Artist Piece: One Tree Branch

One Tree Branch

This piece is by New York artist Naoko Ito. The project, entitled Ubiquitous, dissects a single six-foot wide tree branch into about two dozen pieces, then meticulously places them in jars. "Have your thoughts have your ideas but if you make them happen it might change the world"-I.O.- Kind of what he did here.

One Tree Branch

Kyle S.

Kyle.S@IvanOrama.com

I-PAD!!!

I-PAD?

So by now you know that Apple has come out with a new product called I-Pad. Its like an over sized I-pod touch.

The problem I have is the name!!! Couldn't come up with a better one? As soon as I heard the name of the new

product I was like is this a joke? Watch this video and

understand why I think the name sounds ridiculous. Also check out the new product from apple at

www.Apple.com it is kind of cool.

I-PAD

Ivan O.

Ivan.O@IvanOrama.com

Cleverly Clothed Event At Ella Lounge!!!

Cleverly Clothed Event

at Ella Lounge Last Friday.

6:00pm
I'm rushing home in stop and go traffic. I need to shower and get to Ivan's to head into the city. A meeting at work derailed my plans of having plenty of time so now I'm looking to fly home. Minus the flying of course.

7:17pm
Finally make it to Ivan's, where Kyle and Nick are ready, we're just waiting for Ivan. Outside, Nick strolls out with a beer. Kyle remembers he has a mortar in his car. He lights it while this thing shoots up bursting in to a legit firework explosion.

8:31pm
We making it to the spot. No parking. Ivan has trouble pulling into a spot, we lose it. Still searching, we find another awesome spot, this time Kyle pulls in, not before hitting the Saturn in front of us. We make it to the meter, 1-hour parking only. We walk away but Nick and I get in conversation with a homeless man, who asked if we were hungry and if we wanted to make a contribution.

8:55pm
Tommy meets us at the door of Ella Lounge. We head in. The place is sick. Great old school 1940's music. The place was decked out chic with Joan Crawford posters. Dark colors. The bartenders wore vests and bow ties. The party for Scallywag and Vagabond was impressive. Tommy did his thing. A lot of creative minds flowing, good people and alcohol.

9:24pm
Kyle drinks a full beer left behind at the bar. I lose my shit laughing.

10:46pm
Ivan messes around with people in the bar. We meet a violinist. She believes I'm a Rugby player. We drink the complimentary bottle of vodka with the team.

11:13pm
Some guy spills my drink.

11:32pm
We head out after Tommy leaves and after a chill night.

12:15pm
After rolling through a couple of spots here and there, just checking the scene we walk the streets like real vagabonds, eating 0.99 pizza from a Spanish guy, 1.50 with topping.

12:50pm
TKO in the car as Ivan drives home.

1:10pm
Do not feel like driving home from Ivan's. I do anyway.

1:30pm
About to pass out when Tommy texts me thanking me for coming out. Anytime man.

Click here to check out Scallywag and Vagabond.

Cleverly Clothed / Ella Lounge

Matthew K.

Matthew.K@IvanOrama.com

SPENCER PRATT aka SMART ASS!!!

SPENCER PRATT

aka SMART ASS!!!

These cops let him off nice being that he is such a smart ass and he should have gotten a kick in the balls for not having mud flaps. This is why I have a cracked windshield, guys like this with no mud flaps. F-ing jerk!!

VIDEO BY TMZ.COM

SPENCER PRATT

Ivan O.

Ivan.O@IvanOrama.com

OLD SCHOOL R&B MUSIC!!

Photo featuring 112

OLD SCHOOL

R&B MUSIC!!

So I wanted to throw up a couple of tracks that made me think about a girl or two that I have talked to in the past. These are the ten that brought back the memories of school dances and the love notes with crazy folds with the pull tab. Wow remember those days!?!?!.

Brandy- I wanna be down

112- Only You Feat. Biggie & Mase

112- Anywhere

Ginuwine- Tell Me Do U Wanna

Dru Hill- You Are Everything ft. Ja Rule

Dru Hill- Beauty

Usher- You Make Me Wanna

R.Kelly- You Mind Me Of My Jeep

Montell Jordan- I Can Do That

SWV- Right Here (Human Nature Mix)

R&B MUSIC HITS

Ivan O.

Ivan.O@IvanOrama.com

The Hitch Hand!!!

MIDDLE FINGER

FOR YOUR TRAILER HITCH

I'm sick of seeing all different colored sets of Balls on the tailgates of Trucks. I think this is alot cooler since you can change it up whenever you want. Hitch Hands - Middle Finger for your Trailer Hitch. Hitch Hands is a trailer hitch cover, with the ability to maneuver the fingers anyway you like.

So now on the way to work stuck in traffic or just cruising around town, you can flip someone off at all times or throw up the peace sign to put a smile on someone's face. Retail price is around $35 bucks.

Click here for link to purchase!

The Hitch Hand

Kyle S.

Kyle.S@IvanOrama.com

Unique and Bad A$$

BookBook

Mac Cover

Twelve South, is the maker of this Crazy looking Laptop cover for your Mac, sorry PC's. Price for this Must Have Product a Fair $79 dollars when you are talking about something that going to protect something that means alot to you. Hardback cover softens the blows.

Protecting your MacBook is a top priority and it's job one for BookBook. Slip your Mac inside the velvety soft, padded interior. Zip it closed and your baby is nestled between two tough, rigid leather hardback covers for a solid level of impact absorbing protection. The rigid spine serves as crush protection for an additional line of defense. BookBook creates a hardback book structure that safeguards your MacBook like few other cases can. Far better than any floppy neoprene bag ever will. End of story.

Click this link to see purchase product!

Unique and Bad A$$

Kyle S.

Kyle.S@IvanOrama.com

Artist: Mr.BrainWash

NUMBER ONE STREET ARTIST

Mr.BrainWash

Mr.BrainWash is one of those artist that has a one two step like no other. From lacing the streets of L.A with his art work to selling his work all over the world. This artist is one to learn about. Check out the video below and be apart of his world for a second.

Click here to check out his website!

Artist: Mr.BrainWash

Ivan O.

Ivan.O@IvanOrama.com

DJ Sound Off #3 : Gene Drepan

DJ SOUND OFF #3!!

Every time I hear a mix from this DJ Gene Drepan

guy I just think about WMC and the Miami sun.

People! WMC is around the corner so download this

mix and get your ass ready, March is around the corner!!.

January House Mix

DJ Sound Off

Gene Drepan

Gene.D@IvanOrama.com

Exclusive: Jersey Shore Second Season Talk!!

$5,000

AN EPISODE!!!

The "Jersey Shore" kids didn't fall off the pizza delivery truck yesterday -- TMZ has learned they have rejected MTV's salary offer for Season 2. Sources connected with the negotiation say MTV offered Snooki, Pauly D, "The Situation" and the others each a $10,000 signing bonus and $5,000 an episode. We're told the cast rejected the offer and made it clear -- they were negotiating "Friends" style ... everyone would get the same amount and it had to be a lot higher than MTV's offer.

Sources say MTV came back and doubled the offer -- $10,000 an episode. The cast hasn't responded to the offer. It's still a bargain. The season finale of "Jersey Shore" was off the charts with 4.8 million viewers. And, with some members of "The Hills" scoring north of $100,000 an episode, the "Jersey Shore" kids, frankly, should be holding out for a hell of a lot more than $10k.

REPORTED BY TMZ.COM

Gravis Messenger Bag

WOOLY WOOLY

MESSENGER BAG!!!

Gravis just hit you with a nice late January present! A grey wooly wooly messenger style bag. Wool fabric construction with a reinforced bottom, very lightweight. Also has a velcro-secured laptop compartment and some other pockets for your this and thats. Bag goes for $48.

Click Here to pick up this Wooly Wooly Bag!

Gravis Messenger Bag

Ivan O.

Ivan.O@IvanOrama.com

Nixon Master Blaster Headphones

Master Blaster

Headphones

So you want headphones that all the boys and girls are

talking about? Well yes you can get these NIXON

"Razor Ramon" headphones for a low price of $200.

Click here to pick up a pair!

Nixon Master Blaster Headphones

Ivan O.

Ivan.O@IvanOrama.com

The Vice Guide to Liberia

THE VICE GUIDE TO

LIBERIA

Think your life is bad? Don't think anyone on earth is going through the same thing your going through? Maybe you think your just that tough guy that can brake any ones neck just because your on a little juice / steroids. Well check out these next four videos as they might change your life. The videos are RATED R and don't judge. Watch to see how good you have it and how others live by the gun and struggle to stay Alive!.

CNN Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers. Viewer discretion advised.

Click here to see CNN WOLRD NEWS coverage!!

WORDS STRAIGHT FROM VICE

Welcome to The Vice Guide to Liberia. In this eight-part series, VBS travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed. In Part 1, Vice’s own Shane Smith provides a brief history lesson and some essential context for understanding what caused Liberia’s civil war and how things got so bad. Liberia was originally planned and founded as a homeland for former slaves back in 1821. But fast forward a bunch of years and a military coup and you find the First Liberian Civil War in 1989: yet another third-world regime change in which the US-backed opposition, led by Charles Taylor, overthrows a government unfriendly to US interests. Once in power, Taylor’s corrupt, dysfunctional government quickly finds itself under attack by local warlords, leading to the Second Liberian Civil War ten years later. From there things go from bad to total shit.

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

The Vice Guide to Liberia

Ivan O.

Ivan.O@IvanOrama.com

Breaking News: Conan is done!

Conan's last show

tomorrow!!!

“In the end, Conan was appreciative of the steps NBC made to take care of his staff and crew and decided to supplement the severance they were getting out of his own pocket. Now he just wants to get back on the air as quickly as possible,” said Conan’s manager Gavin Polone yesterday. Conan O’Brien has taken NBC’s payout of about $40 million in exchange for leaving his post on the Tonight Show and not being able to work for another network until September 1st. The word is that Conan is already in heavy negotiations with Fox for his own show.

P.S- Jay Leno is not a good guy.

Conan is done!

Ivan O.

Ivan.O@IvanOrama.com