HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

All the best to you and yours. Have a fun and safe holiday!

GQ- Hollywood Freestyle

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/videos/id.18503/title.gq-hollywood-freestyle

Oakland emcee GQ stopped by DXHQ a few months back for a quick Hollywood Freestyle.

#SuccessHappensOverNights

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Vicariously: J. Lee

Our good friend J. Lee has just been featured on 'Vicariously' a series that gives viewers a peek at the compelling careers of young visionaries around the country. Get a peak into his life and what he is working on at the link below. #2blackdudes #vicariously #lovehard

Watch his episode here: http://on.aol.com/show/vicariously-518397981/episode/518526505

Get Ready! Unique USA LA Holiday Market!

We are excited to once again be a part of the Unique USA LA Holiday Market in Downtown Los Angeles December 6 + 7. Make sure to mark your calendars for this exciting shopping event.

We will be releasing a ton of new merch!

December 6 & 7, The 7th Annual LA Holiday Market
Cost: $10 at the door (cash only) or Pre-sale tickets, Kids 12 and under are free.

Admission includes these Amenities & Perks:
• Unlimited re-entry for both days
• Stop by the Unique Clique Classroom to hear our curated experts share business advice, tell their stories and give loads of inspiration.
• Free drinks!
• Free snacks!
• Free DIY craft projects all weekend long in The DIY Den!
• Free photo booth portraits.
• An exclusive Juice Served Here juice bar & G & B Coffee Lounge
• Grab food in our Fred 62 Pop-Up food court!
• Kick up your feet in one of our multiple Lounges
• Baby Changing Station and private lounge

Where: The Penthouse at California Market Center, 110 East Ninth St.
Hours: 11am-6pm (both Saturday & Sunday)
Parking: There is secure, underground parking at the California Market Center for a $6 flat-rate during Unique USA. There are also numerous outdoor parking lots surrounding the building.

Wednesday's Words: Give It Meaning

Give It Meaning

When there’s no point to your actions, there’s no energy within you to take those actions. Give meaning to what you’re doing, and enable the energy to flow.

If you can’t see the purpose, you can’t get enthusiastic. Connect with a sincere purpose, and you’re suddenly bursting with the desire to follow that purpose.

What you’re weary of is not what you’re doing. What makes you so weary is that you don’t feel fully invested in what you’re doing.

Avoiding, procrastinating and quitting altogether will just make things worse. So instead of giving up, give it meaning.

There is a very important point to your life and to what you do in each moment. Even the most tedious and difficult tasks become engaging and gratifying when you see them in the context of a meaningful purpose.

Whatever you’re doing is making a difference. Make sure it’s a positive difference, connect it to your purpose, and you’ll find yourself doing it with great joy, energy, effectiveness and fulfillment.

— Ralph Marston

Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?

Stumbled across this video the other day and it really put things in perspective. Although social media is there to connect us, it does seem to actually disconnect us from each other and most importantly from life.

Definitely puts things in perspective.

Watch Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRl8EIhrQjQ

Wednesday's Words

New "The World Goes to the Doers" Colorway

New "The World Goes To The Doers" colorway dropping online 09/29! at www.theivorys.com.

Join our email list to receive an exclusive discount code on 09/28 so you can be one of the first to purchase.

Much Love,

The Ivorys

That's a Wrap!

We had an amazing time at our first Pool Tradeshow. Met some amazing folks. Big thank you to the Pool Tradeshow team for making our first experience a great one. Until next time!

The Ivorys X Pool Tradeshow

The Ivorys will be in Las Vegas August 18-20 for POOLTRADESHOW at Mandalay Bay, booth #1333.

Wednesday's Words- Help Make the World

Help Make the World

Your laughter will inspire the world today. Let it ring loudly and often.

Your thankfulness will give life its beauty today. Your love makes the entirety of existence worth all the trouble.

Your actions will make life richer today. Your thoughts and words and feelings will bring new substance to the wonder that is life.

Your awareness will inform and improve things. Your curiosity will make a whole new set of experiences possible.

Whatever you do will matter very much, going far beyond you and coming back in wonderful ways you cannot even imagine. So do, and do, and do some more, with authentic joy and boundless, delighted generosity.

Your life will help make the world what it is today. Live it for all it can be, and more.

— Ralph Marston

The Ivorys Turns 3

So it's officially been 3...3 years of trial and error, 3 years of ups and downs, 3 years of lessons learned, 3 years of meeting awesome people, 3 years of being able to get our ideas out!! Thanks for staying down with us. 

Much Love, 

The Ivorys

Unique LA Summer Market

The Ivorys are headed back to the California Market Center August 9 + 10 for the Unique LA  Summer Market.  The CMC is located at 110 East 9th Street in downtown Los Angeles. The Main Parking Garage is located underneath the building, with parking entrances from both Main Street and Los Angeles Street.

See you there. 

 

Happy Independence Day

We want to wish you a Happy Independence Day!

Thankful Thursday- Be Truly You

Be Truly You

It does you no good to become highly skilled at pretending to be someone you’re not. Be you, enjoy it fully and authentically, and spread the joy around.

Don’t waste a lot of time and energy trying to do what you think might impress others. Be you, live what you love, and be impressed yourself at all the great things life has to offer.

It doesn’t take a whole big complicated set of circumstances to bring you the life you want to live. It just takes a little honesty with yourself, about yourself.

Take a deep, peaceful breath, let go of the burdensome need to maintain pretenses, and be you. Feel the healing joy of living each day true to who you are.

You don’t need power or possessions or drama to fulfill your purpose. All you have to do is to be you.

The very best you can do is to be truly you. Be you, and enjoy bringing your unique greatness to life.

— Ralph Marston

The World Goes to The Doers

Keep Going

Motivation Monday

Words to Live By

Wednesday's Words- The Good Life

The Good Life

There are a lot of good people in the world. There are a lot of good things going on in life.

Don’t let the negative things get you down. Take them in stride, and move quickly on to something that will make all of life more positive.

Every day is an opportunity to do great and meaningful work, and to experience life in new, fulfilling ways. Every day is a day in which you can make life better for others and for yourself.

Treasure each moment without letting the negative distractions get in your way. Put positive, meaningful, satisfying effort into life, and continue to feel how great it is to make a difference.

If people don’t treat you fairly, that’s their problem. When life presents you with difficult challenges, that’s your opportunity to shine.

The way to live the good life is to live each moment with goodness in your heart. Life is good because you always have the ability to make it so.

— Ralph Marston

#theworldgoestothedoers

Will Ferrell & Chad Smith Drum-Off

Check out this hilarious drum-off between Will Ferrell and Chad Smith.

Click image to watch.

Memorial Day Weekend Sale

Wednesday's Words- Make Life Great Today

Make Life Great Today

Today is too valuable to waste. Tomorrow you’ll wish you had made the most of today, so go ahead and do that right now.

Your life is too unique and precious to spend it drifting aimlessly. Remind yourself of what’s important to you, and do something about it, now.

Yes, there are plenty of things that can give you reasons to be discouraged and disillusioned. However, you can always give yourself even more reasons to be purposeful and enthusiastically positive.

You have within you the miracle of life. Whatever else may or may not be happening for you, there are outstanding possibilities available to you.

For those possibilities to have any value, though, you must act on them. Now is the time to do that.

Go ahead, feel your awesome potential and then get yourself busy living up to it. Make life great today by what you do with it.

— Ralph Marston

The Ivorys at Unique LA!

We had an amazing time this past weekend at the 2014 Unique LA Spring Show at the California Market Center. We met some amazing people and released 2 new tees- 'Success Happens Over Nights' and 'Love. You.' Check out some of the photos from this past weekend.

The Ivorys Legal Zoom Spotlight on Success

We were recently included in LegalZoom's 'Spotlight on Success' series featuring business owners who used LegalZoom services to get the ball rolling in their businesses. Check out the write up!

https://www.facebook.com/LegalZoom/app_305314246279125

#theworldgoestothedoers #theivorys

Unique LA This Weekend May 3 + 4!

Join us this weekend in Downtown Los Angeles for the 2014 Unique LA Spring Show at the California Market Center. The Ivorys will be at booth number #126 near the DIY Den! 

Make sure to swing on by.

The Ivorys Spring Sale

The Ivorys Spring Sale is going on now through 4/16. Enter code SPRING40 at check out.

I Witness News- Fake Drake

If you haven't seen it. It's pretty funny. Click through to watch.

Wednesday's Words

Your Own Positive Purpose

"Imagine letting go of all frustration, anger, resentment and worry. Feel the freedom.

Imagine having no bitterness or envy, no anxiety and no fear. Imagine the immense positive power of not being held back by your negative feelings.

That is all possible, and it is possible right now. You have imagined it, and you can just as surely live it.

Sure, all sorts of disappointing, frustrating and disconcerting things happen on a daily basis. Yet there is no good reason to hold on to the negativity in your life.

Choose instead to let it go. Choose instead to be driven by the power of your own positive purpose.

This day is too precious and too full of opportunity to let it be contaminated by past negativity. Let it all go, and let yourself live the best life you can imagine, right now."

— Ralph Marston

Harry Hudson- Learn 2 Love

We have had the pleasure of getting to know Harry over the years and commend him for being such a fighter during his treatment this last year. His journey is very inspirational. He recently dropped his new single 'Learn 2 Love' which includes some very raw and emotional footage. Much love.

Click below to watch the full video.

Beggars CAN Be Choosers

Our good friend, Knoa Knapper, had an interesting encounter not to long ago and has decided to recreate his true life event into something pretty funny. Check out his 2 minute short to see what happened.

Click below to watch the full video.

Thankful Thursday- A Way to Be Thankful

 A Way to Be Thankful

A way to be thankful When you find a way to be thankful for something, you find the value in it. When you find a way to be thankful, you find a way to benefit. 

That is especially true when you’re thankful for things that would not seem at first to be beneficial. The more you can be thankful for, the more real, meaningful value there will be in your life. 

Be thankful for the difficulties. Your gratitude will make them less difficult and much easier to bear. 

Be thankful for whatever you’ve just experienced. In that state of thankfulness you’ll find powerful lessons to be learned. 

Gratitude enables you to see anything in a whole new, empowering light. Be thankful, and you’ll understand how truly rich you already are, and how much more richness you can now create. 

Find a way to be thankful, and you’ll discover many new ways to move forward. 

Find a way to be thankful, and you’ll see that limitless abundance is yours to live. 

 — Ralph Marston

The Ivorys Legal Zoom #BizMoment

THANKFUL THURSDAY.... The Ivorys is something I love with all my heart and soul because it's means so much more to me than the clothing items we put out...it means spending more time with my beautiful wife Brittany it means getting all our crazy ideas out to the world with no fear! It means there are people out there just like us...if it weren't for dope creatives like the Unique USA team making a lane to help brands like us get our stories out we probably would have never met that rep from legal zoom we spotted us at the #uniquela summer show last year and told us he loved what we stood for and asked if we would like to be featured in a #legalzoom ad...it's been 2 years and some change since we started #theivorys and I still get excited when someone adds us on one of our social media outlets... I still get super excited when we receive an online order...simply because it means someone somewhere believes just like we do LIFE should be LIVED not watched.... The WORLD always has and always will GO TO THE DOERS!! #bizmoment

-Ernest Ivory

Jimmy Fallon Lipsync Battle w/ Paul Rudd

Hilarious!

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- The Ivorys

Wednesday's Words- See it as a blessing

See it as a blessing

Whatever it is, see it as a blessing. With many things that’s very difficult, yet with everything it is extremely valuable.

When you can see it as a blessing, you can also see the positive possibilities. When you choose to see it as a blessing, you connect yourself to the power of abundance.

Whatever you see as a blessing brings you new ways to create value. You begin to solve the problem, to heal the pain and to transcend the challenge.

That’s a whole lot more positive and powerful than feeling sorry for yourself. It’s a whole lot smarter than ruining your day with anger and resentment.

You are extremely fortunate to be exactly where you are. Open yourself up to see that good fortune and you’ll find ways to make great, fulfilling use of it.

Accept and embrace the blessings that come your way, whatever form they may take. The more thankful and positive you are, the more those blessings will benefit your whole world.


— Ralph Marston

Wednesdays Words- Getting Yourself Through

Get yourself through

Wishing, complaining, begging and avoiding won’t do it. The way to get through it is to go through it.

If there’s something you’ve been putting off, put it back on and get it done. If there’s a problem that’s been chasing you, stop running, stop hiding and start solving.

You can be amazingly resourceful and effective when you want to be. Now is the time to want to be.

When the situation feels painful, imagine how great you will feel to get beyond it. Imagine, and then manifest your imagined outcome by doing what you must do.

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel, and its brightness comes from your efforts. Make those efforts, keep that light shining brightly and get yourself through to the other side.

You’ve made a positive difference many times before and you absolutely can do it again. Feel your purposeful power as it successfully pushes you through.

— Ralph Marston

"Full House" Guys Reunite on Jimmy Fallon

Too Funny. Click through to watch.

-The Ivorys

Wednesday's Words- Do This Day Right

Do This Day Right

Do this day right by getting it off to a good start. Do this day right by giving it a meaningful, positive purpose.

You have precisely one opportunity to discover and to live the unique value of this day. Get started on it right now.

Get started strong, and keep going with enthusiasm and love for the possibilities. Decide that you will do something truly great with this day, and then enjoy doing it.

Remember that every moment is a choice, and all those choices add together to determine the quality of your day. Choose wisely, choose intentionally, and choose to add great richness and meaning to your world today.

The immense value of this day is yours right now. Make good and purposeful use of it so that tomorrow you’ll have no regrets.

Do this day right by living it with love, joy and authenticity. Do this day right by bringing its outstanding possibilities fully to life.

— Ralph Marston

#theworldgoestothedoers

Motivation Monday

Making the effort

"When you don’t feel like making the effort, the thing that will help you more than anything else is to go ahead and make that effort. Even when you are too tired or too bored, too distracted or too dismayed, the way out is to get busy and put forth effort.

Wishing for things to be better won’t make things better. What will make things better is taking positive, focused action.

Making excuses won’t make things right. The way forward is to make a real difference by making a real effort.

Just because it’s difficult, uncomfortable and inconvenient, doesn’t mean it’s impossible. You have what it takes to take effective action, and that is a powerfully positive thing to do.

Instead of wasting your priceless time with procrastination, make good use of the time that’s now yours. Spend that time making a meaningful difference.

What you get out of life depends on what you get out of yourself. Make the effort, again and again, and give much more beautiful and meaningful life to all of life."

— Ralph Marston

#theworldgoestothedoers

Kendrick Lamar & Imagine Dragons Performance- Grammys 2014

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-The Ivorys

Kid President- How to Change the World (a work in progress)

- The Ivorys