We know you love Street Wear, and Street Wear loves you too. Don’t believe us? Look for confirmation of that undying affection no further, as XLarge and The Hundreds have put their hearts and heads together in a collaborative project with Casio to satisfy your every longing dream and desire. That’s right, the only watch you’ll ever need. The limited edition XL/TH G-SHOCK DW6900 is now available, but this gift from the Street Wear Gods to mankind will not last long, as it would seem every associate who’s been aware of this treasure’s arrival has been lying patiently in wait for the opportunity to pounce. On another note, I’ve also just found upon inspection of my own, now two minutes out of the package (which I know thanks to this products remarkable ability to track the passage of time), that the “G-light” illuminates the XLarge and TH logos across the display, dually and doubly increasing my previous tightness rating. Snatch ‘em up quick, before I figure out which room we’re storing them in.
(Shock-resistant, 200 M WR, auto calendar, 1/100 sec. stopwatch)
Retail: $169.00
But the love doesn’t end there, it keeps coming, and we know how to please.
Welcome the limited edition XL/TH New Era 59FIFTY fitted cap with an exclusive XL-stylized Adam Bomb logo, it’s redefines the idea of all-around beauty with its side panels featuring The Hundreds’ JAGS pattern heat-stamped in. If Samuel L. Jackson wore SW, this hat would be solely reserved for his use.
Retail: $45.00
Switching it up.
The special edition XL/TH t-shirt features the same insanely dope graphic in two variations, the grayscale will be available in both The Hundreds stores whilst the full color will remain exclusive to the XLarge store in Los Angeles.
Retail: $35.00
Now go buy some shit while I come to terms with the fact that I will never in my life be able to successfully set a digital watch.
Pringles can designer buried in his work - Food Inc.- msnbc.com
CINCINNATI - The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.
Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, his family said. He was 89.
Baur’s children said they honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township. The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to a grandson, said Baur’s daughter, Linda Baur of Diamondhead, Miss.
Baur requested the burial arrangement because he was proud of his design of the Pringles container, a son, Lawrence Baur of Stevensville, Mich., said Monday.
Baur was an organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co.
Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1970, P&G archivist Ed Rider said.
In LA on May 30th? Come by Rodan vs Griffith for the opening of TYPE 4 TYPE’S SAKE, a group show focusing on typography. Lots of really talented artists are contributing…see details below:
It’s back - the XLarge Design Contest - your chance to gain immortality within the echelons of designers like Angela Johnson, G. Dan Covert, Billy Valdez, Rory Wilson and the winner last time, Winston Acosta.
GET STARTED!Check out the contest entry page and use the design templates to create your own original design. Post them up using the form. On June 30th, 2008 we’ll review the submissions and announce a winner. Entries will be judged on originality and sauce.
The grand prize winner will see his or her print make it into production for our Spring 09 season. They will receive a bunch of shirts and a $100 Gift Cerfiticate to the XLarge.com website. Three runners up will receive $25 Gift Certificates to the website and due props for nearly making it.
Just got a quick snap of our friend Les from Disney/Bloc28representing Xlarge while on a trip to Buenos Aires. Stay tuned for some more Disney/Xlarge collabs tees…coming soon!
As a direct result of spending far too much time exploring the vast virtual depths of YouTube content, I stumbled upon this video a while back and with little correlation to my questionable mental state found myself absolutely awe-struck. Since then it has circulated a fair amount appearing in YouTube’s ‘Featured Videos’ section receiving nearly two and a half million views and torrents of well-deserved praise. Produced by a prodigiously talented group of Japanese artists who collectively call themselves The Rinpa Eshidan, this short film features a time-lapse sequence of a week’s worth of art that demonstrates indescribable bounds of fluidity and creativity. So crank back the levers on your office chairs to a deep lean, dim the lights, light your spliffs and prepare to be blown away.
The Rinpa Eshidan (whom I will now refer to as “TRE,” both because it’s easier to type and effectively sounds for a lack of better words, badass) fundamentally focus around the premise that it is in the construction of a piece, not the end result that “art” occurs; “The group’s main activities are performing in live-art events and creating videos of art in action. Instead of focusing on the finished project, we believe the process of creation itself is where art comes to life and our videos aim to engage our audience in that process.”
At that I leave you with another equally beautiful and quite possibly doubly psychedelic video to marvel at out of the TRE collective titled simply; “Room.”
If you’re inclined to learn more about them and access more of their artwork, below is the link to their website.
A happy upcoming Mother’s Day to all of you and a unified “Hear, Hear” for gawking enviously at artistic ability that relentlessly crushes all personal hopes and aspirations of attaining notoriety.