A while back Mr. robotiks and I went to review the premiere of Workingg Class Rockstar. (An Issue Zero Adventure...Comming soon!) A spokesperson for this virtual periodical brought in an employee of O'Gradys (COLLAGE AND MCCAUL, a student loan sponge) who was gonna make custom ISSUE ZERO MAGAZINE HOODIES.
So I says to myself, self, thats some dope hookup.
And it woulda been too... had not our friend took a quick earliy morning trip off his skateboard right under one of Toronto's graveyard powershiftin street-sweepers, which shattered his right elbow, putting the sweaters on hold.I find all this out from our spokesperson, and think, well, better him than me, right? There but for the grace of God is what my sister would have said.
Fuck right off, I can think what the hell ever I wanna, ya damn slang-junky.
About 150 hours later, I find him sitting at O'Gradys, nursing a beer and a smashed arm in plaster.
"holyfuckyougottabeshittinme"
Cameron informs me that one of the hoodies is done except the letters which I didnt even give a fuck about cuz I was still tryn to forget the images of "shatter blisters" he described from the acceident earlier.
Knowing fully that at any given moment some completely different and likely more distracting event was going to occur, I knodded and empathized with cam about not remembering the actual accident until a week later on his way to move out, on our way to his apartment. At his place, which remended me of a couple places I lived in before. the kind of place thats like a small tourist town, it takes about a day to see it all, but fits into a two room . I hadnt seen this type of creative freedom since my Old Man put the "throw things just to see where they fall" attitude in me back in '89.
But is it the good shit man? the hoody is killer quality; a design on wax paper, to a transfer, to the hoody, then sewn on.
Cam made rockin hoodys in an apartment that all the kings tow trucks and forensics scientists couldnt pull "double helix" oudova text book.
Mr. Sharifs is currently scrathing a blister with a long stick under his cast while he tries to think of a good way to build his case agaisnt the city for damages. I think he has a good case.
He's available throught ISSUEZERO@GMAIL.COM
His gear goes for $30/T-shirt. It's totally worth it. Take it from a guy that has toiled over textiles and the profit margin for this art form; the process that creates their awesome effects is a bitch to pull off this good, and is therefor a wicked deal for killer actually unique gear.
BELOW: TAXI DRIVER, PYSCHO, AND BOMBER PLANE
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