Been reading a lot of Buddhist books...

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he is suffering deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That is the message he is sending."

"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Brain exercise.

Question your surroundings. Notice the unnoticed. Hmmm...



Note: This blog is personal. I'm posting personal shit so if you don't get it, you don't have to. Just ask me in person or something. If you wanna look at witty little updates then check WAH's.

Updates.

Just received an email for Mac's updates on his website. New work on almost every section. Check it check it. WWW.ELMAC.NET

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On the low-low. In the lab. Gone til' November I got moves to make.

My Shit was Complex.

Probably the best Lauryn Hill verse ever.

Touches me and it buuuuuuurns.

Originally from the song "Manifest" with the Fugees but this version is a remix with "Ex-Factor" and was recorded live in the UK unreleased. It cuts off real blunt because its actually cut from her mixtape: The Best of Lauryn Hill Vol. 1&2 by J. Period. GET THAT SHIT! Best mixtape EVER and you think I'm being bias because I'm such a Lauryn Hill freak but I'm so serious. It comes with two cd's: vol.1 (FIRE) which is all her rap and rhymes and then vol. 2 (WATER) that contains all of the acapellas. A lot of live performances recorded on the cd's and a lot of special guests like Rohan Marley, Nas, The Fugees, Common, Bob Marley and the list goes on. You can purchase it on J. Period's website www.jperiod.com and that's about it. It's actually really exclusive and I think every woman should have these two cd's on her shelf because it's truly inspirational and includes a lot of Lauryn's outlook on life and love in general. She's extremely intelligent. Although a little crazy but I still love her.



COUNT DOWN TIL FRIDAY!
I'm watching her perform at the Pala Casino so you know I'm already losing sleep over it.
Soon to be reported so stay posted.

Stormie.

Big chillin'.

It reached South-East Asia!

Ok so let me tell you the story. I,Dianne was not born but raised in Bangkok and other remote parts of Thailand for 8-9 years. I've been back in the states for years now and haven't visited in about 4 years and I've always wondered about how the "street culture" QOUTE ON QOUTE is like in Thailand. What I'm trying to say is... I wonder if any of those kids in Thailand gives a shit about sneakers, t-shirts, hoodies, new eras, and vintage 80's sunglasses like they do here in LA. We all know Japan is like the headquarter of all things but I've never seen a sneaker shop or streetwear boutiques in Thailand. I was informed that they held the 25th Anniversary AF1 party there but nothing too crazy. They barely even posted any pictures.

Until todaaaaaaaaay... I read an article on Slam about Sneakerpimps Bangkok.
Dave White did a live installation on some Thai-kickboxing shit. (Muay Thai)

And then here comes these guys... goldchain, bandana, painter hat, t-shirt, cazal-wearing fools. Epitamy of a hypebeast.

My question has been answered. I guess the next victims will Africa and then it'll hit the Middle East. At least those guys are gonna be able to claim their scarves back. They wear it best anyway so please leave it alone. That shit was very 2005. Oh yeah, and I bet you these guys' parents are rich as hell because 40 dollar Alife t-shirts comes out to be about 1,500 Baht Thai. No joke. Imagine a pair of $125 AF1's? 89123798137 I can't even do the math. (somewhere around 5,000)

And by the way... Does this chick even know who the hell Dave White is? Go on girl, floss that shirt to the boys.

From LA with Love

So this last saturday June 16th, Art Don't Sleep presented From LA with Love Album Release Party at the A+D Museum off Wilshire blvd.

I arrived at the museum a little late and thank God for Oak I had a place to park and got in. The place had 3 different areas for music and the art exhibition was located on the second floor. Sorry for the lack of pictures but I didn't wanna look like a tourist.

My favorite piece was probably Retna's. I walked around quite a couple of times expecting to see a beautiful painting with elaborate brush strokes and didn't seem to find one until I was told that THIS was his piece...




R-E-T-N-A. See it now? I couldn't take a whole picture due to the crowd.


A little tribute for The Seventh Letter on the symbol.

Favorite print of the night.


Gas gas gas...


The show also provided live screenprinting by Hit&Run. The line continued throughout the whole show.




That's mine. Thank you.


Music and good vibes provided by Azul 213, Blank Blu, Kutmah, Computer Jay etc. and the Gaslampkiller himself.

Willow's FUCT tee was quite a hit that night.



My picture-taking stopped there because the vodka kicked in and we decided to pose at the photobooth by Mochilla instead. Still waiting on the picture by the way. Great night overall. Good vibes, good people, good music, and good art. Nobody's angry and nobody's trying to floss like most places.

Okay well its been quite a long weekend. Holla manana.

She be rockin' Chuck Taylors and a thriftstore purse.

There's a reason why we love Erykah Badu---The girl's got sass. If you hadn't already know that then you better ask Tyrone!

Well thanks to Oak for sending me links for the Def Jam Poetry video for Lauryn Hill originally (which was too intense) then I came across this one that I think is quite clever. Check it.

1997 Goose Bumps.

Damn I was still a baby.

WORLDWIDE.

So everybody knows Hilary Duff isn't the greatest singer and neither is she as a dancer. But that's when my dearie bestfriend Anjolie and her partner Julianne comes in. Not everyone's got a bestfriend that's on worldtour with Hilary and shit you know. From what I hear from Anj, Hilary is sincerely nice inside out. No sweatin' nobody and I gotta respect that. Rather work with her than my all-time-favorite Lauryn Hill that I heard is quite craaazy.

Well anyways, check out the video. It's called "Stranger" and was filmed at our very familiar spot NACIONAL off Wilcox an Hollywood.

WHAT THE FUCK?

Who would wear this? HONESTLY...

No wonder New Era wasn't interested...

Blends Boys on the spot.

Goes down in Costa Mesa.
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LOVE HER.

I fuckin' love her.

Pussy Power: CLAW MONEY

Last Thursday Turntable Lab LA held a book signing for CLAW's new book, BOMBSHELL The Life and Crimes of Claw Money. Thanks to Lax for the invite and James for the book I finally got my hands on a copy signed specifically to me. HOLLA.

The book consists of collages upon collages of Claw's (Claudia) life. Contributing authors includes her close friends Miss 17, Minya Quirk, DAZE, Sacha Jenkins, etc etc.

I fuckin' love this book because everything is raw. Collages of jewelry and pictures thrown together with spraycans, caps, and markers. It gives you a pretty good idea of who she is. Pretty photoshopped shit aren't necessary. It's left as real as it is.

Matches for your swishers. Looks better in your purse than the ugly lighters from Mobile.

In my personal opionion, art-wise I don't think Claw puts up the most artistic pieces on the map but the woman gets up and she demands the respect that she deserves. Girls in the graffiti scene are always viewed as weak little bitches that shouldn't be walking up in the alleys and freeways at night, but Claw works the opposite way. She puts her shit up in riskier places along with her partner Miss 17. You better recognize her presence!

Besides bombing the city, She's got her own clothing line going on called CLAW MONEY if you didn't already know. The line carries tank tops, tees, hoodies, jackets, jumpsuits, purses, pillows, accessories, sunglasses, and now it's moving on to cut and sew where she's using vintage designer scarves and transforming it into the infamous bomber jacket. These jackets are under the CLAW MONEY COLLECTION. I heard prices running at about $1,500 but no confirmation on that info yet.

Jackets only available at Colette (Paris), aNYthing Boutique (NY), Bodega (Boston), and Arrive (Miami).

Check her out at www.ClawMoney.com.

Do your research and get your copy. Ladies, support our Ladies!

Reintroduce myself.

So after Peru I slacked off on the blogs, which I shouldn't have done because I had quite a few people who actually enjoyed the posts. So I thought about it for a little bit about how played blogs are and how people be posting the lamest information on earth. I mean everybody and their fuckin' mom's got a blog right? But I mean... whatever. I'm gonna make my shit the least ignorant it could possibly be. But on down-time or lazy days there will probably be quite a few meaningless posts.

So stay posted and ENJOY! Jumps off tomorrow.

Before Trujillo.

So tonight I'm leaving to Trujillo where they're going to move my grandpa's casket to a burial ground in his hometown. I've decided that I better update now because I'm going to the boondocks and there will be no internet or electricity there. I'm still trying to figure out what would be the best survival tool for me when I get there.

Well anyways! I woke up around 9 o'clock today and headed to the city. Right when I walked outside of the house along the shore... I stumbled upon something that I haven't seen this whole trip. A skatepark!


Circa.




So by the time I took the forth picture, a guy around his thirties approached me and my dad saying something in spanish that I didn't understand. Right when we got in the car my dad told me that the guy was telling him that he built this skatepark for the kids and he also gathered local graffiti artists together. (As you can see) I gotta say I have respect for the guy. But why the hell didn't my dad tell me about what he was saying before I got into the car so I could have at least asked him some questions and give him some kudos?! Oh well. I'm angry, but its whatevers.

Look at this sign. Follow the arrow to Jesus and Maria! Hahaa.


And look who I found again. Envelope man! What's your message?! Can I open it?!


Remind me to buy me one of these for myself when I'm officially RICH. A "Lamborgini" LOL.


Walking around town there's a whole bunch of casinos inside of hotels which is actually pretty nice in the inside. The security wanted to kick my ass for taking pictures and made me delete them in front of him but I'M TOO SLICK!


Asides the fact of how slick I am, I'm also completely clueless with gambling so I ended up at a local lottery stand just scratching my money away.


I won 9 Soles ($3) and lost 20, got myself a bottle of glass-bottled gatorade in the pharmacy and found this...


Does Rite Aid pharmacies use these calculators? Remind me to buy myself one of these also for the shop. It'll remind me to just take a chill pill when marc stresses me out. (Just kidding Marc, I love you)

Okay enough with the random pictures. We're getting to scenery. I came to Lima expected to see some Inca shit and as soon as we got to the center of the capital, everything looks like Rome! (Not that I've been to Rome) The architectural designs are fuckin' amazing. Mostly Spanish influenced because the Spaniards ruled Peru for quite a period of time.




Wanna be Cinderella for the day?


This is the presidential palace. Comparable to the White House but you can call it the Brown House if you may. I think its way nicer than DC.


This is not a counter-terrorism act or nothing but the dudes are just making sure no one bust a JFK to the Japanese Peruvian presidente! (The President is Japanese. Nihonjin!)



This next picture is me feeding flying-rats aka pigeons. I tried to run through them in attempt to get the whole dramatic bird-flying effects for the picture but failed miserably. These fools are way too damn fat to fly so they HOPPED!


Hippity-hop they went and that's the best I could get. Oh yeah and Dianne in SANDALS?! Since when?! No fucking way. Well it was way too hot for anything else. Have mercy on my toes.

Talk about hotness. I had to get myself cone. (Holler at the cones crew. Aw)


This shit ended up being the worst-tasting cone I've ever had in my life. Yuck! It tasted like it was watered down.


Whoa... God must have spent a little more time on you.


"Haaaay girl!"



Play on Playa. I saw "Playa" everywhere and I didn't understand what the hell it was. I figured it meant "Parking".



Whatever happened to using Goblins?


The Magic School Bus in real life.


So now I'm on the freeway...
Uno.



Dos.



Three.


Quatro.


OF it is.

Moving along...
You see these kids? They were following me for a quarter mile trying to get me to buy some Chiclet. One of them grabbed Robert's Inca Cola and the other one was talking about how my digi-cam is "Muy Bonita!" Oh HELL NAW. Hov said I'll kill you lil' nigga. You crasy.


Check out this vest. Money hongraay. Hustler's uniform.


Me and Robert came across a cultural center by accident and decided to check it out. There was an exibition on skateboaring in Peru. There was a whole bunch of images of this guy named Felix Faucher. He was born in Lima but his family decided to move to Montreal. Later on he decided to come back to skate his hometown in Peru and here's some pictures of the dude. Maybe you guys have heard of him? I don't know.


Check him out. www.FelixFaucher.com


Skate worldwide.




Right when I look outside the window of the cultural center, this is what I saw.


I think the emotion of the stencil is striking. Look at their faces. And what's the message? Is there a reason why it is outside of a cultural government building? Think about it.



First and only skater I saw in Lima.


And then a group of Jiggy kids. God loves Jiggy.



Then we walked to an outdoor mall. Self-explanatory.



There's Hooters here by the way! Bomber than ours because it's built right off the cliff.


Her Hooters weren't that amazing but it's okay.



When I was walking around, I saw some girl holding pictures of different nail designs so you know me, I had to check it out. There's all this 3D Japanese shit in the picture so I was convinced! She was advertising on the streets so she walked me underground down to the nail salon. This is what they told me that they could do...


I'm gonna sue them for FALSE ADVERTISEMENT! When I got there she said "they ran out of the material for the 3D." Don't lie to me guuuuuurl. I left with mad disappoinment and so was she.



On the streets I saw this man and a lady walking around together. At first I was like... why the hell does he have a whole bunch of remote controls around his neck? As I got closer, I found out that the guy was BLIND! Oh that nasty ass ho is using him as a remote control holder and selling it to people so that they would feel sorry for him. Nasty ass ho. Did him dirty.


Biggest McDonald's ever. Supposedly it's the cool thing to eat overhere.


Okay too much city stuff for the day. I'm about to go rumble in the jungle for the next two days. Stay posted and I'll be back! Don't forget your address if you want me to send you a postcard too.

Last but not least, email me, send me a message, show a homegirl some love. I'm officially homesick. I'll land in LA next wednesday night so Baby be ready for me. I got that thang for ya. HOLLA!