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This is my current favorite tag around Brooklyn. Holler at me if you see any of them – there are about 3 or 4 others that i've not been able to shoot yet)
Also, I'm feeling this Diplo remix of Legend's Green Light [download] : [audio:Green-Diplo.mp3]
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Happy Birthday little bro. We're gonna have a little house party for him this Saturday. Come past the house if you are in town.
(sorry, no photobooth or keg stands this time)
Most of you know what the inside of our office looks so today I decided to take my camera outside and shoot some things to and from lunch.
Miho was one of the first portraits i posted on this blog. For some reason i get about 100 spam comments a day on that post, it's hard to battle. She is in the states for a friend's wedding in LA. She says they married (and already had a baby) because of me. Ha! not so sure that is the case, but it is cool anyway. He met his wife the night she gathered a bunch of friends and all went out for karaoke for my visit.
thanks for stopping by the office, miho.
Caitlin Barrett
Aaron Blazey
Brandon King
I figured we deserve a slightly different tone in our photos:
Knee injury update:Still don't know what is wrong. MRI in a few weeks, orthopeadic surgen shortly after. Limping, crutches, and taxi rides till further notice.
This is not a proper introduction of our new office mate, Caitlin. Something better will follow.
me. me. me.
i need to see some friends so i can put up photos of them.
Mari happened upon a nice little portrait project titled The Balcony Project. It may be the best way to save money and hang with friends ever. People come over to her place with a bottle of wine/liquour and they sit and talk, one on one, while she takes a few snaps of them. She gets to stay home catch up with old friends, get to know new ones a bit better all while drinking for free. This is my portrait from friday night:
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About Mari's influence:
Mari inspired us to not forget that we are moving to NYC. See, Blazey and I made plans to move to new york after a year of being roommates in columbus (2004) but within the first 6 months things got comfortable and we were less focused on getting out. Well, Mari comes along and starts talking about New York this and New York That. Just about the same time I head to the city with Fitch for a video project and immediately remember that Blazey and I have no choice, we have to go. Seeing mari pick up and go made it easier for us to realize we can do it as well.
Once mari was here she became the most valubal reasourse we had. We chatted on line all the time. Blazey and I's first visit to nyc together was a random last minute friday afternoon decision to drive up with a friend from cleveland (photo gallery of the trip). That was the trip that got us both back on board and 3 months later we packed up and headed east. The rest is history documented on flickr.
More random things about mari and moving to nyc
Photo gallery of our first trip to nyc to visit mari (i used to be far less discerning of photos i put online)
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from 3rd Ave in Columbus
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To 344 Greene Ave in Brooklyn. Mari and Q helping us out.
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I picked up a couple pairs of kicks in Chicago this weekend. These here are yet another pair of chucks i shot while riding to work. I was going for this pair of all silver hi-tops at a place in Hyde Park called Akira but I was a bit too late and they were completely out of my size. ps. i need some serious programing help with my blog. i have a new idea brewing but i can't seem to make it work.
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Here is another auto stitched panorama of the view from our office window. Vouyers anyone? (you'll have to go inside the post to veiw it. i'ts kinda tall)
Click to view the full size image
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The Exchange 009 | No Sleep Til Brooklyn. New mix up on Muxtape & also available for download at Zshare.
Panama | Brooklyn Zoo - Ol Dirty Bastard Cye | Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers - Chubb Rock, OC, Jeru The Damaja OJ | Jockin' Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh) - Jay-Z Eyejammy | We Live In Brooklyn, Baby - Roy Ayers Ouxu | BK Anthem - Foxy Brown Jen | Brooklyn Sky - Digable Planets BK | Brooklyn - Mos Def Sam | Murda, Murda - Jay-Z feat. Memphis Bleek & Geda K Liz | Hello Brooklyn - Jay-Z feat. Lil Wayne George | The Boogie Man Song - Mos Def Marcia | The Stoop - Little Jackie
My third choice (yeah, eyejammy beat me to the Roy Ayers track) would have been this classic big and pac live track:
[audio:http://wordbk.com/audio/wherebrooklynat.mp3]
post script: If you move to harlem jen, i'm deleting this and banning you from any further stoop sessions unless, of course, you provide gallons of boom juice
Blazey and I traveled down to Cincinnati to spend some time with our good friend Aileen's parents this past weekend (Q is in Australia). Mom had a little birthday celebration for her brother Neal who died almost a year ago. A bunch of Neal and Aileen's friends came out to eat up mom's Filipino dishes and send off messages in balloons. OH, so for the past 4 or 5 years (since the day i met Mrs Aquino) she's tried to get me to eat pork. Well she finally succeeded with a little trickery. She told blazey and I that she made everything pork free for me this weekend. I start eating this amazing broccoli salad with turkey bacon and comment on how good it is and mention something about the bacon being turkey. She then says, "yeah, you don't eat pork that's why i told you it was turkey bacon". But she told it so dry that i didn't know if she was joking or not. I take a look at the fatty bacon on my plate and can't help but start cracking up.
View all the photos after the jump
We're shooting somethings for Nationwide today which required us to build this wall and find all sorts of props for (which I would love to work with my girl Megan Terry on). Last night I stayed late and finished painting and cleaning up the studio. I set up my little G9 to shoot every 2 seconds. It worked great until my battery died a couple hours later without me realizing it.
The song is from Beck's new album that i can't seem to get enough of. It's titled (the song) Modern Guilt. There is one line that I seem to catch every time I listen – "I lost my baby 10 minutes ago". I dig it.
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This weeks mix is a big happy birthday for our homie
George
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Can't C Me
- Tupac feat. George Clinton
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King George
- Roy Ayers
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So Fresh So Clean
- Outkast
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Think
- James Brown
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Georgy Porgy
- Eric Benet & Faith Evans
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Mack the Knife
- Louis Prima & Louie Armstrong
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Synthesizer
- Outkast feat. George Clinton
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Ooh Wee
- Mark Ronson, Ghostface & Nate Dogg
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Build Me Up Buttercup
- The Foundations
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Jorge
- Nightmares On Wax
About my pick:
I met George via 5OH7 at a birthday party last year where i learned he puts on a one man play called Any1Man (which is quite excellent btw). Quoted from his site:
“From the mouth of one man... ...Comes the soul of every man... ...Seen through the eyes of any man.”
We've yet to hook up again but we keep in contact via twitter and from what i've learned about George so far can be summed up like this:
Something Live, Something Funky, Something Black.
What better way to represent him then James Brown Live at the Apollo?
Links:
Listen and download:
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Ologie said goodbye to Antonio also known as the only black guy i've ever worked with at a design agency. I'm pretty sure it is because the contracts say you are only allowed one at a time.
He and his girl are off to new adventures in Chicago.
The new boss man politely asking for another round
Ms. Lindsay Cox talking with our lunch lady Deb (she makes amazing fresh lunch for us everyday at the columbus office)
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Me and a few internet connects put together a mix tape based on a theme. This week's is Summertime. And I must say, it's effing dope.
Muxtape & also available for download at Zshare.
The Tracklist:
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Summertime
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
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What They Do
- The Roots
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Steady Mobbin'
- Ice Cube
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Walking Into Sunshine
- Central Line
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Move Ya Body
- Mad Skillz
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Summersend
- Misha
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Everyone Falls in Love Sometimes
- Tanto Metro & Devonte
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Summer Wind
- Madeleine Peyroux
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Motown Philly
- Boyz II Men
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Here Comes the Sun
- The Beatles
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ATLiens
- Outkast
About my pick:
Move Ya Body - Mad Skills off the From Where??? album
This dropped in '96 i believe. I must have caught the video on Rap City once and it just stuck in my head. It has that slow hot summertime groove to it.
If it's wack, it has to be taken down. Today we broke down the huge pods and replaced them with the incredibly sleek Muji desk. I couldn't be happier, even more when I get a chance to work in the office again. I'll be in Columbus from tomorrow til friday night working on a project for Nationwide.
Aaron dumped the pack of screws in the box which immediately sank to the bottom.
Now my Japanese is a little rusty but i'm sure that they got the instructions wrong. The diagram said to put the washers between the legs and the table tops. Completely wrong.
The other week blazey tried to put me on the spot for not heading down to see the family in Springfield. So just incase he tries to front on me again I want to show some photos from the other day - Dinner with mom and my step-pops, Snipper aka Loren F. Browder Jr. I racked my brain trying to find a place for dinner. Mom doesn't eat red meat, pork or sea food and snip doesn't eat Chicken or seafood – yes, chicken! Once i met up with them at the Book Loft they told me the local Max & Ermas was just fine.
Snip: (I'm not sure how he got the name) Loren is going to look just like him in 35 years.
The place mom insist i bring "teeny book girl". The one on the right is Max and Erma's original location in German Village
Big Snip's tat from way back.
They were getting ideas for their back yard from the B&B I stay at (German Village Guesthouse)
Mom's hair is fly
I went down to the Knitting Factory to hear some hip hop last night. In particular this cat named Spec Boogie. He came out blazey's party the other night and i knew his name was familiar but not until his joint "From the Heart of Bed-Stuy" came on did i realize that he did one of my favorite songs from a couple months back. I would put up the song but now I can't find it on my computer. Bed Stuy - Spec Boogie. I just wish he spoke more on specifics in the hood.
[audio:http://wordbk.com/audio/Bed-Stuy.mp3]
Produced by Von Pea of Tanya Morgan
Donwill of Tanya Morgan. They were supposed to perform but delay's in Denver held them back.
VonPea showing us his buddy passes which apparently wasn't the best way to fly out of denver and still make it on time to a show.
Spec Boogie
George from round the way.
The bartender got this shirt in '88
My new favorite lyrisicst (that is different from all around rapper/entertainer) is Wale. I put on his mix tapes when i fly and have nothign to read. You want to pay attention to everything he is saying. Incredible. I'm hoping to check out the show in a couple weeks.
These desk (or pods as Herman Miller calls them) arrived and were assembled monday afternoon. I don't know if it is just NYC but the craftsmanship on everything thus far has been terrible. They had no clue the the hard backing and padding goes between the orange walls so we could use it to pin thing on. The little closet things are falling off and the left parts to the desk in the box cause they couldn't figure it out. sigh
And i feel like these pods are just a bit too big for our space. Well, not too big just along with our table and seating area it is a bit crowded. We are going to attempt to change it soon.
I rode my other two wheeler in Monday.
Dear Herman Miller,
You make desk. Make the desktops out of a surface mice can work on with out a mouse pad. Those things are so 2001.
