I'll leave this one up to you guys...
Long Version done by the madmen of Weiden & Kennedy
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Influencers
INFLUENCERS TRAILER from R+I creative on Vimeo.
These are the people setting trends and making "cool" if you will. Enjoy
Sunday, October 24, 2010
"Fire" and Phoenix
A new film by artist Kanye West, say what you will about him, but the man is talented and this film even further proves this. I'm ok with people being cocky, if they back it up. The visuals in this are crazy, and the story is of a Phoenix who falls from the cosmos.
The film features music from Kanye's upcoming album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"...not to be confused with "Mr Toad's Wild Ride" Enjoy.
People keep pulling this video off so if it doesn't work just click one the small links in the player, I'll try and find a good one.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
"recently added"
Here's some of what I've been chewing on lately, some courtesy of CONCRETE OPINIONS and some found digging through hypem. Some are old and you may have heard them but hopefully most of them are new. A lot of these bands are on tour, check CONCRETE for all LA area tour dates.
These have been my soundtrack, I'm stuck on all of them...Enjoy
THE xx
"Islands", xx
THE xx
"Night Time", xx
THE xx
"Vcr", xx
YEASAYER
"Ambling Up", Odd Blood (my personal fave)
PICTURE PLANE
"Gothstar", Dark Rift
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
"Dance Yrself Clean", This is Happening (give this one a few mins and then it punches you in the face)
BLU HAWAII
"Blue Gowns", Blooming Summer
FM BELFAST
"Par Avion", How To Make Friends
THE ARCADE FIRE
"Modern Man", The Suburbs (this record deserves its own post)
These have been my soundtrack, I'm stuck on all of them...Enjoy
THE xx
"Islands", xx
THE xx
"Night Time", xx
THE xx
"Vcr", xx
YEASAYER
"Ambling Up", Odd Blood (my personal fave)
PICTURE PLANE
"Gothstar", Dark Rift
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
"Dance Yrself Clean", This is Happening (give this one a few mins and then it punches you in the face)
BLU HAWAII
"Blue Gowns", Blooming Summer
FM BELFAST
"Par Avion", How To Make Friends
THE ARCADE FIRE
"Modern Man", The Suburbs (this record deserves its own post)
Friday, October 22, 2010
Nonsense: 90's Ferraris and Jean Jackets
These guys are crazy and everyone is talking about 'em. CONCRETE OPINIONS schooled me in, and The Hundreds is bloggin about them too. Check out this video and there is a free mash-up for download by DJ O-Face.
DJ O-Face, Jay Bells
"Girls, Kids, Girls" (Jay-Z x Sleigh Bells)
Source: CONCRETE OPINIONS, The Hundreds
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Removed from Youtube
Die Antwoord, hipster South African Hip-Hop, I'm sure you've heard of them. I don't know how I feel about them yet but they are entertaining. This is courtesy of Bobby Hundreds, who photographed their show on Kimmel last night. This video was pulled off youtube for being offensive, it's like a Marilyn Manson x Prodigy x Pharcyde video combined. Check it out. Enjoy
EVIL BOY (official) from Die Antwoord on Vimeo.
Source: The Hundreds
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
After The Last Round
This is a documentary by a good friend of mine, Ryan Pettey, about the lasting effects of boxing on the body. He has been on a small tour with the film and the film was an official selection to the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Here's the trailer, facebook page, and a great write-up in the LA Times. Enjoy
Bardem and Inarritu
New Film from Inarritu, who directed Amores Perros and Babel is about to release his latest project starring Javier Bardem. Visually it looks amazing, keep an eye out in your local indie-theaters. Enjoy
Monday, October 18, 2010
Tony's Food Bucket List
1. St. John (London)
If I had to die with half a bite of anything hanging out of my mouth, it would probably be the roast bone marrow in Fergus Henderson’s plain-white dining room at St. John. Scooped out and slathered onto a crust of toasted bread and sprinkled with sea salt, it’s simple yet luxurious.
The menu is proudly English, a rebuke to anyone still laboring under the impression that English food sucks. Famously pork-centric and focused on traditional offal and game dishes, St. John is as wonderful for what it does as for what it doesn’t do: compromise. It specializes in good ingredients from ‘happy’ animals that are treated with love and respect.
Henderson has become a reluctant spiritual leader to a whole generation of chefs — and even the old-guard guys love to stop by for crispy pig tails, ham in hay or a properly roasted bird. This is one of the truly bullsh—free zones on the culinary landscape.
2. elBulli (Girona, Spain)
It’s the hardest reservation in the world. And everything they say is true: It’s an adventure, a challenge, a delicious and always fun acid trip to the farthest reaches of creativity.
Brothers Ferran and Albert Adrià and their team are the most influential and creative people working in food — and this surprisingly casual restaurant on a sleepy cove on Spain’s Costa Brava is probably the most important restaurant of our time.
Love it or hate it, if you have the opportunity to wangle a reservation, do it. It’s like seeing Jimi Hendrix’s first show. Forget any preconceptions you might have. Is it good? Yes. More important — is it fun? Yes. Yes. Yes.
3. The French Laundry (Napa Valley, California) & 4. Per Se (New York)
The best sit-down, multicourse, white-tablecloth meal of my life was at the French Laundry. And subsequent meals at Per Se, also run by chef Thomas Keller, were no less wonderful.
There’s no better way to go than the full-on tasting menu, a once-in-a-lifetime marriage of the best ingredients, creative thinking and high standards, along with the personal imprint of the most respected chef in the world.
How can Keller be at both restaurants at once? It doesn’t matter. Pick one. Fast for 2 days, stretch your stomach with water the day of, and then see how they do it at the very top. It’s a level of perfection in food and service that few even try to approach.
5. Sin Huat Eating House (Singapore)
It’s grimy looking, the service can be less than warm, the beer is served in a bottle (often with ice) and the tables sit halfway into the streets of Geylang, Singapore’s red-light district.
But the crab bee hoon — giant Sri Lankan beasts cooked with a spicy mystery sauce and noodles — is pure messy indulgence. The whelks, steamed spotted cod, prawns, scallops (in fact, any seafood available that day) are all worth having. Warning: It looks cheap, but it’s not.
6. Le Bernardin (New York)
This is the best fish joint … anywhere. And it’s relevant and fun, despite its formal service and fine-dining ambience.
The grand tasting menu is a stripped-down thing of relatively austere beauty. And whatever they’re doing this year or this month is always, always interesting.
7. Salumi (Seattle)
It’s a sandwich shop with a couple of tables and a true mom-and-pop — even if they’re the mom and pop of famous chef Mario Batali.
Anything cured, anything braised, any of the limited hot specials … in fact, anything the Batalis make is worth grabbing with both hands.
8. Russ & Daughters (New York)
Russ & Daughters started as a pushcart nearly a century ago, and it now serves some of the last traditional Eastern European Jewish-style herring and smoked belly lox, sable and sturgeon.
9. Katz’s Delicatessen (New York)
And since you’re close, walk down a few doors to Katz’s to remind yourself how pastrami is done right. This is what New Yorkers do better than anybody else. And here’s where they do it.
10. Etxebarri (Axpe, Spain)
Victor Arguinzoniz grills unlikely ingredients over homemade charcoal: baby eels, imperial beluga caviar, oysters. (The fresh chorizo and prawns work, too.)
Theoretically you can’t grill a lot of this stuff, but a handcrafted series of pulleys that raise and lower each item makes it possible. Eat here, and no one is eating better.
11. Sukiyabashi Jiro (Tokyo)
The best sushi on earth? Maybe. Jiro Ono is more than 80 years old, and he’s been doing old-school Edo-style sushi his whole life.
Every piece of fish is served at precisely the right temperature and the rice and seaweed alone are blackout good. Ono will ruin sushi for you from anywhere else.
12. Hot Doug’s (Chicago)
This place convinced me the Chicago red hot is, in fact, superior to the New York hot dog.
And it’s home to two great innovations in American gastronomy: the ‘foie gras dog’ and the weekends-only practice of cooking French fries in duck fat. It’s proof that food doesn’t have to be expensive to be great.
13. Oklahoma Joe’s Barbecue (Kansas City)
People may disagree on who has the best BBQ. Here, the brisket (particularly the burnt ends), pulled pork and ribs are all of a quality that meet the high standards even of Kansas City natives.
Source: FoodSlut
If I had to die with half a bite of anything hanging out of my mouth, it would probably be the roast bone marrow in Fergus Henderson’s plain-white dining room at St. John. Scooped out and slathered onto a crust of toasted bread and sprinkled with sea salt, it’s simple yet luxurious.
The menu is proudly English, a rebuke to anyone still laboring under the impression that English food sucks. Famously pork-centric and focused on traditional offal and game dishes, St. John is as wonderful for what it does as for what it doesn’t do: compromise. It specializes in good ingredients from ‘happy’ animals that are treated with love and respect.
Henderson has become a reluctant spiritual leader to a whole generation of chefs — and even the old-guard guys love to stop by for crispy pig tails, ham in hay or a properly roasted bird. This is one of the truly bullsh—free zones on the culinary landscape.
2. elBulli (Girona, Spain)
It’s the hardest reservation in the world. And everything they say is true: It’s an adventure, a challenge, a delicious and always fun acid trip to the farthest reaches of creativity.
Brothers Ferran and Albert Adrià and their team are the most influential and creative people working in food — and this surprisingly casual restaurant on a sleepy cove on Spain’s Costa Brava is probably the most important restaurant of our time.
Love it or hate it, if you have the opportunity to wangle a reservation, do it. It’s like seeing Jimi Hendrix’s first show. Forget any preconceptions you might have. Is it good? Yes. More important — is it fun? Yes. Yes. Yes.
3. The French Laundry (Napa Valley, California) & 4. Per Se (New York)
The best sit-down, multicourse, white-tablecloth meal of my life was at the French Laundry. And subsequent meals at Per Se, also run by chef Thomas Keller, were no less wonderful.
There’s no better way to go than the full-on tasting menu, a once-in-a-lifetime marriage of the best ingredients, creative thinking and high standards, along with the personal imprint of the most respected chef in the world.
How can Keller be at both restaurants at once? It doesn’t matter. Pick one. Fast for 2 days, stretch your stomach with water the day of, and then see how they do it at the very top. It’s a level of perfection in food and service that few even try to approach.
5. Sin Huat Eating House (Singapore)
It’s grimy looking, the service can be less than warm, the beer is served in a bottle (often with ice) and the tables sit halfway into the streets of Geylang, Singapore’s red-light district.
But the crab bee hoon — giant Sri Lankan beasts cooked with a spicy mystery sauce and noodles — is pure messy indulgence. The whelks, steamed spotted cod, prawns, scallops (in fact, any seafood available that day) are all worth having. Warning: It looks cheap, but it’s not.
6. Le Bernardin (New York)
This is the best fish joint … anywhere. And it’s relevant and fun, despite its formal service and fine-dining ambience.
The grand tasting menu is a stripped-down thing of relatively austere beauty. And whatever they’re doing this year or this month is always, always interesting.
7. Salumi (Seattle)
It’s a sandwich shop with a couple of tables and a true mom-and-pop — even if they’re the mom and pop of famous chef Mario Batali.
Anything cured, anything braised, any of the limited hot specials … in fact, anything the Batalis make is worth grabbing with both hands.
8. Russ & Daughters (New York)
Russ & Daughters started as a pushcart nearly a century ago, and it now serves some of the last traditional Eastern European Jewish-style herring and smoked belly lox, sable and sturgeon.
9. Katz’s Delicatessen (New York)
And since you’re close, walk down a few doors to Katz’s to remind yourself how pastrami is done right. This is what New Yorkers do better than anybody else. And here’s where they do it.
10. Etxebarri (Axpe, Spain)
Victor Arguinzoniz grills unlikely ingredients over homemade charcoal: baby eels, imperial beluga caviar, oysters. (The fresh chorizo and prawns work, too.)
Theoretically you can’t grill a lot of this stuff, but a handcrafted series of pulleys that raise and lower each item makes it possible. Eat here, and no one is eating better.
11. Sukiyabashi Jiro (Tokyo)
The best sushi on earth? Maybe. Jiro Ono is more than 80 years old, and he’s been doing old-school Edo-style sushi his whole life.
Every piece of fish is served at precisely the right temperature and the rice and seaweed alone are blackout good. Ono will ruin sushi for you from anywhere else.
12. Hot Doug’s (Chicago)
This place convinced me the Chicago red hot is, in fact, superior to the New York hot dog.
And it’s home to two great innovations in American gastronomy: the ‘foie gras dog’ and the weekends-only practice of cooking French fries in duck fat. It’s proof that food doesn’t have to be expensive to be great.
13. Oklahoma Joe’s Barbecue (Kansas City)
People may disagree on who has the best BBQ. Here, the brisket (particularly the burnt ends), pulled pork and ribs are all of a quality that meet the high standards even of Kansas City natives.
Source: FoodSlut
Damn Good Television
Only Jimmy and JT could pull off a white guy tribute to hip-hop...with a lil help from The Roots of course. Enjoy
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