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Rugby Lifestyle Remix…

Saturday, December 25th, 2010

rugby

I’m sad that Rugby won’t let people buy their patches anymore. Hyper-exclusive retailing is the aspiration of poor people attempting to be middle-class… Looking.

I’m glad that I bought my patches years ago and started the trend. I’ve been sitting on a pile of patches and a pile of knits copped from Marshall’s on the come up.

I figured I could marry a few I.T.s with DP.com as the congregation [ll]…

rugby
rugby

Internets. You need to have several colorway programs to be fully lifestyle. The PRL sport red is basic swag that you can rock all year around if you are a lifestyler from Florida to Texas. This knit was reduced from $34.99 down to $27.00 at first clearance. In all honesty I usually don’t copp from Marshall’s until second clearance or less than $25 bucks. The Rugby patch is funky. That cost me $12 on a sale at the store.

The African tailor on Washington is a good dude. I overpay him with a dub for applying the patch, but I make him do some fly shit to make the patch really popoffavitch. Cross check, outline the numerals and put this material in between the shirt and the patch.

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This material gives the patch a nice puffy (no Last train To Paris) look and the material also picks up the sweat from you big sweat-back lifestylers [ll].

The next I.T. is actually a short sleeve rugby knit. Most of you know that the classic Polo short sleeve is fashioned after a polo match knit? This Polo is a rugby shirt. Crosshatched stitching re-inforced shoulder yoke. Marshall’s first retail price was what? $24.99?!? I’m gawn innnnnnnn!

rugby
rugby

Even tho’ I’m no Yankee fan I can top off this I.T. with the classic navy fitted on some school uniform shit.

The blue/grey program would get officially murderated if I copp the Air Jordan XI ‘Cool Greys’. BONG!

cool gray

Hip-Hop In The T.Dot…

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

tdot

It figures you would have to leave the United States to have a wholistic Hip-Hop cultural festival. That would be the Manifesto Festival held in Toronto over several days.

I can only imagine how dope this shit woulds be in Paris.

Shouts to Ernie Paniccioli for the link.

Manifesto Festival 2010 Recap (OFFICIAL) from themanifesto.ca on Vimeo.

Give The Devil His Due…

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

jay-z

Over at TheBVX.com I have a drop which explains how Jay-Z isn’t part of the Illuminati aptly titled…

Why Jay-Z is NOT a Devil-Worshiping Illuminati Propogandist

A Message From Ernie Paniccioli…

Monday, November 1st, 2010

ernie

I keep my friend Ernie Paniccioli at bay by constantly posting pictures of sneakers on this site since they are like Kryptonite to him, but obviously something must be on his mind for him to e-mail me directly…

Dallas, In my 63 years on this planet I have never seen a stronger video than this.

It describes the theft of 9 Trillion (with a t) dollars and no one goes to jail.

If this were really a nation of laws and Democracy both Obama and both houses of Congress would be sent right to jail.

Instead the media and the voting population are focused on Lady Gaga, Gay marriage, witches running for office, rent is too damn high and who’s zooming who.

And the saddest part is many so-called “Activists” are e-mailing me and reminding me to vote.

This video makes Bernard Madoff look like a piker.

Peace, Ernie

P.S. I hope you have the testicular fortitude to post it.

[ll] to my own testicular fortitude. And I still endorse the political process to my friends. Let them know you are out here even if the process is an elephant and jackass show.

Respect The Architects…

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

utagawa kuniyoshi

Last night Chocolate Snowflake took me to the Japan Society for an exhibition they are hosting titled ‘Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi‘.

It’s a display of these incredible painting by this master artist in a style called Ukiyo-e. These are graphic depictions of myths and ancient parables that were cut into woodblocks for mass printing. The Ukiyo-e are totally the fathers to the comic books and the graphic novels we enjoy so much today.

As I walked thru the exhibition and viewed Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s prints and especially his sketchbooks I had total recall of Frank Miller’s graphic novel Ronin from the early 1980’s. Kuniyoshi was describing epic samaurai battles with mystical apparitions and mega beasts 150 years prior to Miller but Kuniyoshi’s work looked as contemporary as the comics he inspired.

miller ronin
miller ronin

Where Frank Miller was influenced by the Ukiyo-e art wasn’t just in the concept, layouts and paneling of the stories, but most importantly in the printing of the images. A Ukiyo-e woodblock template is a precision based item hand-carved by an artist. Can you imagine the technique you must have to employ in order to print text from the woodblock? You have to carve the characters in reverse so that when the woodblock is printed it reads correctly.

Frank Miller was unhappy with the production of comicbooks. Because the process was so assembly-line oriented things like color separations and penciling details would get lost in the sauce. Peep the pages from the Wolverine mini-series that Miller did with Chris Claremont. See how the page coloring bleeds thru the paper?

miller wolverine
miller wolverine

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Frank Miller wanted to use a different technique for the presentation of the Ronin graphic novel. He wanted to implement the Ukiyo-e style of hand painting each individual page and then have these pages printed on a premium stock of paper. Frank Miller’s Ronin became the inspirational format for the modern graphic novel.

Go to the Japan Society and see the artist that inspired Frank Miller.