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Met David Jien at Art Center of Pasadena while I was getting my vehicle worked on. Imagine, you drop off your car, and they give you a ride anywhere you want. I chose Art Center to see work. This dude draws like none other. Is pencil work in style right now? I think it is. His work rocks. Yeah imagine these characters are being reincarnated… The black one is a bronze and weighs a ton!
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Casio LAX. Fred Segal's shops are high end. Walking in, I see Lindsay Price who gave me a big double take. No, I never met you. I was looking for the Casio event at Conveyor store. It's supposed to be a photo exhibition, but I was there to meet some heads that I indirectly helped out. I actually "designed" the LAX edition of the G Shock above. My friend Seven Under Topa, (also see my column on the...
Casio LAX. Fred Segal’s shops are high end. Walking in, I see Lindsay Price who gave me a big double take. No, I never met you. I was looking for the Casio event at Conveyor store. It’s supposed to be a photo exhibition, but I was there to meet some heads that I indirectly helped out. I actually “designed” the LAX edition of the G Shock above. My friend Seven Under Topa, (also see my column on the 7under.net site) called me, and while sitting with him and a couple of others at gr/eats, I came up with a idea, and he sat with his laptop and put the colors in. At the end, and well under an hour, we had an idea and concept. The watch came out shockingly nearly as planned. Perhaps it’s exact, it was a long time ago. We were all quite stoked. LAX (LA) has an eco-vibe as compared to NY or Tokyo (the other two places where special edition watches were made for this project). Snow boarding, oceans, mountains, hiking, it’s all close by. Prius, green homes, and solar are cool here since people are building like crazy. So that’s why the watch actually makes sense. Of course, it could have been black or something really plain, but this stands out hard, and if you take a quick peek, you’ll remember this color scheme. David Perez Shadi, the photographer who shot the line for G-Shock. The girl sitting looking at her cell must have been a model or something. Spicy tuna on crackers. Can any local food heads guess where this came from? Hirotaka and Akiyuki
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I dig this dude, Kio who runs a clothing like called Yellow Rat. He's supposedly a great surfer, and back in 2007, I wrote about him with some photos on this blog when I visited his casa. Here's that post. He once made a Kio's Ding Repair shirt using a Barry McGee image. It's looks like this here. Today, he showed me a new design. Here's the backstory which makes this funny. Barry does strange ads...
I dig this dude, Kio who runs a clothing like called Yellow Rat. He’s supposedly a great surfer, and back in 2007, I wrote about him with some photos on this blog when I visited his casa. Here’s that post. He once made a Kio’s Ding Repair shirt using a Barry McGee image. It’s looks like this here. Today, he showed me a new design. Here’s the backstory which makes this funny. Barry does strange ads sometimes. He pays for the ad, and actually advertises something that’s not his own. This advertisement showed up in the Hamburger Ears (their music offshoot of Hamburger Eyes) publication. Kio was shocked to see the ad, and now it’s a shirt complete with Kio’s home address at the bottom. I’m sure Barry had no idea that Kio works out of his home in Mar Vista. I hope people don’t knock on his door. That’s his assistant. Yes, I forgot her name.
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