It is 5 AM and I am still at work from the previous day. I’m very tired (thanks allergies!) and consequently a bit loopy. ‘Just how loopy?’ you might ask. Loopy enough to explore blacksocks.com. Blacksocks.com is all about socks (okay, and underwear). More specifically its a subscription (I’m sorry – sockscription) for black (not white) socks. More on this life-changing service after the jump.
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Basketball! So hot right now, right? Between LeBron ruling the court ‘Xander the Great-style and overall Nuggets pandemonium, the NBA Playoffs might just be the only thing the world has going for it right now. And 2009’s must-have on-court accessory? Besides throat tats? Awesome shoes! Lucky for sneakerphiles everywhere, shoe blog NiceKicks does a nice feature called Kicks On Court that documents the high-tops donned by the likes of Kobe, LeBron, and Melo (above, in custom colorway Jordan Melo M5s). But unless you’ve got a contact in Beaverton, copping a pair for youself could be as hard as a Birdman flagrant.
Imagine a young woman from the late 80s with a dream, and not just any dream, a dream to sell super amazing hats in an array of colors with a zipper pocket on the front to hold whatever it was your heart desired. Now imagine all of those super amazing hats sitting in storage, because the people of 1987 clearly weren’t ready for their awesomeness. Sad, isn’t it. Well, lucky for us, these hats have a new marketer, Jessica Aceti. The Cap-Sac was created by her mom with the idea of freeing your hands, and your fanny, by placing a pocket on the front of the hat.
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Real men (okay, and women) know that flowers are badass. If you see an old dude walking down the street with one clipped to his lapel you know you are watching someone of the old school. If you have some displayed in your crappy apartment it shows that you appreciate the beautiful even if you can’t afford the DWR lifestyle. Vases however are not badass. In general they are overpriced Crate and Barrel ‘art’ that inspire you to not buy it. So all you 20-somethings (or older) out there may be interested in Vaze, inexpensive vases made out of plastic that stablize once you put water in it. They can be pressed flat when empty, so storage and moving is a non-issue, and at 5 bucks a pop, who cares if you lose one anyway?
I spotted LoDown Magazine for the first time in Switzerland at the Zurich Airport. After wrapping up an unreal snowboarding trip, and not looking forward to the 14+ hours of traveling ahead, I was in need of a new magazine. Scanning over the shelves I spotted the rad looking chrome skull on the cover of LoDown’s 65th issue titled, Recess the Future. This issue included content on Clive Owen, Keiichi Nitta, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Charles Darwin, Bowling with Dree Hemingway, C.S.I. Color, Sex, Incoherent, Know1edge, and even more things that seemed pretty random and out of the ordinary.
Even though I hadn’t heard much of the content, the German magazine seemed
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As a small child, I owned a turtle. Due to my overwhelming love for Gremlins, I named him Gizmo. There was two problems with this. One, Gizmo turned out to be a girl. And two, She-Gizmo ran away.
As you might imagine, having your pet turtle run away at the tender age of seven is the most tragic/humiliating thing to have happen to a young boy.
Somehow, I’d like to think that the Reebok Pump Omni Light (Mogwai) is some sort of elegy to my assumed-late turtle. If she were still around, I’d hum her The Sorry Song for being so irresponsible. And for giving her a boy’s name.
I Heart Guts was founded in 2005 by an illustrator with an obsession for internal organs. After depicting the happiness and/or unhappiness of her own organs in little sketches, she decided it was time to do a little more with her guts. You can now find an array of her colorful guts on t-shirts, buttons, and my personal favorite, plushies. We’re talking bright and furry hearts, stomachs, livers, spleens, intestines with accompanying appendixes, and so many more. Not to mention the recalled Uterus,
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When I was little my grandparents would have these massive dinners on Jewish holidays. As if setting the table weren’t bad enough, I now had to place fish forks and bread knives. I can’t imagine any kid would eat a four course meal with such regularity that they would remember the instructions of fancy table setting. Honestly, as an adult I have no clue (other than the first instruction of search google), and setting the table still sucks. Its a good thing that the world now has the FunFam Table Manners Set, which is from Japan in case you didn’t already deduce that. Its 200 bucks for a full table setting and I want four.
Well, look at this shit right here. In an awful, awful world that pretty much teeters on an economy built upon toenail clippings, pig flu, and Kim Kardashian, somebody decided to do something really nice for the world and invented Starburst FaveREDS. So as you sit and cry about not being able to go to Mexico for the next decade (remember, there’s this too), bury your sorrows in what I promise all of you is Barack Obama’s favorite candy (because it is perfect, like he is [and Bo]). Look at it as a diabetic’s greatest hits: cherry, strawberry, fruit punch, and watermelon Starburts, all in one pack. It’s actually the best thing ever.
And that’s the story of how this blog started accepting advertisers.
These wires are far more happy to be holding these badass prints. That’s right, it’s not what they are really made for. Ikea, of course, makes this incredible curtain wire system called the Dignitet. The packages are sold in store and online for only $14.99, which includes two end brackets, and 196 inches of wire. You can also buy a middle bracket for $3.99 if you need extra support. I set my first wire up with Will on Sunday, which took a bit of time seeing that anchoring it into the drywall took a few extra steps.
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Andy Warhol is iconic, love him or hate him his artwork is known world wide as one of the top players in defining 20th century art. Not many people are familiar with his films though. This might be largely due to the fact that the first authorized DVD of films by Andy Warhol was just released. Before this they could only be seen in exhibitions at galleries, museums, maybe the occasional university, or bootlegged. Now the Andy Warhol Museum (the gaurdians of his work) have released 13 of his silent film portraits out of the 500 that he made between 1964 and 1966 called 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests.
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What do Jeremyville, Genevieve Gauckler, Barry McGee, Jeff Canham, and Michael Leon have in common?
A) They are fantastic arists with fun, accesible styles.
B) They all have shirts available from 2ktshirts.
C) It is written.
D) All of the above.
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