Archive for January, 2009

ImNaShitFoolTV: Royce Da 5′9″, Crooked I & Joell Ortiz Cypher

Posted by mel on January 29th, 2009 filed in Crew Love, FLuD Love, We Fuxx With That, str8 outta locash

For those that don’t know, Team FLuD is a proud sponsor (well, maybe not sponsor per se, but you get the meaning) of Real Hip Hop. One of the illest groups to come around in awhile is none other than Slaughterhouse. Comprised of Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I and Royce 5′9″, their music is [...]

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Sitting in a sea of ticking

Posted by Doug on January 19th, 2009 filed in Design

Trade show season starts this week for us at Flud- we’re debuting our next line up of watches at the Agenda Show in San Diego. Agenda, for those businessly(that’s not a word, I know) inclined, is also our new showroom handling all our sales. 
 
So I’m sitting at my desk in front of about 75% of [...]

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U-N-I X Mass Hysteria Werx X dubFrequency

Posted by mel on January 17th, 2009 filed in Crew Love, FLuD Love

FLuD City All-Star Brian and Mass Hysteria Werx got some dope footage recently of a dubFrequency event out in The City of Angels featuring the west coast’s own U.N.I. Peep the performance below.

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Charles Hamilton X Fader

Posted by mel on January 12th, 2009 filed in Crew Love, Visionz

Shouts to the homie Charles Hamilton for getting the cover of The Fader’s January issue.

Charles Hamilton will share the January/February issue of Fader Magazine with UK pop artist Little Boots. Sonic The Hamilton will be featured on the annual NOW issue of Fader where they highlight the artists they will be listening to the most [...]

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Wrestler 2

Posted by Doug on January 12th, 2009 filed in Design

Marcus just peeped the blog and made this comment, which I’m not approving because we have a no approving of comments policy on the Flud Blog, but if its amusing, I’ll address it-
 
“if the entire cast of the wrestler had pale skin, big black goth hair, and the set was made out of clay-mation, with [...]

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A. Pinks Mixtape

Posted by Doug on January 12th, 2009 filed in FLuD Love

Yo yo- the homey Matt Diamond asked me to throw this up on here, and I really couldn’t refuse for a few reasons:
1) Dude was a high school wrestler and sends pretty strange emails that make my blog posts about chocolate lucky charms seem normal. Its kind of weird and just makes you hope he [...]

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Gun & Gold Boombox: Karmaloop.com Exclusive!

Posted by mel on January 8th, 2009 filed in Design, General

The Ultra-Exclusive Gunmetal & Gold Boombox is now available at Karmaloop.com (and ONLY at Karmaloop.com).

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WARNING: This Film Doesn’t Exist?

Posted by mel on January 6th, 2009 filed in Crew Love, Visionz

Our homie John Carluccio directed this ill doc on the state of the sneaker game and the branding of companies. Ill concept and even better execution. Below is the trailer with a synopsis on the film.
WARNING: This film doesn’t exist?
Branding, addiction, sneaker culture and legal infringement are explored when artist/designer Ari Saal Forman mash-ups the [...]

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Chocolate Lucky Charms

Posted by Doug on January 5th, 2009 filed in str8 outta locash

Happy New Years to everyone in fludblogland. For our first entry of 09- I wanted to touch on something very important to me. Cereal. 
The other day I was at the supermarket and I picked up 3 boxes of cereal. I went with a Kashi organic joint, something healthy, Honey Bunches of Oats, something somewhat healthy [...]

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