I meant to post this a while back, say, around the time it happened, but given that this interview took place immediately after my Connoisseur shoot on the eve of my flight to Rome, it just slipped through the cracks of the blogosphere somehow.
Anyway, as I reflect back on this past hectic month, having just submitted the last of my work for my various publications' December deadlines, in the spirit of the season into which there's no more pussyfooting around that we have indeed entered (Christmas tunes in every Starbucks!) I thought now would be a good time to revisit it and its subject saintly message.
For Sketchbook's upcoming sophomore edition, yours truly has profiled and interviewed the one and only Johnny Blueeyes and gotten the lowdown on how the House of Blueeyes came to be, what it believes in and where's its headed (i.e. the stars). But whilst Johnny arrived to the interview, not only feeling the love but also avec illustrated paper masks as per Bert of Bert Industries (the poison pen behind the sketches set to accompany Johnny's interview in the magazine) for a bit of fabulous in-front-of-camera silliness, the cafe in which conducted the interview was certainly not feeling us.
Hesitant whence we arrived with Gothic-black clad Johnny, Nedim the photographer and Joseph the cameraman, the staff looked at us as if we were some sort of destructive fashion cloud merging from out of the blustering evening, destroying the tranquility of the cafe. It certainly did not help when Johnny was touching up his black nail polish and smudged a little bit on their white table. Then when we went to momentarily unplug the downstairs speakers so as not to mess with our audio, the manager nearly had a heart attack. Half convinced we would be tossed out to conduct our interview in the rainy alleyway, before you could whip out that self-righteous New York attitude, Johnny had already worked his magic, shook off the unpleasantries and got the vibe back on track.
So be sure to check out our interview in both the next print issue of SKETCHBOOK and the live footage online!
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