MIAMI BAR CRAWL BEGINS 7-29-03
The new issue of COMPLEX MAGAZINE is on the shelves. Inside you will find a full page comic strip by yours truly bashing Ashton Kutcher and Punk'd. Somehow they (Complex) managed to make me poke fun at P.Diddy again. Seriously P.Diddy, I don't mean to come down on you all the time, they just love the way I draw you and love to bash you. Consider it flattery. Well, anyhow the party for this issue was at CORAL ROOM, which I had just read an article about the week before so I half knew what to expect. I strolled in with my brother BRETT (who was down for the bar crawl night, being that I was leaving for Miami in the A.M., I wasn't planning on sleeping, it would be drink, bar crawl, and cab to the airport.
Well, back to the bar at hand. All the Complex people came out to revel in the drop of the new issue, the fashion issue- so there were models, and Complex did it up right. The guys at Complex really pick nice venues for their issue release parties. Sam Adams Light was the free drink and we were downing it like water. Speaking of which, behind the bar, there was tons of it....literally, (water not Sam Adams Light). Running the length of the bar (say 30 feet or more) was a giant, starting at waist height, going up to the ceiling height fish tank, with tropical fish, coral and the whole nine. Really amazing to see.
About an hour into our boozing my brother pointed up from the bar, before us, and to my surprise, in the tank was a girl. A woman, in 40's style pinup candy cane striped short shorts and bikini top, swimming about. She was doing flips underwater. Smiling and eyes opened the whole time. She would stop in mid trick in a pinup style pose and smile at the audience, all slack jawed and frozen in mid sip. I had to take a picture even though I was "that guy" for the moment. You know, "that guy" who is taking a picture like a pervert. But it wasn't that I was going to go home and create a sex shrine around the photo, it was to show you, and capture a moment in time (when the updates go online you will see what I'm talking about).
The Free Sam Adams ran out after a few hours, and the crowd thinned. A look at the watch, and away we drunkenly stumbled into the night.
Just another day in the life of an Art Juggernaut.
-Cojo