Top 10 Sneakers of 2009 by Matt Halfhill

Matt Halfill, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the online magazine NiceKicks.com, has come together with Complex to create a list that showcases the top sneakers from this past year. Matt Halfhill’s Top 10 Sneakers of 2009 features highly-sought after shoes such as the Nike 1/2 Cent “Royal”, Air Jordan 11 Space Jam, and the Nike Air Foamposite “Eggplant”. It’s definitely a true sneaker head’s list that includes sneakers geared for various sports and lifestyles. However, despite all the great shoe releases from ‘09, Kanye West’s blank/pink Nike Air Yeezy beat out the rest and was able to claim the #1 spot on Halfhill’s list. With reputable outlets and figures, like BusinessWeek and Halfhill, recognizing the collaboration shoe between Kanye and Nike is a reinforcement to the significance the Air Yeezy had on sneaker culture and fashion in 2009.

Nice range...

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2fresh4yall Kanye West Holiday Gift Guide

For all the procrastinators that have yet to complete this year’s holiday shopping, we’ve come up with the 2fresh4yall Kanye West Holiday Gift Guide to give you some helpful ideas. If the recipient of your gift is a huge Kanye fan or just someone with a good sense of fashion, it would be difficult to go wrong with any of the 6 clothes and accessories on our list.

1. APC Jeans New Cure ($155): Kanye has been spotted wearing APC New Cure jeans in the past and even shopping at the APC store in SoHo New York. For anyone trying to step their denim game up, APC offers quality products at a fraction of the cost compared to other premium denim companies.

2. American Apparel 2001 T-shirt ($17): It’s been a very long time since Kanye has been photographed wearing a graphic t-shirt. This past year, he’s been wearing an array of blank t-shirts of all different colors, most notably the pink t-shirt he wore in Keri Hilson’s “Knock You Down” music video. American Apparel offers a similar blank t-shirt in a fuchsia color, along with its many other color options to choose from.

3. Super Sunglasses Flat Top ($135): The Flat Top Super sunglasses have become Kanye’s choice of eyewear. After wearing them religiously in music videos, performances, and TV interviews during the ‘09 year, they are an essential to any Kanye fan’s outfit.

4. Android Homme Propulsion Hi Sneaker ($220): If you missed out on the Air Yeezy shoes and want a high-top sneaker that is sure to break necks, the Propulsion Hi from Android Homme is definitely the way to go.

5. Casio G-Shock DW-5600 Glide Watch ($110): While most rappers choose to rock iced-out Rolex watches, Kanye is almost always seen wearing a simple plastic watch from G-Shock. G-Shock offers many high-quality watches with each of their own distinct features that will suit a variety of lifestyles.

6. Good Wood Jesus Piece ($50-65): This one is self-explanatory for all the true Kanye fans. And even though all the Jesus pieces from Good Wood are currently sold out, they’ll be coming out with additional colors in the future. However, if you’re lucky, maybe you’ll find a few people selling their black Jesus piece, as I’ve exchanged e-mails and Twitter tweets with customers who bought several just to re-sell.

Christmas is almost here!

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Elisabeth Lecourt Maps Couture

World map or New York, Paris, London, SF and Chelsea, the French-born, Elizabeth Lecourt is turning heads with her intriguing “Les Robes Geographiques” a line of map-wear. She folds and cuts individual maps by region to produce clothes not to be worn but rather hung…
To date she has pressed and ironed 60 pieces of faux garments, mostly pleated parochial dresses and button-down shirts made out of modern maps…


Who needs Google Maps when you have this on you ???

All pics & info via www.cyanatrendland.com

Foster + Partners: Panthalassa Yacht

The Norman Foster lead architecture firm Foster + Partners teamed up with the shipbuilder Perini Navi to create the 56m long Panthalassa Yacht. The luxury boat was revealed last month at the Perini Navi Shipyard in Viareggio, Italy.
The design features six cabins with a capacity for 12 guests and 10 crew members. The interior is spread over three floors with the fly deck on top, main cabin below and the guest quarters below that.
An oval stairway that is lined with acrylic rods to bring in daylight connects all the levels together. On the main level, there is a lounge, bar and a board room which has views of the water.
Throughout the interior, the designers paid close attention to lighting, keeping the spaces light and airy. the boat is powered by two 1239 horse power diesel engines, giving it a max speed of 15 knots.

http://www.fosterandpartners.com

LOOKS HAWT !!!

All pics & info via www.designboom.com

Vodafone Headquarters

Barbosa & Guimaraes designed the new headquarters for mobile phone brand Vodafone

in Porto, Portugal.

The new building is faithful to the Vodafone slogan “Vodafone Life, Life in Motion”, adopting a dynamic image, covering the sense of movement, challenging the static.

The formalization of this concept is based on the concrete, which through its plasticity, allows to create irregular and free-form shapes, working both as a structural solution and exterior appearance, creating a unique shape, a monolithic building, bringing cohesion and unity to the set.





The technical complexity of the building leads to a periphery structural solution, a shell of concrete, like an egg, reeducating internal support to the two stairwells and three central pillars, allowing great versatility in its interior space use.





Functionally, the building has eight floors working three as underground. On the ground floor, in addition to the auditorium, there is a store facing the Boavista Avenue, a cafeteria and office access. In the four upper floors appears the offices working as open-space with an accessible terrace. The underground floors are occupied by technical areas, training rooms and car parking facilities.

Photos by Nelson Garrido

Via dezeen

All pics & info via www.coolboom.net

SHARPIE ART ON STYROFOAM CUPS

Most people use paintbrushes and other drawing utensils to compose their art on canvases and paper. Cheeming Boey on the other hand, uses a Sharpie and depicts his art on Styrofoam cups. Ever since 2006, Boey started drawing on foam cups as a hobby and has now turned into a serious business. Each cup takes a few hours to several months to create and is sold for hundreds of dollars around the world.

Check out how it's done !!!


Via: Wild Ammo

Blank Canvas is everywhere !!!

All pics & info via www.loadreams.com