Slain.

Our hearts, prayers, and love go out to the family of Sean Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield. We also want to let everyone know that shit hasn't changed. Protest peacefully.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
~Mark Twain~

IT'S TIME TO BREAK CHAINS...

Ladies, Ladies, Ladies

With the cool months of Fall and Winter slowly fading into a distant memory of harsh and unpleasant weather and being replaced by the warm Spring and Summer seasons we are all beginning to pack up our Northfaces and burst onto the scene in our new wardrobes featuring an array of ensembles where clothing is minimal and skin is the prime focal point. As a woman, the summertime is an opportunity for us to show off our best assets, and while the high rise platform sandals and colorful ultra-mini dresses are flirty and fun, sometimes nothing feels better than slipping on a super comfy summer T and feeling the soft cotton blend against warm skin kissed lightly by the sun.
American Apparel, a vertically integrated company that specializes in wholesale and retail apparel is your one stop shop for the easiest and comfiest summer T looks. American Apparel specializes in basic apparel in simple cotton blends in a vast array of colors. My Top 5 favorite AA pieces for women are below:


1. The summer T-shirt is definitely a top pick. The summer shirt comes in ten different colors and the sheer jersey cotton T is perfect to pair with some super short shorts and gladiator sandals for a day at the beach or for just kicking around the city. The shirt is super light and feels great against sticky summer skin. Ladies, get with it!




2. Next we have the T-dress. My girls have got to love this one because it’s an easy alternative to the T-shirt itself. The fine jersey dress is super stretchy and hugs the body in all the right places. Paired with some cute flats or some sexy pumps makes this dress a perfect wear for day or for night. The dress is a great cut that flatters almost any body type and it comes in fifteen different colors so you never have to worry about not having accessories to match!


3. For the ladies that like to show a little more skin the 2x1 ribbed racer back tank is the perfect alternative to the summer T. This tank is so comfortable and the racer back gives it a fun and sassy appeal. Hands down it’s a winner.






4. Summer days can sometimes be quite unforgiving, however, as soon as the menacing ball of fire dips low enough into the horizon summer nights offer the right amount of warmth accompanied by a satisfyingly cool breeze. The California pullover raglan hoodie is perfect for these summer nights. They cover up the right amount of skin to shield against that cool breeze while still allowing the ladies to show a little leg. The hoodie dress is a casual look that still holds massive sex appeal. It is sporty and fun and can be appreciated by almost any girl. The hoodie comes in five colors and looks great worn alone but can also be worn with jeans, leggings, or a cute bottom.




5. Last but not least we have my favorite AA pick of the month. The micro poly short shorts put Daisy Duke to shame. These are the perfect summer short for any woman who is proud to show off what she’s got. The high waist band elongates legs and makes the duo look amazing in the summer sun. They are super short so ladies we must make sure our junk is securely in the trunk before stepping out in these barely there hot pants. Pair them with a simple tank, huge sunglasses, and a hot pair of platform sandals and you’ve got a totally sassy look that channels 70’s flower child love.


With this list of favorites, my girls should be set to look scorching hot in the sun in a number of looks that will have your milkshake bringing all the boys to the yard. Get with it ladies!!

ChaCha R.

XXXTREMELY GOOD MARKETING '08.

Nice to see the fashion industry is starting to use their head. I'm still trying to decide which head made these decisions but whatever the case is I'm lovin it (and not just for those more primitive reasons ;) ). Check out Tom Ford at www.tomford.com because there is more to be said... and seen. And big shout to Terry Richardson for always keeping it fresh, you can catch the latest with him at www.terryrichardson.com.

Waking Life

"If you havent seen this film yet, you need to...now.

"You can't fight city hall." "Death and taxes." "Don't talk about politics or religion." This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda, rolling across the picket line. "Lay down, GI! Lay down, GI!". We saw it all through the 20th Century. And now on the 21st Century, it's time to stand up and realize, that we should NOT allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze. We should not SUBMIT to dehumanization. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned with what's happening in this world. I'm concerned with the structure. I'm concerned with the systems of control. Those that control my life, and those that seek to control it EVEN MORE! I want FREEDOM! That's what I want, and that's what YOU should want! It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose of just some of the greed, the hatred, the envy, and yes, the insecurities, because that is the central mode of control, make us feel pathetic, small, so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny. We have GOT to realize we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state! The 21st Century's gonna be a new century! Not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance, of classism and statism, and all the rest of the modes of control... it's gonna be the age of humankind, standing up for something PURE and something RIGHT! What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated! The TRUTH is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of LIES! I'm SICK of it, and I'M NOT GONNA TAKE A BITE OUT OF IT! DO YA GOT ME? Resistance is NOT futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, WE'RE NOT A BUNCH OF UNDERACHIEVERS, WE'RE GONNA STAND UP, AND WE'RE GONNA BE HUMAN BEINGS! WE'RE GONNA GET FIRED UP ABOUT THE REAL THINGS, THE THINGS THAT MATTER! CREATIVITY, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE DYNAMIC HUMAN SPIRIT THAT REFUSES TO SUBMIT! WELL THAT'S IT, that's all I've got to say. It's in your court now. -Alex Jones

Spread the word. -Havek Osten

Warm and Alone.

As I unplug my cell phone charger sacrificing whatever potential opportunities may be offered with each ring, I use that vacant outlet for the plug to my laptop. I am taking the time to disconnect myself to reconnect my peers. I need to understand why. I need to understand why it is so hard to sacrifice our individuality for humanity. I need to understand why it is seen as conforming when a group of people are like minded. Why do we look to the red cross when the ultimate sacrifice was given on one made of wood. What has become of our square inches of fabric quilted together to comfort those whose threads may be a little weak. What makes this quilt special is not the variety of patterns or colors but rather the fact that each piece of this blankets composition depends on the other. As the individual consumer becomes more and more of a priority we begin to lose sight of the people standing right next to us. Who are you standing with? Mannequins…. Us liking Nike does not mean we have anything in common. Flavor flav is a result of you. You are to blame for the war in Iraq. You are the one pumping the gas whose pricing you feel is incredible. You are the person buying the $500 shoes complaining about your credit card bill that you created and you are the reason those shoes will be $515 next year and the interest rate on that card will increase astronomically. You are the reason soldier boy had a number 1 single. You are the reason there is nothing being offered of substance because you live in a world that you create. This shit is all your fault. You are the reason we haven’t seen any more Stokely Carmichaels and Davinci’s. The next prodigy’s future will be destroyed by the Nintendo WII you allow him/her to play. You are the cause of all this shit. And you the person responsible are so quick to say its my fault. Blame me, blame him, blame her but this cannot be the doings of you. All of you putting so much emphasis on nothingness in your conversations with those people you want to be accepted by. You say so loudly the last thing that will affect anybody. LISTEN TO MY BULLSHIT! Watch me do everything in my power to distract you from who I am. Watch me spit in the face of my maker by trying to be the spitting image of the same face we should spit in. You are obnoxious. You get fucked. You are my bitch and I’m going to stick as much Polo, Playstation, and Pilates up your tight puckered asshole that I can fit…… and you don’t care. There are about a million people that sit in a room and devote their time to breaking you down and keeping you as far from the people that you need most. This room of people oh so ironically united are sitting there with spreadsheets and bar graphs and snickering their capitalist snicker because they know after this fuck there will be no money on the night stand. Why is your protest of bad programming a channel change? Lets endorse some other bullshit. Your protest can be the off button or for beginners try mute. Why do you know more about Lauren from the Hills than the person you’re sitting there watching her with. Why do you live in a box when there is so much more space outside of it. You are homeless looking to move into the next Real Word house. Boxed in….. warm and alone.

-Havek Osten

Cups are for drinking!

I'm afraid I must declare the Prada America's Cup has been retired. It is no longer acceptable for anything except for walking to the local corner store or washing the car. This shoe has been slutted out crazy and if I had my way it would be discontinued. You're better off going out and getting the Fila Helmsman and save a couple hundred (side note: WHO THE FUCK OKAYED THAT SHIT!!!! Do you ever think about that?!? Who's the mother fucker that was sitting in a room at Fila and was like "The Helmsman? Thats a great fucking idea!" He/she deserves something very bad to happen to him/her. Wait... and then lets get the Ay Bay Bay kid in this shoe ASAP!) Damn son. This shit was stuntastic in High School but your grown now, even the Alejandro Ingelmo are appropriate, or maybe even some Prada loafers, they do make other shoes!!!!!!!!! I'm taxin everybody that comes to Voro Lounge in South Orange with these God forsaken things on their feet. Thank you.

Pick a card any card!

Someecards has some witty pick me up's for that dragging day in the life of adulthood. Send one to someone who enjoyed Juno or watches Curb Your Enthusiasm. www.sumeecaards.com

I used to think bridges were hot...

Zaha Hadid really took the cake with this one. Frank Gehry move the fuck over!!! She's also designing a city in Istanbul. Yes, DESIGNING A FUCKING CITY IN ISTANBUL!!! Check it out at www.arcspace.com.

H2 oh!

The Palace Bottle comes with the Palace pourer and the the Palace coaster which is crazy. The new deign will be available in select hotels, restaurants and clubs and will sell for $15 to $20. Hot shit but even hotter, rumor has it Christian Lacroix might be teaming up with the liquid giant. Voss better watch their ass!!!

Another satisfied customer!!!

Lemme stop fuckin wit ya. My dude reef was the first to invest with his purchase of 1/150 hk no I WM. This shirt was debuted at Howard University's Springfest. Unfortunately if you weren't in attendance you aren't gonna be able to purchase one. Don't worry because the rest of the collection and their release information will be posted soon.

Business as usual.

My homie Deyoir from singersroom.com, I fuck wit his events heavy. Matter of fact ALL YOU OTHER CORNBALL PROMOTION COMPANYS CAN KICK ROCKS!!! (jdoohgieb) STOP LEAVING FLYERS ON MY CAR!!!! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!!!!! I ONLY FUCK WIT MY SINGERSROOM AND CITRUS CITY FAM!!!!

Howard Springfest '08! Haveknots first look ft. perfect the pig!!!

Sheila's a thief!

(This couch sitting next to a white end table with the Ferrari Lego set on top, with yellow shag throw pillow on couch!!!! Endless possibilities with this piece.) BoConcept is great. www.boconcept.com

More of the fam.

Drunk as hell at Jazz and Java @ RU New Brunswick. Its a spoken word event held on Douglass Campus (the black side) and I enjoyed myself, "snap snap poetry man!" 

I fuck with Barney's for this!

Child play.

Love when shit is executed right.

Ferrari meets Lego?!?

They're openning the doors at Lego land park in Denmark. They will be holding 2 1/2 day tours 6/4/08- 6/6/08 and 6/11/08- 6/13/08. The Lego exhibition in Canada was nuts, if you're in the area you need to check them out chances like these don't come often. Is Lego the inspiration for those new contemporary toys? The inspiration of PEECOL??  You be the judge, hit up kid robot and lemme know what you think.

More from the personal collection.

Disclaimer: We live it. We don't just post it. ('92 Nike Air Force 180. As seen on Sir Charles and a bunch of Gucci shit (good for the club scuff).)

Balance.

I want to clarify my boldest opinion.. that I am knot insane, however ironic it may seem. Yes I live inside my head, and consider my thoughts to be real (however unimaginable) and create my own realities within these walls, but I am of sound mind and body, contrary to your harsh diagnosis of my psyche. My laxed sensibility and demeanor more than likely stems from my broad sense of reality and all its complexities. Omnipotent contrasting realities govern my world, which places society as we all know it into a subconscious conundrum, whether your aware of it or not. This is a paradox I like to call "The Balance". Without evil there is no sense of good, without rich there is no poor, without hate there is no sense of love and so on and so forth. Why else do you think we keep recreating the same realities in this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us? A sociological script every human being on this earth has a part in. So vast that it is overlooked and exhausted beyond measure. It's not our actions we're addicted to, it is our emotions. Emotions are designed so that they chemically reinforce something into long term memory which is why we have them in the first place. The thing that most people don’t realize is that this addiction is not just psychological, but its also biochemical. Ponder this thought for a while: Heroin uses the same receptor mechanisms on the cells that our emotional chemicals use. It's easy then to see that if a person can be addicted to heroin, than we can also be addicted to "any" neuropeptide (a type of endorphin that influences neural activity or functioning.) thus any emotion. However the biggest challenge of this society is focusing on the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom without any interference of our addictions, which is something that many of us cant do. A few others and I however, have managed to hold grasp of this thought process. So therefore my body experiences reality in a different way, in a new chemistry. We only see what we truly "believe" to be possible. And just because I think about and see things that certain people cant seem to comprehend or manifest for themselves, they call me crazy. But for the ones out there who truly understand the things I speak please respond somehow. Please tell them I'm not crazy, IT all makes so much sense doesn’t it? If this message ever gets out, please support me and my theory, I hope you can all understand. I'm a true have knot, if you know what I mean, I've become everything i am, because of who people wouldn’t allow me to be, but i don’t let it change me, i don’t let it change who i am. People always ask me who I really am inside, and what my reality is. I am the observer. I am the creator. I am the dreamer. I am an element of it all, with more control than my conscious mind can even conceive nor imagine. The past and future reside in the same conscious levels of my mind. My brain knows no difference from what it sees, what it thinks, and what it remembers. which is why dreams seem so real and so on and so fourth. I am contempt. I am at ease. I am an angel of truth with divine humility. I learn and interact to gain knowledge, but more importantly observe and analyze to gain wisdom, leaving my personality in a state of virtues complacency. So what is my reality? Perception is my reality. In the future the modern day "crazy folk" like me will finally be able to justifiably surpass the so called geniuses of this time with an overwhelming display of enlightenment and power, that will make this era of common man look undeniably ignorant, uncovering the truth that they unintentionally, and most importantly subconsciously possessed a true fear of transcending themselves. So now let me ask you this question. "Are you like them or me?"

-Havek Osten

KOONIN

www.jeffkoons.com. not much more to say.

Fuck Russ

Raf Simmons is out of this world..... literally. NASA might be lookin for a check from homie. If you can't make it deep space then oki-ni is where you need to be. www.oki-ni.com

WALK IT OUT!!!

Kara walker @ the Whitney was ill. She's currently @ the Hammer Museum in L.A. from 3/08-6/08. Check it out.

Say it with me....... MAT-SU-MO-TO

Don't know what I like more, these steps or family guy.

Without further ado, lemme introduce you to the rest of my crew...

Words from Havek.

feel free. not the freedom thats learned but the freedom you are born with.