Issue 4 // February2015
GUNS & CRAYONS // Clothing Brand @gunsandcrayons // Twitter - It’s rare we introduce new product for us It’s less about the money and more about making sure the people that love the brand stay in love with it. - We never marketed the brand on Twitter. What’s crazy is we are just being ourselves. We don’t have a hidden agenda on Twitter. We get on and everything is really organic. You see brands and people doing strategic things now in days which is weird to me. Our plan isn’t to have a million people in a Guns & Crayons tee because that’s just not our goal. - [The most popular pieces have been from the] Rob The Rich collection. People forget that Guns stands for stick up and Crayons for kids. So the name of the brand is code for stick up kids and the rob the rich collection goes right in hand with that. Sometimes I believe our concepts are so simplified that the complexity gets lost. - Being a kid I used to think that if something was hot and people supported then it had to go to the forefront. Well once you enter the industry you realize none of that matters and that actually it’s all politics. Being from the streets and dealing with things in that environment my entire life, you don’t become diplomatic. There is no gray area. It’s all politics and very few people supports what they actually think is amazing. Instead it’s one big popularity contest ran by people who aren’t even that cool themselves. - Philly girls are survivors they are either really hardcore or really artsy and always have a good time where ever they are at it seems. - I would say if you are from the suburbs you should focus on going to fashion school and leave street wear for us dirty grimy kids who didn’t have many opportunities growing up. -
Steve Tyson // MC, DJ & Filmmaker - I’m just a pure hip hop artist. - I don’t rap about anything that I don’t think, feel or experience. I’m not running around strip clubs blowing my money so I’m never going to rap about that stuff. I’m a doctoral student who’s all about helping people and fixing a lot of the issues that are going on. - I’m basically telling everyone to celebrate because everything is so fucked up. You know, wile out release that stress, but at the same time, you still have to stay sharp because the reason everything is so fucked up right now is because that one percent really is controlling everything. People might connect to the fact that they hear Ciroc, Henny. They might grasp one of those buzz words, but once they grasp the whole theme and message of the song, they’ll say oh shit he’s talking about a fiscal revolution in the United States of America. - I was involved with the Occupy Movement in several countries. A lot was documenting it to a certain extent, but it was also because I’m with it. New York, when it was first going down in Zucotti park. In Dublin, Ireland. That was all financial. I was also in Cyprus, but their movement was different because it was strictly about what was happening on their island. They were occupying the buffer zone, saying it shouldn’t exist. I watched this musician, Sertouge, and in between his songs he talked about some of the racial issues on his own island, about how he and his band getting jumped if they were on the Greek side of the island, and barely making it back to the Turkish side with their lives, let alone their instruments. You know just hearing him express these things in conversation, but at the same time putting a lot of these stories through his music and sharing that with folks and using that as a method to bring the island together and healing people. That was pretty powerful. That was cool. -
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as ‘the environment’--
profound division
that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a between it an ourselves. We have given up the understanding -- dropped it out of our language and so out of our thought -- that we and our country create one another, depend on one another, are literally part of one another; that our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land; that as we and our land are part of one another, so all who are living as neighbors here, human and plant and animal, are part of one another, and so cannot possibly flourish alone; that, therefore, our culture must be our response to our place, our culture and our place are images of each other and inseparable from each other, and so neither can be better than they other.” - Wendell Berry
Adjustable harness and elastic cage bra by AGASHI by Christina O; Bandeau by ADHD Driven; Silk organza layered wrap skirt by Bianca Rachele
Jewelry by Vannucci, Ltd Bandeau by ADHD Driven; Tiered satin organza mini by Bianca Rachele Opposite page: Silk chiffon and dyed silk shantung with hand beaded and crochet webbing: Bianca Rachele gown
The Boundaries Issue Interview 2 // Guns & Crayons @gunsandcrayons 4// Steve Tyson @juslistenent Art 6, 7, 11, 12 // Mark Price Fashion 8 // Undo the Boundaries Photographer: Steve Celestin @muchwolf Model: Kathleen Garvin @kathleen_garvin Stylist / Cover Model: Namruta Patel @namie24 Wardrobe: Toile Atelier @toileatelier Jewelry: Vannucci Ltd BADMASH is a Philadelphia-based zine produced by Vinti Singh.