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| Date: 02/18/2012 |
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February 2012
Posted by BOBBYHUNDREDS
Let’s be honest. Streetwear, the rendition by which you know it today, wouldn’t have existed quite the same without it’s cultural foundation in sneaker collecting. I don’t care what the coolguys have to say – the bearded, booted aristocracy who now distance themselves from their mid-2000s rainbow Dunk assortment. It doesn’t matter if the jaded sneakerheads are beyond the Niketalk babble and sidewalk sleepovers. Sneaker culture, sneaker hoarding, is how most modern Streetwear purveyors and consumers fostered their appreciation for limited, exclusive, young urban/sportswear fashion. And to pretend like that isn’t the case, that sneakers didn’t play a seminal role in pre- and post-millenial street culture, that all the coolest artists, shops and brands weren’t vying to collaborate on a Nike retro basketball shoe, that local skate boutiques weren’t making most of their cash off of release-day lineups, that you’ve always been wearing vulcanized soles and too busy being hesh or trad or Japanese or whatever to thirst for those crispy swooshed joints you read about on Hypebeast… well, you’re just playing yourself, really.
These are my favorite sneakers of all time. Beyond the Bo Jackson Trainers, the Huaraches, the Agassis, and Michael Chang Tennis Pumps. Beyond the Reese Forbes Dunk SBs, Futura Blazers, and Stussy Dunk His. Even beyond the Air Jordan I, the III, and the V (close runners-up).
It’s the Nike Air Jordan IV. The Cement IVs.
The Jordan IV in itself, is the finest, most succinctly designed sneaker ever (credible source: Me). From the last to the structure, the curves and smooth lines, it’s like a Gehry building making love with a fighter jet. When you put them on, it all makes sense, from the width of the laces to subtle netting to the squared-off tongue. So to top it off with white leather contrasted with black trim and a speckled grey midsole? Everything in its right place.
Here’s my chance. My mom wouldn’t buy these for me as a kid, so now that I’m a grown-ass manboy, time to fulfill the dream. Even packaged in the replica box, with the wrap to match.
I believe the shoes come out the 18th at select Nike stockists? Don’t quote me on that, I’m not a credible source.
by bobbyhundreds
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| Date: 02/16/2012 |
Mattel Is Finally Releasing The Back II The Future Hover Board
Man, it’s been a great year to be a Back II The Future fan, hasn’t it? Towards the end of 2011, Nike teamed up with Michael J. Fox to release the long-rumored, much-anticipated Nike Air Mag sneaker. And sneakerheads as well as Back II The Future enthusiasts were thrilled that they were finally released. But, believe it or not, the latest story involving Back II The Future has us even more excited than the Air Mags did.
At Toy Fair 2012, toy manufacturer Mattel announced that they will be releasing the hover board that was featured in Back II The Future 2 and Back II The Future 3 later this year. The 1:1 replica of the hover board from the movie will be designed to glide over all types of surfaces (sorry, “water” is not one of them!) and will look and feel exactly like the one used in the movie. Pretty cool, huh?
Of course, there’s one catch. This hover board will apparently be pretty costly. And, as a result, Mattel wants to make sure there’s enough interest in this thing before they start mass-producing the hover boards (as if!). So they’re making them available for pre-order from March 1 to March 20 to gauge interest in them. If enough people pre-order the hover boards, they will produce them and release them to the world in either November or December. And if by some chance they don’t get enough preorders? Well, then stop asking Mattel to make them. They’ll simply shut down the hover board operation and move on.
So, what do you think about the hover board? Do you think enough people will be interested in them to pre-order them? Or, do you think people have had enough of Back II The Future and will ignore the hover board altogether? Guess we’ll see what happens next month.
SOURCE: http://live.drjays.com/index.php/2012/02/15/mattel-is-finally-releasing-the-back-ii-the-future-hover-board/
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| Date: 02/16/2012 |
Whitney Houston Dies at 48 Years Old
Article written by: Asmara Wreksono
Posted on: February 11, 2012
Grammy Award-winning pop singer, Whitney Houston, died at 48 years old Saturday. Her publicist, Kristen Foster said Saturday that Houston had died although the location and cause of death were still unknown. The tragic news came just weeks after reports of her bankruptcy surrounded the internet, and in the eve of music’s biggest night: The Grammy Awards.
Houston was found unresponsive by paramedics in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton, just days after enjoying a night out with daughter Bobbi Kristina in Hollywood. She also stepped out in a rare public appearance at the Kelly Price & Friends Unplugged: For The Love of R&B GRAMMY Party at Tru Hollywood on Thursday night. Houston even sang with Kelly Price at the event, which turned out as her very last performance. Watch the video here.
The once golden girl of the music industry was known to have had a beautiful majestic voice before she fell into drug use which caused her erratic behavior. In the middle 1980s up to the late 1990s, Houston was noted as one of the world’s top-selling singers with her powerful, soulful and unbeatable vocals. Her image was squeaky-clean, a singer known to even the lesser part of the world, physically beautiful with a dash of not overplayed sexiness and a poise every lady longed to have. Houston’s influence on younger generation of female singers spread far and wide, especially to Christina Aguilera who shared a similar timbre with Houston.
Whitney Houston, daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston, cousin of Dionne Warwick and goddaughter of music legend, Aretha Franklin was discovered by music mogul, Clive Davis, who signed her into her debut album in 1985: “Whitney Houston”. It was the album which brought Houston to her first “Best Female Pop Vocal” Grammy for the hit “Saving All My Love for You”. Other hit singles in the album included “How Will I Know”, “You Give Good Love” and “The Greatest Love of All”.
The girl who started singing in church and sang backup for Chaka Khan and Jermaine Jackson had arrived. Her multiplatinum album, “Whitney” dropped in 1987 and marked another success for Houston with hits like “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”.
Before her career ended, Houston also went into the movie industry with her movie “The Bodyguard” and “Waiting to Exhale”. Her once great image, was thrown by her confession of cocaine, marijuana and pills abuse, which also took a toll on her once great voice. She was unable to hit the high notes she used to sing, and came the erratic behavior, low-number album sales and the non-existent hit songs. Her marriage to rapper Bobby Brown in 1992 also made things worse with domestic abuse and more drug abuse. Many people frowned upon the pop princess’ marriage to the bad boy, however Houston said her image is not who she really was.
She told Rolling Stone magazine in a 1993 interview:
“When you love, you love. I mean, do you stop loving somebody because you have different images? You know, Bobby and I basically come from the same place. You see somebody, and you deal with their image, that’s their image. It’s part of them, it’s not the whole picture. I am not always in a sequined gown. I am nobody’s angel. I can get down and dirty. I can get raunchy.”
In 2009, Houston made a comeback with the album “I Look To You”, and made the world believe she was back. However, cancelled tour dates and awful performances made fans walk away from the concert, feeling like they lost the Whitney they once knew. Which is ironic to the fact that once The New York Times wrote:
“[Houston] possesses one of her generation’s most powerful gospel-trained voices, but she eschews many of the churchier mannerisms of her forerunners. She uses ornamental gospel phrasing only sparingly, and instead of projecting an earthy, tearful vulnerability, communicates cool self-assurance and strength, building pop ballads to majestic, sustained peaks of intensity.”
Our hearts go to Whitney Houston’s family in this difficult time. May she finally found the peace she’s been looking for. Rest in Peace dear Whitney, you will be greatly missed.
SOURCE: http://www.sojones.com/news/152629-whitney-houston-dies-at-48-years-old/ |
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| Date: 02/02/2012 |
Rocawear & Jay-Z Set To Light Up Your TV Screens
One of Jay-Z‘s most significant contributions to his artistic legacy is his clothing brand Rocawear and while the fashion industry may not be enjoying stellar times of late, the brand is planning on having one of its strongest years yet.
According to Women’s Wear Daily, Rocawear’s first-ever television campaign will debut this month and feature Jay as its focal point, debunking rumors the hip-hop mogul has distanced himself from the brand he co-created over a decade ago.
“This is the first time we have a television commercial starring Jay, so that’s obviously not true—I think you’ll see the opposite,” says parent company Iconix’s president and CEO, Neil Cole, regarding Jay’s commitment to the brand. “Of course, he’s a busy guy between his tour and his new baby and his music. Are there times when he’s not on tour and not in the studio where we get more time with him? Yes. And are there times when we have to work via email and through other channels? Yes. But we are lucky enough to get a lot of his time and caring.”
The Rocawear television campaign includes commercial time during NBA games and roll-out on channels including MTV, BET and TNT. Directed by Anthony Mandler, the ad is themed “From Marcy To Madison Square” based on Jay’s incredible journey from the bottom to the top.
source: http://live.drjays.com/index.php/2012/02/02/rocawear-jay-z-set-to-light-up-your-tv-screens/
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