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LRG teamed up with Karmaloop this Holiday season to bring a limited edition “Snow Panda” series collection. This series feature’s LRG’s panda bear icon featured on a heather cotton crew neck sweater, and a cotton t-shirt. To accessorize we included a red multi-striped scarf and a heather beanie to match. Available only thru Karmaloop.com

I wonder if Ralph “I Started This Bear Fashion Sh*t” Lauren is giving the Snow Panda the side-eye?

Kanye West debuted his long-form music film Runaway on Saturday night. It was a dreamy mini-movie with lovely, light imagery and a heavy message — roughly speaking, people aren’t open-minded; they don’t accept what they don’t immediately understand. Take it as a metaphor for how West feels about the acceptance of not necessarily his music, but his public behavior (epitomized by the West-Taylor Swift VMA moment), and you probably wouldn’t be wrong.

It tells the story of a phoenix (played by model Selita Ebanks) who falls to Earth in front of West’s car. West, playing a version of himself, tried to introduce her to a world that mystified her, and was mystified by her.

The West-directed Runaway used a heavily saturated color palette; bright oranges, fiery reds, and lush forest-greens dominated. He lingered over his imagery, frequently slowing down the motion for us to observe the phoenix’s most causal gestures. In one bravura sequence, he included a red-dressed marching band that pulled along a giant papier-mache bust of Michael Jackson in its wake.

West has said that Runaway contains nine songs from his forthcoming album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and supplies “visuals for all these songs that deserve videos.” [via]

Check out the Q&A session with MTV’s Sway as he talks with Kanye about the film after the jump, Read more…

Ryan Leslie releases the follow-up to his latest single off of the album, Transition, with my personal favorite – Never Gonna Break Up.  Nice concept and again, great song.  Check it out.

AkShone – The Tennessee Volunteer

Ed Lover’s back at it again!  Giving the, “C’mon Son!” to a few people in pop culture.  Yep, Ed goes in on those people who made you look.

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