seen.´s non-hippie reggae and dancehall blog

With trade shows like B&B and Bright happening in Europe, of course, some reggae related tees pop up on the scene, too. The ones above are three I recently stumbled upon and like quite a bit. From left to right (ignore the super-ugly sneakers): one of the “Bad Brains collection” shirts from Vans (via Artschoolvets),  PAM´s “Riddims” tee (via Haven) and Gabrielle Smith´s nice and simple “R is for Rice and Peas” piece.

In addition, I came across a Hobnox feature on Jaybo a.k.a. Monk, the art director of Irie Daily (a heavily punk and reggae-inspired, established German streetwear brand which is really cool despite its name) and the man behind Style & The Family Tunes magazine. Watch it. This guy´s a genius.

While I`m not the biggest fan of reposting things from HighSnob and them people, I couldn´t resist upping this one: for summer 08, 10Deep are putting out some adjustable hats named “Trenchtown”. I really like them. Especially the black version. (via CtotheJL)

They will probably sell better than Elephant Man´s album (via DancehallMobi) and will look good vibing to either Fly Music´s reggae cover tunes of the day, The Bug´s “London Zoo” album preview mix or whatever blogrocking beats.

I don´t know if it´s a good thing that the people over at HighSnobiety can´t even spell reggae - I guess it is if they keep promoting shoes like these pretty ugly “New Balance Raggae”…

picture taken from Dutty Artz

As I´m too busy celebrating Germany´s victory over Portugal, I just wanna quickly drop some links worth visiting:

- FIRST Magazine: The Sandbox (this is “street” art, not stencils)

- FIRST Magazine: All Jamaica Invitational Grill Off (I can smell the jerk just from looking at the pics)

- Artschoolvets: Lagerfeld in a warning vest

- Fader: brandnew Killer

- DancehallMobi: uplifting Vado

I received an email from Jan Håkon, an illustrator from Oslo, Norway, today, asking me to check out his stuff.
Flipping through his pretty dope portfolio, my attention was caught by the “Badman Collection”, of course. Part of the Badman Collection is the opportunity to buy one of two 1 square meters of land with a box on it. A box

made of bricks that have been thrown at people and a tree.

Also, the box has “Badman Wallpaper” on the inside and a “Badman Flag” pon top. 

That´s great, man - L.A. Lewis could have had this idea!

WilliE from SoulForce, usually drinking, dancing and bubbling, just send me this picture. Thanks man! Keep on styling and profiling!