(Video) Dan Black Feat. Kid Cudi – Symphonies Remix

DatNewCudi.com: Dan Black Feat. Kid Cudi - Symphonies Remix from DP on Vimeo.



Very very creative. Loved the concept all around.

Surface to Air

If you paid attention to the last post I wrote you'll see take notice that Kid Cudi talks about his Surface to Air leather jacket that he adores so much. I peeped their website and found some nice pieces. Though Surface to Air is directed towards the consumer with a finer taste in the quality of their clothes. FYI there's a -30%/-50% sale happening on their online store [excluding leather shoes]. Peep some of their collection if you have time [here].

Born in Paris in 2000


SURFACE TO AIR is a unique group operating in contemporary fashion, communication and film

At the beginning in the late 90’s Surface To Air consisted of a group of friends who wanted to work on projects they liked. Year after year, the team has grown into a multidisciplinary company spanning across creative domains such as fashion, graphics, photography, design, music, films… Today each company develops its own activity but always within the Surface To Air vision.






Cudder makes "Glamour Magazine"



I'm super stoked about going to Cudi's concert next week at the Nokia Centre in New York. On another note Glamour Magazine featured Kid Cudi in their “Your Field Guide to Guys” section as the “man-child”. Here's what they had to saw about Scotty.


THE MAN-CHILD


PLUMAGE: Anything comfortable and bright. “I tend to stick to T-shirts and jeans,” says Kid Cudi, a child at heart. “Oh, and my Surface To Air leather jacket is the favorite thing I own. I love that jacket, and if anything ever happened to it, I’d be really hurt.”

BEHAVIOR: He is happy spending thenight with his video games. Really. “I’ve got an Xbox and I’ve got a Wii and I’ve got a Playstation 3.”

MATING HABITS: The Man-Child is looking for someone wjo is as confident with who she is as he is with himself. “I love a girl who is true to herself. If you’re not a girl that wears heels, then don’t wear heels.”

FIELD NOTES: To be with this guy, you have to know how to have fun. “The first thing that attracts me is personality,” says Cudi. “I’m a silly dude, and I love to crack jokes….I want somebody who can hang with that. If I spit out a joke, I want somebody who bounces right back and spits out a joke at me.”

T-shirt – Ice Cream; Jeans – A.P.C.; glasses – Vienna Line; necklace – Jacob & Co.; watch – Bathing Ape

Information via DatNewCudi

Devastating Earthquake Hits Haiti

My heart goes out to the people affected by this catastrophic event. I'll be saying a prayer for you tonight. This is one the most devestating things to happen to Haiti in the past 57 years.

“Parliament has collapsed,” Mr. PrĂ©val was quoted as saying. “The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.”

“All of the hospitals are packed with people,” he added. “It is a catastrophe.”

The earthquake left the country in a shambles, tangling efforts to provide relief to an estimated 3 million people who the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said had been affected by the quake."








Taken from NYTIMES

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Ahoodie.com; Kanye West Wallpapers *DOWNLOAD HERE

I found this pretty creative. Shadows all of his albums and fashion phases. Be cool make this douchebag your wallpaper :).













Diary of a mad asian lady.

You know when you get real angry, so angry that rationalizing seems almost impossible? You do some of the craziest things when you're angry. PAUSE - that's what I should of done. I'm sorry for acting according to my negative emotions, and I sincerely regret acting like a child. But honestly a mature individual is proactive NOT reactive. Why would you imitate what you see? Two wrongs certainly don't make a right. False friends are the ones who can't see you through your worst and are a lot like brain tumors, painful to remove but you're better off without them in the long run.

I shall name my baby...

Random thought; I'm gonna name my child Theophilus [Theophila or Theophilia if a girl]. In Greek, Theophilus means "loved by God". However Theophilia [not Theophila] means "divinely loved". Just a thought... my mind is stuck in NY sitting on stoop on beautiful hot humid night.

HOW TO: Move To New York City Sane And Not Broke

Hey guys, just came back from New York 2 days ago. I ended up staying with my buddy in Queens. Proud to say I think I have finally mastered the subway system in NY. As always, I feel inspired to move to New York... only thing now is I'm serious about this change. I did some research as to how I could obtain this goal and came across this interesting article on "The Consumerist" website.



First, ask yourself...

DO I REALLY NEED TO MOVE TO NEW YORK? Answering no to this is the easiest way to avoid the inevitable hassle and heartache of. New York City is a glittering emerald slut, full of potential and promise, but it can also be a total bitch. Nightlife is down ever since they enacted that cabaret law. The city's conduits of power are increasingly rusty and incestuous. Parts of the city are becoming, or already are, Disney versions of themselves, like the Lower East Side and Times Square, respectively. There's lots of other great cities in the world. The Bay Area has nicer weather. Philadelphia has dirt cheap rents. Even so, New York is awesome and is still the capital of the world for many a human endeavor. Let's move!

TAP PERSONAL CONTACTS.
The easiest way to move to NYC is to have a friend, or a friend of a friend, who will let you crash in their apartment until you get your shit together. Be cool and offer to help out with rent as much as you can. If you're broke, maybe offer to clean up the apartment really nice all the time.

SCOPE OUT THE RENTAL MARKET. Determine where you would like to live and how much you can pay. Personal finance gurus recommend spending no more than 25% of your expected salary on rent. Realistically, you may have to spend up to 50%. But if you lock yourself into a high rent so you can live in "the cool spot" you may end up spending all your time inside your stupid little apartment cause you can never afford to go out. Think smaller and cheaper.

On this note, Brooklyn is a nice, cheaper-than-Manhattan place. Fort Greene and Carrol Gardens are good spots to look at in Brooklyn. Rents are relatively affordable, amenities are there, it's not too far from Manhattan, and they're fairly safe. Living near but not next to housing projects is a sure way to get more apartment for your money.

If you must live in Manhattan, Upper Upper West Side (past the 100's) has become affordable. There's places to be found on the more easternly points of the Lower East Side.

Cruise Craiglist for the going rates in your desired area(s) for 2+ roomies. Hone in what rent you think you're going to be paying each month. This number will rule your life.

SAVE Five times your expected monthly rent. To move into a lease, you will probably have to put up two month's rent + security deposit (usually another month's rent). There may even be a broker's fee, which is at least another month's rent. You will need the rest of the money to feed yourself and not feel like a loser. Stuff it in a high-yield online savings account, like HSBC or INGDirect.

DUMP YOUR JUNK. You probably don't need about 90% off what you own. Hold a yard sale. Donate. Digitize everything you don't need a real-world copy of. Put stuff in local storage. Throw it away. Whatever you do, just get rid of it. A good goal is reducing your belongings to an essential wardrobe, books, and your "tools of the trade." For most people this means a computer. For you it may be a welding torch. Shipping costs. Space in NYC is at a premium. Less stuff means less stuff you don't have room for.

LINE UP JOB PROSPECTS. Send out feelers and resumes before you arrive. Tap those personal connections. Let people know you're coming. If you went to college, call up the alumni office and see if they can hook you up with former students in New York. Monster.com has never done anything for us. Craigslist has. Don't get discouraged if people don't initially seem that interested in you. Tons of people say they're going to move to New York but never do, so NYC veterans learn to take a policy of, "I'll see it when I see it." That's okay, just start cranking the wheel on getting a cash flow going as early as possible.

MOVE. Go Greyhound. Fly coach. Drive yourself. U-Hauls and the like can be expensive over long distances, so its cheaper to ship your stuff freight with a trucking company like ROADWAY and then get to NYC by other means. If you've already reduced everything to two pieces of luggage, bonus.

Once you're here...

DO MASLOW. Take care of your pyramid of needs, working from the bottom up. If you have a choice between doing something at the top of this pyramid, versus something at the bottom, do the thing at the bottom. Not taking care of your needs at the bottom will thwart your attempts to do the ones at the top.


At the same time, maybe you will have to eat only one box of pasta a day so you can afford to go out for social drinks. That's fine, just don't make it a habit, or you may end up begging for quarters in Union Square.

GET A JOB. Even if it sucks. You need to make money just to tread water. Our first job was as a bike messenger. In winter. Saner folk go the temping route. Atrium is a fantastic temping agency. Tell them Ben Popken sent you. If you refer people to them who stay on for a few months, you get a small finder's fee.

LEARN TO ENJOY SOLITUDE. It's easy to feel lonely in a city of a gazillion people. That's because you are alone and no one wants to talk to you. Be prepared to have no new friends for at least a year. Be prepared for people who say, "Oh, we'll totally hang out once you're here," and then stand you up even after you set a date. Everyone's got crazy schedules here so "hang out with the new guy" may rank pretty low. Be glad people do this, so you can scratch 'em off your list before they have time to really disappoint you.

BECOME AWESOME. Whatever your deal is, be it your job or your hobby, get really good at it. You will have lots of free time to work on this because you have no friends. Socializing is often centered around people who have "your thing" in common, so it helps to be dedicated and skilled in it. This is for both personal satisfaction, and that other people will take you seriously if you're taking your thing seriously.

TUNNEL. Use the resources of your current crappy job to get you your next, better job. With the money from bike messengering, we bought clothes that made us look presentable for the temp agency. Between directing phone calls at the temp job, we blasted out hundreds of resumes that eventually landed us a job at an online marketing firm. While at the online marketing firm, we started an advertising blog on the company's behalf that ended up getting us a job with Gawker. Now we're tunneling towards building a six-month emergency cushion and doing more personal creative projects.

DON'T MOVE BACK. A lot of people quit New York less than a year after moving. That's a personal choice, but if you're trying to be in New York, obviously leaving it is not a viable solution. If things get so hard you want to move back, ask for help from family and friends. Evaluate the choices you're making, the things you're buying, and see where you can cut back. Realize you're not going to get that super-star job right off the bat (see: BECOME AWESOME). Stiffen that upper lip. Or cry. Whatever you need to do, just don't move back. Life is hard. Welcome to it.

— BEN POPKEN
consumerist.com