Duck Sauce - "BARBARA STREISAND"

Everybody doing it...

Mad Decent Block Party (PO PO X Ninjasonik x DJ Sega)

Mad Decent decended on the seaport, white riot with the ninjas and Po Po. Slid by the clipboard courtesy of a 2ndhand wristband, slinked thru to the next level of security to smoke with the homies backstage. I was just in time for po po, which was the idea (diggin their low-fi rawk). Easy breezy, show was dope. Ninjasonik got it popping, but they cuss too much (so sayeth the meaty bouncers). Bosco delrey was heard, mad distortion, the kidz love that shit. Dj sega murdered for a minute, and jasmine solano got on with Max Glazer right before before dusk. Free booze, Good Tunes, Dry Heat, Hot times in the durrty city. All without a "riot"...




po po



dude from po po has that Cheech Born in East LA thing goin...



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bosco delrey


dj sega


If you're feeling these flicks, or were there and wanna re-live the glory KINGTEXAS took some great flicks of MDBP

Mad Decent Freebies:: link to Po Po's free BUMMER SUMMER mixtape

Observational Humor / Downtown, Clowns (gangs of 3)

the "Kids" Generation (tourists) - points for 40s in broad-daylight


PediCab


in 28 years I've never seen the NYPD so focused on the task at hand.

Hipster Dads are EVERYWHERE...

Seen this dad from a mile away in the LES, super hip, soo asian, so I flick-it-up (not mad, dad) - Definitely a cut above "flip-flop/day-trader dad" and "angry sporty dad," where are all these fucking babies coming from (like, for serious) STROLLER STREETS...

The Fiends are Leaning...

Once the dope fiend's body passes a ninety-degree angle, they sink back into the center of the earth. Okay, maybe they just sink back into whatever hole, or staircase they crawled out of. Daylight fiends make the best specimens,love the transients taking note.

NINJASONIK "Art School Girls"

Made in the Shade / Summertime Booze

Notes on New York and other Grand Standing Rants (NEW YORK will NOT love You Back)

New York is dying for a comeback. After the great cultural vacuum of the 2000 era, when new york essentially became a charicature of itself - many will argue, but fuck it, this is my social theory (bozo). NYC just didn't have the edgy originality that made it epic in prior Generations - i blame many things for this, but most of it, it was that New York got dragged into the same jingoist patriotism that has always plagued much of our lands. I mean Osama is an asshole, and a sick fuck, and 9-11 was wack, but its end result was New York became a little more normal, more safe, more "centerist" (gross).

This flick reminded me of some club ish circa Tunnel - era (remember those needle-drenched clubs, Kidz) - probably because that was the last time I wore so much plaid (it needs to be re-retired). Some weirdo just popped his shades on me, flicked it up, gave 'em back, not my stee, sunglasses at night, just not a good look for grown folk (if anyone).
Unfortanately, It takes a LONG time to see any visible in NY. I mean change is possible, but said transformation takes a decade or so - maybe that's why they say "you're not a real New Yorker until you've lived here for at least 10 years" by "they," I mean other out-of-towners (craving identity or something) - I certainly didn't sign-off on that rule. New York is either in your blood, or you are a simply a resident of "The City." Being from here means less to me than it used to, as it should, some of the greatest New Yorkers originally came from somewhere else. It IS however a serious badge of honor(especially if you found yourself in the trenches of NY in the "roaring nineties"), this city can(and will) eat you alive, I've seen it happen, it's not a pretty site. The New York City Guild is always impressive, and we can always smell are fraud - well at least my peoples. Oh yeah, and this city will NOT love you back, get a dog.

Money In Trashbags, Call that Garbage ...

Dining AL-fresco at The Gramercy

Rockstar Bar Bathroom = Art Project and Petri Dish All-in-One

April 20th - Duuuude, it's Hitler's Birthday

Fonda Musing (depicting Douchery)

@dances withWhiteGirls X Rando (sans Teeny) - in too deep...

Don't Sleep on the Pigeon...

They're EVERYWHERE...

Taking it Back to "Looseyville" with Machine and the Fat Jew

So I've have been keeping a low profile, trying to build up my Chi and center my gravity, (or is it vice versa?). Had to take a hot second to shout out my brethren of the Facelift gang on this homage to the Upper West Side in the roaring nineties, when the city still had some cajones (r.i.p. Dinkins era insanity). Check out this track off Machine's (Team Facelift) "The Jones Beach Mixtape" - available now



For all other matters of the Facelift Gang (duck down)

Rrrah Rrrah - 77KLASH drops tha hot Fiahh

77Klash (or Two-Seven Klash) has been dropping hot-fire in dance hall scenes in NYC and Kingston for a while now, working with everyone from reggae rude-bouys to electro-deckers - 77Klash is known and respected for his hard-pressing riddims and his fiery one-liners.
Check out his new video", Klash is raging in the cage and...



77Klash is Jamaican born and New York bred - his music reflects this culture-clash - Dancehall spiced with Rap-Game bravado and Electro infusions that will move the masses in any party in NYC, Jamaica and anywhere else it spins.

Look out for Two-Seven Klash making moves in the summer months, "blow tha weed 'n keep on smugglin'," nuff-said...

STARVED SUNDAY EDITION (very) "Sparse Language"

Signs that it is TIME TO GRIND: Recessionary Tactics

As a rule, I NEVER take pictures of the homeless, I'd rather exploit most other sects of society (who have something to lose, and aren't on their last legs) for my creative dealings. Dude was so out of it, that he just wandered into the frame (to relieve himself on this vacated Public Library across from MoMA, naturally) while i snapped the photo. What can ya do? Everybody is a smug hypocrite some of the time. Also, i think it made for a much better picture. It's my birthday, indulge me.