In Rotation: Brian Deka Paupaw
Brian Deka Paupaw
Designer
Se7en Nations
Brownsville NY
Music: White stripes, The Stills, Bad Brains, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Uhuru, Horace Andy, Linval Thompson, Sizzla, Capelton, Big Daddy Kane, Mad villain, Ghostface, Public Enemy, O.C., Raekwon, Gang starr, N.E.R.D, Nas, Kool G Rap, MC Shan, KRS, Tribe Called Quest, Alchemist, Smif and Wesson, Planet Asia, Redman, The Roots, Michael McDonald, Cameo, Chaka Khan, Earth, Wind & Fire, Seal, and Stevie Wonder.
Magazines: Complex, Metro Pop, Sports Wear International, Snow Boarder, The Ave, Flaunt, How, and Mac Addict.
Books: Art of War, Hagakure-Way Of The Samurai, Invisible Man, Stupid White Men, The Mafia Manager, The Alchemist, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Assata, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Business Of Fashion, The Tipping Point, Dondi White, Where'd You Get Those?, Castro's Final Hours, and Fidel Castro: Speeches.
Movies: Warriors, Wild Style, Star Wars, The Education Of Sonny Carson, Matrix, Seven Samurai, Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Confidence, Black Caesar, Truck Turner, Finding Forester, Gladiator, Dog-Town And Z-Boys, Goodfellas, City Of God, Kill Bill, Animatrix, and Bruce Lee anything!
TV Shows & Cartoons: "Different Strokes," "The Jefferson's," "Good Times," "Voltron," "Thundercats," "Silver Hawks," "Transformers," "MacGuyver," "The A-Team," "Threes Company," "3-2-1 Contact," "Sopranos," "Oz," "Punk'd," "Dave Chapplle Show," "Benny Hill," "Bernie Mac," and "In Living Color."
Hobbies: Snowboarding around the globe. The most gangsta trip I ever did was going to Argentina in August to snowboard the Andes MT! the scenery looked like a national geographic episode!
Style: Being the thugged out Lenny Kravitz! lol I can get down with the suits and shoes (peep my 30th birthday in the photo gallery) or pimp out the jeans and tees with custom art on them. My personal style is called "Make It Happen" what ever you have to do to look fly without going broke. I like Diesel Jeans and any other brand with nice fits. No jeans hanging off my ass! Was a Nike head, now I'm exploring sneakers that aren't hot on the street so I can be original.
Projects: Work with a great Design house by the Name of Sistahs Harlem. Peep em out at sistahsny.com. Sample sale this saturday 04/17/04 so go to site for details. I hand paint the back of Deconstructed Blazers for men and Women. I sell the blazers at Atrium in downtown Manhattan. I'm graphic T-shirt Fanatic! Love t-shirts with dope graphics and messages. There are a great amount of non logo tees on the market now, thank god the consumer is getting tired of the billboard graphics. Look out for Ten Deep, Five Crown, Foundation, Ryan McGuiness, and my new Line Se7en Nations, which will be hand washed and hand painted tees of sickness in limited editions. Be my friend so you can collect them all!
Spots: Moe's, Brooklyn Moon, Star Foods on Friday, Vegetarian Paradise, Red Bamboo, Quantum Leap, Kate's Joint, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Metropolitan museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem.
Future Plans: Snowboard on every Continent, a good retirement strategy, have children, save the children, take disadvantaged children snow boarding, do something good and get paid in full with this design Degree I'm still paying for!
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Replies: 11
posted by: ohsokool @ 04/13/04: 10:10 AM EST
cant wait to hear that stayfly/Se7en Nations promo mix cd. ;)
posted by: Bigitup @ 04/13/04: 02:02 PM EST
Yes Deka! Just returned from Whistler and Blackcomb mountains myself for some serious boarding. Also peeped the world championships @ Stratton. We need to take a run next winter!
posted by: Froglips @ 04/13/04: 03:03 PM EST
Deka,
You are a MAD TALENTED, MAD COOL and EXTREMELY BRIGHT BROTHER. I wish you all the best and I am sure that you are going to go very far. Nuff respect.
Frogs
posted by: deka @ 04/13/04: 04:04 PM EST
you know how I do fam! yo bigitup we have to hit the pow next season!
posted by: Baby Tech @ 04/13/04: 08:08 PM EST
Great selection of music. (Thumbs Up)
posted by: deka @ 04/14/04: 12:12 PM EST
yeah Tech, I love to listen to different tunes when I design. the funny thing about hip hop is that it has samples from all genres of music, it sort of prepares your ears for different music.
posted by: socialb77 @ 04/14/04: 01:01 PM EST
Deka, Much love to a fellow Brooklynite, Crusader & a brother that is making SERIOUS moves. It was a pleasure meeting you last Friday :)
posted by: deka @ 04/14/04: 06:06 PM EST
word social77 let's get up soon. it's going to be another great summer
posted by: Raquel aka ultra @ 04/15/04: 03:03 PM EST
Big up man. It was a pleasure to finally meet you after so many years of knowing you! Hopefully we can collabo on some design ish soon! Peace baby!
posted by: Megga @ 04/16/04: 08:08 PM EST
Make It Happen Deka. I'm gonna see ya 'bout not inviting me to your 30th B-Day Bash.
posted by: Nathan Thomas @ 04/19/04: 08:08 AM EST
Shout out to my dude DEKA..the effin king of the graphics in NYC...where's my hat fool? (lol)
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