my own mom beat me to a web store! just launched her own store for her custom clothes, check it out above.
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Hello construkt!
My name is Steven Ekeh, and I’m an artist…..in a way. Moved by the different styles through the ages, I could have been classically trained if it weren’t for the fact that I’m moved by the streets. Since there are so many ways you can categorize art I’m down for it all. I got an eclectic mix of art nouveau, baroque, stencil tagger, video game, anime & manga, underground music, furnace powering my style so theres no way it can be explained…..oh wait i just did. …..awkward!
so i might be a bit hypocritical on this post, but why can’t people fall for my marketing nonsense? i’m watching my co-worker literally drooling over the alienware laptop site and the flash videos on there. don’t get me wrong they got some pretty nifty shit but is it all necessary? it’s the extra flash that we love to throw down a few hundred bucks on, and in today economy, i just don’t care for it anymore.
let’s take my co-worker for instance, talking about the laptop starting at 1900 dollars. you’re looking at taxes, shipping, plus any modifications to the base on top an old model since he doesn’t (and knows) he won’t need any of the power that the laptop provides, but he will upgrade it anyways because it feels too cheap to buy the bare minimum. even at mid range parts, the price has probably already gone past 2400, so much for staying under 2000 dollars. now, with a custom made laptop, of course you will feel the need to buy the flashy case that the laptop could sit in, and a new bag, and whatever else comes it’s way.
it basically just opens it’s mouth and engulfs your next few paychecks on stupid shit you will use once. looking at the specs from a technical standpoint, the numbers are probably no different from a standard laptop you buy at best buy, perhaps a few bytes here and there and minimal things, it’s the flash and the marketing that fucks you. although the specs are almost the same, only better by a hair, the quality is 100 times better because of the awesome alienware flash site and how a terminator style factory is putting this shit together, but in the back of your head you know its bullshit and alienware is a subsidiary of dell anyways. it’s all about how you portray yourself and some people just have the money to paint that shit gold, no pun intended. but seriously, 90% of the time, did you really need to buy what you bought when you could have saved half the cost? all those numbers and statistics they throw at you are skewed and filtered anyways.
now, obviously i am at fault for falling into this evil master plan by corporations, but fuck them, if it makes sense then do it. sometimes you need that extra little feature that others don’t, the comfort or the style, but realistically, not all the time. i believe it’s not always about the name but whatever floats your boat. in terms of limited edition and all that nonsense, rarely have i ever found a game or a movie that was limited edition that i don’t see in stores for 1/3rd the price years later. now, if blizzard states that they will only print 10,000 limited edition warcraft sets, then maybe it might be true, but rarely. you will never know what items will suddenly be discontinued and impossible to find but those take time and don’t happen very often. most of the special edition crap that comes with pre-orders aren’t even worth it anyways.
personally, my thoughts are, just look at what they are trying to offer. bmw offers a 4 years or 40,000 miles warranty even if you buy the car used, plus maintenance for the same time. you’re looking at paying shit for 4 years, and you can extend that plan up to 100,000 miles or 10 years (i could be off by a little bit), but who else does that in the car industry? i’m talking about not paying for oil changes, brakes, malfunctions, warranties, absolutely nothing. and they don’t try and screw you into spending money either, you simply walk in, get treated with respect, and walk out. cutco knives don’t advertise yet they have one of the best knife warranty on the market and patented blades and handles. its that level of service beyond the product that is worth the extra money, not some expensive marketing scheme and flashy lights on the back of a alien logo.
you want to know what is limited edition? a fucking painting. how many times do you think an artist will sit there and paint the same damn shit over and over, thats when you go make giclee’s and mass produce that fucker and slap a limited edition number on it. at that point, unless your a non-famous artist, most people couldn’t afford it anyways.
honestly though, if you had the money…. why wouldn’t you get this?
welcome to the beginning of the spectacular spider month of august, and what better way to start then with a hero spotlight on none other then good ol web head himself.
everyone knows the origins, shy reclusinve nerd peter parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider, and their dna fuses to give peter the power of a spider. walking on walls, a sensation that alerts him to danger, superhuman agility, and the strength to life 8 times his own body weight. pete tried to use this to his advantage by joining a wrestling tournament and did quite well, though he got shafted in pay by the manager, and when the manager got mugged, he stood aside and did nothing, figuring it was his karma. the mugger however carjacks his uncle and shoots him dead. thinking that it was his fault his uncle died, pete takes his kindly words to heart, “with great power comes great responsibility”, and he swears to keep the streets safe from villainy. being the veritable boy genious, pete created a set of devices that would shoot out a solution that would mimic spider webs… in proportion, and he creates a suit that will stike fear into the hearts of men, a red and blue spandex suit with spider webs and a spider logo. he also got a job at the daily bugle, the local paper, as a photographer who took candid shots of spidey in action.
the crime fighting career wasn’t so easy though, being pretty much a kid and having to balance your superhero life, and your secret identities life. he used sarcasm, humor, and a quick wit to help calm his nerves when fighting crime, but still couldn’t muster up the courage to talk to girls. although throughout the years, this slowly began to fade, having relationships with gwen stacy, mary jane watson, and felecia hardy just to name a few. eventually, he gave in to mary jane’s fiery red hair and sultry demeanor and ended up marrying her.
spider-man was never in short supply of villains, and that list grows larger almost every day. sandman, green goblin, rhino, mysterio, electro, shocker, doc oc, hobgoblin, carnage… its almost as if he could fight a different villain every day of the week for half a year. yet although the web slinger is friends with almost every hero known to man, he has very few allies in his little pocket universe, at least very few with powers, leaving spidey to fend for his lonesome. but peters biggest thing, was to keep his secret identity, a secret. while others may be willing to show who they are behind the mask, webs knew that if his identity were to be revealed, his enemies would come after those closest to him.
spidey has also had his fair share of costumes and upgrades (not to mention a few dozen clones, but i’ll tell you all about that later), most notably his symbiote costume. an alien parasite he found in space during an epic battle, that conformed to his body and made him stronger, faster, and able to use webs without his web shooters, with the downside of not having his “spidey sense”. the symbiote though had a mind of his own, and tried to corrupt peter into being a little bit evil. though it was unsuccessful, the symbiote merged with another person to create venom, one of petes most dangerous villains. parker also had the iron spider suit, which was more recent during the civil was arc. a suit built by tony stark himself.
in more recent times though, spider-man has had 2 major things happen to him that changed him forever. the first of which was the one more day story arc, where after his identity was revealed, an assassin tried to kill his aunt may. as her life hung by a mere thread, peter begged his friends to help, even some of his enemies like doctor octopus, but the only one who could was lord of the underworld himself, who offered him a deal. he would spare her life, but in exchange, peter and mary jane would have never gotten together. in their subconscious, they would know that they had a life together, but consciously they wouldn’t. that subconscious pain was what mephisto truly wanted. so to save the life of his aunt, he agreed, and the couple of peter parker and mary jane parker was no more.
the other event was a story arc called the other, where petes powers start to go haywire. in looking for an answer, he found out that thing that gave him his powers, was killing him, and he had a week to live, and a super powered imortal named morlun was on his way to kill the wall crawler for good. after his death though, when the heroes went to see his corpse, they found nothing but an open shell. spider-man was reborn, and a spiritual voice of a spider was guiding him. pretty much, his dna and the spiders were one, he tried so hard to keep his humanity, that he blocked out the spider side of him. once he embraced it, spider-man got a whole lot more powers, such as the ability to see in the dark, cling to objects using the skin on his back, able to feel vibrations in his webbing, and a pair of stingers in his palm… plus he no longer needed his web shooters.
well, that’s just a quick rundown. to actually give the biography of this superhero would take pages and pages of text. and throughout the month, many other things will be explained about spider-man. all in all, he is marvels flagship character, and one of the most popular figures in the marvel universe. as for whats going on now with spidey? it seems that some of his old villains are coming back, and a very old villain might finally get his long awaited revenge through his offspring. anyways, hope you liked the spidey spotlight. as always, if you have any questions or comments, post away. till next time.
