Mondo Crazy day today!
Had my interview with the recruiters / headhunters / scouts (vultures) and nearly got killed doing it.
Here's what happened. I got off the "N" at 57th and 7th. I'm trying to get my bearings when I see a car in front of me make an illegal U-turn in front of an oncoming delivery truck. BAM!!! The truck nails the car in the passenger side and the car starts rolling toward me up the curb. Nails the woman next to me, who in turn pushes me outta the way! Mass confusion, glass, noise. Luckily the people were okay but it looked like the passenger had the wind knocked outta them.
The "interview" went well and the end result was that some gig that just came in 10 minutes before I talked with the scout would be perfect for me. There was another joint too that sounded good, so now it's up to the company to get my sweet ass in there and let me do my magic!
Got my first taste of what happens on an opening night movie in Manhattan -- it gets sold out! After work I was feeling a bit peckish and decided to try out "Lucky Burger". The joint got some good marks in Time Out NY so I figured I'd give it a whirl then go eat.
The burger was pretty good, but I've figured out that people in NYC / Brooklyn just don't know anything about how to cook, serve and really categorize meat. Back in the Midwest that's all you'd get and it was everywhere. Everyone had a grill and all families had their special recipes on how to prepare some meat dish.
See, I'm use to rating food on a "baby" scale. If I order a "big" burger, then I'm expecting something that's baby size between two pillowy buns. Most of the stuff I've had out here has been around the size of smurfs.
Anyway, the fries were pretty solid and the shake was damn fine.
Split the joint and popped into Toy Tokyo to talk to the fine folks over there. Great store and really awesome people who run the joint. I'm thinking that I should see if I could work there on the weekends in exchange for free shite
A few months ago Toy Tokyo bought a gallery space across the street and had Tag the System, which consisted of the top graphiti artists from around the world painting miniature replicas of subway cars. Amazing pieces all around!
The gallery is having another show called MoTUG (toss an umlaut over the "o"), which stands for "Monsters Of The Unda-Ground". The collective consists of (sit down for this list): FUTURA, TKID170, DOZE GREEN, NYC LASE, GHOST, SHEPARD FAIREY, CES, EWOK, DIZMOLOGY and TOOFLY!!!
The show consists of hand-made kicks that are each painted -- a different artist per foot! So one shoe might have Shepard Fairey (Obey / Giant fame) and the other could be Futura. Blow my mind! There's also going to be giant QEE figures proveded by Toy2R...plus signed T-shirts and each artist is going to paint some excusive pieces.
The show Runs from April 13th through May 5th. 2-7 PM Daily (Wed - Sun).
Hope to see everyone at the SGNY open call!
Had my interview with the recruiters / headhunters / scouts (vultures) and nearly got killed doing it.
Here's what happened. I got off the "N" at 57th and 7th. I'm trying to get my bearings when I see a car in front of me make an illegal U-turn in front of an oncoming delivery truck. BAM!!! The truck nails the car in the passenger side and the car starts rolling toward me up the curb. Nails the woman next to me, who in turn pushes me outta the way! Mass confusion, glass, noise. Luckily the people were okay but it looked like the passenger had the wind knocked outta them.
The "interview" went well and the end result was that some gig that just came in 10 minutes before I talked with the scout would be perfect for me. There was another joint too that sounded good, so now it's up to the company to get my sweet ass in there and let me do my magic!
Got my first taste of what happens on an opening night movie in Manhattan -- it gets sold out! After work I was feeling a bit peckish and decided to try out "Lucky Burger". The joint got some good marks in Time Out NY so I figured I'd give it a whirl then go eat.
The burger was pretty good, but I've figured out that people in NYC / Brooklyn just don't know anything about how to cook, serve and really categorize meat. Back in the Midwest that's all you'd get and it was everywhere. Everyone had a grill and all families had their special recipes on how to prepare some meat dish.
See, I'm use to rating food on a "baby" scale. If I order a "big" burger, then I'm expecting something that's baby size between two pillowy buns. Most of the stuff I've had out here has been around the size of smurfs.
Anyway, the fries were pretty solid and the shake was damn fine.
Split the joint and popped into Toy Tokyo to talk to the fine folks over there. Great store and really awesome people who run the joint. I'm thinking that I should see if I could work there on the weekends in exchange for free shite
A few months ago Toy Tokyo bought a gallery space across the street and had Tag the System, which consisted of the top graphiti artists from around the world painting miniature replicas of subway cars. Amazing pieces all around!
The gallery is having another show called MoTUG (toss an umlaut over the "o"), which stands for "Monsters Of The Unda-Ground". The collective consists of (sit down for this list): FUTURA, TKID170, DOZE GREEN, NYC LASE, GHOST, SHEPARD FAIREY, CES, EWOK, DIZMOLOGY and TOOFLY!!!
The show consists of hand-made kicks that are each painted -- a different artist per foot! So one shoe might have Shepard Fairey (Obey / Giant fame) and the other could be Futura. Blow my mind! There's also going to be giant QEE figures proveded by Toy2R...plus signed T-shirts and each artist is going to paint some excusive pieces.
The show Runs from April 13th through May 5th. 2-7 PM Daily (Wed - Sun).
Hope to see everyone at the SGNY open call!
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freyja__:
thanks for coming out last night!
vixen:
It was great meeting you lastnight! I mean... you were THE FIRST ONE I recognized when I walked into the place! Hee hee. Welcome to SGNY too! 
You were a bit on the shy side too... so cute!
You were a bit on the shy side too... so cute!