Fashion: 99 most influencial fashion blogs by Signature 9

I found this link while surfing through one of my favorite blogs about fashion titled www.hypebeast.com. If you are a fashion lover like my girl, then you definitely should check out the links. Get the link and more information after the jump.

How did we arrive at the 99 blogs listed? We started with an index of more than 500 fashion blogs and beauty blogs from around the world - some from first hand knowledge, others discovered from countless hours of following blogrolls, network publisher listings and links left in comments. After eliminating the ones that were abandoned or infrequently updated, we calculated data, did some math and assigned a score representative of general content quality, popularity and buzz.  The 99 most influential blogs span multiple categories: from the street and personal style of trendsetters around the world, to behind the curtain looks at the people who create and shape the fashion industry - and of course the bloggers who stay on top of who's wearing what, and where to buy it. Are these the best fashion blogs? Best is subjective, but it's certainly the best measure of global style influence to date.

Go to  directly to www.signature9.com

Also check out my favorite blog about fashion at www.hypebeast.com and www.thesartorialist.com

Audio: "Love Space" by Tatsuro Yamashita

My girl hooked me up with some Japanese Soul this evening, and I must say it sounds good though. Feeling it. Here is "Love Space" by Tatsuro Yamashita with a smooth sundae tune!

Marketing: "Does Your Language Shape How You Think?" New York Times

Read this very interesting article about how our language shapes our experience of the world. It explains why certain languages make you feel, think and therefore act differently. I would say, it's a must read if you are interested in marketing.

Here is an excerpt:

A German bridge is feminine (die Brücke), for instance, but el puente is masculine in Spanish; and the same goes for clocks, apartments, forks, newspapers, pockets, shoulders, stamps, tickets, violins, the sun, the world and love. On the other hand, an apple is masculine for Germans but feminine in Spanish, and so are chairs, brooms, butterflies, keys, mountains, stars, tables, wars, rain and garbage. When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant. With objects like mountains or chairs, which are “he” in German but “she” in Spanish, the effect was reversed.

In a different experiment, French and Spanish speakers were asked to assign human voices to various objects in a cartoon. When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it. More recently, psychologists have even shown that “gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory.

read the full article at www.nytimes.com

via @thomasraukamp

Video: "Gafieira SA" by Paula Lima

Here are two videos of one of Brazil's finest soul singers.




Brazil's finest soul singer Paula Lima.

Video: "Lagos Town" by African boy

"2 uncles in the front 2 aunties in the back that's four Nigerians in my B M double uuuu! I've got the african Swagga." lol Super dopee!




join the movement of the African diaspora! the artists on this page are so fresh!
www.okayafrica.com

Video: Marteria "Verstrahlt" feat Yasha & "Neue Nikes"

Here is what I found via Skyence. Marteria is a German artist/MC who I haven't heard of before. Sounds good to me.

Video: "Fuck you!" by Cee-lo

Amazing production, great song and now guess whose live show is a must see! To all the ladies who love the chingalings and don't believe in their men. well... ya'll know the answer by now. :P Ceelo is the man!

Video: "Wake U Everybody" by John Legend & The Roots feat. Common & Melanie Fiona

Now That is quality music..... Melanie Fiona is fire and common who is one of my favorite mcs does a real good job on the feature. kinda reminds me of Common's "Retrospective for life" when he starts to rap. I have to go see them perform when the album comes out!

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Video: "One hand push-up" & "Say Wassup" by Rhymefest, directed by Konee Rok

Get your 3-D glasses and watch this innovative music video.
I'm buying the album.



Wow.. yeah, I so love the concept. Great idea, great song!




Much respect to Rhymefest for being real.

Fresh!!! "Big Bang Big Boom" the new wall-painted animation by BLU

I wonder how long it took him to film this amazing piece of art. Sweet! Don't waste your time, watch it now!

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.


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