delachaise.
my student, and his uncle.
decatur street, new orleans.
mardi gras, year two.
my gate of beads, and my babies in the marching band.
what a season.
i was so young.
throwback.
miss you mariposa.
vintage de goede vacation.
my best friend alex tran is on a new mission to do street style in japan. this is his first post.
happy new year.
Horie, Osaka
watts towers.
found in the neighborhood of watts in los angeles.
built over thirty years by an italian immigrant sam rodia. he used an assortment of materials, including cement, tiles, wire hangers, and glass bottles. anything he found, really.
the towers are tucked away in a working-class neighborhood more infamous for the 1965 watts riots than rodia’s life work.
the city wanted the structures demolished in the late 1950s. some neighbors found the towers unsightly, and encouraged their children to vandalize the towers. they survived, and now they are one of the few folk-art historical sites in the united states.
my friend kim works at NPR West in culver city.
before we went to lunch today, i had a private tour of the NPR studios. the picture above is where renee montagne records morning edition. the red phone is her direct line to steve inskeep, who records morning edition in DC.
by far the coolest.
kayne’s style has evolved so much from those slotted sunglasses he wore in the stronger music video (which you can undoubtedly still find in mall kiosks around the country).
hip-hop avant garde?
