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party pics: SANTOS/THE OPEN PARTY with QTIP, VA$HTIE & RICH MEDINA! HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNG SCOOZLE aka SCOTT (september 18th, 2009)
all photos by ELLE CLAY.
*OSCAR and me.
*MR. and MRS.
*LIZZY, LALA, GREG and SCOTT.
*OSCAR, RAUL and ME.
*GREG, SHAQ and SCOTT.
*RAULA.
life: SOBE SUMMER FRIDAYS – MISSHAPES – IL BAGGATO – RUNWAY SHOW (PEGLEG and more…)
so, after nearly 2 weeks of being sick and my doctor instructing me to “rest”…i left my cave to support my friends at PEGLEG with their runway show at SOBE and attempt to eat some free italian food from IL BAGGATO. stomach flu had me eating bread and potatoes…but, i still managed to lose 4 pounds! hmmm. i should bottle the stomach flu and sell it!
*HARRY at the PEGLEG booth.
*PEGLEG PROBLEM SOLVERS.
*HOUSE OF NINJA.
*WAYLON! i love he!
*RICKEY KIM and JOSH MADDEN.
*WILLIAM YAN
*LANIE was no where to be found 
party pics: 7/3 OPEN PARTY at SANTOS with QTIP, RICH MEDINA and VA$HTIE…pre-independence day celebration!!!
while new yorkers fled the city for a change of scenery, us real new yorkers (aka, the ones who had no where to go) stayed and painted the town red…white and blue!
*HARRY MCNALLY and me being very patriotic.
*GREG and ELLE, she left early to go down south and be with her family.
*CARLOS, FRIEND and OSCAR…
*DAN ROTH, my old friend from ALBANY that i’ve known since i was 12.
*YOUNG SCOOZLE and SHAWN/ OLD MONEY
*striking a pose while AVIVA looks on in embaressment for me.
*AUSSIE LUKE came by and randomly started dancing with this girl who absolutely loved him!
life: STEVE NASH’S SHOWDOWN IN CHINATOWN CHARITY EVENT
STEVE NASH has to be the nicest guy ever seriously. we met him at dinner at THE SPOTTED PIG and he was just so chill. since then, he’s attended to friday night OPEN PARTY and we kept in touch. he invited us out to his charity event where pro soccer and basketball players play a game of soccer in chinatown and raise money for a worthy cause. it included people like TONY PARKER, GRANT HILL, CHRIS BOSH and more. check it…
*thanks to ERIKA for hooking it up…
party pics: OPEN PARTY at SANTOS with QTIP, RICH MEDINA & VA$HTIE – special guests; THE RZA, RAEKWON THE CHEF, SHAWN MARION and GABRIELLE UNION.
friday night was jam packed as usual! the music and the crowd was on point. we had some very special guests…SHAWN MARION (SCOOZLE and ELLE had to let me know who he was), GABRIELLE UNION, THE RZA (i screamed when i saw him) and RAEKWON THE CHEF.
*yes, food from FRANK – so amazing.
*home sweet home…
*mel d. cole.
*SABEL and I went to the same yard sale where this girl was selling all her old labels for dumb cheap. she ended up finding these super dope CHANEL combat boots for 10$!!! worn only once! i was so jealous, but they were 2 sizes too small for me anyway. right at the moment, i seriously considered binding my feet.
*OSCAR! we got beef. i ain’t seen you in MAD LONG.
*every friday night is an episode of CHEERS.
*ELLE and GABRI (ELLE).
*FERRIS and FRIENDS
*AVIVA!!! she’s the best ever…
*SHAWN, YOUNG SCOOZLE and CHRIS.
*THE RZA!!! i always thought if i was inducted in to the WU, my name would be “CROUCHING CURRY, HIDDEN ROTI”.
*we always tip!
*RAEKWON was the nicest. he patted me on the back like a proud parent after i introduced myself to him. a tear came to my eye…
*my fone…the word “douche” is hilarious.
*leather daddy.
*WILDCAT and SABEL getting into the groove.
*YOUNG SCOOZLE and TONY TOCA.
*YOUNG VAUGHN!
interview: VANDAL ARTS x VA$HTIE x EARSNOT
thanks for the reminder about this one guys…
in 2007, EARSNOT and i attended the SNEAKER PIMPS in NYC where he was doing a live painting. VANDAL ARTS approached us and asked me to interview him for the show. recently, they interviewed me and put the whole sha-bang together. it’s a 3 part episode and for the recent interview i was sleepy and kept my sunglasses on. i realize it looks wack, but those studio lights were burning holes in my retinas.
part 1
part 2
part 3
muse: CLAYTON PATTERSON – Photographer and NYC Legend!
dude has been photographing and videotaping the downtown scene before it became plagued with chain stores and high rise condominiums. before it was safe to have lunch or walk your doggy in THOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, because the homeless and junkies lived there in tents.
the NYC we all know and love wasn’t always so clean and safe as we know it today (although, due to the economy, i have a feeling things are about to get ugly all over again). there was something so pure and beautiful about that time, i’m addicted.
anyways, check out the trailer for the documentary about him: CAPTURED. done by my friends BEN and DAN. the film is brilliant.
“Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he’s recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.”
