I'm lovin this camera and I love shooting film so much that I bought all the chemicals to cook my own film. I made a mess in my bathroom doing it but it came out great. It was a little contrasty and that was probably because I wasn't paying attention to little details like temperature and stuff but it came out fine.
A couple of months ago we mentioned that I did a photoshoot for YRB shooting Collie Buddz, the issue just dropped and in addition to the one love tee on Collie the the We are All Vane pendant was featured in the fashion section. Shout out to Sami and Darius for hookin it up!
another bitch famous for no reason...she aint that hot and her story aint that interesting...
I hit up the Siren Music Festival just cuz it was in Coney Island, which is a couple of blocks away from me. It was alright. I mainly went there cuz I thought I could get a couple of good photos but lost motivation as soon as I got there cuz the whole event was not my scene. I felt like I was in a grimey williamsburg bar. Which can be fun but not when its combined with heat and vendors at every step trying to sell you either Jesus or Food.
I've lived here for almost 10 years now and I have only been to the amusement park a couple of times. Since this might be the last summer the original Astroland will be alive I propose we make a Vane Family Field Trip down here one day and just kick it, who's down?!
You may remember that a couple of months ago we posted the above video on YouTube titled Family Guy Nudity. I only put it up there cuz youTube is a great quick way to upload videos to post on your blog. Well after sitting on youTube for a bit it started gathering a bunch of (negative) attention. Close to 25,000 people have seen it and 120 have left the most hateful, horrible, ignorant comments on it. Here are just some of the best ones:
-if you record family guy's tits you have issues...if you post it up on youtube...you have issues beyond issues.
-boooooooooooooooo get a job and some pills
-wtf is this you fucking retards so fucking stupid...so what you never seen porn before... ohoho my god lois and peter are on couch SO AMAZING stupid people and another thing whats your fucking age you retards
-Oh wow, yeah, because nudity is SUCH an amazing thing, hmmm, yep. You people are fucking retards.
-this has been reported i think it shud be deleted
-ok what the hell was that u retards i meen really like what the crap OOHHH AND FOR THE GAYS WHAT THE HHHHHEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL U F*CKING RETARDS GOD DAMN IT COME ON MAN dont make fun of gays it is not funny like its their intrest and way of life like your way of life i BEING A F**KING RETARD seriousely god!!!!!!!1!!
-childish ma fkin 3year old cuzin wouldnt do dat i bets=ch u go a ded posh skoo try n look hard
-dis vid iz da worst vid in youtube ive ever seen in my life
-You just took 18 seconds of my life and i want them back!
-whoever made this video is a complete dumass
-whoever you guys are, you are so immature!!! you're even more retarded than Peter Griffin!!!
-i want to shoot those people.....u r retarded...mentally and also propably physically...go jump off a cliff and make us all feel better...plz do i quickly cause i dont want you here....die
-ha ha You are crazy. In a good way.
there are many many more. You can go here to read them all. Funny shit huh?
Last week my phone broke, and since my internet sucks [Time-Warner is the biggest bunch of fucking cons] I was pretty much at the mercy of other people. No phone, no internet. I felt like I was back in middle school, disconnected from the planet. I had to call people from a phone and meet them at a certain location, exactly where I said I would. In between calls I was disconnected again, and if there was some miscommunication, I would have to wait for someone to get me. I found myself waiting a lot.
We take it for granted everyday, but cellphones, and now smartphones, make our world more mobile and more manageable, shrinking physical boundaries. I know there are some people who say that the world was better before, when we weren't always on and available. I say fuck that, those people are nostalgic ass monkeys who have far more time than productive things to do. It's one of those necessary evils, with the benefits far outweighing the negatives [minus brain tumors]. Plus there is always the option to not answer or turn it off.
We are slaves to technology. We're actually more like it's bitch, cause as much as we might think we use it to enhance our lives, the relationship has become a dependence more akin to crack and crackheads. Without it we're a sad, whimpering pile of human incompetence.
Were these two separated at Birth? The pronounced nose? Check. Mop of locks? Check. The cheeky grin and dimples? Check and double check. Indeed, there is a striking resemblance between our own Ravi T. and the semi-obscure 60's television character known as Manolito Montoya, played by Henry Darrow on the NBC Western drama, The High Chaparral.
Why this is important? Besides being funny as shit, there are two axiomatic truths about older Indian and Desi people: 1. they like watching television, and 2. they like textiles. Apparently, The High Chaparral made syndication and played regularly during the 90's, and endeared itself to our Desi friend Jack. Jack also happens to be the co-owner of our fabric house, Mood, and he will be supplying most of the quality materials for our cut and sew pieces for Fall. Jack's favorite character on The High Chaparral was none other than Manolito, aka Ravi Thanawala.
Needless to say, Jack has been more than happy to help out his boy Manolito, accommodating our small run quantities and extending a deal to create some custom fabrics in the future. As we have been scouring the Garment District in search of fabrics for the last month, having Manny on our squad has been a blessing, like suddenly getting the new immigrant kid on your soccer team to win first place.
So, the next time you see Ravi, make sure you holler at your boy Manolito!
We got great feedback at the party about the black Dont Sleep tees we were wearin'. It only made sense to make a couple of these. This is a limited run of the "Dont Sleep" tee in Black and in White so get 'em while you can!
We pay homage to a Wise Man from Queensbridge, who once said it best: “I Never Sleep.” Rest when you must, but sleep when you’re dead, because there is much to do and our days our brief. As easy as it is to get caught in the day-to-day grind, always be cognizant that our time and youth is fleeting at best. With the classic quote on the back against a skull, and a giant alarm clock on the front, Vane rings the wake-up call for all the drowsy heads who need a reminder: live now or forever rest in peace.
As you probably know, it rained here in NYC on the 4th of July so our plans for BBQing fell through. However Marisa and Josh were determined to grill burgers and drink beer so we hit that up for a bit before it started pouring and we had to bounce.
Later that day we took a cab to go see Transformers (which was awesome) and while driving to the theater hundreds of people were frozen in the streets just looking up at the fireworks. You never get to see people standing still in NYC. Everyones in such a rush constantly moving that seeing them still was such a surreal sight.
I´m off in Peru, in a tiny beachtown, Mancora. Tourists have started to find it (hell, I´m here) but it hasn´t become touristy -- yet. It´s like catching a wave before it breaks, which, coincidentally, is one reason I came to Mancora in the first place.
The Pan-American highway runs right through the town, and it´s funny to think that the highway that runs from the top to the tip of ALL South America is a putsy two-lane road lined with bodegas, restaurants, shacks and hundreds of unclaimed dogs. It´s also swarmed with mototaxis, these rickety three-wheel contraptions that zip along, pass on blind curves and feint at tipping at all minutes. We got two to race each other along a winding dirt road passing thorugh sand cliffs on the way to muddy hot springs.
It was fun as hell.
But enough about me, enough about mototaxis, for a one-month trek through the Andes I packed:
3 T shirts 1 thermal 1 pàir jeans 1 pair shorts board shorts 4 boxers 4 paris socks 1 hoodie.
And of course, one of those T shirts is the vane GREEN TEE. Right now it smells like a mix of: smoke cilantro sweat sunscreen
