Good Eats & Booming Beats
For Raphael’s b-day last week, we had a last minute BBQ – the scene was on point, beautiful weather, good eats, great friends, and booming beats for sure – BIG thank you and props to Flying Lotus for blessing the 1s and 2s and blasting Saadiq’s crib into another dimension last Sunday, it was an [...]
Art by Upendo.
The homie Upendo Taylor is back at it here at Blakeslee Studios. Pen cranks out multiple large paintings daily, he’s a beast! So many that we’re starting to run out of wall space - art and music bless every inch of Blakeslee. Check out his blog and latest series: ’1 A DAY FOR 30 DAYS’.
Genesis of Style
“GENESIS OF STYLE”: STREET ETIQUETTE x TONE (full video coming in January)
“JKISSI : With the new year approaching rapidly it was only necessary to cap off the year, and the future of Street Etiquette, in a grand way. As many of you are aware, Street Etiquette teamed up with Photographer/Videographer TONE to [...]
KKM x UPENDO
Spreading love the Brooklyn way…new work by Upendo, dedicated to Kings Keep Marchin!
Click on image for more…
Santastic!
Carol and Phina of Sugarhead Quarters, dear friends of Lboogie made a introduction to Saadiq’s team and Santa Inoue (Santastic!). Thanks ladies for bringing everyone together for great friendships! While in Tokyo this summer, we had the pleasure to meet Santa and Hori, these guys hold in down in Japan! Santa is a brilliant artist [...]
Photos by Tone
TONE is the man, he does it again, capturing the moments on the road. Click on the photo to link to more.
www.photobytone.com
Spin Earth
Click on photo for full article.
By jackiecanchola
Nov 19, 2009
in Seattle, USA, North America
Genre: HipHop/Rap/R&B, Pop
The “Kings Keep Marchin” tour opener by Raphael Saadiq hit Seattle the other night, and it quite a show see live. Amazing that he still has the energy to make the whole crowd giddy and wild. He gives his mind, [...]
Rehearsal
Click on photo to see more behind the scenes images of Kings Keep Marchin Tour band rehearsal at Blakeslee.
Photos by Mel Cole.
Inspiration of the Day
Good friend of the team and dope photographer Mel Cole aka Village Slum shot this photo in NYC at Irving Plaza. Mel is in town from New York this weekend, taking photos at Blakeslee of the band rehearsal, check back soon for pics. Follow this cat, super talented! www.villageslum.com
HOOD BAZAAR ART SHOW
UPENDO TAYLOR aka Tha Black Krayon SOLO ART SHOW
NOVEMBER 13th – LOS ANGELES, CA
HOSTED BY RAPHAEL SAADIQ
SPONSORED BY Sho Chiku Ba & Gatorade
inspiration o’ day
Meet TJ…
A close friend to the Saadiq crew, Tara Johnson, drew this amazing pen & ink illustration of Raphael (inspired by Tone’s photo above), the detail is beautiful – Sometimes lyrics, waves, birds and even an OM yoga symbol.
Raphael came up with the concept for The Way I See It while cooling out [...]
Deadline
Bang-yao Liu – Deadline
This is one of the coolest stop motion videos I’ve ever seen.
Reulf
Cool video and visual effects from students in Paris
Reulf from Charlesque on Vimeo.
“Reulf is student project from University of Paris VIII directed by Quentin Carnicelli, Charles Klipfel & Jean-François Jégo as part of our graduate program in Arts and Technologies de l’Image.
Music composed by Robert le magnifique & Olivier Mellano.”
By the way…I shot the 3rd [...]
CRASH x F-Toys x Fender Mini Guitars
Japan 2009 release: the Telecaster mini, companion to the Stratocaster miniature released last year…
check hypebeast for more info.
Reed Pages
via: highsnobiety.
First look at Reed Pages with Jeff Staple via HighSnobiety, the new Staple Design in-house magazine, that evolves around their store and gallery space, The Reed Space.
“Reed Pages is at the forefront of contemporary culture, art and design. It is dedicated to delivering inspirational, informative and authentic content. It brings together the new and [...]
For the New Yorkers – check this !
SIGNS OF THE TIMES….
AN ART EXHIBITION BUT THEM JENKINS BOYS
RON UPPERMAN & UPENDO TAYLOR
@ PUBLIC SCHOOL STORE
593 JERSEY AVE @ 4TH ST
JERSEY CITY NJ 07302
7PM-10PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 5TH, 2009
OPEN BAR
THIS EXHIBITION IS COLLABORATION BTWN RON & PEN CONSISTING OF PAINTINGS, PRINTS, AND HANGING SCULPTURES.