New Jordan Update...

STILL SHIT



if you missed the last post: here

Kanye has offically been featured in....

the worst song ever. Kanye get back to real hip hop and stop using fucking auto tone! Especally with this fucking emo as fuck band. Ask Jay-Z what a good bands are, because hes was spotted at a Grizzly Bear concert (now that is good shit.)

http://hypem.com/#/artist/30+seconds+to+mars+feat++kanye+west

VERDICT? HORRIBLE. TAKE A LISTEN THOUGH AND LISTEN TO KANYE'S DEMISE ONE MINUTE AT A TIME

Why Is Pharrell Williams Designing Chairs.

Pharrell why the fuck are you designing chairs. No one is gonna buy this accept for blinged out T-Pains and spoiled Bellevue kids who love your shitty clothing brand, Billionaire Boys Club. You know why Bellevue kids love this chair and BBC cause they are Billion dollar Boys literally! GOOD JOB FUCKER YOU'VE FOUND YOUR TARGET MARKET. Anyway everyone on design boom agrees:

"Smell's like shit?" says cathy

"Stick to the Music, spoiled celeb ego design" says Jean-Luc DeLaRue

any way you can see the post here for more horribly funny comments of how much this chair sucks.


Still waiting to see what it looks like, here it is:



OH COOL DUDE LETS GET ON OUR FUCKING CHAIR WITH OUR LEGS TUCKED IN AND PRETEND WERE ON A FUCKING TANK. IT REMINDS ME OF A FUCKING KIDS JEEP. SERIOUSLY THIS WOULD NOT LOOK GOOD IN ANY HOUSE...ANYWHERE. IF I WALKED INTO A HOUSE AND SAW THIS THING I WOULD LITERALLY START LAUGHING MY ASS OFF (LMAO! FOR THOSE NOT ACCUSTOM TO SEEING THIS TYPED OUT.) OH WAIT THATS NOT ALL...IS WHITE AND BLACK TO MASCULINE FOR ALL THE LADIES OUT THERE? THEN YOU MIGHT LIKE THE FUCKING UGLY BLUE TANK CHAIR AND THE PINK SHIT TANK CHAIR. THESE CHAIRS ARE JUST FOR ALL THOSE HAWT DIME PIECES AND PIMPS THAT WANNA ACT LIKE THEY ARE ROLLING HARD IN A TANK.




VERDICT? ATROCITY. GOOD JOB SK8BoARD P you have made the SHIT LIST of this blog!

Brule's Rules

This is from The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! any way this is John C. Reilly at his finest.

The Very Best (featuring the singer from Vampire Weekend.)

I'm digging this track from Afro Pop artist The Very Best.



I'm waiting to see if Vampire Weekends next album is good or not. Cause the singers appearance on this song reminded me about how much I enjoyed Vampire Weekend's original album

VERDICT? FRESH!

Stussy Chapter Store Seattle

So now I know why part of Goods is closed down. That street will start to look like La Brea (google: Stussy LA / UNDFTD / Union LA) if goods stops carrying shit brands like 10 deep, Rockers, and Crooks and Castles. Get your shit together Goods stop buying the brands that were popular 3 years ago and that only stupid east side kids will buy. Also get some customer service. I miss your glory days, Goods, and I want you to get it back, but you don't care about your customers.

SHMU has Google wave.

I got the email of the future and 8 invites...who wants in?

HERE IS AN EXPLANATION:



One of the cool features: real time translation!



Seriously If everyone had Wave right now group projects would be so easy. Everyone in your group would be able to work on the project document at the same time, in real time. This was especially relevant to me a week ago when my science partner and I were working on a lab write up using Facebook and gmail. It was horrible we IM'd on one website, I worked on the write up and sent him a draft. I would of been much faster if we were both working on it at the same time through wave instead of sending the document back and forth.

New Animal Collective

If you are not a fan of Animal Collective this might be the weirdest shit ever, but if you are...prepare for what could be the greatest AC track EVER! This track got a perfect 10 on pitchfork (which is the rolling stone of music websites, and is usually is really, really picky.)

Animal Collective- What Would I Want? Sky



Also a cool side note: This is the first band ever allowed to use a Grateful Dead sample in a song.

VERDICT? ANIMAL COLLECTIVE YEEEE!!!! APPROVED and FRESH

SHMUtivities: MLS CUP. Mormans rule.

So Sunday was full of awesome shenanigans. My brother Invited me to go see the MLS Cup Final at Quest Field. The two teams were Real Salt Lake, and the LA Galaxy (which has David Beckham.) Anyway it was a really good match. At the end of regulation it was tied 1-1 so it went into overtime...after overtime it was still 1-1 so it went into PKs! Landon Donovan, who my brother claimed is the best US soccer player, blew a PK for the Galaxy which lead to Real Salt Lake shooting for the game winning PK. Here is the game winning PK on Video:

http://www.twitvid.com/A3C23

Oh did I mention we were sitting next to the LA Galaxy "Riot Squad," which is their cheer section with all the craziest fans. My brother kindly said into the Riot Squad, "nice try, you will get em' next time." Someone immediately replied, "FUCK YOU!"

After Leaving the "pitch" we got some good Chinese at Jade Garden (hella good btw) and hitched a ride on the new Light Rail. Which I have to say is clean and beautiful...for now. Did you know that there are underground Light Rail stations from the International District to Westlake Center. It's gonna be really useful though when they finish the station across the street from dick's burgers. That would allow for some Chinese



morg on light rail



light rail interior

VERDICT? GO MORMANS. SWEET BEANAGE!

SHMU DOODLES

This is a doodle I am currently working on. It is inspired by biology at a cellular level (search polypeptide or protien chains.) any way tell me what you think. I am going to fill the whole page in my sketch book with this.

Just Got Snow Leopard!

My brother hooked me up with Apple's new OS X Snow Leopard. My computer is running noticeably faster. Awesome! any way here is a screen shot of its sexiness.



I haven't really used all the new functions yet but I'm excited to do so!

My Summer Jam

boy this song brings back some memories of summer hours in the studio or dancing in the dorm halls. "Little Secrets" by Passion Pit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt6hcGPSSWU


They wont let me embed it though :-(

VERDICT? FUCKING AWESOME

Japanese company Muji makes Legos Fresh

This Japanese company has taken our favorite childhood toy and has turned into something new. Instead of building your creature you can cut and build your creature using paper. I'm not gonna lie this looks like a lot of fun.

check out the other sets at MUJI

VERDICT? FRESH

Music You Should Listen To: "Sometimes" by Miami Horror

This band from Melbourne Australia has made the most catch track I have heard in a while. Their video for it is especially video which I'm guessing was filmed on some beautiful pristine beach in Australia. A beautiful girl in a beautiful video to a beautiful song...why not take a listen.

Miami Horror - Sometimes from PEDESTRIAN Creative. on Vimeo.

i think the music video has to do with the lyrics mentioning the fountain of youth. The girl finds some pendent that leads her to the fountain of youth or some sorta alien structure.


Thanks to my friend Bono for posting this on Facebook. He runs a music blog at paulbono.com and dj's college parties.

VERDICT? APPROVED

Pics of the Day: Architecture Edition #3

VIA ARCHDAILY

VERDICT? APPROVED (daily combo (2xFRESH+APPROVED)/ARCH PIC OF THE DAY.)

2012 SURVIVORS GUIDE: Bombproof wallpaper

Best Of What's New 2009: Bombproof Wallpaper Test from PopSci.com on Vimeo.

...COOL. (unlike the movie this is not a joke.)

WHATS THE BEST WAY TO TURN A MUD LOT INTO A PARK?

ASK Sean Martindale.

VIA WOOSTER COLLECTIVE

VERDICT? FRESH AGAIN (2x Combo)

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Jaz

I just found this guy today. I don't know his story, but his street art cracks me up. These cartoony jaguar humans tickling each other crack me up. I mean look at the faces, lol. Anyways his work is in uraquay, france and spain.

VIA WOOSTER COLLECTIVE

VERDICT? FRESH

U-Prep Blogging: Dark Ages

Twas the Eve of November 17th of the year 2009 of the lord when the empire of the blogosphere has deteriorated to but one citizen (myself SHMU) and several chumps (frosh according to saul.) Many have fallen: The King Beeba, The Jester GEEZY, The Philosopher SAUL, The Prince KYLE, and The Jew WILL (sry i don't know where you fit in a medieval ranking system.) have tis gone into the kingdom of Book of Face where full opinions and uninterrupted thoughts tis non existent. Though SHMU visits thy kingdom of Book of Face but he does not let thy Book of Face faze him from giving up posting on his own blog.

THOUGH THE U-PREP BLOGGING COMMUNITY IS FAULTERING....I BID ALL THE RETIRED BLOGGING SPIRITS AN OFFER!

If you still have posting spirit in you i will allow you to be a guest writer on my blog. That way all the ex bloggers can still post when it is necessary without the commitment of constantly updating their own blog. I offer this in good spirit because I know each and everyone of you still need a place to let their thoughts out. So when the time comes SHMU is HERE!!

Movie Review: 2012

TWO WORDS: SHITTY MOVIE

seriously I enjoyed the minute long trailer for Avatar better that this 3 hour piece of shit. The first hour of the movie was like the same scene repeated 3 times in a row:

First Time: Take off in a plane, narrowly avoid ground collapsing behind, narrowly dodging colapsing skyscrapers in La. (WTF LA DOESN"T EVEN HAVE THAT MANY SKY SCRAPERS. ITS LIKE THEY TOOK OFF AT THIS RUNWAT AND DELIBERATLY FLEW TOWARDS DOWN TOWN JUST TO FUCKING DODGE BUILDINGS.

Second Time: Take of in a plane, narrowly avoiding meteors falling from the air, narrowly dodging meteors infront. GASP, ONCE AGAIN THEY BARELY DODGE A METEOR JUST LIKE THEY DODGED A FUCKING BUILDING.

Third Time: Take of in a plane, narrowly avoid falling buildings in Las Vegas. Oh did I mention they are out running a dust cloud from behind. THIS IS LIKE THE SAME EXACT SITUATION THE FIRST TIME THEY TOOK OFF IN A PLANE. WTF.

OK MOVIE CLICHE TIME!!!!!!

1. There is a crazy hippie dude that knows all.
2. The plastic surgeon step father happens to be able to fly a fucking plane better than any dare devil in existence just because he has taken a FEW lessons. I mean WTF one second he doesn't know how to take off in the plane and the next second he is maneuvering through collapsing buildings.
3. the loading ramp to the neo noah's arch gets jammed because a wire becomes unplugged in the gear room and gets jammed in the gears. first of all what fucking engineer decided it was genious to put a fucking exposed giant cord next to a set of gears. You are fucking asking for malfunction. FUCKING END OF THE WORLD NOAHS ARCS SHOULD HAVE NO ENGINEERING FLAWS.
4. All the characters are 2D. They might as well of been fucking cartoons because thats how believable they are. One of the major issues is the fact that the daughter wets her bed at night so she wears diapers at night. At the end of the move we are thankfully updated on this problem when the last line of the movie is "NO MORE HUGGIES"................The daughter should of instead used this fucking movie as diapers cause it needs to be shat or pee


any ways thanks to this movie I no longer think that the end of the world is coming in 2012. I thought it was supposed to be hella scare but it ended up being the shittiest movie I have ever seen. I don't care if the fucking CGI was good looking, it didn't save the movie from anything

VERDICT? SHIT LIST (the lowest something can get on my blog)

200 Profile Views.

Hey thanks to all my readers for your awesome support. I will keep on doing my best to bring you posts from around the web and from my personal shenanigans.

I think I am probably the only U Prep blog still going strong. Geezy just announced his retirement today. I never intended mine to be a U Prep focused blog, but more of a blog for everyone. This is why I always have content to post except for the weekends when I am out and about.

Anyways expect a lot more from SHMU. SHMU has a lot of good stuff saved up for some good posts.

SPREAD THE WORD OF MY BLOG. ITS FOR EVERYONE. I'M SURE EVERYONE WILL FIND SOMETHING ENJOYABLE! THANKS AGAIN FOR 200 VIEWS

Supreme x Damien Hirst

This Clothing colab is gonna be a must buy for me. Damien Hirst has done crazy shit like this:



BUY A HUMAN SKULL, MAKE A PLATINUM REPLICA. ENCRUST IT WITH $24,000,000 OF DIAMONDS. THEN POLISH THE TEETH FROM THE ORIGINAL SKULL AND INSERT IT IN THE DIAMOND SKULL. HE ALSO:



TAKE DEAD ANIMALS. SPLIT THEM IN HALF AND PUT THEM IN TWO BOXES SUSPENDED IN FORMALDEHYDE. AND FINALLY:



MAKE HELLA MONEY OFF OF MAKING COLORED DOTS.

Anyway he is a really famous artist and he just happens to be collaborating with Supreme on a shirt and 5 skate boards. It does make it a instant buy when you have the Famous Supreme Box Tee recreated with Damien's famous dots and Nas lyrics on the back.









VERDICT? APPROVED!

Congrats Jordan Your New Shoes are...

A PIECE OF SHIT

seriously why is he smiling?




VERDICT? STILL AN ATROCITY

Interior Concept

Amanda Levete Architects won best interior at the world architecture festival. The main concept is create a seemless change from a netural (like a wall) to an active space (like a bench.) Here are the many concepts that they came up with:


Wall into shelves




Wall into Bench




Wall into Kitchen




Wall into bathroom

via designboom


VERDICT? THIS IS AWESOME!

The Revenge Of Icy Tower: Icy Tower Facebook

The Facebook version of Icy Tower is the same good old game you played in middle school, but it has the added bonus of social networking. The object is to jump up an endless tower of 'floor' as high as you can to the highest 'floor' before you fall to your death. As you jump the floors below crumble away and if your not fast enough you will find the floor fall from under you. Two of my friends have been trash talking me on my wall that they got to a higher floor than me and I can't seem to live with that.



Adding a competitive aspect to this game has made the replay value of this game high. Instead of fighting for a personal best. You constantly are trying to best other friends. Your rank amongst your friends is shown on the left side. And when you jump pass their best level, you see their character sitting there and you leave them in the dust.

To get it you have to add the app to your facebook

VERDICT? I NEED MY XBOX TO GET FIXED SO I CAN PLAY SOMETHING ELSE

Video Art I'm Diggin': VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone

This video must of taken months to make.

VERDICT? APPROVED. JUST AS GOOD AS BLU's VIDEO. WISH IT WERE LONGER THOUGH.

Pics of the Day: Architecture Edition #2

one wall is all windows



pathway leading up to the church

A church in the small village of Tarnow, Poland.

read up about it at ARCH DAILY

VERDICT? APPROVED. IF I WAS NOT JEWISH I WOULD WANT TO GO THERE FOR CHURCH.

Cool Backpack

This backpack looks really cool. It is extremely durable because its made of tire rubber. It is inspired by an animal I have never heard of called a pangolin



I think the coolest part is how it folds back. Instead of pulling stuff out of your back pack, you can just set it on a table and fold it back to easily pick up a book.



and that is a picture of a pangolin.

via design boom

VERDICT? COOL. THE CONCEPT IS COOL. COULD GO FOR ANOTHER COLORWAY

Maximus Minimus. My second Visit

So I went to Maximum Minimus again on Halloween with some friends... My friend Morg said " this is the fucking best pulled pork sandwich I have ever had." My original intention was to go to Marination but by the time I got there they were all sold out of food. But Maximus Minimus was still stocked with the most delicious food out there.




Look at how good Morgs sandwich looks.




This was my Awesome plate. No chips this time :(


If you haven't read my review of this spot here it is:

http://theverdictofshmu.blogspot.com/2009/10/maximus-minimus-review-part-one-of.html

Molly Moons Ice Cream...

In my freezer! Theo Chocolate and honey lavender. The mature mint chocolate chip!



Here are the pints I bought



Here is the goodness I ate!!!




VERDICT? FUCKING AWESOME! I LOVE MOLLY MOONS

Econ Sales Update 11/4/09

SHMU: 8

GEEZY:4

Econ sales update

So it turns out one of my sales from yesterday, mike reeve, was not on the contract because he left the jv party before the haircuts. So now the sales stand

Me: 5
Geezy: 1




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Cool Design Idea: Urban Cursor

Sebastian Campion, a danish designer, came up with this idea to build a giant box shaped like a computer curser and implant it with a gps system so it can be tracked on google maps. People were encouraged to push the cursor around where ever and see what effect they had on it by looking on Google maps. learn more here at urbancursor.com





VERDICT? VERY ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE

Cool Car IPhone Game

I saw this game online. I'm not sure how the gameplay works, but the concept is amazing! You'll see what I mean in the video below. Hint: Its called Endless Racing!!!



VERDICT? AWWW YEAH

Econ Sales Update 11/2/09

So currently I have made 7 sales: 3 from my jv contract, and 4 from outside the contract. That means unless Max Geezy did some sales today...I am up 4-0. I also handed out countless forms so watch out Geezy.