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Maroons, Brooklyn, 2008

January 30, 2009 at 10:28 am / No comments / View ¥ego $.V.'s Profile /

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Shepard Fairey, Illustrator with Presidential Status by Tahero

Visual Alchemy

I dug this audio interview from my media archive (a shoebox of cassette tapes). It features a very candid interview I did with Shep in 1999 for my Masters Thesis. The Thesis focused on designers that use traditional advertising techniques to push social, subversive and/or anti-consumerist messages. This interview features an earnest sounding, pre-talking point Shep, before he went superdupernova. Here’s a segment, the full transcribed interview can be found in the Thesis pdf here.

January 22, 2009 at 11:02 am / No comments / View Tahero's Profile /

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The Kings are Working by King Texas

Where is everyone?

Answer: Hibernating. Working hard. Creating. Meditating.

See ya’ll soon.

January 19, 2009 at 2:36 pm / No comments / View King Texas's Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!

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Biggie Smalls aka Notorious Big aka Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie by Tahero

Whenever I watch a film shot in NYC it’s always exciting to identify the street, neighborhood, train station or project building that was used in the location. Being born & raised in NYC I think I’m pretty damn good at it and sometimes the continuity doesn’t add up for example, a character can come out of the Union Square subway station and walk across the street to their apartment in Queens. Or better yet, when films ALWAYS use that shut down part of Hoyt–Schermerhorn station on the IND line but the character is supposed to be in Manhattan on an IRT line – C’mon Dog!

My most recent spotting were the same DUMBO streets and camera angles used for American Gangster (2008) that were first used in The French Connection (1971).

Last Summer they shut down my street and at 3AM towed all the parked cars on Franklin Avenue to film a scene from Notorious. I can’t wait to check this movie not only for the big screen biography of Biggie, but also because I get to see the US film industry’s oldest co-star – NYC.

January 16, 2009 at 2:41 pm / No comments / View Tahero's Profile /

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