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Last week was a busy one! See more pics over on the site!

Bassnectar at EDC

TheGoodLife! Presents Burton Snowboard’s Apres in May at Milk Studio

Space Ghost Purp & Kilo Kish at Santos

Izzy Azalea at SOBs

Rye Rye at Karmaloop TV

The Roots at The Great GoogaMooga

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1st off follow me on instragram! They fucking disable my ass for posting tits I guess. Pretty lame. I’m under @villageslum now unless I get @meldcole back. I wrote to them but they have yet to holler back! Ugh!

OK….

A while back I was commissioned by Plndr to photograph some ladies for images that would appear on tees and tanks. I had complete creative control. I knew where I wanted to take it, before I even got the gig…well at least 1/2 of where I wanted to take it. I had been dying to photograph babes rocking mascot heads, with guns in studio and the subway station. I also had a bunch of other wild ideas but I kinda forget most of them.

I also wanted to show some beautiful faces after wanting to mix it up a bit. You know go 1/2 and 1/2.

I photographed Arnelle for my site I had no idea I would want to use one of the images for this project until I saw how the mock up looked!

The same goes for the Alysha Nett images.

So sick if I can say so!

So, if you are not familiar with Plndr, they are a membership based site. It is free to sign up. Once you sign up you get access to all the dope gear that they sell one SALE!
You can click on the image below that will take you purchase my gear. If you are not a member you will need to sign up to see shit. Keep that in mind, takes a few min you lazy fucks!

They also interviewed me. Take a look! I try my best to be funny.

Here’s a few of the images that did not make the tees. I will post more at a later date.

These are part of the Not Really Nude series. I will do another set at a later date. Be on the look out.

So yeah, I would like to thank Plndr for coming to me to do the project and all the models ( Brandy, Yo, Arnelle & Alysha Nett) that I photographed. With out you guys this project would not have been possible!

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Ps. I was on vaca in Puerto Rico. Riding horses and shit!

Urban cowboy shit! ha

Peep the kid in the new Kidz In The Hall – Pour It Up Ft. Bun B video

I pop up at 2:30

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Only 1000 printed.
I do not sell them. I give them out and stick them on shit all across the world.
Printed way out in Colorado by the good folks at Stickergiant.com … for a great price too!

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Frank Ocean & Tyler

A Crying Azealia Banks

A$AP Rocky

Snoop

Kendrick Lamar & Dr. Dre

Em

2Pac

Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg

Chanel Iman

The Homie Santigold & Rihanna

Bryan Greenberg & Jamie Chung

Earl Sweatshirt

The Weeknd

The Homie Zoe Kravitz

Gaslamp Killer

SBTRKT

DJ Craze

Ben Bronfman

Karen Civil

Theophilus London and?

Dylan McDermott

Tons of this going on…

And this.

See more photos over on the site!

All images belong to me..why because I took them fools! ha

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See more on the site kids!

Cheers!

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I was approached by the homie Matt Levine, owner of Sons of Essex to do a collaboration a while back. We both wanted to do something fun, entertaining and interesting. We wanted people to talk about what we accomplished, we wanted to make a splash, make some news. We came up with the idea to shoot girls with the food from the restaurant in my kinda way ..very raw, straight forward and gritty and wheat paste the images all around NYC.

This project was very FUN! We had 2 days of casting at the restaurant. I think I looked at 20+ girls. Ranging from clean cut, all American skinny type models to Black and tatted up. About of them were amazingly beautiful in some way.

We photographed not to long after the casting. Used Kamaloop TV studios, if you wanted to know.

Here’s the girls I picked and the final product that you can see in many places below 14th street.

Hotness all around!

Here’s a few pics of the accually images that hung in the city!

And here I am posing in front of my work.

Shouts to the Street Team for tossing those up. You know who you are!

Behind the scenes!

These two loved each other!

Oiling up!

The ladies love me!

what can I say. Ha!

Here’s a few images that I really love that didn’t make the campaign

And here is some coverage on the campaign by Bowery Boogie, Disco NYC, EV Grieve, Eater and I even got a mention in the NY Times!

I heard word of a VIllageslum x Sons of Essex x ? tee collab in the works that is coming very soon! More word on that later on.

Shouts to my models, Kristen, the make up artist and the Seth the chef, Matt and anyone else who helped out that I am forgetting to mention.
Cheers!

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Click on the image to read the article! Shouts to Jay Z and the Life and Times staff

Here is my favorite photo from SXSW. My homie Theo!

And here’s my favorite photo from my homie Aaron’s bday stripper party bus!

Look at that pimp! ha

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So, for about 3 yrs there has been this eye sore of a construction site right next to my apt building in Jersey City, NJ. The owners of the lot abandoned the project and left my block with unpainted plywood. It looked horrible but I along with everyone else was used to it.

I talked to a neighbor and we both decided that we have had enough. It took a bunch of months for me to get it together but with the perfect timing my boys were free at the same time as me and we banged out some dope ass shit I think.
Before I forget the location is on 7th st btwn Division and Brunswick.

Here’s a few pics.
Here’s the fellas preparing the wall.

Once the primer was up, the guys started painting

That turned to this

The other side was getting fresh too.

Meanwhile Pen and I had to go cook up some wheat paste in my kitchen.

After cooking it was time to starting doing my part.

Soon the above looked like this

Here’s the full on view from across the street.

And here is the 3 of us standing in front of it.

And here’s me

Hey notice anything

The hats! ha. Jay Z rocked a similar Leroy Jenkins Snapback last night during his American express SXSW show. My boys are making more as I type. Limited of course!



And yup Pen is rocking the Villageslum logo hoodie too!

Keep checking the LJ site for the restock of hats.

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