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LA’s in the middle of a heat wave and a fire storm, literally. As the evenings have been coming around this week we’ve been heading to the beach to watch the sunset over Malibu… Absorbing and watching sunsets like these in the mist of all the mayhem allows you to see that things are not […]

LA Fires

O.G. Loc Sung from Clae had a opening party for his Pop Up / Shop in Shop in side Stussy’s LA store on La Brea.. As I was headed over there I turned the corner I saw one of those Korean Taco trucks parked outside the store, I said to myself, Ahhh shit… it’s gonna […]

Clae Shoes / Stussy

Last weekend was pretty cool, I got to see what it’s like to travel like a literal rock star… A handful of Joe Hahn’s friends met up at his house to catch a ride on a tour bus down to the Epicenter Rock show in Pomona.. We loaded up the bus with a bunch of […]

Epicenter

Nisei Week 2009. Nisei week is a nine-day festival in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo district highlighting Japanese and Japanese American culture. 2009 marks the 69th year of Nisei Week(Nisei meaning- second generation.) It’s cool to see the ‘second generation’ upholding traditions of the parent land.. We need more of these types of things throughout the […]

Nisei Week 09

Gap’s 1969 Pop Up Shop on Robertson(LA) had their opening party the other night. Buddy Joel Madden was spinning so I dropped by to say hi.. Gap’s 1969 jeans and now cut and sew line has always intrigued me.. It’s cool to see that people on the inside are still pushing for the line.. The […]

Gap 1969 Pop Up-Shop

Check out a new interview on House of Cassette and myself by the lovely Vicky Herrera in the latest issue of Status Magazine. Status Magazine has been keeping it international with cover features like A-Trak, Uffie Fafi and current cover (hate her or love her) Lady Gaga… Glad to see they wrote pieces on me […]

Status Mag

The other day buddy John Hensley (Nip Tuck also pro motorcycle racer) and I rolled over to Alpine Stars for a day at K-1 Speed Go Karts.. K-1 is awesome, these go karts move.. and they are state of the art electric powered machines.. These little bad boys are soo fun.. If you haven’t checked […]

K1 Karting

View from up top the London Hotel in Los Angeles.

View from London Hotel

A buddy of ours Mr. Cole is a talented musician.. He’s always playing around town and in a number of bands.. He’s currently touring somewhere in Europe right now with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero’s.. 1) Rock’n the Black Cassette Jeans.. (Photo: Bryony Shearmur)

Mr. Cole

Basketball, rooftops, open bars, people walking around serving food, Summer must be in full effect.. Undftd Pepsi Slam Dunk Contest on top London Hotel.. Put together by Mr. Curtis and friends.. Mos Def Performed some joints off his new album… 1) The Get Fresh Crew 2) Jazz and Jenilee 1) Mr. Curtis  2) Sneaker Steve, […]

Undftd Pepsi Dunk Contest

The Wedge in Newport/Balboa was reported to be showing off some 25footers on Friday.. I went on Saturday and saw some waves on the sets break’n at 15feet.. (I knew I should have brought my board..) There were only about a hand full of people in the water and hundreds on shore watching the Wedge […]

Wedge

Oliver Peoples did it again.. When I thought they had already made the perfect of Loc’s last year(Matte Black-Robert Evans).. They did it again, this one is just a tad bigger for a touch more gangster-ness.. Looking for the illest pair of Loc’s?  Look no further, these bad boy’s are hand made in Japan, in […]

Robert Evans by Oliver Peoples

There was a buzz around town about some surf headed to local Orange County Beaches.. Called up a old surf buddy and got the lo-down.. The swell was to come in on Friday and build throughout the day lasting until Sunday.. So, we dawn patrolled it Friday morning.. Newport’s 40th at 6:30am was already a […]

South Swell

K-Mac Attack, sorted out a Mixer at Nobu, Beverly Hills.. Our buddy and photographer Robert Hamada (man behind the pictures of the cassette campaigns) and model Margartia(in the new cassette campaign shot in Paris) made time to stop by Nobu for the dinner mixer.. Good to catch up with them seems like I haven’t seen […]

Mixer at Nobu

The other day I had lunch with Neran, Patricia from Isaora, Josh Madden and Lisa from Michael Kors… After lunch I wanted to introduce Josh to a couple of nice folks at Oliver Peoples :: Mosley Tribes, so we strolled over to their office on Sunset and had a chat….. Here’s Josh and Pat trying […]

Oliver Peoples Design Studio Visit

Last time I was in London I met up with buddies, Giles Wilson and Kate Hinton over at the Shoreditch House. We caught up a bit before Giles had to embark on a month long video shoot in South America. After his South America shoot he came over to LA and shot this cassette surf […]

Cassette Summer Surf Film

Rolled up to Suru/Celeritas’s art show this weekend.. The show was a benefit for Riders for Health an organization that provides motorcycles to health care providers in Africa. Twist, Futura, Stash, Jeff McMillan, Audrey Kawasaki, Troy Lee Designs, Jim Lee, Joe Hahn, Mike Shinoda, Alex Pardee, and Jesse James were the exhibiting artists. All proceeds […]

Celeritas Riders for Health

Peep this bad boy.. Leica’s is play’n people out with it’s coveted M digital range finder. Flip’n color ways and coloabos, like the Hermes Edition, Safari Edition and now this summer jump off White Edition.. Apparently all being produced in very limited numbers… Like, many people an afford $6000.oo for a regular M8.2 let alone […]

M8.2 White Edition

Some inspiration in designing the new Linkin Park hats..

Wall of Military Logos

The other day Joe Hahn and I had another design meeting with the guys from NewEra to produce some special Linkin Parks hats… This time around we met up at Joe Hahn’s house (Last time we rolled down to their design HQ in OC.). Here’s some NewEra hats that were thrown on the table as […]

New Era Design Meeting

Word from the street… Josh Madden played at Webster Hall NYC the other night… He took a snap of what he saw on the wall…. BooYeah.

Webster Hall NYC

Linkin Park performed at the Premiere of Transformers 2 in Westwood. This was a huge production, basically closing down a good portion of Westwood for the Movie premiere and the live performance of Linkin Park. Joe Hahn(Linkin Park) hooked up couple of passes to the event.. and it was all good in the hood.. The […]

Linkin Park Westwood

Every time I go to Hong Kong I have to stop by this place called Little Sheep.  It’s the OG shabu-shabu (from China).. When you walk in to the restaurant it smells of spices and curry.. You can order the half and half broth base.  On one side  it’s like salty chicken soup,  and the other […]

LA Has Hot-Pot

Check this Art piece out.. It’s called The Box.. The Box from mudlevel on Vimeo. Thanks Jeremiah and Jo.

The Box

Besides the classic cars and great weather, there is another reason to like Southern California.. Most everyone can have their own garden.. This is Mr. Kling’s garden… Mr. Kling is one bad ass dude. A man’s man, and a veteran of war.. Anyone that knows Mr. Kling knows he’s cut from a different cloth, part scientist, […]

Gardening 101

Brooklyn Bridge one of the most stunning bridges to walk…

BK’s Finest…

I’m really into Jose Parla’s (aka ease) work.. I think it strikes a cord in me cuz of the graff/street background.. Jose has successfully honed that flavor into the white-box art world.  His work is always an inspiration… I could only hope one day to own a small scribble of Jose Parla’s work.. Between the […]

Jose Parla

On set of BoA’s new music video..  Baggy pants, diamonds glued to her face, and the side of her head in corn rows…..uuuuhuh.. Shorty can dance…

BoA’s New Video

We rolled to the Pasadena Classic Car Show this weekend.. Boy oh boy.. what a site…. Something about owning and taking care of a rare beauty, admiring her, having others admire her, washing her, polishing her, preferring her to others, and sometimes driving her like she wants to be driven…. must be in guys DNA….  […]

Classic Motors

Buddy Bronques is in town and we get to catch up late night at an empty pizza spot.. But before we get to the pizza spot, I roll up to pick him up and he’s in a car talking to some girls… as soon as I get there and say hi, he kindly ends the […]

Bronques in LA

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