I'm going to be posting on my fatlace again so keep one eye open for it. Consider it a subsidiary blog off of somegiant so it will not be a complete parallel to this blog as far as content goes. I will post solid infos on there though and not just residuals so visit and expand your universe or extend your reach to whats good (so they say).
This is one of my favorite stitch jobs I’ve done so far simply because of the balance and the content is full of imagery. Not to mention that it’s a place I esteem so highly, my future permanent destination. I’ve never been so homesick until I found myself flying home to California from Manila just to be back on the wheel and back on the race again. I figured, you can be winning the rat race over here but at the end of the day, you’re still a rat (so what's the point?). Speaking of rats (going off on a predetermined tangent), Banksy has been doing his thing in NYC. I think Philippines can use more rats (illustrated ones) specifically that huge white building smack dab in the middle of my photo. Well not smack dab but its coincidently huge and the only white building that screams at me so deafeningly. If Banksy doesn’t, I just might as well (soon).
I was involved in a gallery last sunday after fuse at Cottonwood (our church). Got the notice from our good friend Robert Favela three weeks ago, got started two weeks ago , and finalized the piece two hours before the gallery opened last Sunday (almost a week ago). The whole process stretched to about a week although i did miss a few days due to good ol' fashioned laziness. The piece is a painting i did of my nephew R.J. (a.k.a. RED in superfuture) hence the title "MY NEPHEW". Let me brief you a little bit about this kid. RJ was recently picked to be a part of superfuture's "the dirty dozen". Only 12 individuals were hand picked from around the globe in this process. They are to wear one super rare custom made Evisu denim and pass it around to each of the twelve individuals where each will have a few weeks to get intimate with the denim. It's a pretty big deal and a great honor in the denim world to be apart of this crazyness so I'm very proud of him. You might be thinkng to yourself "ew, that's nasty!!". Yes it is, but you should see RJ and Gabe (my other nephew) live together in one room. Enough about RJ and Gabe(I'm sure you'll hear more about these guys in later time). Let's skip to the painting. Got the idea from a photo Eya shot of RJ outside the S.F. federal building last year. It was a dope photo so I collaboed' with it. Photos taken of the night were pretty ehhh but that's only because it was a busy tug and pull kind of a night.
I'm a sucker for a good blog but thesartorialist far exceeds "a good blog". It's the blog I have to look at before any other blog there is. I hope you catch my drift and to better understand where I’m getting at, please steal a look for yourself. I have never seen an article of clothing I owned be on thesartorialist but today, consider that streak defunct. Kind of. Believe it or not, that’s a $10,000purse and I was fortunate enough to get blessed with one to give to Eya for our 9th year anniversary. She’s willing to sell it for $5,000 obo so if anybody out there is engrossed or even a tiny bit interested, we need tickets to Philippines. And we care about your needs also.
I'm an avid Cat Stevens listener. The pre-islamic Cat Stevens was I.M.O.P.O. ahead of its time and I sure do miss that sound. It's the same feeling I get when I think about Eraserheads. Anyways, I recommend this album and hope you find it special too.
