British artist, RQM has paired up with street artist REMED to give a unique touch to a limited edition run of 84 7″ records containing his newest release entitled COLORS FADE. The select 84 of the 100 limited edition 7″ records are individual pieces that make a single REMED painting, outlining the entire life span of a relationship – the story was inspired by the song COLORS FADE. Each 7″ is available for pre-order with an equally limited edition t-shirt (preorder).

RQM may not come to mind for many of you, but in the UK he’s making waves. He’s had air play top national radio station BBC1 and played along side artists such as Missy Elliot, M.I.A., Buraka Som Sistema, The Stereo Mcs, The Rapture and Kool Keith. His music is electronic based alternative hiphop, a genre I’ve personally been attached to for a while, and between talent and recording quality there’s nothing but good things to come.

“This is a very important release for me – it marks a period of musical independence so I wanted to celebrate it with something very special and essentially give my fans a real gift. REMED is one of my favorite artists and I respect the brother for the soul he injects into his paintings so a collab was a natural movement. ” RQM

REMED is a French born-Madrid based artist and more specifically a street artist who switches his unique style from wall to canvas, legally, illegally and untethered. Especially respectable for his street loyalty, amidst offers from major galleries in New York, Paris, Madrid and Sao Paulo for their exhibits and personal collections, he refuses to leave the underground art world.  The inspiration for the COLORS FADE painting, as stated in an interview, is that ” it came out after long talks with RQM about his songs and words….the idea is to tell the story of a human relation through love. Contrast, intensity, explosion, and the seed of the next contrast. So the painting is a chain of events in the love of two people.”

The colors expressive and meaningful to its purpose, REMED shows his opinion of light, color and art clearly in his work.

"colors don't exist...they are just a reflection of some light. It s perception transforming light into color...so colors don't fade ever, they just change from one color to another" - REMED

Here’s a little preview of some of RQM’s work as seen on his Soundcloud profile (here).

RQM – ATOMIC FUSION (PRODUCED BY SIRIUSMO) by rqmpropaganda

Learn more about the RQM here:
http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Baby+Sumo/releases/
www.rqmpropaganda.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/RQM-PROPAGANDA/87192163694
http://soundcloud.com/rqmpropaganda
http://twitter.com/RQM1

More about REMED:
http://remed.es/web/
http://www.myspace.com/remed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/remed_art/4315378731/

Buy the Shirt/Limited edition 7″:
Visit: http://www.hhv.de/

• Listening to:: RQM - Atomic Fusion
• Wearing:: Hellz Bells Hoodie, Obey Shirt
• has_been_twittered: yes

I’ve had my iTouch for over a year now and my iPhone for 6 months. Do I need them both? Yes. Don’t think I’m spoiled or rich – the iTouch was a Christmas present and I paid $99 for my iPhone refurbished. I use both of them every day, all day long and can’t remember my life without them. I may be a little embarrassed of that but that doesn’t make it any less true.  I watch movies on planes and in bed on my iTouch, read books on Stanza on my iPhone. My iTouch plays Pandora internet radio all day through my iPod dock while I tether internet through my iPhone while I work  ( The wifi is borrowed from a neighbor and I don’t want to abuse it).  I don’t have TV so I get all my news from the BBC & NY Times apps- watch cartoons on YouTube. I check my email and reply to most while I’m out or my computer is off for the night and I play classic video games like Sonic and Megaman – and not so classic games like Cookin’ Mama and Dexter. When I visit friends with kids, I give them my iPhone for hours of fun with mustaches and apps where a monsters mouth copies your mouth movement (you keep it over your face and it looks like you have a monster mouth).

These things are an integral part of my life now – yeah I could live without them but there would be a long period of frustration. Because my iPhone and iTouch are constantly in hand or purse – they have to look cool and be safe. I bought my first iPhone case at a mall. I didn’t know any better at the time and wanted something right away to keep my new phone shiny and new. I found a pretty cool one, clear with hot pink zebra stripes, but after a few months I naturally needed a change. I started to look around the internet with much disappointment. Cases with swooshes and dragons seemed to dominate the market – after plain colored jelly ones of course ; that is until I found ones decorated in desirable or cute designs at Threadless.
This one is probably my favorite -

but there are several other designs to fit many styles and they’re really affordable. If you wanted to be extra geeky you can even have a matching t-shirt! All the designs started there and in collaboration with Griffin (mobile accessory people) the designs were chosen to work best on a case. The one above is compatible with the iPhone and iTouch – I’ll have to buy it to find out how but I plan to anyway.

Anyone else have a favorite place they got a case at? There are so many ugly iPhone cases – way too many to list so just trust that these are some of the best artist series online.

Now – if that was relevant to fashion enough for you, there are other options. Louis Vuitton sells iPhone pockets for $1100, and Juicy sells a hideous little number for $75  -

but I think both of those are a little too gaudy. For me an iPhone case should be something I don’t look around to see who’s noticing. It’s not a status symbol, it’s accessory decor – like a sticker or dangle on an antenna – its for you you not “them”; just like any fashion should be. I suppose if you truly feel an $1100 cell phone cover represents YOU – go to it but get it because you want it and its beautiful, not because of the name!

• Listening to:: The Strokes - Room on Fire
• Wearing:: Obey tee & Insight Jeans
• has_been_twittered: yes

Deconstruction Clothing is the Nerdsday feature of the week. Fonts and creative use of text has always been a fairly geeky thing and that’s why we love it so much. The company started in April ‘09 with the combined powers of some University of Idaho friends on a mission to make designs that make us think. Influenced from the world, art, music, design, and the modern human condition. Remembering their roots, and looking to the future while they live in the moment – Deconstruction Clothing wins my weekly vote for Nerdsday feature.
Check out a couple of their designs and browse their site, cross your fingers we’ll soon have a promotion for you to get some sweet Deconstruction threads!

They have both men’s and women’s styles in a variety of designs.

http://www.deconstructionthread.com/

• Listening to:: Fort Knox 5 - Radio Free DC
• Wearing:: Kidrobot hoodie
• has_been_twittered: yes