soooo, i stole photos from my friend dennison’s facebook hehehehehe!

the night started off pretty hectic (especially before even leaving my parents’ house because my little cousins were trying on all my clothes and shoes). i finally hopped on the freeway, and then realized i took the wrong one (see what a year will do to ya?), then hopped back on track after getting through the TL. i then spent another hour or so looking for parking and when i finally gave in to parking in the garage, i found a sweet spot across the street!

there were already a good lot of people in and outside the store and i was so happy to see the majority of the fatlace bloggers in town! benny gold and hiromi gold came by as well – i love these two; hiromi because of our shared love for uhm… edward bahaha, benny because he’s one of the bf’s besties and the most stylish hippie ever.

anywho, i was able to meet many mannnnyyy new faces (like equilibrium and finally met intern kaezel) and OF COUUUURSE the WTForks ladies came through rollin up with our new jewry (oh, right, photos to come…. later).

ok, i’ll shut up and have you enjoy some of the photos i stole:

this is my long time friend dennison… he knew me when i had long hair, no eyebrows, and dark lipliner and thought i was the shizzz… so yea, since freshman year of highschool hahaha

after the store reception, we all headed across the street to the o izakaya lounge to have some drinks and listen to some music. chatted it up with the golds and more of our friends came through. even my cousins from chicago were there with all their friends!

wnkk were in the house – pat, ant, fran, miso, chris, dan, angelo, and more were providing some of the music. thanks to franboogie for helping host too.

the made jewelry ladies were there too!! yayyyy! geez, i should really stop mentioning who was there because i know i’m going to miss people out…. but real quick, courts, kris, adapt clothing, paloma (nice to meet you), peabe, and a bunch of hellaflush were in the house too!

and before i end this post, CONGRATS MARK FOR MAKING IT TO 10 YEARS! AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME AS PART OF THE STAYFRESH CREW FOR THE PAST uhmm…. 3 OR 4 OF THOSE YEARS!!!! truly blessed =)

and uhm, if ANY of you have more photos – leave a comment and link me! my camera died halfway through – doooooohhhhh!!!!!!!! way to go jess. WAY TO GO.

see you there!

and the kid. <3

via source (trafik x wolf pack hustle x lab)

we had dinner at hiroko’s place in soho – YUMMMMMMM

afterwards, went over the bridge to practice some night shots with my newwwwww RICOHHHHHHHH (thanks mark hehehehe), some practice still needed, but it was cold that night so i was not trying to stay out that long.

oh and then met up with some friends at a bar in bushwick that i never knew existed in my hood – ha!

john messing around with my camera…

anyway, josh’s main squeeze bari schlosser, had a bunch of her artwork displayed, wrapped up, screenprinted around the shop. SO many people to show their support! it always amazes me how small the nyc art community is, especially all the different generations from the old-school heads to the admirers of the old school heads to the old shool heads’ own kids! ya dig?

anywho, i love when the “unsung hero” gets to shine in the limelight =)

doh! caught her with her eyes closed – my bad… but that’s ariel (josh and bari’s cutey patootey daughter) to the left and bari to the right:

see the family resemblance?

the NYC based duo gill and jill bumby – i was too scared to get “appraised”

josh wasn’t scared, nor was ariel lol

this is mervyn, pronounced MERWYN with a dub-ya. he pretty much runs shit.

i failed miserably on the la esquina front =(

i opened up the fitting room door and found all the missing kids!

DA boyz

all in all, i had a nice time seeing my friends and hanging out with people i hadn’t been able to for a looong time. fall/winter events are the best because everyone pretty much stays indoors and makes it feel that much cozier =)

Another Inner City Bike

Our project, simplicity in inner city bicycling, was at first glance a fun aesthetic opportunity in new trends, color, and materials. Our target lived / worked in an inner city environment with minimal space. Bicycling at this level can be more about fashion and culture than speed and performance.

After the first few brainstorm sessions we knew there where bigger opportunities. The project ended up rethinking what a “frame” meant, getting ride of basic key components, and creating a new type of compact bicycling. Inspired by the first the “hobby horse” from it’s simplicity and secondly the cafe race scene. Each is an exercise in stripping something down to its core.

via jruiter via candy cranks

]]> http://fatlace.com/stayfresh/yoshi/2009/11/minimalist-bike/feed/ 0 http://fatlace.com/stayfresh/yoshi/2009/11/1994-fireworks-arepas-girls-night/ http://fatlace.com/stayfresh/yoshi/2009/11/1994-fireworks-arepas-girls-night/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:22:58 +0000 Jessica "Yoshi" Gueco http://fatlace.com/stayfresh/yoshi/?p=3441 yes, indeed it was a girls night. i linked up with the mates: grace, suz and shanny. before stuffing our faces with cuban arepas, we headed over to a screening of ema dallas’ “too much bang for your buck.”

i didn’t know too much about the film since grace was the one that found it via face book lol. however, i DID find out that it was a film taped in ‘94 in nyc about fireworks. NUFF SAID. i’m totally game!

it was held at pink pony’s (right next door to the fish), i’ve always passed by it, but never went inside, its VERY cozy… i will go back.

here are some trailers:

it was pretty awesome, i love seeing 90’s footage – so raw.

anyway, after stopping myself from eating all the free bread and butter at pink pony’s, we headed over to caracas for some arepas. google it. AMAZING. instead of chips and guacamole, they have plaintain chips and GUACACA!!! YUMMMMMMM!!!!

we hit up joe’s shanghai for some soup dumplings after our walk… i love walking through chinatown because its SO lively (although you have to walk in the streets sometimes because there are just WAY too many people on the sidewalks at times). igei picked up a coconut (hehe, been using my new flip camcorder as you can see, sorry for all the bumpiness too…):

after eating our fill at joe’s shanghai (i wanted to post a video of it, but it needed some editing, so i’ll have to wait for another time to post the “how to eat a soup dumpling” tutorial lol), we stuck around so my girls sunshine, crystal and candace could meet us to say hello. i’ve known sunshine and crystal for YEARS – they were my favs in high school (they were the cool ones a year above me lmao). sunny just moved here a few months ago and crystal is visiting with candace. i LOVE them… can you see why? ->

on the way home, we met the best kitty ever at the bodega across the street. we tried to buy him too, but it didn’t happen =(