ROY X CONE contest, 1.1.11 - 2.1.12

[zissou]

Hahaha, that's the funniest thing I've seen all week.

Oh, and I sent out my package a couple days ago! It's supposed to go to the UK, but I don't know if it will arrive by Xmas. It should be there by NYE, though.

Edited December 21, 2011 by zissou

[rnrswitch]

Sent mine out yesterday. Goes to the UK as well. I actually hope it doesn't ever get there. The recipient is on my shit list....

[pepper davies]

Well guys! It's time to submit my final pictures. I sold my D300 this week in order to purchase a Leica M3 so I figured now is as good a time as any to post my pictures. Because I got my pair from Ranon more than halfway through the contest I figured I should post both pairs that I wore this year. I started wear on a pair of original Roys on January 1 and received my contest Roys from Ranon on the 10th of June.

Original Roys

[pepper davies]

Contest jeans

I think both pairs turned out really well.

[mikecch]

Very nice mate - fantastic progress on both of them for 6 months!

[Dr_Heech]

This is seriously freaky.

Maybe there's somone out there makin small dolls of all the contestants, some sort of voodoo-esque trickery to try and steal the (..ahem) beloved crown at the last minute??

well you never know..

.

[robbie]

(these are not submission pics)

11.75 months of daily wear, multiple soaks, 5 machine washes IIRC.

I need to take better pictures, or get photoshop, or both.

[ranonranonarat]

robbie, what camera model are you using exactly?

[robbie]

^ a nikon p90x {not making the 'p90x part up, I swear like 4 days after i bought it the weird dude bro work out tapes came out}

Edited December 21, 2011 by robbie

[dkatz]

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

[ranonranonarat]

Cool robbie, you gotta learn to use the damn beast though. You've got a nice pair (of jeans) right there.

Daniel, I started my pair on 6 Jan!

Edited December 22, 2011 by ranonranonarat

[riff]

dr_heech, paul, adh, robbie - denimz looking great! Mine got a bit more wear, altho most of december is being spent in suits I'll do one more wash before the final pics.

Ahahaha! omfg - i'm going to have nightmares too

What the hell is this? I hope it didn't cost much as it's going in the bottom of a heavy trunk with a big brass railroad padlock. The thing freaks me out.

[mikecch]

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

[dkatz]

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

[dkatz]

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

[dkatz]

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

[dkatz]

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...

[aho]

holy international sufu meetup batman! best picture i've seen in a while, riding that horse

[dkatz]

^ ah! You reminded me that this happened also:

meetup with mr. dkatz.

we had some amazing pork knuckle afterwards....

[Dr_Heech]

@Robbie

- despite the picture quality, your Roys are lookin fantastic !

They're up there with Zissou's, rnr's and Roy6's pairs imo.

@rnr

- You must be the only person in the world at christmas to have a 'shit list' (?)

Did a christmas tree fall on you as a child?

[ranonranonarat]

dkatz i laughed my head off with that germany set. love the crazy poses you and your brother did. what a bunch of crazy fools!

[Maynard Friedman]

Dkatz Germany tour pics are the funniest photos I've seen on Sufu. Well done young man!

[dr.house]

Moar secret Santa gifts???

[lawlercon]

everyones jeans look great. can't wait to see who takes the cake.

[zissou]

Great photos, Daniel! It looks like you had a wonderful time

I received a very nice secret santa package in the mail yesterday! There were even gifts for my little girl! In it were:

five pack of MUJI recycled yarn socks (yes!)

polka dot handkercheif

pocket knife

collection of Eric Khoo movies that I haven't seen

Wooden xylophone (this was a big hit. I am working on Joy to the World)

Tasty cookies and chocolate strawberry marshmallows E was on a serious sugar high yesterday!

Thank you, secret Santa! You rock!!!

[robbie]

@Robbie

- despite the picture quality, your Roys are lookin fantastic !

They're up there with Zissou's, rnr's and Roy6's pairs imo.

thanks!

[DocBlue]

Ok fellas ..... i DO apologize a lot for being an arse and not posting a single line in the last 3 months. No excuses, nothing went wrong badly enough in my life to explain that. i just went on and been bored a bit with all that stuff. moved in another place, went abroad a lot and man, time goes on.

but my internal clock told me i would def. be a sucker if i couldn't be able to at least respect you all by posting before the 2.1.12 evo pics of the roys...

so here are some pics. to be honest i stopped to wear those about 5 months ago. Too tight. so you wont have fit pics, unless i am drunk enuf to do it. but i am such a fat ass now that i doubt i could let me go to do so.

i will take a couple of hours tonite to read the thread.

Almostnice, i will drop you a line later. hope your shit is geting better.

Many thanks and respects to all of you who kept on posting unlike me....

and wtf hapened to sufu?

[dkatz]

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?

[zissou]

Wouldn't it make the most sense for folks to email all final submission photos to you, Daniel, since you are tallying the votes? Then you could create an album in flickr/photobucket/whatever, and then post a link to the album?

I'd be happy to help with compiling the photos if you want.

Edited December 22, 2011 by zissou

[Paul T]

why don't we do a separate thread for the final photos, just to keep things simple?

My jeans arrived on the 21st.

By the way, has everyone seen Kiya's announcement in the Roy thread, that his new jeans use unsanforized (I guess he means loomstate) Cone fabric, the first that's been made in 60 years? $330 I believe. They look terrific but of course it underlines what a bargain we all got. I'm glad if we helped get that ball rolling...

Doc, nice to see you back!