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Shoot Yourself
19 Aug
ReBlog: In 2003, Florian Jenett and Valentin Beinroth placed about 50 handgun replicas in downtown Frankfurt. The guns were made from tinted ice, making them look real at first sight.
In 2009 they did a new edition of their Freeze! project but made the guns eatable by using coke, licorice, cherry and food coloring.
Love it. Ive been in a FTC mindset and this is cool way to mess with their heads, just dont get caught with one of these popsicle and get Oscar Granted
Vocal Slender
2 May
This video has me conflicted. On the one hand it is obviously a telling story, one that can inform everyone of the privilege of their own lives. Ya, I see that. But at the same time, it is the same story. Of course there is an African dude living in a dump. Of course he has to struggle to make it out of their. Of course he wants to be a rapper. Of course he cant be a rapper because he got too drunk, acted primal, just like them backwards blackies do and beat the shit out of his own friend. Of course. I mean I could be being cynical, but Im sure you could find this story or a more riveting one, that was not such a trope.
Either way, best of luck to Vocal Slender, and I hope he makes it.
the 6
14 Apr
Its party music at its finest, no matter what you want to say, if that was the party your boy/girl was txting you about all week, you wouldnt want to miss that. I love the 6 keeping that Bay Vibe alive, all fun 24/7. Shouts to Shugz with the cameo too. At the end of the day, Aris Jerome makes hits, every video is a banger. The idea of going from one first person camera angle to another via daps is genius, not to mention the beer goggles at the end. Keep it going bruh and we might have to collab in the near future.
Ill leave you with a quote from jjjjound’s page 
Patrick Jean
12 Apr
Ill vid… peep game. (Pun Intended)
On another note.. feel free to hit me on my Google Voice [(415)355.4AtG]
Hair.
7 Apr
“A Black woman’s hair is her soul” -Maya Angelou
There is an inherent link between hair, race and class. I used my hair, braids at the time, as a means of hiding my economic class when I was in high school. I went to high school in an affluent, white environment, the Bay Area’s version of a New England prep school. I found out quickly that hair and clothes, outward appearance, was a place where I could control how people judged me. I could control the way I looked in a way that I could not control whether there was meat available for dinner or whether there were roaches at my house. I dressed to fly that a girl even came up to me at my high school and told me that my house must be nice, since I dress so nice and I had so many clothes.
Way back when, while still in high school, I wrote an article called “Hair Scare” about getting dreads and racial profiling in the Bay Area. At the point where I first wanted to get dreaded, as an expression of my Caribbean roots, being a first generation American, I had to consider whether I was taking my own life into my hands.
An interesting take away from this video is that society has taught black women to strive for something they can never have. They can never have lighter skin, or flowing hair; they can never have that white baby, the one that looks like the doll.
On a funny side note, the girl in the picture above, taken from Chris Rock’s Good Hair documentary, went to Amherst College, the lord jeffs are everywhere. 
Aris Jerome x Young L
24 Feb
I mean what can I say, Young L got the beats. The flows are silly but the beat is serious, just as serious as the cinematography. My brother Sclusdale put me on the Aris Jerome vids and they hit hard, no questions. If I was an artist, there would be no question who would shoot my video. See more on his Vimeo.
Design For Haiti.
23 Feb
A bit late but the designs are ridiculous. This is the new wave of altruistic work. Its no longer about shit grey html websites but rather using good design to bring people to good causes, just like at BRUTE LABS. the BRUTES put me on to this site of designs. They are so clean and well done but are just as praiseworthy in cause as in design. Kudos.
Thirstbusters
16 Feb
Thanks to the Starting 6 for the Tip. The video is cute but my take away is you can never miss that opportunity to talk to the cute girl cause it might never come around again.
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