June 2008

A Cultivated Mindset recently took a trip to Miami, Fl and here is some of the street art we liked. It was located in downtown Miami near some of the best Jamaican food you can buy and some great street wear boutiques (namely Foot Soldiers and Shoe Gallery). If you are ever downtown on 1st ave, check them out!! You also can check them out at www.footsoldiers.com and www.shoegallery.com.

Most of the nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade.The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so. “It's an education project, not a laptop project.” — Nicholas Negroponte

Our goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.

You can find out more about the cause at www.laptop.org

No matter how ridiculous an idea may be, as long as it’s thought through well enough it can turn out really amazing. Take for example Concepts, which could have been absolutely stupid, but in my opinion turned out amazing. What Concepts did was take the Dunk Low and Lobster-ize it, decking out the leather in shades of orange-y reds, putting a table cloth pattern inside the shoe, and even throwing some rubber bands on the toes! The shoes even come in a wooden box, much like a lobster trap, and come with a few t-shirts, some lobster crackers, and even an extra pair of butter yellow laces.