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Danny Jacobs

Boxer

"Inside the ring I have a warrior's mentality. I'm out for blood. I'm out for vengeance."
Veronica Vasicka

Minimal Wave

"I think this music is the soundtrack to city living. To me it sounds really organic even though it's made with machines."
Fred Cray

Photographer

"Setting myself on fire was a trial and error process. There was some pain..."
Josh Hadar

Bike Builder

"This has become an obsession, a sickness. I have about 30 different ideas for bikes in my head at any given time."
Molly Crabapple

Artist

"I am an illustrator, which in the art world, is very much equivalent to whore."
Lorie Karnath

President, The Explorers Club

"Members from our club have been the first to climb Mt. Everest & the first to land on the moon."
Josh Ozersky

Burger Expert

"Hamburgers should not have sauces. Sauces, like a klansman’s hood, are a way of covering up something evil."
Jim & Hester

Interior Designers

"I should thank the Diamonds for giving me a career and Mike D for calling me 'The Furniture Pimp'. I'll never live that one down."
Ari Up

Punk Legend

"My sound is authentic and honest. You can hear Brooklyn coming through it."
Susan Blond

Warhol Star & Publicist

"Bad was an Andy Warhol movie I was in. I had an important role, which was throwing a baby out a window."
Brazilian Girls

Band

“We’re part pop, part electronica, part world, part dance and part dub."
Miles Rohan

The Corduroy Club

"The club was met with a lot of resistance. In fact, our first website was sabotaged."
Ted Rall

Editorial Cartoonist

"Very simply, since 9/11, most of my colleagues in the media have become pussies."
Noémie Lafrance

Site-Specific Choreographer

"Some of the places I've created shows are abandoned and not what people usually see as beautiful. It's nice to reinvent it's meaning."
Johnny Iuzzini

Pastry Chef, Jean Georges

"There are so many great restaurants in NYC. If I could, I'd go to a different one every night."
Pigeon Lady

Pigeon Fancier

"Racing pigeons is a big money game. It's generally a 'made man's' sport."
Trenton Doyle Hancock

"I get my inspiration from comics, films, toys & posters and then I put them together to form a hybrid experience."
Kev O'Kane Part II

The Future of New York City

"When the tsunami finally hits New York City it will be just about empty. There will be some scavengers left that will probably die."
Kev O'Kane Part I

Past Life Regressionist

"Past Life Regression is the closest thing we have to time travel."
Ann Liv Young

Performer

"I have my own issues with exploitative sex and porn and when I make sexually explicit work I'm really exploring my own questions."
Tod Seelie

Photographer

"The New York I live in is populated by bands, bicycles and booty dancing."
Rev. Al Sharpton

Civil Rights Activist

"I met James Brown at the Apollo and he took me in and became a father figure to me."
David Bienenstock

High Times Editor & Pot Expert

"There's this idea that somehow smoking pot makes you lazy but I really believe that it's just lazy people love to smoke pot."
Emily's Feet

Foot Fetish Model

"Once in a while someone will contact me who wants to eat an ice cream sunday off my feet. Of course I say yes, but it's a little odd."
Irwin Kula

Global Wisdom Thinker

"You realize that you’re just a little person in a big 14 million year experiment called the universe and reality."
Ad Hoc Art

Bushwick Art Gallery

"Art blurs the boundaries of life and creativity."
The Big Cheese

Cheesemonger

"Frankly, processed American cheese isn't even really cheese. It's garbage."
Spain Rodriguez

Underground Comic

"Everything was cool until the gang living next door kicked a hole in the wall and stole a bunch of paintings and my girlfriend's panties"
Brad Hirschfield

Rabbi

"Religion animates the very best & the very worst of people. It's not the ideas - it's the people carrying the ideas."
Nini Ordoubadi

Tea Blender

"I consider myself an aesthete because that is what really drives me in this world and that's what inspires my world."