Reminisce with The Rickster

Regular readers might remember a photo quiz I put up back in May of 2012 wherein I tried to divine the exact location of a photograph of the Beastie Boys from their License to Ill days. Well, that photograph was taken by erstwhile Beasties associate/photographer/eternal hepcat/native New Yorker Ricky Powell, who later weighed in on the proceedings (check out the comments on that post). Later that year, I put up a little clip of Ricky speaking about the state of the West Village (and the gentrified detrioration thereof).

Here at the tail end of 2013, Ricky's still at it. This week, a website called Elite Daily ran a profile of the man, appended with the video below...