Take a good look at the new Brian Anderson Blazer Mid from the forthcoming Nike SB Icon x Icon series. More info coming.

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English designer Paul Smith re-unites with Burton once again in a release of a snowboard slated for the 2011 season. Based on the Vapor model, Paul Smith’s touches come in the form of his signature multi-colored pattern seen on the base and top. The snowboard collaboration comes on the heels of three previous collaborations starting in 2005 which has revolved around on-hill apparel. The Paul Smith x Burton Vapor Snowboard will retail for $1,199.95 USD.

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Mastermind Japan and Adidas have teamed up to bring a highly polished hightop into the mix. The basketball inspired ‘Hardland’ model is a perfect canvas for MMJ’s use of clean black leather uppers with contrasting outsole and skeleton logos. Not everything is black and white with this shoe though – if you look a little closer you’ll see some more subtle design choices like intricately arranged laces, looped eyelets, and of course, a bright red sole. This pair and more will see the light of day June 16th at ISETAN Shinjuku in Tokyo.

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Working with New York brand SSUR the finish features a cracked leather over the eylets, premium suede upper, and gold shark teeth lace locks for good luck.

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ChumBuddy was originally 100% hand sewn and was made from fleece and felt. It’s actually filled with around 30 pounds of poly-fill, and thus far making shipping a bit of an issue. Unfortunately you can only get yourself a ChumBuddy to sleep with if you live in the continental United States. He only travels by ground due to his weight and size, but the shipping is free.

You can look for this jawsome piece of work to start shipping around the 4th quarter of this year and you can preorder it through Patch Together now for $199.95, which may sound like a high price, but remember it is hand made, 7 feet, made from fleece, and the shipping for that 30lb bad boy is already included with that price, so it really is not that overpriced after all.

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Here is another interesting piece of work from Italian footwear label Forfex with this silhouette entitled Killers. Part of the Forfex Spring/Summer 2010 collection the upper combines leather and canvas while the iron studs offers a unique punk touch.

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adidas Consortium Collection – the Micropacer Lux. The iconic running shoe comes in a premium brown leather colorway with beautiful wingtip accents. Furthermore the sneaker comes as part of the entire pack,which also includes a cleaning kit for the sneaker. Expect the sneaker to release along with the others on May 15th at Consortium retailers.

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Dutch artist Parra is back with a new figure. This time he presents the “The Not So Happy Bird” character. It comes in black and in white, has once again been produced by Toykyo and it will hopefully be released soon.

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The Dead Weather are set to play Prospect Park Bandshell August 3rd, in a concert to support free shows at Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Center. Tickets on sale today, May, 7, at noon for $37.50. Grab your ticket at the Bowery presents before it is gone!

In case you don’t know, The Dead Weather are a brand new rock outfit consisting of Dean Fertita, Jack Lawrence, Alison Mosshart and Jack White. The impetus for the band came when Mosshart’s band The Kills opened on a few US tour dates for The Raconteurs. Recognizing immediately the musical synergy between Mosshart, White and Lawrence, the trio devised a plot to record together during some down time in White’s own Third Man Recording Studio in Nashville where White enlisted the addition of erstwhile Raconteurs’ touring accomplice and Queens Of The Stone Age collaborator Dean Fertita. What was initially imagined as a one-off collaboration for a 7” single release turned into a full blown album project once the quartet switched on the recording tape. The Dead Weather’s menacing sounds were so electrifying that they couldn’t help but keep the tape rolling. In three weeks they had recorded a full length album, Horehound produced by Jack White, to be released on White’s Third Man Records in June. The album features the band’s explosive debut single, “Hang You Up From The Heavens”, which is currently available through iTunes, backed with a dirge driven cover of Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric?”

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Bandai are releasing a series of transforming characters called Mojibakeru (a combination of moji, or “character”, and bakeru, or “to change into” in Japanese). As you can tell, they transform from the kanji to the creature each one represents. The first six are “Inu” (dog), “Sakana” (fish), “Ryu” (dragon), “Uma” (horse), “Tora” (tiger) and “Tori” (bird). Each comes in three colors.The series launches on May 17 in Japan for only 105 yen a piece.

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