Nike has joined the outpouring of support after Haiti’s earthquake with a tee shirt designed by Haitian-American students in Florida. Check out the details below…
Over a month has passed since the devastating earthquake the shook the small island of Haiti and captivated the entire world. Many countries were quick to lend hands, but in dire situations like these, emotional support is also welcome. Nike Basketball took a trip to Forest Park Elementary School in Southern Florida, a school with a 60% Haitian population, to create a piece of artwork meant sent a message of hope, love and empathy to the Haitian people. The tag line reads ‘Kinbe Pa Lage’, which translates to ‘Hold on tight, don’t let go’. The artwork was placed on a Nike Basketball t-shirt, and was placed for sale at $25 a piece at Nike retailers, with all proceeds going to Mercy Corps and Architecture for Humanity, two of Nike’s partners in the Haitian Relief Effort.
Click the images below for a few more shots of the shirt….
Our folks over at Fresthetic have put together an event tonight featuring Puerto Rican artist Rimx. Check out the detail below…
Opening & Release Party
Art & Tees by Rimx from Puerto Rico // El Coro
Fresthetic releases the exclusive Supel Tuff T-shirt series by Rimx
DJ DION DECIBELS (ThinkBeat Radio/Bay Area)
H’ordeuvres & Drinks served.
Rimx was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico in 1981. David received his diploma from the Central High School of Visual Arts in Santurce, PR where he studied drawing, painting, etching, sculpture, and xylography and began his interest in urban art. Later, he continued studying at the University of Plastic Arts in Old San Juan, PR, where he specialized in drawing the human figure, portrait and figurative art. He also studied editorial illustration, xylography, engraving and graphic design. After finishing his studies, he dedicated himself to incorporating the various techniques of classic art into urban art, specializing in murals. He has also worked doing editorial illustrations for magazines, newspapers, children’s publications, book covers, etc. David is a member of the artist collective CORO, which is comprised of graphic designers, illustrators and plastic artists. The CORO has successfully exhibited in Puerto Rico, Tokyo, Paris and New York. In addition to his collaborative works, David has held many solo exhibits. He also curated the Espacio Disponible show for the Caribbean University in Bayamon, PR
Yesterday morning we did a photo shoot for our new product, I just wanted to give a sneak peak at some of new stuff that’s coming out. If you managed to make it out to the Cargo Trade Show then you’ve already seen it, but for the rest of you its new. We’ll have the new product up for retail later this week. Here are the out takes from the days work…
F1rst Person has been a good friend of ours for a minute. You might recognize him as one of the models for our Basquiat Tee. He’s been on the grind for a while now too, as both a rapper and producer. Check out his new video for his joint “Seeing Is Believing,” off of his The F1rst Move mixtape, below. Be sure to look out for cameos from Dom and I too…
The official video for F1RST PERSON’s debut single “Seeing is Believing.” The song is produced by F1RST PERSON and the video is directed by Joey Angerone. This is the first professional video for F1RST PERSON and is his first single from the acclaimed mixtape THE F1RST MOVE.
Just heard about a new DVD/CD combo that’s hitting stores. Check out the info below…
“If I wasn’t a singer,” Peter Tosh once said, “I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.” Funny he didn’t think he could be both, because that’s basically what he was: six-foot-three, stiff-lipped, carrying a guitar shaped like an M16 (a gift from a fan), cursing every 10 seconds, serially high, and considered such an effective agitator by cops that they beat him half to death in mid-1978. “I survived them by intellect,” he said later.
His reggae career started alongside Bob Marley and Bunny Livingston in the Wailers, a group he left in the mid-70s after Island Records’ Chris Blackwell refused to release his first solo album.
No surprise, really– compared to Marley, Tosh was nearly unmarketable. On love songs: “You turn on the fuckin’ radio, 24 bumboclaat hours a day you hear, ‘Darlin I love you.’ A man wouldn’t sing to the almighty a rasclaat, him love a woman more than the creator who create the sun and the moon and the bumboclaat star.”
On the enlightenment of the common man: “I am going to kill the fuckery out there. People is going to be in demand for the truth.” If “One Love” was Bob Marley’s song about paradise, “Equal Rights” was Tosh’s: “Everyone is crying out for peace, none is crying out for justice,” a reminder that nobody argues against feelgood platitudes, but nobody works to make them come true, either.
But one season’s rebel is the next’s vogue, and by 1978, Tosh was guesting on “Saturday Night Live” flanked by Mick Jagger dancing like an electrocuted game hen. In 1987, two years after the first digital dancehall single (King Jammy & Wayne Smith’s “Under Mi Sleng Teng”) radicalized Jamaican music, Tosh won a Grammy for No Nuclear War, a lukewarm hash of roots reggae– the kind of muck longtime contributors to their fields finally win Grammys for regardless of quality. Months later, he was murdered in a botched robbery.
The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience is a $35 package containing one 14-track audio disc and two DVDs: Stepping Razor: Red X (which is already commercially available) and footage of several performances.
Purchase The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experiencehere. Purchase our Peter Tosh tee, pictured above, here. Also, you can view Stepping Razor (Red X), in it’s entirety, here.
The lovely lady above is Águeda Ramírez, who I’ve mentioned before when she was in Homeboy Sandman’s video a little while back, and who you of course remember as the model for our ¡Azúcar! Brown Tee. Needless to say, she’s one of our peoples.
Águeda (or Agi, if you’re cool with her…like me!) is currently in the running to appear on the hit Fox Show Bones through an online contest they’e running. To be in consideration for the show, she has to finish in the top 5, and she’s been headed that way, gaining ground daily.
Want to help her reach the top? Click here to cast your vote. Voting continues everyday through February 16th, so vote daily.
Delgado says he’s “honored and flattered” that Lou Melendez, the GM of Puerto Rico’s team, asked the Clemente family’s permission and they said yes. There’s nerves, too - “I have to make sure I don’t embarrass myself,” Delgado said.
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“People thought he was a good player, but the stuff he did off the field goes beyond the 3,000 hits, the Hall of Fame,” Delgado said. “This guy dedicated his life to helping the needy. Obviously, in that era, players didn’t make the kind of money they do today, but he gave a lot. People still talk about him 36 years later, schools are named after him, stadiums, parks.”
That’s a good look for him. Check out more info on the story here.
I posted on Homeboy Sandman before, partly because he’s peoples but mainly because he’s consistently nice with it. That said, check out the new video for his song, “Lightning Bolt. Lightning Rod.,” below…
