07.05.09

Villains and Vagabonds is a brand that I have been working with for a while now and its good to see that they finally have a website up and running featuring photos shot by yours truly of course!. I've been shooting pics for them for the last few seasons, and its incredible to see how they have grown in the last year with no web presence at all.

Well, as of last weekend this has all changed. They now have a new full fledged website, for me this is actually kind of nice, considering I shoot all these photos for them and never get to see them anywhere aside from their showroom. They also have a webstore and a bunch of other cool little features. I personally would have loved to see more of the photos up, but this is really a good start for them, and I think that this is really going to be good. It was also super cool of them for putting up a little blog hit about me and the work that I have done. It good to hear it when people appreciate the work that I have put into their brands. Its also pretty cool to see all the spots that they are carried at. I mean they have some of the best accounts you can get for the kind of gear they make. Revolve, Metro Park, and Fred Segal, so good.

P.s. I also like how in the second photo, Nick from Villains put that nice little close up hit of the Hellz Bellz x Miss Wax collab ring that was given to us on loan from Miss Kylee Wax herself!

06.14.09

My buddy Chris Josol has been a long time advocate of what I've been doing for the last few years. He's been telling me about the brand he works with, Ludwig for a while. Recently he invited me out to see what he and the Ludwig crew had going on over at thier launch event over at Fred Segal Santa Monica, anyway I felt that I was due for a brief break and finally left my cave. I really dug the garments that they had a pretty funny store installation. I saw alot of old friends lurking about, and some pretty sweet kid sized nike cortez's, kinda made me wanna go home and make myself a little cholo. One thing I totally forgot, was there was a basketball game that evening, and from that I learned two things, one what a hipster sports bar would look like, and two, its still not cool to make Kobe Bryant jokes in public... Especially in L.A.