As I start to age, I compile a mental list of things I would eventually like to populate my future house/apartment when I finally grow up enough to be self-sufficient or live with a significant other as opposed to roommates. A vintage stereo setup is absolutely one of them.

Is it wrong that I have been staring at this for about 10 minutes straight already and I keep going back and forth between laughing and just wanting to tear up a fucking track with some sick verse?

When I was younger and would go over to my Grandparent’s house, my Grandpa would always be watching TV. I swear there was one of maybe three different things that he would watch for the better part of my childhood and they were: war documentaries, old westerns (especially John Wayne) and the Death Wish series. My Grandpa is the man.

Paul Kersey: Nothing to do but cut and run, huh? What else? What about the old American social custom of self-defense? If the police don’t defense us, maybe we ought to do it ourselves.
Jack Toby: We’re not pioneers anymore, Dad.
Paul Kersey: What are we, Jack?
Jack Toby: What do you mean?
Paul Kersey: I mean, if we’re not pioneers, what have we become? What do you call people who, when they’re faced with a condition or fear, do nothing about it, they just run and hide?
Jack Toby: Civilized?
Paul Kersey: No.

Today marks the 90th birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov. Thanks to designboom for the knowledge.

Photography can astound me in so many ways but I think my favorite photos always end up being taken from every day life and capturing a person/people in their element. I stumbled across the site for photographer named ITO and found him to be the epitome of my photographic love, and all of his prints are available for purchase. The best ones are definitely the ones available in the banner sized posters (Pesci, Dame/Beanie).

I want to fill a room with a never-ending supply of freshly laundered clothes that have come straight out of the dryer. Throw them into heaping piles so that you can’t even see the floor and then in the dead of winter I can roll around in the piles and feel safe.

Phase 1 complete. Phase 2 begins next weekend.

I want to do more hip-hop albums here, but I never find myself taking to the time to spotlight them on Mondays.

10 Deep knows how to pick their players well. On their 3rd sponsored mixtape, they’ve tapped Atlanta’s Donnis to go in and as hard as it may have been to follow Kid Cudi and Wale, the kid steps up pretty well. Diary of an ATL Brave kicks off with an 808s and Heartbreaks sounding beat as Donnis gets into his introduction about being a hipster but not wanting to be labeled one, etc etc but a solid opener nonetheless. Underdog really gets the album going with a soulful sample for the hook and an energetic horn section. Lyrically Donnis is on point, clever punchlines and wordplay, definitely on par with his 10 Deep predecessors but also bringing his own southern ATL flair to the table. You can feel the southern inflection in his voice, more prevalent on some tracks than others, that is reminiscent of David Banner mixed with B.O.B.

The first half of the album is filled with some solid bangers. Booming beats courtesy of J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League (who do the majority of the album’s tracks) and Bun-B’s velvet vocals fire on Country Cool. Colin Munroe guests on the chorus of I Am Me, which hits in the middle of a string of songs with an R&B-ish chorus and mellower flow and Donnis hits a little lull here in the middle of the album. 10 Deep produces a signature T-shirt for each of artists’ release and on this time around they opt to use the track Sexytime for the theme, which is a mildly entertaining song with a few cheeky rhymes, but overall comes off a little cheesy. Diary of an ATL Brave comes to a close after only eleven tracks with Ticket to the Moon, but you can feel the potential oozing out of this kid on the release as a whole. The album is easily worth the listen even if only for the first half and another solid 10 Deep drop as well.

Hikima Takanori and Suzuki Masayoshi designed this clock that draws one circular line through the sand every 24 hours.

via designboom