Kanye West | VOGUE MAG

Kanye West makes his way onto one of Vogue‘s hallowed pages for the March issue alongside Givenchy designer, Riccardo Tisci who poses with some of his famous muses: Liv Tyler, Karolina Kurkova, Florence Welch, Liya Kebede.

In addition to wearing Givenchy on various (sometimes controversial) occasions and attending Tisci’s shows, West commisioned Tisci to art direct his collaborative album with Jay-Z, Watch the Throne. “I was a little bit scared,” Tisci told Hamish Bowles, “because I’m not an artist.”

Gorillaz + Andre 3000 + Converse

In the most high-profile offering of its "3 Artists. 1 Song" campaign to date, Converse Inc. announced on Feb. 9 that Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy and OutKast rapper Andre 3000 had teamed up to record an original song for the campaign. "DoYaThing," the one-off by-product of the collaboration, will be released in February, the same day that Converse issues a new Gorillaz footwear collection designed by the art-pop band's co-creator, Jamie Hewlett.

Ink Master Is Coming Back For Season 2

Spike TV has picked up a second season of 13 episodes of "Ink Master," the network's highly-rated original non-scripted series. "Ink Master," hosted by music legend and tattoo aficionado Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction) and judged by renown tattoo artists Chris Nunez ("Miami Ink") and Oliver Peck (Elm Street Tattoo), is the latest original series on Spike."Ink Master" showcases ten of the nation's top tattoo artists from around the country who battle it out in permanent ink for a $100,000 cash prize, an editorial feature in the preeminent tattoo magazine Inked, and the title of 'Ink Master.'

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Draw Guns Tee | Al's Cycle Shop | Los Angeles

Al's Cycle Shop 1645 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles

Al's proudly services all makes and models including Harley Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha, Aprilla, Ducati, BMW, Triumph, Norton, BSA and more!

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Supra: The Society Heartbreaker Il

The second installment of the Heartbreaker line will be released on February 11 as a Society style shoe with a red waxed suede and red Express TUF upper on a black sole with white foxing and red pinstripes. Some other features of the new kicks are white stripes screen-printed on the back of the collar, broken heart footbeds and a hang tag. Only 413 pairs of the Society Heartbreaker II have been produced and sequentially numbered. The shoes will be available at suprafootwear.com and select SUPRA retailers worldwide.

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New 'Mortal Kombat' movie

According to Los Angeles Times "Mortal Kombat" is fighting its way back onto the big screen, marking a rare delivery of material from a studio's own video game division to its sibling film division. Some of that success was credited by the studio to a promotional Web series it produced called "Mortal Kombat: Legacy." The nine-part series, made for about $2 million, was directed by Kevin Tancharoen. Tancharoen garnered attention in 2010 by producing his own short film based on Mortal Kombat, which became a viral hit on YouTube and convinced Warner to let him produce the Web series.

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Keith Haring @ MOMA

Keith Haring. Untitled. 1982

The monumental 1982 Keith Haring drawing "Untitled" is not often on view.
The work is pinned across three walls on MoMA’s 2nd floor in a truly immersive presentation. Shown alongside work by Haring’s contemporaries such as Jeff Koons, Martin Wong, and artist-run collectives like ABC No Rio and COLAB, the drawing can be appreciated in its art-historical and social contexts.

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Feb/March Issue of The Source Magazine

 

 

 

 

2 Chainz, Tyga and Mac Miller (above)

The leading publication of Hip-Hop music, culture, business and politics is featuring three rising stars on its February/March cover: 2 Chainz, Tyga, and Mac Miller. For this groundbreaking cover, The Source is making a big statement, defining where Hip-Hop is going, in a “Coming Of Age”-type story.

Babes on Wheels

Photographer: Patrick O’Dell

Photographer/director and Vice Magazine contributor Patrick O’Dell put together this nice little photo series entitled ‘Babes on Wheels’ featuring some rather lovely ladies riding around on some wheeled apparatuses.
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Chateau Marmont

Terry Richardson Shoots Lindsay Lohan at Chateau Marmont.

 

Just after reporting about the shoot that he did of Lindsay Lohan for LOVE Magazine, new images from a shoot at LA’s Chateau Marmont. Richardson known for producing several award winning campaigns for Diesel, including the ‘Global Warming Ready’ which won a Silver Lion for Print at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
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Wiz Khalifa's Tattoos And His New Movie

watch Wiz Khalifa interview on FUSE

Find out why Wiz Khalifa had to cover his tattoos for his upcoming film 'Mac and Devin Go to High School,' co-starring Snoop Dogg.

DEF JAM | Watch The Throne

For this project, music icons and pop culture visionaries JAY-Z and Kanye West have joined their extraordinary talents to form the group `THE THRONE' and confirm the most anticipated album and touring event of the year

Watch The Throne (itunes) "N**gas In Paris" World Premiere.

UNURTH

Know Hope, Tel Aviv

Mesa, Dajla, Western Sahara

Eime, Azores Portugal

What's most captivating about street art is randomly stumbling on your ability to be entertained by life, unedited. Seems like a distant memory we know. It's not the same fascination as watching our fellow man in embarrassing or dangerous situations but I'm sure there's a connection. Anyway, trolling unurth.com for inspiration we find urban life imitating art imitating life.

Lil' Wayne & Karmaloop Present | TRUKFIT Clothing

Karmaloop TV links with Lil' Wayne at the launch party for his new clothing line TRUKFIT. We spoke to Wayne about the brand and got a few words with Russell Simmons as well. TRUKFIT will be available on Karmaloop.com soon. Stay tuned!

“South Park” by Marc Jacobs

Cartman’s finally getting his big fashion debut, courtesy of his pal Marc Jacobs.
Part of a charitable collaboration with New York University, Eric Cartman, Randy Marsh and Butters Stotch are the subjects of “Protect Your Largest Organ” tees.
The $35 shirts are now on sale online and at Marc by Marc Jacobs boutiques.

Digital artist, Shantell Martin

Whether it’s light on a wall, marker on skin, or pen or paint on canvas, Shantell uses whatever materials are readily available and digs in for the sake of fun, often fueled by music.

(Above) Digital artist, Shantell Martin's ten page editorial spread with Nigel Barker (America's Next top Model) for Asia Tatler Magazine.

Learn more: www.shantellmartin.com

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Crystal Skull Shot Glass

The creation of the Crystal Skull Shotglass is a key ingredient to your fun. A must-have.

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Vans and Hong Kong streetwear

Vans and Hong Kong streetwear brand Subcrew have been readying their collaboration for what seems like months now. Finally, we get a preview image in the form of the OTW Alomar that showcases both brands’ design sensibilities. Expect to see this collaborative effort hitting select Vans OTW retailers in the very near future.

"Paved With Good Intentions"

Scott Campbell, opens a new solo exhibition January 13, at Gallery Reis in Singapore titled Paved With Good Intentions. As the gallery notes, "Campbell expands his use of cut currency, sourcing uncut sheets of US dollars directly from the United States Mint, to create large, intricate work with a sunken relief effect."

TV On The Radio To Make Feature Film

TV On the Radio are set to release their newest LP, Nine Types of Light, where they have filmed a music video for each 10 tracks, and will be stitching those videos together to make a full-feature film. As Tunde Adebimpe, one of the band’s vocalists, said in an interview, “The things that we have been asked to do to add value to something that we feel is pretty valuable already, it’s weird after a while, “ Mr. Adebimpe said, “where you’re kind of like, I don’t want that person to do a remix, I don’t have it in me to make another song.”

The Best and Worst Of...

Whatever happened to the "cheesy-semi-experimental-indie-pop uber artistic" music video?

Most popular is probably artists like Moby with the critically acclaimed "Praise You" video from his Fatboy Slim album that you hate to love.
Here are a couple of Seduisant's picks:

1. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Let Forever Be (itunes)



The act with the first arena-sized sound in the electronica movement, the Chemical Brothers created a dance-rock-rap fusion which rivaled the best old-school DJs on their own terms.

2. DAFT PUNK, Around The World (itunes)


Parisian duo Daft Punk quickly rose to acclaim by adapting a love for first-wave acid house and techno to their younger roots in pop, indie rock, and hip-hop.