Went back to Josh’s crib… And he pulls out these lovely pair of Vans.. Apparently these pair of Suicidal Tendencies are not even out yet..DAMMMM

Sometimes there’s a Art in catchin cabs in nyc especially during switch over time.. Headed back downtown.. Pictured: Josh Madden and the guys from Kill Hanna..

“Yeohee’s designs have attracted the attention of many museum and gallery curators. Her work has been featured in solo shows at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions that include the Hayden Gallery at the Massachusetts […]

Maxwell at Red Egg..

New Year Dim Sum at Red Egg with Sky and the Epiphany Crew.

1) Capitale 2) Josh Madden 1) Bronques 2) Claudine, Brian 1) Ace 2) OC @ Ace 1) Diana, SuChin  2) Busy P 1) Willy Dee 1) Oscar, Malucamala  2) Sabel, Oscar

The plane has just landed and is pulling up to the terminal. I turn on my phone. Start: BBM: Yo call me when you land.. Ring ring: Me: Just landed. Pickin up my bags. Sky: YO, I’m here.. Pickin you up.. come outside to the left.. Me: Ok, I’ll be right out.. End: Me: Smile […]

Break Service (Hand held, slight crop, no photoshop adjustments)

You never know what your going to find in the industrial areas of Orange County.. I went with a couple of buddies to visit a warehouse filled with sk8 boards. We walked to the back of the warehouse and the little kid inside me had a big smile. Then my smile grew even bigger when […]

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. R.I.P. Jeanne-Claude (Nov. 2009). The Gates : Central Park : Winter 2005 : 35mm

SoHo Snow: NYC circa 2005 35mm

Fame Game: Artist Unknown NYC circa 2006

Painted Sky II. (Hand held, no photoshop) The weather was Sunny, Crisp, with Scattered Cotton Clouds.

Painted Sky. (Hand held, no photoshop) The weather was Sunny, Crisp, with Scattered Cotton Clouds.

Racked and Ready = Locked and Loaded.

The other day Hawaii Mike of LTD Magazine was in town. I met up with Hawaii at Fred Segal Santa Monica. After a brief critique of the store we went to meet up with Sung over at the Clae Studio before we all went to try some of the best Pho in town. Mike and […]

Good Morning Sunshine Part 3. The battle. (Hand held, no photoshop)

Red, White, and Blue. Before sunrise. (No Photoshop, hand held)

Just before sunrise. (No Photoshop, hand held) Good Morning Sunshine.

After the LA Auto Show and a quick lunch I headed over to Fairfax to meet up with Neran (Diamond). And look who was cold chill’n in the alley.. None other the Mr. Cartoon and squad straight pimpin the gangster lean in the new Green Thumb Hard top Impala.. Berto(Supreme) and Mr. Cartoon was chop’n […]

Scaffolding on the Porsche GT3 Cup Porsche GT3 Cup Porsche GT3RS Lexus LF-A! SLS AMG 6.3 Vision BMW concept car.

It’s at the start of December and the leaves have just started to change here in Los Angeles. With 2010 approaching it’s been a time of reflection. A decade to remember (some might say forget) but it only begs for me to look at Spring 2010 and beyond. Like the leaves on a tree and […]

Watching the sunset wearing shorts and a tee shirt in late Oct is not a bad thing.. Orange Sunset in time for Halloween 09

Gorillas in the Mist, LA Zoo..

35mm(no photoshop): I remember taking this photo of Kyoto’s Golden Temple back when I used to travel to Japan a lot more.  Kyoto is the former capital of Japan and is the most traditional city in Japan. (factoid- there is a building code in central Kyoto not allowing any buildings to be over 5 stories […]

35mm: I took this photo in Bali while I was traveling through south east Asia. I don’t know the name of the place but I call it Rice Valley.

35mm: While in Bali I had noticed that this Lotus flower would open up every night near midnight. It was as if, it was showing off its it’s beauty, it’s creative dance, it’s symmetry to me… I was blown away by it’s graphic and unblemished petals.. I noticed it was ‘working’ at night.. It got […]

Corner Building

Trash Van.

SuChin and I headed to get some Pop Burger… Look who pulls up and was nice enough to swoop us up Mr. Sky-G.. Lupe Fiasco was sit’n shotty and we were off to the races..

While in the meat packing district.. We headed to the High Line Park.. What a smart way to use up space.. “The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan’s streets.”   “When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through […]

After our Spring 2010 campaign showing. We headed over to our buddy Siki’s presentation over in the meat packing district. The energy at Siki’s presentation was amazing.. The presentation was inside dimly lit almost abandoned meat locker/warehouse with kids playing tribal-esque drums, people snapping photos left and right and lots of people with smiles on […]

Later that night we rolled by Def Jam’s VMA after party and then headed to China Chalet for United Bamboo’s after party where Kitsune and Photographer Sebastian Kim DJ’d…. Home girl Jackie was also throwing a VMA after party on top of the Rivington Hotel where Rhianna and Jessica Alba were posting up for the […]

Con’t from the prev. post.. On the way outside(from the Band of Outsiders Presentation) I saw Grace Coddington!!! I wanted to talk to her but I was looking a mess with beads of sweat on my forehead.. After cooling down outside, I went inside to see if I could gather some words to talk to […]

Went over to Milk studios for the Band of Outsiders, and Shipley & Halmos presentations.. It was drizzling outside and there was a little drama at the door from people trying get inside from the rain…. But once inside.. It was just the opposite from the outside..???.  Outside was cool and wet.. and inside was […]

After watching September Issue.. We headed over to the Bowery.. Side entrance.. No list, no money, just password steelo… 1) Joanne was hanging with buddy Sarah. Whom.. ahem, flew in a private jet to nyc for fashion week.. No seat belts, no please take your seat we’re about to land… plain ol’ do what ever […]

I’ve been hearing about September Issue(the movie).. I remember seeing the trailer a while back.. And recently I’ve been hearing from a number of people that it’s a good movie and I should definitely go check it out.. And what better time and place to see September Issue, but on a rainy day in NYC […]

Fashion night out ends and 1st day of NY fashion week begins.. I meet with SuChin to check out the A Detacher show, a nyc underground fav.. We get 1st row.. vip treatment.. not a bad way to start off fashion week.. Thanks to, SuChin of course..

To kick off fashion week, Vogue got together and coordinated a fashion night out in Paris, LA and NYC.. I don’t know what it was like in LA and Paris but for nyc.. it was bananas.. It was the night before NYC fashion week and it was a sight to be seen.. All the stores […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Brooklyn Bridge one of the most stunning bridges to walk…

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….  […]

Another great book for all you collectors/denim heads..  Simply titled Found this book is amazing.. It’s one of those stories where someone was walking through a field and found an deteriorating abandon barn. Curiosity called them into the barn for some exploration and they found their way up to the attic. Lo and behold they […]

A weird thing that I do since I started traveling for work is I try to hold on to my airplane boarding passes.  I haven’t been able to hold on to them all but here’s a good sign of what ten plus years and a million miles looks like (I have more boarding passes).

Roof top Hong Kong. 35mm, Hand held.

California Wonders: We headed up to Hippie Valley (aka Yosemite) before the summer crowds.  During our stay we caught some amazing weather.  We caught some natural mystic weather (clouds coming and going, appearing disappearing.)  Time almost stays still up there (No internet, no phone service).  Thing are just different up in Yosemite Valley and I […]

While in Palm Springs Josh Madden brought me a little gifty gift.. A pair of dope ass Vans X Bad Brains shoes..  Thanks SOOO much me brethren.. Much Love.

Palm Springs Coachella Weekend in a nut shell. 1) Riviera Hotel 1) K-Mac 2) Teresa, Neran and Jenilee 1) Stefanie  2) Peter B. 1) Amazing twilight Sunset. The Calm before the madness. 1) Pase Rock 2) A-Trak 1) Joy(middle), Linda(Rt) 2) Kev, Mike-1 1) Mr Dom P   2) Audrina Patridge 1) Transaction 2) Lonely […]

Rolled down to Palm Springs for Coachella weekend.. Buddies, Josh Madden, Sky, and Timmy flew in from nyc to conduct interviews with bands who were in Palm Springs for Coachella…. Neran and I cruised down and met up with the nyc heads at Ace hotel.. 1) Josh in the mist of one of his interviews, […]

Special shout to all those to came out to our SxSW party.. Big thanks to our buddies from Think, thanks to JM for spinning.. good times… And thanks to the guys who jumped into the pool.. Considering how cold the pool was, that was awesome…. And an ultra big shout out to all the people […]

We headed back to the house to rest up for a bit…. Posted up in the back yard and enjoyed watching the sunset behind the trees..

Headed over to the Levis/Fader Fort Compond..  When we got there we saw Hiromi and friends.. We rolled up to the front and saw the longest line in SxSW..(retarded) Good thing we bumped into Mike last night.. Gave him a text and boo-yeah.. Nothin but love… Mike laced us with staff wrist bands.. 1) Sheppard […]

After the wonderful Breakfast Tacos.. Joel took me to a little secret spot.. The Serengeti of Austin…. No joke.. miles upon miles of Texas land with Wild Animals.. Shit was bananas.. We went off road’n for miles reaching Lakes and ponds with stocked fish.. Heards of Gizelles, Zebras, Giraffes, Turtles, Buffalo….all on private property, shit […]

Joel knows Austin…. The lighting in Austin is much like Los Angeles, VERY bright…. We headed to the Tamale House…. the goto for bfast tacos.. yummm…

Good ol buddy Joel del la Cruz was dope enough to pick me up from the airport.. We headed straight in town..  Met up with Hiromi, Kat, and Yasha for a beer and then headed to Beauty Bar for the You Tube party.. 2) Good ol buddy Mike C. (Hit + Run.) Rep’n..

Cassette after party was at Chloe.. Downtowns dopest little hot spot.. Big thanks to Mike, M, Belvedere, Tony, Kenny, Jared, Morgan.. 1) Josh Madden 2) Chau, Ly 1) Jenn, Claudine 2) Stas, Shannie 1) Hunter 2) Selina 1) Joanne, Kat 2) Mike, Errol 1) John, Rich 2) Andy

A huge thank you to W Hotels and Think PR for hosting a viewing of our new campaign and as well allowing us to present a selection of our new collection.. The VIP W Hotels back stage lounge was truly back stage of the tents in Bryant Park.. The W lounge was where VIPs/Celebrities(Justin Timberlake)/Press […]

Sway was on and kick’n for fashion week.. 1) Peter, Siki 2) Friend, Willo 1) Too many of these 2) Joanne

If your the type of person in search of the perfect bowl of ramen.. Gotta check out Ippudo…  Laura has been telling me about this awesome ramen spot near her pad for a while now…  So after homie Joanne and I got ready we rolled out to meet Laura and Anna at Ippudo…. Wholly shit… […]

After the Benefit we headed over to Siki’s birthday over at Smith and Mills.. 1st time I met Siki was in Germany.. Glad we could keep each others company through the years.. Good times.. Happy Birthday Siki.. 1) Peter, Rob, Siki 2) Joel, Rob, Laura 1) Joanne, Shannon 2) Selina, Ballerina 1) Sebastian, Hunter 2) […]

V Day Love Carnival Benefit The Creative Center Arts in Healthcare.. Featuring: Kissing Booths, Raffles, Jello Shots, Love Potions, Wedding Photos, Face Painting, Confection, Heart Darts and more…

Andre and Belvedere hosted a pop up club called Le Barron at the Bowery Hotel. Pure New York City.. 1) Mark Ronson on the wheels of steel.. Lindsay Lohan in the back ground.. 2) Sam Ronson on the mic.. Hunter in the background. 1) Daniel Merriweather killing it.. 2) Carol, SuChin 1) Laura, Hunter 2) […]

The nice people at SM entertainment was kind enough to invite me over to a nice mixer(meet and greet). It was at a ill beach house in Malibu. I swooped up Rickey on the way over to the mixer.. When we got there the SM entrainment america, SuChin, Joe Khan(video dir) and some other peeps […]

We’ll be hosting the Backstage VIP W Hotel Lounge at the tents in Bryant Park. If your in the Bryant park area.. please come by and take a break, have some drinks and a pop burger. We are presenting our new campaign. Monday February 16th 5-7pm W Hotels Backstage VIP Lounge Bryant Park Backstage Entrance […]

A little powder riding video after the three day storm..

It’s Monday, the weekend crowd is gone and after snowing three days.. the sun was shinning in typical southern cali form.. Caught some of the best riding ever.. Fresh Powder, no crowd, no lines, fresh tracks all day..

Hear it’s been dumping up in them hills..

Jae and I stopped by our buddy Aly’s pad on the way to a lil donner shop.. He told us bout the el dorado and that he was spinning in a few… After a little donner dinner mit pom frits we headed to the el dorada..  thanks to Aly we discovered this fine watering hole..

Went for a visit to Stash’s office, studio, warehouse.. The place is ill… Stash goes way way back.. He had us in stitches… calling out guys when they were just getting their teeth cut.. He’s sitting on a lot of history.. Nuff Respect.

Joe Hahn, Noel, Stash and myself at Peter Lugers..

Bacaro… LLES’s lil gem.. Josh Madden (When it’s full.)

Mai House- Vietnamese in Tribeca.

1st Snow NYC 08

Blue Ribbon….Late night is even better.. Bone Marrow, Foie Gras, Duck Sandwich, Clams, Fried Chicken….. Forget about it.. 1) Laura, Tamara 2) Tamara, Stas