Just Because.

Ice T - High Roller



Before reality TV, before Menswear lines, before Law & Order: Squeeze the franchise dry, there was an OG. This clip rocks. In comparison to your current rapper de jour the bling is tame, but 30 seconds in when the interviewer asks: "what exactly is the definition of a high roller" you know it is the question Ice was born for. (He was also born dead, but that is a completely different genre.)

It has been ripped from someones old YO! MTV RAPS special, which must go down as the ultimate whitebread corporate branding ever. Has inspired me to dig out some old RAGE guest programmer specials I taped as a teenage dirtbag.

Just a simple misunderstanding

Mrs Carthology sent me this from the ever amusing folks at McSweeneys. When those previous internet searches need a touch of explanation e.g:
teen sex

While it's true we don't have children yet, we're going to someday. And they're going to grow up—faster than you can imagine—and have lots of questions. I don't know about you, but I'd like to have some answers.

Hap, Hap, Happy day. After much searching, teeth gnashing and finally finding (at the right $$) my HUF/TWIST Adicolor series 1 have arrived. If you have had the pleasure of being bored senseless personally by me, you'll know all about 'em. However for the massive readership out there unawares check this straight fire:




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These were part of last years adicolor series . A colab* (* destined to become 2006 most overused word of the year) between HUF (skate/shoe shop in San Francisco run by Keith Hufnagel) and Barry McGee (aka TWIST) an artist who I am a big fan of:





The Ray fong character created by McGee is a fictitious uncle / Bail Bondsman,a very American profession if there ever was.(Think Robert Forster in Jackie Brown). I love the art on the box, these are definitely a pair for my " but really these are just like superannuation and we get some cool art at the same time ' kidding myself collection. Check out his work, easy to find all over the net.
When the shoes were released there was a minor outcry that the fong character pictured on the toungue was racist, a stylised "yellow peril" from 40's propaganda. Mcgee (who is half Chinese) said it was a self portrait of him as a kid. Adidas (allegedly) responded by saying that they would stop selling the shoe, which was itself ridiculous, as with only a highly anticipated 1000 made they had sold out straight away


Pics from www.pickyourshoes.com ( not where I scored these, but a great place to keep yourself poor), flickr and somewhere else I can't remember.

Damn straight

Happy new year. Carthology is back. I've bee busy with the processed meat association of NSW new "2007 Devon Heaven" campaign.
Many thanks to me ol mate Coxy for the pic.