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Rolled up with our buddy Joel Madden to Disneyland on practically the last day of the year.. I couldn’t think of a better way to end out the year, going to a place dubbed happiest place on earth.. We had a Disney cast member escort us through the park to every ride and show. It […]

December 30th 2009

An ol buddy Paul who’s one of the managers to help open Gold Class Cinemas in LA invited me to check out their spot in old town Pasadena. I sometimes bashfully but most of the times I bold-fully consider myself a movie buff/movie critic. I grew up watching/experiencing movies at places like the Mann Chinese, […]

Gold Class

Ahhh dam.. Pabst Blue Ribbon X Diamond Supply Co., Tee shirt..

Pabst

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Sade: Soldier Of Love

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 […]

LA Auto Show Pt. 2

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

LA Auto Show

Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Chris Burden Charles Ray Barbara Kruger Bill Viola Charles Ray Dave Muller Jean-Michel-Basquiat Jeff Koons Jeff Koons Larry Johnson (My old mentor) Mathew Barney Mathew Barney Richard Hawkins (My old mentor) Richard Prince

MOCA’s First Thirty Years

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 […]

Sign of the Times

It’s So Sad to Say Goodbye: “Technics turntables Panasonic announced that they would cease the manufacture of Technics turntables in February next year, citing an increasing decline in sales as the motivation behind the line’s demise. The Australian arm of Panasonic issued a similar statement today, expressing their disappointment that the brand’s 35 years-and-running legacy […]

1200 – It’s So Sad to Say Goodbye

SADE SET TO RELEASE SOLDIER OF LOVE WORLDWIDE ON FEBRUARY 8th.  I CAN NOT WAIT..

Soldier Of Love Sade

A while back buddy Joe Hahn asked me to work on his SURU collaboration shoe with his band mate Mike Shinoda‘s X DC Shoes. Joe, and Mike are both painters/illustrators in their own right.. Mike already having his artwork on the out-sole,  Joe and I went through some of his illustrations and found a really […]

SURU MS DC Shoe

Meet Mr. T, Wheat-Paste master. Here’s a behind the scenes look into one aspect of what I call Corporate Graffiti. 1) Tools 2) Prep work.. Just like priming the base layer of a canvas. 1) Getting it just right…  2) Oh my GaGa..

OMG-OH My GaGa

Shot of downtown LA during another golden sunset.. (Handheld no photoshop) Here’s another pic of DTLA at night 35mm.

Golden State

Black Qtips for the most discerning clean person.. Why black? Well cuz you can see anything that’s not black that your white Qtips didn’t pick up… Trust,,,, even though you thought there was nothing on the white Qtips… When you try the Black Qtips you’ll find some little guys that you thought the white ones […]

All Black Everything

MONDAY NOV 9TH

Classic: Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Christy Turlington.. circa 1989. More photo’s like this in this months Interview Mag.

Linda, Naomi, And Christy

Another outfit I pulled as a Secret shopper at American Rag (150 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles 323-935-3154). I call this outfit the Under-Cover weekend outfit.

UnderCover Weekend Outfit

Buddy Josh Madden representing all the way over in the Dam. Out-front the Patta store in Amsterdam.

Patta Store Amsterdam

This is a little secret shopper segment on American Rag and an outfit I call Black Night…. —- Caught up with the guys at American Rag on La Brea the other day. I’m digging the selection they have in store right now…. The guys were nice enough to let me have a go at the […]

Black Night

Empire State of Mind

1)Dinner with buddy Claudine and a couple of her LA Think PR girls Grace and Jen along with actor Paul Iacono(Fame 09 – MTv), homie Neran(Diamond Supply Co.), and Matt.  2)Girls talkin to the big boss.. 1)Wed night at the Playhouse.. 2) Hollywood b4 it gets Hollyweird…

C.G. And Co.

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

89 Degrees

Thanks to my buddies at Commonwealth I’ll be sport’n these bad boys in the snow this winter…  These are the illest Frogskins collaboration I’ve seen yet.  Tortoise shell with Oakley Iridum Lenes, yumm.. Oakley developed a special way to replicate the tortoise shell look using their plastics just for this collaboration.. Nuff Respect. — “The […]

Commonwealth Oakley’s

My old phone cover was mad bulky and didn’t ever want to come out of my pocket.. Buddy Neran linked me up with the Music-Skins people and they had me test out their product.. It’s like nikeID but with phone covers. 100% customizable. You can upload any photo or graphic to personalize your iphone, blackberry, […]

Skins

Our buddy HAZE recently relaunched his website, InterHaze. American Flag by HAZE. Hanging @ EM Studio

American Flag by HAZE

Sometimes after a few too many of ______ I feel like this.. Rickey Kim’s Kaws Companion (4 Footer)

4 Footer

Caught up with Jesse Lee at the Dub Frequency office this afternoon. He’s off to nyc for CMJ in a couple of days for his Creme de la Creme party which he throws, rsvp here.  Jesse and his crew are lining up some heat for the rest of the year, keep tabs on him here […]

Studio Visit Monday

For all you closet Hip-Hop heads, aspiring producers and dj’s.. Have you heard of a book which lists all the breaks, samples, original songs that HipHop producers have been sampling all these years? Ever want to find out who sampled a particular song? Let me turn you onto The Holy Book of HIP HOP.  If […]

Holy Book of Hip Hop

Gorillas in the Mist, LA Zoo..

Gorillas In The Mist

Random snap of a fun taxidermy store in Old Town Pasadena.

Window in Old Town

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