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Nov24

Robot Koch (Review)

Robot Koch

Death Star Droid

Released by Robots Don't Sleep


Robert Koch's nom de beat, "Robot," is more than a play on words. If it was just that, it'd be stupid. The idea of an indeterminate grey area between human and machine pervades every element of his debut, and so just as he's retrofitted his human name into a piece of equipment so he struggles throughout Death Star Droid to find humanity within his equipment. It's a heady, intermittently brilliant trip, recalling most directly in its plush post-hip-hop bounce Flying Lotus's Los Angeles moreso than Koch's glitchy and club-centric ...
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Aug28

Vegas: Networking on CRACK…no really, on crack!

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Vegas is pulsating… at this very moment this city is swarming with tastemakers, beat killers, creative believers, and pop-persona's galore!!

It’s URB's bi-annual trip out to Vegas for the street wear and fashion tradeshows. These days its not just one or two tradeshows per a season but rather there's a plethora of shows which editors, publishers, stylists, know-it-all's, and linked in folks of all walks of life come to be a part of…

Above and beyond viewing the hottest up-and-coming lines out on the market for the following season…I'm coming to see all this as a crack ass mass-networking cornucopia of sorts. For a style editor like myself (who works with so many brands, most of which are based in NYC and LA) it’s a chance not only to view spring/summer …

Aug09

Perez Hilton+URB Sept COVER shoot+ABC Nightline

It was a Monday in early Jun when my editor told me we needed to shoot this month’s cover. . .in four days. It would be the last time Beth Ditto and Perez Hilton were in the same location for two months. And it wasn’t happening in LA, where URB is based, or New York, where most of our photogs reside. The shoot would take place in Atlantic City. I racked my brain for a photog that had the look we need, one who’d drive three hours from NYC to Atlantic City (cuz God knows there’s no talent just hanging out in AC), who would work on a small budget, and be excited to make it happen. Tony Stamolis was my man. I had my shooter, but what about my team? We also needed to find hair …

May10

Kickin’ it with Kanye…and his Mom!

Kanye's literary PhD of a mother is showing the world how to cultivate a celebrity musician in her new book, “Raising Kanye”.

As Operations Manager at URB, I don't often get to go “on assignment”, so I was pretty damn excited to be in the press pit at this book signing, snapping photos with my palm size Olympus.

After I got some photos, I headed over to the line with the common-folk and waited my turn to meet Mr. West and the woman behind the man. The entire event was pretty low-key, so there were only about 100 people there who were either randomly in the store or heard about his appearance from Border’s E-Newsletter, very intimate.

I introduced myself to Kanye and …