THIS BLOG WILL BE MOVING!!!
Change your bookmarks, and shed a little tear as we prepare to big adieu to our beloved [ 2 one 5 ] blog. BUT, wipe those tears away fast as we will only be moving it over to the Living Proof Magazine blog. That’s right. We’re getting ready to release our third issue and we’re currently working on building up the site now, but the blog over there is up and running (it’s the homepage). Don’t worry, we promise to update that one more often, and we’ve already got a slew of posts up there now. Monday Mix Tape will be there. Top 5 will be there. Quote of the week will be there. Dan’s Dirty Boots series will be there. Holga photos will be there. Etc. Go on over, check it out, and tell us what you think.
Also, in that space, we’ll start teasing into the 3rd issue of Living Proof. We’re not letting any cats paw their way out of the bag yet, but we’re more excited than ever about this issue. Seriously. It’s going to blow you away. I wouldn’t say that because I hate disappointment, but this next issue is going to make you go “ooooohhh!!” like in a good way. Like when you get playfully tickled by a significant other. Or something. Anyway, don’t forget to change your bookmarks!
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June 19th, 2008
Jeremy Fish and Josh Keyes at the Joshua Liner Gallery
58 W. 28th Street
New York, NY
June 18th, 2008
We’re changing up the Quote of the Week this time around (we also promise to do this more than once a month, since it does bear the “of the week” behind it). We’re going to have you guess whose sharp tongue whipped these words through their pearly whites. Here are your choices:
1.) Frank151 Photo Editor Craig Wetherby
2.) Recon/Nort/Subware honcho Stash
3.) GQ Fashion Editor Damien Nunes
4.) Deep Sleep owner Phil
June 16th, 2008
When you strut into the gym, duck into the locker room, and emerge from that sweat-smelling wonderland, all eyes focus on you and questions/quips get served out: What did she do to get that perfect rear end? Is she single? His cones are bigger than mine! He definitely needs to work on those pecs! and, of course “What is he/she wearing? Is he/she really going to work out in that??” Well, keep your fears at bay with this latest little offering from Louis Vuitton. Their Gym Set (a towel, headband, and wristbands) pulls inspiration from Damier Azur to make sure you have the most fashionable way available to rid your body of perspiration while you’re, you know, trying to work out.
June 16th, 2008
sounds like somebody’s got the case of the mondays!
well lets up your mood with this new mixtape by clinton sparks and kardinal offishall hosted by akon. enjoy, and start your week off right with a mixtape.
June 16th, 2008
So it wasn’t bad and it was ten times better then marvels first attempt at the ang lee (dir.) hulk. for not being a sequel or a continuation of the first attempt you are almost required to have some knowledge on how bruce banner becomes the gigantic green monster. with this said, it was actually a decent flick with a couple great cameo’s including stan lee, lou ferrigno and robert downey jr. as tony stark (iron man). so if your asking should i spend the ten bucks to see this cinematic adventure in the theaters or should i wait till the dvd release, id say go for it its a good rainy day movie.
June 13th, 2008
If you are half as bIG of a fan as i am of the AJ3 then have a look at these jawns. I havent been too open to the new HYBRID series of nikes lately, but these jawns are sure fire.
images from: 23 is back
June 13th, 2008
You have little time left, but if you get a chance, please check this out. It ends June 15th. See? We’ve got love for the west coast!
One of our favorites, Kevin Lyons, put together an interesting and dope show at the HVW8 Art+Design Gallery. The best way to explain it comes from Kevin himself who wrote a little letter explaining his sort of new creative process. It’s an interesting read. Why this cat doesn’t get the attention he deserves is beyond us. Check out some images from the show here.
Kevin’s Letter:
please post this open letter as much as you can. new marketing approach from a new marketer.
I want to extend an invitation to you all to attend my opening at the HVW8 gallery on Spaulding in West hollywood here in LA on friday, May 9th. I also want to forewarn that in and of itself this is no literal art show. It is riddled with sketches, visual rants and pointless, aggressive dribble. it is unframed, unedited and purely self- indulgent. I am in all truth as you all know an Art Director/Creative Director, not an artist by any stretch, and I have never pretended to be as such and this show will fully reenforce this very reality. All of that having been said, even with lack of focus and in all seriousness a lack of actual work, it winds up ironically being the first show which i actually show any raw emotion. It is work that wound up personal and silly and not over thought. Recently I worked for a retail machine that kept me very busy methodically and very intentionally calculating exactly what “kids” want to see and purchase. I went through a fairly emotional roller coaster there which made me realize that I wanted to go in a very different direction. Along side this work, I was also experiencing total freedom in my personal freelance work and getting paid to simply be me. The less I thought and obsessed over the work the more people responded to it backwards George day. Now I am experiencing a very different ride in working for a pseudo ad agency trying to break out of the ad agency model. I commute for nearly 4 hours a day and in that time while riding bumpy trains, I find myself drawing for drawing’s sake. I put my laptop away and abandon fonts and grids and simply draw monsters, and ice creams and Stars of David riding skateboards. They are goofy, angry, and emotional. These are some of the treats that you will see at my show. Nothing fancy. Tape and tacks. wrinkled, non-archival, and devoid of color. Just sharing, warning, but not apologizing. I will carry all the art in a carry on bag on the plane and put it up in less than 24 hours. Please come out. One of my favorite dj’s will be there, Sureshot, an old reggae head who shares my love of early reggae soul seven inches.
nuff’said. sho’nuff. by any means necessary.
Kevin.
June 12th, 2008
Not to be confused with TLA (To Live Again), the widows/widowers activity group my grandmother belongs, the real TLA (Theatre of the Living Arts) lives again! Live Nation wised up, realized nobody was calling it the Fillmore at all and decided to say fuck it and give it the name Philly knows it by. Basically, it’s as if nothing changed because nothing ever did really change.
June 12th, 2008
It seems the LA Times didn’t bother to check things out a little further. Turns out, after prolific LA graffiti writer Buket was arrested recently, the Times assumed that the person in the opening to his YouTube videos (hitting the 101 in broad daylight) was, in fact, the broad daylight bus-tagger. Instead, the pictures they ran were that of Evidence, one MC in the hip-hop group Dilated Peoples. Evidence merely provided the intro to the video, and somehow the Times ran with it as the mug of the alleged tagger. The online version of the article features a retraction, but I still want to see the original (someone in LA hook it up. Kove, we’re looking in your direction). How this mistake can be made is completely beyond me. What kind of idiot would feature his face in his face in graf videos, unless they’re a well known king like COPE2? And to defame the character of someone by assuming and running the wrong picture smacks of not so much lackadaisical reporting, but flat out failure to get it fucking right.
Source: Hiphopsite
June 12th, 2008
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