Wow.....Mates of States Such great Parents

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6318255

you might have seen Kori Gardner rocking our Vinyl record Cameo, check it out here

WrecordsByMonkey TimeOut New York Gift Guide

Make sure to check us out in TimeOut New York this week in the Gift Guide.
They featured the Bom5 Vinyl Record Bracelet on line here and in print on news stands now.

New Chapter on Climate Change and The guy that makes it clear

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/holidays-in-nyc/69090/for-the-former-new-yorker/2.html

Make sure to check out all of our vinyl record accessories on www.inhabitat.com here
I love there blog everything in the Greater Greener Design World make sure to RSS this one and you'll always be pleased.

They featured:
Wallpaper Record Bracelet Collection
Off the Train Record Bracelet Collection
Classic patterns Record Bracelet Collection
And the NEW Heritage Collection, featuring our
Vinyl Record Cameo, Chandelier and charm necklace.

Just Saw this great documentary about 18 cities in 12 swing states 18days before the election.

Just Saw this great documentary about 18 cities in 12 swing states 18days before the election.

Just Saw this great documentary about 18 cities in 12 swing states 18days before the election.

This great guy Graham is doing a short documentary about our company. but well keep you posted when we get a preview for you.

We love supporting people who support us, so we went to the release and it was great. Especially when its 10 blocks from our house and cheep PBR and popcorn @3rd ward on Morgan in Brooklyn. This guy got paid by Aljazeera to do it. (Here's Some Clips from a few day of there trip make sure to check them out.)

Red Blue Road Trip by Graham Meriwether and Chris Henderson As the 2008 presidential election approaches two video journalists hit the road to find out what core values Americans hold in common. The results is 18 short video portraits of unique communities from Navajo reservations to industrial giants to farming towns, that reveal the issues that are influencing voters as they elect their new leader. http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/uselections2008/2008/10/20081022135316724127.html

And the open movie for it was this and it was great, you def have to check it out, we work with one of the Companies they interview, and Live between all 3 and so d you maybe. Uncertain Industry by Daniel Ross and Tom Vigliotta New York City was once the capital of American manufacturing -- in 1950, the city boasted nearly one million manufacturing jobs. By 2007 that number had dwindled to 100,000. What has losing this vital source of jobs meant for New York's economy? Uncertain Industry profiles three longtime manufacturers facing the challenges of doing business in New York City. http://vimeo.com/2020650

Rachael Yamagata, and Nylon Magazine buys one of our Vinyl Record Pocket knifes

A few weeks ago at the Young Designers Market, Rachael Yamagata, and Nylon Magazine came through said high and bought one of our vinyl record pocket knifes. Make sure to check this out and the Young Designers Market on Mulberry between Prince and Houston

Hey our Off the Train Vinyl record bracelet collection was featured in

footwear News, The countries largest Footwear Publication, thanks to Lyndsey Salmon

for writing the great article.

So WBM voted this morning @ 6:30 Am and there still were long lines in Williamsburg.
So make sure to keep that in mind.

Wrecordsbymonkey
Vinyl Record Accessories
Handmade ub Brooklyn

And want to keep it that way!!!

Thanks For looking and make sure to vote

I'm not sure what think about this, but thought it was weird.

See more Natalie Portman videos at Funny or Die

So Check out Lydnsey Toast cards and pins

You Guys Have to check out her etsy site HERE
This Girls Logo Is Great its made of actual toast!!!!
and the Palin Card is Hilarious. Honestly this is a nice
contrast to the terrorist trading cards a few weeks back

Cherry Wood Obama Vinyl Record pendant.
(Lyndsey Toast x WrecordsByMonkey)

Here's a funny record album cover I found in my graphic designers garbage, we should of went in this direction? (this is 2 separate pics of me and Brian doing light testing Fubz took and we layered each of us with the phonograph and the vinyl record jewelry that we just released, "The Heritage Collection".

A sneak peek in to our Native American Vinyl Record Bracelet collection.

Shelby received our bracelets as gifts and took this great picture and so here's a second

sneak peek into the Native American Collection, to be released in early November.

-WBM saying Thanks to Shelby Chan www.shelbychan.com

Make Sure to Check out more
vinyl record jewelry on our store at
www.wrecordsbymonkey.com

Obama Half hour Special

Marcia reveals her secrets in new book explains Greg Brady to the Daily News

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

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A Great email I received Friday , THANKS Emily

Dear Brian and Patrick,

You don't know me but I have bought quite a few of your Wrecord bracelets and wanted to tell you how great they are!!

I visited the young designers market in New York, while I was there on holiday in the first week of September.
I met your friend Ben Plante, who was most helpful and nice and took the time to tell me all about how you guys started and the philosophy behind what you do.
I couln't live without music, so I know where you're coming from! I love the fact that you're bringing those records back to life and I like the fact that I'm wearing something which has a history behind it but remains very simple in its essence.

I just wanted to say that I regret not buying more at the time, I only bought six (and felt guilty that I was being greedy!) now I wish I had listened to my instinct and just bought more! Me and my sister wear them all the time and are practically fighting over them!

Just wanted to say that your work and art has travelled all the way back to Europe, Cyprus to be precise! Everyone who has seen your bracelets has absolutely loved them, so I thought it would be fair to let you know. Thank you for enriching my personal style and appearance with your vision and ideas from accross the globe. I love it when cultures and trends mix.
There are now two half-English half-Greek-Cypriot girls on a little island in the Med, wearing your work and talking about it! Isn't that weird?!

Anyway, I'm talking too much so better stop! I will be checking out your website, and hopefully will be able to buy more amazing stuff from you! I hope you ship in Europe!!

Congratulations again on your amazing work. I like it. It's unique but simple, it's one-of-a-kind but not full of itself, modern, real, alive and meaningful. Great work!

Thanks again,

Regards all the way from the mediterranean,

Emily

Hanson

wow its been a month

So, make sure to check out the store 20% off lots of past designs.

So, make sure to check out the store 20% off lots of past designs. 7 collections on sale now here

Thee Bic Phone By Orange

from Highsnobiety.com - Online Streetwear Magazine

Sometimes the easiest and simplest ideas are the best. Orange France now teamed up with Bic, best known for their lighters and pens, to create the first "Ready-to-Call" cellphone. And for the first time the name actually makes sense and holds true.

Not only do you get a phone and 60 minutes of talk time included in the 49 Euro package (about 62 USD), but the phone comes pre-charged, which means that you can actually start calling right after purchase. It's the perfect phone for tourists or when you simply run out of battery.

We also find it brilliant that Orange teamed up with Bic. Because what does Bic stand for at the end of the day? Cheap, decent quality and distributed EVERYWHERE. If they used the Bic distribution for the phone, this can be a huge success.

Also the design looks decent. We can even see the Bic phone becoming a cool accessory to have. Now it just needs to be more widely available, hopefully also outside France, and it will be a hit.

The Bic Phone is now available in the Colette online store.

More images after the jump.

Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Plastic Bag Subway Art

from Inhabitat by Moe Beitiks

Polar bears, polar bears. Those ubiquitous symbols of climate change. Cute and cuddly, ethereal and majestic, they’re popping up everywhere - including atop subway grates on the streets of New York City. Artist Joshua Allen Harris has created quite an online buzz with his puppy-like inflatable plastic bag polar bear: it inflates and deflates with the passing of subterranean subway trains, springing to life and then fading away in a vital commentary on global warming. We’ve covered inspired plastic bag art in the past, but never with such an animated aesthetic.

The peoples Art

Via: ::NY Times
Brooklyn 2003 - in the political Zeitgeist of the Bush era Marc Grubstein, Brock Enright, Steve Johnson,

Daniel Joseph, Chad Spicer and David Henry Brown Jr. founded the Fantastic Nobodies. With subtle to

brutal humor, biting satire, anarchistic actions and dadaistic nonsense they reflect and unmask within their

performances the actual
state of western society. For Operation Shitstorm they invade brot.undspiele galerie and a public workspace

in Brunnenstr. 56. In addition reckon with spontaneous actions in the city.

In addition Bipolart.cc presents a Jammy Jam in dedication of Daniel Joseph's fantastic nobody art works

at West Berlin gallery and you can look forward to the Unagi Books release #2 entitled Fantastic Nobodies.

see more @ at www. fantasticnobodies.com

crazy armored Hippy Van

When I saw this I thought instantly this must be The Weatherman's get away car . Later nown as the Weather Underground Organization, they were a violent left winged american hippy radiacals that made Jerry Rubin and Abbie hoffman lool like whimps. They are the group, which organized a riot in Chicago in 1969 and bombed buildings in the 1970s. In West village NYC they blew up a town house and few of the leader by accident. They took their name from the lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," from the Bob Dylan song "Subterranean blues".

Anyways to make a long story short, this is a crazy armored Hippy Van

obey does MVP

Shepard x Kobe x Upperdeck
from Highsnobiety.com - Online Streetwear Magazine

highsnobiety - shepard fairey x kobe bryant x upper deck

Working with Upper Deck, Shepard Fairey has composed two fine art lithographs celebrating the individual achievement of Kobe Bryant. Named MVP this past NBA season, Kobe is featured in both lithographs one bearing his name and theother the word MVP. The prints lithographs are limited, each signed by Shepard anda good number feature Mr. Bryant's signature as well. Upper Deck is selling them through their site, and also used the image for a nice mural congratulating Kobe in LA.

Kids Rockin’ Out to Wrecords

We have also proven to be great mentors here at WrecordsByMonkey. Last month, our friend Josh brought his sixth grade class on a field trip to our studio and we showed them all sorts of cool stuff. The kids got to make custom bracelets, learned how to silkcreen, learned how to start a company and even got to take bracelets home to their family. The kids also gave us a few things, too: they left us with some new logos and a rap they wrote for us.

Off the Train

Our first announcement is the release of our mid-summer bracelet collection called Off the Train in brand new colors.

The bracelets come in 4 patterns with images ranging from trains and cityscapes to dripping graffiti and spilling fire hydrants. The colors come in purple, watermelon, teal, and-- for the late-night scene-- a glow in the dark pattern on a natural record background.

Know ive seen crazy hair but this stuff is some crazy hair art, that looks cool.
I saw this on

via: Bujules myspace page

Who cant like this guys stuff drawn with chalk.
I've seen around Washington Square but nothing like this,and i still was in AWWW

WBM in Canada's largest fashion magazine Flare

WBM in Canada's largest fashion magazine Flare



Once again our classic patterns collection is featured and being seen by an audience of 3million Canadians

3 mags in Japan in one month.

This month our classic patterns collection was featured in Rolling Stone Japan, Mens Non-no and Cover

WBM in NY magazine

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/06/video_fabiola_berecasas_guide_to_brooklyn_flea.html

Mates of state on Conan Late Night wearing Cameo

WBM love Challah french toast, and this is a cool challah reciepe

Thought it was a cool quick loaf of challah

Cody Chesnutt Video

So came across this video thought it was good, and a cool concept.

His Ideas was to make it supper indie to make people feel like they can relate because any body could have access to these cameras and equipment and shoot a similar quality video. The made the hole thing on a $5,000 budget pretty cool idea.

M.C. Escher Car

Johnny Cupcakes LA Store Preview Video
thank you to www.highsnobiety.com for the info:

Here is the first sneak peek of the Johnny Cupcakes LA shoppe. They are working closely with a company that builds, fabricates and engineers various things for Disney Land/World, Universal Studios as well as other international artists + architects.

Once again they proof to understand how to put their brand in the spotlight and how to communicate with their customer in a way that is memorable. The store is supposed to open next month - we will keep you posted. Now watch the teaser video here below.

thank you to www.highsnobiety.com for the info

Sorry we have been MIA but we'll be back on track in no time

Hollar

A few friends of WBM in High School

More movies by Grant and Corey J

Adidas "Grün" Forum

"With the Adidas "Grün" collection, the brand attempts to be more conscious about the environment and to only use organic and environment friendly materials. The first shoe to drop in the series is the Forum. The wooden button is a nice touch on this one. Overall the brand shoes that a sneaker can also look good with such materials." via: www.highsnobiety.com

Alife Rivington Spring '08 T-Shirts

"Alife Rivington Club, the sneaker store by Alife, has released over the weekend a small Spring '08 t-shirt collection both in store and online. Overall there are 3 new designs, each coming in 3 colorways." From www.highsnobiety.com

via: www.highsnobiety.com

New Balance A14 576 "Coffee Beans"

"Part of the New Balance A22 series, the A14 576 are inspired from coffee beans and use hemp and cork-like materials. Also the inner sole features a coffee bean design. Definitely an interesting shoe, which is supposed to be released late this summer. Pics via streetthing."

via www.highsnobiety.com

"The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air x Puma

A tribute to the hugely popular and critically acclaimed TV sitcom, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, PUMA takes a look back at 148 episodes of freshness.

Inspired by the hugely popular sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, starring Will Smith as a young street smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to live with his rich Aunt and Uncle in a huge Bel-Air mansion. The show, which aired between 1990 and 1996, delivered many laughs and is credited for accelerating the growth of hip hop fashion around the globe.
The inspiration for the products is drawn from the lifestyle clash of street versus preppy, declined in two very different footwear styles, each completed with matching wristwatches:

The West Philly First Round, which sports the original graffiti artwork featured in the opening sequence of the show. This sequence had a similar look & feel as the music videos DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince were creating at the time. Shoe features include a classic suede vamp, a rubber fine mold Fresh Prince of Bel Air logo on the tongue and 3D screen-printed side panel.

The white croc Bel-Air Clyde is embossed with classic croc and constructed with the best Italian leather available. The shoe features a PUMA X Fresh Prince medallion badge, metallic gold form strip and lining, Bel Air raised screenprint and exclusive artwork from the graffiti wall on the sockliner.

Both shoes come in a specially designed velvet bag with metallic gold embroidery. 1032 pairs per style will be available at select retailers world-wide. The watches follow the same principle: first the acid green PU wristband Agitation digital model, contrasts against the heavy-quality golden Forcer Bel-Air model.

Hanon will be carrying both packs as of May."

28 Mar www.highsnobiety.com

"Number (N)ine "Kurt Cobain" T-Shirt Series"

"As part of their Spring/Summer 2008 collection Number (N)ine has released a series of "Kurt Cobain" t-shirts. All t-shirt feature a blurred portrait of the musician along with a slogan."

"Lemar & Dauley Spring '08 Collection"

"We give you a look at some pieces out of the Lemar & Dauley Spring 2008 collection. The brand keeps their color palette and presents a fresh set of t-shirts as well as some board shorts in the new collection.

Look out for the new line at retailers now. After the jump many more pieces."

www.highsnobiety.com

This Art is seriuos

"Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait

This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 410,000 paper cups used every fifteen minutes. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.

My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is a work in progress, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.

~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007 "
//www.chrisjordan.com/

Plastic Cups, 2008
60x90"

Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.


Partial zoom:


Detail at actual print size:


THis Art is seriuos