posted on March 28th, 2010 by Tobias in Audio, Fashion, SEEN, Tim Turbo
In his article »Jamaica nuff problems«, published today on the blog of FIRST Magazine, Sherman Escoffery sums up the political/societal situation in Jamaica and calls for change:
We need to start looking within ourselves and stop making excuses and admit that we have not seen any upward trajectory in Jamaica for a while now. We need to acknowledge that we need a long term plan.
We need new, intelligent and unselfish leadership, the PNP and JLP no longer care about us.
We need real moral leadership as the religious leaders have failed us.
We need a new police force as the current one is no better than the gunmen; and sometimes they are the gunmen that hunt us.
Jamaica needs to »Overcome« and so does every individual that feels caught in a system that doesn’t do him or her justice.
Pull your socks up and stand up tall.
Two steps forward, no step back!
posted on March 27th, 2010 by Tobias in Design, SEEN
On we go with presenting the tees from our Spring 2010 Collection.
Today, we like to introduce to you »Venom«, Gabe’s Marvel-esque in-your-face take on the superhero qualities of Jamaican Dancehall deejay Mad Cobra.
This shirt has already found prominent fans like DJ Beware, Schlachthofbronx, and Ronny Trettmann.
PS: The latter just dropped the »LPB« remix with a little help from our friends SoulForce – the tune that will most definitely rule German dancehalls in the spring weeks and months to come. Check check:
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Download Ronny Trettmann – »LPB« (Soulforce RMX)
posted on March 24th, 2010 by Tobias in Design, SEEN
I’d like to use today’s shirt promo for sending out the best birthday wishes to Anna Love (Broken Teeth Crew, Texas) who currently resides in Berlin.
New kicks, new friends, ice cream paint job on my nails (literally), an amazing boyfriend, I LIVE IN EUROPE!!!, a healthy family, and righteous manifestations. Oh life, you are so sweet!
That’s exactly the days we designed »Life Sweet« for.
PS: Need a soundtrack for making your life more sweet? Get hold of at least one of the following mixes:
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Download The Heatwave – 25 Years of Dancehall
Download Rattus and Klose – Snowbombing 2010
Download DJ OneDrop – What Do You Call It? Vol. 4
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posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Tobias in Design, SEEN
I’m continuing our one-week series of shameless self-promotion talking about another T-shirt design out of the seen. Spring 2010 Collection today: »Mans of Mans«.
For that design, Gabe picked a non-representative cross-section of Jamaica’s noble society and turned it into a set of nine cartoon characters. From the upper left to the bottom right we got: Rastaman, Gunman, Bigman, White Man, Yellow Man, Madman, Badman, Shortman and Skinnyman.
Let us know in case you got too much money laying around – we’d love to turn them into vinyl toys (I would kill for Gunman and Yellow Man). Until then, you got to be satisfied with the »Mans of Mans« T-shirt.
PS: Check part one of a great interview with Darhil Crooks on Large Up – big man in (editorial) design!
posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Tobias in Design, SEEN
What’s good? This week, I’d like to talk about one T-shirt out of our Spring 2010 Collection a day. I’m kicking off with »Everybody is a Star« which is
inspired by the ‘everyone is a celebrity’ mentality of Kingston nightlife, no matter how overweight or rum-soaked (FIRST Magazine).
That pretty much sums up the one side of what we were thinking about when designing this shirt: We were thinking about all those people in Jamaica and the rest of the world who – even though they might have nothing or at least not much to smile about – still got pride and style, and – even more important – got fun when going out to parties at night no matter how harsh their lifes might look like during the days.
What we also had in mind was that quote from LSK’s »The Takeover« which you can e.g. listen to in Don Lett’s podcast for Fabric London and which is about the unifying power of music that (ideally) makes people from very different social backgrounds come together in peace to enjoy some heavy beats and basslines. The original quote goes like this:
… Knives have become guitar drops,
and guns have become drums,
bombs are now basslines,
and tonight, Babylon runs …
Definitely check that tune out – it’s classic – and find more pictures of the »Everybody is a Star« shirt in our shop.
PS: Also check FIRST’s video of »Gad Reds« after the jump – a true star!
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