Fauzi Birthday - 9.18.10

Pepsi Party and The Mckibbin Lofts

Saturday was a long day. I had some friends come in town Friday night around 4am and we stayed up until 7am. We woke up around noon on Saturday and kicked it all day - hanging around the Mckibbin Lofts with some of the artists in my neighborhood and later that night, we went to a Pepsi party that was pretty dope.

Let's begin the journey in my neighborhood.

Cool shoes.


The Russian girl who works at Potion Cafe and her friend.



Katie (check out the Hospitium) and Ty (Rosetta Stoned).
Katie is one of the better visual artists that I have met since moving to NYC...she does large scale paintings (12 or 15 feet) that depict human subjects in a photorealistic yet skewed perspective.


Katie's Cat.


Katie.


Outside my building with Five One...check them out...they just played the Afro Punk Festival.


I did not shoot this footage.
The Five One - Soul Jam! Afropunk Festival, Brooklyn, NY 7.6.08


Saturday night we headed out to the Pepsi Blue Carpet event - it was the closing party for the Latin Alternative Music Conference. The event was dope...they had a Guitar Hero station, free drinks, appetizers, DJ Tony Touch on the turntables, and a pretty dope venue.
Enjoy!

NYC fashion in full effect.


One of the other photogs at the event - cool shirt.


Blue Carpet reporter.



Nice shoes -- what's up Felicia Quaning of PMG.


New project - Photograph the photographer.



Dj Tony Touch on the wheels.






Crazy Legs and Tony Touch. Legends!!






Dope Tattoos.


Photograph the Photographer!!


More Tattoos...


After we left the Pepsi event, I headed back to Bushwick for a relaxation session. I got home and ran into Katie and some other cats from the neighborhood (yes, it was 3 in the morning).

Chris (below) was on a mission to Flour the guy on their couch - I know that flour is not a verb - but in this case, dumping a whole bag of flour on a sleeping, unsuspecting, couch crasher is definitely a verb.


Instead of flouring said couch crasher, we ended up dousing Josh - or actually, I doused Josh. You should check out Josh's online show - the dude is funny as hell.


Irony?




My roommate Anna -- shout out to Manchester!!!


Awesome -- Where the Wild Things Are -- fitting.


So, as we left Josh's Place, the sun was up...I think this was the third day in a row that I was awake from the previous night when the sun was rising.


There is something awesome about the lighting at 7am.
Milani and Ty.


And at that, I bid you adieu...
Peace

Party with Mad Zach and Ryebread

I got home Thursday night to find a nice little soirée taking place at the crib. We had a couple of friends in town from California (Mad Zach and Ryebread), and they put on a cool Psyphy light and music show.

Enjoy.

Mad Zach.
Zach is one of the illest producers that I have met in my life. He makes crazy electronic music as well as hip hop. This dude is awesome.

Ryan and Zach had the projector going, so throughout the night, I would pick up these little weird streaks of light in my images. A lot of cool stuff came out because of it.

It was definitely a party!!!

What up Crunc Tesla -- check out his record...
What's Really Rad...it features a bunch of people that I know and dig as extremely talented musicians.

Ryan at work on the visual effects.

My roomate Anna.

This is the light weirdness that I was describing earlier in the blog.

Have a view into our hallway.

Welcome back into the apartment. On the couch, you see my afghan blanket (knitted by my Aunt) that has somehow been appropriated by my roommate and his friends - that thing is like 20 years old.

This tag (below) is on the wooden post under my roommate's bed. If you do not know who BORF is, he is one of the most notorious taggers/artists in Washington DC. At some point, he was in our crib...that's what's up.

For any of you that question the validity of Graf as an art form, I suggest you try to paint a mural with a spray can...

and I pose a question as well...did Michaelangelo use a canvass for all of his work, what about the Cave paintings At Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc , Hieroglyphics, Sumerian inscriptions ... and countless other examples of artistic expression.

I would like to thank all of the thinkers, artists, and craftspeople that have made this a better and more beautiful world...especially if it turned the planet on its head.
PEACE