I guess if you’re a New Zealand native, you’re given the moniker “kiwi.” Which is funny because when I think of kiwis, I think of small green fruit with a fuzzy brown peel. Frank (Qubic Store) and Adam (Slam X Hype) are definitely not small green fruit with a fuzzy brown peel. I think. I hope.
Jonah (Superbad) just got back from a weekend of jump-kicking the box office’s brains out and having the best-selling movie in America. Usually, people like to show they’re #1 with an alternate finger, but I guess Jonah has his own way of doing things.
Mack’s got it all. The whip, the watch, the swagger, and most importantly, ME as a friend. You’re welcome, Mack.
Summer vacation’s drawing to an end, and Mitch is off to State Penerr Penn State to become a world champion fencer (true story!). Godspeed, young Mitch. May the force be with you.
I’ve always known that famous people love Mighty Healthy. But then I started thinking.. maybe Mighty Healthy makes people famous! Because, let’s be real folks, you don’t really gotta be good at the whole making-music or acting thing to establish a name for yourself these days. You don’t even have to be that good-looking. It’s like a free-for-all for all the ugly, untalented people in the world.
DISCLAIMER: The following individuals are all very good looking and talented.
Why do we have a Photo Booth in The Store? It’s your way of being at The Store every single day, without physically being there. So whether you’re holed up in a studio in Shibuya, chillin’ at a coffee shop in Paris, or bored at your desk in Sao Paolo, you can see who stopped by, what the kids are wearing, and most importantly, be one step closer to living life on Rosewood Ave.
The air-conditioner busted at the studio, which is exactly what we needed in 100-degree-plus stagnant heat. So eventually, everyone took their shirts off. Then they took their socks off. Then I made them take the rest of the week off, because I was going nutty working in a room surrounded by man-boobs and Chee-TOES.
So I’m stuck at home with the newest copy of Juxtapoz magazine, which is one of the art publication’s better issues in quite some time. This issue’s cover story is with graffiti/tattoo artist Mike Giant (Rebel 8 ), who I’ve been avidly following since I was in high school. My first piece of Giant art was actually a Silent Majority/Indecision/Milhouse tour t-shirt, and over the years I picked up some more, including my personal favorite, a Kinsey collab print. I was hoping my last collectible piece would be a Giant tattoo, but unfortunately, that may never happen in light of Mike’s recent decision to retire from tattooing. Yeah, really! Don’t believe me?
“So to those who want a tattoo from me, don’t get your hopes up. I am done.”
See?
The issue’s also cracked wide open with full-length features on John Trippe (Fecal Face), Sylvia Ji, and more artists you should already be familiar with including KR:
Aside from annoying purse dogs and veneral diseases, cellphones and Blackberries are the most ubiquitous accessory in L.A. Your cell might come with a camera or MP3 player, but Rhandy (5&A Dime)’s phone features a built-in Pirate eyepatch. Brian turns his head out of sheer embarassment. Arrrgh.
The other day, actorcomedian all-around weirdo Andy Dick brought our cover girl Atlanta a cactus at work. That’s probably the most absurd thing you’ve heard in quite some time, so we’ll just end the caption there.
Photographer Paul Sun runs things over at his agency, The Social Trust. Vietnamese restaurant Michelia, on the other hand, runs things over at my stomach, with their crazed coconut rice and walnut shrimp.
With all the heightened security alerts and terrorist threats, it’s nice to know that Mabel could send us a REALLY HUGE BOMB in the mail with ease.
Perhaps the pink ribbon threw the feds off. *NOTE TO TERRORISTS*.
Apparently, Mabelitis spent hours upon hours detailing the bomb with paisleys and random notes to us, like “SOLD OUT, SORRY TRY AGAIN” and “FOLLOW ME TO THE HUNDREDS.” My favorite being “ONCE A DAY” which either means how often she checks the website or how often she catches Switch lurking on her Myspace page.
This has got to be the most elaborate gift we’ve ever received. Not including the time that Corgi sent me a crate full of Japanese chewing gum. Or how about the time he sent Scotty a nice big box of tampons?
The skate-moviemakers on our block, NCP Films, are responsible for this gem. Sleepers, a ‘zine devoted entirely to sleeping bums. You know you’re kickin’ yourself for not thinkin’ of this one.
We swung through Handsome Boy Shipping today to give the warehouse crew some face time. Aki, Alberto and our warehouse manager, Anthony.
Out with the old, in with the new..
You should remember Aki from our skate team, but he also just put out the latest trailer for their video, TKE THT!, edited by RA!
While we were at HBS, we got the delivery of our SUBCREW x THE HUNDREDS collaborative hats. You may have been catching some press on this project with the Hong Kong-based brand. Subcrew’s version of the hat, sold only to their accounts in Asia, featured a trucker fit with mesh and foam makeup and unique packaging. Our version was scaled down to a regular baseball-hat shape, constructed with twill, but maintaining the signature Subcrew double-cigarette holster, the 3M reflecting piping, and the inside screenprint. We have our own version of the packaging as well, and the hat will be sold only at The Store at 7909 Rosewood Ave. starting Thursday morning. There are 50 hats available and they’ll be sold for $38 USD.
Just got back from a late-night session at the Soul Assassins studio downtown, after burning the midnight oil with world-renowned tattoo artist Mr. Cartoon (left) and acclaimed photographer Estevan Oriol (right).
Cartoon put some finishing touches on one of Lucky’s pre-existing pieces. Lots of pain, plenty of gain.
For how much these guys got goin’ on (even outside of their respective lines of work) from Nike to Hollywood, clothing brands to books, cars to airbrushing, what’s most commendable is their contribution to the real people of L.A.
Much of what they’ve done to give back to their neighborhood may go overlooked, but their mark within their immediate communities is more permanent than any ink.
Back before DJs were spinning New Rave techno-vomit and using Apple laptops to make music, they used these ungodly contraptions called turntables and records (which looked like super-sized CDs). Over at the Scratch DJ Academy, Hapa instructs his students on the ancient art of DJing with real-life records. Turns out that watching real DJs is kinda fun, as opposed to watching some hipster kid feverishly typing away on his computer all night.
The Scratch DJ Academy had a graduation ceremony today at REHAB here in LA. There was a full-on bbq and 120 of the academy’s students performing to a massive crowd. Of course, I arrived fashionably late… so fashionably late, in fact, that I missed the end of the party by over an hour. Word to myself. Still, take a look around at REHAB’s one-stop hip-hop shop and sign up for the Scratch DJ Academy while you’re at it.
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