Porsche heritage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQBrQ5qd5w8&feature=player_embedded#

Whale Hunt: very awesome interface and strange content

http://thewhalehunt.org/whalehunt.html

Japanese people don't have the 'not funny' meter

ghostly. nice work spike jonze

Me and Kevin used to breakdance at 24th x Mission when we lived in SF.

No not mad hardcore at the BART station or anything, just in a studio that was above the donut shop across from El Faro.

Have you ever wondered what KTFO means?

bullets. ballistic gel. steel plates. 1,000,000 frames / second

aggregated numbers infinitum

but let's not end up like this

Avalanche Skier POV Helmet Cam Burial & Rescue in Haines, Alaska from Chappy on Vimeo.

Isao Machii - Modern Samurai

Isao Machii - Modern Samurai

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mikkel bang is doin it. let's get it this year kevin!

DEADLINE

history of flight. genius

this may become a smokey nagata fan site. 950hp V12TT Supra annihilating Nihon's highway infrastructure

lego reservoir dogs trailer

billy dee presidential

let's try this this weekend!

tired of living?

philippe petit was more tired than you.

hyperize don't criticize - i like kevin durant's part best.

and how handy would this lil guy be?

This is all you need to know

stop me before i undertake something expensive and time consuming.

check the bike at 3.27 un bee weavable.

i like how Nagata looks like one of the electrical engineers that my dad used to work with, then busts 205mph on a tokyo highway in a 1200hp skyline.

Let's not try this

thank me later. best blog going. i can only strive to approach, or else quit.

http://jblyth.com/blog.html

yahl know who you are

http://jblyth.com/blog.html

and Artest is just purely insane.

...his recent revelation that he had been pining to play for the Lakers for two solid years. Artest told reporters that he wandered into the Lakers' locker room to express that desire to a showering Kobe Bryant -- right after L.A.'s bitter Game 6 thrashing in Boston in the 2008 Finals, no less -- adding, "Yeah, I walked in the shower. I'm not a homosexual or nothing like that, but Kobe had no clothes on."

I think Steph is bipolar.

a good use of 10 minutes

Twenty-three from Daesun Hwang on Vimeo.

disappointing

toine, come on mang...more than the bad checks, i'm disappointed that you think Planet Hollywood and Caesars are good places to wager your shimmy-earned ducats at.

Item: Former Boston Celtic arrested in South Lake Tahoe
Details: Former Boston Celtics star, Antoine Walker, was arrested Wednesday evening at Harrah’s Casino in South Lake Tahoe. The arrest came a day after a warrant was issued for Walker’s $822,500 in gambling debts and writing bad checks. The losses are spread across Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood and the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa. Walker took out markers beginning July 27, 2008, to Jan. 19, 2009. The star forward wrote six checks to Caesars for $100,000 each and four to Planet Hollywood and Red Rock also for $100,000 each.
View: The bad check unit the Clark County District Attorney’s office has statutory fees for bad checks over the amount of $10,000 is 10% of the face amount of the check. The DA will issue two letters urging to pay restitution and warning of possible criminal charges, if there is no response or payment arranged the DA will screen the case for possible criminal prosecution. Prosecution will depend on criminal history, unknown whereabouts, or high volume of additional complaints.

feel like a peugeot?

But I’m glad that people are paying attention to my mustache, you know what I mean? - Raekwon on Cuban Linx II

(via NYmag)

Raekwon Promises Us That Cuban Linx II Exists, Will Be Out in August
6/25/09

Thankfully, not all the Wu-Tang Clan members we interview are amusingly distracted. Raekwon — who will release the much-anticipated, much-delayed sequel to his classic 1995 debut Only Built 4 Cuban Linx on August 11 — was downright chummy! Since we can’t believe this thing is actually coming out, we got Rae on the phone early to talk about recording the original album, the distribution deal he landed with EMI for the sequel, and the reason people are paying attention to his mustache.

You were publicly critical of RZA after 8 Diagrams, but he’s working on OB4CLII. How'd you patch things up?

I mean, we family. Everything that me and RZA were going through, it was controversial and it got out to the air, but we both already knew where we were going with it. It ain’t like I did nothing behind his back. I don’t rock like that. Whatever it is, he already knew my energy, and he knew I had an important project as well. At the end of the day, we brothers.

Can you talk about experience of recording the original Cuban Linx?

That album was more like a street album — it was done in the basement, it was done with straight-up beats and rhymes, it wasn’t about trying to make it anything to sit on a pedestal with commercial hip-hop. It was just coming fresh off the block, like, "Yo, these are the beats that Rae likes and he’s gonna spit that street shit cause that’s all he know." And I definitely picked the production that I felt was good for my chamber. You know, niggas wasn’t rhyming to shit like "Rainy Dayz" or "Criminology," like that kind of sound. Me and RZA knew we was coming across with a new sound.

So you knew at the time you were recording it’d be something special?

Everything was special, ’cause we professionals and we take that hip-hop shit serious. But if you look at the title, it’s called Only Built 4 Cuban Linx because we felt that it was only built for a few people. It could have been just 50,000 people that fell in love with the album: We just wanted to make it for the ones that could relate to the struggle and to my street days and all the shit.

How much of the delay on the sequel was due to your own perfectionism?

I’m the type of artist that I never like to rush everything. It definitely took a process because I wanted to make sure that I had a kind of ill kind of production, ’cause when you talking about doing Cuban Linx, you go back to the classic Wu sound. We wanted to bring that back to life. And if you know like I know, a lot of the radio music today don’t even know how to understand that kind of sound. And we wanted to go back and really create a façade of the early nineties, of when I didn’t have a record deal, and it was just about the beats and the rhymes. But it gave me a lot of time to really stash a lot of good beats.

You’re bringing in a lot of non-Wu performers this time. What is it about guys like Bun B, Jadakiss, and the Game that you can relate to?

I think not only the passion for real hip-hop, but they street niggas as well. They got a certain kind of credibility out there that basically relates to mine. Game, Bun B, Kiss, they been around the life, hands on with it — you can hear it in the music. ’Cause at the end of the day, I’m always going to be underground. I don’t care if I do 20 million in sales, my background is underground. It’s straight drug-dealing music. Straight over the stove again.

What went wrong with the original Aftermath/Dr. Dre/Busta Rhymes Deal?

I mean, it wasn’t really anything that went wrong. It became a big rumor about me going to Aftermath, and somebody leaked it out like it was a go. But we never really put no paperwork together and had no John Hancock when we was basically in bed. It was just a negotiation. Me and Busta have had this brotherly love relationship — to me Busta is a Wu Tang member from the other side. Me and him never worked out no business deal, it was more a friendship.

Have there been various versions of the album, or has it been one continuous evolution?

I mean, you know, people got the philosophy that it’s so many different versions. But anything that I made, I always bottled it up and, you know, threw it in the water so nobody could find it. So anything that I’m releasing now is basically me just letting you know I still got it. But everybody is judging it to be Cuban Linx. That’s a laugh to me. I gotta laugh it off, ’cause I’m like, "Yo, you haven’t even heard shit yet." But I’m glad that people are paying attention to my mustache, you know what I mean? They watching how my shit is shaped up.

How many members of Wu-Tang are on the album?

I could never do another Cuban Linx album without having the family on it. Every member is on there, doing their thing. Even if you don’t hear my brothers really ringing bells right now, I always believe in them.

The original was billed as “Guest-Starring Tony Starks.” Is Ghostface as involved this time around?

I want to keep a few things hidden until it’s time to basically purchase the album, but in this case, Ghost really stepped to the plate and put his best foot forward, ’cause he knew where he came from. You looking at a substantial amount of Ghostface Killah. This is his baby as well.

You’ve mentioned you almost went the independent route. How close of a call was it?

I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I’ve been in the game a long time and you know when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it’s like it's hard to convince them what I can do. They don’t respect the fact that I’m bringing in a collective item, and the labels weren’t really trying to give me the proper support system that I needed and made me feel like, “Yo, if you not gonna respect it, if you not gonna promote it, I might as well do it myself, and capitalize off my decisions.” And that’s when I decided to do another situation where I create my own buzz — Rae’s not an artist on Cuban Linx, Rae’s selling a brand to EMI, and EMI is coming up as a partner.

Last thing. Can we get any collateral over the album really coming out August 11th?

[Laughs]Yo, you crazy. Yo, can we get some collateral?! The only collateral I can give you is my word. I’m a man of my word. I know a lot of people is doubting this project is even existing. Y’all helped me eat for years — I would never play with y’all. That’s why I been giving ya’ll free music. I look at it like you said, "Yo, you got me waiting, can I get a fucking soda? Can I get a juice? Can I get a fucking sandwich?" And that’s my way of giving back. But I do have to make sure that my I’s is dotted and my T’s is crossed. August 11 is official. That’s the final destination for the album. Get ready.

tommy lee jones loves boss coffee...and so do i

don't worry this is not turning into a Japan blog, but dope is dope.

this continues to be awesome.

the mysterious case of the tree that grew into a car.

we need to step up our mysterious quotient here in the US of A.

skeeels

RC cars have e brakes now?

history of pininfarina by david beasley, senior designer at pininfarina (=radical)

Batista “Pinin” Farina.

Battista, or Pinin as his nick name was to his friends and family (meaning “little” or “baby” in Piemontese dialect) started drawing this new automobile invention early on and soon became an apprentice mechanic at the age of 12 years old working in his older brother Giovanni’s coachworks in 1905. This informative period brought him into a new and interesting world, a period of time that both fascinated and scared western culture, where the machine was art and the firery mayhem of a racing car was the most awe inspiring sight -more beautiful than anything in the history of art, sculpture and music. The “Futurist” art movement of the early 20th century captivated this moment in history and Pinin wanted to be part of this.

bmx is cool but I can never take my mind off the high potential for crotch annihilation

especially when you look at the 20-ft dirt jumping guys. thanks for the link Jacob

simmons' analysis of kobe's 'transformation' in 09

Did Kobe do a better job of conforming this spring, or did the Lakers do a better job of surrounding him with efficient players who complemented him? Think about what he had in the 2004 Finals: Gary Payton sullenly standing in the corner, Karl Malone limping around, an out-of-shape Shaq who wasn't totally invested anymore, the immortal Devean George and Slava Medvedenko, a washed-up Rick Fox ... I mean, come on. Those guys battled constantly, with the battles centering around the same thing: Kobe wanted to spread his wings, everyone else wanted him to conform. They weren't invested in his individual success. They were threatened by it.
Not the 2009 Lakers. Take Gasol, who shot 62 percent from the field in the last two rounds. You know how many shots he attempted in those 11 games? 120. You know how many big guys would have been happy with a situation in which their coach said, "I know you score six out of every 10 times we get you the ball, but you're going to have to live with 11 shots a game because we can't win a title unless Kobe's happy?" Not many. Shaq didn't like the arrangement and got shipped out of town. Gasol came from NBA Hell (Memphis), and he was willing to sacrifice to make the Lakers better. He's a big reason they won. He crashed the boards, killed himself on defense and reinvented himself as a complementary sidekick of the highest order.
Did you hear about Gasol's sacrifice during the playoffs? Not really. Just like you didn't hear about Odom's willingness to give up minutes and touches during a contract year (a rarity in the NBA these days), or Ariza's red-hot shooting and the irony of Orlando giving him away last season. We always heard about Kobe sacrificing, but really, the key to the 2009 title was that he finally found three talented sidekicks willing to sacrifice for him. Big difference.

the sixers almost took Pierce in the draft before the Celts, but instead chose to honor their pre-draft commitment to...Larry Hughes!

initial d is juvenile yet very awesome. we watch it more than i would admit in polite company.

prince paul's a prince among thieves...an unnoticed masterpiece

superflat - i thought this would be wack but i actually dig it.

whole pig roasted 24 hours

Scott's Bar-B-Que in South Carolina. Got to take Mom here.

Large Pro remix Resurrection

first Comm Sense song I ever heard. Don't watch the Bulls as much...

fresh. why is japanese street style so fresh? and other than the milanese who can even f with them in the world?

click on image to waste 20 minutes in an instant

papalote = birth of a robot son. someone needs to pay this guy money.

click view quicktime

i'm so jealous of chris childs. how much would you pay to slap the shit out of kobe? me, $500 minimum.

Godzilla timelapse

Pretty stunning. It's like having your own little toy world.

Rajon Rondo: pre draft analysis vs present pro analysis

http://www.draftexpress.com/blog/NBA-Coverage/#Playoff-Retrospective-Rajon-Rondo-3239

Extremely satisfying read and illuminates all of the things I love about Rajon: quiet leader by example, determined and clever defender, crafty driver, and most impressive of all, a demeanor that has allowed him to blend, orchestrate, and now lead a team with 3 Hall of Famers.

$3g's worth of tennis court resurfacing materials are arriving tomorrow

Club development proceeds apace! Now I need a makita to saw off the volleyball posts, a scraper to scrape off all the crust around the cracks, and to rent a powerwasher to blow off all the sand and dirt before crack filling and resurfacing.

not much progress is going to happen this month because we're traveling too much. PHX (wedding reception), San Antonio (wedding), and Palm Springs (kick it with Cimini and his newly restored 300ZX. Then pups are going to take over our lives, so I'm thinking realistically July is the month when the work is really going to go down.

mindblowing. they should post the outtakes too.

speaking of which

it's a pretty fascinating evolution from the hakosuka to the godzilla R34 to the modern R35 GTR. she really has let herself go hasn't she? from a svelte compact to an athletic racer to a chunky supercar. Of course the performance stats become progressively more ridiculous, but there is a qualitative change in attitude. My humble opinion prefers the R34, which somehow epitomizes for me the JDM / Gundam / Macross spirit. By the way the R34 here belongs to JDMEgo who has his own blog that illustrates the maniacal attention to detail he's invested in his R34. Cold unbelievable.

classic muscle: hakosuka skyline GTR

there are 2 types of cars i waste my time looking at: ones that i actually might find and buy, and ones that are just dope but utterly fantastical. the hakosuka skyline GTR is in the latter category.



totally impractical unless you can find one, pony up to import it, and find someone with the knowledge and passion to provide maintenance assistance and advice regularly. future tense...maybe.

you deserve this.

Osaka people are awesome. I dare you to try this in NYC.

"Do you think these girls like me? NO, they like my money!"

How do you think I got into the RE game to begin with ? My guy TV put me down and helped me ditch these losers!

that's right i'm bored

EXCERPT: I return to the restroom about four minutes and ten seconds later, and the rear stall is now open. PAYDIRT!!! The middle stall is still occupied by the same dude as before (I can tell by seeing the same shoes and pants on the floor underneath the door). I actually think to myself, “that sucks, poor guy.” After wiping the toilet seat, I sit down and take a refreshing and cleansing poo. Things are looking up in life again.

I go to flush the toilet and sneer at how ugly it looks in there. It’s bad. Really bad. It is actually too gross for me to follow-through on taking a picture of it and texting it to my friend Steve.


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and stop fronting you still need more P

and more...

more Extra P science

who's Large you said?

Dee and Ricky

http://www.deeandricky.com/files/DR_PR.pdf

The legos are a fun gimmick of course my cheap ass would just go to Kay Bee and cop a set to make my own rather than pay $85 for a belt buckle. I like their fits though classic and old school but not too neoned 80's-ed out.

AW YEAH. Shawn Johnson won DWTS.

vintage rod laver

the official trainer of C.R.C., standard issue. how off the meters are these? the crepe wraparound on the sole is b, a n a n a s.

Large Pro new album interview

not the most complicated with the raps but i like his forward and direct style more than anyones. always the most flavorful beats. large pro repping! i wish there was a whole large pro movie just following him around for a week.

coatbridge racquet club: before shots

coatbridge racquet club begins its inaugural tennis court resurfacing. this court surface is what remained under the 11 tons of beach volleyball sand that Rene left us (see the volleyball poles still up). my summer project is resurfacing, painting, sealing, and striping the court to present CRC with the crispiest tennis court in the scotch 8os. with a brand new basketball hoop of course. memorize the befores, i'm hoping to drop the afters in a month or so. maybe 2.

luxury rickshaw formula 1 through the streets of Beijing.

Jacob Horowitz, urban swing, Toronto, a couple years ago.

Greetings.

first

what?