A short lived NYC-inspired company that was run through DLX in the mid-90’s, Metropolitan. Look at the team lineup. Beautiful photography by Ari Marcopoulos that really communicated a specific mood, place and time.
Posted on January 31, 2008 at 10:42 AM | Comment (2 comments)
Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist and all around old-school hard-ass, Norman Mailer is an interesting character. Mailer had an unsuccessful run for New York City Mayor in 1969 (see original campaign poster below), proposing a New York City secession and creating a 51st state. He was also married 6 times and stabbed one of his wives with a penknife at a party. Whatever your opinion is on him, he definitely was not afraid to speak his mind and call it the way he saw it. Rest in peace, Norman.
Posted on January 30, 2008 at 12:22 PM | Comment (1 comments)
A different version of a song you already know, set to some amazing 1960’s Chicago footage.
Posted on January 30, 2008 at 10:57 AM | Comment (1 comments)
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody”. A quote from her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Posted on January 30, 2008 at 09:29 AM | Comment (0 comments)
An excerpt from an interview with Phil Donahue and Milton Friedman in 1979.
Posted on January 30, 2008 at 12:05 AM | Comment (0 comments)
Two of Chicago’s finest: Stevie Dread (far left) and Jesse Neuhaus (second from left) with the Alva team circa 1987.
Posted on January 29, 2008 at 11:25 PM | Comment (5 comments)
Finally, some real streetwear. Thanks Troast.
Posted on January 29, 2008 at 03:49 PM | Comment (2 comments)
Wintertime is movie renting season for me and lately its been the PBS series New York: A Documentary Film. I used to think that I had a favorite era of New York City (roughly the mid 70’s to the mid 80’s). But this documentary changed my mind. Every era (all the way back to when the Brooklyn Bridge was the highest structure anyone had ever seen) gives you some sense of “Wow. It must’ve really been crazy back then”. You start to understand that we are just passing through time, and that New York City is, if nothing else, a city of relentless change. As much as everyone complains about how clean, safe and sterile New York has become, nothing is forever, and the City will inevitably take another dive. Who knows, maybe that new luxury condo that just went up on your block will be boarded up and abandoned in 10 years. We can only hope.
Posted on January 29, 2008 at 11:32 AM | Comment (1 comments)
A little gem of a movie from 1987, a couple of years before street skating boiled over and put vert out of business. Sick Boys had tons of footage from the Bay area with Natas, Julien, Tommy, Mic-E and Ron Allen. I was probably eleven years old when I rented this. The impact these videos had on you back then can’t be overstated. Shit was raw, shit was underground, and you felt like you could be a part of something so rad that nobody else knew about. A far cry from today when Ryan Sheckler has to call his agent, his lawyer and his Mom to get permission to wipe his own ass.
Posted on January 28, 2008 at 10:36 AM | Comment (1 comments)
Epic part from a era of skating when men were men, the kneepads were stinky, and the beer was cold.
Posted on January 20, 2008 at 12:35 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Take a quick quiz from Brooklyn-based Teen Lines magazine. The winner gets a spliff.
Posted on January 17, 2008 at 10:13 PM | Comment (1 comments)
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Posted on January 17, 2008 at 09:14 PM | Comment (0 comments)
