood was salvaged from buildings being demolished in east LA which were built in the early 1900′s. Corten steel adds both an earthly quality and the patina of time. The two-story green wall reflects the ardent hills that embrace this seaside community, as well as an interest in sustainability among its residents.
Architect: Horst Architects
Photographer: Aris Iliopulos
Keith Interior Design & M2K Architecture have designed a privately owned penthouse apartment in the One&Only Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa.
Description
This privately owned penthouse apartment is found on top of the One&Only Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa. It has uninterrupted views of the famous Table mountain, as well as Table Bay, and is housed on two levels of approximately 1365m2. The top floor contains the entertainment area with living and dining spaces, descending on to a large deck with an infinity edge swimming pool and barbeque area. The lower floor comprises 4 bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, as well as a TV lounge, study and children’s area. It has been designed with a contemporary feel and a neutral palette, with occasional accents of colour. Timber paneling throughout the apartment creates a backdrop for subtle patterns and textures found in the drapery and upholstered items. Furniture was purchased in Europe as well as locally in South Africa.
Interior Design / Interior Architecture: Keith Interior Design & M2K Architecture
clavienrossier architectes have designed the Two in one House located in Geneva, Switzerland.
From the architects
The site is located on the edge of a residential zone on the outskirts of Geneva, flanked on its southern border by a forest and opening out to fields to the west. It sits right on the line between the city and nature.
The building, backed by a paved access ramp, is placed in the north east corner of the site. The space between the building and the forest allows for a swimming pool and a large open garden.
The program includes two apartments of differing size, a continuous party wall separates the two.
A pitched roof over a diamond shaped plan, allows each apartment to have its own orientation. This distinct geometry allows for a greater degree of privacy for the residents and when viewed from the outside, gives the impression of a single unit.
The split geometry of the facades makes it difficult to get a grasp of the real size of the building, giving each individual facade a more domestic scale.
The exterior envelope of the building is entirely composed of integrally-coloured concrete, including the roof. Loggias built out of larch, perforate the facade and the roof of the building.
The building conforms to very high energy standards.
Architects: clavienrossier architectes
Photography: Roger Frei
David Barr & Ross Brewin have designed the Suburban Beach House in Perth, Australia.
From the architects
A residence for a young couple and their future family. The project is conceived of as a combination of the humble qualities of a West-Australian beach shack and the climatic and underside-utility benefits of a Queenslander.
The house is lofted above a natural limestone outcrop which becomes a shaded garden terrain below the belly of the home above. The plan of the house is rationally divided into day and night zones with the separating corridor fattening at one end to become a study nook. West facing windows are minimised to shield the house from the searing afternoon sun. This ‘blankness’ is regulated by two ‘flicks’ in the wall, one opening toward the south-west to scoop in the ‘Fremantle doctor’ for cooling and the other towards the north to frame a view up the coast and to monitor the driveway below.
A generous outdoor room to the north-west capitalises on panoramic views of the Indian Ocean. A small room is tucked under the house at the rear, providing a flexible space that could be a 4th bedroom, back-yard pavilion, home office, or games room. Overall, it is a residence that challenges the conventions of detached housing in Perth: small, lifted above the ground, no front door, no garage, no front fence, no brick… a beach house in the suburbs.
Architects: David Barr and Ross Brewin
Photography: Robert Frith
Republika Architektury have designed a 180 m2 apartment for rent located on the top floor in the high end building not far from the city center of Warsaw, Poland.
From the architects
From the apartment one can enjoy the best views in town. It is overlooking the Vistula River and the National Stadium on one side and the Old Town and The University of Warsaw Library on the other.
The main aim was to create a luxury, spacious and ageless space with a feeling of warmth and tranquility.
To achieve this we decided to combine clear lines and simplicity of form with timeless materials: oak floors, carrara marble, silk wallpapers , natural veneers and leathers.
The earth tone colour palette was enriched through navy blue and orange accents.
The apartment is filled with the world’s finest in contemporary furniture and lighting.
Architects: Republika Architektury
k_m architektur have designed a house in Weinfelden, Switzerland.
Architects: k_m architektur
Photography: Sabrina Scheja
First introduced earlier this spring, Nike's Free Alt Closure Run returns for an early summer drop in a brand new Medium Grey/Black-Metallic Silver colorway. Pairing a slip-on grey upper of diamond mesh with a low-profile Free 4.0 sole in white, the kicks see an Air Kukini-inspired gel webbing overlay throughout while BRS 1000 carbon rubber is applied to the outsole for added durability. The "Medium Grey" edition of the Nike Free Alt Closure Run can be had online now for €134 EUR (approximately $173 USD).
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Though not as heralded as the likes of its Gel Lyte III and Gel Saga counterparts, the Gel Lyte V from ASICS represents an advancement over both thanks in part to an evolution in the brand's signature GEL cushioning as well as the silhouette's use of a foot-hugging inner sleeve. Now, the Japanese footwear label is set to resurrect the classic 1993 release with the upcoming return of the ASICS Gel Lyte V OG. Decked out in a combination of white mesh and matching suede, the kicks sport contrasting black branding while the shoe's minty green and deep purple accents stay true to the zeitgeist of early '90s running aesthetics. A surefire hit, the retro ASICS Gel Lyte V OG is due out this fall.
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Kobe Bryant's former signature, now dubbed the adidas Crazy 8, is back in a shimmering new colorway as part of the "Oil Spill" pack. Featuring a mix of black, vivid pink, and run white, this latest colorway is the craziest yet for the late '90s silhouette. The iridescent upper features green, pink and purple hues and changes depending on how the light catches it. Paired with the black and white Feet You Wear sole, this bold shoe promises to back up its looks with serious performance on the court. Look for the shoe now at select stockists including Boston's Concepts.
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Jhene Aiko unleashes brand new music in the form of the track “Comfort Inn Ending.” Produced by No I.D., it’s unclear whether or not the record will appear on Aiko’s Def Jam debut, Souled Out, which is slated for release some time this year.
Somebody get Morgan Freeman some coffee! There are only so many early morning interviews a 75-year-old man can handle.
This week, while making press rounds for his latest movie, “Now You see Me,” Morgan was caught nodding off on live TV during an interview with Fox News. While his co-star Michael Caine was answering a question about the film’s special effects, Morgan appeared to fall into a deep sleep, however moments later he woke up and jumped right back into the conversation.
Before you get the giggles, just know that Mr. Freeman wasn’t really sleeping after all. He’s up on some new technology that no one has access to.
After the video went viral, he released a statement to E! News saying:
I wasn’t actually sleeping, I’m a beta tester for Google Eyelids. I was merely updating my Facebook page.
His “Google Eyelids” statement is a play off of Google’s latest development, “Google Glass, a device which allows users to update their social networks through a pair of glasses and access the internet through voice commands.
Good comeback!
Due for a release this July are two new colorways of the Air Jordan 1 Mid silhouette. First up is a black/gym red - anthracite colorway a predominantly black leather upper with red ankle straps and Swoosh all sitting firmly atop a white midsole. Second is the white/fire red - true blue - cement grey colorway which takes on a patriotic red,white and blue theme with the addition of Jordan Brand's iconic elephant print. Both colorways will retail for $105 USD when they hit stockists this July.
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With summer camp just around the corner, Nike preps for yet another season as the on-field apparel provider for the NFL with the special QuickStrike release of three Air Trainer SC IIs dipped in team colorways. Currently available in Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars colors, each model is specifically designed to enable its wearer to reach peak athletic performance during workouts and training sessions, where results may dictate whether or not one plays or watches from home. Specifications start with a full-grain perforated leather upper for a premium fit, then move to a large stabilizing support strap at the lateral medial sides and a PU midsole for lightweight cushioning. Its sole incorporates an impact absorbing Air Max unit as well as a waffle outsole for traction on a variety of surfaces. Coinciding with brand new uniforms for all three squads, the trio of Air Trainer SC II drops is now available online for $110 USD each.
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No, it isn't a reference to Seinfeld - when Sneakersnstuff was tapped by Reebok to follow-up its "Crocus" edition of the Question Mid, the Sweden-based crew simply liked the Red/Aqua/White color combination it came up with, hence its "A Shoe About Nothing" moniker. Featuring a premium suede upper, the summer collaboration sees the mid-top with a predominately minty aqua colorway as red hits the mudguard, heel, and rubber outsole alongside additional white accents throughout. Adopting a red "SNS" logo on the tongue, the kicks see additional mint hits on the Vector logo, "Q" logo, and the honeycomb of the Hexalite cushioning. "A Shoe About Nothing" is due to be available in-store and online from SNS beginning May 29 for $139 USD.
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Here we get a look at one of the most recent styles of Nike’s popular and super clean Flyknit Chukka. This latest one sports a wolf grey and black upper with a red swoosh and accents along with a white Lunar sole. Look for it now at retailers including Overkill.
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pic and info: Overkill
