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Well, it finally happened. With the iconic Mac mail ‘ding’, BKNY received its first order! Pictures above are of my poster prep for mailing. Hadn’t really thought about mailing labels, but I quickly threw one together, a little ink-jet hand stamp combo. They look great on the kraft tubes.

I have a feeling the word spread after giving a wayfarer print set to a certain bday girl (thanks Lauren!). But anyhow, it’s a great feeling knowing that someone will be enjoying my art on their apt walls. Not to mention, BKNY is on the map (as I tape up a dollar to my bedroom wall).

As for updates, I have been really concentrating on photography for my products. Can’t say how many times I have been switching pictures around but I’m getting more efficient as I become more familiar with my camera. I’m planning on printing (yes you heard it right, me and my hands!) my new design Friday. So expect it to be up for sale this weekend. I also came up with a real dope pillow case idea while napping (go figure). I’m thinking that will be my next thing to move on once my new shirts are up and running…one thing at a time.
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5 minute sneak peak!

Banksy’s film “Exit Through The Gift Shop” premieres in NYC this Friday (4/16) at Sunshine Cinema and I couldn’t be more excited. After reading this, I straight-away bought 2 tickets to Friday’s show SOLD OUT show. It’s going to be awesome. Not to mention, if it’s anything like his L.A. premiere, I’m pretty much guaranteed to see my first Banksy street piece (I have seen his gallery stuff).

The messages of Banksy’s work is what I dig the most. I love street art, but could never justify scribbling your ugly tag on random walls…for me its all about the visual impact (and for artist like Banksy, the message). I still have a ways to go ;).
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HOLY! I’m certain I’m not the only one blogging about how freakin’ awesome this video is, but damn. That TETRIS sequence…sooo clever. I really want to make that Pac-man sequence into some sort of shirt idea, but can’t now since I’d be copying. I hope someday I will get the opportunity to work on and learn special effects. I know Final Cut somewhat, but can’t imagine the cool promos/commercials I could do for BKNY if I knew all those effects tools.

Via Dailymotion

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It has taken me up until now (what the heck was I thinking) to finally pull the trigger on a digital camera. Buuut, I’m now the proud new owner of a Canon EOS Rebel XS DSLR and couldn’t be more excited. With good design and cool products a given, photography is the the keystone to selling clothing, etc online. You wait, BKNY is in for some extreme enhancements (enhance…enhance…).
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It’s here…well sorta. Even though I have a ton of more work still to do, I decided early this morning (6am!) that today was going to be the day I pre-launch BKNY to the masses (via Facebook). I am very thankful for all the positive feedback I have been receiving and proud of what I have achieved so far, but far from being satisfied. Be on the look out for constant updates and new style releases in the near future as I try to expand BKNY creatively. I definitely have some stuff cooking on the back burner that I am really excited about.
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Wow. Last night, besides not getting home until 3:30, (yeah, this morning was rough), was absolutely massive.

RECAP
• Yes, Le Poisson Rouge is an amazing venue. I will be attending more shows there in the future, fo’sho. Even though the show was sold out, you could still maneuver around (take notes Fillmore, pfffft!)
• I’m over trance. I am totally into this experimental, jazzy, heavy on the bass, psychedelic electronica that peeps like Flylo and NOSAJ THING are dropping, fo’real.
• Mamouns never tasted so good at 2:30am

Anyhow, back to the beats. NOSAJ THING killed it last night. He is definitely getting added to the ol’Pandora QuickMix and my ohmyrockness alerts . Flylo as expected, was the the cherry-on-top to a great evening. His new album is gonna be tiiight.
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Besides this past weekend’s weather being amazing, I finally had the chance to do my first official wheat paste (design, make paste, perform act). I had mentioned before that I was planning on pasting my address onto the front of my building (how it lacked a true identifying address). Well, last night after my fresh paste was done cooling, I hit my front door. My luck though, it has been soggy and wet (a wheat paste worst enemy) today, so I’m hoping it stays up until we get some sun so it can bake.


Besides that, I also had the chance to have Mr. Headhood hook my whip up with a custom ‘coolage’. Again, the rain may play a factor in how long it last, but for now it looks dope parked in my hood (if you look at second picture closely, top right, you can see miso giving her approval).

UPDATES!
• had an impromptu photo shoot for BKNY, products should be available to buy this week!
• countdown to Flying Lotus at Le Poisson Rouge on 3/30!
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My mini photo shoot with Clint was a success. I was able to re-design my BKNY landing page yesterday (to what I originally had in mind). My metal rimmed tags and striped string also finally arrived. I am planning on hand stamping each side of the tag, then with a safety pin, affix them onto the shirts (hanging under the sleeve). All the pieces are coming together slowly. I can’t wait until I can hold up a completed product (or better yet, make my first sale!).

Besides BKNY, the word has gotten around that I’m kinda an indexhibit master. My friend Emily came over and I helped her install (and code) a site for her book covers she designs. That last picture was from our walk with miso. Greenpoint has great unobstructed views of Manhattan along the East River (blocks from my apt).
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Yesterday, besides being beautiful, was a really good day – by good, I mean really productive. The photos above are a recap of what I got done.

1. Paid visit to my silkscreener to finish up my first run of shirts, I chose to run my printed label in green for the organic blanks (peep the hand stamped size, uugh!).
2. I figured I might as well hang my bike to make space for my inventory and to re-organize my office/bedroom.
3. Clint came over (needed to borrow his camera) and while sippin’ on some red & white dyn-o-mites (roomate’s nickname), he helped me snap some cool pics for my BKNY website. That picture is from my roof (shot with my iPhone). I came to the realization (I overlook the East River), that until the high-rise boom hits Greenpoint, I have waterfront property, holla!

All in all a great day by all means. Hopefully I can keep this productive vibe going for the rest of the week. I still have to finalize my sew-in label and finish the retail portion of my website.
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Today during some of my downtime at work, I finally designed the ‘99′ I am going to wheatpaste on my building’s door in Greenpoint. I figured since my door doesn’t even have a real functioning address anyhow, I might as well help out the mailman. You’d laugh if you saw what was up there now (wish I had a picture).

I ran old and yellowed newsprint through our HUGE Canon laser printer here at work. I had to cut down the sheets so I could affix them to color laser tabloid paper (to act as a guide, either that or the newsprint jams). The 9’s came out great and I am really excited about finding the right opportunity to put them up (unfortunately the forecast this weekend is a wet one). When the time does come, I am definitely going to enlist a little help from wheatpastin’ extraordinaire Clint.

Up until now, he’s been having all the fun in my hood.
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Above are some favicons (scaled 700%) I designed for the following sites:

• (BW) My portfolio site
• (BKNY) My new clothing site
• Veronica’s blog, Superveronica

I love creating favicons, then again I love logos so its only natural I would. You get only 16px X 16px to in essence recreate your logo or some identifying (brand) mark. Your site just isn’t complete (or pimp) without one. They are so easy to create too. Probably the hardest thing is finding a free .ico photoshop plugin which allows you to save your file with a .ico (icon) extension. Other than that it’s just overwriting your current favicon.ico via ftp and wallah!

For more detailed instructions, go here.
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