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Every Day in Vane - August 21th - 23th 2004

21th: Camera Phone

22nd: Baltra blowin' smoke

18th: Did a shoot on Anna's roof on Saturday photographing her, Ammar and Jeff. Much thanks to Ammar for the assisting...photo's of Amma coming soon.

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STAY FRESH

Last Wednesday, my boy Christian and his partner Brandon, the production duo better known as Fresh Prodeuce, competed at the iStandard Producer's Showcase.


Their beats were be judged against 10 select up and coming NYC producers by a panel of industry heavyweights, competing for a Roland prize package and possibly the opportunity to land some serious record placements.

The panel of judges included Lenny S., (Senior VP of A&R for Roc-A-Fella / Def Jam), Devo Springsteen (Grammy Award Winning Producer for Kanye West "Diamonds", John Legend, Cassidy, etc.), Omar Grant (Creative Director of A&R for EMI Publishing), and Illmind (Producer for G-Unit, SkyZoo, etc.)

Straight up, them boys shut it down. The emcee of the show thought that they had cheated and put in extra beats because Fresh Pro is on some next level shit. The DJ had to come over the loud speaker with That Was Only 5 Beats to put dood in his place. While most the competition relied on samples and borrowed sounds, Christian and his boy are legit musicians, and doods actually play their own riffs and drum lines. Chopping up enough vocal samples to keep the crowd happy, their banging bass lines and musical style ran from synthed out futuristic bangers, to head nodding club beats to raw, Dirty-South style bass with a more musical inflection, all while retaining a signature, Fresh Pro sound.

For all their industry weight, the judges were moved. First words that came out were, "Can I get that CD?!?" while shouts of TO! came from some females in the crowd, since Brandon resembles the Dallas wide-out.

Keep your eyes on these boys, talent like theirs doesn't stay unnoticed for too long.

Every Day in Vane - August 15th - 20th 2004

Been so busy the past couple of days, but have been taking photos...

15th: Vane Legal Dept...

16th: This is Anna you can follow her every move at twitter.com/annafrenkel

17th: It's my worst nightmare...

18th: Reminds me of my schoolyard days...

19th: Obama is all up in the club!

20th: This dude sings while he cuts your hair..wish he rapped

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NOT FINDING GOD

I recently just finished reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and I would highly recommend it to anyone, religious or not, whether Jesus is your homeboy, or if you just left your Jesus piece at home. Dawkins, an accomplished evolutionary biologist, argues from a scientific and humanist viewpoint why he overwhelming believes there is no God, highlights the historical fallacies of the Good Book, and goes on to further to establish why organized religion has historically been a dividing force.

Understanding the essence of his subject matter, Dawkins never takes himself too seriously, but his impassioned critique of modern religion can't help but strike some note of truth underneath his humor and wit. In today's environment of blind Bible-thumping and religious wars, this book is especially pertinent for any logical, rational mind

These summer weekends are numbered...

Summer just flew by didn't it? I'm trying to enjoy these warm days as much as I can before NYC becomes painfully frigid...

Everyone seems pretty excited about headin out...

First stop Belmost in Union Sq for Alex G's birthday

Happy Birthday homie
hope you had a good time....
Then hit up Sahara East to kick it with the boys
WTF...can they even do this?

Had brunch with Anna this morning, the omelette at Cafe Brama was delicious...finally a place where I can add chicken to my breakfast!
Saw this guy selling some crazy book and got in the mood to bookshop
I've always been into old school russian cover designs
Hit up Strand for a couple of hours...its so hard to leave that spot


This is what I ended up buying...seems like a pretty interesting bunch of books...
I wonder if there is a Men's Computer Literacy Handbook is....oh wait...thats right...we don't need one...

Book was published in 1992, I wonder if they would still have a white dude in a ski mask for the cover if it was published today. Its so interesting how the whole meaning of the word "Terrorism" has changed so much in the past 4 years.

Every Day in Vane - August 14 2004

Today was Pakistan's Independence Day



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Every Day in Vane - August 13 2008

I didn't leave my house today, worked from home and took this shot of my brother Ali



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