How to spot a fake Louis Vuitton Bag

Being fake is something that is never cool. So ladies we thought we would give you a little extra knowledge. This Video comes to us via Videojug.com

How To Spot A Fake Louis Vuitton Bag

Jean-Michel Basquiat is more than a Hip Hop punch line

Within the last year or so you have probably heard Jay-Z, Nas and more recently Swizz Beatz in "That Oprah" (Which can be found in our playlist to your right)mention Basquiat in their rhymes. But This cat is much bigger than a line in a verse. Coming up as a middle class kind from Brooklyn he was encouraged to paint and embrace the arts by his Mother. Basquiat, even with a support from his family decided to drop out of high school, move in to the city and began doing graf in lower Manhattan.
He began to play music with a band called Grey and also appeared in Blondie's video "Rapture" as a replacement for DJ Grandmaster Flash when he was a no-show.
After the Village Voice caught wind of his graf and ran pieces on his "SAMO" tags Basquiat gained a little fame. He first started to gain real recognition as a true artist in June 1980, when he participated "The Times Square Show".
By 1982, Basquiat was showing regularly alongside Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi, thus becoming part of a loose-knit group that art-writers, curators, and collectors would soon be calling the Neo-expressionist movement. He started dating an aspiring and then-unknown performer named Madonna in the fall of 1982. Unfortunately in 1988 Basquiat's (pictured below) life was cut short due to a drug overdose. Click here for more info.

Grandcentral

So you've got a work phone a home phone and a cell phone a work cell phone. If you are like me you are not trying to take all the cells with you and forwarding numbers get trick and expensive. Enter Grandcentral. This is your personal switch board on steroids. Grandcentral allows you to establish a new number with any area code you choose, and here is where it gets cool, this number can be linked to all your existing phone numbers. Now you can give out your new Grandcentral number and it will ring all your phones. You can answer any one of the phones or send it to your Grandcentral voice mail. You can check your voicemail online or via phone. Another slick trick is the ability to transfer a call from on phone to another for example pick up the call on your cell on the way into your house then transfer to your house phone. Its a pretty fly little utility so fly Google bought 'em. The final and best attribute. Its 100% free for now.

The Tesla roadster Green finally becomes valet worthy

The lion share of Green/hybrid vehicles are not red carpet worthy and far from track burners. The team at Tesla motors has changed all that. The Tesla Roadster was introduce to the public in 2006. It was loaded with a Zero emission single gear electric drive system and a 0-60 time of :04 sec. Just to give you some perspective that is Lamborghini, Porsche and Ferrari territory.

Last Lecture Professor, Randy Pausch succumbs to cancer

Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) was a true Purveyor of Cool. Through his "Last Lecture" Professon Pausch found his own way to bring those in his circle and people around the world closer to him, his fight with cancer, and his quest to achieve his dreams. He reminds us that we are only here for a short amount of time, we all need to make the most it and make your dreams. Take some time to check out the entire "Last Lecture - Realizing your childhood dreams" click on the video below.

The Pixel Couch

Time to graduate from the hand-me-down or college sofa of shame. Yes is it hard to part with some of the memories or in some instances you may need to burn that relic to exercise the demons. Have no fear, for those of you with a an aggressive and bold sense of style try the Pixel Couch. Royal College of Art graduate (UK) Cristian Zuzunaga devised the fabric based on a 'pixel' concept, which is being produced by Danish manufacturer Kvadrat and sold through Moroso.

MetroFarm custom DJ decks

From Berlin Germany, Metrofarm Studio has produced a number of stunning, custom built DJ Desks. Having released a concrete DJ table a couple of years back, the new desks, in folded stainless steel and wood painted black and neon orange demand attention. But they're not just for finely tuned vinyl slingers looking for the perfect ergonomic ratios to heighten their musical flow. They're for anybody with a musical mind and an eye for detail, looking to add spark to a lounge room, club or gallery. It's art for the DJ's sake. (reported by Nick Christi.)

"Everybody" Fonzwrorth Bently, Andre 3000, Kanye West & Sa-Ra

The Polaroid PoGo: Fast forward on throwback technology

Andre 3000 is not going to have much to shake in a minute. The folks over at Polaroid stepped their tech game up and created the Polaroid-on-the-go or PoGo. The PoGo is a mini inkless printer (go figure) that utilize wireless technology to print digital pictures on the spot. It can be paired to you cellphone or your digital camera. Might be time to erase some of those incriminating photos out of your Nokia.


The folks over at Polaroid wrote the following:
Polaroid will bring instant photos into the digital age on Saturday, July 6, 2008, when its pocket-sized, inkless digital printer - Polaroid PoGo™ - launches at Best Buy stores (MSRP: $149). Polaroid PoGo™ will be available at Target stores nationwide July 20.
The Polaroid PoGo™ - short for Polaroid-on-the-go - prints full-color, 2-inch by 3-inch photos from cell phones via Bluetooth and from digital cameras via PictBridge.
Images are created in less than 60 seconds using ZINK Photo Paper™, a durable material that contains colorless cyan, yellow and magenta dye crystals, which are activated through heat pulses.
The ZINK Photo Paper™ is manufactured by ZINK Imaging and will retail for between 33 and 40 cents per print; 10-packs cost $3.99, while 30 packs cost $9.99

Air force 1 1World Quest Love Edition (a.k.a. Air Questo)

For all my sneaker freaks, here is a good look at the Air Questo. The toe comes in red or gold and we are still searching for a release date. As soon as I can come up with one I will be sure to update this post.

Dispose of the throw away bottle.

It's time to break up with your $2.00 water bottles from Walgreen's. check out some of these reusable options found on slate.com. If plastic is just your thing try the SEI flasks. They come in 9 oz and 16 oz sizes (I think). The cool thing about these bottles is that they look to good to throw out. Re-fill them and reuse them. No one will now that our clear SEI hip flask is filled with the finest refrigerator purified Detroit tap water.

The Air Yeezy

Yes Kan the Louis Vuitton Don is big enough for his own shoe. Nike hooked him up with the following for his following

You also may have caught him rocking them on the "Glow in the Dark" Tour back in April. Well The "Air Yeezy" can now be found at your tier zero Nike shops. Whats with the whole tier thing. I'll explain that a little later.

Don't pack it, ship it*

So you hit LA and tore up Robertson. Hitting every boutique you could find. Now while you are standing in line to pay for that last pair of Chuck style Gucci boots with the big 'ol tongue you realize "I am screwed if I try to pack all this." Airlines got hip to the luggage game and are now (Save for Southwest, good looking out Southwest) are charging by the bag. The good folks over at Wired's travel blog Autopia did the math.

Check two bags and you're out $40. That's what you'll pay to have FedEx throw your luggage around, but you'll pay $35 using UPS and $34 to let the post office deal with it. The savings really kick in if you're a clothes' horse or you bought every souvenir you laid eyes on. Airlines will nail you for up to $140 if you've got three pieces of luggage, but the post office will charge you $55. FedEx will get it there (or back) for $60.

For sending just one bag you are probably going to loose out but if you really tore it down at Zara in SoHo. Shipping two or three bags back to your Pied-a-terre may save you some dough.

Alife and Q-Tip got Lyrics To Go

Alife hooked up with Q-Tip and shot us some lyrics to go. Keep and eye out for theses T's during the on the "Rock the Bells tour went Q-Tip performs with A Tribe Called Quest.

Reebok Monopoly sneaker series (What do you think?)

Peep the new Reebok Reverse Jam Mid-Monopoly Board.

Our friends at Reebok have freaked the board on the upper and integrated game cues all the way around the shoe. They've paid a great deal of attention to the details as you can see from the pictures. Even the laces have an imprint and board pattern will be found on the insole.


There's also a game piece version (black) and a money green version ( not pictured).Word on the street August 8th and will retail for $85.

My drive thru By Santogold, Julian Casablancas & N.E.R.D.

I am diggin' the track and the video treatment. 

The Secret of self-promotion

Do you know Julia Allison? If you do she is obviously doing her job quite well. What is her occupation well...being famous. Well, attempting to be famous. Julia has been making a name for herself by extending life story to the web. With in the past few years she has gone from an invisable undergrad to a digitally documented celebutant.

The three steps outlined in her story of success:

Step 1 Get noticed

Step 2 Keep them hooked

Step 3 Extend your brand

By now you're saying "Ok, so what". The So what is the need for you to get out there and push your brand. Tell you story and make sure the right folks are listening.

To learn more check out the full story

The Atomic revolution

If you are like me your time and your time piece are both very important.

And for the guys your timepiece says a lot about you. Big and gaudy with press on salty diamonds, keep that. To get real respect go with something unique, understated and reliable. 

Enter the Atomic receiver class of watches. Automatically sycronized via low-frequency radio signals your these pieces set themselves as you shift time zones. Kind hot when you are doing that L.A. to N.O. To N.Y. run or going global.

Wired.com breaks down 4 of the best Atomic radio receiver wrist watches.   

The Push up

It's about as simple as it gets as far as working out goes but over the years folks have created bars discs and gadgets to complicate it. Hundredpushups.com Offers you a free 6 week plan designed to take you from your initial test number to 100 consecutive push ups. Not bad and you don't even have to pay shipping and handling. Click on the logo to visit the site and get your routine started. 

Oh and if you need some help with your running check out Couch to 5k. The folks over at coolrunning.com put this together to help get you out on the trail.

Fix up, look sharp

If you are looking for a one stop shop to find unique graphic t-shirts and casual gear make it a point to hit DigitalGravel.com. They've got one of the best selections that I have seen to date. From 10deep to The Hundreds, Mishka to Obey they serve up unique pieces that you will more than likely not see in retail shops (there by lessing the "that dude has my shirt on" factor). Stop by and let me know what you think.

Get the new iphone 2.0 software a day early

I had planned to launch this site tomorrow but with this info I had to give you a taste of the cool to come a little early. The folks over at Wired.com have directions on how to upgrade you 1st generation iphone a day early. My suggestion, upgrade your phone play with it and then see if you want to by the new 3g version

Coming very soon