Official Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune) Video Trailer

Super Producer Jayson "Jay-E" Epperson (Dead Executives) Known For Producing Nelly's 10x Platinum Country Album

Biography

Jason “Jay-E” Epperson, the producer/songwriter behind Nelly and the St. Lunatics, began his love of rap music in his mid teens. While working at a local skating rink, Jay-E began to experiment—making all sorts of different sounds with recording equipment. On a chance meeting at the rink, he and Ali (of the St. Lunatics) became good friends. This bond hooked Jay-E on an art form that would change his life forever. In August 1999, just after signing with Fo’ Reel Entertainment and Universal Music Publishing Group, Jay-E, at only 20 years-old, left for New York with Nelly and the St. Lunatics to record Nelly’s 7X platinum Country Grammar (Fo’Real/ Universal). The first single, “Country Grammar,” only took two weeks to climb to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rap chart. Propelled by the hit single, the album Country Grammar went to No. 1 on Billboard’s 200 chart, and stayed there for five weeks. Jay E produced and co-wrote ten tracks on the album, including the hit, “Ride Wit Me.” The album was nominated for Best Rap Album Grammy and Jay-E was also listed at No.16 on Billboard’s Top 100 Producers List in their year-end issue. Jay-E also produced the St. Lunatics'platinum debut album, Free City, which was released on June 5, 2001. Jay-E is currently working with Ali on a solo record and with Nelly on a follow-up to Country Grammar.

JAY- HAS BEEN FEATURED IN ONE OF THE LAST ISSUES OF THE WELL KNOW STRATCH MAGAZINE

JAY-E HOOKED UP WITH JOEL AND BENJI MADDEN. FROM THE GROUP, "GOOD CHARLOTTE", MAKING UP THE POWERFUL PRODUCTION TEAM "THE DEAD EXECUTIVES

Visit Jay-E's Twitter pg: Twitter.com/JayeBeatsStl
JAY-E ALSO SPENDS HIS TIME DJING IN THE HOTTEST CLUBS FROM STL TO CALIFORNIA

NELLY "COUNTRY GRAMMER" VIDEO

SONG PRODUCED BY JAY-E

Tomoaki "Nigo" Nagao, Founder and Designer for the International Clothing Company, A Bathing Ape (or BAPE)

A Bathing Ape (or BAPE) is a Japanese clothing company founded by Tomoaki "Nigo" Nagao in 1993.^[1] The company specializes in street wear, operating stores inJapan, including BAPE, BAPE Store, Foot Soldier and the Bape Exclusive store (located in Aoyama, Tokyo). The company also operates Bape Cuts hair salon, Bape Café and gallery, Bape Sounds records. There are also stores located in Hong Kong, London, New York, Taipei and Los Angeles. Nigo also founded the women's clothing lines "APEE", and "BAPY", the female "couture" clothing line.

Nigo, founder and owner, cites his mother and father, who were a nurse and a billboard maker respectively, as major influences in the development of his character. Though because they both worked, he spent a lot of time alone with toys.^[2] He also credits DJ/Head Porter designer Hiroshi Fujiwara as his business model.^[3] His nickname literally means "second version" in Japanese; the MD of Astoarobot, the fashion store, coined the moniker when he noted the physical resemblance to Fujiwara.^[4] Nigo cites his early influences as Elvis, The Beatles and hip-hop acts such as Run DMC and Woobens.^[2]

After studying fashion editing at college, he worked as an editor and a stylist for Popeye magazine.^[3] After borrowing four million yen from an acquaintance, who also let him use his shop,^[2] he opened "Nowhere", his first store, on April 1, 1993 in Harajuku, Tokyo. Deciding to start his own brand, he named it after the 1968 film Planet of the Apes. According to Nigo, the name "BAPE" is short for "A Bathing Ape In Lukewarm Water". Japanese people typically have daily baths in water at temperatures above 40 degrees celsius (104°F). As such, bathing in luke warm water is to complacently over indulge. This is, ironically, a reference to the lazy opulence of the younger generation of Japanese, the brand's own customers.^[2] To expose the brand he gave T-shirts to Cornelius who wore them when performing. For two years he produced 30 to 50 shirts a week, selling half and giving half to friends. In 1997, Nigo released his debut album 'Ape Sounds' under Mo'Wax, with DJ/Producer James Lavelle of UNKLE. ^[4] In January 2005, Nigo and Pharrell launched the first "Bathing Ape" store in New York. The official name, according to the salespeople at the store, is "A Bathing Ape in Lukewarm Water."^[5] Nigo is also co-owner and head designer of Williams' Billionaire Boys Club.^[6] In 2006, Nigo and N-Kei Enzaki started a record company, Ape Sounds, with help from James Lavelle, a UK DJ and owner of the Mo' Wax label. He serves as a producer and director for his CDs, blending Western hip-hop with Asian sounds.^[3] Lavelle wore a BAPE t-shirt on the cover his mix album Global Underground 023: Barcelona.

Celebrities known to wear BAPE include Ian Brown, Pharrell, T.I., Lil Wayne, Teriyaki Boyz, Kanye West, Omarion, Ryan Ballard, Soulja Boy, Clipse, Adrian Orange, Ad-Rock, Mark Hoppus, Benjamin English, Kid Cudi and many others. ^[7]

Source: Wikipedia

Kanye West's Clothing Line "PASTELLE"

After the very popular college dropout T-shirt, Kanye West is launching a high-end clothing line of his own. All we know so far is that it features heterosexual rainbows and carries a name we’ll definitely remember, Pastelle (or pastel for the incult). Although the initial announcement was made in September 2005 and the clothes expected in the following spring, we’ve barely seen anything from the Kanye West clothing line so far. When is it coming out? It seems we’ll have to wait until late 2008, for the Christmas season I’d guess, or possibly 2009. The release has been pushed back a few times now but it’s getting done. Some celebrities, including Kanye West of course, have been spotted recently with actual Pastelle clothes. So don’t despair, you’ll own a piece of Kanye anytime soon.

Pablo Picasso. Cavalier with Pipe. 1968. Oil on canvas. Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, Switzerland.

I really don't prefer drinking alcohol, but after seeing this picasso piece maybe I need a martini...

Louis Vuitton "Eye See You." Lights

Louis Vuitton commissioned Finnish light sculptor Olafur Eliasson to design a captivating display for their stores, called "Eye See You."

The Story Of "Aeneas" My Real 1st Name & also the picture of the banner at the top of the blog pg

Aeneas

From Wikipedia,

This article is about the Greco-Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas (disambiguation).

Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598.

Aeneas carrying Anchises, black-figured oinochoe, ca. 520-510 BC, Louvre (F 118)

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (Greek: Αἰνείας, Aineías; pronounced /ɪˈniːəs/ in English) was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddessVenus. His father was also the second cousin of King Priam of Troy. The journey of Aeneas from Troy, (led by Venus, his mother) which led to the founding of the city Rome, is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid. He is considered an important figure in Greek and Roman legend and history. Aeneas is a character in Homer's Iliad, Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Also, Aeneas has been known for his skills in combat during the battle of Troy. He also was one of the keys to the founding of Rome.

Mythology

In the Iliad, Aeneas is the leader of the Dardanians (Trojans - descendants of Dardanus), and a principal lieutenant of Hector, son of the Trojan king Priam. In the poem, Aeneas's mother Aphrodite frequently comes to his aid on the battlefield; he is also a favorite of Apollo. Venus and Apollo rescue Aeneas from combat withDiomedes of Argos, who nearly kills him, and carry him away to Pergamos for healing. Even Poseidon, who normally favors the Greeks, comes to Aeneas's rescue when the latter falls under the assault of Achilles, noting that Aeneas, though from a junior branch of the royal family, is destined to become king of the Trojan people.

As seen in the first books of the Aeneid, Aeneas is one of the few Trojans who were not killed in battle or enslaved when Troy fell. When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of the Romans. The Aeneads included Aeneas's trumpeter Misenus, his father Anchises, his friends Achates, Sergestus and Acmon, the healer Lapyx, the steady helmsman Palinurus, and his son Ascanius (also known as Iulus, Julus, or Ascanius Julius.) He carried with him the Lares and Penates, the statues of the household gods of Troy, and transplanted them to Italy.

Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.

(From here on, the Greek myths make room for the Roman mythology, so the Roman names of the gods will be used.) After a brief, but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno's request, and several failed attempts to found cities, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings. Aeneas had a year long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido (also known as Elissa), who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign jointly over their peoples. Once again, this was in favour of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans' descendants. However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, thus compelling him to leave secretly and continue on his way. When Dido learned of this, she ordered her sister Anna to construct a pyre, she said, to get rid of Aeneas' possessions, left behind by him in his haste to leave. Standing on it, Dido uttered a curse that would forever pit Carthage against Rome. She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met and then falling on the pyre. Anna reproached the mortally wounded Dido. Meanwhile, Juno, looking down on the tragedy and moved by Dido's plight, sent Iris to make Dido's passage to Hades quicker and less painful. When Aeneas later traveled to Hades, he called to her ghost but she neither spoke to nor acknowledged him.

The company stopped on the island of Sicily during the course of their journey. After the first trip, before the Trojans went to Carthage, Achaemenides, one of Odysseus' crew who had been left behind, traveled with them. After visiting Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily where they were welcomed by Acestes, king of the region and son of the river Crinisus by a Dardanian woman.

Aeneas and the god Tiber, by Bartolomeo Pinelli.

Latinus, king of the Latins, welcomed Aeneas's army of exiled Trojans and let them reorganize their life in Latium. His daughter Lavinia had been promised to Turnus, king of theRutuli, but Latinus received a prophecy that Lavinia would be betrothed to one from another land — namely, Aeneas. Latinus heeded the prophecy, and Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas at the urging of Juno, who was aligned with King Mezentius of the Etruscans and Queen Amata of the Latins. Aeneas' forces prevailed. Turnus was killed and his people were captured. According to Livy, Aeneas was victorious but Latinus died in the war. Aeneas founded the city of Lavinium, named after his wife. He later welcomed Dido's sister, Anna Perenna, who then committed suicide after learning of Lavinia's jealousy.

After his death, his mother, Venus asked Jupiter to make her son immortal. Jupiter agreed and the river god Numicus cleansed Aeneas of all his mortal parts and Venus anointed him with Ambrosia and Nectar, making him a god. Aeneas was recognized as the god Jupiter Indiges. Inspired by the work of James Frazer, some have posited that Aeneas was originally a life-death-rebirth deity.