The fine folks at The Society Global highlighted an upcoming New York artist, Winston Chmielinski. Instantly, he’s one of my favorites. Culturites, you have good taste!

Artist’s Website: www.wi-ch.com

Purple drank, skateboarding Ewoks, and Michael Jackson as the venerable Predator (from Alien vs. Predator). Awesome.

Via Goods.

No doubt inspired by Amazon.com’s famous Three Wolf Moon tee, DB Longboards has launched the Wolf Prowler for this season’s collection:

Maybe the coolest skateboard graphics I’ve seen this year.

Yesterday, I got a new Hello Kitty Skateboard. Here’s a shot of David Cantu holding it:

I’m pretty psyched about it.

I’m proud to announce that I’ll be hosting a benefit for Friends of the Orphans on Thursday, April 8th at BoConcept in Seattle:

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Tickets are $10 presale or $20 at the door, and can be purchased here:

http://bit.ly/party4haiti

Get yours before they sell out!

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A dear friend of mine, Shyama Rose (prounounced “shawm-ah”), is a nascent-yet-accomplished upcoming fashion designer in Seattle, and (soon) New York City. I’d like to highlight this piece of hers because I cannot fathom how such a striking, quality design could be put-together by hand, and by someone without traditional Fashion School training. Some people just have a knack (and an eye) for good design, and she’s one of them:

This isn’t her first time working with leather, and nowadays, people stop her on the street asking her where she got her unique jacket, and after telling them she made it herself, she gets commissioned to create new bespoke pieces right then and there. It’s really amazing what raw talent, inspiration, and a little perspiration can do for you. It’s worked wonders for her. Shyama Rose, upcoming fashion designer, I commend you.

Not your traditional lab coat – the anti-shazzzam

You can get in touch with Shyama at shyama (at) gmail (dot) com.

If you’re on T-Mobile USA, there’s something you should know. You’ve just hit the jackpot!

Well, kind of.

T-Mobile is upping their overage per-minute rate to 45¢ (on individual plans <$59.99 and family plans <$89.99), and 40¢ per minute for plans above those pricepoints. The rate increase is carrier-invoked and it constitutes a “materially adverse change of contract,” which means you can get out of your contract now, all without paying an early termination fee.

Who is this good news for:

a) People who wanted to jump ship to get an iPhone, but didn’t want to pay a hefty ETF.
b) EVERYONE!

The reason the change is good for all T-Mobile customers (even if you’re staying with Big Magenta) is that without a contract, you’re a free agent, and hence eligible for upgrade pricing. It’s like you’ve just been given $200 toward an expensive phone, or a free cheap phone (that you can promptly sell on Ebay).

If you’d like to take advantage of the free contract-out, click over to BGR for details:

T-Mobile raises overage rates; cancel your contract sans-ETF – Boy Genius Report

The engine features direct fuel injection and the best hp/cylinder output of any Ferrari; it makes a total of 562 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque, yet offers improved fuel consumption and lower emissions than the F430’s 483-horsepower V-8.

It’ll hit 60 in under 3.4 seconds, and sport a curb weight of around 3,200 pounds. Top speed will exceed 200 miles an hour.

Via NYTimes.

I’ve seen games in Excel before, but this is something else:

Spreadtweet is a Twitter client that makes a person’s incoming Twitter stream look like a typical Excel spreadsheet, giving the impression that an employee is working when they really are not.

Via The Type-A Way (Thanks, Marina!)

I sat down with Gist CEO T.A. McCann last Friday and got a personalized introduction to their messaging application. I’m finally importing all my messaging, contacts, and social networking data into Gist so I can use it as my centralized messaging center day-to-day.

It’s fascinating what kinds of things Gist can tell you about your contacts:

Imagine I had a meeting scheduled with Marcelo Calbucci next week. I could look at his Gist profile and see which media organizations had mentioned him in the last week, and what they wrote about him. That way, I can be caught up on what’s going on in Marcelo’s world before even sitting down with him.

Gist functions in a very similar fashion to my BlackBerry’s Messages application, and by that I mean that it’s a centralized destination that gives a timeline of my communication with all my contacts no matter the platform (email, Facebook messaging, Twitter, et cetera). That kind of continuity and context is important in our modern, connected, busy world. And to top it off, you can reply using any and all platforms right from Gist. No need to open up Facebook or Gmail in a separate tab.

This thing is just going to blow Google Wave out of the water because it harnesses the power of context. It combines communication and contextual relationships into one, bringing a human element into messaging–something that Google could only wish they’d thought of building into Wave.

It seems like this product was purpose-built for me. If they made me pay monthly for it, I would–in a second.

I’m going to write about any new Gist features that strike my fancy each week, as I get to know the software better, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, try it out yourself: https://beta.gist.com/dashboard

At 8GB, my BlackBerry now matches (most) iPhones when it comes to storage, and still manages to weigh less, have a keyboard, and push email/contacts/calendar entries to the device. I’m throwing my 2GB iPod Nano out the window.

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My mind was blown by the strings on the beat, and the old-school 50’s/60’s feel they have.

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This delightful creation is a strata (a cousin of quiche) filled with mushrooms and ham. I think it had some sweet cream/milk added to the egg mixture, adding just enough flavor and depth to make it unique, but not to overpower the senses (or the other flavors).

Coffee from Stumptown Coffee Roasters (some of the best brew in town).

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Seattle, WA 98112

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I took my favorite bangers from the last year and made a MegaMix for y’all to enjoy.

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TRACK LISTING:

Kanye West – Diamonds (Ratatat Mix)
Modest Mouse vs. Ratatat – Beat #6/The World At Large
Notorious B.I.G. – Party and Bullshit (Ratatat Mix)
Passion Pit - Little Secret
Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris ft. Chromeo - Dance Wiv Me
Tilly And The Wall – Beat Control
Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band – A Fifth Of Beethoven (Soulwax Remix)
Ratatat vs. Michael Jackson - Falcon Jam (Ruben X Mash Up)
Justice - Phantom Part 1.5 (Live)
Timbaland ft. One Republic and Cameron Newland – Apologize (Hyper Piano Mix)