Dowling Duncan and redesigning the American Dollar:

Why the size?
We have kept the width the same as the existing dollars. However we have changed the size of the note so that the one dollar is shorter and the 100 dollar is the longest. When stacked on top of each other it is easy to see how much money you have. It also makes it easier for the visually impaired to distinguish between notes.

Why a vertical format?
When we researched how notes are used we realized people tend to handle and deal with money vertically rather than horizontally. You tend to hold a wallet or purse vertically when searching for notes. The majority of people hand over notes vertically when making purchases. All machines accept notes vertically. Therefore a vertical note makes more sense.

Why different colors?
It’s one of the strongest ways graphically to distinguish one note from another.

Why these designs?
We wanted a concept behind the imagery so that the image directly relates to the value of each note. We also wanted the notes to be educational, not only for those living in America but visitors as well. Each note uses a black and white image depicting a particular aspect of American history and culture. They are then overprinted with informational graphics or a pattern relating to that particular image.

$1 – The first African American president
$5 – The five biggest native American tribes
$10 – The bill of rights, the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
$20 – 20th Century America
$50 – The 50 States of America
$100 – The first 100 days of President Franklin Roosevelt. During this time he led the congress to pass more important legislations than most presidents pass in their entire term. This helped fight the economic crises at the time of the great depression. Ever since, every new president has been judged on how well they have done during the first 100 days of their term.

This is dope!

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Title: New Slaves (Live on SNL) Artist: Kanye West 202 plays

chieftribe:

New Slaves - Kanye West

lyrics:

My momma was raised in an era when,
Clean water was only served to the fairer skin
Doing clothes you would have thought I had help
But they wasn’t satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself.
You see its broke nigga racism
That’s that “Don’t touch anything in the store”
And there’s rich nigga racism
That’s that “Come here, please buy more”
What you want a Bentley, fur coat and diamond chain?
All you blacks want all the same things
Used to only be niggas now everybody play me
Spending everything on Alexander Wang
New Slaves

You see it’s leaders and there’s followers
But I’d rather be a dick than a swallower

You see it’s leaders and there’s followers
But I’d rather be a dick than a swallower

I throw these Maybach keys
I wear my heart on the sleeve
I know that we the new slaves
I see the blood on the leaves
I see the blood on the leaves
I see the blood on the leaves
I know that we the new slaves
I see the blood on the leaves
They throwing hate at me
Want me to stay at ease
Fuck you and your corporation
Y’all niggas can’t control me
I know that we the new slaves
I know that we the new slaves
I’m about to wild the fuck out
I’m going Bobby Boucher
I know that pussy ain’t free
You niggas pussy, ain’t me
Y’all throwing contracts at me
You know that niggas can’t read
Throw on some Maybach keys
Fuck it, c’est la vie
I know that we the new slaves
Y’all niggas can’t fuck with me
Y’all niggas can’t fuck with Ye
Y’all niggas can’t fuck with Ye
I’ll move my family out the country
So you can’t see where I stay
So go and grab the reporters
So I can smash their recorders
See they’ll confuse us with some bullshit like the New World Order
Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up
They tryna make new slaves
See that’s that private owned prison
Get your piece today
They Probably all in the Hamptons
Braggin’ ‘bout their maid
Fuck you and your Hampton house
I’ll fuck your Hampton spouse
Came on her Hampton blouse
And in her Hampton mouth
Y’all ‘bout to turn shit up
I’m ‘bout to tear shit down
I’m ‘bout to air shit out
Now what the fuck they gon’ say now?

 

- jesus ye

so much emotion

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smokewithmirrors:

preview of Kanye West’s “Slaves” in Brooklyn.

So crazy. 

bazookamonster:

ethaney:

tomcruisecontrol:

youmightfindyourself:

What happens when you pay two monkeys unequally?

incredible

wow

Maybe we’re not so different.

Crazy

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#animals  #pay  #unequal  #b.fos  

livefaast-dieyoung:

danieldempsey:

My dude straight loving him some nsync.

Hahahahahhahaha

can’t blame him for listening to good music 

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#nsync  #funny  #video  #b.fos  

broadways-waiting:

grabbidyballs:

okay so these fuckers are the worst cookies they literally drive me insane

because as you may know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result

like when you see these things

you know they’re awful and tasteless but you love how they have a nice texture but they always taste dry and never sweet enough and never satisfying

so you look at these shitty cookies and think “no, I’m going to eat one. maybe this time it’ll be different. maybe it will at least be satisfyingly sweet as a cookie should be”

but every time you just get a mouthful of flour and far too much of that nasty ass frosting

but you keep coming back because someday you hope that these cookies will be as good as you hope they could be

but they never are and you spiral into the lofthouse cookie madness and find yourself nearly gagging on these shitty flavorless cookies every single time a box is set out in front of you

i would have died thinking i was alone thinking a lot of things if i didn’t join tumblr

Idk why I laughed at this lol, maybe because it’s true.

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#cookies  #sugar  #b.fos  

everybodylovesaimee:

bleacherreport:

Juwan Howard pushes Mario Chalmers in the head for not giving him a high-five. The Heat won’t stop picking on Chalmers. 

HAHAHAHA. 😂😂😂

This made my night lol

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#nba  #heat  #Howard  #Chalmers  #b.fos  

Woah

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thisistheverge:

Spotify’s nightmare realized: Chrome extension allows MP3 download of any song

A new Chrome extension lets Spotify users permanently download any song currently available from the streaming music service, a massive slip-up that could quickly upset record labels and music publishers. The Downloadify tool appears to take advantage of weak (or nonexistent) encryption in Spotify’s web player, which the company launched in beta back in November. By simply installing the extension — freely available in the Chrome Web Store — and starting to play a song, users will download a full, DRM-free MP3 file of the track.

Free music, people.

#music  #spotify  #free  #b.fos  

theclearlydope:

Well … this is just impressive.

They need to put this move in a fighting game lol

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