07.27.09

Comic con rules! I'll have another post with some random photos and some of the loot I picked up, we had a great time. check out the video of some of the comic con goodness.

COMIC-CON 2009 from PAUL NGUYEN on Vimeo.

07.22.09

lets see how long this stays up before they take is down.... enjoy!

07.22.09

Here is a little video that the guys over at Lrg cooked up from the photoshoot that we did a little while back with Raekwon its pretty awesome to say that we had him in studio with us. Images coming soon.

LRG VISUALLY HEARD / Raekwon from LRG on Vimeo.

07.20.09

Today's shoot really couldn't have been better, quick, easy, great results, and on top of doing a good shoot, I managed to get myself a fresh pair of new sneakers as well. Today in studio, we had Rockstar energy drink, Nike 6.0, Skullcandy, and Oakley, ski athlete Sammy Carlson. This gig was set up by my old pal Jimbo Morgan who has been a huge advocate and it was about time that I could return the favor for him and shoot one of his athletes. There isn't too many people that are better on the slopes than Sammy, and he's got his new movie "Can't Stop" coming out soon to prove it. I'll post up the finished picks up here as soon as I can.

07.16.09

Since the revival of "The Crucible" I decided to bring out some early pics that I shot with the first version of this contraption. This was a shoot that my buddy James Kyson Lee had set up for me with his friend, Erin Cahill. I won't go into detail about what Erin does and who she is and all that, thats what google and wikipedia is for, internet creeping is something I know we all participate in.
Erin was a really good sport to come down all the way to the OC for this. She really made my day, as well as the shoot! There is really too much of this hurry up and wait stuff going on with shoots. Being that I have some pretty fond memories of this one, I can't believe that I never did a post on it.... sheesh, I really need to get my act together. One of these days I'll get all caught up with all of this little gems that i've shot along the way. Erin if you are reading this, sorry I am so lame, we need to kick it sometime. One of these days my trigger finger is gonna be broke, and then I'll be able to take it easy for a while.

07.13.09

This is one of my most favorite pieces of gear we call it "The Crucible". This little baby was out of commission for a minute, but shes back now, and you'll be able to see images in some magazines next month, well that is if you live in Japan. I'll be able to talk about this more later, after I get something back from the printer. Anyway, this guy was inspired by the incredible music director Hype Williams. Its pretty much a modified ring light to give a bit of a different effect than what one may expect from a ring light. Anyway I missed this guy, and I'm glad he's back in the arsenal, new and improved. Special thanks to Igor and Byronski_Beat for making it happen.

07.12.09

Here is a video of my recent photoshoot with Shady recording artist Cashis for Cakedout. I had no idea that they were putting this together, I just happened to be on there site last night and saw it. One of these days I'll start being more aware of stuff like this.

07.10.09

Here's a little video that pretty boy paul shot of my villains and vagabonds shoot.

VILLAINS AND VAGABONDS from PAUL NGUYEN on Vimeo.

07.09.09

My buddies Devin and Mitch from Fremont and Endovenera just recently opened up a shop in Costa Mesa within the Lab. I would rant and rave about how much I like the shop and how you should check it out, but instead here is a list of a few of the brands they carry, fremont,chronicles of never, endovenera, corpus,erik hart,orthodox,eskell,kontorsion,morphine generation, and conference of birds. Also just to let you everything is pretty much 50 to 80 percent off. For your sake, you should come, because you'll for sure get some sweet stuff, for my sake I hope you don't because I'll for sure scoop up the gear you missed for myself. Make sure to come on Saturday, they are having a party with free booze and all that, so they can get you drunk so my make a ton of shopping decisions that you'll regret once you get your credit card statment.

07.08.09

Here's a little video of something that we'll hopefully be working on shortly, photos and more info soon!

THE STRONGHOLD from PAUL NGUYEN on Vimeo.

07.06.09

4TH OF JULY AT B'S from PAUL NGUYEN on Vimeo.

Here is a little video that Pretty Boy Paul of Analog Holiday put together. It was quite a night. I have to give it up to Alessia for making a pretty awesome pasta salad and getting me some circus animal cookies, shes pretty amazing!

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!

07.04.09

I love chicks, lots of new stuff to post come Monday involving all of these photos.

07.03.09

I took a quick ride out to vegas after the art show that Ray and I had the other night to pick up a few things for our coming independence celebration. Here's our little teaser video.

BOOM BOOM CHICKA-DEE from PAUL NGUYEN on Vimeo.

07.02.09

Here are some shots of Ray and I doing some of
our Chule work over at our show at Box Eight. They were pretty fun to work on and I hope everyone enjoys them.

07.01.08

So Ray and I are at it again with our art crew "chule" we are showing over at a group show over at box eight, this should be pretty cool. It'll be especially good if the let Ray and I have our way and do a little live art for you all. Show up, its going to be fun.

06.30.09

People ask me all the time what I am up to, I'm sure that they only ask me because they honestly are interested in what I am doing. I just can't help think that they are asking me because they think I'm lazy. Well anyway, here it is. My new ad and billboard with Mr. Trevor Ariza of The Lakers. It was a pretty crazy thing to throw together so fast after their championship victory. I really have to give it up to the crew over at LRG for pulling it all together.

06.28.09

This ad I did recently features one of my favorite actor's wearing a new Dim Mak hoodie's while he is djing. I'm talking about my favorite alien E.T. I believe he's pretty much everyone's favorite (although my brother will fight me to the death with his belief that the role is held by Alf), but he has a special place in my heart. I actually have a picture of him on my desk in my office, and when given the opportunity to work with him I really flipped out. It was really cool of DJ AM to make an appearance in this ad as well as Steve Aoki in the bike ride scene. Its pretty rare for me to beable to work with so many different talented people for one ad. AM was really nice, and he's so talented, it was cool to finally be able to work with him. I hope I'll get to be able to work with all these guys again soon. Look out for this ad in the most recent issues of BPM and possibly Vapors!

06.27.09

The boys at Caked Out, just launched thier new website and lookbook, that yours truly shot. It features Shady recording artist Cashis. I've actually worked with the brand in the past on graphics and things and I am looking forward to be able to work with them in a much greater way. This is the first time we're done a real shoot for the brand and I look forward to seeing much bigger things coming soon from these guys.

06.26.09

The death of Michael Jackson was such a suprise and a tragedy. When it happened, I thought it was like alot of things I hear about Michael Jackson and I thought to my self... more bad jokes. I don't really write about stuff like this here, because this is a place where I usually put stuff like where I am traveling, or what I am working on, but for some reason I just really felt like writing something here. After really thinking about it after I heard he passed away, I sat down with some friends and really thought about if we
could think of anyone that was more famous than he was. I decided that there wasn't anyone that I could think of, so with that, we decided to make the trek out to the house he was living in in los angeles. As we expected, it was a media circus. We were able to find a smaller memorial that wasn't completely swarmed by media and fans, but what I did notice was that on the banners that someone printed up had not only put Michael's face on the banner, but they put there own as well. I'm sure it was by mistake, luckily there was a good samaritan standing by that helped the poor man fix his mistake by cutting him off of the posters, Whew! Anyway, I am truly sadden by this, and I really hope the best for his children, then best quote I heard all evening when the media was filming people in regards to Michael and his death, a side from all the fake rap artists plugging thier records and thier myspace accounts was, "Michael Jackson, a man accused of many things, convicted of none!"

06.25.09

All I have to say is that they guys over at Joy Engine are pretty awesome. I was perusing around the interweb as I usually do every morning to stumble upon this tidbit of awesomeness! This hasn't been the first time Ray and myself as Chule has been put up on this site, but honestly its a fantastic feeling everytime we are. Todd Berger of the Joy Engine clan has been a massive supporter of us, and I really want to thank him for being an appreciater as well as an advocate of us!

06.24.09

Victory dinners have always been pretty funny to me, because I my mind somehow I figure that we are celebrating that was might have not been able to complete the task successfully, but then again, I've never not completed a job. My mind wanders. I love to eat, I love kitschy places, so I suppose I'll continue to celebrate my victories and with an umbrella in my drink.

06.17.09

Location scouting is one of the cooler things we
get to do as part of this job, but to be able to do it in style like this is pretty awesome. I really need to buy one of these. I can't wait for the day I can have a mobile studio like we did for this. This shoot promises to be an insane one and I really can't wait to get this out and done for everyone to see.

06.16.09

My friends over at Skullcandy just sent me this today! They are having some pretty rad events down in my hood. I can't believe they got Del Tha Funky Homosapien to do it, thats so nuts. He's pretty awesome. I remember when we all met up with him for the first time at SXSW a few years back. Anyway, the show is going to be pretty nuts, and on top of Del being there, my buddy DJ Slipmatt is going to be spinning as well, so that will be pretty dope.

06.03.09

So here begins E3 the big video game expo. I haven't been able to go yet, I'm actually going tomorrow, but last night's Xbox party was pretty cool. I was invited by my buddy and videographer to the latino stars Willy-T. Willy is pretty rad, I was introduced to him by OG Abel during one of our shoots and we really hit it off. The only negative thing I really have to say about the guy, is that he doesn't like BBQ sauce, its kind of wierd, I know. He orders his BBQ dry, its not like he gets the sauce on the side, he just doesn't get it. So strange right. Any, dispite Willy's tastebud problem, he's a pretty rad guy and great filmer.

The night was filled with some pretty good games, good food, good music and some pretty amazing cars. Dj Skee was spinning most of the night, which was pretty dope, the last time I spotted him we were out in austin for SXSW in march. Bruce Wanye's ride from the Dark Knight was in the house as well, I have to say, the matte black is pretty awesome. All in all it was a good, nite and to be honest with you, the parting gifts we left with that night, weren't too shabby either.

06.15.09

The other nite I was able to hook up with my buddies Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson who are in this band called the Shiny Toy Guns. Chad's a pretty big fan of Skullcandy and actually recorded their latest record Season of Poison with the Sk Pros. So it was pretty cool to kick it with them and hear thier anecdotes and all that. As you can see, Chad's talents go beyond just his musical abilites, but he's got a pretty incredible sense of fasion as well.

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.