Life's importance...
GOD, my wonderful and beautiful family, good friends, street art, graphic design, web design/development, brand building & consulting, marketing, advertising, business, web 2.0, social media/networking, motion graphics, photography, industrial/product design, modern furniture and goods, fashion design, sneakers/shoes, the entire fashion and footwear industry, Apple, surfing the net, clean cars and suvs, audio and video electronics, architecture, landscape design, vinyl toys, creative people, good design, printed matter, sports...typically basketball, dancing (always in the soul), urban culture, the great outdoors, bass fishing, predatory fish, Japanese and Mexican food, my BlackBerry, and Starbucks coffee.
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Music
My Last.fm
Keep page open and enjoi the music while you work! It may inspire something.
Joint of the Week:
"THESE LOVELY INSTRUMENTALS"
Currently in my ipod...
My entire music collection stored in my 80G, 40G Mini, and 1G Shuffle. I listen to various genres of music but the collection mainly consists of hip hop, r&b, neo-soul, reggae, deep funk, and break beats.
The daily bump...
+ Neptune tracks/remixes
+ Timbo tracks/remixes
+ Kanye tracks/remixes
+ Bryan Michael Cox tracks
+ Ryan Leslie tracks
+ Jay-Z
+ Lupe Fiasco
+ Common
+ Aceyalone
+ Hieroglyphics
+ Ne-Yo
+ Goapele
+ Usher
+ DJ Wreck
+ DJ Sushi One
+ Mary J. Blige
+ Donell Jones
+ Musiq Soulchild
+ Sade
+ Higher Vision
+ Chris Tomlin
+ John Legend
All time favorites...
In the early 80's growing up in Guam I've always been exposed to good music. My love for good music started when I attended Debbie Deb's concert and watched her perform "When I hear music" and watching Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" video play over and over on my Sony Betamax. Then came Egyptian Lover and all of Bambatta's stuff. That was the era that hooked me in. I then joined a neighborhood break crew and was officially a b-boy. Later in the 80's it was LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, Run DMC, and Kool Moe Dee that continued to make my head knod. Those were my days of the true school music. To this day my classics still get playlist love.
Classick...
+ Boogie Boys
+ Dougie Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew
+ Slick Rick
+ MC Shan
+ Eric B & Rakim
+ Public Enemy
+ EPMD
+ Run DMC
+ LL Cool J
+ The Beastie Boys
+ KRS-One & BDP
+ Biz Markie
+ Special Ed
+ Audio Two
While working...
However when it comes down to work in the office, I'll listen to soulful jazz and house, drum+bass, break beats and trip-hop. A lot of downwtempo stuff. I've been deeply rooted to downtempo and electronic beats to get the creative juices flowing.
Gettin' busy ya'll...
+ Afterlife
+ DJ Krush
+ DJ Cam
+ Thievery Corporation
+ Boards of Canada
+ Love Unlimited Orchestra
+ Aim
+ Closer to God
+ Tyco
+ Mindtrap
+ Flunk
+ Jens Buchert
Movies
Best viewed on the widescreen...
+ Brown Sugar
+ The Best Man
+ Love Jones
+ Soul Food
+ The Goonies
+ Big Trouble In Little China
+ Spaceballs
+ Rad
+ Licensed To Drive
+ Beat Street
+ Wild Style
+ Ocean's Eleven & Twelve
+ Italian Job
Television
What's usually on the DVR...
+ Entourage
+ 24
+ Ugly Betty
+ Dirt
+ Grey's Anatomy
+ Designer Guys (HGTV)
+ NBA games
Books
Catch me flippin' through...
+ My Bible
+ Dwell
+ Wired
+ Communication Arts
+ Business Week
+ Fortune Small Business
+ The Royal
+ ID
+ Sneaker Freaker
+ Complex
+ Streetwear Today
+ Theme
+ The Tipping Point
+ Brand Week
+ DWR Catalogs
Heroes
The heroes that be...
+ Our GOD
+ My Parentals
+ My Children
The life and works of Lloyd Gomez. Who is Lloyd Gomez? I am; A genuine and soulful person. A great father to two beautiful gems. A man of strength, determination, virtue, free will and a relentless spirit. My family being my heart beat to life. A visionary of many ideas. A creative genius. A motivational speaker, inspiring to say the least. A trendsetter and at times a forecaster. Positive of all things and surrounded by greatness. Success and perfection in everything I put my hands on. A major influence. A believer because in God nothing is impossible. This is...who I am.
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Who I'd like to meet: Someday...(posted on 2/2006)
A powerhouse marketing/creative team. But we've already met. My super talented team at Hi-Tec USA. BDub, Dayna, Josh, Mike and I produce great work. We constantly push the envelope in the outdoor and tactical footwear industry.
One on one with Steve Jobs, he's clearly a genius. I'd like to pick his brain on his vision of marketing and design and where Apple will be 5 years from now.
Jeff Ng @ Staple. I would love to someday collaborate with him. His work is amazing.
David Gensler @ The Royal Mag. Now that I know. You've got to know. Get ready to be inspired. Nuff said.
Founders, creative directors, designers, etc., etc. from all of the brands that I've represented and collected since day one. (circa '93-Present). Stussy, FreshJive, Nike, Adidas to name but a few. Their marketing, design and products have inspired me in what I do today. Street culture at it's finest.
Karim Rashid....an industrial / product / furniture design guru. His works sit nice in the office as well as our showers, bathrooms, and kitchen and are very inspiring. I dabble into clean and simplistic interior design with a touch of my personal work. A Modern / Street mixture is what I like to call it.
Could he be the next Michael Jordan? Absolutely! His game is raw and he goes by the name of Kobe Bryant.
My childhood / teenage friends from Guam (elementary '82-'84), Monterey / Fort Ord (post elementary-middle school '85-'88), to Modesto (middle school-high school '88-'94). The good ol' days from b-boyin', skateboarding, to bmx freestyling, hip-hop and pop culture, and back once again to b-boyin'. These were the days as a youngin', rollin' with my crews, that I truly embraced. If you were there...
drop me a line!
Hey Lloyd, just checkin in. You came up in a conversation the other day. Darren Varnell sends his greetings, we've been playin a lot of poker. Keep rockin mi bruddah
At the end of the day that's all I have, so I must be grateful ya feel me!! Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Peace, love and blessings from our home to yours!!
