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.

As a designer and a person who someday wants to make a film, I was really drawn to see Tom Ford’s movie A Single Man.. If your into fashion or into fashion by Tom Ford, it’s worth a watch. Tom has an amazing sense of style for all things tangible. The tangible(clothes,set design etc.) aspects […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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..

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

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 […]