So another person we have in issue #2 is Clayton Patterson, photographer, documenter and long time resident of the L.E.S.  A lot of you have probably seen clips from his DVD called Captured.  Captured is a collection of his video footage from the Tompkins Square Park Riots. We met up with Clayton….shit, probably like 6 or 7 months ago to interview him.  I think we only got to ask him two questions and he talked for over an hour.   It always amazes me when someone has such a good grasp on their ideas and beliefs, that they can just spit them out.  I can’t do that at all, I need to think everything over and over and over and then I have the worst time explaining things, which is probably why I am having such a rough time with this article.  Clayton talked about so much interesting stuff that I don’t want to exclude any of it, so I am having a rough time trying to figure out what the focus of the article should be.  He obviously talked about The Tompkins Square Park riots, documenting the Hardcore scene during the ’80’s and ’90’s, how he changed the history of the hat..yeah Clayton made that claim..crazy right?  But I think this dude might actually have done that.  He talked about the NYPD and the changes they made as a result of his tapes, he talks about the shift in technology and what effect it will have on subcultures going forward???????? What the fuck.  I want to print his views on all of this.  So here I am writing an intro for his interview and trying to work everything down to give this some direction.  I am locking myself in my office and not coming out until I am done.

It is great though because Clayton is totally working with me on this.  I am going to give him the first round of our interview along with my intro and he is going to kind of fill in any gaps, elaborate on stuff, touch on stuff he may have left out etc.  I think being able to work with people in this way is going to make the content so good.   We have been doing this with all our interviews/articles, doing like 3 or 4 rounds of interviewing so that the content is on point.  Anyway I need to get back to work on this so until next time….peaceeeeee.