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Best Friends Vol. 2

Download Ground Up's New Album Best Friends Vol. 2 @ The Myspace

SeeqPod

Had a song stuck in your song all day at work and just need to hear it once to get your fix? SeeqPod applies search algorithms originally intended for genetic research to MP3s, turning up results as instantly playable tracks. Better yet, you can easily arrange them into a playlist, creating queuing up a day’s worth of music, rather than listening to one-off ditties. Unfortunately, the site’s too-good-too-be-true premise might be catching up with it, since it was forced into bankruptcy by record company lawsuits at the beginning of April.

By: Digital Trends

Trailer of the Week-"More Than A Game"

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COOGI for the ladies? I think it's kinda sexy.

COOGI Authentic - Criss Cross Back with Lurex
100% Mercerized cotton. Imported from Australia. Limited Edition.

Thanks Bij...

Microsoft Surface

I know this advertisement is old but i still haven't seen it around anywhere....
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BBC/Ice Cream Spring Summer Releases '09

The Pharell and Nigo fusion has resulted in some serious threads. This is the latest installment to the collection.

Spots in the City: Mitchell & Ness

In 1904, Frank P. Mitchell, a former AAU tennis and wrestling champion who previously worked for Spalding, partners with a Scottish golfer named Charles M. Ness to form an eponymous sporting goods store. A modest storefront on Philadelphia’s Arch Street, Mitchell & Ness Sporting Goods specialized in handcrafted tennis racquets, golf clubs and other equipment. Their high quality and attention to detail quickly makes the “Mitchell & Ness” label synonymous with the best sporting goods in the Philadelphia area.

Now Located: 1318 CHESTNUT ST.
PHILADELPHIA

Ballin' on a Budget: Nike SB Bruin Supreme

Dropping April 20th in select stores...

In A Dream : A Film By Jeremiah Zagar

IN A DREAM: Theatrical Trailer from Herzliya Films on Vimeo.

Synopsis:
Over the past four decades, Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds.

In Selected Philadelphia Theaters Friday, April 17th

Click Here For More Info

2009 Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss Edition

The 2009 Mercedes Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss has been unveiled and with just 75 copies of the $1.01 Million boutique supercar being produced,you probably wont see anyone else driving it.

Crooks and Castles x Vans

Alongside the release of their chronicled collaboration with Crooks & Castles, Vans unveils more Spring co-op colorways in their Fourty-Four Hi model. The collection will consist of a 5Boro edition representing the East Coast while Crooks hold down the West Side. Two other store collaborations are scheduled as well as a team rider Danny Wainwright signature colorway. From the looks of it, each shoe will feature an available matching t-shirt. Stay tuned for further updates in the coming weeks..

Source: www.crooksandcastles.com/news

Longest Par 3 on Earth...

I dont even like golf but this is wild...

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The world’s longest and highest par three, the signature hole at Legends Golf and Safari Resort, has its tee box poised at a dizzying height atop of Hanglip Mountain, 1 410 feet above the green and is only accessible by helicopter!

This means that the ball needs to travel an incredible 830 metres from tee to green (the total distance across and down)!
Still, Padraig became the first-ever golfer to make par on this amazing hole in a playoff against Raphaël Jacquelin.

Balls hit off the tee are estimated to have a 'hang time' of 26 seconds, so a little help is needed in keeping an eye on the white dimpled orb. With technology in the form of four separate cameras and tracking equipment, Padraig and Raphaël were able to track their tee shots and the flight of their balls, while ball watchers stood ready to point out where the balls had landed on the ‘map of Africa’ green.

Your average thrill-seeking golfer can play this bizarre hole in addition to a round of 18 holes, or as an experience on its own, and a hole-in-one will earn you one million US dollars!

A Bathing Ape Roadsta: New Colorways '09

One of the Greatest: Keith Haring

Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Haring grew up in Kutztown and was interested in art from an early age. By expressing concepts of birth, death, love, sex and war, Haring's imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.

Long Time Phillies Announcer, Harry Kalas Dies at 73

WASHINGTON -- Radio and TV broadcaster Harry Kalas, whose baritone delivery and signature "Outta here!" home run calls provided the soundtrack to Philadelphia baseball for nearly four decades, died Monday after collapsing in the broadcast booth before the Phillies' game against the Washington Nationals. He was 73.

"We lost our voice today," Phillies president David Montgomery said. "He has loved our game and made just a tremendous contribution to our sport and certainly to our organization."

Familiar to millions of sports fans outside Philadelphia for his voice-over work with NFL Films, "Harry the K" was beloved at home. Since 1971, he was the man who was the bearer of news -- good and bad -- to those who followed the losingest franchise in major professional sports.

When the Phillies won their second World Series title last fall, Kalas -- who normally called only the middle three innings on radio -- was in the booth for the last out of the clincher. He then joined the on-field celebration, grabbing a microphone to sing Frank Sinatra's "High Hopes."

That song was among several Kalas standbys that endeared him to Phillies supporters. Another: He would call homers by a certain Hall of Fame third baseman by noting the player's full name -- "Michael Jack Schmidt."

Many people asked Kalas to record outgoing messages on answering machines -- or more recently, cell phone voice mail -- using his "Outta here!" line. And he always complied with those requests, said Phillies radio broadcaster Scott Franzke.

"Players come and go," Franzke said, "but 'Outta here!' -- that's forever

Trailer of the Week-"Gomorrah"

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This highly controversial movie has been making waves over seas. This film is a big deal.
~Azar

Old School Clip: "Passing Me By"- The Pharcyde

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One of my favorite songs at the moment. Shit like this really inspires me.
-Malakai

Best Friends Vol. 2 Album Artwork

Check out the first tentative artwork design for Best Friends Vol. 2, scheduled to drop April 24, 2009. Look out. It's all up from here.

"Lost In Philadelphia"

Lost In Philadelphia from Calvin Scibilia on Vimeo.

Here's our new video off the new album, "Best Friends Vol.2." Check out more new material at myspace.com/groundupsounds .

Ground Up

Best Friends Vol. 2

"Lost In Philadelphia" Prod. By Bijan (H)

Directed By Calvin Scibilia

Grand Opening Mixtape Release Party

Good music+lots of liquor+lots of drunk friends in one building=one good night. We'd like to thank everyone for sacrificing their Saturday to spend it with us, celebrating the beginning of a movement. Stay tuned for the new releases.

Dont Sleep On Us, 

Ground Up

Grand Opening Mixtape Releases...

Grand Opening, Our debut mixtape and the first of many to come is now available for download(www.myspace.com/groundupsounds). We worked long and hard to deliver something everyone could vibe to so check us out(not to mention its free.) We hope you enjoy it enough to show some friends...

sincerely,

Ground Up