No Mas x Frank 151 Sports Issue

Last October, I got tapped to guest curate the Spring/Summer issue of Frank 151. In case you didn't already know, Frank 151 is a free quarterly magazine that gets distributed through Union, Nom de Guerre, Supreme, Reed Space, Huf, Collette--a global network of streetwear/sneaker spots. Frank 151 is quarter page size and perfect bound like a nice little paperback. It is always chock full of streetwise excellence and makes the perfect companion for a subway ride or a nice long dooky.

One of the reasons why Frank is so well done is that they have a different guest curator for every issue--a system of symbiotic exploitation whereby Frank 151 gets great content on the cheap [super duper cheap], and the guest curator gets the freedom and resources basically create one issue of their personal magazine.

Having written for newspapers and magazines for years, I knew how much work would be involved in creating 120 pages of content up to No Mas standards, but still when Mike Malbon of Frank gave me the nod, I jumped at the opportunity. And of course went with the Sports Issue.

What followed was four months of tossing ideas around and procrastinating followed by a two month period of labor that would make a Chinese factory worker yearn for the old sweat shop days. But with the help of Frank editor Jesse Nicely, Art Director Carl Rauschenbach, and a group of contributors drawn mainly from my friends and family (most of whom you will meet on this site)--we put together something that I think we are all very proud of.

In the next few weeks, you will get to see content from a lot of the articles (plus the stuff that couldn't fit in the book) posted on the site, but if you want a copy for your very own, you can get get one a couple of ways.

1. Subscribe to Frank 151

2. Shop at a spot that carries No Mas. Many of these real world and online cats are saving sports issues to give free with a No Mas purchase.

3. Send us a note that really gasses us up, and we might jut spring for the postage. Or if you send us a fiver, you can tell us what you really think.

Don't sleep. Copies will disappear quickly, and ain't gonna be no reprints.