What are your jeans doing today?

[riff]

^Grim Ryan - looks like a great day! Cute pup, Labs are awesome!

Xpost from Roy...

We headed out to shoot again this weekend, this time out by the dockyards. Tramped around in minus 30 below for a few hours!

Had to work around a few things…

Great views here

Meandered over the Cherry beach

Setting up

Conditions were arctic-like, with a heck of a wind.

What I was wearing plus Ice Breaker wool base-layers (hey TG!), and handwarmers inside the expedition mitts!

[roy6]

Worked, in the pleasant, sunny, 72' weather ('sup riff).

[farmer]

Good stuff all around. ^Photos are stunning riff. so crisp the one of the sun has got me squinting.

Just a few from a monday night sesh.

I was telling a buddy of mine how I was ranting about no bikes being allowed in "our":rolleyes: local skatepark on the internet. Anyways he thought I might enjoy it if he got some pictures of his bike chillen' there. so said park

and rant.

edit: nothing amazing about the riding I just like the editing in these two. second one is all in Hawaii. Seems these incredible public cement skateparks are everywhere except my state. There is one near me, but no bikes allowed and its right next to the police station. Cops have literally pulled out their guns when kicking some friends and I out. Damn shame because most (not all!) of the people that skate, scoot or fruitboot it can't or don't even ride the bowls or spine or anything over 4ft so they end up being used primarily as slides for the local park rats. Instead they skate the few small ledges and pyramids that could be found actually got out riding street in the area. I understand the whole bmx/peg hate, but we're not riding like that and if we did we wouldn't out of respect. One of the best times I've had on my bike was just cruising around burnside. No tricks just flowing the park and got along with all the people there fine. Too bad that wasn't the case here. Have even offered to remove pegs every time we would be allowed to ride there, but no go. Anyways this is the park below. You can see the pretty much unused bowl at 45sec... and the police station in the background. /rant

[theotherchrislewis]

Last Friday I headed off to the Big Day Out in Auckland.

(curse the Black Keys for pulling out at the last minute!)

1/ Die Antwoord - very cool show & stage presence! Bit full-on for the middle of the day though.

2/ Reggie Watts - this guy stole the show!!! The best jumper and the best act, tucked away on the smallest stage at the back (youtube him if you can, well worth it!)

3/ Main 2 Stages - think Wolfmother was playing on the Orange stage at this point.

4/ LCD Soundsystem - Another great live act, so good to hear dance-style music played well with a live band - even better than the CD!

5/ Crystal Castles - didn't quite live up to expectations, (Alice was on crutches and it would have been hard to follow Die Antwoord)

6/ Ande Whalls & Atmos AM1's

[Forbidden]

Today my heavyweight contest jeans, my friends and I went to visit the famous Osaka-jo.

Me posing with the castle

Apparently there is a lift right next to it

Magneto came by and got these birds stuck forever

We had okomoniyaki for dinner! It was delish!

On our way back saw this interesting sign. Apparently it is the government's way of helping to enforce anti-chikan. Chikan means perversion body contact.

[Shangers]

So a couple of weeks ago Mars from Take5 in Shanghai contacted me about one of the local lifestyle magazine's (1626) wanting to do an interview with some denim-heads and would I be interested. I figured if nothing else it would be a good time to meet up with some more people with similar interests.

Anyway, YouRen and I headed out to ZhongShan Park on Sunday morning to take some photos and meet up with the local denim enthusiasts.

The magazine came out yesterday, so I thought I would post a couple of the pics from the interviews and shoot.

The cover

All of us admiring each other's collections

Me and YouRen

Noah and KeKe- These guys killed their jeans. They had a pair of Hawaii's that were beaten like they had done something bad.

Athena from Take5. Wearing her IronHeart shirt and a pair of take5 002 jeans (I think).

Jukka- He's got a great collection of jeans, and some cool locally made leather products.

Mars- Had to run the shop, so he wasn't present, but he still knows how to destroy a pair of jeans...

Me and YouRen again wearing our Eternal 811 contest jeans. In the pic Mister Freedom PeaCoat and Midnight CPO. YouRen has his BR MA1. In the background there are my Double Volantes to the left. My Sugar Cane 47's hanging behind me. Mister Freedom Rider Dungaree's over my head, Mister Freedom CPO, the wife's Take5 002 and You Ren's Burgus. In the front is Sugar Cane Cotton Duck Tote and Iron Heart 634S.

Unfortunately, the guy doing the interview didn't know anything about denim and it was freezing cold and starting to sleet/snow. By the time we got around to doing the interview 3 hours after sitting around in the park, everyone's brains shut down.

The guy interviewing me somehow made the mistake of quoting my Sugar Canes as "Sugar Game 1947" even though he photo'd the tags of my jeans. YouRen's jeans became "Super Game." Guess they could have sent us an email to confirm some details, but it's all good, we met some cool new guys and had a laugh.

[beatle]

Kudos for being in the magazine - nice shot

[coleslawyum]

Happy to see some denim nerds in China. Shame about the interview, but the pictures are great.

[morse9443]

Great pics Shangers, congrats on being in the mag.

[matera]

Taking pictures in art class.

[Denton]

in art class, in the mens room?

fuckin weird school

[Jpo1932]

in art class, in the mens room?

fuckin weird school

We had to take photos around school when I was in High school a couple years back. I have no idea why you would assume there would be anything good in the men's bathroom. Unless...

[zeen]

looks like fun Shangers!

[i wear shooes]

Matera... what is even the point of posting that picture?

douche

[oboy_oboy]

Me and the sprout out exploring

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[-Z-]

oboy_oboy, little man has some style!

shangers and YouRen, looking good! really cool opportunity.

x-post from ROY WT thread.

alright. just want to say sorry for not updating in a week. I haven't really been doing much other than work and sleep. and when i was on the internet i was working on my website, setting up a blog (i have no fucking idea why) i guess because i can? and getting things squared away for my upcoming show. i figured i'd throw in a few phone pics from the past week. oh, and if you've checked out the website before check it again, its much more streamlined now, and i like the new look alot...if you haven't been...you can check out a bunch of my work there.

driving out into the smaller suburbs to hang with some college friends the other night. don't see them much anymore as we're all grown up with jobs etc. snow again. fuck.

driving back the next morning...

pic from dinner with the wife the other night...too dark for any other food pics, etc. and a flash inside a cafe is silly.

recently consumed wine.

got shitty with some work friends the other night (damn, been drinking alot lately, this winter and all the late nights are taking their toll...

getting fierce at the bar later that night.

back to fatherly duties today picking up the little one from pre-school. This post most likely makes me look like an alcoholic dad, as i think there is booze in every pic but the last one, lol. but i assure you, i don't get out often, and when I do, well i like to have a good time. honestly though, waking up this Sunday on my co-workers floor feeling like i was beaten with a shovel doesn't really work for me anymore. nothing better than coming home to the little one running up and giving me a hug (not just when im hung over). She is the coolest kid in town. couple weeks ago when there was talk about young married guys in the waywt (denim) thread got me thinking about just how lucky i am to have the people in my life that i do, and i'm gonna be a happy 39 year old when my daughter is 18 and goes off to college and i can spend all those years of youth i lost later in life! i feel bad for my poor parents, they had me late and had to put up with me until they were almost 60!

cheers guys, i'll try to run this one out to the end with a bunch of posts this week.

[ninja07]

Today my new Eternals and I went to nearby Indonesian island of Batam for a work meeting. We are designing for a new creative space there and I'm there to meet with the local team. But first up, breakfast.

love this place that serves up good old traditional toasted buns with egg pandan custard and butter, and soft-boiled eggs. an institution to many locals.

looking satisfied

obligatory denim shot

we pass by the airport on the way to the ferry terminal

too cloudy today but on a clear day you could see all the way to the islands out there. its only a 40 min journey.

we arrive and on the way there are many bamboo lined country roads. really beautiful.

imposing yet beautiful roofscape of made with local wooden shingle tiles

love these long dramatic corridors leading between clusters of buildings

having a drink and catching up on some more work before the meeting

of course, I had to sneak out during the meeting for a quick fit pic. backdrop is local lavastone made from volcanic rock.

till then.

[joelz]

had a snowy commute

then went to a work event near SVA, took some pictures on 7th

went to adorama and spotted this on the way

Then picked up my first couple prints to sell and came home to avoid the snow

[morse9443]

The first and third shots are really vivid joelz, great work. ninja, Z, all around. Realizing I do nothing in the winter. slug life.

[andosj]

Hanging On My Fucking Closet!!

[fardin]

what a great page z, ninja, joelz

[DocBlue]

what a great page z, ninja, joelz

Damn Yes

Z your series get better each time. you are very impressive and you got style too. tell me are you reformating and adding frame or shooting with a 120 camera.

joelz congrats. simply great shots

[joelz]

thanks all - new york got yet another storm, so i walked around this morning and took some shots

[edmond]

what lense you shooting with joelz?

[joelz]

that set was with the tokina 11-16mm, the one before was with the 85mm 1.8

[to><ikon]

SCIENCE!

[-Z-]

Damn Yes

Z your series get better each time. you are very impressive and you got style too. tell me are you reformating and adding frame or shooting with a 120 camera.

joelz congrats. simply great shots

thank you Doc! Actually the square format shots are all from the Vignette camera app for Android. My Droid Incredible has quite the camera...

and I agree, joelz you rock.

[huatzai]

went to universal studios singapore for a project

The globe

Hollywood Blvd

Far Far Away

Shrek's

Escalator towards USS

Random stop button on the bus

WAYWT

[lance]

Hey to><ikon - Something going to go BOOM and are those 47s?

[robotbox]

They can make me come to work, but they can't stop me from playing in the snow on the roof.