Today at the Nice HQ, we were delivered our pre-order copy of the ultra fresh and fat as hell brand spankin’ new LP from the man Aesop Rock. Check the vid, pick up the LP None Shall Pass TODAY and we promise you will get laid.

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The result of a hasty MSN catchup during lunch today, here is some recent work from Jason Jacenko, who we affectionately refer to as Uncle Pervie. If the shoe fits….

The Bunny Queen – a busy busy boy, JJ’s booked tille March 09 and is featuring in the coolest gallery’s,,, pretty much everywhere.

Its an Outy! This hum-dinger, more characteristic of JJs usual, um, “direction” is for Archytypes, “assassination of character”. A group character show on at Revolver on the 7th. Check it out if your in Melburn.

Preview of a pair of collab boards with Craola
Did i mention that we call him Uncle Pervie?
Was good to catch up with the guy, albiet online.
I’ll get some more images off him soon.

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Aussie B-Boys and B-Girls, this is the moment you’ve all been waiting for…At long last a super hot break dancing championship is taking place in Australia, so gather your crew and get ready to rip it and represent!

Travelling to Sydney in September, The Shadow Wars B-Boy Battle is already gearing up to be one of the most impressive and mammoth showcases of Australian break dancing talent, with international B-Boy superstars Milky, Kid David and Ducky and one more special guest heading to our shores to judge the prestigious competition.

Best known for their performances in one of the world’s leading breakdancing events, The Red Bull BC One, in addition to judging The Shadow Wars B-Boy Battle, these breakdance masters will also be battling head-to-head with the local winners of the events and conducting workshops prior to the comps. This way, they can teach local crews a few new tricks and show us Aussies how it’s really done.

For more info check www.ozbboy.com

Next weekend, Melburns the place to be.
Frisday: Doze Green is doing a show at the galley, the expansive collection will not only be shown in Paper Shadow but will also be exhibited downstairs with our sister venue Miss Libertines who are also graciously hosting the after party with Unkles James Lavelle. Indisputably the place to.
Saturday: kicking on with dnb producer and dj Klute at miss libertines, big phat Nexo stacks a rearing to go.
Sunday: on the other side of town at The Laundry my bro Cammo is putting on a fuck off dub step session with U.Ks BENGA.

Below is the artwork for Benga, by the illustrious Melbourne artist Jagi. Whose currently busy on his next exhibition “Shiney Space Junk” which will be in Paper Shadow September. He’s also working on a series of T-shirts for NiceClothing, so keep your eyes peeled. Big Tings are ahead for Jagi. I’l dig up a whole heap of his work and do a post this week.

So here’s the NiceProduce blog. Alex and I have been discussing the finer points of good blog writing all morning, I think we’ve both agreed that neither of us will win Pulitzer Prizes for our journalistic abilities, hell, we can barely spell – but we do promise to bring some news worthy bits and pieces for y’all procrastinating pleasure.

First up, jump on my podcast for my radio show I have here in Melbourne on Kiss FM.

Second, here’s a shot of Japan – probably the greatest country in the known universe.

Remember, your smile is beautiful.

I found myself in the uncommon position of being stuck with my laptop and nothing to do for most of the day yesterday. It was a rare op to delve deep and find some new programs. Thought I’d share some findings with you.

Shiira, this web browser makes firefox look as dated as all over prints, lightning bolts and mikey mouse. Shiira is sheer-a browsing bliss, straight out of japan.

And the Icon is cool too. Kills Firefox hands down. The best feature is that tabs are preview windows, it also lets you bring all the tabs up on screen at the same time. What’s more the rss and history windows float on a slick transparent box. There’s still one or two bugs, but i’m down, as it develops these guys will nail it. Get it here

I’m a massive advocate of RSS browsers, they essentially let you check every blog that your following at once. I was a big fan of News Net Wire however my adulation strangely wained around the same time that the trial expired. Strange that.

Enter Vienna, open source RSS reader that’s practically identical to NNW. Highly recommended. Download it here.

What better way to celebrate the fact that your listening to the nauseating repackaging of commercial crap than by sitting back in your all-over hoody, ripping the lid off one of these babies and filling your gullet with Hyphy Juice.

Just one sip will give any tubby white boy instant hyph-e-powers™, a phrase book worth of neat-o new words to use and all the confidence he’ll need to step to a group of “urban” runners and show them how he gets stupid.

The hyphy lullabie backing music on this site sends shivers down your spine,

“Hyphy Dreams, Peace Out”

Oh Wonder,

And with this post, we enter a new era, we start our own blog.

And as your new webmasters we will be adding sprinklings of our own brand of irreverent shit talk, misinformed opinion, drunken photography, poorly executed / blatant self promotions, fashion, art and occasional insight into the steamy brimming bowl of internet street culture.

And as time goes on, my spelling may improve and some of the other guys involved in Nice universe, Jagi, Ben from SiH, Caine Cherubin from the Heist store, Hugo, Bonsai and Two, Reka, The Wooden Toy Lads, Yokballs Jr. Sean Kelly and the small army of illiterates that we have with us in the green corner will get in and make your reading all the more interesting.
Shigeru Miyamoto, clearly impressed. Nice.