i wear my heart on my feet: happy socks

socks for a rapidly changing world. offers a needed emotional outlet for the not quite bi-polar Gemini. homies shouldn't be surprised when i start gifting happy socks.







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flamboyance is his cologne: flukey stokes

While Chicago is primarily famous for gangsters like Al Capone and John Dillinger, it was a man named Flukey Stokes who by the 1980's, came to sit on the throne of the Chicago crime kingdom, running an estimated $50 million heroin business with his son, Willie the Wimp. Flukey was reknowned for his excess and flashiness, but this did nothing to make him any less of a killer. He was accused of more than 30 murders during his reign. All the high times and expensive goods that a profitable drug business could provide were had by Flukey and his son including extravagant mansions, fancy cars, and of course, women. There's a documentary's worth of stories on Flukey and I'm thinking that's probably why they made one about him. It is entitled, "The Flukey Stokes Story" and was produced by As Is, one of the premier urban documentary makers. Perhaps the most well told story about Flukey is pictorialized in the photo below. Yep. That's his son Willie the Wimp, buried in a Cadillac coffin that Flukey had custom made so he'd stay flossed in the afterlife. Nuff said.


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zinedine doin' work

Spike Lee's inspiration for his documentary on Kobe Bryant is derived from another sports documentary that focuses on the french soccer icon Zinedine Zidane. Like Kobe Doin' Work, Zidane: A 2st Century Portrait is filmed in real time with 17 cameras. They were able to capture the footballer, more popularly known as Zizou, during the Spanish Liga Real Madrid vs. Villarreal CF game on April 23, 2005. The film debuted at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival and touts a soundtrack created by the British band, Mogwai. Definitely going to get my hands on this one, both because it looks great and also because (and Ehrlich you may agree) Zizou reminds me of a cross between Arnold Vosloo and Hitman. I said Arnold Vosloo even though I could have said Billy Zane but Arnold Vosloo is way more obscure and I feel good about myself on days I can make Arnold Vosloo references.



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Decipherin' with Mr. Sanborn

James Sanborn is the Washington D.C based artist/ sculptor who was commissioned to design a piece of art that could represent the history and ideals of the CIA and to adorn the front of it's headquarters. In 1990 he unveiled "Kryptos," a 4 part encryption that the CIA's best took 7 years to crack. Oh but they couldn't crack the whole megillah. The solution to the 4th section has evaded the world's best cryptanalysts to this day. I wonder if the CIA brass look upon the edifice with pride or embarrassment. I'm inclined to believe the latter since Sanborn himself believes they tried to kill the project during it's construction. Would also fit nicely into the notion of "the power of secrecy," a theme recurrent in Sanborn's projects.


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march to: harlem "witch greens"

Video directed by Daniel Hill

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