ROY X CONE contest, 1.1.11 - 2.1.12

[Farhad]

nice stuff everyone and thanks for the compliments and rep.

Mike's father in law russ is wearing the rising sun "deadgrass" pants and was holding them up with a rope. It's not apparent in this pic, but eltopo has some pics of it that I think he'll be posting soon. He's a super cool guy with an immense amount of knowledge. He's been a geologist working for the state of california for 39 years. He definitely knows cali like the back of his hands.

[fardin]

glad to read from you tg. yes must be horrible.

[Paul T]

im on the other island so im just watching the news with everyone else

have one friend i havent heard from yet

my and my ROYs sitting round feeling stink for not being able to do anything

Glad you're ok, hope all your friends are too. Ande whall's workshop was apparently badly damaged but he's fine.

[Dr_Heech]

Awfull to watch all of this unfold.

Glad you are fine TG (although we still have not heard from all our south island friends)

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[lostinthesupermarket]

Glad you're ok tg. Hope your friend is alright.

[dkatz]

Glad to hear AW's okay too.

Things have actually just erupted a bit here too. Friday's presidential elections were remarkably calm, but shit's going a bit crazy during the mayoral elections today. At 12:41pm, the Electoral Commission canceled the Kampala Mayoral elections over reported electoral fraud. Several boxes stuffed with pre-ticked ballot papers have been found and skirmishes between supporters of opposing mayors have been popping up all around the city.

Guess that's why I passed these guys on my way into the office this morning!

Somehow that doesn't make me feel more safe.

Polling station across the street from the office looked calm enough

Anyway, back to the good stuff:

Holy crap that near-boiling, agitated soak shrunk these suckers like whoa!

Lost 1.5ish inches in the waist, and the fit is considerably slimmed down. Didn't measure the inseam but based on the cuffs I'm guessing I lost about 1.5-2 inches. Stoked!

The soak also really brought out bunch of striation and brighter-blue hues in the denim. I'm getting more excited to see how all of these are going to look in 10.5 months!

[ranonranonarat]

been a while since i updated a real post, but today i hung out with the girlfriend for a while before she leaves for sydney again. been doing this long distance thing for 2 years now and fuck it is hard but its worth it.

while waiting around. i love the texture and colour of the denim, they look great for now but i'll bet they'll look even better at 2 years or more.

hung around with her while she did her shopping. love the colour from around here.

a quick request for a WAYWT. a little sloppy the shirt yes, but i love how fucking comfortable it is in this shitty 39 degrees weather.

would you wear a thrashy t shirt like that? no i wouldnt but hell it is pretty cute. shout out to all of you guys "hey you!"

got hungry and went for dinner tonight at a japanese restaurant.

i think its a rip off for this but i still like having this. edemame, which is a green version of a soybean. they coat this is a light layer of salt and you're supposed to eat it off by chewing on the pod and the bean just pops out.

had some sashimi as well. there was tuna, salmon, squid as well but they were prettty much gone by the time i whipped out the camera. there was prawn too but the taste and texture is a little weird for me to eat as sashimi.

not too sure what its called but its a nice rice roll with avocado, softshell crab and a little bit of roe that pops in your mouth when you chew on it. delicioussss.

grilled saba. not a fan of fish generally (other than sashimi), but this was pretty decent. had a whole ton of other food as well such as a california handroll and a salmon chirashi don and tempura as well but was too hungry to photograph.

[ranonranonarat]

picked up some of my photographs that i sent for processing the other day. i leave you with some photographs to ponder over.. goodnight superfuture.

[DocBlue]

KTH shirt

vintage deerskin gilet

RoyxCone

MF boots

[Paul T]

Ran, can't wait to read your post properly.

We're out on the coast. ]

view from just outside our house, on the way to a terrific pub called The Neptune

And inside...

This is one of the only places in the East of England where the sun sets over the water.

Up early this morning for low tide. Check out the museel beds, stretch for miles

Looking for these. Fossilised sharks teeth from the late Cretaceous...

All of the brown, striated stones are fossilised wood and plants.

View up the coast. IN the mist we could just make out a Roman Fort, converted into a Saxon abbey around 600AD.

The abbey up close

[Paul T]

Into a nearby town, an old mod hangout called Margate, to warm up. We were all drenche,d it's still raining now.

Our haul: three sharks teeth, and we kept a couple of fossilised stalks...

Margate itself was always v sworkins class. Not many people go there now, altho they're building a new modern art museum.

But it has a terrific joke shop! I thought of buying a pair of flashing breast lights for markus.

Instread we bought a blue plastic thompson sub machine gun. Eat yer heart out, eltopo!

On the way back... an old airforce base, the first place they had Meteor jet fighters. They used them to shoot down there..

[ThinFinn]

TG - glad that everything's fine with you and yours!

dkatz - watch your back mate! Those police men aren't joking!

ranon - wanna see more of you in here cuz I'm always enjoying your posts even if I'm always hungry after them and I really do like your filmpics...great shots there mate!

Paul - that's exactly how I think of england great pubs, old castles and foggy weather...nice!

[Farhad]

Paul, you've been doing a great job of updates. Here are some more pics from the trip.

[DocBlue]

[aho]

^LOL I almost thought I was in the wrong thread for a sec there docblue...crazy progress, I have a lotttt of catching up to do!

[Medine]

Another pic of belt loop/cinch evo. My cinch fabric is going away fast!

I'm convinced this wear & tear is mostly from my backpack as this is wear it rides.

[mikecch]

^ You're going be missing a belt loop by the end of this contest!

Nice work Medine and DocBlue!

[pomata]

fantastic updates guys

sup dkatz?

[entertainment!]

Soaked for the second time last night to get more shrinkage after seeing too many better fits on this thread. The denim definitely got darker and bluer. The gray cast is gone now. Will post fit pics soon.

[rnrswitch]

fantastic updates guys

sup dkatz?

Yep. that's definitely pretty damn cute.

[ranonranonarat]

is it only me or is everyone else seeing the frog in an ice cube saying the that domain has been unregistered?

[zissou]

Very cute, pomata

Medine- that's crazy that your cinch has disintegrated so quickly. I think this beautiful denim is perhaps not the most durable, as I am getting some fraying on the pocket edges already. It will be interesting to see if any pairs don't even last a full year without major repairs.

I think my plan will be to wash them after two months, and then every month thereaftersince they are fading and wearing so quickly.

[beatle]

always good to see the future of superfuture..pomata - adorable pic...you should make more babies...

[DocBlue]

i agree with everyone about your son Pomata, he is cute.

Medine i am amazed by the evo you have on your cinch, what do you do exactly?

i dont have much evo on mine, just those crazy combs you can see on snuggy jeans around here..... not my fav cup of tea but heck i promised i would wear those whatever the fit would be.... i just overexposed a bit to make them more apparent that is it but i think it will be less visible after the first wash.

[DocBlue]

Very cute, pomata

Medine- that's crazy that your cinch has disintegrated so quickly. I think this beautiful denim is perhaps not the most durable, as I am getting some fraying on the pocket edges already. It will be interesting to see if any pairs don't even last a full year without major repairs.

I think my plan will be to wash them after two months, and then every month thereaftersince they are fading and wearing so quickly.

this is also my opinion.... i have knees fading already and unlike Markus i don't have a job that makes me kneel a lot.... i had to do some crotch repair as i had some stiches broken already.

evo pics will be very interresting to study. my cinch for example is far away from Medine"s.

btw Zissou, your belt is aging already nicely.

[DocBlue]

and what is always in my Roy's pockets

[pomata]

thanks superpeople

too bad I'm not wearing my pair much due to the snug waist issue

[fardin]

no pis from me at the moment, but i think i will soak mine finally next month. or do you guys think i should still go on without a soak ?

great post paul as always, real intersting i wish i could rep you. so many nice fits.

[Joseph Hill]

Finally got these up from a few weeks ago. Orkestar Zirconium. Ever have a twelve piece gypsy brass band play in your bedroom?

Playing their way out to the street.

...and in the middle of the street. No cars in the wee hours, and noone called the cops.

[Joseph Hill]

My brother sometimes plays french horn with the tuba player.

Disco ball Vespa is kind of meh, but it shows off the ROYs.