so i was looking for pictures of my girlfriend...from a year ago - before we were going out.. however we met at church again after two years of hi / bye's in passing. I thought maybe i could find a photo of me on the camera's or something like that. However a year ago today i was doing some research for a poster graphic for all the shoe heads out there. Putting my newly received iPhone to use.. thanks to my family as they (minus my mom) got me an iPhone. I broke it in on my birthday as I had spend the night alone securing an emergency lot that my team (hsesd) had set up in rancho bernardo for the fire victims in San Diego. It was a donation center where people would drop off donated goods and my team and I would organize them and escort fire victims to new goods for their new life, whether it be in a hotel or a hostel it hurt to see them start over abruptly and challenged me to the thought of burning all the rubble in my life to start over from scratch. I still got files from art shows in 02 and records of all my consuming customers and clients from Flagship. As well as records of all my volunteers from the Retail Project. Patterns from individual outfitters and Nikao intl. and about a box from every year from my teens on. I guess i can say i'm a sentimental man. anyhow, about last year.... the shoe design.
It was to be a poster tribute to the SB/AF1...only without the expected graphics of a limited colorway... i was gonna send it to a friend up in LA - robbie jeffers. he used to manage the nike SB team as well as help run stussy. anyhow, he's doing his photo thing now with a good drummer boy friend aaron redfield. He did drums for the Donny Darko soundtrak.
All this to say because i started a blog.. kinda like a diary of sorts as i've always wanted to write a book of the peeps i know and the worlds we've wondered. I guess this is a small start to refresh my writing skills. My dad says that if i want to be a good writer, then to write about what i know. So i guess this blog is an attempt to share that as well as retrace the realities in which i've lived.