December 14th, 2009 at 20:24 by Andrew

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After months of hop­ing to find myself on MountainX’s Street­Style, I finally caught up with Ally out­side the Flat Iron build­ing a few weeks ago. She even said I was her new favorite model. Any time! It was fun. Here are the results.

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Boots are some bat­tered old US Army com­bat boots that I’ve worm almost every­day for 5 years. Pants are straight leg slim fit Express Rocco, shirt is Express 1MX Mod­ern Fit (last year’s). Generic reversible black/brown belt. Tie is a black on black pais­ley that I found at my house after a party. Shades are Ray-Ban knock offs that I bought at a stand on Main Street in Hick­ory dur­ing their Okto­ber­fest. Jacket is a non-labeled find from Madame But­ter­fly on Lex­ing­ton Ave (they have a small but excel­lent men’s sec­tion). Watch is a Cit­i­zen Eco-Drive 200 Meter BM6400-00E that my grandparent’s gave me as a grad­u­a­tion present.

P.S. I am a het­ero­sex­ual male.

December 11th, 2009 at 22:00 by Andrew

Michael Sana­core, Chris Rid­dle and I made these one-of-a-kind invi­ta­tions to an after-party ear­lier this year. Some­thing about the flex­i­bil­ity and the lim­i­ta­tions of the type­writer was really inspir­ing. It made me think of the type­writer in a whole new way. It’s really a minia­ture print­ing press, that can only use one font, one style, one size, one color and one weight. But other than that — you can use almost any size paper, any ori­en­ta­tion. It’s really mar­velous, and lots of fun. They turned out very well I think. My favorite one:

Don’t lis­ten to her.            Come to the after-party.”

December 3rd, 2009 at 23:35 by Andrew

4th of July from John Carl on Vimeo. Music: The Guest Room “When Might Makes Right”

Back in early July, @bentmatches and I were stand­ing at the Sky­bar a lit­tle after a beau­ti­ful sun­set when our friend @AVLSkylie intro­duced us to three peo­ple look­ing for an adven­ture to film. Being expert adven­tur­ers, we shared a know­ing glance and smile and set to work. Here is what they said about that night:

We went on a road trip for 30 days to 30 cities film­ing one story each day of peo­ple around Amer­ica. This day we were in down­town Asheville, NC for the 4th of July cel­e­bra­tion. We didn’t know a soul but by the end of the night we found our­selves in a park­ing lot with new-found friends set­ting off fire­works ille­gally. And we got there in a con­vert­ible dri­ven by a friend who looked like he fronted a 50’s rock­a­billy band. All in all, an amaz­ing night and one of the more mean­ing­ful videos we made.

This night was one of the best of my life. To be young, in love, and feel like the king of town in a hot red con­vert­ible sur­rounded by the tal­ented and beau­ti­ful — I know of lit­tle bet­ter. It doesn’t mat­ter how old I get, I’ll always want to go back to that day. I’d like to go back right now.

The folks we met were an artist col­lec­tive (The Duck Duck Col­lec­tive) and were film­ing a series of short spots all over the East­ern US for a really hip Levi-Strauss ad cam­paign. They had awe­some equip­ment and great per­son­al­i­ties and threw them­selves into the fun of the evening. We went to the Admi­ral first and danced, then went to that aban­doned park­ing lot off Mer­ri­mon where we lit all the fire­works. You can see me dri­ving the con­vert­ible and vault­ing through the fire­works at the end. I’m so glad there is footage of this day of my life.

October 26th, 2009 at 01:50 by Andrew

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You look ridicu­lous. Come get ridiculous.

I know every­body has a place to be on Hal­loween, but it always ends early too early, doesn’t it? Come any­time after mid­night and we’ll keep it going til the late night. Last year’s party was so much fun I can’t help but try and and repeat the suc­cess. And you are all invited! And ser­vice work­ers: just because you couldn’t get Hal­loween off doesn’t mean you missed all the good par­ties — we’ll be wait­ing for you.

Some of the highlights:

  • It’s not a base­ment. It’s a dance dungeon.
  • DJ Par will be spin­ning again
  • Look a fool in @itswendylou’s Photo Booth of Horrors
  • Pur­ple Jesus will save you.
  • Drink up! (Dona­tions accepted.)

Face­book much? RSVP why don’t you.

I made the flyer, and I made a map too.

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Check here and here for pics from last year.

September 18th, 2009 at 04:12 by Andrew

I saw this episode of the Twi­light Zone many years ago and it made a big impres­sion on me.  I love the set­ting (I like pretty much any­thing apoc­a­lyp­tic) and the sim­ple way of telling the story. This is one of the few episodes of the Twi­light Zone not to fea­ture the super­nat­ural as a plot device. The actors are Charles Bron­son and Eliz­a­beth Mont­gomery. Warn­ing: Uni­formed hot­ness for every­body.