What are your jeans doing today?

[Obbigood]

I feel like I've actually been to Uganda

Exactly! Been enjoying all of your adventures, dkatz

Thanks and looking forward for wat you will bring us soon!

[dkatz]

Thanks for the congratulations and thanks, all! It's been a hell of a time.loving my first day of funemployment. I'll do my best to keep posts coming as the adventure changes and continues!

[ThinFinn]

^well done daniel.

thanks for all the great updates and for bringing that complete different land/culture to me/us...loved every single update, except the one where the young guys got chopped some skin off ...

[Obbigood]

Went London over the weekend, met some cool guys, small chats and enjoyable times.

Was at Vintage Showroom in Seven Dials...before walking in, his SD caught my sight and we started a small chat about White's.

The renowned American Classics.

Son of a Stag at Bricklane.

Another awesome store, Present

At Camden, bumped into a custom leather maker. A lady from France too!

Wat a coincidence And naturally we talked about leathers and France.

With Samurai S500JX

[robbie]

x post from roy x cone thread

took my nephew bowling today:

[Paul T]

x post from roy x cone thread

took my nephew bowling today:

Just type [youxtube] (without the x)

then the code that comes after the = on the URL of the video, in this case -sCQTZ0M3YM

then [/youXtube].

And Robbie's yer uncle.

-sCQTZ0M3YM

[robbie]

Thanks again Paul. That's why you're the best.

[bluegoldblues]

Just got back from a weeks holiday in vegas.

More pics on the blog.

[FabGeek]

ate pizza, then watched my Son play in the sprinklers with his bubble gun.

[joelz]

hung my photos up at Joe Coffee in the West Village, they'll be up all summer, so check them out if you're in NYC

[beatle]

Coaster Splash

m_W8Ehn1VqQ

[CrashTestBrummie]

Volunteer service at a local nature reserve today...putting my feet up after a hard day's graft...

[ThisSunday]

From last week while I was in LA

[snozepp147]

[mikedbt5]

Down town today shopping and this arrived in my friends vintage clothes / books / record shop . Pretty much the holy grail of punk rock albums . An older friend had a copy in 1977 , I was 12yrs old . I have it on cd but something nostalgic and rock'n'roll about vinyl .

[roy6]

(From Monday)

Went to LACMA:

[roy6]

More from LACMA:

[killer b]

Pretty much the holy grail of punk rock albums . An older friend had a copy in 1977 , I was 12yrs old . I have it on cd but something nostalgic and rock'n'roll about vinyl .

it's a fine album, but the holy grail? you can pick up a first pressing for under a tenner easily enough...

[Paul T]

Album? Album?

Wot a bunch of bleedin' hippies.

Speaking of which... check my sig, folks.

[mikedbt5]

it's a fine album, but the holy grail? you can pick up a first pressing for under a tenner easily enough...

Yeh , holy grail is not the right term but for me it is the seminal rock record of that era . The first UK punk album and in my humble opinin the best of the genre . Yiu can pick pretty much anything you want up on ebay but stumbling across this in a just arrived box of records was a far more enjoyable experience !!! Plus I got it for free !! .

[killer b]

They still rock the fuck out now tbh - saw them a few years ago and they were brilliant...

[robbie]

We've been busy since we got back from Canada. My wife is a lot better than I am at getting things on camera, here are some recent snaps from her iphone :

We went to Elote restaurant, in addition to amazing puffy tacos they had luchadores LIVE and the best Horchata I've had in a while.

Took the kids to the lake.

The bones of an awesome porcelain and neon sign. For about $2ooo you can own this piece of Americana.

(I took this one)

Had some breakfast at Waffle House with my Nephew. Smothered and Covered FO LIFE!

Crepuscular rays

Our good friend has a stand at a local farmers market. His asparagus wasn't quite ready , but the flowers made up for it.

Thursday we drove to Bartlesville for one of the better live shows I've been to in a while:

I had only heard their recordings, hadn't really seen any video of them live. They have so much energy, and the organizers cleared out the orchestra pit and made a dance floor. Fortunately for you there was a strict no photo policy during the show or else I might break the internet with horrible pictures.

Another cool part of the trip was seeing the Price Tower. We didn't make it there in time to go inside, but It was awesome to see some Frank Lloyd Wright in person:

[riff]

Nice pics snozepp! Roy - looks like a great exhibit! Robbie, good times! Back from Canada already???

Xpost from RxC

Happy Father's day to all you dads! Our morning started with the baby rabbit joining his parents in our back yard!

It's been the usual busy, busy here. I am involved in an annual charity fund-raising fair. This year, in addition to the CFO job, I also took on the role of photographer for the event. Here are a few snaps…

The silent auction room - all kinds of goodies. I donated the photo canvas just visible in the top left corner of the pic…

The bake sale was mouth-watering

All kinds of bouncy castles

And of course there had to be a "dunk" station - in this case, via water balloons!

Also managed to get out to the "Profusion" show, put on by Vistek, one of Canada's large photography retailers. Their shows are usually geared more towards the pro market, and they always have fantastic instructional sessions, as well as the latest & greatest toys

They has quite a bit of good lighting products: they missed some great sales opps by not having things set up for us to try, but I played around anyways

[riff]

They also featured some excellent photo exhibits

This one below, on AIDs in Africa, was taken by Tony Hauser. I've known him for years - he took our family portraits right after our little girl was born. Amazing photog, his work is all film/B&W.

On our way home from a dinner a couple of days ago, we spotted this

Turns out it is the Gibson road show, and talk about guitar porn!!

I played with this one for a while - a steal at $5k…

How about some special editions

Beautiful craftsmanship. But no purchases sadly!

Now off to do father's day stuff! Have a great weekend!

[killer b]

since developing an interest in vintage denim, i now spend twice as long in charity shops and on bootmarkets - previously i was only interested in the old vinyl records.

this morning, i had no joy with the denim, but hit gold with the vinyl: an 11 volume anthology of early jazz (mainly 20s, 30s & 40s) compiled by folkways in the 1950s, in mint condition with booklets etc all intact...

should give me some quality listening for the next few weeks.

[slowdownarthur]

Nice;)...one hell of a great find killer b...jelly roll rules...

[killer b]

yeah, he rules. seems to be well represented on the comp as well. plenty of stuff i've not heard before too, so i'll enjoy ploughing through it.

[robbie]

That is an awesome find. I think folkways has since changed this compilation maybe in the 80's. Anyhow, very good find you'll have plenty of music to keep yourself busy with.

riff- that gibson tour looks awesome

[mikedbt5]

Back in the city today , pics of my mates book / record shop , downstairs is the vintage clothes shop . Went for some lunctime cider / beers with my son then talked with some Dutch / German girls then more beers now home .If it wasn#t for work tomorrow ......

Roost bar in Belfast at 5pm , no fucker in sight

[ranonranonarat]

a lot of great collections right up there above me. always been a fan of collecting sort of hobbies they just dont last because of the humidity level in my country. it gets difficult to maintain vinyls and books because the pages turn yellow so quickly. ended up collecting CDs instead because they were easier to maintain.

riff, those guitars are great. i cant tell if they already look great or your photography skills made them even more drool worthy. eye popping colours! good!

so today was one of the normal working weekends for me. havent been doing any WAYJDT posts, so heres one. in case anybody didnt know, i work at a clothing store on weekends for extra doe to fund my obsessions. store underwent a small revamp a couple of months back as we added more shelving for freitag bags.

although the store's products dont really vibe with me, i have always liked the interior of the store. i also like how we change our shopping bags frequently. here are the ones this season, polka dotted bags. they look pretty damn cute on girls.

got some generic surplus shoes as well as zkin camera bags. zkin is a brand from hong kong and the bags are real nice, placed on consignment in our store now. made of leather and suede they are a great product with nice aesthetics and functionality.

we've got all sorts of weird decor items as well as my boss picks up a lot of old stuff from the salvation army and restores them. rocking horse has been around for mabbe 15 years? but he repainted it and touched it up a little. never fails to get the kids.

sometimes we've got some interesting products as well. here you see, the first pair of north korean produced jeans. great idea even though construction isnt fantastic. no fancy denim or chainstitching or whatsoever and fit is somewhat of an anti-fit. totally expecting something like that from them. ha!

and heres the story. pretty interesting concept and great persistence from the swedish guy that started it all.

headed to the mall for dinner after work. havent been out for a while now due to work, so couldnt be more stoked for dinner!

if theres something they say about singaporeans, we love our queues. we almost spontaneously join queues because we assume that anywhere that has queues must have some great stuff.

my friend and i picked out a somewhat new chinese restaurant for dinner. famed for one of their treats which i will show later on.