Dropped the Marty Supreme hats…then went straight to work at ASW to drop a measly 3 pts at the State Farm 3-Pt contest 🏀 My favorite parts of this project were 🎽 pushing through to get approval from the NBA and Nike to make a custom tote bag that’s built like a real jersey, 🗽sort of meeting Brunson and KAT, and 🙏🏽 gratitude I get to work with a team who executes at this insane level.
This post took a year to put together.
💪🏼 Q1 - Uncle San, interview at A24 that would change everything, went to the gym consistently to see Dean who kicked my ass, Combo provided zodiac prediction that proved to be on point, ran the United NYC half, moved next door
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🤪 Q2 - Funny and cute video from Thai New Year, invited to the Boardroom at MSG, George Nelson bubble installed, we are always World Building, Brooklyn Half volunteering, Queens 10k, sold Thai hats met cool Thai people, got lost, Marcus’ gonggi at multicultural day
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🖼️ Q3 - Colorado was incredible, birthday dinner at Le Veau D’Or, new favorite photo of Noah, Marty screener suuuper early, Stuyvesant vintage haul, new favorite tattoo from nolc, well known director wearing something I made, completed 9+1 in the pouring rain, reunited in Salina and Italy what a trip that was
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🏓 Q4 - The feeling of seeing your sweatshirt produced and on sale, second camping trip with cousin, showering Sage’s parents, Sal’s soft opening, seeing Wheaties come to life, WBU sweatshirts finally done, E&C wedding, WBU photoshoot still learning new things, we made a ping pong truck, we released the most hyped item of 2025 for the first time and it went flawlessly - a night I’ll never forget, saw the blimp IRL, said fuck it we gotta ride the blimp, Thanksgiving in LA, grateful for Renarts helping launch WBU, partied like it was 2007, Christmas Day
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📈 Q1 - Starting off with a Mike Breen bang
If this were performative, it would be moodier, and so much shorter. So thanks for making it this far!
Taking a brief intermission from Marty Supreme (yes there’s more!), I want to share a personal project I’ve been working on over the past year or so.
What started out as small sidequests and creative outlets for me to tell a different type of Queens story, by making shirts, hats, creating graphics and random lettering projects, mascot illustrations, pitching concepts to The Mets, $100s of dollars spent on Fiverr, is now World’s Borough University 🌐 @worldsboroughuniversity
For those that know me, this project connects two things I love: vintage (@leftoverpadthai ) and Queens. It’s a little past, present, and future. I don’t know what that means but it sounds cool and feels true! More importantly it lets people know why we’re proud to say we’re from Queens. While we are The World’s Borough, I think what it means to be from here and the qualities we share, is what we’re most proud of.
Whether you’re born, raised, or new here, you become more worldly, more cosmopolitan. That’s why we call it the Galaxy of Queens! 🌌🔭🪐
Thank you to everyone who gave their time, support, and feedback! More to come. What exactly, I don’t even know myself, but there will be more.
The first limited set of hoodies and sweatshirts release Sunday in-store at Renarts Queens, and whatever’s left goes online next week! Campaign photos coming soon.
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🌐📚📦 “The Send Off”
Photographer: Roy @corrduroy
Talent: My niece Sam @sammie_mayid and her dad my bro @adam_eatz
Assistants: The best @amaree212 and homie @mel.mayid
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Special thanks to: @_douglas_hayes@kengriffen@mariniquemora@thecamp0ut@mikeyphelps and everyone from Queens I consult daily!
