All Star Coated Canvas

They look more comfy then the standard Converse All Star high tops, might need these.

She Doesn't Mind

I like this new Sean Paul song, and saw the video came out so I though I would post it. But as the video progresses, I couldn't help to think about this other, more prominent Sean Paul video which came out years ago and is still one my favorites:

Elevate

This documentary "Elevate", follows four African basketballs players who come to the US to play for American colleges and features UW's very own Aziz N'Diaye. Here is the trailer for the movie which is out in some cities already, but comes to Seattle November 18th.

NYT on Husky Sterngating

The New York Times profiled Husky Tailgating recently, in particular the boating aspect to it, and the long tradition it evokes. Read the article here.

Tavis Smiley & Cornel West go on O'Reilly Factor

The PBS Host Smiley and Princeton Professor West go on the O'Reilly Factor and argue poverty in America, the Wall Street crisis and everything in between. At minute 5:00, I think you can really see how most people feel when Bill makes extremely one-sided statements that only Bill can get away with on his OWN show. Regardless, a great clip of an issue (poverty vs. rich) which we will continue to hear a lot of this election cycle.

Wally Esense Mega Yacht

This is how people are meant to sail the world. Via Zeutch.

Black Start on Colbert Report

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"Black Stars back.. the wait is over"
They premier their new song, Fix Up

Alden Natural Chromexcel Indy Boot

Everyone needs a clean pair of winter boots, why not start with Alden Indy Boot. Via ShoeBuff

Luis Guzman (Duck Sauce)

How To Make It In America, coming October 2.

Mayweather Vs. Ortiz

After a headbutt by Victor Ortiz in the fourth round, followed by a kiss on Floyd Mayweather's cheek to make amends, Floyd responds by hitting Ortiz with a quick shot after they tap gloves just moments later. The ESPN boxer insiders say Mayweather did nothing wrong, although to me it looked like a cheap shot, then again I know nothing about boxing. The man is an undefeated boxer, a great accomplishment in the sport, I just wish he could end a fight without controversy for once, and Fight Pacquiao! Be the judge for your self in the video above.

9/11

Ten years doesn't seem so long ago when the tragedy that marks the decade is embedded so deep in Americans lives, or so it seems. Prayers go out.

The Boston Globe created a Remberence page on it's website, see more photos here.

Lolong

This looks like something out of Lake Placid. I didn't see the initial reports on this crocodile, but Lolong is HUGE, weighing in at jsut over a ton and around 20 feet in length. Makes you wonder what else is out there that humans haven't discovered yet.

Watch The Throne Alternate Cover

The highly anticipated Jay Z and Kanye West joint album came out this week. Unfortunately they did not use this cover for album, joining together the duos facial attributes, creepily coming up with this.

Jamal Crawford Summer League (Seattle)

At the Rainier Vista Boys and Girls club a couple weeks ago, Jamal Crawford held a summer league featuring John Wall, Nate Robinson, Isaiah Thomas, Terrance Williams, Tony Wroten Jr., and Tre Simmonds. Watch as the future husky Wroten drives on the NBA point guard Wall and gets him with a mean cross over, along with many other amazing plays by the star studded list of players who participated.

Outta My Head

First heard this on a DC radio station, songs this good will never make it on air Seattle, were still playing "Best I Ever Had."

Lupe Fiasco feat. Trey Songz: Outta My Head

Marvins Room

Smokey and slow, but Drake makes this single off his new album interesting somehow.

Jay-Z Visits Set of MIB III

It must be nice to be so successful and respected that you can go anywhere and make it your stomping ground. A few days ago HOVA stopped by to see his pal Will Smith on the sent of the new Men in Black movie. Side by side, laughing and being all charismatic, the two look like they could run all aspects of the entertainment industry.

Rick Ross Sound Board

Click a tattoo and enjoy! Pretty funny stuff.

Road To The NBA - The Isaiah Thomas Story

Everyone is making mini-movies these days, and Isaiah Thomas's is coming out soon, covering his road to the NBA, including workouts and off time. The full video comes out in December, the one above is a teaser.

Novacane

Frank Ocean's new single is already in circulation, thought I would put up the video even though it is pretty worthless in regards to how dope the song is...

Jake Locker Arrives at Titans Camp

The now former University of Washington standout QB Jake Locker, who was picked 8 in the recent NFL Draft started unofficial workouts with the Tennessee Titans this week. As you can see, loyal Locker remembers his alma mater well and wore all UW gear down to the workout. Go Dawgs and Go Jake.

Porsche Panamera Stingray GTR

I think I like the four door Panamera better, but the subtle agressivness of the Stingray is hard to ignore.

Segway x2 Golf

The newest Segway model to hit the market is one that is designed for the gold course. As seen above the Segway x2 carries your golf clubs and is easy to maneuver around the course. But there's no way that it is more fun to drive then a golf cart, plus carts have cup holders.

Kanye West Scarfs

Kanye West recently came out with a line of scarfs based of his latest album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's cover art work, he teamed up with Paris based M/M designs to further his endeavor. They are being sold at a boutique in Paris for $364.

Seth Meyers x Correspondents' Dinner

If you have not already heard or seen, Seth Meyers was the keynote comedian at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner in DC, and killed it. Meyers goes after everyone there, Trump, Obama and an array of news reporters. President Obama also gave a great comedic attempt calling out all his critics and more, see that one here.

XL Recordings Presents...

Tyler, The Creator. May 10.

Nah Mean

Nas & Damian Marley's new video and single is great, they did the whole 'marching through your hood and rapping' music video technique justice.

The Weeknd x House of Blues

House of Balloons is the newest trending mixtape making headway in this new social networking driven world of music. The Weeknd is one vocalist, who works with the same two producers on the whole mixtape, they combine slow grinding 808s and well written verses to create a new unique version of RnB. Get it here.

Carter IV Artwork

Lil Wayne's the Carter 4 comes out June 21 now after being pushed back once again, and here is the artwork for the album, he done graduated.

Can I Live

Pusha T: Now thats more like it. The beat, the flow, and the outfit.

Kanye Beats

Via Hypbeast:
"Former Interscope-signed rapper Jensen Karp recently stumbled across a couple of CD’s in his garage, both given to him in 2001 during his time at the label. Each had the name Kanye West written on them and are believed to be the oldest Kanye West beats to ever be released."

Long story short, this is the first time someone said "Eyyy, those beats are dope." Listen to them here.

Seattle Now & Then

Westlake Avenue in 1907 and 2011, more visuals can be seen at Seattle's Museum of History & Industry new exhibit.

Yonkers

Tyler The Creator's new album Goblin is coming soon, get hooked now as opposed to later. You can see more of the Odd Future member at their tumblr here.

WTC Opened 37 Years Ago

Today, 37 Years ago, the World Trade Center changed the New York skyline and it's structure for ever. In 2001 we lost thousands of lives when two hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers.

This clip by CNN provides some every interesting facts about the two concrete pinnacles that were build almost 40 years ago.

Tommy Ton: London

GQ's in-house style photographer Tommy Ton, puts London's street style on display during fashion week there, see all 51 photographs here.

Your Love (Remix)

I believe the lighting makes this video.
Diddy Feat. Ricky Ross and Songz

Playback

Here is Collie Buddz' new single of his latest EP Playback. His voice and harmony is crazy (period)

Hip-Hop's Wealthiest

Forbes released a list of the Hip-Hop industries top earners. Here they are with their worth and what has helped them earn their money.

1. Diddy/$475 Million: Bad Boy Records, Sean John and Ciroc Vodka.
2. Jay-Z/$450 Mill.: 50 Mill. records sold, New book, Roc-a-fella Clothing, Restaurant/Club ventures.
3. Dr. Dre/$125 Mill.: Producing Records, Selling Records, Beats by Dre Headphones, Ads.
4. 50 Cent/$100 Mill.: Involved in the Vitamin Water sale to Coke, Records, G-Unit Clothing.
5. Birdman/$100 Mill.: Lil' Wayne.

Forbes' Methodolgy for calbulating the worth: "In order to form the list, we followed the same procedures we use to calculate the list of the world’s billionaires (released today) — valuing current holdings, looking at past earnings, leafing through financial documents and talking to a bevy of analysts, attorneys, managers and other industry players to find the nitty-gritty details. We considered only performers, which is why hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons isn’t on this list."

Passports By State x Red and Blue States

I realize it the second map of the US I have put up this week but I couldn't resist posting this one. The map on top refers to passport ownership by state, with the highest being NJ, and the lowest being Mississippi. The bottom map is a break up the 2008 election by state electoral votes, the choices Obama or McCain. The similarity are there, but not enough for direct correlation. So is there any sort of link between passport owners and general political affiliation by geographical area? If so, what does that say about people who use passports...hmm, you tell me. Via Grey's Blog.

RIP B.I.G.

Today marks 14 years since Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious BIG was shot and killed in LA, and as they should be, most of his songs are still played like he has album coming out. The video for "hypnotized" is still one of my favorites of all time, and I think it set a standard for all music videos after it.

Comedians by State

The Huff Post breaks down some of their favorite comedians by their state origin. WA got Joel McHale, the UW alumni who actually played football for the Huskies for two years. Click here to see who's funny elsewhere in the country.

Sex Music

"Need a patron and lime with this.."
Tank's on point with his new album, Atlantic Records scores another.

Lamborghini Aventador

The newest addition to Lamborghini's line of automobiles was released today at the Geneva Auto Show. Starting with an MSRP of $379,700, a top speed of 217 MPH, and ridiculous MPG of 17 the Aventador makes a Porshe Boxster look like the slow kid on the track team...

All Of The Lights

Kanye's latest single off his latest already platinum album.

Wiz x Fader

Mr. Black and Yellow stylishly covers the upcoming cover of Fader, and on a side note, his new mixtape Cabin Fever is out now. Get it here.

love faces

New Trey Songz. Happy Valentines Day.

Superbowl Spending

The numbers are in from this weekends Superbowl are in, and besides setting a record for viewership, Americans continue to tie Superbowl Sunday with many basic human vices: bad food and liquor.

The graphic illustrates: Highest viewership by state, grocery store purchases, top beer consumption, bar spending, liquor store spending, and more. Luckily Washington didnt make any of these lists.

Click the picutre to enlarge.

First Ever Aerial Footage: Uncontacted Tribe, Brazil

The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens.


This man, painted with annatto seed dye, is in the community's garden, surrounded by banana plants and annatto trees


Men painted with red and black vegetable dye watch the Brazilian government plane.

*Unfortunately, blogger can't format the video, so here are some pictures of the video. Click here to see the video.

This is the first ever footage released of this sort, and was taken along the Brazil/Peru border. It was a collaboration between the BBC and the Brazilian Government shot for a new movie "Human Planet." The main purpose of the footage is so Brazil’s Indian Affairs department (FUNAI) has proof to show the government, which will help stop loggers from impeding on their territories. Here is the article on HuffPost.