Cedric Smith Photography

please check out some more of Cedric Smith’s photography_ a still visual genius!

Tiger Woods Dubai

This picture doesn’t even do this place justice. The project, namely The Tiger Woods Dubai, is an exclusive lifestyle community scheduled for completion by late 2009. The spectacular Al Rawaya Golf Course serves as its focal point.

Spread across an area of 55million square feet, The Tiger Woods Dubai will be an exclusive golf community featuring a professionally-staffed golf academy, a clubhouse spread across 139,000 square feet with premium amenities, a high-end boutique hotel, a premium destination spa, 75 mansions, 22 palaces, and 100 luxury villas.

The Tiger Woods Dubai will soon be one of the most sought-after destinations in the world, and will be a genuine oasis for those lucky enough to live or stay within its spectacular grounds, said Tiger Woods.

The Brooklyn Circus

Astonishing line, Inspiring blog. Simply the way fashion is suppose to be!

His Airness

Paul Robeson: A Renaissance Man

Paul Robeson was the epitome of the 20th-century Renaissance man. He was an exceptional athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist. His talents made him a revered man of his time, yet his radical political beliefs all but erased him from popular history. Today, more than one hundred years after his birth, Robeson is just beginning to receive the credit he is due.

Born in 1898, Paul Robeson grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. His father had escaped slavery and become a Presbyterian minister, while his mother was from a distinguished Philadelphia family. At seventeen, he was given a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he received an unprecedented twelve major letters in four years and was his class valedictorian. After graduating he went on to Columbia University Law School, and, in the early 1920s, took a job with a New York law firm. Racial strife at the firm ended Robeson’s career as a lawyer early, but he was soon to find an appreciative home for his talents.

Check out one of his documentaries here.
Also, look up his 1998 Documentary ‘Speak of me as i am’

Aubrey Drake Graham

Drake is a phenomenal rapper and from where i can see, a pretty down-to-earth and intriguing individual apart from his professions. i had the opportunity to be introduced to his music by a young friend of mine and fell in love with the artistic integrity on Drake’s mixtape “Room For Improvement.” Since then, i’ve followed him and his career and have enjoyed his growth as an artist thus far. He’s just released his latest mixtape, So Far Gone, which is available for download on his blog October’s Own. And since his popularity is increasing this will most likely be the last time i blog on Mr. Graham. Check his interview out with Complex below.

Complex talks with Drake

Sade Adu

“When i was led to you… i knew you were the one for me! i swear the whole world, could feel my heart beat!”

Fonsworth Bentley

i am not too fond of celebs. i don’t understand the whole craze over people who have a certain talent. We all have something that makes us unique. And the one place i really don’t understand the craze over celebs is in fashion. Especially, since they become the source of many trends, because not too many of them can dress.

With that said, if there is one “celebrity” that  seems to understands how to dress himself his Fonsworth Bentley. The others just seem to either be trying to standout, chase trends themselves, or just plane look like garbage!

Hamster Will

inspired by my kid bro. – check him out.

‘Hamster Will‘ is a literal and metaphoric play on words that describes me, thus my new blog, in a nutshell. We’ve all seen hamsters in a cage vigorously running on a wheel. Sometimes powering an ultrasonic heating ray that destroys the molecular structure of a reindeer antler, which possesses the cure for cancerous cells in the human body. Or like the average person, you’ve seen them running on a wheel for no reason at all.

The same principle is evident in myself. my brain runs the same on a daily basis. For many odd or indifferent reasons. Maybe something important happens, or for no particular reason at all.  But all you know is, you see the hamster running. And it’s not until after the hamster has ran for awhile that you understand the purpose of its running and the intent the hamster ran with.

In like manner, envision the will of the hamster. Some may look at the hamster and just think it’s running because it’s a neandrathalic species and find it mundane. Others see its running as necessary and find it valuable, like the scientists behind the cancerous cell cure. For whatever reason the hamster is running, what we can’t figure out is what keeps the hamster running with vehement intent and purpose? is it for amusement? exercise? or is it really a neandrathalic species?

i too, run with this vehement intent and purpose. Some know the reason behind it, others can’t even visualize why i would run that fervently for this reason. But regardless what it’s in, whether in a cage, powering an ultrasonic ray or in some kid’s room, amusing them, the unseen purpose keeps my wills/wheels spinning.

The Great American Hanger Company

Success Secret:

“To be perfectly honest, I do not consider myself a success. I am a ‘student’ in my first business who has accomplished a few successes since I started the business. Those successes can be traced back to having an incredible team.”

At 25, Rifkin began his company through telephone market research and a global trip to learn about the hanger business. Nine years later, his Miami-based The Great American Hanger Company has revolutionized the industry, bringing high-quality hangers to the public. Each year, 17 million hangers are sold by the $9.6 million business.

Rifkin’s philosophy from day one has been that associates (he never calls them employees) come first. He refers to his company as “ours,” not “mine,” and knows his time is more important than cash when it comes to the community work he’s passionate about.

Entrepreneur Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 press release.
Cocktail Talk’s Devon Rifkin interview
Hangers