Kicks: Nike Women’s Air Force 1 High
Clothes: Shorts H&M
Happening: Record shopping for my DJ set at Turn Off The Radio unofficial Lovebox after party next Friday
Mood: C.R.E.A.M
lifestyle
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Jun 10
Kicking It – Fila F13
Kicks: Fila F13
Clothes: Dress Miss Selfridge
Event: Running errands, writing and testing out recipes for my ‘Milly Cooks Up‘ Feature on TheWhorington.com
Mood: Productive
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May 10
Snap shot
This was taken by photographer Katy Chan for a project we were all working on. It didn’t make the final edit but I like it nonetheless. Check out Katy Chan’s photography here: www.ktchn.com she’s done some amazing shots of Sigourney Standley (also pictured) so check them out CLICK.
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May 10
Kevin B Morosky!
I’ve known Mr Morosky for a while now and wanted to give him the AirsnGraces grilling knowing that it’d be no holds barred piece that would make for an interesting read. He may not be everyone’s cup of tea but quite honestly he’s mine all day long. Enough from me, have a read and see what Kevin has to say for himself:
Introduce yourself
I’m Kevin ‘B’ Morosky. No more ‘Milly’ (formerly Kevin ‘Milly’ Morosky). I dropped the ‘Milly. ‘B’ stands for my girl who’s got some time to do.
Why’d you drop the ‘Milly’?
Because I’m an old man. I can’t be carrying on with those Militant ways any more. It’s not about getting shifted over some minor shit.
What are you passionate about?
Love and that’s it. love is connected to everything. Even to hate. Everything I do is based on love.
So what’s your hustle?
Being me. Everything I do is based on memory or what I personally feel about a situation. If I’m not feeling it I don’t try and turn it into something that’s part of what I do. I love photography but I love photography because it documents my friends and my life. I don’t ever want to look back and not remember a certain point or time of my life. That’s why I do photography, that’s why it’s important.
What do you actually do though?
Primarily I’m an image-maker. I wouldn’t say I’m a photographer. Professionally what brings in the cheddar is my art direction and creative solutions. Then there’s all the other stuff I do, I’m one half of the white kids and bounty, Gloria loves Valentine. K swiss stuff and swear stuff.
What’s Bounty?
A monthly night at the ‘Old Blue Last’ in east. It’s mainly 90’s hip hop, new jack swing, garage and anything else we feel like playing. It started because we were tired of shit nights, nobody was doing what we wanted to hear so we were like ‘fine we’ll just throw our own party’. We never did it with the intention of it being the biggest party we just wanted to have a place where we could dance We didn’t care if anyone turned up.
Why are you called the white kids?
Me and the other half of the white kids Radi Dadi, both of us growing up we’ve always been interested in everything, we didn’t just love garage and R’n’B as the night might suggest, Radi’s the biggest Fleetwood Mac fan, I’m the biggest jazz fan. We were always into different things and not scared of that. Respective partners have always been from different races and we’ve always been in every single type of crowd. Along the way we got called Neeks, Geeks, Bounties, white kids. We thought, ‘fine we’ll take that name and turn it into something positive’. It’s kinda taking the piss out of ourselves but mainly and definetly the small minded. At the night there’s black people, white people, Chinese people, people from Mars, people from Venus, gay straight, transvestites all singing along to Biggie Smalls. It’s dope! That’s all we ever wanted a good vibe, all people mixing together and vibing under the music that we grew up with.
What projects are you working on at the moment?
Gloria Loves Valentine projects, Morosky T-shirts, Bounty in sweaden, Bounty news paper, My first book via Gloria Loves Valentine publishing. The book should be out at the end of the year.
What’s the book about?
It’s a relationship book. It’s a book about love and how love fails and how we treat love and how we, or I, remember love. It’s dissecting myself and fixing myself up for the next round of the next great love, the next person who comes around and blows me the fuck away. Its love documented via my photography and rants.
You’ve no qualms about laying yourself bare on the page, your blog’s pretty personal?
No cause it’s the truth. I am so not into lies or facades or people pretending. That shit will just keep you on a path that’s not your path. Then you end up in the gutter sucking dick for crack and you wonder why? It’s like: ‘I need to get a no 12 bus but I’m going to get on the 21’. Why? You needed to get the 12, like just cool out and wait for your bus. I’m just honest and I think more people just need to be honest and stop with the lying and the bullshit. Karma is real and people forget that. It’s from the smallest things to the biggest things. Even white lies aren’t that cool, just be honest especially with the ones you love. I don’t think there’s many blogs about that do what my blog does, which is really open up and be like ‘today I feel like shit’ or ‘today I got dumped and this is how I looked at it’. I think imagination has been lost, especially amongst the UK youth and I’m annoyed at it. Maybe I won’t be the one to break through and be like ‘ha ha I’m the leader of the free world’ but it might inspire.
Do you ever regret something you’ve posted?
I’m always 100%, I never back down. I’m from South Norwood.
What do you think about the current London ‘scene’?
I think it/we need to remember nothing is new. Please don’t forget there was the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s. Everyone is like ‘lady Gaga is this or that’ don’t get me wrong, I think she’s cool, I think she can perform and sing and write, she’s a G in that respect but I grew up with Grace Jones. That’s nothing new to me. I’m not trying to hate, but please don’t forget if these ‘scene’ people are still a live in 10 years time after their mutiple K overdoses, they’re gonna see it all happen again. It all repeats Nothing is new under the sun.
What inspires you to keep it moving, push it forward and make a difference?
Don’t really have a choice, it’s the only way forward. Like my grandparents didn’t come all the way over here to work so hard. Like the shit my people have been through, I don’t even know my people, have I even got my real surname? It’s that deep and it’s just like you’re alive and you’re here. Things are shit, I wish I didn’t get taxed as much as I do, I wish Mark Dupe was never, ever born but ,boy you just gotta get on with it. You to be happy but at the same time remember at the grass roots of it all certain people didn’t go through certain things to put me in the position I am in for fun. Like the world has to know my name in some form or another. Thats the least I can do.
What 3 things make you happy?
1. The Sun.
2. Sunday afternoons in Thornton Heath
3. Being understood by Mr Wells
What makes you stand out from the crowd?
There’s only one me. There’s only one me who’s had my upbringing. I remember watching Dave Chappell’s ‘Block Party’ and Jill Scott talking about Erykah Badu and she’s like ‘ but she can’t interrupt my Queendom and visa versa.’ Nobody gets that! I don’ look at the next man and be like ‘fuck I wish I could do that’. I’m like: ‘that’s heavy’ and I’ll support that all day long and then go off and do something only I can do and that I’m the best at doing. If everybody looked after themselves in that respect, just get on with their craft, their passion, it would be all jigga.
Who are you really feeling at the moment?
Always B.I.G erm Lioness, Jay Electronica, Jay Cole. Rick Ross, The Drums, Local Natives. ‘Shot by Shooter’, he does a blog where he goes around London and documents people’s style but why I’m so amazed by is he’s been doing it for over a year now and he’s got hundreds of images. In ten or twenty years time some of them people will be famous, some will be dead and he’s documented that part of London that nobody was looking at. Yael Fachler, I’m doing a joint exhibition with her.
What’s this exhibition you mentioned?
It’s called ‘Juice’ as in I ‘juiced a girl’ or juiced a boy in my case. It’s about sexual tensions, it’s about sexual urges, it’s about sexual attractions. It’s me a long side Yael Fachler. Yael’s documenting this subject in her own way and me in mine. The date is the 17th of June for a week.
Finally, what’s your stance on hype?
I’m from South and we never on a type ting. I’m not inna the hype thing unless it’s for PR of a product.
Check out Kevin’s projects here:
Photo by Harry Mitchel
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Apr 10
Nike Grid
On the weekend London hosts the Marathon, Nike are calling on people to rep their postcode and take part in a unique running game called ‘Grid’. The Nike ‘Grid’ will turn London into a gameboard for 24 hours. The ‘Grid’ consists of 40 post codes, you register the postcode you’re representing, and you have 24 hours to run as fast as you can within that postcode between the designated ‘Grid’ phone boxes which act as markers. Obviously the more designated phone boxes you hit, the more points you amass. One winner will be crowned from each postcode. You can register NOW here and the games starts from 8pm tonight
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Apr 10
All My Life
Sought after commercial director Simon Ratigan (he shot Sony ‘Foam City’ commercial amongst other) and musician Jont met in 1998 and agreed to collaborate on a creative project, 12 years later here it is. The video for Jont’s song ‘All my Life’ is made up of 100,000 still images Simon took over four days wandering through the American desert and Los Angeles, rendered into one image. An incredibly painstaking feat but a pretty spectacular outcome.
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Apr 10
The Force Is Strong
Imagine serving your nan a nice cuppa tea on one of these Star Wars saucers? Angela Rossi has worked her magic, hand-painting and transforming unwanted antique plates into these beautiful retro pieces. I expect to see lots of Star Wars geeks drinking tea and eating hot cross buns of these at the next convention (and ‘yes’ I have been to a Star Wars convention). Personally I would kill my nan for the above Ewok masterpiece but she’s already dead God rest her soul.
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Aug 09
Word to the wise
I discovered Bahamadia relatively late I spose, for someone who had a raging love affair with 90’s hip hop it always amazes me how I overlooked her. Back in those days I took a hiatus from checking for females MCees, having fallen head over heels for Mc Lyte, Salt & Pepper and Foxy Brown as a teenager, the next few years were mostly male dominated for me. I was introduced to her at university by the crate digging best mate of my then boyfriend. He put ‘3 tha hard way’ on a mix for me and I remember nearly weeping tears of head-nodding joy at this tune. Today this remains one of my most played tracks on my ipod – it never, never looses appeal for me.
Hailing from Philly, this lady was behind the decks for a good while before stepping up to smash mics. She had a moment signed to Guru’s Ill Kid records, lending her ridiculous flows to a variety of projects in the late 90’s and then went on to be signed by Chrysalis, which then folded a year later. Before it did she released her album ‘Kollage’ in 1996, lacing Guru and Premo beats with her unique, sultry flow. This album is a lot! Cop ‘True Honey Buns’ for a damning view on female hip hop hangers-on. She’s done numerous collabs, from Jedi Mind Tricks ‘Exertions’ remix (1999) to Roni Size’s ‘Watching Windows’ (1997).
Typically, as with most talented females in this music arena, unwilling to go the Lil Kim route, she remains on the margins of the gospel according to hip hop, only to be the discovered by crate diggers and ‘true’ heads. I’ve spent many hours trying to hunt down anything she’s released on wax and sadly, to date, have found only two releases available to buy. You could argue that she probably managed to hold onto her musical integrity and maintain her unique sound by not going the route of a major, thus keeping her raw and allowing her to collab on some of the stellar projects she has to date but, when you look at her discography and then ask a hip hop head about Bahamadia, it paints a pretty sad picture.
I leave you with this:
