I met up with Sherry and the photographer Howard Huang to shoot the pictures of the 5preview tawianese launch. He had a great studio just in front of Relish, Williamsburg, where I got my breakfast coffee and some news.
Sometimes I look like a boy. I got those LEE "boyfriends-cut" jeans some weeks ago and they make me feel like 15 again. My boyfriend stole them later on and offered me his other jeans and that would have made sense but they were way too big.Jamie, the tiny model was really cute. I didn't have time to hang around and see the other models so I'm very curious of the result. Howard is really professional and he worked with a lot of glamorous people in the hiphop-world. Sometimes FBI comes into his studio while they're shooting (pictures).
Sherry had some good ideas about distribution:
We went to McCarren-park to watch clouds and planes. It finally felt like summer. And on monday I'll be on one of those planes (can't tell you where, I got this surprise trip for Luca one day he felt a little bit low.)
Fort Greene.
I can't wait to go to the West Coast.
A decent picture of Michael Jackson. He is a little bit dressed like me.
We went to a projection of/discussion with the directors of Two Towns of Jasper at BAM, a part of the Afro Punk festival.
The film touched me a lot, in a lot of different ways. Normally people applauds after this kind of projections but everybody were a little confused causes it's not a film that ends in a good way so...silence. The film is a documentary made in a small Texas-town, Jasper, just after 3 white men tortured and killed a black man dragging him after their truck. They were the first white men ever in the state of Texas that got sentenced to death for killing a black man (James Byrd Jr) and that kind of things are not nice to think about. The film is a collaborative effort between a black and a white filmmaker, with the producers using segregated crews to document the town of Jasper over the course of the trials. Afterward a lot of people in the audience came up with really interesting questions and we stayed for another half an hour to listen to the discussion. The conclusion is that it's hard to create a perfect world and a lot of people want changes and "We shall over come" but if they really think about it they don't really know WHAT they want, what's the goal? Probably that no one should ever be judged or killed or treated bad by his/her race or sex.They way those guys tortured James Byrd Jr scares the shit out of me. It happened after they went out "to have some beers looking for girls". And if they didn't found James Byrd Jr on their way home, but "some girls" what the hell would have happened to them? I'm super-against death penalty but for sure this world would be a nicer place without this kind of aggressive monsters.
Love & Peace. And free pizza (and great music) at Charleston Pub on Bedford Ave.
We went to Grand Ferry Park to watch the skyline of Manhattan. And as in a lot of films we grew up with, we bought a beer in a brown paper bag. That was a big mistake, the cops came and we got a summons for "open container". So now we got into trouble with the law. A little bit like Bonnie & Clyde.
