ooe yofukuten & co. denim contest

[big truck]

Great setting for the stadium Ray

[mapz]

woke up early on a saturday to be first in line at a sidewalk sale - empty train platforms:

a local radio station made news in chicago when it announced plans to sell its whole record collection. my favorite record store, dusty groove, bought the majority of the lot. it was estimated about tens of thousands of records from the 1950s onwards were in the archive - and dusty groove held an epic sidewalk sale to unload a lot of it to the public. 50 cent LPs and CDs and 25 cent 45s! the line was about 150 heads deep, spanning probably 2 city blocks:

it was quite the scene - people descended on the records like birds of prey. they weren't in alphabetical order or categorized - just stacks and stacks and stacks of records. a lot of people just took claim to whole crates, and nimble cats pulled boxes from underneath the tables and dragged them onto the street:

in the end i walked away with 27 LPs for $13:

this morning i made my way to the renegade craft fair. handmade, DIY crafts and all that. i just did a little browsing, and visited some friends who had booths. came across a place that offers leatherwork classes in the city. talked to the guys and said they source some of their stuff from horween. not my aesthetic i assume, but intriguing nonetheless. might have to take a "101" class if the price is right:

and a fit:

Edited September 10, 2012 by mapz

[rkusmant]

No denim today, handling seafood and grilling time, can't risk seafood spill on the jeans (yet).

grilled salmon head

prep:

fire:

ready:

[aho]

very nice...grilled some steak today, pics in a bit...sorry ive been out of it!

[rayw44]

That looks pretty crazy mapz. Did you actually make discerning picks for your haul, or did you just grabs few in the frenzy?

Big truck, that stadium is always great, even on bad weather days. And that view is from an $11 300 section seat, or you could splurge and sit down in the 100s for like $18-25. It has to be one of the most affordable pro venues.

[tsunamiboy85]

Looks like everyone had a nice weekend!

As for me, I had this installed in my room.

From left to right:

Ooe Yofukuten

Warehouse BiGD5

Denime XX type (Shins)

Roy OG

PBJ xx-005BK

Eternal 811

Obey jacket

1969 M65 jacket

[garden gnomes in space]

That Milt jackson Sunflower LP is good

[Flash]

Loving all the updates , things have been pretty slow on my end because of my back but ive been feeling good the past few days so I'm going back to work and hopefully I'll have something post worthy in the next few days

Realy envious of those Denime's tsunamiboy

Edited September 10, 2012 by Flash

[mapz]

That looks pretty crazy mapz. Did you actually make discerning picks for your haul, or did you just grabs few in the frenzy?

good old fashion crate digging. i’m inclined to soul, funk, jazz and general weirdness, though. because of the prices i dragged my girlfriend along and had her shopping strictly by album art, ha. that yielded interesting results. between the two of us we snatched about 50 records, then I just whittled the selection down to 27.

That Milt jackson Sunflower LP is good

yes – that might be my favorite pick-up! line-up is a real treat: milt, herbie hancock, freddie hubbard, ron carter and billy cobham AND an orchestra!? really moody, orchestral but picks up with latin rhythms and grooves.

Edited September 10, 2012 by mapz

[royalcheese]

That Milt jackson Sunflower LP is good

yes – that might be my favorite pick-up! line-up is a real treat: milt, herbie hancock, freddie hubbard, ron carter and billy cobham AND an orchestra!? really moody, orchestral but picks up with latin rhythms and grooves.

CTI is the shit.

[royalcheese]

back on topic, here's 2 fit pics... i'm just starting rocking them these days as it was too damn hot here. so no doubt these will improve over time, at least i hope so!

[slugabed]

nothing to say...

Edited September 13, 2012 by slugabed

[redragon]

^

The blog post makes it even better, running down all shots of our jeans.

[--simon--]

Ooe

IHSH-26BK

[Flash]

Realy do love your fit on those simon, kind of wish i went for a fuller cut now

But im realy happy with how my jeans turned out

[tsunamiboy85]

Hi all, it's me again, so expect more poorly taken pictures from my iPhone!

Had a cheeseburger with garlic and herb fries for lunch.

And my friend has a grilled pork chop with sour cream and onion fries

And we split this...

A Nutella tart! Woo!

Decided to go for double cuffs, and wear the jeans higher up on my waist to try to alleviate the hip flare.

Then I had a BBQ at a friend's place. Loads of meat and grilled seafood (wrapped in foil). The green strips that you can barely make out in the corner is called 'otah otah', which is spicy fish paste. It's really yummy!

The land in Singapore is extremely limited, with many of us staying in government built high rise apartments, so it was nice to be at a private property.

A rare sight in Singapore, but they owned their own trees! This is one of the tree's flowers. They are called bunga kerak nasi, which loosely translate to 'crusty rice flower', crusty rice being the burnt rice at the bottom of the pot. The flowers smelt of pandan. According to my friend's mother, these are hard-to-find trees in Singapore nowadays as they are 'fussy trees'.

Great time spent with great people, perfect way to kick off the weekend. Have a nice one, everyone!

[slugabed]

i happened to get into an elevator with foggy mirror...

and accidentaly met a monster

zooming up

and went for window shopping

Edited September 15, 2012 by slugabed

[Ignaurus]

This is the Oak Island lighthouse, one of the many on the North Carolina coast. From a few weeks before the contest, but posting to give a sense of where I live...

Rulers of the domain, from earlier today.

The jeans started job training last week.

[Flash]

Not much to show in the denim but i did take a pic of my dream car that i seen on a day out with the misses ( not even sure what db it is but i love it )

Edited September 16, 2012 by Flash

[--simon--]

It's a DB4 and a very nice one too by the looks of it. What harbour is that?

[Flash]

It's Portrush in Northern Ireland , it's like a ghost town this tome of year

[slugabed]

nothing new with the jeans, so desided to go on a walk to meet the seven gods of fortune.

but before that, i must have some sweets...

well here we go

1. Fukurokuju, god of happiness, wealth and longevity

2.Hotei, the fat and happy god of abundance and good health

3.Benzaiten (Benten-sama), goddess of knowledge, art and beauty, especially music

4.Daikokuten (Daikoku), god of wealth, commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings or masks on the walls of small retail shops

5.Bishamonten, god of warriors

6.JurÅjin, god of longevity

and lastly...

7.Ebisu, god of fishers or merchants, often depicted carrying a sea bream

nothing religious, more like a national culture i suppose...

[redragon]

Had been having a blast on my way to Kyoto with friends for a road trip, not much photographs sadly...

In the local wet market (Nishiki wet market) if I am not wrong, much sampling of food and soft-serve ice cream.

Delicious omelete of many variation can be found on the street at quite an affordable price.

When I got back I notice that my left back pocket and belt loop start to fades abit already.

and start of pocket fades also....

Seems like the bottle water which I hang on my sides is the culprit, ah well.....

More pics to come....I hope

[aho]

damn, natsukashii bringing me back to my kyoto days....any obligatory kiyomizu denim shots?

[redragon]

^

Sadly no...

I did get to touch some Kapital and Kato, really tempting stuff!

[tsunamiboy85]

If only Singapore were half as interesting as Japan or Ireland...

To celebrate Mid-autumn Festival, there was a street fair thingy going on along the Singapore River. Bright lights everywhere, food and game stalls (which I didn't take pictures of as it was quite crowded and warm out).

I did take a picture of me with my Chinese Zodiac avatar though. Yup, that's an Ox, and I have no idea why he is holding a trident.

And took pictures of my family's Chinese Zodiac avatars as well.

This is dad.

Mum.

And sis.

I think my iPhone 4 did pretty alright in these low light conditions!

[aho]

^funny how the "grass is always greener"....for years, i've wanted nothing more than to go to singapore and eat myself silly hahaha

[jyoni]

Great updates everyone. My life is woefully unglamorous but I'll get some action photos soon.

Not much to show in the denim but i did take a pic of my dream car that i seen on a day out with the misses ( not even sure what db it is but i love it )

Flash, you need to dig into some old James Bond films. I love those cars too.

[Flash]

Allways prefared the older bond film's , Daniel Craig hasn't done a bad job either but For me Connery will allways be number one

[Ignaurus]

Does anyone remember the Bond marathons during the holidays in the 90's? Those were incredible, kept me in front of the TV for hours.