Dub Cee Cee Deluxe
"you right, you right"
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Quote reblogged from PopularSovereignty
I love being back at my fashion office learning and creating. It’s so challenging and fun and I’m surrounded by amazing people.
They say you only live once but every time I come to work I feel like I’m starting a second life. You guys might think I have some type of backing for my line but I don’t. I did the first fashion show out of my own pocket and used the money I made touring to follow my passion.
I’ve been working at this for 8 years now …from the first offers to do urban clothing lines that I turned down…To begging Bape to do my line and never making any real headway…To having an office in LA that was shut down after the “MTV” moment along with my tour with GAGA.
I moved to Japan for one month after that and designed every night in my room… I had this opportunity to intern at Fendi and was also offered a position to at Versace wich I could not take due to my contract with LV which was for 2 years…I moved to Rome after I left Japan and worked at Fendi for 4 months under cover … I was there to give ideas for the men’s collection.
I snuck to Giuseppe Zanotti Factory still under contract and learned to design woman’s shoes for 2 years before my first show in Paris.
After doing the first LV collection I was sure I would get a second shot to create but was never given the opportunity.
I designed a sneaker called the YEEZY with Nike. I’m “allowed” to design 1 pair of sneakers every 2 years. I have more ideas…
Early 2011 … I moved to Paris and opened a small design studio… the language barrier was quite difficult. I still don’t have a Paris VAT number to this day… I don’t know what a VAT but every time I asked why we didn’t have fabrics they said it was because of the VAT.
In Paris I met many great people in design including the master Azzedine Alaia… Azzedine even came by my studio one day : ))) This was the greatest feeling to stand in his presence in my embarrassingly small Paris studio in a courtyard opposite Collate.
I remember being 5 years old picking and my mother taking me with her shopping at the discount fur spots. She said I would always point to the most expensive furs even as a child LOL. It’s something about making clothing that always brings me back to that point. For the first 16 or 17 years of my life the only thing. I knew about my woman’s clothing was what my Mom would wear. I guess some critics would joke that I still don’t know anything LOL
My Mom would wear blue jeans with a fur and an embellished “Cosby Show” sweater : ) to pick me up from school. … the teachers said I couldn’t focus… I used to get kicked out of class for bringing dirty mags and drawing Nikeys in 4th grade.
Being a celebrity has afforded me many opportunities but has also boxed me in creatively.
I was just discussing becoming the creative director for the Jetson movie and someone on the call yelled out.. you should do a Jetsons tour!
This just happened a few hours ago. I was very insulted of course becuase for anyone that’s seen the Watch the Throne Tour or Coachella or Glow in the Dark or Runaway.. you know I have real ideas…
I wouldn’t have the prestige I have if it wasn’t partially for the Grammies validation and I honor that. I appreciate having the most nominations at the Grammies but I feel so conflicted by the fact that award shows sometimes are completely illogical.
Good logic tells me smile Kanye… the world likes you again… red or blue pill? … aaaaand Swallow lol
….hmmmmm what to wear… here I go again… Yeezy the trend setter or complete fucking fashion victim … the verdict is still out.
This is just a train of thought .. but figure it’s better to read than trained thoughts.
What good is fame and prestige if you can’t use it to help people… I want to help by doing what I know how to do best .. create. I have started a new company and I’m so excited about the name it’s got the best name ever of all companies of all time!!! The name of the company is DONDA. DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce there dreams and ideas.
I used to blog all the time an fit was a way to get my opinion out. Dr Dre redesigned headphones and made more impact off of one product.
I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts…app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionist doctors, scientist,teachers. DONDA will be comprised of over 22 divisions with a goal to make products and experiences that people want and can afford. I want to put creatives in a room together with like minds that are all waaaay doper than me. We want to help simplify and aesthetically improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel. To dream of, create, advertise and produce products driven equally by emotional want and utilitarian need.. To marry our wants and needs. DONDA.
This will all take time but I wanted everyones to know what I really care about… I care about people. I care about my fans. I care about people who have never heard of me… There are over 7 billion people on the planet now. It’s something about coming from music that makes me so optimistic… Music travels and is not limited to only the wealthy.
Sometimes my grammar is wrong but my thinking is right : ) My mom was an English teacher so I know she sends an SMDH from heaven : )
5:18 am in London… My dreams keep me woke.
The Watch the Throne tour was a small example of what a Donda Experience can be. I’m currently working on a new 7 screen experience…http://t.co/4XmQmCL3. This one of our projects to be released this year called 2016 OLYMPIC’s … It’s a semi sic-fi since 2016 is only 4 years away : ) We would also like’ to design the MTV awards. We’re taking everything 10 steps at a time LOL!
I wanted to put this in the world in hopes that the people who can actually make a difference will stand up and reach out. We need as many amazing powerful smart talented wealthy people to be involved… Come get on board… don’t just sit there… reach out.
We can collectively effect the world trough design. We need to pick up where steve jobs left off.
When I said wealthy I wanted to point out there are so many billionaires in the world that can come together and help to redesign it.
Help education. School systems were designed to turn people into factory workers. Schools should be designed to prep human beings for real life. Spike Jonze and I want to do a Summer school that tries new forms of curriculum. Math classes should teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, accounting and money management aaaaaand cut!!! UNLESS YOU’RE A MATH MAJOR!!!! Kids you should be able to take majors starting in grammar school like how it is at performing art schools. Instead of kicking kids out of schools for using there iPhones… why not promote it? Allow kids to use search engines to do test. Like the real WORLD!!! Give kids the amount of test they would have in a year in one day but they have to get everything perfect. Some kids have better memories than others… what about emotional IQs… what about kids who do bad in school because of how bad there surroundings are? I meant to say their. Excuse me, I just get excited at the possibilities. The more excited I get…the more grammatical errors you’ll see.
We need to take what Michael Jackson felt and Mcqueen and Steve Jobs and we need make things better…
When me and Jay toured… ever night I peered into the audience astonished by the different walks of life that came to support us.
The adrenaline is running… I don’t know if I can even get to sleep now… From Wall street to the London riots to Chicago murders…I sit everyday and ask what can I do to make a difference.
I know this is not a very rapper thing to say but I haven’t bought a new car or piece of jewelry in about 2 years. I invest every dime back into creativity… hiring amazing creatives paying for flights, offices … etc…
My area of expertise is in music, my passion is in music design film and products… my strength is connectivity…
There are so many broken systems from the economy to school systems jail systems… we need experts for this. We need scientist and top world designers to directly affect governments.
If anyone would like to reach out email us at contactDONDA@gmail.com
I just wanted to share what’s been on my mind…
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” - George Bernard Shaw
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Photo reblogged from Lapham's Quarterly
Damn. The camera loves Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass in his early-twenties, c. 1847 by Samuel J. Miller. (Art Institute of Chicago)
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“Personally, I do not think Lévy thinks any more clearly about Libya or Darfur than he does about American justice, but even those more charitably disposed toward his activism may wonder just what is so wrong with treating Strauss-Kahn, a man accused of having committed serious crimes, like, well, a man accused of having committed serious crimes. And why should Strauss-Kahn receive this special exemption from the way all accused criminals are supposed to be treated under American law—that is, when the system works as it was meant to?
The answer boils down to two reasons. The first was that DSK’s friends could not believe he was guilty. Fair enough: After all, they are his friends, even though Lévy’s protest that, while Strauss-Kahn might be “charming and seductive” and “a friend to women” (whatever that may mean), it was absurd to think that he would ever prey on women, seems hard to credit. After all, stories of DSK forcing himself on women are so well-known in France that the comedian Stephane Guyon even had a skit two years ago about Strauss-Kahn coming to a radio station for an interview and a loudspeaker calling on all the women to assemble and go into a safe room where they were to stay until he had left the building.”
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Wowy, zowy, Obama is doing his own thinking on the Middle East and here’s the even worse news: He’s taking advice from Tom Friedman and Fareed Zakaria.Marty Peretz speaks and actually begins with a not that bigoted statement.
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Beloved, now, we must forget this,” he said. “I merely wanted to touch it a little. You see, I find it the most interesting part of the body.
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Dean and Britta cover Beat Happening’s Indian Summer in what looks like a high school gym.
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Photo reblogged from National Geographic Daily
Ballerinas, Berlin
Photograph by Maria Helena Buckley
Ballerinas prepare to hit the stage at a theater in Berlin. In the past decade, an emergence of world-class ballerinas and choreographers has led to a rising interest in German ballet.
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I’m in the middle of reading the 3rd of Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe series, Lay of the Land. I tend to think Richard Ford is one of our more underappreciated male authors and having just read Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, which I thought was decent but not quite as good as people tended to think it was, I find it a bit more inexplicable that Ford gets lost in the shuffle of Baby Boomerish white American authors (from Franzen to Tim O’Brien to younger, impish guys like Gary Shtenygarasfdhasd) while people like Richard Russo, a slightly less talented author in my opinion, consistently have their books made into movies and HBO miniseries. Part of the reason could be, in my estimation, because Ford’s style recommends a kind of stubborn alt-postmodernity that stands amid the clamor of good and bad and brilliant contemporary literature to declare its affiliation with a sort of formal conservatism and ethic that eschews trendy “innovation” or biting commentary in favor of a virtuosic command of the tone and subject matter at hand.
In this case, the subject matter is really quite simple and straightford—manhood, American manhood if you would like to be unnecessarily specific. I am not and have never been the age that Ford’s protagonist, a likable chap named Frank Bascombe who happens to live for most of the three novels in my home state of New Jersey, but I feel and care about this persona in a way I’ve probably only ever cared about Easy Rawlins, Walter Mosley’s heroic black private eye, which is saying something, because I am neither old or (mostly) white but something in Ford’s granular character I find compelling, fascinating and completely sensible. When I read a Nabokov novel I always feel as if the human condition has become a bit more distilled from the muddy incomprehension that I most often feel when considering too earnestly humanity and its manifold discontent worthy moments and realities. When I read Richard Ford I feel more American in disposition and ideology. I know that is a weird thing to say, but I’m not trying to be nativistic or even slightly jingoistic, because I don’t view that notion as being in any way connected to the bellicose, fuck-everyone-else-AMERIKA!!!! geist that seems especially prevalent right now. I just mean that I understand to a degree how I myself am an especially American concoction of motives, faults, strengths and everything else that you could boil down my sense of possibility and self down to. I come to understand with far more compassion than otherwise the petulant, inconsistencies that make me and my neighbors and my countrymen who we are, for better or, often, worse. That to be seems to articulate the purpose of literature at its most banal and, probably, crucial function as a social good.
There isn’t actually a list here, but I felt compelled to give it a somewhat misleading title just because it was the first thing that came to mind.
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“Sitting Bored” by Slow Animal.
