Monthly Archives: December 2011
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December 29, 2011The Life+Times of 2011 Pregame Derek Jeter’s 3000th Hit is A Homerun! Cutting Room Floor Straight Outta Compton? Ball So Hard The Moon and The Sky Remix Watch The Throne: Riccardo Tisci Empire State of Mind The Watcher Watch The … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure | Tagged life+times | 2 CommentsBrown Skin Lady
December 29, 2011An Oversimplification of Her Beauty • Teaser from Terence Nance • Terence Etc. on Vimeo. This January, Terence Nance and his motley yet motivated mob of artists will head to Utah on a mission to spread the word about a … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure | Tagged Charles Burnett, film, Haile Gerima, Julie Dash, life + times, Spike Lee, sundance, Terence Nance, The Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Wendell B. Harris | 3 CommentsCole Case
December 28, 2011Get familiar with the name Norris Cole. When the 23-year-old point guard departed from Cleveland State to take his talents to South Beach, after being select No. 28 overall by the Miami Heat, he probably didn’t expect his name to … Continue reading
Posted in Sports | Tagged basketball, DJ Khaled, dwayne wade, kenyon dooling, lebron james, mario chalmers, miami heat, nba, Norris Cole, Paul Pierce, ray alle, rick ross, ricky rubi, sports | Leave a commentSpaced Out
December 28, 2011Opened in September 2004, Dover Street Market is a 1,200-square-meter store in the center of London, conceived by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons. It was initiated as a fresh approach to the upmarket retail environment, and since its inception, … Continue reading
Posted in Style | Tagged Comme des Garçons, Dover Street Market, life + times, style | Leave a commentFrank Ocean “4 Tears”
December 28, 2011[haiku url=”http://cdn.mobilerider.com/mobilerider/mobilestorefront/2416/media/file/54751/311773.mp3″ title=”4 Tears”]
Posted in Music | Tagged 4 tears, audio, frank ocean, life+times, music | 12 CommentsUp To Code
December 26, 2011Andrea Magnani is an Italian designer and art director who created the Hollo collection for the Italian design company Homecode. He worked with several artists including Paul Flannery, Anne Ter Har and Matteo Cibic to design the removable doors that … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Design | Tagged Andrea Magnani, art, design, homecode, life+times | 1 CommentReclining Nude
December 22, 2011The standout star of New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s 2011 “New Photography Series” was Deana Lawson. An upstate New York native who’s been nesting in Brooklyn with her painter husband since they both graduated from the prestigious Rhode Island School … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Design | Tagged art, deana lawson, life+times, lorna simpson, photograhy | 6 CommentsThe Weeknd “Echoes of Silence”
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Posted in Music | Tagged audio, echoes of silence, life+times, mixtape, music, the weeknd | 5 CommentsI Got Five On It
December 22, 2011If you thought Lexus was being stingy by only producing 500 units of its LFA, then you may want to reserve your words for Italian car maker F&M by Mazzanti Automobili. Entering in to the supercar world with its Evantra, … Continue reading
Posted in Technology | Tagged auto, cars, evantra, lexus, lfa, Mazzanti Automobili | 8 CommentsDust Tracks On a Road
December 21, 2011Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts‘ Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America is gorgeously written. The gifted Harvard graduate’s debut is the first offering in a trilogy meant to imagine and explore Black Utopia through three landscapes: Harlem, Haiti … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure | Tagged Alice Walker, June Jordan, leisure, life+times, Lorraine Hansberry, Sharifa Rhodes Pitts, Van Der Zee, Zora Neale Hurston | 7 Comments ← Older posts