dkatz

Game-time. Figured I'd dump a whole bunch of pics here and then pick my five favorites for the final submission thread.

I'm in if I'm in town that weekend. curious who else of the LA superdenim set will be going (farhad, rnrswitch, sansome... lookin' at you guys...)

nay

good pun

Life in a post-Royxcone contest world

new RN1 on me, year-old OG on pops

Looking forward to being a fanboy of this thread...!

And if I talk myself into buying a pair, maybe throwing the odd non-contestant fit in - if it wont anger the locals

Last ROYxCone fit of the contest, and one hell of a year, for dkatz!

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I keep needing to remind myself that I told myself I would take a break from contests once royxcone is over (though I'm quite intrigued by these pants), so I'll stop cluttering with my questions!

Sounds like ninja07 is a similar size to me, though, so I'll be curious to see how his 28s wind up! Unfortunately smallest size in the seconds sale is 30.

Also, just saw this on You Have Broken the Internet (via some other blog):

look like Left Field, and dude is apparently a buyer for Need Supply so it would make sense. Good looking fit that makes me even more intrigued... dammit...

Nice to hear from you, doc!

My pair is currently undergoing it's last wash of this contest - final submission, hopefully, early next week

I think it's best if we hold off on posting final submissions until everyone is done. That way we won't have to sift through 50 pages of the thread over a couple months to see everyone's final submissions. So maybe put together your final submission post (take pictures at least) as soon as your year is done, but wait to actually post until the last contestant has finished his year.

Speaking of which, who was the last person to initially receive their jeans? Paul T, right? When did he actually get them?

^ ah! You reminded me that this happened also:

meetup with mr. dkatz.

we had some amazing pork knuckle afterwards....

biergarten!

did lots of drinking things

Dachau. not a lot can be said

but afterwards, this helped

and then... oktoberfest!

arriving at dawn

six hours later, beer arrives!

Royxconexhackerpschorr

apparently this is what I looked like several hours later, not that i remember

and that was dkatz does germany in a nutshell! Up next, a little bit of istanbul...

hitler's coliseum-like work in progress. incongruous with the beautiful nuremberg surroundings

i like this nuremberg better

and this one

laid siege to a castle with the dagger we picked up to go with our dad's suit of armor

Fussen. So pretty it's like a bad joke

Neuschwanstein in the background

brother tried to steal germany, but it was too well anchored

surveying austria. pretty sure i can see fardin!

got in trouble

volkswagen phaeton factory, dresden. awesome!

pork knuckle. oooohhhh pork knuckle!

Dresden is pretty, except for where we bombed the shit out of it

I like this pieta

ran into a friend

action poses

These are a few of my favorite things

Germany!

Tell me if I did it right, almostnice...

Berlin. Started things off right

We're mature

The waaaall

monument to the murdered jews of europe

parliament

meet my brother

learned, courtesy of a museum in berlin, that humans have a long storied history of drawing dicks the same way

this was a theme on the trip

reenacting how the east germans felt upon the fall of the wall

adh & robbie: how do the rise and thigh of these compare to the royxcones?

ranon- on what date did you start wearing your RxCs?

yeah that freaked me the fuck out.

Man, I wish these were cut just a wee bit slimmer and I'd be all about it!

Also, I had assumed this is the same fabric as used by raleigh, roy and (soon to be, I hear) tellason for their indigo canvas/duck releases, but andrew's comments have me wondering if this is the case. Anyone know?

whoa....

Alright! Here's my Secret Santa gift.

An Apolis pocket square, kitenge bandana, denim scraps from Roy's trashcan, and an emergency can opener (that functions quite well to remove the crap from under your nails). I have to say, this gift is above and beyond anything I expected. It's probably pretty easy to guess who it's from, but I just wanted to say thank you!

Wha?? The hell? who is re-gifting their kitenge bandanna?!?

^ oh wow I wish i was your secret santa recipient, and the gift was a few of those knishes!

thanks for the love, all. i do have a few more india pictures (about 2,450) I could put up, but i don't want to just completely photo-bomb the thread (especially since i still want to put up some from germany and istanbul). actually i was planning on putting all of my india highlights (110 total) in a picasa album - I'll just post a link to that here once i've done so.

glad you guys liked that dude-with-beard photo too. that was a result of being pretty fantastically bored on the train, screwing around with hipstamatic and seeing if i could take a picture of someone really close up without him noticing. victory! also i really want to draw that dude's profile.

Yeah i know the Enfields (actually they once again have rights to Royal Enfield) are still being made in India. I actually have a bit of a collection of Enfield photos from India. I'm not surprised to hear they're made like crap, but good god are the gorgeous, and super fun to ride as well!

zissou- I actually think that sounds like fun. i'm sure the recipient will have a good idea who the sender is from the return address, but the rest of us can guess just from the contents!

at a yoga ashram in kerala, southern india. learned a lot but this face fairly well captures how i felt about the experience

living the rough houseboat life

gave the royxcones a rest one day in fort cochin and tried dressing like a local. it went over well

"lungi" in walk-mode

I like goat.

and shark (actually did eat this one shortly after)

Enfield. WANT.

classiest dude on the trip. and, if you can believe it - he gave me shit about leaving out smelly socks.

liked this photo

a charming advisement from the Indian railroad authority to leave you with.

okay, that's enough photo-dumping for now! hopefully i'll get some germany and istanbul highlights up before the year's end.

it really is that beautiful.

birthplace of krishna

the food. ohhhh the food.

view from a $12 (for two) room in the lower himalayas

residence of the Dalai Lama

"who you pointin' at?"

delhi on independence day

new hairpiece