HolyZapatos Chicago

I update once every six months...

2009-06-01T13:11:00.000-07:00

PEACHES!

Anyone in for Miami?

2009-06-01T13:03:00.000-07:00

Mike's Doin it BIG .

PETE! YOUR FIRED!

2009-06-01T12:56:00.000-07:00

I HAVE BEEN BUSY... Twista x Cool Kids x Skooda coming as soon as we're done with the legal shit

Boxed Water IS Better...

2009-06-01T12:53:00.000-07:00

www.thebrilliance.com
and congratulations to all of you over talented motherfuckers...

And you are... ?

2009-06-01T12:46:00.000-07:00

Uprise is doin it...

UPRISE TOP SHOP ROADTRIP 09 from Mike Ferstle on Vimeo.

Familia is doin it...

The Familia Video PROMO from Familia Skateshop on Vimeo.

Me in Belize

2009-02-18T07:19:00.000-08:00

CONFECTION, Group show at O.H.W.O.W, Miami

2009-02-10T07:47:00.000-08:00

CONFECTION
Charity Bake Sale / Art Exhibition
February 13, 2009
Curated By Pres Rodriguez
O.H.W.O.W
3100 NW 7 Avenue / Miami / Florida / 33127,

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.- Leslie Moak Murray

Pres Rodriguez brings the local artistic community together in this one-of-a-kind Charity Bake Sale / Art Exhibition to benefit the Daily Bread Food Bank

Jim Drain
Aranzazu Gayoso
Michael Genovese
Jason Hedges
Alvaro Ilizarbe
Susan Lee-Chun
Nick D. Lobo
Justin Long
Lee Materazzi
Hugo Montoya
Bert Rodriguez
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
TM Sisters
Jen Stark
Jonathan Thomas
Kyle Trowbridge

With a slew of surprises in store, this bake sale will be anything but what you have experienced at the local church. Live performances by Waterford Landing, Remote Controllers (DJ Healer and Chris Video) and Dino Felipe. Come one, come all and definitely come hungry!

Wow..

2009-01-27T16:37:00.000-08:00

Word... stole from Neal...

Apropos as a motherfucker...

Leibowitzed

2008-12-22T09:22:00.000-08:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/Mallon-t.html?_r=1&ref=design

2008-12-14T13:16:00.000-08:00

Scandinavian utopia rearing its ugly head again

Es so se que es....

2008-12-07T12:16:00.000-08:00

AWESOME
Jackson, this is what you're going to Oaxaca for right? Link is the picture.

Good Lawd!

2008-12-07T11:46:00.001-08:00

I can't decide if this is disgusting, or the most amazing thing on the planet. I guess I'd really like to know if this guy is a complete melvin or someone who is setting the bar for all of us fake-life consumers. Still pretty mind boggling either way.
Link: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Stolen from THEBRILLIANCE.com
Congratulations Virgil on all those new endeavors coming up with Pastelle!

Venus Project

2008-11-12T12:23:00.001-08:00

Interesting

New Zeitgeist... I mean Confessions of An Economic Hit Man for the illiterate...

2008-11-12T12:19:00.000-08:00

2008-11-12T12:18:00.001-08:00

2008-11-02T17:57:00.001-08:00

2008-10-26T10:01:00.001-07:00

i dont even know what to say

2008-09-29T23:23:00.001-07:00

ALBUM OF THE YEAR. (anti lizard)

2008-09-28T19:49:00.000-07:00

do yourself a favor and don't look at that album cover. its very angry, very anti-lizard, paranoid music. probably because he was about to go to prison for a few years (in prison now). anyway, most of the beats sound like john carpenter music. very good.

http://rapidshare.com/files/109722559/Prodigy_-_HNIC_Part_2.zip

bonus quiz:
Q: Who do you think PRODIGY hates more?

a. JEWS
b. COPS
c. BLACKS
d. OBAMA
e. trick question (hate them all)

PS. DON'T VOTE

P.P.S. I spoke to a man from NASA today.

posted by
YUNG NEEDILS

Seeee... What had happened wuuuzzz...

2008-09-25T12:18:00.001-07:00

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with
a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has
had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800
billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be
most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you
may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement
in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the
funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in
the names of our close friends because we are constantly under
surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a
reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account
numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbailout@ treasury. gov so that we may transfer your commission
for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond
with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect
the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

Dzienkuje! Mike Genovese, Chicago

2008-09-23T18:04:00.000-07:00

Black Swan Wines present
Live music by Maverick (Blue Line performance artist)
Musical Intermissions by Big Tony Janda
Street food from local Elotes Carts
Live jump rope performances

Saturday, September 27
7-10pm

1552 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor
Wicker Park, Chicago

Complimentary wine will be served courtesy of Black Swan Wines of Australia

You MUST be 21 and over to enter. This invite is good for you and one guest and is non-transferable. Black Swan Australian Table Wine, ©2008 Barossa Valley Importers, Healdsburg and Modesto, CA. USA All rights reserved.

RSVP

OBAMA V. BARTLET by Aaron Sorkin

2008-09-22T21:54:00.001-07:00

BARACK OBAMA knocks on the front door of a 300-year-old New Hampshire farmhouse while his Secret Service detail waits in the driveway. The door opens and OBAMA is standing face to face with former President JED BARTLET.

BARTLET Senator.

OBAMA Mr. President.

BARTLET You seem startled.

OBAMA I didn’t expect you to answer the door yourself.

BARTLET I didn’t expect you to be getting beat by John McCain and a Lancôme rep who thinks “The Flintstones” was based on a true story, so let’s call it even.

OBAMA Yes, sir.

BARTLET Come on in.

BARTLET leads OBAMA into his study.

BARTLET That was a hell of a convention.

OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it.

BARTLET I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was surprised to learn that I don’t like small towns, God, people with jobs or America. I’ve been a little out of touch but is there a mandate that the vice president be skilled at field dressing a moose —

OBAMA Look —

BARTLET — and selling Air Force Two on eBay?

OBAMA Joke all you want, Mr. President, but it worked.

BARTLET Imagine my surprise. What can I do for you, kid?

OBAMA I’m interested in your advice.

BARTLET I can’t give it to you.

OBAMA Why not?

BARTLET I’m supporting McCain.

OBAMA Why?

BARTLET He’s promised to eradicate evil and that was always on my “to do” list.

OBAMA O.K. —

BARTLET And he’s surrounded himself, I think, with the best possible team to get us out of an economic crisis. Why, Sarah Palin just said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” Can you spot the error in that statement?

OBAMA Yes, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac aren’t funded by taxpayers.

BARTLET Well, at least they are now. Kind of reminds you of the time Bush said that Social Security wasn’t a government program. He was only off by a little — Social Security is the largest government program.

OBAMA I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.

BARTLET Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.

OBAMA Which was?

BARTLET A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.

OBAMA And?

BARTLET I was.

OBAMA I mean, how did you overcome that?

BARTLET I won’t lie to you, being fictional was a big advantage.

OBAMA What do you mean?

BARTLET I’m a fictional president. You’re dreaming right now, Senator.

OBAMA I’m asleep?

BARTLET Yes, and you’re losing a ton of white women.

OBAMA Yes, sir.

BARTLET I mean tons.

OBAMA I understand.

BARTLET I didn’t even think there were that many white women.

OBAMA I see the numbers, sir. What do they want from me?

BARTLET I’ve been married to a white woman for 40 years and I still don’t know what she wants from me.

OBAMA How did you do it?

BARTLET Well, I say I’m sorry a lot.

OBAMA I don’t mean your marriage, sir. I mean how did you get America on your side?

BARTLET There again, I didn’t have to be president of America, I just had to be president of the people who watched “The West Wing.”

OBAMA That would make it easier.

BARTLET You’d do very well on NBC. Thursday nights in the old “ER” time slot with “30 Rock” as your lead-in, you’d get seven, seven-five in the demo with a 20, 22 share — you’d be selling $450,000 minutes.

OBAMA What the hell does that mean?

BARTLET TV talk. I thought you’d be interested.

OBAMA I’m not. They pivoted off the argument that I was inexperienced to the criticism that I’m — wait for it — the Messiah, who, by the way, was a community organizer. When I speak I try to lead with inspiration and aptitude. How is that a liability?

BARTLET Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.

OBAMA You’re saying race doesn’t have anything to do with it?

BARTLET I wouldn’t go that far. Brains made me look arrogant but they make you look uppity. Plus, if you had a black daughter —

OBAMA I have two.

BARTLET — who was 17 and pregnant and unmarried and the father was a teenager hoping to launch a rap career with “Thug Life” inked across his chest, you’d come in fifth behind Bob Barr, Ralph Nader and a ficus.

OBAMA You’re not cheering me up.

BARTLET Is that what you came here for?

OBAMA No, but it wouldn’t kill you.

BARTLET Have you tried doing a two-hour special or a really good Christmas show?

OBAMA Sir —

BARTLET Hang on. Home run. Right here. Is there any chance you could get Michelle pregnant before the fall sweeps?

OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry?

BARTLET Well ... let me think. ...We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than it was eight years ago, we’ve lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know ... I’m a little angry.

OBAMA What would you do?

BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!

OBAMA Good to get that off your chest?

BARTLET Am I keeping you from something?

OBAMA Well, it’s not as if I didn’t know all of that and it took you like 20 minutes to say.

BARTLET I know, I have a problem, but admitting it is the first step.

OBAMA What’s the second step?

BARTLET I don’t care.

OBAMA So what about hope? Chuck it for outrage and put-downs?

BARTLET No. You’re elite, you can do both. Four weeks ago you had the best week of your campaign, followed — granted, inexplicably — by the worst week of your campaign. And you’re still in a statistical dead heat. You’re a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren’t the same thing and you’re in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax heroine. To these aged eyes, Senator, that’s what progress looks like. You guys got four debates. Get out of my house and go back to work.

OBAMA Wait, what is it you always used to say? When you hit a bump on the show and your people were down and frustrated? You’d give them a pep talk and then you’d always end it with something. What was it ...?

BARTLET “Break’s over.”

"McCain 08---Doesn't everybody love tits and guns?"

2008-09-04T08:55:00.000-07:00

Fuck it... I like this bitch. You wanna draw a line in the sand for the upcoming revolution? Cool... We get the cities, and Bitches like these can move out to Alaska... Keep popping out trashy, illiterate children that they brainwash into believing that the neo-cons care about something other than how much money you're making for them... When Obama gets assassinated, Bitches like this better have some real remote property because the rest of the world isn't ever going to forgive your manipulative, deceitful rhetoric. The price of freedom is death.... But we're taking you with us Judas.

SWING YA RAG

2008-08-31T13:20:00.000-07:00

T.I. is back with perhaps the best product placement track of 4Q 2008, the Swizz Beats produced "Swing Ya Rag". Its a great match, pairing the bankable thug appeal of T.I. (presumably not T.I.P.) with such mainstay fashion brands as Louis Vuitton and Gucci. In this video by the seemingly intrusive Rollingout.com, T.I. explains the inspiration behind the track and reveals a few different ways to accessorize with your new Louis or Gucci Rag™. If you want the mp3 it you can easily find it on iTunes or any other downloading service.

Buy your Gucci Rags™ here:
Bluefly.com

I might cop this Dior Rag™.

BABA BRENDAN

Is it just me? Or is this getting more and more relevant?

2008-08-28T17:17:00.000-07:00

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2008-07-22T08:19:00.000-07:00

MICHAEL GENOVESE. CHG. CULTURAL CENTER PEDWAY PROJECT

2008-06-25T21:12:00.000-07:00

***ENDS THIS SATURDAY***
>INFO

2008-06-13T16:01:00.001-07:00

crazy...

2008-06-10T15:51:00.001-07:00

2008-05-15T09:04:00.001-07:00

Chromeo - Fancy Footwork from Chromeo1 on Vimeo.

2008-05-15T09:03:00.001-07:00

Go See Mike...

2008-05-08T16:50:00.000-07:00

Chicago Cultural Center, Lower Level

2008-05-08T16:43:00.000-07:00

YUP

2008-05-03T09:34:00.000-07:00

This is the first thing I thought when I heard this story on NPR... How is this not plain ole common sense? Is there really no way to hold these people accountable?

Orphan Works Bill

2008-05-02T07:37:00.000-07:00

Get ready to get scared... You ready to pay Microsoft and Google 1 dollar for every piece of art you create?

http://www.petitiononline.com/dAvsOW/

http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/orphan_works_information.mp3

FOX HAT

2008-04-30T23:53:00.000-07:00

Wiley is back, this time he decided he wanted to make a Bodyrox sounding British club track because nobody cares about grime anymore. I like it.

This video is amusing for a few reasons, including the following:

1. looks like most of the budget went to manufacture fox masks
2. toyota corollas
3. amusing to see people other than myself eat trash
4. i can imagine some of these scenes enacted in my alley

BRENDAN

2008-04-05T10:28:00.001-07:00

2008-04-05T10:24:00.001-07:00

Arch Bishop Nickerz...

2008-04-05T09:00:00.000-07:00

Long over due... Click the Illustration...

Ohhh Snap! It's Dizzying Socio Economic Lane Changing...

2008-04-05T08:54:00.000-07:00

Who knew Bruce was so cool? Sam, when are you coming down?

Sorry Mike

2008-04-05T08:33:00.000-07:00

This show opened last night... I missed it, but you should go check it out...

Michael Genovese
“We All We Got…”
Packer-Schopf Gallery
Layers of neon pink and green paper painted with bold letters are plastered over
the gallery wall like flyers that accumulate on urban buildings or discount signs at
grocery stores. These attention-grabbing colors, created from unmixed sign paint, draw
the viewer to concise yet open-ended, multilingual thoughts about society. Zora Neale
Hurston’s observation, “All my skin folk ain’t all my kin folk,” and the artist’s own
mantra, “We all we got,” are written in Korean, Urdu, German, French, Spanish, Polish,
and Bosnian on these humble posters. In the engravings displayed nearby, the two quotes
reappear alongside further social commentary and unknown names tangled within
baroque patterning. Where the signs are bright, outgoing, spontaneous, and fragile, the
intricate engravings on tar-colored sign substrate are dark, inward, laborious, and
relatively permanent. While the signs evoke grassroots advertising, the engravings evoke
dangerous and secret forms of expression, such as scratchings on trains and buses, in
bathroom stalls, or on desks at the back of a classroom. Executed during his residency at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (January 15–February 24, 2008), these textbased
works draw on familiar modes of communication encountered at stores or on the
street in order to capture contemporary voices.
To better record language that is alive, Genovese created this set of signs and engravings
in collaboration with visitors and staff at the MCA. Avoiding static dictionary definitions,
he enlisted native speakers at the museum to translate the phrases he ultimately painted
on neon posters. Likewise, the intricate engravings produced during this residency were
built up from messages carved by museumgoers. Because of his insistence on a human
element in his work, Genovese’s interaction with everyday life as art has a sincerity that
is lacking in the innovative contributions of Marcel Duchamp and Pop Art to this terrain.
While Duchamp appropriated ordinary objects, Genovese, informed by his prior career as
a specialty sign painter and sign contractor, creates his pieces with his own hands. While
Pop artists tended to aestheticize the vernacular, Genovese’s work is grounded more in a
collaborative process than in an aesthetic. Genovese effectively resurrects Josef Beuys’
conception of “social sculpture”—whereby social interaction is a work of art and every
person is an artist—without the utopian promise Beuys championed. Though his works
often involve painting, then, it is clear that Genovese’s medium is not strictly paint, nor is
it simply industrial sign materials; he also works with the abstract media of language and
human interaction.
--
Aron Packer
Packer Schopf Gallery
942 W. Lake
Chicago, IL 60607
312.226.8984
http://www.aronpacker.com

2008-04-05T08:28:00.000-07:00

Good Thrasher interview with Chuck D

Chef Rykwon and Snickerdoodles Done it Again...

2008-04-05T07:37:00.000-07:00

That's that ass MCCAIN!

Boondocks never aired episodes about BET...

2008-04-04T16:52:00.001-07:00

Forgot to post these when they came out.

2008-04-04T16:51:00.001-07:00

2008-03-28T06:31:00.001-07:00

OBAMA MOTHA FUCKING RAMA IN THE BUILDING

2008-03-28T06:20:00.000-07:00

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Mumia Abu Jamal Sundays

2008-03-09T19:03:00.000-07:00

2008-03-08T11:26:00.001-08:00

CHICAGO ARTIST RISK UNVEILS A LOCALITY ART ATTRACTION IN UKRAINIAN VILLAGE

2008-02-28T09:03:00.000-08:00

CHICAGO ARTIST RISK UNVEILS A LOCALITY ART ATTRACTION IN UKRAINIAN VILLAGE

Chicago--Enjoy a night of neighborhood art, refreshments and Italian fare at Piccolo, 859 N. Damen at Iowa in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village. Artist Erik DeBat aka RISK will unveil a recent large-scale urban painting installation accompanied by some of his minimalist aerosol can sculptures.

The Saturday March 8th, reception of “Slow Roll” by RISK will be from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. and is set to run through summer 2008. RISK will be updating the current work, which has been on display since the grand opening of Piccolo last summer, with newer paintings and photographs from his art catalog.

Piccolo is a streamlined walk-through neighborhood corner shop, and is the recent venture of Phil McFarland and Ty Fujimura, who are the brains behind the Chicago Lava Lounge and Small Bars. Piccolo specialties are the paninis, Italian subs, soups, salads, busschettas, and they are said to have some of the most flavorful gelatos in town.

Along with the clean design the open layout of Piccolo’s space, McFarland and Fujimura chose to invite local artist Erik DeBat aka RISK to create a site-specific art installation, throughout their large open shop with ample stretch of wall space.

RISK, the Chicago painter and designer began his career on Chicago’s rapid transit lines in the early 1980s, joining in the then underground sub-culture of graffiti art and hip-hop. RISK was among the first wave of talented Chicago urban artists to make their transition from the streets and begin to exhibit and sell their paintings in galleries.

Throughout the late 80s RISK began seriously working on commissions for interior designers and private collectors. He met and painted with the late pop artist Keith Haring in 1989, while working on a mural project in conjunction with Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Cultural Center’s then budding arts program Gallery 37.

In the 90s, RISK attended School Of the Art Institute Of Chicago where he studied graphic design, collage, photography and painting. Manufactured two street ware lines which he and partners exported to Japan and sold throughout the U.S., RISK continues to make his art, work on private commissions, and produce limited edition designs from his studio in Chicago’s North Lakeview.

Guest DJ’s will be spinning assortment of low-key rhythms, appetizers and refreshments will be served throughout the evening. For more info on Piccolo call 773-772-3355 or go to www.piccolochicago.com. For more info on artist Erik DeBat aka RISK contact him at riskone@earthlink.net or go to www.erikdebat.com.

“Slow Roll” Art Installation by Chicago artist Erik DeBat aka RISK
Piccolo, 859 N. Damen at Iowa in Ukrainian Village
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. – Summer 2008

2008-02-18T18:40:00.001-08:00

2008-02-18T07:17:00.001-08:00

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA...

2008-02-18T06:23:00.000-08:00

I love roasts http://media.411vm.com/wiggin/video/AdidasTimRoast08Sk8MagsWeb.mov

Montage

2008-02-17T10:47:00.000-08:00

Location TBA...

You ready for a Me - L -T ?

2008-02-02T10:49:00.000-08:00

"I love that my last name is Bacon!"
Ripped from the OG Minnesota Blog.

Mark Jacobson is journalism...

2008-01-30T10:17:00.000-08:00

Where are the journalists that are dedicated enough to endanger their lives for a living?

Holy Shit, Holy Shit, Holy Shit... LOA may be dethroned as the best blog ever...

2008-01-15T07:52:00.001-08:00

http://field-negro.blogspot.com/
"The irony of the latest little racial problem in A-merry-ca is rich. Here we have the first black man running for the highest office in the land with a legitimate chance of winning. And not only has he predicated his entire campaign on being race neutral, but he has built his entire movement around a future in A-merry-ca where everyone looks past race and show nothing but love for each other. But then, to get to that office, he has to beat the first woman candidate with a legitimate shot at winning the highest office in the land, a woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. And here is the irony; she has actually used race to attempt to derail the race neutral man's campaign. "
HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... And Bob johnson needs to go kill hisself... Who's throwing in with me for the euthanasia kit? Fuck you bob... As a staff, a record label... As a mothafucking click...

OH NO THEY DIDN'T....

2008-01-07T14:36:00.000-08:00

HAhaHAhaHAAHAHAAHAAHAA...
Haters get mad cause I got me a "Tight Sag"
Congratulations dudes... Now you've really made it... Top haters blog (formerly dontebelievethehypebeast) and your own dedicated haters site with no less than 3 specific posts about you!
(APPLAUSE)

Who are you going to vote for?

2008-01-04T15:55:00.000-08:00

Also... Snickerdoodles is on a roll lately...

2008-01-03T21:07:00.001-08:00

LORDS OF APATHY

Sound Familiar?

Chicago! It's gonna be a big year

2008-01-03T21:02:00.000-08:00

It's starting now... Obama '08... Democratic Caucuses in Illinois, Minnesota, and most everywhere else February 5th... Do your civic duty... You can be as cynical as you want, but watch his Iowa acceptance speech and tell me you don't believe him.

"Motivated by the Haters... MOTIVATED BY THE HATE...Rs"

2008-01-03T11:41:00.000-08:00

Don't Believe the Hypebeast is back son! Now www.satchelofgravel.com
#10. Awesome. Would highly recommend this if you had been in the dark about the return like I had.

Perkins and Chomsky...

2008-01-01T12:01:00.002-08:00

If you really want the theory and practice of what's going on in the world today... These are your two books. Of course they came out a few years back, but, you know, like it's just so hard to read when there's so many new sneakers coming out...
WAKE THE FUCK UP WORLD...
Democracy now/a party with a purpose fundraiser on the South Side coming up in March...
And keep up with SnickerDoodles over at LOA. He's the best at this whole grassroots plus comfortable apathy media thing.

2008-01-01T12:01:00.001-08:00

2008-01-01T11:54:00.001-08:00

2007-12-17T11:35:00.001-08:00

Back Soon...

2007-12-13T21:49:00.000-08:00

Finals are almost over, and we'll be back to our old tricks soon enough... Here's what we'll be doing all winter though...

Baaallllliinnnnnn...

2007-12-03T19:17:00.000-08:00

I mean, where do you go about getting this type of money? I want to build a tree house in this style.

Real Talk

2007-11-16T19:26:00.000-08:00

Fuck whatchya heard... Act like ya know

2007-10-28T09:47:00.000-07:00

No Pattern Revisited

2007-10-21T10:26:00.000-07:00

Chuck is the man... Buy his stuff...

Needless Markup... "At Least We're Original"

2007-10-21T10:22:00.000-07:00

2007-10-21T09:33:00.001-07:00

Risk @ Buddha Lounge

2007-10-18T18:46:00.000-07:00

NIXON ART MOSH

2007-10-09T09:52:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Nixon is excited to announce the next installation of the Nixon Art Mosh. Art Mosh is a rotating art installation, meshing the art of local friends, team and retailers. It is a collection of some of our favorite photographers, artists and filmers coming together for one night, under one roof for one good time.

Come join us and take in some of the great art Minneapolis has to offer. This Halloween evening at Umber° Studios.

Featured Artists:
Grady Archibold
DC Ice
Nate Reiman
Eric William Carroll
Tim Dieterle
Aaron Bravo
Juri Loginov
Steve Kraus
Issac Arvold
Rob Machado
Mike Carter
Tucker Gerrick
Max Kaufman

2007-10-02T19:32:00.001-07:00

2007-09-27T21:15:00.000-07:00

Read a book!! Horribly Racist? or BET is Hilarious!

2007-09-04T08:09:00.001-07:00

Editors Note: So I've shown this to a pretty wide range of people from many different mothers. By my count though my black friends find it funny for about 3 seconds then cry a little inside for what the world has come to and almost all end up in a "What the fuck is this?" My whurbanite friends think it's hilarious... I'm in the "Who was this made for?" camp... Confused as hell... Did BET expect kids to go home and start harrassing their parents to go to the library? Plus you're telling your audience that their breath smells and they need Speed Stick... Either way, thank you again BET for your best-selling brand of Blirony...
And to the good folks over at the Millenial Crier, I'd love to get your comment as I'm trying expand your whocabulary...
A prize to the first person who can tell me if this was actually/solely another Lil Jon masterpiece.

New World Order...

2007-08-23T10:33:00.000-07:00

A nice articulation of what is going on in the world right now. Even if you don't agree, you have to admit this is by far the most convincing of the new world order documentaries. Zeitgeist + The Corporation = One depressing but liberating few hours...
Watch this all the way through or else you're missing the point.

Don't Forget...

2007-08-23T06:57:00.000-07:00

The Architrouve gallery (Mike Genovese, Carlos J Ortiz, John Lowenstein) comes down on the 30th and Juan Chavez's MCA exhibit comes down on Sept. 2nd... Click Image for info...

2007-08-23T06:55:00.000-07:00

This one's for you Tom...

Familia X DVS Huf 5

2007-08-03T09:41:00.000-07:00

Next Saturday at 10 A.M. the Familia Huf 5 goes on sale at Familia Skateshop. Available thereafter at only 6 other stores in the U.S. If you're in the twin cities next weekend, come cop a pair, high-five Mr. Keith Hufnagel and then mosie on down to Psycho Suzies at 9 P.M. for the release party. We promise you won't be disappointed. All of you in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas luck out too, cause it's gonna be available at Uprise and Skyhigh.

Cool Kids in Minneapolis @ Foundation Aug 5...

2007-07-26T16:45:00.000-07:00

If your in Minnesota on this weekend...

Cool Kids in Minneapolis @ Foundation Aug 5...

2007-07-26T08:09:00.000-07:00

This is their 2nd Cool Kids TV video from Montreal... They'll be @ Foundation August 5th... $10, 18+... Word...

DoooooMM... Food

2007-07-25T18:35:00.000-07:00

The MM Food reissue is out and there was a nice size line at the shop for the accompanying sb's... Pick up the album... The poster is by Burlesque Design... Plus a DVD... Shoes are already @ $200 + on the 'Bay so maybe not those...

2007-07-17T09:31:00.000-07:00

Holy Shit my life is complete... First Double Up, now this, then the remaining chapters of Traapped in the Closet?!!! I said "Damn 28s!"

2007-07-10T10:05:00.001-07:00

eBay Sale!

2007-07-06T11:30:00.000-07:00

$50 SB's... Can't beat it with a stick...
Even though you want to...
Click the photo...

Mike G's new show...

2007-07-06T09:42:00.000-07:00

Peep dem goods!

2007-06-26T10:12:00.001-07:00

Knowing you, the faithful sneakerhead that you probably are, you've no doubtedly been on over to either Hypebeast or Complex today. Right? Oh....you're slipping on your sneaker nerd duties....get over there and peep the Familia x DVS sneaker.

Vanity Fair Covers

2007-06-15T21:01:00.000-07:00

I know there will be some hateration, but I love this project... Especially the look Bishop Tutu has in the photo with W...
Annie Leibowitz does it again. Click the image to see them all.

2007-06-15T08:35:00.001-07:00