My fellow Track bloggers

I truly enjoyed my time at Track Entertainment. Not only did I learn to work the internet, I also met a great group of people. Some of them are also bloggers! Check out their blogs (I'm gonna be interviewing them individually about their internet pursuits at a later date).


treesforbreakfast.com My boy Derreck Johnson's site will keep you up to date on the new, hot joints in hip hop and r&b. all the heads that declare hip hop dead need to get on TFB and click away.


littlegirlbigappetite jess lum's tasty blog . great recipes and restaurant reviews from a budding cook.

nycmindmunchies the musings of the coolest cat from central florida i know. mike gallupo is into rock and pop culture. he's got great bands on there.


thatchickfrombk what can i say about my homegirl diana kost, my bubbala? her blog is laugh out loud funny, in the vein of someecards.com
a lot of what she goes on about is about her cronies, who you feel you already know after reading a couple of posts.

Freshness

Rag and Bone's spring/summer collection highlights the sleeker cuts that are thankfully more prevalent now. There is a definite teddy boy influence here, harkening back to pre-punk England. Be careful when rolling up pants, if the cut is too big at the bottom you can go from looking fashionable to looking like Huck Finn.



These Guess General boots are dope! So dope that I got them in black and brown. Extremely comfortable and with a handy zip-up, you can dress these up and dress them down.



The peeps over at Acrimony are having a sale. Definitely check it out, they have fine wears over there.

Sneaker do's and dont's

I published this article last year on clubplanet.com (shouts to the whole crew, we were definitely a good team). You will NOT believe the amount of vitriol I got because I had the audacity to say the Nike dunk was played out.

Pause! worst of the worst

There's a saying in Spanish, "Sin Palabras," which means without words. Anything that your aunt down in Miami would consider rocking is strictly off limits. The brand Married to the Mob just made me want to get a divorce.




I have never been a fan of the hybrid. Either you are wearing sneakers, or you are wearing shoes. Anything in between is just ugly (I bring this up in the above internet article).




Last year's all-over print trend went over the top. Everyone from the hardest gangster to the oldest grandmother was rocking loud, colorful hoodies and t shirts. For some reason, the peeps at classickicks didn't get the memo that it was time to move on from this. These windbreakers are better suited for wallpapering a kid's room.

Hope poster creator is fraudulent

I have always liked the work of Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the famous Obama poster



and the Obey Andre the Giant campaign. That was until I read about how he basically steals most of his ideas from past artists and gives them no credit whatsover.

Read all about it:

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm

You thought rappers created freestyling?

Check these llaneros going at it. Kool Moe Dee and Busy Bee, Jay Z and Nas got nothing on these guys. Musica llanera literally means plains music for those of you who are Spanish deficient. The music employs a harp, guitar, and maracas to tell the tales of the llaneros (basically the cowboys of Colombia and Venezuela). This video highlights the contrapunteo, which is a freestyle battle between 2 copleros (singers of sonnets). Notice how the one that follows the other takes the last line from the other one to start off his flow. All this is off the dome! They diss each other, they boast, all in good fun and great music.

I love musica llanera. The first time I heard it I felt an instrinsic connection to it. Turns out my sister told me that my grandfather on my dad's side lives in los llanos. I am dying to head out there.

Go Postal

Martha Cooper, the photographer responsible for the iconic Subway Art book, keeps on the cusp of graff with her new project, Going Postal. She has turned her attention to sticker art, tags and art done primarily on U.S. Postal Service stickers. Cooper actually goes around New York City with some type of contraption that unsticks the stickers.
On Friday, February 20, the Ad Hoc Gallery will be showing some of the Going Postal series. For more info, www.adhocart.org