Fool's Gold Recs Site Launch

Looks rad guys! See it for yourself.

big paper heads

interesting/awesome ad for converse featuring Kid Cudi, Bethany from Best Coast and Rostam from Vampire Weekend via Fool's Gold Recs

"never trust a man who looks like Omar Sharif"

It's about 42 degrees in Baltimore, and the middle of October? What is this?!
I'm completely unprepared- my coats are in Jersey. All I've got is this stylish fashion-cape, but it's warm so we good.

Fall break starts today, I'm staying around instead of heading back up north. Gotta get some work done and embark on some entrepreneurial ventures which will remain hush hush for the time being.

But anyway I had a (surprisingly) good crit in experimental type for my final cyrillic hang tags. Ken was really into them. I was unsure of the final product just because they felt a little too playful and a little too naive, you know? But Ken said that it worked and it was kind of reminiscent of J. Otto; which I could get down with- I liked Olive the Other Reindeer.

Here are jpgs of the tags before I printed and cut them out on fawn stonehenge. They fold down the middle. There is a string that ties around the folded center and then around the tag on the other end.


Plush - Holiday


Plush - Valentine


Plush- Spring

I presented the hang tags in three different colorways, with the intention for the boutique to change them with the season, look for that month; making the tags themselves feel like more of a covetable item than just an indicator

In other news: the Duck Sauce video for aNYway finally came out.
I AM OBSESSED. So amazing.
I'm so happy for the Fool's Gold Fam. Enjoy!

Duck Sauce "aNYway" (Surface To Air version) from A-Trak on Vimeo.

A PENNY A NICKEL A DIME

Okay, so on my businessman commute, I pass a man on the corner of 7th and 34th that's collecting money for the less fortunate. He is there every morning just screaming A PENNY (pause) A NICKEL (pause) A DIME. And for whatever reason when I hear that, it's always to a Baltimore Club beat. The PennyNickelDime song is stuck in my head now and I guess, that's why I'm sharing it with you!

Also, I have a bunch of photos from Flashing Lights "Ibiza by the Gowanus" and a couple from Crest Fest documenting my very excellent Saturday with the Fool's Gold crew. However, my camera battery is "exhausted" so until I find a charger or go to CVS, they're trapped in memory card babylon.

Well I gotta return to my intern grind but let me leave you with this:



I like Rihanna's outfit, she's like neo Blanche in the best way.

BEST OF THE BEAST

This is so exciting!
Go out and support the Fool's Gold fam if you can! Dust's art is rad, the people are rad, the party is probably going to be even more rad. I would go if I could, you should if you can!

Let's Get Radical.

What an awesome/gnarly/busy weekend!

- had my first real interview at a real company with real art directors in new york city and it was a real positive experience (!)

- explored Brooklyn on my own two feet

- finally got out the Fool's Gold office in Williamsburg to hang out with my brother and met Dust La Rock, he's super nice and super talented!

- Walked allllllll the way from Metropolitan and Lorimer to River Street to get to Mollusk Surf Shop, which was a really rad experience. I mean walking was walking, but it was great to get finally get out the shop. I've been reading the blog since I discovered it at the beginning of the semester, and all the dudes who were there were so friendly and knowledgeable. I hung out with them for a while, read the Leroy Grannis book, asked questions (in all my years of coastal living I'd never seen a swallowtail board , maybe I just wasn't paying attention, and was baffled when I saw them on the blog all the time, of course I inquired), and enjoyed an afternoon beer. Their hospitality was really refreshing, thanks guys! It was real surreal to walk out of the shop onto a deck and then back into the city, not onto a boardwalk.



- Attempted to find the Cinders Gallery, but failed, I'm probably just goofy and walked right in front of it

- saw some good friends

- hung out with my parents and genuinely enjoyed their company

- suffered from car failure on the highway and did not make it to family easter, but still managed to have a good time

- got up at 4:30 this morning to catch the 5:58 train back to baltimore, and have been going all day since


OH! I FINALLY bought Big Wednesday at Mollusk -- total win.

never not working

I'm selling a few monoprints at the MICA art market this weekend. This is one in a series of five.



They're collagraph prints with a view hand embellishments, including but not limited to "shin-cole" (I am spelling it phonetically but it's when you adhere bits of paper onto your print before applying ink) and sewing.

I'm happy to sell them. If I didn't they'd just be rotting away in a drawer somewhere. They're certainly not an embodiment of my aesthetic by any means, but they were a good means of growth through experimentation.


Mom came down, and we spent the day together which was very nice.
She brought all sorts of treats from home, including but not limited to EMPANADAS (!!!), my nameplate necklace, and assorted bath products.

I spoke about design at department function today and that was a great experience.


I'll be going to Manhattan next weekend (finally), after of course, Treasure Fingers & Blackstarr on Friday.

vampire weekend kid sister

Some pictures from Summer Stage at Central Park with Vampire Weekend and Kid Sister. One of my favorite memories of last summer.