The NYC designer/major babe is slaying it again with her work for the soon to be released Ya Leil – a magazine for Arabs residing in New York.

Check out some sketches for Ya Leil and more from this promising young designer here.

We're all for anything that expresses love for basketball in a unique way, especially when it includes material that looks just like an actual basketball. Enter Japanese clothing company Applebum. They've just released their Basketball Belt for their spring 2010 line, which has some nice looking faux basketball material backed by leather. Check all the pictures after the jump. The item can be purchased in Applebum's online store.

Pics via Applebum

Raekwon the Chef gives an educational tour of the zoo in Perth.

It's day two of the Gumball 3000 Rally and as the flag drops, the gumballers are crossing the start line in Santa Monica, headed to their first party in Las Vegas. 

This ends better than you'd expect. 

Via Revok. 

Melo-X is the New York producer, rapper and dj that has been steadily building up his presence and craft throughout the the city for the past number of years. Just this past year, he took himself around the world with his music, getting a positive response from crowds and music industry heavyweights everywhere he went. It's clear from listening to to Melo's music that he's got his ears all over the world, taking in styles from wherever they come from, and using them to create his own sonic formula. This spring/summer will see Melo-X's first official full length release, entitled Sonic Intercourse.

To prepare for the coming album, Melo just dropped a mixtape that serves as a pre-cursor to that album entitled Audio Foreplay. Comprised of mostly instrumental music, the vibe takes the listener through broken beat, house, glitch-esque, instrumental hip-hop, r&b and future-soul vibes, all sewn together nice and neat. This one's will speak to the true music heads.

Back cover and download link after the jump.

Completely MAD. Check out something we just dug up from Brooklyn's own vocalist 77 Klash and producer Drop The Lime. Also, after the jump, check out the brand new (NSFW) video from Drop The Lime, called Set Me Free, featuring Carrie Wilds. It's ridiculously dark and naughty, and takes place at a Brooklyn brownstone that serves as the base for a horrifying scene.

If you happen to make it to U.S. Open of Snowboarding next weekend up at Stratton, VT make sure you come peep the classic shred photography of Blotto & Cole Barash at their “Snomad Photo Show”

And I guess the the Simpson Barn is a super secret location and apparently hard to find even with your GPS so they provided directions…see you there!