"When You Put It On, Something Happens"

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Members Only is a brand of clothing that became popular in the 1980s with the Members Only jacket. The brand was created in 1975 and introduced to American markets in 1979 by Europe Craft Imports (later acquired in 1987 by the Marcade Group, which was renamed Aris Industries in 1993).
Members Only was renowned for their brand of jackets, which were first introduced in 1981 and manufactured in a wide variety of colors. The jackets have passants. Their advertising tagline, "when you put it on, something happens", also gained fame, especially in the early 1990s when several condom manufacturers and topical laxatives stole the tagline.
The brand was licensed in 2004 by Kirtie Regan after the bankruptcy of Aris Industries, who resurrected it and developed a new line of apparel. At first, the brand was strictly for females with their tighter fitting bomber jackets. The brand even went further than making jackets introducing a skinny jean line. A website was created in 2008 and showed the latest celebrities wearing Members Only and a shop to show off the label's latest designs. The site mysteriously disappeared later but was announced on the brand's Facebook page a new website is in the works.
MINES NEVER DISAPPEARED! KEEP IT CLASSY!

E-MU Systems X SP1200 X MONSTA

The SP-1200 was THE drum machine & sampler combo of legendary status among old school rap and hip hop artists from the eighties and nineties. It is similar to today's Akai MPC samplers - it is a sampler plus drum machine. It has limited sampling specs: 26.040 kHz and 12-bit resolution. However the dirtiness of that sound is great for hip hop and house music. They say it sounds like "old vinyl"... It features groove quantizing and a disk drive for sample storage. As an upgraded version of the 1985 SP-12, the SP-1200 focused on its coolest feature - sampling. The preset drum sounds of the SP-12 were omitted, leaving room for up to 32 user samples of your own custom sampled and edited drum sounds.
Although this machine was originally released in 1987, E-mu has reissued them again and again due to popular demand. They continued producing them until they ran out of the SSM filter chips they used, around 1998. It was just too legendary to give up as it was THE beat machine for old-school rap and hip hop! Pictured above is the final reissued version in 1997 with the cooler looking all-black case. With the SP-1200 it's easy and fun to grab those sliders and tune or tweak your sampled drum sounds all around! It is used by Roni Size, Todd Terry, Freddy Fresh, Daft Punk, Phil Collins,The Prodigy and of course yours truly.

If you can get your hands on this monster, do so!

James Mason X Free (1977)

One of my personal favourites...cool out to this!

SIN X STUCK IN NOWHERE

WOW, what can I say??? 
The music scene here in South Florida needs a complete makeover and that's just my opinion.  If you agree with me then we are on the same page, if not, let me know and maybe we could discuss that one day. But today, I am proud to present the talented work from SIN and his new project "STUCK IN NOWHERE".
From the start you automatically feel the emotion and dedication that was put into this sonic masterpiece. Clearly, SIN captures the listeners ears with his gritty yet smooth delivery and strict production selection.
Honestly, (not because I deal directly/affiliate with the artist) , but just like I tell him everytime, "It's a breath of fresh air." Sincerely, that is the TRUTH! I think that this body of work will help the world break from the norm and refresh the souls of those who think that good music does not exist any more.
P.S. Infinite LOVE & Blessings to http://www.ashleyoutrageous.com/  & http://www.kevinnottingham.com/

LETS GO!

SIN - "STUCK IN NOWHERE"- DOWNLOAD:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zeylhaj4tn1e108

SIN X Stuck In Nowhere [Trailer]

A small taste from SIN's album "STUCK IN NOWHERE" dropping today!
Stay tuned for download info.

Taino Indians Counted Out Of Existence

WE ARE STILL HERE!

A Tribe Called Quest X Check The Rhime

A Tribe Called Quest Changed my LIFE!

POLO X Lo-Lifes Documentary Trailer

For my real LO heAds!

BEATNIKS

Beatnik, a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s, was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into violent film images, a cartoonish misrepresentation of the real-life people and spiritual aspects in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction. Kerouac spoke out against the beatnik concept.

In the vernacular of the period, "Beat" indicated the culture, the attitude and the literature, while the common usage of "beatnik" was that of a stereotype found in lightweight cartoon drawings and twisted, sometimes violent, media characters. This distinction was clarified by Boston University professor Ray Carney, a leading authority on beat culture, in "The Beat Movement in Film," his notes for a 1995 Whitney Museum exhibition and screening:

Much of Beat culture represented a negative stance rather than a positive one. It was animated more by a vague feeling of cultural and emotional displacement, dissatisfaction, and yearning, than by a specific purpose or program. It would be a lot easier if we were only looking for movies with "beatniks" in them. San Francisco columnist Herb Caen coined the word (which by sarcastically punning on the recently launched Russian Sputnik was apparently intended to cast doubt on the beatnik's red-white-and-blue-blooded all-Americanness). And the mass media popularized the concept. Dobie Gillis, Life magazine, Charles Kuralt, and a host of other entertainers and journalists reduced Beatness to a set of superficial, silly externals which have stayed with us ever since: goatees, sunglasses, poetry readings, coffeehouses, slouches and "cool, man, cool" jargon. The only problem is there never were any beatniks in this sense (except, perhaps, for the media influenced imitators who came along late in the history of the movement). Beat culture was a state of mind, not a matter of how you dressed or talked or where you lived. In fact, Beat culture was far from monolithic. It was many different, conflicting, shifting states of mind. The films and videos that have been selected for the screening list are an attempt to move beyond the cultural clichés and slogans, to look past the Central Casting costumes, props, and jargon the mass media equated with Beatness, in order to do justice to its spirit.^[12]

The original members of the Beat Generation used a number of different drugs, often to excess, including alcohol, marijuana, benzedrine, morphine, and later psychedelic drugs including peyote, yage, and LSD. Much of this usage was "experimental," in that they were often initially unfamiliar with the effects of these drugs. They were inspired by intellectual interest, as well as simple hedonism.
The actual results of this "experimentation" can be difficult to determine. Claims that some of these drugs can enhance creativity, insight or productivity were quite common, as is the belief that the drugs in use were a key influence on the social events of the time

James Mason X Sweet Power

One of my personal favorites! Make it a great dAy!

ROCK STEADY CREW X STAY FRESH!

John Coltrane X A Love Supreme Part 01-Acknowledgement

Remember that LOVE IS SUPREME!

René Magritte X Surrealism

René François Ghislain Magritte^[p] (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings.
Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, in 1898, the eldest son of Léopold Magritte, who was a tailor and textile merchant,^[1] and Régina (née Bertinchamps), a milliner until her marriage. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre. This was not her first attempt; she had made many over a number of years, driving her husband Léopold to lock her into her bedroom. One day she escaped, and was missing for days. She was later discovered a mile or so down the nearby river, dead. According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.^[2] Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several paintings Magritte painted in 1927–1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants.^[3]
Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style.^[2] From 1916 to 1918 he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under Constant Montald, but found the instruction uninspiring. The paintings he produced during the years 1918–1924 were influenced by Futurism and by the offshoot of Cubism practiced by Metzinger.^[2] Most of his works of this period are female nudes.
Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not "satisfy emotionally"—when Magritte once was asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco.^[9]

 

Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted the fruit realistically and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny that the item was an apple. In these "Ceci n'est pas" works, Magritte points out that no matter how closely, through realism-art, we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself.
Magritte's style of surrealism is more representational than the "automatic" style of artists such as Joan Miró. Magritte's use of ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces is joined to his desire to create poetic imagery. He described the act of painting as "the art of putting colors side by side in such a way that their real aspect is effaced, so that familiar objects—the sky, people, trees, mountains, furniture, the stars, solid structures, graffiti—become united in a single poetically disciplined image. The poetry of this image dispenses with any symbolic significance, old or new.”^[12]
René Magritte described his paintings as "visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."^[13]

SIN X One Two Media X CRU$H EM'

Art Basel X Miami Beach - 2-5 DEC 2010

Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in
the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas. As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide for the past 41 years,
Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. Exhibition sites are located in the city's beautiful Art Deco District, within walking distance of the beach and many hotels.

An exclusive selection of more than 250 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa will exhibit 20th and 21st century artworks by over 2,000 artists. The exhibiting galleries are among the world's most respected art dealers, offering exceptional pieces by both renowned artists and cutting-edge newcomers. Special exhibition sections feature young galleries, performance art, public art projects and video art. The show will be a vital source for art lovers, allowing them to both discover new developments in contemporary art and experience rare museum-calibre artworks.

Top-quality exhibitions in the museums of South Florida and special programs for art collectors and curators also help make the event a special time for encountering art. And every year, a greater number of art collectors, artists, dealers, curators, critics and art enthusiasts from around the world participate in
Art Basel Miami Beach - the favorite winter meeting place
for the international art world.The Creative WORLD X Good Times X Great Weather! See you there!

MCM - Mode Creation Munich

So, remember Mode Creation Munich, aka MCM? The brand, which launched in 1976, became so popular by the '80s that you couldn't walk a city block without multiple sightings of MCM splattered bags, sneakers, hats, and jackets. Like many an '80s-era label, the hype and over-saturation got the better of the German company and they rapidly became,"uncool." Fast forward to 2008, where under a brand new CEO, Sung-Joo Kim, MCM is poised reclaim its cool all over again. Kim has a serious track record of launching luxury brands in the Asian market including Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Sonia Rykiel. Under her aegis, MCM has relaunched in Germany, Greece and now New York. Her corporate savvy is matched by the design talent of Michael Michalsky, former creative director at adidas, who has been tapped for the same role at MCM.

Be a trendsetter!....... it is not what you ROCK but how you ROCK it!