Artist of the Week: Blake Lewis

Okay, now i understand most people love American Idol, and at the same time most People hate AI. But every one remembers Blake Lewis from season six. He was the spikey haired, beat boxing, white boy, who made me look at the TV and say, "Where the hell did he learn that?!" Seriously dude was my Favorite off season six. And the only reason I actually watched it.

Now you probably wondering why he's my pick for artist of the week. Well I was watching a show about where the AI artists are now, on my TV guide channell, and realized he not only made a kicks ass "hip hop/pop" album; (I'm listening to it as I write this) But he also did a track with your favorite rapper's, favorite rapper, Lupe Fiasco. Yeah at first I said "No fucking Way!" but yes way.

His new album is called "Audio Day Dream. Here's just a little info on Blake himself.

Audio Day Dream begins with an intro titled "Silence Is Golden ..." and ends with the outro "... I Choose Noise." Together, it's the mantra Lewis lives by.

"I've always been attracted to noise, even as a kid," he says. "I was obsessed with 'Mork and Mindy' because Robin Williams did so many sound effects when he was talking. I even love an annoying racket, especially if there's something rhythmic about it. You can beat-box to a car alarm."

Blake got both his love for music and rebel instincts from his mother, who ran away from home at 15 to pursue a singing career. He got into hip-hop as a kid through Rob Base and Fresh Prince cassettes and moved into grunge in junior high before discovering electronic music through "The Saint" soundtrack (with Moby and Orbital).

After learning piano and saxophone, he eventually began doing musicals and singing in choirs and a cappella groups, where he honed his skills beat-boxing. When he auditioned for "Idol" on a whim (he had never seen the show) the judges insisted he showcase his human turntable skills. He complied, beat-boxing through Seal's "Crazy." But then Blake made a request. He wanted to also sing Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning," which hadn't been cleared by the publisher, so he boldly said, "Turn off the cameras and let me sing it anyway." And thankfully they did.

Found all this at, His official Website, www.blakelewisofficial.com

Here is a YouTube "video"; =/ Okay, "the picture of his album cover, while the song plays" of his track with Lupe. But go Grab the Album it's worth it, from the "car ride", or the "house cleaning day", to the "cuddle-ling with your baby" moments. haha

Eiffel Tower Looks Like A Space Ship Deck made of Kevlar

Next year marks the 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower. To celebrate, the French will be adding a spaced out webbed Kevlar observation deck to the top, doubling the size of the deck and making the Eiffel Tower look like some sort of alien space shuttle haha its pretty dope its not permanent jus temporaily like for show its a good sight to show the future and the old together in such an remarkable display of creativity.

The Nike Air Max "Running Man" Package

Nike connected with well respected artists Parra and Misha to assemble two pieces of the “Running Man Pack” - the Air Max 95 and Air Max 90. Parra, a legendary underground artist from Amsterdam, went to work with his signature colors on the Air Max 95 complete removeing Nike logos from the tongue and sole and instead replacing with his own unique artwork as you see there is no nike airmax logo at the top of shoe or the bottom even tho these kicks are still 1000% official, he jus added his artwork which makes these kicks even more rare to cop
Misha Hollenbach went to work on the Air Max 90 transforming the shoes with a more updated midsole, custom laces, and added his own austrian flava to it the color theme was mostly a tribute to his homeland.these kicks 1st droped in europe but then went thru a brief re-release and is now sold in the US they wont drop till 3-22 so image the rareity of these kicks they wont eva drop again courtesy to nicekicks and kix-files for the pics

There Ggggggggreat!! Tony The Tiger Dunks

House of Hoops continues with in store exclusives including the creative “Tony the Tiger” Nike Dunk Highs. Nike has drawn inspiration from many different sources, but as we can recall, this is the first from a cereal box.these are supa sickk if you're a big nike dunk head like myself look out for more cereal themes released.Though these were only available at the House of Hoops in Harlem, you can grab them from osneaker.com

The Adidas Olympic Conductor

Back in ‘86 these shoes were the signature shoe for the young Patrick Ewing. In fact, the official name for these shoes were the Adidas Ewing Conductor, a beefed up version of the Adidas Ewing Rivalry. Since Ewing left Adidas in ‘89 to form his own brand, Adidas can no longer use his name on the product or his logo on the tongue much like Adidas had to do with the re-release of early Kobe kicks Crazy 8's Infamously known.The 6 colors represent each of the 5 rings on the Olympic symbol plus the white field on which the logo sits. this is an epic release as the 8-8-08 Olympic's drops this summer dont be surprised to see some athletes rockin these they are ultra dope!! These are available now in NYC at David Z and also online for all of us outside of the City at DavidZ.com.

The "Kurt Cobain" Converse Chuck Taylor

This is another release set for summer 08 in what could be turning out to be the greatest summer for kicks the artwork is ultra dope like who the hell has the creativity to do this and make it look unique at that they deserve alot of cred and respect.There is allegedly another All Star model as well, stay tuned for more details.shout outs to hypebeast for the pic and the nirvana club as well as daily swarm for the info goodlooks.

The Adidas "You Aint Gotta Lie To kick It" Vol.1

In a new collaboration set to pop off this summer 08, Adidas has teamed up with one of the leading artist driven brands out there Upper Playground to create a series of four artist designed shoes. Volume 1 will see the talents of 12Grain's Sam Flores,even tho the image of the kicks are pretty "shawdowed" out you can see here that it is ultra dope this navy blue would go wit almost anything and for the snobster skateboard kids that i admire so heavly haha you would look so stylish in these pics courtesy of hypebeast checkout Upper Playground for details on price and release date...

The Army Spy Bat...SO FUTURISTIC

Army dudes sat down with scientists at University of Michigan and other schools and asked for a simple bionic bat with stereo cameras, miniaturized radar, ultra-sensitive self-guidance, "energy scavenging" recharging capability and a radio to send data back to troops in urban combat zones. so they created this knowing that it would be nearly impossible to kill such a thing flying so hard they decided this was the best way to combat and still war strategy's as well as pick up on gas readings yes this bat does detect the poisonus air gas.The proposal is for the bat to be just six inches in length, weigh only four ounces and use just one watt of power, backed by a lithium-ion battery, which could be charged by not just solar energy.