The Constorium of Greater Minds

just thought it might be of interest to the members of the consortium. you can make air max 90 id’s online for $160 before shipping. Expensive yes, but you can get the patent and buffalo of course. colors are a little more limited than what we’ve seen at 255. but since i’m not that excited about the dunk options, i might have to get a pair. it would definitely be a cop if the midsoles wouldn’t crack as seen on the last pair of eyecues.

just log in to nike.com and click members only store on the top right of the menu bar.

i need some new summer shoes though….

i stumbled across one of their cds in tokyo. check them out.

Check out this article on the front page of the New York Times business section today. Apparently Blackberry service went out yesterday for 10 hours. people, of course, were wylin out thinking that the world was gonna end and shit.

One guy said that the outage gave him “a lot of free time on my hands to spend with my wife, although I couldn’t find her since her BlackBerry was off.”

Now you know why I call it the Crackberry?

coming at you via the publik hair…new GOODS fitted for the summer. keep an eye on these cats from the emerald city

also out of the emerald/cap hill scene comes my favorite new T from flying coffin. keeping it real in sunny seattle

After a one week hiatus, the Apple Juice Breaks are back on WMUC 88.1 FM 12-2AM. Gonna be playing a lot of modern soul with plenty of gems you won’t hear anywhere else.

Listen live to tonight’s show here.

Been spending some time in the WMUC record library, now that I’ve finally gotten a key. That place is amazing. Over 35,000 records and over 70 years of music history. Even though I’ve heard stories of people taking out trash bags full of records, in the few hours I’ve spent diggin in there, I’ve found plenty of gems; plenty of joints worth 80-90 bucks and one that usually goes for 150-200. Plenty of sample material. Stay tuned for future posts on specific finds. More than just records, I’ve found photos, posters, 8-track tapes, reel to reel tapes, old magazines everything.

Check out this vintage photo I found of the stacks.

!all values of yen x100

Supreme: everything in supreme japan is AT LEAST twice as expensive as the LES store.
*the loose guage beenie (for richard) was ~60 yen or ~52 daddy green backs
*the fila headband (for yourstruly) was ~15 yen or ~ 12 bucks
*vans collabo (fyt) ~ 130 yen or ~ 110 in johnny cash

Base Control: this store is “basically” visvim gear but 1/3 the price and x3 on the selection. quality isn’t far off compared to vim either, but sizes for us taller cats are a little hit and miss. i’m afraid that after the first wash my sweatpants might have to be worn at the mid shin gangsta level
*sweat pants were ~ 80 yen
*red polkadot LS T ~ 30 yen
*white LS thermal ~ 30 yen
*white 3/4 sleeve thermal ~ 30 yen
*purple LS thermal ~ saa

Busy Works Store Harajuku: as an international shopper might suspect, here at BAPE (japanese company) you see the exact opposite of what’s happening at supreme japan. everything here, compared to the SOHO store is about 2/3 to half the price. but you won’t find any XXL here big fellas!
*BAPE ape head T ~ 59 yen

Comme des Garcons: ill wallets you know from Commonwealth. CDG has a f’en crazy retail space in aoyama as well as a pop up store(?) called Dover Street Market where they have more of those fresh 3/4 zip wallets (exclusives too).
*ish is pretty expensive. large squarish 3/4 zip wallets are ~200 yen
*had some of the premuim leather AF1′s (including exposed airpocket joints) ~ 250 yen
*as for the CDG clothes…us bigger guys can pretty much forget about it unless you want to start rockin the emo look

Visvim F.I.L. space: this place is probably the coolest of the “street wear” spaces. so clean, spartan and full of light. lots of poured concret (yo, eyecue!) and white walls/fine wooden cabinets. BE WARNED! contents of store are EXPENSIVE!
*those yettie skin backpacks you wish you had ~ 450 yen
*shirts ~ nothing under ~150 yen
*you get the picture

TO BE CONTINUED…

partially devoured teriyaki burger from wendy’s…

will holding it down for the U in the inner city school

the line at supreme harajuku

for all you sushi addicts…

stumbled across this gem…giant 9 foot kaws dissection statue in the entrance

the damage

Everytime I go into Cmonwealth, I’ve been seeing this bag. Finally copped the middle one today. 2 bills. Shit is mad useful though. It’s gonna be the new school bag, record bag, dj bag, and you know I’m gonna take it to work to keep it a little street.

Today they dropped some new ish, including the illegal business hoodie, a nice new take on the otherwise played all over print craze. Even seen some designer all over prints. I know soundune was feeling them; they had one in large homie so if you need that, get at me. Biggup to the whole Cmon DC crew, especially my man who came through with the Tyson hook up.

We’ll have to wait to check out the Tokyo report from soundune in the next couple of days. I’m sure he’s got the Tokyo list drawn up already…

these guys were playing a cover of Marvin Gaye’s “what’s going on” in english

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Marvin Gaye’s version

it’s easy to get carried away at the conveyor belt

the giant daibutsu of kamakura…almost as impressive as the sweet potato ice cream

even big boys like their ice cream

me and the fat man

a crazy japanese map

lunch, delicious