January 27, 2010

Roland Reiner Tiangco

Roland Reiner Tiangco is a graphic designer from NYC who graduated from the New School. The poster concept is amazing, it really gets no better. But I cannot really put words to that that will do more justice then hitting the link and seeing for yourself. Dirt Poster But, whats funny is the degrees of separation, or lack there of. When I lived in New York and worked at ParallelMVMT we were in the midst of working on a campaign for the New School, creating their website and what not. Seems as if we did a spot on job picking our clients, maybe ill even get to a class or two in the future. For now, you just enjoy the fruits.

From his Website:
What is on your bed right now?
Hello. My name is Roland Reiner Tiangco. I live and work in Brooklyn New York.
When was the last time you threw up?
I am a recent graduate of Parsons the New School for Design
What’s your favorite word or phrase?
where I studied Communication Design
Name 3 people who made you smile today?
I was born on January 8, 1981 in Houston Texas.
What were you doing at 8 am this morning?
I spent a good portion of the first 19 years of my life there
What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
and I dont ever plan on returning. Well, thats not true.
What is your favorite holiday?
I go back to visit my mother.
Have you ever been to another country?
Anyhow, I’m in New York now. Williamsburg. I know.
What is the last thing you said aloud?
But I can see the empire state building from my window
What is the best ice cream flavor?
and I try to witness its lights being turned off every night at midnight.”

January 24, 2010

Clipse

Admittedly, I do not usually post music. This is not to say I do not believe my own category heading; I know music is life. I even wish I could just have background music in everything I did everyday, walking down the street, writing, hooping, dates, everything. Its quite possible that I am being selfish or maybe I do not feel like my musical choices are heady enough. Whatever it may be, Clipse makes me brake the mold. I have been a fanatic since Lord Willin’ and Till the Casket Drops was no different. I feel the album and I feel the swagger, the gutter flavor. The sample on this track is bananas, I just hope you like potassium as much as I.

“All apologies,
I bear the cross I wear the blame
We in the same group but I don’t share my brothers pain
Not to confuse,
Our sentiment are all the same
I just don’t feel Nothing I’m Numb by the will to gain”

January 20, 2010

Protegez-Vous

Europe always comes with the heat. They make their safe sex ads _______. (Mad Libs your fav adjective, from provocative, to sexual, to weird, to {scooby doo noise}) No matter, they are eye catching, I just wanna know if they are trying to say you get all the girls once you strap up. Just a thought.

January 19, 2010

Ray J X Bobby Brackins

Shouts to Bobby Brackins for getting Ray J on the track…. 143. Show love.

Download Here

January 19, 2010

Jackie Chan

Can’t hate on Whiskey… ever. It puts hair on one’s chest.

January 6, 2010

Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv

This article presents a very interesting alternative to the chaos that we have created in our airports. I, growing up in the tricultural space that I did always appreciate alternative perspectives and feel as if this really makes much more sense. Lets be honest, the average person is not gonna blow you up with their toothpaste or some dreadlock cream (still pissed about through that away, btw). But honestly, read through the thing, the Israelis are killing us top to bottom, from detection to emergency plan. As someone who travels a fair amount, I would love to see some sense put into the whole situation. More Here

“First, it’s fast – there’s almost no line. That’s because they’re not looking for liquids, they’re not looking at your shoes. They’re not looking for everything they look for in North America. They just look at you,” said Rafi Sela, the president of AR Challenges, a global transportation security consultancy. “Even today with the heightened security in North America, they will check your items to death. But they will never look at you, at how you behave. They will never look into your eyes … and that’s how you figure out the bad guys from the good guys.”

December 30, 2009

Laurent Kronental

The story of Laurent and I goes way back to my time in Paris. Laurent was the cat with the accessories, with the plug, with the girls. He was the man. He had the presence when he walked in the room. I was put on with Laurent through my Ace, Mr Int, Tim Kau (like I said, currently making moves out in Beijing).

On his perspective: “Photography is just a hobby. I take photos to immortalize a moment, to remember it forever. I hope to capture an emotion, a look, a sentiment and then transfer these to whoever looks at my photos. If my memory serves, my eye eys see, my heart feels, but photography allows us to relive a memory, making the past infinitely more palpable and attainable. Photos also grant access to a particular universe, that of the photographer, to deliver messages, to share ideas, a vision of reality, the photographer’s reality.

I never considered making photography my profession because I dont feel as if I have anymore talent then the next man. O sincerely hope that everyone can take photos with little technical savvy, because its the feeling of the person, the intuition, the eye of the taker that make the difference. There exists a plethora of amateurs that take beautiful photos on flickr and myspace for example. Photography is much more accessible then cinema, which is much more complex. With this being said, these are two completely different realms though this might explain the contrasting numbers of amateurs in the two art forms.

In the future, if the opportunity arose I might take picture taking more serious, but thats not where its at right now.

The Man, The Artist

Original Response: “Je n’ai pas d’ambition particulière en photo. C’est juste un hobby. Je prends des photos pour immortaliser un moment et m’en souvenir à jamais. Je veux capter une émotion, un regard, un sentiment et les transmettre à celui ou à celle qui regardera une de mes photos. Ma mémoire se souvient, mes yeux voient, mon coeur ressent, mais la photographie, elle, parvient à nous faire revivre un souvenir (dans ce cas, le passé est d’autant plus palpable et il ne paraît plus si lointain). La photo permet aussi d’entrer dans un univers particulier, celui du photographe, de délivrer des messages, de partager des idées, une vision de la réalité, sa réalité…

Je n’ai jamais pensé en faire mon métier car je n’ai pas plus de talent qu’un autre. Je pense sincèrement que tout le monde pourrait faire de la photo avec un peu de connaissances techniques, après c’est le feeling de la personne, l’intuition, l’oeil du photographe qui fait la différence. Il y a énormément d’amateurs qui prennent de très belles photos sur flickr et myspace par exemple. La concurrence est rude. La photographie est bien plus abordable que le cinéma, qui lui est nettement plus complexe. Bien entendu, il n’y a pas lieu de faire des comparaisons mais je crois néanmoins que c’est une des raisons qui explique qu’il y ait un si grand nombre d’amateurs qui font du super travail en photo et moins en cinéma.

Je me mettrais peut être plus tard sérieusement à faire de la photo si des opportunités se présentent mais ce n’est pas d’actualité pour l’instant.

December 30, 2009

Aaron Jennings

This is a month in the making at least but I have been caught up in finals and what not. But honest, every once in a while you meet someone that sparks that critical limit of interest, someone you know is on a path to make serious moves. Thats how it went with Aaron. I was down in lalaLand at a party at this sneaker boutique El Mercado and I ran into him. As it turns out, he was bruhs with one of my boys over at the BKcircus, young ChaseMane.

I asked him to break down his perspective in three sentences. With some poetic license, and a little more than three, he said this:

“I am a poet- I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. Furthermore, my goal is to shed light on the world in an attempt to bring the human race out of darkness. I create art for a higher power, and I am to be used as a vessel- a mere shell for God to use for a greater purpose. It is my hope that through my art I will touch someone, and in turn their light will shine brighter.”

December 10, 2009

Unabashedly Prep

Great Blog if ur a New England prep swag fan like myself. They have gems on a consistent basis like the woman above. Great quote, but I have to say, how much was Einstein pulling though? I mean really. We all seen him, hes not exactly a Derek Jeter Channing Tatum type….

December 7, 2009

Lego Matrix

Amazing vid. I seriously watched it three times in a row.