Fight like a Girl

Just got an email from Bloomies...


Exclusively at Bloomies. Marc Jacobs will donate 50 percent from the retail sale of his limited edition "Miss Marc Cure" tee to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Feel-good shopping is always a win-win situation!

Run...uh...Shop for a Cause

Put your sneeks down and do some different kinda running.
Run up that credit card and do your part by shopping in October aka breast awareness month!

Key to the Cure t-shirt, saks.com

Help fight against women's cancers by purchasing the limited edition 2008 Key to the Cure Tee at saks.com (finally) on sale today! This year's tee, designed by Karl Lagerfeld, is only $40 with over $35 going toward Entertainment Industry Foundation's Women's Cancer Research Fund.

Wanna give more?

Fashionistas: Saks Fifth Avenue's charity shopping weekend will take place October 16 to 19 at all of its stores nationwide and through saks.com, during which 2% of sales will benefit local organizations through EIF's Women's Cancer Research Fund.

Ballers: Buy one of the 1,000 limited edition S550 Sedan Benzo! Holla.



More tax write-offs to come ;)

The Audacity of Pez!

images courtesy tcritic.com
Karl Long blogs about wicked t-shirts in his website Tcritic. He also begain licensing T-shirt prints from independent artists. In timely fashion the first Tcritic shirt comes from artist Eric Rewitzer of 3 Fish Studios: The Prez Dispenser!

The Obama-inspired shirt is based on a linocut by Eric Rewitzer. The only thing that would be sweeter is if Pez comes out with real Barack dispenser. I would fill it with Hope and orange Pez!

Hope, Change & Progress are definitely tenets our next president should OBEY

Recently artist Shepard Fairey of OBEY has recently donated his iconic Obama "Hope" poster in support for the Art For Life Art Auction. As of this writing, the 45 x 69 1 of 3 editioned collage is going for upwards of $75k.

More Obama, right?… Well, this is something special. After Shepard’s initial feeling not to make a fine art piece of the OBAMA image, he thought about it and was presented with an opportunity to do something exceptional. When Shepard was asked by industry heavyweight, Russell Simmons, to donate a piece for his Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, he felt this was a worthy cause. The piece is being auctioned for the Art For Life Charity event. This piece is approximately 4×6 foot in size and its a mixed media stencil collage on paper. It may be the only fine art piece of this image available to the public. You can bid on the piece through the Art For Life Auction here.

from ObeyGiant.com

For those not in the know, Fairey made his support for Barack Obama known when he created prints concerning the 2008 candidate's themes. These prints sold out indefinitely and are now as much in demand as they are famous.



However those who missed out on showing some love by obtaining the prints have the opportunity to wear that support with OBAMA x OBEY x UpperPlayground collaboration hoodies. At $60 each, the hoodie sales will go back into producing more Obama Campaign materials and maybe more posters according to the website.

For those who like a little light-hearted support, Karmaloop has some Back To The Future inspired Barack threads by Sons of Liberty!

Great Scott! This is HEAVY!

Keepin it thuggish ruggish for all my G.D.s!

[images courtesy of turntablelab.com]

Graphic Designers, that is.

Foe the love of $, how cool is this tee? Am I the only one that feels like I'm looking into a mirror?

This collabo with HVW8 and Kevin Lyons just gives us graphic designers the street cred we need. What you know about that dope typeface?!? (ha, no really, what do you know? what is it?!? ya think it's their own special typeface?) Show 'em a Lil L.O.V.E and cop the tee here.

Watch out, we carry Sharpies and Xactos on us on all times. CS3 fo' life. And here's another one I wanna throw in the mix. =)

Need some OBEY gear in your life?

Sample sales are always great places to rock some hot deals on hot threads and OBEY Clothing's 2008 summer sample sale should be no different. It'll be going down Friday May 30th from 9am to 7 pm and on Saturday May 31st from 8am to 3pm in 3500 W. Carriage Dr, Santa Ana 92704.

If you're ready to OBEY, prepare your credit cards and expect to come home with giant bags full of gear; or at the very least look as awesome as the guy in the back of the flyer:

Snap, Crackle and Pop meets Rap, Hood and Hip-Hop!

Keeping with my previous post about cereal, comes another breakfast mashup, where this time cereal meets street. Kellogg's, the company behind character-driven breakfast cereal mainstays, joins street clothing company Under The Hood for a new collaborated line they're hoping will leave fans of both scenes clamoring, "They're Grrrreat!"



Kellogg's famous characters are all here, from Frosted Flake's Tony the Tiger, the jolly Rice Krispies trio Snap, Crackle and Pop, Honey Smacks' Dig'Em the Frog, Corn Flakes' Cornelius Rooster, and finally Toucan Sam of Froot Loops fame. All your favorite cereal mascots jump out of the box and land emblazoned in outlined patterns over shirts, jeans, hoodies, and track jackets. You can check out all the styles at Under The Hood's online store.

The brands definitely acknowledge that the strange combination of the two flavors is definitely a taste that'll split the masses between those that "Dig'Em" while others will feel soggy. In full compliance with that thought, check out the models' faces:

On the other hand we've seen every cartoon character from Fat Albert to Bugs Bunny on clothing, but Kellogg's/Under The Hood's line seems much more out there and therefore giving it a much bigger "WTF/Awesome" factor to the mix!

So whether you think its the most absurd thing that has happened to the urban clothing waves or perhaps the most genius, one thing is for sure:

Nothing spells out BOLD better than rocking out an outfit that says, "Follow Your Nose" while pointing to Toucan Sam's rainbow snout splattered over your ass cheeks!!


Personally, I know I NEED this Honey Smacks Track jacket IN MY LIFE to rock with my Reebok Voltron ERS Racer Green Lion 3 kicks:

NOW that would be a mashup-mashup!

Home for the Holidays.

Sorry for the lack of updates on my part. It has been a busy and tough quarter. It's all G though... I'm back home in SD to catch up on sleep and laziness.

A while back, I received a package from Enna (remember? Kami-Robo?) that contained an issue of QUANTO magazine; Japan's top selling magazine for toy model kit and hobby enthusiasts. To my suprise, They included a tiny photo of me with Yasui san in the insert the magazine did on the San Diego Comic-Con.






(Yeah, that's what I look like. My cover is blown. Don't come after me in the streets, ya punks.)

When I got home, mom left me some mail on my desk...

Fall 2007 issue of THEME magazine.




(In case you can't read the text on the left side, that hat is a large bra. Throw some D's on that _____!)



Also on my desk, a copy of Staple's 10th Anniversary look book featuring models Sakiko Ann Sugano and Maria Ozawa. I'm not gonna link them here, so google them yourself. Photos by Yonehara himself. He is awesome.







Cheap stuff for sale at Commissary (SD). This shop is always killin' it.



Gonna eat some Popeyes then go back to sleep. Should be up around 11:30 AM - Noon.

BRB.

Giving H.O.P.E.

[top: back of tee detail. bottow: front detail on white tee. photo courtesy of urbn]

Make your gift have substance this year --

Obey, in collabo with Global Grassroots H.O.P.E. (helping other people everywhere) Campaign, is bringing awareness and empowerment to the people of Darfur through these limited edition cotton tee colorways. The tee is designed in true Shepard Fairey fashion based on a pic by Brian Steidle, titled Girl and Brother. Proceeds will benefit the H.O.P.E. Campaign.

[photo courtesy of metropark]

a definite MUST on everyone's wishlist this holiday.

Thick Girls are Dope

I'm back from my trip to the Philippines! I'll update you all on some of the things I checked out while I was there in some later posts. In the meantime, I saw this shirt from Blood is the New Black for sale on Bazaar Adriatic. I'm absolutely loving it but I'm just a bit confused...

[picture taken from Bazaar Adriatic]

Someone please tell me why this shirt would be SOLD OUT in a a size SMALL?!

[image captured by carmeL from Bazaar Adriatic]

They still had some shirts left in a size medium. Sorry folks but larges were sold out as well. The shirt is on sale right now for $24 so better get to it before those sell out as well.

Until next time dorks...

New BountyxHunter and Erostika at Span of Sunset

Span of Sunset comes through once again with some new BxH tees putting fruity t-shirt companies to shame. Like most BxH items, these tees go quick. Tees are available for purchase on their website for anybody not located within the L.A area.



Also some new Rockin' Jelly Bean Erostika tees straight from Japan...

You Rock the party that Rocks the body...

Be the illest party go-er with the tee that be jammin'.
No, that's not silk screened!

(found on firebox.com)
Your Equalizer Tee response and grooves to the sound of the music just like you would!
Remember dance to the beat...not the words. =P

$#!T I got at the Vinyl Toy Network Show

Que pasa putos,

Just wanted to show you a couple of fresh finds I got when Juligie, Janus Saint, and I went to the Vinyl Toy Network Spring 2007 Show in Pasadena, CA two weekends back. I would have posted this earlier if I had a digital camera and didn’t live in the dark ages, but lucky for you I finally decided to step out of my dark cave and purchase a D200 which arrived this past Wednesday.

The first booth I went to was Super7 (aka Super7 International Toy Pirates). Super7 resides in San Francisco, my former city of employment. Super7 had lots of different Japanese vinyl toys and t-shirts. The one thing that caught my eye and that I had to have was a t-shirt of one of the greatest animes of all time, Akira. It’s Kaneda in his classic pose braking sideways with his motorcycle. Nothing fancy, just a simple red and orange silhouette of the bad ass.

The second thing I got was a pair of Nike Air Max 1 Skull Pack Edition from Tradition. Tradition is based out in Westlake, CA and sells various vinyl toys and kicks for you urban junkies. I got the shoes for 45 dollars (show special) so that was a no brainer...I had to cop’em, nah mean!?!?

All in all it was a pretty dope show. Lots of toys--even though I didn’t even buy any HA!--and lots of other things like art and clothing. For more on the show, check out Janus Saint's review.

Esta Bien? Orale Pues.