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Aurele Sack, the man behind AS, describes himself as a globetrotting graphic designer specializing in type design and editorial design. Looking at his website you see years of his work in chronological order. He has done projects in numerous different fields such as editing numerous books as well as offering his typeface to the publications, editing European publications, and doing amazing paintings. A recent design in collaboration, with Flag from Zurich, Switzerland, Fleuire, is one of the best examples of why his typefaces stand out and are far superior to other typeface designs around the world. All of his designs are designed with stylistic unity and are consistently my favorite fonts in the world. I met Aurele years ago and then became close to him during his time in New York City when he was here on the highly sought after Swiss Federal Prize, which he earned in 2006. Aurele lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland and continues to push the boundries of typeface and design throughout the world.
Check out his new website at: http://www.a--s.ch/
To contact Aurele Sack, email him at: contact@a--s.ch
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Aurele Sack, the man behind AS, describes himself as a globetrotting graphic designer specializing in type design and editorial design. Looking at his website you see years of his work in chronological order. He has done projects in numerous different fields such as editing numerous books as well as offering his typeface to the publications, editing European publications, and doing amazing paintings. A recent design in collaboration, with Flag from Zurich, Switzerland, Fleuire, is one of the best examples of why his typefaces stand out and are far superior to other typeface designs around the world. All of his designs are designed with stylistic unity and are consistently my favorite fonts in the world. I met Aurele years ago and then became close to him during his time in New York City when he was here on the highly sought after Swiss Federal Prize, which he earned in 2006. Aurele lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland and continues to push the boundries of typeface and design throughout the world.
Check out his new website at: http://www.a--s.ch/
To contact Aurele Sack, email him at: contact@a--s.ch
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You know how you hear about how all Canadians are really nice? Gavin McInnes is an exception. Gavin first got notority in the States in the 90's when he co-founded Vice Magazine (ask him about it, he loves talking about it.) Since selling his shares and moving on he has got his fingers in everything. From still making music with his band to his website Street Carnage to even doing a little stand-up here and there, he's taken things to another level. I am still confused as to whether he is the ultimate hipster or he is what hipsters imitate but he is surely one of the funniest guys in America right now. I had a minute to talk with the guy and here's what transpired.
Gavin and his wife, a squaw who was once referred to acrimoniously as Pocahipster
Philthy Rich- You seem to have a ton of fans everywhere from NYC to the other side of the world for everything from your Street Carnage stuff to Vice Magazine to even your thousands of followers on Youtube. What makes you so special?
Gavin McInnes- Probably that I'm invincible.
PR- You have quit a different humor than most of the people involved in comedy one way or another. How do you set yourself apart from other commedians?
GM- "Quit a different humor"? What's a "commedian"? Did you go to a public school in a bad neighborhood or are you just stupid?
I guess what sets me apart from other "commedians" is that I'm not one. I've done stand up maybe half a dozen times on a lark. I find it pretty easy but it's not something I give a shit about or would want to really pursue.
If you mean "person in the humor industry," maybe it's that I've always said I just want to make funny shit - not necessarily make people laugh - just make funny shit. I don't care if they laugh or not. I want to make something I can look back on and say, "That was funny." The Nigel Norris video was a complete flop and the Sophie Can Walk video was a huge hit but I view them both as equally successful.
PR- Haha, ok so I can't spell. That's what spell check is for.
I feel like there isn't many COMEDIANS out there with the same type of humor. You've got guys like David Cross, who's a buddy of yours, and a few others but what would you call your type of humor?
GM- Um, schadenfreude? I like things that are terrible and get as much enjoyment from seeing a couple have a fight in public as watching them fuck. Actually, I'd way rather watch a couple argue on the street than fuck. Have you ever enjoyed one of those? You see them during Mardi Gras a lot when normies get wasted. It's like seeing a shooting star or a black unicorn.
PR- Speaking of David Cross, how did you get to know him?
GM- At Max Fish in 2002 or so. We were both eavesdropping on these two guys who were having a real heavy talk about selling out. It was an Asian guy who just got a job offer at NASA in DC or something and a white dude who obviously had nothing going on. The white guy was giving him grief and saying shit like, "Come on man. Right when the band's really starting to take off, you're going to throw it away for some bullshit 9 to 5?" We were both snickering because we KNEW the white guy would jump on the next bus if had a TENTH of the opportunities his buddy had. It was such an obvious lie, we both thoroughly enjoyed it.
PR- Do you think that was the moment David decided to do Alvin and the Chipmunks?
GM- Is that supposed to be some kind of stab at him where he should be embarrassed? I don't get it. Would you refuse enough money to buy a house if the cartoon that paid you wasn't cool enough? It's not a cigarette company or some corrupt corporation. It's a fucking cartoon. This is just like the white guy at Max Fish. There isn't one person who scoffs at David for doing that movie who wouldn't jump at the chance for a fraction of the fee.
PR- You seem to know everyone actually. I recently saw the video of you with Mike Muir from the Suicidal Tendencies. Who DON'T you know? And who would you like to know?
GM- I've been to the Yankees Game with Will Ferrel, had drinks with Tommy Lee, I've been to SNL with Johnny Knoxville but I've never been to me.
PR- You co-founded Vice Magazine back in the 90's in Canada but recently sold your shares. What made you want to get out of the magazine business?
GM- Creative differences.
PR- What else do you have on your plate?
GM- Writing TV pilots, writing screenplays, doing voiceover work, doing dumb cameos, a cartoon of Pip & Norton, t-shirts with aNYthing, a new magazine called Street Carnage, doing more stupid videos, freelance writing, doing Street Carnage presentations live with Derrick, doing my comic book Celebrity Encounters, publishing other coffee table books with various photographers, doing documentaries with Decon Media, doing short films with Last Pictures, doing other movie projects with Street Carnage Films, there's Street Carnage Radio, working on my daddy blog, I sometimes officiate weddings, practicing with my 80s Hardcore cover band 80s HC...
March 2009. 80s HC live.
PR- I saw the Teva commercial, how did that come about? Do you have any more commercials in the works?
GM- Making these stupid videos is fun on the cheap but a lot of the funnest ideas are cost-prohibitive. I wanted to do a parody of nature shows and had been working on this documentary with Decon about the Movie Watching World Championships. One of the guys (now my manager) said he could get a client that would be cool to work with and have the money to make the videos really over-the-top. It was Teva. We had a meeting and they loved our idea and that was that. This led to a viral video marketing company I'm doing with Kenny Hotz, the guy who started Tom Green, and some marketing mogul named Jordan Mendell. It's called Epidemic Syndication.
PR- Actually, from where I am sitting, it looks like you've done everything. You started Vice, you do the Street Carnage thing, you made comics, you've been in bands. What else is left?
GM- Before I die I want to: Fuck a retard, kill a man, throw a wiener down a hallway, skydive, become a Knight of Columbus, punch a nude boner, fart on a fireman, Jimi a Hendrix, learn the acoustic guitar, grow tits, scare the living shit out of a spider, unlearn 3 card tricks, and do an interview with some wigger magazine nobody's ever heard of.
PR- I live in NYC but I'm from the other side of the country. You live here as well and are coming from elsewhere. What's your take on NYC? Do you love it? Hate it?
GM- The thing about living in New York City is, you have to see it as one gigantic Jacob Javitz center. The insane rent we pay is like the lanyard that enables you to go to the different booths at the trade show. People from all over the world who want to do shit have all agreed to meet here and hustle so, if you're plate isn't full, it's a waste of a lanyard. If I didn't enjoy having dozens of spinning plates, I'd move to LA and tell people I was still working on my screenplay every couple of years. It's for young people, rich people, and hustlers. If you're not in one of those categories, you need to leave. It's also a pretty rough city if you're a woman looking for a mate. I've seen a lot of ovaries dry up and fall off in this town.
Oh yeah, I also like how every 10 years a new New York crops up. in the 40s you had the bohemians say fuck you to Greenwich village and set up shop up in Yorkville, then the beatniks brought it back to Greenwich in the 50s, then in the 60s you had Philip Glass and Chuck Close take over Soho, in the 70s it was all about CBGBs and punk rock, then you had the Limelight in the 80s and 90s. My New York was 2000-2010 and was personified by Dash Snow but that's just my blip in an ever-evolving city. The next kids, the Newmore Switchblades or whoever it will be, they'll have their New York and their icons who shaped it. To say "I miss old New York" is actually the opposite of what the whole city's about. New York is all about new New York and that is always changing.
Living in Montreal with other punk kids in the 80s. Holy shit is this guy old.
PR- Being as Clout is a graffiti magazine, can you give me your take on graffiti?
GM- Graffiti is a wigger vandalizing some poor bastard's property by writing a nickname (a fucking nickname) all over it. It breaks my heart to see a new business open up that some hard-working entrepreneur has poured all his money in and then have some asshole hit him with a $1,500 glass replacement bill by writing a shitty tag in etching cream on the glass. What a spoiled brat thing to do.
The origins of graffiti aren't much better. It started out as Puerto Rican kids in the Bronx growing up without a dad in a house full of women. They saw their sisters fawn over John Travolta and their mother reading celebrity magazines all day so they decided "Fame" was where it's at. There was no father to slap them upside the head and say, "Go clean the front stairs." So they start writing their stupid fucking name everywhere and on trains and shit as a way of saying, "Look at me. I'm famous."
Rich suburban kids are always desperate for some kind of urban culture so they started aping this retarded trend in a sad attempt to feel "down." How lame. You are aping a fatherless child with distorted values. The fact that you now have Germans and Scottish kids and all of Europe trying to be some weird perversion of a someone like Lee Quinones is so pathetic, it makes my head spin. How did we get here? Nickname Mania!
It's even worse than corporate advertising everywhere. At least they're advertising something that exists. Graffiti is ubiquitous advertising with no other purpose than making one shithead feel like he is successfully aping one Puerto Rican teenager who was aping the values of his stupid adolescent sisters. Fuck off.
A photo from Gavin's neighborhood. This may have shaped his opinion on the art.
PR- Is there or has there ever been any graffiti here or in Canada or anywhere that's stood out to you at all?
GM-I mean, the guys that actually improve the look of something don't really do it anymore do they? I've always loved Espo, and Kaws' ad vandalism is great but those guys are in galleries now. I guess Banksy improves his surroundings. That's about it. Here in Brooklyn it's just stupid fucking tag after stupid fucking tag.
PR- Have you ever wrote your name on anything?
GM- For a while we would go out and write our own names because we thought graffiti was so gay. Gavin Miles McInnes was my tag for a minute. Then I heard Mark Ryan did that joke years before me. Why would I want to mimic latinos getting sucked into female culture? When you see them getting manicures and corn rows it's the exact same shit. I wonder when the German kids jump on that bandwagon.
PR- Going back to Vice, you guys really pushed the limits back in the late 90's and early 2000's, what was it like in the beginning?
GM- That was in the 90s so it was a lot of GBH and E and stuff. It was always pretty much the same though. Lots of getting wasted and being an ass.
PR- You did the Do's and Don'ts for years. Are you going to continue to do them?
GM- Here's a tip: Before you interview someone, why not spend 4 minutes googling them? I still do street fashion critiques only now I call them Street Boners and give a rating in kitten heads. The DOs & DON'Ts was either loving it or hating it but the Street Boners system is more precise. I no longer have anything to do with Vice's DOs & DON'Ts or anything Vice. That's part of the deal when you sell your shares. This information is not hard to find.
PR- Next time I'll be sure to read everything about you written all over the internet.
So Street Carnage is your new venture. What are your plans as far SC goes?
GM- Derrick and I are putting out a magazine of the site's best parts. I just finished a book of Street Boners that Harper Collins is putting out in the spring and Derrick has two new TV Carnages in the works: A compilation of exercise tapes and a compilation of bad cop movies called Cop Movie. Now that we can finally charge something for ads, the site is finally getting out of our start up debt so I'm looking forward to actually paying contributors and being a real company.
Signing the deal that finalized his buyout. Looks eerily like a pic of the Sex Pistols leaving EMI for A&M.
PR- You took Street Carnage down to South By SouthWest. I had a few friends perform down there also. What was that like? Are you gonna go next year?
GM- Derrick and I had been going there for over a decade and it gets to the point where you're just sick of hearing bands. We wanted to do a party with not a lot of music so we only booked Ninjasonik, Cerebral Ballzy, Izza Kizza, and Vivian Girls. Turns out, not everyone who goes to a music festival is as sick of music as we were so barely anybody came. We had room for about 500 people and only 150 showed up. It was infuriating and we lost our shirts. I can't speak for Derrick but I never want to do a party there ever again. I don't even want to go to Texas ever again. Fuck that place and fuck SXSW.
I should mention however that all the bands killed it especially Ninjasonik. They took the 100 or so people that were there and made it into a huge sprawling party. I love those guys.
PR- Do your parents follow your career at all? Are they proud when they see things like the Sophie Can Walk video or read some of the Do's And Don'ts?
GM- Nigga, I'm 39-years-old with 2 kids and a house. You think I give a shit what my parents think? And will you please stop talking about the DOs & DON'Ts? I haven't done those since 2007. You're asking Mike Judge to do his best Butt-Head laugh and it's starting to get on my nerves
PR- Has there been anything they've disapproved of?
GM- Yeah I was recently grounded for two weeks because I came in after curfew. This was very hard on my wife as she had to deal with the kids all by herself. My manager was also furious because I missed all kinds of meetings. My parents are THE WORST!
PR- If you could go back in time is there anything you'd do differently?
GM- I really regret not buying a New York's Mega Millions ticket on September 7th and choosing 4,10,18,28, 50 with a megaball # of 35. FUCK!
Back in 1988. Obsessed with magazines from a very young age.
PR- Is there anything else you'd like to add?
GM- I'd like to add two spoonfuls of baking soda to about an ounce of vinegar.
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You know how you hear about how all Canadians are really nice? Gavin McInnes is an exception. Gavin first got notority in the States in the 90's when he co-founded Vice Magazine (ask him about it, he loves talking about it.) Since selling his shares and moving on he has got his fingers in everything. From still making music with his band to his website Street Carnage to even doing a little stand-up here and there, he's taken things to another level. I am still confused as to whether he is the ultimate hipster or he is what hipsters imitate but he is surely one of the funniest guys in America right now. I had a minute to talk with the guy and here's what transpired.
Gavin and his wife, a squaw who was once referred to acrimoniously as Pocahipster
Philthy Rich- You seem to have a ton of fans everywhere from NYC to the other side of the world for everything from your Street Carnage stuff to Vice Magazine to even your thousands of followers on Youtube. What makes you so special?
Gavin McInnes- Probably that I'm invincible.
PR- You have quit a different humor than most of the people involved in comedy one way or another. How do you set yourself apart from other commedians?
GM- "Quit a different humor"? What's a "commedian"? Did you go to a public school in a bad neighborhood or are you just stupid?
I guess what sets me apart from other "commedians" is that I'm not one. I've done stand up maybe half a dozen times on a lark. I find it pretty easy but it's not something I give a shit about or would want to really pursue.
If you mean "person in the humor industry," maybe it's that I've always said I just want to make funny shit - not necessarily make people laugh - just make funny shit. I don't care if they laugh or not. I want to make something I can look back on and say, "That was funny." The Nigel Norris video was a complete flop and the Sophie Can Walk video was a huge hit but I view them both as equally successful.
PR- Haha, ok so I can't spell. That's what spell check is for.
I feel like there isn't many COMEDIANS out there with the same type of humor. You've got guys like David Cross, who's a buddy of yours, and a few others but what would you call your type of humor?
GM- Um, schadenfreude? I like things that are terrible and get as much enjoyment from seeing a couple have a fight in public as watching them fuck. Actually, I'd way rather watch a couple argue on the street than fuck. Have you ever enjoyed one of those? You see them during Mardi Gras a lot when normies get wasted. It's like seeing a shooting star or a black unicorn.
PR- Speaking of David Cross, how did you get to know him?
GM- At Max Fish in 2002 or so. We were both eavesdropping on these two guys who were having a real heavy talk about selling out. It was an Asian guy who just got a job offer at NASA in DC or something and a white dude who obviously had nothing going on. The white guy was giving him grief and saying shit like, "Come on man. Right when the band's really starting to take off, you're going to throw it away for some bullshit 9 to 5?" We were both snickering because we KNEW the white guy would jump on the next bus if had a TENTH of the opportunities his buddy had. It was such an obvious lie, we both thoroughly enjoyed it.
PR- Do you think that was the moment David decided to do Alvin and the Chipmunks?
GM- Is that supposed to be some kind of stab at him where he should be embarrassed? I don't get it. Would you refuse enough money to buy a house if the cartoon that paid you wasn't cool enough? It's not a cigarette company or some corrupt corporation. It's a fucking cartoon. This is just like the white guy at Max Fish. There isn't one person who scoffs at David for doing that movie who wouldn't jump at the chance for a fraction of the fee.
PR- You seem to know everyone actually. I recently saw the video of you with Mike Muir from the Suicidal Tendencies. Who DON'T you know? And who would you like to know?
GM- I've been to the Yankees Game with Will Ferrel, had drinks with Tommy Lee, I've been to SNL with Johnny Knoxville but I've never been to me.
PR- You co-founded Vice Magazine back in the 90's in Canada but recently sold your shares. What made you want to get out of the magazine business?
GM- Creative differences.
PR- What else do you have on your plate?
GM- Writing TV pilots, writing screenplays, doing voiceover work, doing dumb cameos, a cartoon of Pip & Norton, t-shirts with aNYthing, a new magazine called Street Carnage, doing more stupid videos, freelance writing, doing Street Carnage presentations live with Derrick, doing my comic book Celebrity Encounters, publishing other coffee table books with various photographers, doing documentaries with Decon Media, doing short films with Last Pictures, doing other movie projects with Street Carnage Films, there's Street Carnage Radio, working on my daddy blog, I sometimes officiate weddings, practicing with my 80s Hardcore cover band 80s HC...
March 2009. 80s HC live.
PR- I saw the Teva commercial, how did that come about? Do you have any more commercials in the works?
GM- Making these stupid videos is fun on the cheap but a lot of the funnest ideas are cost-prohibitive. I wanted to do a parody of nature shows and had been working on this documentary with Decon about the Movie Watching World Championships. One of the guys (now my manager) said he could get a client that would be cool to work with and have the money to make the videos really over-the-top. It was Teva. We had a meeting and they loved our idea and that was that. This led to a viral video marketing company I'm doing with Kenny Hotz, the guy who started Tom Green, and some marketing mogul named Jordan Mendell. It's called Epidemic Syndication.
PR- Actually, from where I am sitting, it looks like you've done everything. You started Vice, you do the Street Carnage thing, you made comics, you've been in bands. What else is left?
GM- Before I die I want to: Fuck a retard, kill a man, throw a wiener down a hallway, skydive, become a Knight of Columbus, punch a nude boner, fart on a fireman, Jimi a Hendrix, learn the acoustic guitar, grow tits, scare the living shit out of a spider, unlearn 3 card tricks, and do an interview with some wigger magazine nobody's ever heard of.
PR- I live in NYC but I'm from the other side of the country. You live here as well and are coming from elsewhere. What's your take on NYC? Do you love it? Hate it?
GM- The thing about living in New York City is, you have to see it as one gigantic Jacob Javitz center. The insane rent we pay is like the lanyard that enables you to go to the different booths at the trade show. People from all over the world who want to do shit have all agreed to meet here and hustle so, if you're plate isn't full, it's a waste of a lanyard. If I didn't enjoy having dozens of spinning plates, I'd move to LA and tell people I was still working on my screenplay every couple of years. It's for young people, rich people, and hustlers. If you're not in one of those categories, you need to leave. It's also a pretty rough city if you're a woman looking for a mate. I've seen a lot of ovaries dry up and fall off in this town.
Oh yeah, I also like how every 10 years a new New York crops up. in the 40s you had the bohemians say fuck you to Greenwich village and set up shop up in Yorkville, then the beatniks brought it back to Greenwich in the 50s, then in the 60s you had Philip Glass and Chuck Close take over Soho, in the 70s it was all about CBGBs and punk rock, then you had the Limelight in the 80s and 90s. My New York was 2000-2010 and was personified by Dash Snow but that's just my blip in an ever-evolving city. The next kids, the Newmore Switchblades or whoever it will be, they'll have their New York and their icons who shaped it. To say "I miss old New York" is actually the opposite of what the whole city's about. New York is all about new New York and that is always changing.
Living in Montreal with other punk kids in the 80s. Holy shit is this guy old.
PR- Being as Clout is a graffiti magazine, can you give me your take on graffiti?
GM- Graffiti is a wigger vandalizing some poor bastard's property by writing a nickname (a fucking nickname) all over it. It breaks my heart to see a new business open up that some hard-working entrepreneur has poured all his money in and then have some asshole hit him with a $1,500 glass replacement bill by writing a shitty tag in etching cream on the glass. What a spoiled brat thing to do.
The origins of graffiti aren't much better. It started out as Puerto Rican kids in the Bronx growing up without a dad in a house full of women. They saw their sisters fawn over John Travolta and their mother reading celebrity magazines all day so they decided "Fame" was where it's at. There was no father to slap them upside the head and say, "Go clean the front stairs." So they start writing their stupid fucking name everywhere and on trains and shit as a way of saying, "Look at me. I'm famous."
Rich suburban kids are always desperate for some kind of urban culture so they started aping this retarded trend in a sad attempt to feel "down." How lame. You are aping a fatherless child with distorted values. The fact that you now have Germans and Scottish kids and all of Europe trying to be some weird perversion of a someone like Lee Quinones is so pathetic, it makes my head spin. How did we get here? Nickname Mania!
It's even worse than corporate advertising everywhere. At least they're advertising something that exists. Graffiti is ubiquitous advertising with no other purpose than making one shithead feel like he is successfully aping one Puerto Rican teenager who was aping the values of his stupid adolescent sisters. Fuck off.
A photo from Gavin's neighborhood. This may have shaped his opinion on the art.
PR- Is there or has there ever been any graffiti here or in Canada or anywhere that's stood out to you at all?
GM-I mean, the guys that actually improve the look of something don't really do it anymore do they? I've always loved Espo, and Kaws' ad vandalism is great but those guys are in galleries now. I guess Banksy improves his surroundings. That's about it. Here in Brooklyn it's just stupid fucking tag after stupid fucking tag.
PR- Have you ever wrote your name on anything?
GM- For a while we would go out and write our own names because we thought graffiti was so gay. Gavin Miles McInnes was my tag for a minute. Then I heard Mark Ryan did that joke years before me. Why would I want to mimic latinos getting sucked into female culture? When you see them getting manicures and corn rows it's the exact same shit. I wonder when the German kids jump on that bandwagon.
PR- Going back to Vice, you guys really pushed the limits back in the late 90's and early 2000's, what was it like in the beginning?
GM- That was in the 90s so it was a lot of GBH and E and stuff. It was always pretty much the same though. Lots of getting wasted and being an ass.
PR- You did the Do's and Don'ts for years. Are you going to continue to do them?
GM- Here's a tip: Before you interview someone, why not spend 4 minutes googling them? I still do street fashion critiques only now I call them Street Boners and give a rating in kitten heads. The DOs & DON'Ts was either loving it or hating it but the Street Boners system is more precise. I no longer have anything to do with Vice's DOs & DON'Ts or anything Vice. That's part of the deal when you sell your shares. This information is not hard to find.
PR- Next time I'll be sure to read everything about you written all over the internet.
So Street Carnage is your new venture. What are your plans as far SC goes?
GM- Derrick and I are putting out a magazine of the site's best parts. I just finished a book of Street Boners that Harper Collins is putting out in the spring and Derrick has two new TV Carnages in the works: A compilation of exercise tapes and a compilation of bad cop movies called Cop Movie. Now that we can finally charge something for ads, the site is finally getting out of our start up debt so I'm looking forward to actually paying contributors and being a real company.
Signing the deal that finalized his buyout. Looks eerily like a pic of the Sex Pistols leaving EMI for A&M.
PR- You took Street Carnage down to South By SouthWest. I had a few friends perform down there also. What was that like? Are you gonna go next year?
GM- Derrick and I had been going there for over a decade and it gets to the point where you're just sick of hearing bands. We wanted to do a party with not a lot of music so we only booked Ninjasonik, Cerebral Ballzy, Izza Kizza, and Vivian Girls. Turns out, not everyone who goes to a music festival is as sick of music as we were so barely anybody came. We had room for about 500 people and only 150 showed up. It was infuriating and we lost our shirts. I can't speak for Derrick but I never want to do a party there ever again. I don't even want to go to Texas ever again. Fuck that place and fuck SXSW.
I should mention however that all the bands killed it especially Ninjasonik. They took the 100 or so people that were there and made it into a huge sprawling party. I love those guys.
PR- Do your parents follow your career at all? Are they proud when they see things like the Sophie Can Walk video or read some of the Do's And Don'ts?
GM- Nigga, I'm 39-years-old with 2 kids and a house. You think I give a shit what my parents think? And will you please stop talking about the DOs & DON'Ts? I haven't done those since 2007. You're asking Mike Judge to do his best Butt-Head laugh and it's starting to get on my nerves
PR- Has there been anything they've disapproved of?
GM- Yeah I was recently grounded for two weeks because I came in after curfew. This was very hard on my wife as she had to deal with the kids all by herself. My manager was also furious because I missed all kinds of meetings. My parents are THE WORST!
PR- If you could go back in time is there anything you'd do differently?
GM- I really regret not buying a New York's Mega Millions ticket on September 7th and choosing 4,10,18,28, 50 with a megaball # of 35. FUCK!
Back in 1988. Obsessed with magazines from a very young age.
PR- Is there anything else you'd like to add?
GM- I'd like to add two spoonfuls of baking soda to about an ounce of vinegar.
To stalk Gavin outside of his post office check out:
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I recently visited the abandoned Rochester Subway (reporting mark RSB) or Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway, at the recommendation of a friend from Buffalo, NY. The subway was an underground rapid transit line in the city of Rochester, New York from 1927 to 1956. Contemporary photos show it used single streetcars, like Boston's Green Line, as a light rail line, with a large portion underground. It ran on its own private, grade-separated right of way through its entire length.
In 1900, the Erie Canal was re-routed to bypass downtown Rochester, and in 1919 the abandoned canal was bought to serve as the core of the subway. The subway was built below, and the subway's roof was turned into Broad Street. Construction was completed and operations began in 1927. Only two miles were in the tunnel, the rest of the route in open cut. The term "subway" did not refer to the tunnel, but to the route being grade-separated and operated as rapid transit. Connecting interurban lines were routed into the subway and off city streets, easing developing traffic congestion.
When the Utica streetcar system was abandoned in the late 1930s, New York State Railways transferred the relatively new steel cars to Rochester to replace the 2000-series center-door cars that had been in service since the opening of the subway. The Utica cars ran until the end of passenger service on June 30, 1956. Car #60 was saved for preservation, and is currently undergoing restoration by the Rochester Chapter, National Railway Historical Society.
The subway from Court Street to Rowlands was replaced by the Eastern Expressway in 1956. Limited freight service operated by connecting railroads lasted on the subway route from Court Street to General Motors until 1976, when the City of Rochester elected to fill the cut to eliminate the numerous bridges. Rail freight deliveries in the subway tunnel continued until 1996, when Gannett Newspapers moved their printing operations to another location.
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ROCHESTER'S FORGOTTEN SUBWAY(1927-1956)
I recently visited the abandoned Rochester Subway (reporting mark RSB) or Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway, at the recommendation of a friend from Buffalo, NY. The subway was an underground rapid transit line in the city of Rochester, New York from 1927 to 1956. Contemporary photos show it used single streetcars, like Boston's Green Line, as a light rail line, with a large portion underground. It ran on its own private, grade-separated right of way through its entire length.
In 1900, the Erie Canal was re-routed to bypass downtown Rochester, and in 1919 the abandoned canal was bought to serve as the core of the subway. The subway was built below, and the subway's roof was turned into Broad Street. Construction was completed and operations began in 1927. Only two miles were in the tunnel, the rest of the route in open cut. The term "subway" did not refer to the tunnel, but to the route being grade-separated and operated as rapid transit. Connecting interurban lines were routed into the subway and off city streets, easing developing traffic congestion.
When the Utica streetcar system was abandoned in the late 1930s, New York State Railways transferred the relatively new steel cars to Rochester to replace the 2000-series center-door cars that had been in service since the opening of the subway. The Utica cars ran until the end of passenger service on June 30, 1956. Car #60 was saved for preservation, and is currently undergoing restoration by the Rochester Chapter, National Railway Historical Society.
The subway from Court Street to Rowlands was replaced by the Eastern Expressway in 1956. Limited freight service operated by connecting railroads lasted on the subway route from Court Street to General Motors until 1976, when the City of Rochester elected to fill the cut to eliminate the numerous bridges. Rail freight deliveries in the subway tunnel continued until 1996, when Gannett Newspapers moved their printing operations to another location.
(info and photos taken from the web)
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Philthy Rich- YOU'RE SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN IN THE GAME FOR A LONG TIME AND WHO'S DONE A LOT IN THE GAME. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING GRAFFITI?
Spek- I've been writing graff consistantly since 1995.
PR- DO YOU FEEL THE SAME ABOUT GRAFFITI NOW AS YOU DID IN 1995?
S- I do feel the same about it but it's more competitive now then it was coming up. I liked it more when nobody knew who I was.
PR- HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO STAY RELEVANT YEAR AFTER YEAR?
S- Just steadily doing everything. Keeping my name on the street and doing freights that go all over the country.
PR- LIVING ON THE WEST COAST I WOULD SEE YOURE FREIGHTS ON THE REGULAR FOR YEARS ON END. PRETTY MUCH WHEREVER YOU GO PEOPLE KNOW YOUR NAME. DO YOU THINK THAT CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE ENERGY YOU'VE PUT INTO PAINTING FREIGHTS FOR ALL THE YEARS?
S- Definately! Having a freight go through someones city on the regular keeps your name fresh in their minds. I have painted freights on the regular for ten years straight.
PR- HOW IMPORTANT IS PAINTING FREIGHTS TO YOU?
S- Painting freights is on the top of my list. You can get up in another city without even going to it. It's great when you have a spot you can spend hours painting a piece, then it leaves and next week its sitting on the highway 5 states away.
PR- DO YOU THINK FREIGHTS ARE AS IMPORTANT AS OTHER ASPECTS OF GRAFFITI (WALLS, TRAINS, BOMBING, TAGGING, ETC)?
S-Just as important. To be well rounded you gotta bomb, paint freights, clean trains, and be able to lay down a piece.
PR- I AGREE. WHO DO YOU FEEL IS THE MOST WELL ROUNDED PERSON IN THE STATES?
S- Rime..Much..
PR- IN THE U.S., THE FREIGHT SCENE IS HUGE. THERE'S LOADS OF WRITERS WHO ONLY PAINT FREIGHTS AND NEARLY EVERY WRITER IN THE STATES HAS PAINTED AT LEAST A FEW FREIGHTS. EVEN WITH ALL OF THE NOTORIETY AND RESPECT YOU CAN GET PAINTING FREIGHTS, PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE U.S. STILL SEE THE FREIGHT SCENE AS A JOKE. WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS THAT THEY DON'T GET?
S- Maybe it's because they don't live here and know how it is ..I don't know! But they shouldn't get it confused, a lot of freight writers like myself get their transit on as well !!
PR- TRUE. DO YOU THINK THEIR LACK OF RESPECT EFFECTS THE FREIGHT SCENE IN THE STATES?
S- No not at all, I think people will always paint freights here because it's easy and the distance that they travel.
PR- ASIDE FROM FREIGHTS, YOU ARE A STAPLE IN THE BOSTON STREET SCENE. BOSTON IS A HUGE CITY AND YOU HAVE PUT IN AS MUCH WORK AS ANYONE ELSE THERE. HOW DO YOU STAY RELEVANT IN THE BOMBING SCENE THERE?
S- To be honest the last year I haven't, but prior to that from 2002 to 2008 its been easy there are a lot of different neighborhoods in the city that not all writers choose to go. I would go to most sections of the city and handle them one by one. If one got too hot i would go to a total different hood.
PR- I'VE LIVED IN BOSTON AND SAW FIRST HAND THE WORK YOU'VE PUT IN. YOU'VE PAINTED OTHER CITIES AS WELL THOUGH. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOSTON AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS, GRAFFITI-WISE?
S- I think that boston has a lot of really nice commuter tracks to paint. I'm sure other cities do as well, but from what I've seen I like boston's set of long tracks with endless amounts of wall space. They also very rarely get the buff. I have been to cities like Chicago and Philly(both really nice cities) and they seem to be buffing them really tuff.
PR- YA, PHILLY AND CHICAGO MUST HAVE THE HARDEST BUFF IN THE COUNTRY ASIDE FROM SOME CITIES OUT WEST. WHY DO YOU THINK A RICH CITY LIKE BOSTON DOESN'T BUFF AS HARD? THERE'S TRACKSIDES AND HIGHWAY WALLS THAT HAVE BEEN CRUSHED FOR YEARS.
S-
PR- WHO ARE SOME OF THE BEST WRITERS IN BOSTON? WHO THERE HAS INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST?
S- Perl, Ryze, Alert, Sex, Ism, Monk, Rems, Target, Case, Mise, Aves, Caype, Rate, Melt, Mes, Blame, Sega, Back, Hare, Odesy, Dayz, Kem5, Owl, Epik, Groe, Space, Ich, Okto, Monoe, and the list goes on and on. Boston has a lot of history and style.
PR- FOR AN AMERICAN YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF TRAINS. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE "CLEAN TRAIN SCENE" IN THE STATES?
S- I think that when I started doing cleans in 2000 there were not as many people doing clean trains. I can remember being in the yards for more than two hours. Now in Boston it's not so easy because of the amount of people doing them. So I think it's fair to say that the clean train scene in the states is pretty large.
PR- YA, THERE'S DEFINATELY PEOPLE HERE MAKING MOVES AND NOT PUBLISHING EVERYTHING THEY DO OR PUTTING IT ALL ON THE INTERNET. DO YOU THINK THAT THINGS WILL EVER BE LIKE THEY ARE IN OTHER COUNTRIES LIKE ITALY OR FRANCE?
S- That's a good question. I'm not really sure why. Even the highways out this way do not get buffed a lot. It's not like there is an overwhelming amount of writers out here.
PR- TRUE, BUT A LOT OF WRITERS COME THROUGH BOSTON AND DO SHIT. DO YOU THINK THE TYPICAL OUTTA-TOWNER GETS RESPECT FROM LOCALS?
S- Not all of them do. Some out of towners get respect because they come through and do things the right way. They don't step on anyone's toes and make sure not to go over old things. Then there are some writers that have no respect, so they get none.
PR- HAS GRAFFITI OPENED ANY OTHER DOORS FOR YOU?
S- A few. I got some art gigs here and there ..hopefully more in the future
PR- LOOKING BACK ON YOUR GRAFFITI CAREER AS A WHOLE, WHAT DO YOU APPRECIATE THE MOST?
S- The people I've met throughout the years and the places I've been.
PR- ANY LAST WORDS?
S- Rest in peace Spek BTC. No disrespect! And peace to my crew/family ITD, Circle T, FTK, DCK, YME, Spek63.
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CLOUT EXCLUSIVE SPEK ITD INTERVIEW!!!
Philthy Rich- YOU'RE SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN IN THE GAME FOR A LONG TIME AND WHO'S DONE A LOT IN THE GAME. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING GRAFFITI?
Spek- I've been writing graff consistantly since 1995.
PR- DO YOU FEEL THE SAME ABOUT GRAFFITI NOW AS YOU DID IN 1995?
S- I do feel the same about it but it's more competitive now then it was coming up. I liked it more when nobody knew who I was.
PR- HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO STAY RELEVANT YEAR AFTER YEAR?
S- Just steadily doing everything. Keeping my name on the street and doing freights that go all over the country.
PR- LIVING ON THE WEST COAST I WOULD SEE YOURE FREIGHTS ON THE REGULAR FOR YEARS ON END. PRETTY MUCH WHEREVER YOU GO PEOPLE KNOW YOUR NAME. DO YOU THINK THAT CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE ENERGY YOU'VE PUT INTO PAINTING FREIGHTS FOR ALL THE YEARS?
S- Definately! Having a freight go through someones city on the regular keeps your name fresh in their minds. I have painted freights on the regular for ten years straight.
PR- HOW IMPORTANT IS PAINTING FREIGHTS TO YOU?
S- Painting freights is on the top of my list. You can get up in another city without even going to it. It's great when you have a spot you can spend hours painting a piece, then it leaves and next week its sitting on the highway 5 states away.
PR- DO YOU THINK FREIGHTS ARE AS IMPORTANT AS OTHER ASPECTS OF GRAFFITI (WALLS, TRAINS, BOMBING, TAGGING, ETC)?
S-Just as important. To be well rounded you gotta bomb, paint freights, clean trains, and be able to lay down a piece.
PR- I AGREE. WHO DO YOU FEEL IS THE MOST WELL ROUNDED PERSON IN THE STATES?
S- Rime..Much..
PR- IN THE U.S., THE FREIGHT SCENE IS HUGE. THERE'S LOADS OF WRITERS WHO ONLY PAINT FREIGHTS AND NEARLY EVERY WRITER IN THE STATES HAS PAINTED AT LEAST A FEW FREIGHTS. EVEN WITH ALL OF THE NOTORIETY AND RESPECT YOU CAN GET PAINTING FREIGHTS, PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE U.S. STILL SEE THE FREIGHT SCENE AS A JOKE. WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS THAT THEY DON'T GET?
S- Maybe it's because they don't live here and know how it is ..I don't know! But they shouldn't get it confused, a lot of freight writers like myself get their transit on as well !!
PR- TRUE. DO YOU THINK THEIR LACK OF RESPECT EFFECTS THE FREIGHT SCENE IN THE STATES?
S- No not at all, I think people will always paint freights here because it's easy and the distance that they travel.
PR- ASIDE FROM FREIGHTS, YOU ARE A STAPLE IN THE BOSTON STREET SCENE. BOSTON IS A HUGE CITY AND YOU HAVE PUT IN AS MUCH WORK AS ANYONE ELSE THERE. HOW DO YOU STAY RELEVANT IN THE BOMBING SCENE THERE?
S- To be honest the last year I haven't, but prior to that from 2002 to 2008 its been easy there are a lot of different neighborhoods in the city that not all writers choose to go. I would go to most sections of the city and handle them one by one. If one got too hot i would go to a total different hood.
PR- I'VE LIVED IN BOSTON AND SAW FIRST HAND THE WORK YOU'VE PUT IN. YOU'VE PAINTED OTHER CITIES AS WELL THOUGH. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOSTON AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS, GRAFFITI-WISE?
S- I think that boston has a lot of really nice commuter tracks to paint. I'm sure other cities do as well, but from what I've seen I like boston's set of long tracks with endless amounts of wall space. They also very rarely get the buff. I have been to cities like Chicago and Philly(both really nice cities) and they seem to be buffing them really tuff.
PR- YA, PHILLY AND CHICAGO MUST HAVE THE HARDEST BUFF IN THE COUNTRY ASIDE FROM SOME CITIES OUT WEST. WHY DO YOU THINK A RICH CITY LIKE BOSTON DOESN'T BUFF AS HARD? THERE'S TRACKSIDES AND HIGHWAY WALLS THAT HAVE BEEN CRUSHED FOR YEARS.
S-
PR- WHO ARE SOME OF THE BEST WRITERS IN BOSTON? WHO THERE HAS INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST?
S- Perl, Ryze, Alert, Sex, Ism, Monk, Rems, Target, Case, Mise, Aves, Caype, Rate, Melt, Mes, Blame, Sega, Back, Hare, Odesy, Dayz, Kem5, Owl, Epik, Groe, Space, Ich, Okto, Monoe, and the list goes on and on. Boston has a lot of history and style.
PR- FOR AN AMERICAN YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF TRAINS. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE "CLEAN TRAIN SCENE" IN THE STATES?
S- I think that when I started doing cleans in 2000 there were not as many people doing clean trains. I can remember being in the yards for more than two hours. Now in Boston it's not so easy because of the amount of people doing them. So I think it's fair to say that the clean train scene in the states is pretty large.
PR- YA, THERE'S DEFINATELY PEOPLE HERE MAKING MOVES AND NOT PUBLISHING EVERYTHING THEY DO OR PUTTING IT ALL ON THE INTERNET. DO YOU THINK THAT THINGS WILL EVER BE LIKE THEY ARE IN OTHER COUNTRIES LIKE ITALY OR FRANCE?
S- That's a good question. I'm not really sure why. Even the highways out this way do not get buffed a lot. It's not like there is an overwhelming amount of writers out here.
PR- TRUE, BUT A LOT OF WRITERS COME THROUGH BOSTON AND DO SHIT. DO YOU THINK THE TYPICAL OUTTA-TOWNER GETS RESPECT FROM LOCALS?
S- Not all of them do. Some out of towners get respect because they come through and do things the right way. They don't step on anyone's toes and make sure not to go over old things. Then there are some writers that have no respect, so they get none.
PR- HAS GRAFFITI OPENED ANY OTHER DOORS FOR YOU?
S- A few. I got some art gigs here and there ..hopefully more in the future
PR- LOOKING BACK ON YOUR GRAFFITI CAREER AS A WHOLE, WHAT DO YOU APPRECIATE THE MOST?
S- The people I've met throughout the years and the places I've been.
PR- ANY LAST WORDS?
S- Rest in peace Spek BTC. No disrespect! And peace to my crew/family ITD, Circle T, FTK, DCK, YME, Spek63.
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It seems there might have been some truth to the rumor of Mr. West & Mr. Carter beefing over KanYe using Auto-Tune for Blueprint 3, but now lil' bro & big bro seem to have patched things up and KanYe promises Blueprint 3 will be "amazing".
As KanYe went on to speak about the process of working with Jigga on the BP3, he said "He's just been working on it, and it's gonna be amazing when he drops it. I think it's good he's taking his time to give people the best product possible and not being rushed by this fast-food, media-outlet, Internet, everything-is-getting-leaked, people-stealing your-songs-before-you-can-mix-them-and-put-them-online world we're living in right now."
The Louis Vuitton Don also revealed part of the hold up to BP3 was the fact that they had to go and make some changes regarding Auto-Tune.
"We actually removed all the songs with Auto-Tune off of his album," Yeezy said, "to make the point that this is an anti-Auto-Tune album, even though I released an album that has all Auto-Tune!"
Although there has been no release date set for Blueprint 3, recently Jay-Z officially bought out his Def Jam contract , which means his next studio album could be released on his Roc Nation label.
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"BLUEPRINT 3" WILL BE 'ANTI-AUTOTUNE' & 'AMAZING' GUARANTEES KANYE!
It seems there might have been some truth to the rumor of Mr. West & Mr. Carter beefing over KanYe using Auto-Tune for Blueprint 3, but now lil' bro & big bro seem to have patched things up and KanYe promises Blueprint 3 will be "amazing".
As KanYe went on to speak about the process of working with Jigga on the BP3, he said "He's just been working on it, and it's gonna be amazing when he drops it. I think it's good he's taking his time to give people the best product possible and not being rushed by this fast-food, media-outlet, Internet, everything-is-getting-leaked, people-stealing your-songs-before-you-can-mix-them-and-put-them-online world we're living in right now."
The Louis Vuitton Don also revealed part of the hold up to BP3 was the fact that they had to go and make some changes regarding Auto-Tune.
"We actually removed all the songs with Auto-Tune off of his album," Yeezy said, "to make the point that this is an anti-Auto-Tune album, even though I released an album that has all Auto-Tune!"
Although there has been no release date set for Blueprint 3, recently Jay-Z officially bought out his Def Jam contract , which means his next studio album could be released on his Roc Nation label.
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This new colorway is officially Black/Dark Charcoal-Team Red and will be released along with a White/Varsity Royal Air Jordan VII as a pack on August 22nd, 2009 for $310. Looks really nice in my opinion. Hopefully the other Jordan in the pack is nice as well because I cannot justify buying this shoe when I have 2 other pairs of the previous release of them...
01/16/93 - 64 points - Chicago vs. Orlando- http://sneakernews.com/air-jordan-brand-jordan/air-jordan-7/
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NIKE AIR JORDAN VII "RAPTORS" PHOTOS!
This new colorway is officially Black/Dark Charcoal-Team Red and will be released along with a White/Varsity Royal Air Jordan VII as a pack on August 22nd, 2009 for $310. Looks really nice in my opinion. Hopefully the other Jordan in the pack is nice as well because I cannot justify buying this shoe when I have 2 other pairs of the previous release of them...
01/16/93 - 64 points - Chicago vs. Orlando- http://sneakernews.com/air-jordan-brand-jordan/air-jordan-7/
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Releasing later this year, in August to be exact, we finally have photos of the Jordan III "True Blues". I posted back in Febuary that they were releasing but finally the photos got leaked onto the internet for us to check out. They look really nice and the leather looks to be quite decent. I can't wait for these to drop!
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NIKE AIR JORDAN III TRUE BLUE PHOTOS!
Releasing later this year, in August to be exact, we finally have photos of the Jordan III "True Blues". I posted back in Febuary that they were releasing but finally the photos got leaked onto the internet for us to check out. They look really nice and the leather looks to be quite decent. I can't wait for these to drop!
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"A blog about beautiful things and day to day life," as the author of the Forgive Us Our Trespasses blog puts it. Born and raised in New York City, U.S.A., she often talks about day to day life in New York and post lots of photos of her art and tattooing. The beautiful paintings are ones that have been featured in art shows around the U.S., including one put on by Clout in Northern California, and her tattoos are truly amazing. Throughout the blog, as it goes on, you can see her progression in both the tattoo and art world as she posts new posts of both on a very regular basis. Also, she often talks about other things she is into such as Victorian-style antiques and art as well as other interesting things from that time period. With every post she opens your eyes to new things you wouldn't normally be into or that you simply would never know about otherwise. What draws me to the blog the most is the fact that she shows off a lot of her new clothes/accessories/jewelry. She will often times make an entire post about her outfit that day or about a new dress she got the day before at a consignment shop or from some swank uptown designer store. She also makes post about runway shows and shows previews of upcoming clothing lines or single pieces from designers she is into. It's a really nice look into the life of one person with impeccable taste from the biggest city in the world. Plus she's a babe! :)
Check out the blog: http://www.ourtrespasses.blogspot.com/
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FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES!
"A blog about beautiful things and day to day life," as the author of the Forgive Us Our Trespasses blog puts it. Born and raised in New York City, U.S.A., she often talks about day to day life in New York and post lots of photos of her art and tattooing. The beautiful paintings are ones that have been featured in art shows around the U.S., including one put on by Clout in Northern California, and her tattoos are truly amazing. Throughout the blog, as it goes on, you can see her progression in both the tattoo and art world as she posts new posts of both on a very regular basis. Also, she often talks about other things she is into such as Victorian-style antiques and art as well as other interesting things from that time period. With every post she opens your eyes to new things you wouldn't normally be into or that you simply would never know about otherwise. What draws me to the blog the most is the fact that she shows off a lot of her new clothes/accessories/jewelry. She will often times make an entire post about her outfit that day or about a new dress she got the day before at a consignment shop or from some swank uptown designer store. She also makes post about runway shows and shows previews of upcoming clothing lines or single pieces from designers she is into. It's a really nice look into the life of one person with impeccable taste from the biggest city in the world. Plus she's a babe! :)
Check out the blog: http://www.ourtrespasses.blogspot.com/
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