To Darrin Hudson: AI COMPLEX.

About Me

Name: jeffstaple

Location: New York, New York, United States

I think everyone had a "Darrin Hudson" in their lives. Darrin Hudson was in my high school, back in Marlboro, NJ. You know, that person that you had to one-up all the time. Didn't matter what it was: Gear, hair, grades, sports, whatever...it was ON. Well for Darrin and I...it was kicks. Plain and simple. Oddly enough, in a school with over 1000 kids, me and him were the only 2 really into sneakers back then. This is my blog dedicated to Darrin. This is to tell Darrin that I'm still out there, and if he wants to battle, here it is son!! Bring it!! I've since lost touch with Darrin, but thanks to him, you all get to check out the kicks I have amassed over the years. So it is here, that I will archive every pair of shoes I own. It’ll include detailed photos, a grading system, a little tidbit behind each one and every single one will be available for purchase. (Simply POST A COMMENT with your offer). Some other little goodies sprinkled throughout also. Even if I updated a different shoe every week, it would take me about 3 years to complete this project. So sit back and enjoy! The project begins January 1st, 2006...

Friday, January 20, 2006

AI COMPLEX.

This evening I went to a cafe in Harajuku (+ac) to meet up with Ai... a designer and artist that used to work for Staple Design Japan. She's on her own now and doing very well on freelance projects and working comfortably out of her home/office. She is cool peoples.

During this, Hiroshi stopped by. Complex Magazine was trying to do a story all week on Hiroshi, but they just kept calling at the worst times! (At no fault to them, just bad timing.) But we'd be boarding an airplane, going into the Onsen, getting off a chair lift, etc...timing was just fucked up. So Complex emailed me (since they saw from the blog that I was in Japan with him) and asked if I would do the interview in person. Mind you, this is my quote-unquote vacation. Normally I would have said piss off, but Hiroshi looks out for me a lot and the least I could do was make him sound as cool as possible in my home turf. Plus I get to expense an iTalk MP3 recorder. (woo-hoo!) In addition to the interview, I had to shoot him. So ghetto...anyway, we'll see how it comes out soon.

Some interesting snippets from the interview:

"I get inspired by people."

"I try and be honest with myself. That's all I've been doing from the past 20 years."

"If i go to sleep and I don't wake up tomorrow...it's fine for me."