7th Day Project

The 7th Letter machine keeps pumping out high quality graffiti films every 7th day of the month and the latest one is by far their best.

Typically they follow the featured writer through the completion of a piece, but this time around they just went straight to the street and tagged (no pun intended) along with Zeser as he climbs up to crazy spots to get over.

Hopefully they continue with this piecing/bombing format.

Click the link below to watch the video:
7th Day Project = Zes

P.S In quasi related news go stop by Versus if you can this weekend for their huge end of summer sale.

(Support Your Locals)

Only Ninja Cyann Kill A Ninja

First there was the Capleton cartoon and now this.

Wow!

All I can tell you folks that read SDTW is that if you don't listen to Ninjaman your life is missing something.

If I had to equate him to someone in the hip-hop/rap world I would say he is most similar to Kool Keith, but even with that comparison it doesn't really do Ninja justice.

Just watch the clip.

Streetwear

Streetwear is kind of gay

Ed* Just a little bit

Frank Frazetta x Ralph Bakshi

Two of my favorite artists on one project.

Cop It Here

SDTW Has A Posse

So I inputed the Google Analytics program to track visitors and a whole bunch of info about the site.

This is what it told me me:

This month we have visitors from: 7 countries, 21 U.S States, and they spend an avearge of 7 minutes on the site.

Boom Shaka Laka!

Of course the majority of visitors are made up of Californians and Washingtonians (but we already knew that.)

So spread the word like an std.

SDTW is dropping panties and not calling you the next day.

Heavy Manners Fall 07' Preview

Here is the first look at my new premium line : Heavy Manners

After almost a full year of sweat, frustration, strife, money woes, and persistence the line will finally arrive in West Coast stores within the next few weeks.

All designs are by Justin Attallian of Street Machine San Diego.

* With the exception of "Healing of The Nations" by designer Kevin Lyons Natural Born who you may know for his work with Stussy, SSUR, Tokion, and Nike.

* As well as "Riot" which features the photographic work of Vernon Schmitt

All the tees feature high quality water based inks and have multiple graphics both front and back, neck and clip woven labels, and varnished hang tags.

Check back soon for the Fall/Winter 07' fleece wear.







Godless Killing Machines (Lt. Blue)


Godless Killing Machines (Mustard)


Woven label


Big Ferre (Black)


Big Ferre (Cardinal)


Healing of The Nations (Purple)


Healing of The Nations (White)


Woven label


Riot featuring the photographic work of Vernon Schmitt (Black)


Logo Type (Red)


Logo Type (White)


Honest Abe (Black)


Honest Abe (White)


* All photos were taken by Jordan Nicholson

End

"This is the end,
Beautiful friend,
This is the end,
My only friend, the end."

I think it is safe to say that summer is nearing it's end. The kids are back at school, football is starting up, and the sunsets will begin to come earlier each day.

To mark my first summer in Seattle I put together some photos that I never posted from some of the better summer moments.



The summer belongs to dogs.



BBQ Galore. Benny's big b-day bash on Vashion Island.



Ferry rides with the Little L.



Steve BM doing what he does best at Inner Space Skate Park.



My new buddy Jordan making his best "thizz" face.



Phillipe takes the cake for best mustache of the season.



Lenox hanging out with Uncle J.R



Four Color Zach after merking Steve and Co. with water ballons "rascal" style.

Power Cords

I finally got a new power cord for my Mac. This is my 4th power cord in the last 5 years. Not happy about it.

Below are some random pics I took in Ballard.



With all the recent fan fare with fixed gear bikes it's nice to see someone ride up on a big "fuck you" machine like this.



Powered by Jack Daniels.



Bebop records has records like no one's business. 400,000 just in this basement. Not pictured was a black light poster of LL Cool J from his "I'm Bad" days.



Had to flick this psycho. At the end of the night after whiffing down the bar skank ladder this guy probably lands a big ol' girl that's looking for some back seat fun in his "totally" hooked up PT Cruiser while the band fogs up the windows watching from outside.

Eww.


Self portrait of my new doo

He Man

Via Algot

When Making It Rain Goes Wrong

Woman sues Weezy F Baby


Ed* Why can't people leave Baby Jr alone?

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Oldies But Goodies

Above: Rocksteady sans Bebop


Now that I have Unite's Blog to deal with for reggae uploads I had to go to the vaults and find some dusty rocksteady jumpers to dust off and post.

Well I suppose that's only half true since I got these on cd and not vinyl, but you get the idea.

These are all Trojan releases from a comp, but each could easily stand on their original LPs as certified bangers.


The Slickers "Johnny Too Bad" mp3

I know nothing of The Slickers, but I do know Dennis Brown covered this tune and it's been on steady rotation ever since I heard it.


Dave & Ansel Collins "Double Barrel" mp3

This tune has been sampled in so many hip-hop/battle records that I didn't even know it was a full song.

Ken Boothe "Ain't No Sunshine" mp3

I've always loved this Bill Withers tune and I thought that know one could top Horace Andy's cover, but this Boothe cut is a really close contender.

Devil's Advocate

Sensationalism in the media has never been more prevalent then it is now.

Case and point:



Mr. Vick


Everyone and their mother has chosen to use their pathetic "15 Minutes" to bash Michael Vick in the media almost every minute of every day since the story broke.

Now I fully believe that Michael Vick is a bad person for what he admitted to doing in the dog fighting case against him. I love dogs just like most people and would never want an animal of any kind to be put through pain, BUT....

I do have a problem with not being able to turn on my TV, computer, or radio without hearing from someone about what they "think" about Michael Vick.

First off let us look at this in context to other crimes committed by famous athletes as a way to gauge the severity of the crime and why it "has" to be discussed all the live long day.




Rae Carruth could easily be the worst athlete criminal of all time, but I clearly remember how fast this story fell from the headlines. Rae Rae essentially "assassinated" his pregnant girlfriend in a planned two-car drive-by. The woman who was pregnant at the time was shot four times and eventually died a month later. The baby boy was born prematurely because of her injuries and now has cerebral palsy.

But if you asked any of these sign waiving animal right activists "Who Rae Carruth is? They would most likely shrug their shoulders.

Why? Because Americans are stupid and sheepish.




Jayson Williams is another athlete criminal and although his crime was unintentional he still is a grade A moron. Jayson shot a hired limousine driver to death while "twirling" a shotgun. He faces retrial for possibly "attempting" to cover up the accident and delaying the arrival of medical help that may or may not have saved the driver's life.

Neither of these cases could hold a candle up to Vick's media blitz and yet in my opinion are far worse acts of violence. I think people keep talking about Vick negatively and daily because on a subconscious level it makes them feel good about themselves. People can forget their own shortcomings by honestly convincing themselves "At least I'm not a dog killer."

The media loves feeding this idea and people don't mind getting a little undeserved "morality" boost from it either.

Again what Michael Vick did was totally wrong, but I don't think it means that public needs to keep collectively patting themselves on the back for not being dog killers. You're SUPPOSED to not kill dogs.

My prediction is Vick is going to do anywhere from a year to 2 1/2 years in a pretty core prison and may serve less with good behavior. He may have a harder time then most prisoners being that he is famous, wealthy, and an informant. Regardless if it was a condition of his plea bargain Vick may be going into the big house already labeled as a snitch and that is no fun.

When he gets out and his suspension is up and he decides to return to the NFL the media blitz will resurface and if he plays well MOST of this case will be forgotten and all the people that were on the fence will be buying #7's jerseys and saying shit like "Well, I mean he paid his dues."

Don't believe me?

How often do you ever hear about the following today: Ray Lewis's murder case, Jason Kidd's domestic violence, Darryl Strawberry's coke woes? Okay maybe not Darryl's.

None of these athletes are spoken about negatively even though all of their crimes could easily be brought up in sports media.

Who's the most talked about sports criminal of all time?

Pete Rose

Why? Because he gambled on baseball games. Are you kidding me?

It just doesn't make any sense.

That's my 2 cents.

True School

I started thinking about how fresh o.g Nintendo game covers were from back in the day. I can only speak for myself of course, but Nintendo pretty much ran the block growing up in the 80's. I can vividly remember wasting away summer days inside my house with my friends drinking soda and eating otter pops all while trying to beat Contra without using the "30 Lives" cheat = up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Select, Start.

How in God's name do I remember that? It's probably fair to say that almost every guy ages 20 - 35 remember that code too. I compiled some covers of games that I remembered off the top of my head and came across a few that I had forgotten about.

This isn't anywhere near a "Top Ten" because that would be some serious shit. I couldn't just throw out a couple of covers and say it was a "Top Ten." A post like that would take some serious deliberation.

Some honorable mentions that aren't pictured below would be:

- Super Dodgeball
- Kid Nikki *sort of obscure
- Super Spike Volleyball
- RC Pro Am
- Super Mario 3 *don't act like you didn't shit your pants when that game dropped
- Tecmo Bowl
- Zelda
- Skate or Die 2 * only the half pipe mini game though
- RBI Baseball



T&C Wood and Water Race

I could "son" anyone on the skate part, but my surfing skills were pretty weak. Remember Thrilla Gorilla? Classic



In many ways River City Ransom was like a pioneer to Grand Theft Auto. I mean you ran around stomping people out that were in different gangs using chains, brass knuckles, bats, knives, and pretty much terrorized the entire city until you got your hiena back. Am I wrong here?




O.G Triple O.G Ninja shit. We played this joint for hours and never got bored. It was one player for f*ck's sake and you were totally content watching your buddy play while you waited although deep down you know you were hoping that he was going to fall into a spike pit on his last life.




Ducktales? The game? I watched the cartoon and played the hell out of this game. Scrooge McDuck, Launch Pad McQuack, Huey, Dooey, and Louie, and don't forget Ms. Beasley. My brain is like a bear trap right now.




Along the same lines as RCR, but Double Dragon was more on some martial arts I secretly could run away from home and train to be a karate badass type deal. It also had one of the first player vs. player fighting mini games ever too.




Castlevania was a staple to any decent gamer's collection. How many games could post an "invisible" stair case, flame bombs, giant bats, and allow you to fight Frankenstein and Igor all in one?



California Games caused a lot of ruckus in my neighborhood. It was made up of mini games like skate half pipe, frisbee, hackey sack, roller-skating, surfing, and bmx. The only good games were bmx and surfing. Sometimes I'd f*ck with the hackey sack, but only when I was really bored.




I liked "Ice Hockey" too, but Blades of Steel was more realistic. Why don't more people like hockey I wonder? Baseball is the lamest shit ever, but somehow a sport that is played on ICE where you're allowed to FIGHT someone and everyone is riding on sharpened BLADES is somehow overlooked.




This wasn't a super popular game, but you had a hand cannon and a bionic grappling hook arm. I will repeat that a bionic grappling hook arm. That is all you need to know about BC.




I didn't play this much, but how good is that cover? Back in the 80's things were a lot more in your face and no one gave a $hit about being "pc." I mean they could've made games like "Reggie's Fried Chicken Frenzy" or "Chin's Crazy Driver" and nobody would have batted an eye.




Battle Toads was pretty decent. Nothing special.




I am surprised no one has made this into some lame "street wear" tee yet. This game actually sucked if my memory serves me right and it was basically killed by the hype and anticipation of being able to play a Simpsons game and when you finally got it home it was just a big mess. Cool cover though.




This one was a Double Dragon rip-off and it played like such.




And last but not least 720. Now this game was pretty epic as far as o.g skate games were concerned. It was better in the arcade, but anything skate back then was pretty off the hook.

Leave comments of some of your favorite NES games if you'd like.

Mark Morrison

I can honestly say that this song is better then anything you will hear on the radio today.

Perfection.