Aside from creating some of the most technologically advanced and respected automobiles in the world, BMW has debuted their latest innovation, the GINA Light Visionary Model. The dynamic model enables a car’s structure to shape and change and reflects an all new way of thinking and approach to the automotive world. The GINA acronym is based around geometry and N for infinite changes which has become embodied as a BMW company wide philosophy to pushing the envelope. The GINA Light Visionary Model’s concept of a skin in a non fixed/ non metal form offers numerous benefits including less energy intensive production. Definitely an interesting concept to see make its way into the general marketplace.
Aside from creating some of the most technologically advanced and respected automobiles in the world, BMW has debuted their latest innovation, the GINA Light Visionary Model. The dynamic model enables a car’s structure to shape and change and reflects an all new way of thinking and approach to the automotive world. The GINA acronym is based around geometry and N for infinite changes which has become embodied as a BMW company wide philosophy to pushing the envelope. The GINA Light Visionary Model’s concept of a skin in a non fixed/ non metal form offers numerous benefits including less energy intensive production. Definitely an interesting concept to see make its way into the general marketplace.
Thursday, June 12th marks the latest collection of exclusive The Hundreds Rosewood collection items for the summer season. The collection is restricted to The Hundreds’ two flagship stores located in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In an unexpected move between Puma and Sneaker Freaker, a part two to their Blaze of Glory collaboration was revealed in Sneaker Freaker’s Issue 12. Here’s an in-depth look at the follow-up black colorways. The Blaze of Glory features neoprene booties, Trinomic cushioning units and soles, common traits with the all too familiar Disc Blaze. Look for these to hit hanon shop in the upcoming weeks.
London based label Second Son have been around since 2005 and have steadily been gaining momentum and building their range of clean designs and British humor. They have just dropped their new collection; the theme for this collection is “Ignorance is Bliss””, and this new drop features their first foray into the world of Denim. They have produced a redline selvedge denim in Indigo and Black and only 100 pairs of each colour were produced. For the new look book they enrolled a close friend by the name of Nash Money to do the modeling, which led to some funny results. This new collection has landed at various stockists worldwide, including Ryouki, Division East and Fresh Cotton.
Lacoste has been continually celebrating its 75th anniversary with cool concepts and exclusive shoes, and now here comes another one. The Stealth Pack includes 5 different styles from the Lacoste family – Dot, Ardeur, Cabestan, Missouri, and Tennis 91. All the shoes come in black and white, and feature embossed original 1933 croc branding that’s exclusive to this pack. Hitting Lacoste retailers in July.
New York-based brand, Acapulco Gold, just released some New Eras for 2008 summer. Both caps come in black camo pattern, one with blue logo and the other with red. With AG’s simple and clean logo, these caps will be good for all summer occasions. Now available at Boundless NY.
As a mainstay in the skateboard community, Salman Agah, seems to have done it all. As a professional, he pioneered switchstance skateboarding in the early 90’s, received one of skateboarding’s highest honors as Thrasher’s Skater of the Year, and had a signature shoe with Vans. He has kept his scene alive through Skatebook.tv, a website dedicated to celebrating skateboarding’s past, present and future. Agah recently teamed up with legendary photographer Mike Ballard to create a series of coffee table books simply called, Skatebook. These epic 300-page pieces of visual excellence are filled with photos, quotes, write-ups, and tons of behind the scenes commentary on the last few decades of skateboarding.
There has been 2 editions of Skatebook that have been released so far, with the latest being the John Cardiel edition with a special split cover. The third edition will be the Lance Mountain edition and that should be out sometime in August. These books are only distributed through mom and pop skate shops and are given by those shops as a gift to say thank you for supporting; they can also be obtained during autograph signings at skate demos. Skatebook is made for those of us who eat, sleep, breathe, sweat and live for skateboarding. Companies such as New Era, Vans, LRG, Emerica, Altamont, Nike, Stereo, The Berrics, Etnies, and many, many more have contributed in MASSIVE ways to make Skatebook what it is.
So stop by your local skate shop, hit them up about Skatebook, buy a new board and get out there and be a part of this.
Much has changed since Fat Joe first came on the scene as a hard core, East Coast, boom bap enthusiast with the legendary “Digging in the Crates” (DITC) crew in the mid 90s. Since the rotund MC dropped his first album “Represent” in 1993 and more notably his seminal “Jealous Ones Envy” in 1995 hip hop has seen the death of its two largest icons in Tupac and Biggie, his crew member Big L as well as his friend and protégé Big Pun. Violence and death alone is enough to disillusion any hip hop enthusiast but changing styles and fickle fans tastes have pushed many artists into unwilling early retirement. Fat Joe has been able to stand as a shining example of perseverance in a culture that disposes of its artists on almost a daily basis. He has been able to collect different approaches to recording, flow patterns, beats and allegiances as often as he does sneakers in his massive collection.
Critically some have lambasted his later career as “trend jumping”, and as of late his record sales have dwindled significantly. But, the fact that people still care and that he’s still talked about speaks volumes. From his recent exchange of lyrical jabs with 50 cent and physical jabs with Papoose it doesn’t seem that he’s going anywhere soon. The latest remix of his song “Ain’t Sayin’ Nuthin” from his album “The Elephant in the Room” shows how he has persevered so long. Sonically the song is dramatic mesh of synthesizers, piano chimes and rapid fire drums. Joe wisely teams up with possibly the biggest mainstream forces on the west and south in Lil Wayne and The Game in an end to end brag fest with each artists attempting to outdo the other in a test of bravado and swagger.
Listen to the track [HERE]
New York brand Absurd are set to take on the 2008 summer season with a solid collection of t-shirts in their latest releases seen here. Maintaining a casual and fun attitude towards the world, their designs are often good for a laugh. Look for this collection to include a collabo with IRAK NY, inspired by the 2000 MLB Subway Series between the Yanks and the Mets. Other inspirations deal extensively with 90s pop-culture with the Martin, Noid and Above the Rim designs. Available soon at Cmonwealth.com, Karmaloop.com, and UNION NY & LA.
The third and final installment between New York sneaker store David Z. and Saucony comes to a conclusion later this week. Marked by two colorful releases in the past, this third model is inspired by Goldbar, an establishment often frequented by David Z.’s resident sneaker design guru Ronnie Fieg for each year’s birthday bash. Look for these to become available online at David Z. on Thursday, June 12th and in-stores the following day at 10:00 am. The suggested retail price for each of the 120 pairs is $90 USD.
David Z.
556 Broadway(bet. Prince and spring st.)
New York City, NY
10012
Lacoste’s premium Stealth collection looks to carry its well deserved momentum acquired over the last few seasons into the 2008 fall/winter collection with a series of Missouris seen here. The cross-trainer style sneaker looks to some interesting twists such as reptile leather and well balanced colorways to highlight the collection.
Source: BKRW
