The Georgetown basketball team are in China on some friendly, cordial, ambassadors of our country, cultural exchange, global sportsmanship type…..(oh) shit.

There’s some greater political, socioeconomic allegory happening here, but I just can’t quite….give a damn.

The Weeknd presents: Thursday.

Zone feat. Drake is what’s up.  I’m love/hate with wheelchair Jimmy; this is all love though.  I have high expectations for Take Care and the album with Weezy F “the F is for Friday” Baby.  DL the catalog (click photo) before ol’ dude goes record label on us.

Chaz “STEEZ” Ortiz for Primitive

17 year old skaters is the new “NBA player straight out of high school”, minus the booster money and illegal agent privileges.  It used to be skating that got a bad wrap; my how the tables have turned.  Moving along…

The “Friend Zone Fiona” meme; we all know ONE.

and my personal fav…

lulz.

Kate Upton for Beach Bunny Denim:

uhm..what was I doing again?  Hah, I guess I’ll wind this up and send you off with a farewell message from Complex’s Ari Gold soundboard.  Enjoy The Weeknd, and the weekend! (push1)

On my way to the 24 hour fitness in Horton Plaza I pass by a vacated building on 4th street with this mural:

Had it not been for all of the Exit Through the Gift Shop Oscar noise earlier this year, I would not have recognized it

It’s Invader!  I mean, I have some what of a working knowledge of street art (origins of Shepard Fairey’s Obey movement can be traced back to SD), but Exit introduced me to the game like Scratch introduced me to the DJ culture.  Anyhoo, I digress; Here’s another one on the corner of Grape and State St.

I just found out recently that these are part of an installment that the artist was doing for the MCASD exhibition entitled – Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, that began last Summer and ran through the beginning of this year.  There are 21 pieces strategically installed throughout DTSD that when walked, outline a city-sized space invader alien.  Take a look:

THE SPACE INVADER WALK (TRAILER) by extermitent
How many have you found?

Jessica Alba – 2 kids

Love me some Honey Daniels.

Gisele Bundchen – a baby popped out of this:

Legs for days; Tom Brady for nights.  Pending his availability on the draft board when it’s my turn to grab a QB; I hate you, Tom.

Vanessa Marcil – apparently her mom is an herbalist.  If that’s what I think that is…cool.   Also, Megan Fox babysits her kids.

Back dimples > cleavage.

And last, but not least.. Mrs. Fantastic herself, Jessica Alba.

See what I did there?

Enjoy the rest of your week, ya filthy animals.

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks; I don’t care if I never get back. (The team store is located right behind the space under the left field 336 sign.)

Let me root, root root for the home team, if they don’t win, it’s a shame. (It’s two walls of these; all different joints.  Step out to the patio and you’re standing right behind the left field fence)

For it’s 1, 2, 3 strikes you’re out, at the old ball game. (this next dude used to be a Padre)

..and so was his Padre.

  We posted here.  It was a fun crowd for a weeknight/rivalry.  Go Padres!!  We’ll be back in Sept. for COL.

No relation to Enrique (lulz) or JWowW.  Don’t like her outfit?  Try these on for size then:

Nothing like a little competition to bring out the best in people. Business, athletics, professional eating; whatever you do, you do it well because you want to and you do it better than the rest because that’s the spirit of competition.

The conspirators behind Worth1000 have combined competition and creativity to produce one of the most intriguing, fascinating and impressive websites I’ve seen in a while. New contests post all the time, and they’ve also created an avenue for businesses to host competitions in order to generate their new branding logos. Peep game:

selections from the minimalist movie posters contest

RIP Heath Ledger

hangman

They also post a picture of the day from the archives; here’s today’s: Robert DeNiro from the celeb caricature contest

wtFocker

What a great concept.  Without competition, we wouldn’t have Worth1000 inspiring the world of design to stay thisfunctional.

For those not familiar (and can’t quite put 2 and 2 together), Rise is a modern prequel to Planet of the Apes.  It is the Phantom Menace of the Apes series, if you will – except the Apes fanboys will actually like it.  James Franco plays a pharmacologist for a drug company in the bay, whose life work is dedicated to developing a drug to help cure alzheimers.  They test the drugs on chimpanzees …. and well, I’ll stop there.

It’s been a good Summer of movies and we’ve still got plenty to look forward to.

Her website gallery is a MUST; start here.

You’re welcome.

Now…

what was I doing again?

As a native Southern Californian (moved to San Diego from the Philippiness in 89), I’ve been exposed to skateboarding pretty much all of my life. These days, who isn’t? There’s no denying that skate culture has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity and social acceptance in the recent years. The industry has come a long way, and key players such as The Berrics, Thrasher, Transworld and The Skateboard Mag, as well as Street League skating have done an amazing job promoting the culture, sport and art form that is the modern skateboard movement.

The Willy Santos Foundation, lead by professional skateboarder Willy Santos (20 years pro! congrats Pare!) and his wife Shalihe, have been steady grinding on doing their part to help the awareness and advancement of skateboarding in San Diego. In its first year, the group has been hard at work promoting the foundation and raising money for their first project: building a wheel friendly skate plaza in the town of Mira Mesa. I’ve been a volunteer since the beginning (we unofficially got things started almost 3 years ago now) and this Friday we’ve got a little something brewing in Downtown SD.

We’ve gathered submissions from about 20 different local artists that have donated their time and talent to be raffled off at Keep Pushing: an art show featuring work using skateboard decks as the medium.  Doors promptly at 7p, and I’d love to see you and a fresh $20 from the ATM.  All proceeds go toward the Willy Santos Foundation.  It should be a fun event, and from hanging out with the Workshop family the last couple years it’ll definitely be a fun night downtown.

See you there!