Nike

Once again, Nike, makes some of the best sports commercials. It's amazing how slowing things down makes everything look 45% better. Dave Chappelle was right all along.

Best Friday in August

A lot of thing have happened this week...

Apple has released it's new leopard upgrade, Snow Leopard, today and lots of upgrades and better efficiency. Plus, it's not that bad of a price. $29.

http://www.apple.com/

Found out that President Obama wears Ray Bans.

Christian Lander, author of Stuff White People Like, spoke to UAB and we had drink at Speakeasy afterwards.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

Kids Got the Disco is tonight

And to top off this week...Red Bull Soapbox Derby will be in Atlanta Saturday. http://redbullsoapboxusa.com/Atlanta-2009/default.aspx

GQ's 25 "lame" colleges

Ran across this gq article and just wanted to see your thoughts....

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_10779

Jay-Z's "Run this town" video

New Jay-Z video for "Run This Town." His Blueprint 3 album is gaining a lot of hype and buzz. He even has one of the 2 producers from Empire of the Sun. Can't seem to see the sunglasses, but Rihanna's frames are much like Kanye's ones about 2 years ago.

Oakley Frogskin's "Bacon"...?

DQM has created the most "unique" frogskin look to date. They have used a bacon like them for the frame. The sunglasses will be limited to 50 and only at the DQM location.

The Hundreds

One of my favorite clothing stores, The Hundreds, have just posted a preview of their take on sunglasses. I'm really starting to think that shades will become the new sneaker craze... We'll see. The Hundreds are most known for their Bomb logo and targets a skating demographic. However, in the recent year, they've hit the main stream...hard. This frame above will definitely be on my Christmas wish list.

Thanks to hypebeast for the article.

LIberty & Co. teams with SUPER sunglasses

A brand that has made interesting in-roads as of late thanks to collaborations on a street level including footwear with Nike Sportswear, Britain’s Liberty & co and their well-known floral patterns and prints make the jump to eyewear form. Seen in three different patterns, the eyewear is available exclusively at the Liberty & Co. flagship store.

Here's the link from Hypebeast. Liberty + SUPER

The FRAY - Heartless from IE HAGY on Vimeo.

Nice cover of Kanye's "heartless"

Flat top frames

Flat top frames are starting to make a staple in the sunglass world. Seems as though it's the new style for frames. With that being said, Common Projects and Moscot New York, took the classic wayfarer look and added a matte black finish for the frame. Other features are the glossy tonal detailing and the minimalistic branding. They are going for about $350. Oh and they are very limited in supply. Good luck getting these.

Kings of Leon at BJCC

Red Mtn Entertainment announced this morning approximately 7:15 AM that Kings of Leon would be performing Oct. 15th. Tickets go on sale Aug. 22nd at 10 AM via ticketmaster. Not a fan of ticketmaster, but a fan of KOL. Hope to see everyone there.

Thanks to al.com

G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe's star, Sienna Miller is featuring Oakley's new nanowire polarized sunglass.

Talk about having things made in America, too bad Sienna isn't. ha

Blogging from Lollapalooza starting Thursday. Wonder who else will be there and the amount of hipster sunglasses. I wonder if Urban Outfitters will have a shortage on neon-framed sunglasses?

Ha

Oliver Peoples