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 & Arthur)
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….
A brilliant and inspiring quote from one of my favorite directors Jim Jarmusch, designed by Mark Malazarte.
Capone and me "shooting myself in the foot"
I’ve been seeing some recent posts on Capone-N-Noreaga promoting the upcoming release of their third album, “Channel 10″, which leads me to this photo that I dug up from my archives. Back in March of 1999, while I was working for TRACE Magazine I got offered the opportunity to interview Capone for a Queensbridge-themed music issue. Mind you, I wasn’t originally hired as a writer, I handled ad sales and marketing, but with such a small staff I got the fringe benefit of being able to ‘wear different hats’ while I was there.
Colin Sutton, Raymond Roker, me and Ruslan Karablin @ 432F - 1992
Raymond Roker posted this picture on Facebook recently in an album titled, “A Time Before Digital Cameras”, which evoked fond memories taking me back seventeen years. Wow, seventeen years, I doubt anyone in the picture knew at the time, but looking back now, the first 432F trade show could be considered a seminal chapter in streetwear and its culture. (more…)
Thinking back, it was last New Year’s Eve when I bumped into Jon Shapiro, random considering I hadn’t seen him in a couple of years and here he is in the madness that ensues on the streets of Manhattan just after midnight. Shipes said he’d been on his grind making moves such as bringing Sean Kingston to Epic Records and in the process leveraging an imprint deal for his label, Cinematic Music Group. He also mentioned that he was signing Devin The Dude to an indie label, Razor and Tie, which baffled me since (I thought to myself, “Wait, didn’t you just say you signed to Epic? and) I knew Devin had been on Rap-A-Lot for his entire career. We laughed about some buffoonery that took place the last time we saw each other, exchanged numbers and that was how 2008 began…
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