If you’re like me, and you enjoy the combination of loud colors, prints & patterns with a touch of kitsch and irreverence, then I have a feeling you will also dig Dutch Designer, Bas Kosters:

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Not set to be  released until April 13th, The new Mgmt record as been leaked! Stream it for free from their website: http://www.whoismgmt.com/

I have only listened to the first 2 songs so far, so the verdict is still out.  This article from billboard says “Congratulations includes a frenzied psychedelic surf-rock cut about Brian Eno; a creepy instrumental whose title, “Lady Dada’s Nightmare,” plays off a certain of-the-moment pop star; and a trippy, 12-plus-minute track with a loose theme about surfing the Arctic Circle off the coast of Russia”  a  “decidedly weird nine-song follow-up” to their very successful 2007 debut, Oracular Spectacular

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seen on the streets of L.A.

(and I think that is a Boyonce Mona Lisa?)

I also saw that same day:
1. visable from your car while driving down La Cienaga, a display of 5th graders’ artwork “honoring Michael Jackson” for Black History month. (random tangent: I also heard on the radio yesterday that there were teachers somewhere potentially being fired for using images of Ru Paul and Dennis Rodman to teach black history month…)
2. Evidence that MJ was watching over me that day, this rainbow seen from the roof of the Burton store:

Fashion week Side note:  WTF was going on at Dsquared² ?

SO GROSS.

*all images from style.com

Shaun White and Scotty Lago take home the gold and bronze medals in the men’s halfpipe while lookin’ fly in their burton uniforms!

*images from nbcolympics.com

*photo 1 by Adrian Dennis/ Getty Images, photo 2 &3 by Cameron Spencer/ Getty Images

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he just needs a cupcake