R.I.P. Lee Alexander McQueen.    16 March 1969 – 11 February 2010

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 […]

DVD’s burned, tech packs are printed, files are backed up on server.. Off to N.Y.F.W.

Workin late at night..

What a pick up line…”Waka Waka..” “Who Me”

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

Sometimes it takes a cheap plastic 35mm 4 lens camera to produce some unexpected pleasures.

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.

Deadline Time.

New Sticker for the Jukebox.

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 […]

deb.o.nair |ËŒdebəˈne(É™)r| adjective (of a man) confident, stylish, and charming. To be called Debonair is one thing, thinking of your self as debonair is quite another.. I’ve been called debonair in past and probably laughed every time someone has called me debonair. I really don’t consider myself as debonair person. I think it’s one of […]

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.

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

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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.

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

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…

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

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 […]

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, […]

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

Sometimes after a few too many of ______ I feel like this.. Rickey Kim’s Kaws Companion (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 […]

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 […]

Gorillas in the Mist, LA Zoo..

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

To all the fellas… Or maybe a little more to my single fellas.. This can possibly be the ‘icure’ for man.. A little thing like maintaining a Manicure, goes a long way.. (Can the ladies testify?) This one is coin pocket size and I’ve had it for a ridiculously long time.. It’s been on every […]

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS ended their tour to a home coming performance in front of a sell out crowd at the El Ray Theater.. Mr. Cole far left rock’n cassette jeans.

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 a late night it’s chop chop, off to an early start at the UnitedBamboo show with Laura, SuChin…

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 […]

Got a text from home-girl Ahn “we got you a VIP wrist band” to see Black Lips play in Chinatown…  Ahh yeah, Teresa, Juanita, and Ahn be lookin out..

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

View from up top the London Hotel in Los Angeles.

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)

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]