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LETTER
FROM THE
EDITOR

BEHIND
THE COVER

2015 is a year of many firsts for me, including this sports issue as well as inviting
someone well-versed in the genre to be LOCAL’S FIRST GUEST EDITOR. So without further ado, here’s JAYME LAMM with her Letter from the (guest) Editor…
I can’t dance, my wardrobe is incredibly lacking and the thought of a recipe with more
than four ingredients gives me anxiety. But ask me which running shoes are best for 13.1
miles, how to slide into second under a tag, which sports bars have sound, hi-def and the
best honey bbq wings or what a traditional one-gap 3-4 looks like and I’m your girl. Sports
have always been my thing. When you were throwing tantrums at the age of two, I was
throwing a perfect spiral. Sort of.
Moving to Houston almost nine years ago was a dream. To live in a city that boasts the
likes of Hall of Famer Craig Biggio, Hakeem the Dream, the Eighth Wonder of the World
(which now makes me sad) and so many other historical pieces of sports was like teleporting everything I had grown up watching on “Wide World of Sports” with Frank Gifford
and putting it into my new backyard. I became a homer as much as I could without completely disgracing my roots (Go, Eagles!).
Being a full-time sports + travel + fitness writer for the last five years has shown me that
sports extend far beyond some amazing athletes. They cover the best fans, the most unique
stadiums, coaches, trainers, cheerleaders, reporters, clever signs and sponsorships and
much more. And of course mascots. I hope you have as much fun reading this issue as I
did helping put it together.
x’s & o’s

Follow me: Twitter & Instagram: @jaymelamm & facebook.com/theblondesidecom

Jayme Lamm
Guest Editor

Carla Valencia de Martinéz
Editor-in-Chief

CARLA: Photography by Gabriella Nissen | JAYME: Photography by Arthur Garcia

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Artist | Filip Peraic

You could say we kind of flipped when creative director
Gabriella Nissen came across the work of Croatian artist
FILIP PERAIC online. Although he’s not in Houston, a local athlete graces his most recent and highly acclaimed project:
JAMES HARDEN ILLUSTRATED. Peraic has always had a tendency
to drawing, but he shares that it was “during School of
Design faculty in Croatia I started to approach it more seriously and spent lots of hours drawing. Soon I got some commissions from really big brands like IBM, Nike, Sony, and
I’ve been making a living out of illustration industry since.
Illustration doesn’t feel like a job to me; I’m basically just
playing around and enjoying myself, doing what I have a
passion for.”
But we couldn’t help but ask why Hardin? “I was looking
for a face interesting enough to draw it again and again, so
I gave it some thought and came up with James Harden,
because of his unique, visually iconic beard.“ Although
Peraic hasn’t met Harden, he does know that “he saw my
project. Well, I just heard that he really l