Archive for September, 2009

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Pacquiao Lights Out Trainers

Introducing the new Pacquiao Nike Lights Out Trainers.  These glow in the dark pieces would’ve went well with my first Glow in the Dark Pacquiao shirt I did. (reference here) And I wonder where Nike got the concept to make a “Glow In the Dark” shirt??? Sorry folks only available in the Philippines or eBay for a ridiculousl price of over $1000. I love shoes but I’ve never been the type to camp or wait in line for anything. I have a lot more important things to do with my life. But hell folks in the PI are smart, they had their maids wait in line for them. The average house maid in the PI gets paid $300 US dollars a month.  So that’s an average of $10 a day? (Pictures courtesy of www.kingcrux31.com)

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Eminem is racist and here’s proof….

Okay he’s not really racist. But he just killed 3 black guys in a rap song.

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Who wants to take a shot with me?

So a friend gave this to me as a souvenir. Yup it’s cobra wine with a dash of scorpion. Yes it’s drinkable and so called “safe.” Well that’s what my so called “friend” said. I think he wants to see me dead. WTF???

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Monday, September 21st, 2009

The Forkless Cruiser Bicycle

For his graduation project at the Institute of Design in Lahti, Finland Olli Erkkila, created this unique and interesting bicycle dubbed the Forkless Cruiser.

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Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Downloadable paper iPhone/iTouch dock

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DOWNLOAD HERE

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Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Bamboo Touch

Oooweee!

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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Drew Struzan: Appreciation of an Artist

Some of you may not know him, but you’ve definitely seen his work…

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Sunday, September 13th, 2009

My son is T-Pain

Here’s a vid of my son playing with the I Am T-Pain app for the iPhone.

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Monday, September 7th, 2009

My Garmin took me to the hood of St. Louis

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Out of all this crap, I’d have to say the Garmin became my best friend forever on this trip. It helped me find whatever I wanted to find driving around. It even took me through the hood of East St. Louis on my way to the airport.  Damn I wish I had my camera on me at the time but it was in the trunk with my luggage.  I wasn’t scared like most people would be when they roll through the ghetto.  I was actually fascinated by the neighborhoods. I’ve been through the ghettos in Los Angeles and others, but this didn’t compare to anything like it.  I thought I was rolling through a ghost town but people actually lived in these homes or apartments.  A lot of windows were boarded up with plywood to homes that appeared abandoned, but they weren’t.  I saw kids staring out broken windows, crackheads riding around on bicycles, and folks hangin out on the corner, etc.  The neighborhood appeared very neglected by the city. There were tons of closed and boarded up businesses covered in gang graffiti. There wasn’t one open business there. It felt almost like I was in another third world country. It made also made me think why would a city let a neighborhood rot like this?

Well since I didn’t take any photos, I tried to find pictures on Google that showed exactly what I drove through and here they are…

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Monday, September 7th, 2009

D.O.A. or not???

Despite what Jigga has to say, T-Pain has released an app to prove to Jay that autotune isn’t dying anytime soon….Err maybe atleast on the iPhone. If they had autotune installed on the Magic Mic, the aunties and uncles would be killin the karaoke at the Filipino parties!!! Haha!… Shit… I bet that’s next???

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Monday, September 7th, 2009

Coolest Poster Ever

This is a sick poster created by graphic designer Roland Reiner Tiangco

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Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Tacompton Tees

Limited run only available at The Cool. So go get’em before they’re gone!

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Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Mall of America

So Minnesota was one of my stops for the couple of sites I got tasked to do. I was there for tuesday and wednesday. I couldn’t think of anything else to do in Minnesota besides hit up the famous Mall of America. That mall was huge! Didn’t really want to do any shopping because I just wanted to checkout the other entertainment. I was looking for the roller coaster everyone was talking about but instead ran into an amusement park called Nickelodeon Universe with a couple of roller coasters and other rides! I didn’t have time to go on any of them but it was crazy seeing an amusement park inside a mall! I also saw something on television about the aquarium they had in the mall so I decided to check it out. The aquarium was called Underwater Adventures and it tripped me out seeing numerous species of fish and turtles in one huge tank!  I’ve never seen that before since most zoos or aquariums usually keep the species separate. Well it’s late and I don’t feel like typing anymore. So I’ll let this video I put together give you a taste of my experience…

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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Brown Eyed Girl

This is an old and funny video of my friends being bored at home. Brown Eyed Girl featuring Silong, Jack, Chock, and Cham.

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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I’m out for business…

Sorry for the lack of updates. I recently got a new job and my first day was Monday. I was hit with a surprise project that started my 2nd day of work and I’m flying to 5 states within 8 days! Crazy huh? Well right now I’m in Minnesota so I’ll try to get something worth blogging about while I’m here. I haven’t found anything interesting to do as of yet but I am going to try to hit up Mall of America today and checkout their huge aquarium you can walk through.  So stay tuned…

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