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(Pre) Natal

Last week the gif+d invited me to tag along to attend a preview event for Microsoft Xbox 360’s forthcoming “Project Natal“, which is the code name for their “controller-free gaming and entertainment experience”. (Thanks for taking me Sam!) I was super-psyched to have the opportunity to witness it up close since I’ve been hearing and seeing all the hype surrounding it.

For those of you familiar, you already know. For those who don’t, simply put it’s Xbox throwing their hat in the ring against Nintendo’s Wii in an attempt to broaden their audience beyond the hardcore gamer. After seeing it live, it looks like “Project Natal” will easily accomplish that goal and could quite possibly be considered Microsoft’s game changer. This device will not only revolutionize how people interact with video games, but could also be considered a ‘peek’ into the future of how we’ll interact with computers.

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…Las Vegas

Historically, this is one of the ‘lead-up’ weeks to Las Vegas, the week when many of those in or related to the apparel industry are prepping for next week’s trade shows. Whether you have a booth or you’re showing out of your hotel room, these are the last, (usually) hectic and frantic days before you leave for Vegas. You’re making sure your samples are in, hopefully correct, or you’re praying that they just arrive in time. You’re checking booth design, floor plans and layout. You’re editing down and merchandising the collection, laying out line sheets, getting them as close to ready as they can be, or you know you’ll be at one of the Kinko’s in Vegas right up to the last minute before the show starts. Everyone who’s prepping for the show is going over their mental ‘to do list’, every little, and last detail, making sure they’ve got everything in check…

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Everything’s Gone Green

Green Label logo

It was an ‘eventful’ Summer for me this year to say the least, even if it meant having to work and produce them. Back in July, I was asked by LTD to direct and project manage the third installment of the Green Label Art program for their client, Mountain Dew.

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Off The Radar

radar

It’s been a long NY minute since my last post, not that it matters, last I checked Google Analytics it said I was the only one reading this!

I’ve been ‘off the radar’ for some time, but my intention with this ‘blog’ wasn’t to provide daily updates and posts.  It was more of a place for me to write about my thoughts and musings on life and projects I’ve worked, or working on and the related experiences. Maybe you’ll connect with them, maybe you won’t. For me, it’s something I can look back on to have a ‘point of reference’.

Farewell To A Cultural Icon

R.I.P.

R.I.P.

I couldn’t believe the news as I watched it unfold Thursday, I mean who would have thought?  I kept thinking to myself, “Not him, not now.”  It was one of those unexpected, surreal moments that everyone will remember in history.

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Public Ad Campaign’s “New York Street Advertising Takeover”

Last Saturday when we had our first taste of Summer-like heat, I noticed some billboards around the neighborhood being ‘whitewashed’ and replaced with some interesting ‘pieces’ that I took some flicks of:

some images from New York Street Advertising Takeover

There’s was also a small sign which accompanied each of the pieces which read:

NYC vs. NPA

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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice set

There’s never a shortage of filming going on around the neighborhood, so much so that most of the time I take them for granted, just checking the permits that go up to see how it effects my alternate side of the street parking game – a treacherous one in this area at that! I may recognize the production taking place, but usually keep it moving; although I have to admit there have been recent highlights, such as seeing Ice-T and Coco with their “his and her” Bentley’s when Law & Order SVU was being filmed here.  The other, was the recent production for Disney’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice“.

Permit

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Record Store Day

Record Store Day logo

I subscribe to Bob Lefsetz’s email mostly for the shits and giggles I get reading his constant critique and blasting of the current state of the music industry, at times he can be very insightful with his observations, but in one of last week’s emails he wrote:

“As for Record Store Day…How laughable is that.  If you’re salivating over this, you’re living in 1990, and hoping we go back to 1970. Record stores are dead. As dead as your Apple II. Some will survive, as dealers in antiquities and tchotchkes, but essentially everyone will buy online.”

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The End of Print?

I went to the Envoy Gallery Monday night for the launch event of CRUSHfanzine, a quarterly publication who’s theme is to examine the intense moments of ones obsession.

According to co-editor Nicolas Wagner’s note, the magazine:

“…came out of both frustration and an unexplainable desire to see, collect, cut out, paste and gather visuals of the same person or subject.”

The Editor, The Cover Star and The Wife (Nicolas Wagner, Tal and Arthur)

The Editor, The Cover Star and The Wife (Nicolas Wagner, Tal & Arthur)

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Where The Wild Things Are

where the wild things are

I can’t begin to tell you how much of a profound effect this book had on me (as well as everyone else) when I was a kid.  I can remember reading Where The Wild Things Are and then acting out the story in my mind or by myself, it just opened a world of imagination that I still feel some connection to to this day.

Through the years I’ve seen many (kids) books translated onto the big screen, but always wondered when this one would would have its day.  When I heard Spike Jonze was directing, I was absolutely elated, in my opinion it was either him or Michel Gondry who would truly be able to tackle the story and give it justice.  Then there was the leak of the ‘test shoot’, which made me anticipate the film even more, but then the stories of studio heads demanding there be a re-shoot and re-edit because kids were scared into crying during screenings and my hopes once again started to fade.

Then low and behold….

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Nothing is original…

A brilliant and inspiring quote from one of my favorite directors Jim Jarmusch, designed by Mark Ma

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