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FULL TILT January 29 2010
One of my favorite graffiti artists visited one of my favorite cities. Upon hearing that Tilt would visit Manila, Kid Robot commissioned him to take their 2010 spring line and photograph the apparel using his own vision. They’ve put together a lookbook of what was shot during the trip. I was always more into tagging words, and not so much on the graphics. The French artist, with his bubble like style, really influenced me on how to develop my hobby. Although it was short-lived, I attribute my a lot of my sketchbook, napkin, and legal paper work to him. It’s good that I didn’t pursue it because now, Tilt uses naked women as his medium, and that’s really not my steeze…
Anyways, here are some of my favorite photos from Manila. You can see the rest HERE. It’s great to know that the city is making headway in what I call the era of urban art.
Photos courtesy of Kid Robot
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JD SALINGER January 29 2010
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
I’m going to take that same attitude of Holden Caulfield and not really get into it for this entry. If you hadn’t heard already, JD Salinger - author of one of my favorite books, “Catcher in the Rye” - has died. This news may not matter to most, as he already seemed gone having withdrawn from public life decades ago. But all I have to say is that as far as shaping perspectives, Catcher was probably one of the most influential literary works. Amidst the cynicism and phoniness, Holden was THE advocate of being forever young.
I’ll end this one the same way I started it. But this time, with one of my favorite lines.
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” - JD Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
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