What are your jeans doing today?

[ranonranonarat]

jesus, the food...

[Big Eyed Fish]

That's.............the real chinese food~~~~~~

[LandoCal126]

Had to get up early to get the car serviced. Nothing like a 2-3 Hour wait in Novato...

Yesterday, wifi saved my life...

Hood Shot...

Had to go check on some of the babies...

We have progress...

Sky High...

The Birthday girl...

The Cupcakes...

The Aftermath...

Red Tom's (BNWT Steez)...

[Vinneus]

shipped off to work today in my new Roy denim....

TV Shooter stopped by for a quick cut.

Needed a good scrub first.

wont be needing this no more.

After the cut, we checked out some porn.

Said goodbye to a new friend, cant wait to get down to RVA!

Later on, i looked outside and saw this...

and this....

would buy this!

Time for dinner.

[-Z-]

great stuff Vin!

[tvshooter]

^someone rep Vin for me! YO- show them almostnice's initials that you carved in the back my head! great supermeetup dude. we'll have to do that again sans work. i won't tell but that second pic is a shot of vodka in the foreground!

[tvshooter]

oh- and anyone on the fence about ROY's. . . .DON'T BE! really, really nice stuff.

[LandoCal126]

tv, looking sharp sir! Vin and the gaggle of ladies out in NJ really do know how to take care of you. When I finally get out to NY, Vin and I are gonna head down to see the VA crew...

[therelativity]

[ranonranonarat]

today my jeans didn't do much, bummed around for a bit at home.

read the papers, apparently yesterday we had one of the heaviest rainfalls since 1984 and a huge part of the city got flooded. people of my generation have never seen anything quite like it and naturally tweets were flying all over the place. pretty amusing stuff, considering how mundane this country is. probably the most exciting thing that happened since 1984 which counts as some kind of "natural disaster". ha. so i heard that the hermes store got flooded to waist high levels, wonder what happened to all those bags and bracelets and shit. totally imagining all the staff running around like headless chickens.

since it rained the previous day, the sun was out a blazing today. decided to do some overdue laundry in light of the better weather.

bummed around while the washing machine worked. un-shrink-wrapped my selby book. there were stickers on the first page which were somewhat neat, but kinda was expecting more out of this. the pictures seemed better on my computer screen, colours a lot richer. but still a good book, lots of design ideas for future homes.

a few pages from the book.

turned on the computer for a bit and sufu-ed for a bit. checked out the inventory store to see if this was sold out but apparently it wasn't, which contributes more to my lust list. trying to justify paying $170 + $40 shipping to Singapore was a bit hard for me, considering that im trying to save for a Japan trip. Y/N? but wonderful photography nonetheless.

itchy finger syndrome thankfully didn't happen, so didn't end up buying but i know i wil be back there again. meanwhile, half-heartedly wanted to fix this up. bought this from via alley in sydney a couple of months back but didnt end up putting it together. just too much paper to cut, but too little patience or time (surprising how i can be doing this post but saying i dont have enough time) to spare. deciding to do it up within the month. just y'all wait and see. but from the top right, you can see the finished form. its real cool and apparently its called tatebanko, which is a dying traditional art form and apparently means paper diorama. they have all these different designs which had mostly japanese artists. check them out here

girlfriend is coming back from sydney for the term break for a month, so you guys should be seeing a lot more of Singapore (read: food) sometime soon. stoked!

end of mundane day. next.

[Stacks]

today, my jeans are sitting on the back of a chair at home

[farmer]

Update from the farm....

Selling berries now.

Grab my keys to my Ford farm truck.

Throw on some plastic mulch and put it on the mulch layer..

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Till the ground that has been plowed and harrowed. Then lay the plastic of the tilled area

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Corn getting there. Should be knee high by the 4th of july.

Cucumber and Squash field.

[farmer]

Plant starter.

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Mixing.

Fills the transplanter via gravity flow.

Pulled tomatoes waiting to be plated.

Make the hole for the plant and feeds it all in one step.

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[-Z-]

awesome storm tonight.

took this through the glass and screen window of my loft (reflections and cross-grain)

jeans went with me to the in-laws for grilled salmon and veggies! no pics unfortunately...

[ppsos]

great as always -Z-

sorry can't rep

[Dchill]

Damn Z, those are dope, two of my favorites of yours. Someone REP that man for me^^^

[riff]

^ I will as soon as my rep recharges

Farmer, what an awesome update! Didn't realize you were into fresh berries & other produce! Very cool to see how it's done. You are one hard working dude!

[ranonranonarat]

stayed home today again, did some product photography. pleased with how they turned out. first time getting results for these kind of shots that i really like. heading out later to shoot some film. see you guys.

edit:

just got back from dinner, had a long long bus ride even though it was only supposed to be a 20minute ride, but it ended up being a 50 minute ride because its friday and everybody's just trying to get their asses off work and head out/home. good time to sit on the bus alone to think stuff through though.

welcome to singapore, hot, humid and humid again. this is a typical place where we call it a coffee shop. people come out here to grab meals if they dont cook at home. excuse the poorly composed shot, sometimes i find it pretty embarrassing to be photographing in a touristy manner when im a damned local. caught this really quickly.

but yes, digressing, there are lots of different food stalls and you can probably find every kind of cuisine here. you have the typical chicken rice, to the prawn noodles, to fried carrot cake (chinese version), to things like claypot rice and there are hell lots of different kinds of food to eat. if you're planning to head down to singapore, the best thing you can do here is to eat. i kid you not. forget the shopping because we have probably the typical stuff that you can find anywhere else. hong kong is really better for shopping. but the food here, oh yes the food.

this was what i had, its called Bak Kut Teh, a chinese dish which comprises of pork, cooked in a nice herbal broth, accompanied with rice and fried dough fritters. i think its cool, cos you can probably have it at anytime of the day. people eat this for breakfast, lunch or dinner. i find it hard not to like it because of the richness of the soup and this stall uses a more traditional way, which is to make use of the claypot. i find it adds more flavour to the food (psychological? mabbe). but yes its good.

so what you do, is to basically dump these fried dough fritters into the food. these fritters are fairly common and they're called You Tiao locally, loosely translated to english which literally means oily stick. they're deep fried and they're fragrant enough to eat on its own. some people cut it up and add it to their porridge, bean curd (which i will show some other day), coffee and some kinds of hot chinese dessert. in this case, we just dump it into the Bak Kut Teh and it absorbs all the flavour and the richness of the soup and when you bite into it, it simply is quite amazing.

then we also ordered another side dish called Satay which is a typical kind of food which originated from the Malays (i think). it originally came in only chicken and mutton (no pork because the malays, who are muslims, can't eat pork). some of the chinese people reinvented it and added flavours like beef and pork to it. you usually dip it in this peanut sauce and the combination is pretty crazy good.

here it is up close. some sticks have a lot of fatty pork, which is amazing because it makes it taste so much better. the flavour and the richness of it. think of it as a kebab, but just more fragrant and tasty. the meat is pretty sweet which is lovely to texture it with peanut sauce

promptly headed out for some coffee at the local starbucks, post-dinner. great day, great day.

[dkatz]

... soooo I just remembered a dream I had last night, in which me and I'm pretty sure it was -z- were visiting Paul T, cruising around and basically doing a standard What Are Paul T's Jeans Doing Today day. I distinctly remember getting excited about some excellent beer we were going to be drinking at some rad pub. And I kept thinking about how we had to make sure to take lots of pictures for Superfuture.

Is my life really so depressing that I even dream about living on the internet? Wow...

[dkatz]

would buy this!

Grab my keys to my Ford farm truck.

Jealous, Vin?

[-Z-]

yo, ranonranonarat those trainers are amazing! if they were a size 12, and didn't cost as much as 10 years worth of Chuck T's i'd snap those up! everything i love, vintage as hell / suede / and the classic trainer look...damn.

farmer, your truck puts my '89 Sonoma (MTN bike hauler) to shame! so does that mean red one Vin.

Stacks, I envy you.

yo dkatzzz, i'm gonna have you proxy me some of that orange soil for my pbj's, rub some on every night before I go to sleep, a year later the contrast would be sick, haha.

riff, thanks for the rep. next year, we should hop on that little jet you have access to and snap up dkatz from Uganda, ranonranonarat from Singapore, [stop in Japan for some denim snatch and grab] steal Paul T on the way back to the states, then farmer and some others who missed the party this year and head to the SE x SUFU superparty to party it up with the SF crew. Roy, Lando, we're coming...

[ranonranonarat]

thanks -z-! i love those too but i think i'd love to get those off me in exchange for some alden roy boots or ROY denim. mmmm.

sounds like a fucking good plan, should totally bring paul t's treasure wooden chest box along and put it on display. he's the man. as always -z-, love the pictures. i never get tired of looking at them. i rep whenever i can but unfortunately for you, i need to spread almost every single time.

lets all hit japannnnnn.

edited the original post with more food pictures!

[-Z-]

lets all hit japannnnnn.

superfuture whatareyourjeansdoingtoday supermeetup in 日本 ?? I think yes. I go once a year, willing to be flexible on the date for partying it up with fellow denim heads. who knows if this would happen, but seriously. i would consider this!

[Grim Ryan]

Been hanging in San Diego for a few days. Staying at a friends place up in Clairemont. Its been a blast so far, pretty much been doing nothing but surfing and BBQ'ing. Also making sure to get my fill of delicious Mexican food before I head back to the eat coast. Spending another week or so here, then me and some friends are driving up to Big Sur and Monterey for a long weekend. After that I'm headed back to Boston.

My friend has a pretty awesome Chihuahua named patches

My friends house is rented and is being torn down at the end of their lease, so they turned one of the rooms into a "rage cage" I'm kind of sad im not going to be here for their final blowout.

Took a trip to downtown and checked out Petco Stadium.

Spent some time walking around sunset cliffs near ocean beach.

Went and watched the sunset at the glider port in La Jolla at UCSD.

[ranonranonarat]

superfuture whatareyourjeansdoingtoday supermeetup in 日本 ?? I think yes. I go once a year, willing to be flexible on the date for partying it up with fellow denim heads. who knows if this would happen, but seriously. i would consider this!

damn fucking hell it would be good. we would all go denim hunting and go try on some fuck orgasmic denim then parade around outside the changin room like little girls and ask each other if its a good fit. thereafter we would spend yen and more yen and end the night with good fucking sushi and get smashed on sake. damn.

[riff]

-Z- and ranonranonarat, gawd that sounds delicious!

Times like this I wish I had one of those Falcons for "personal" use

Grim Ryan, your Cali tour has been great fun - thanks for taking us along! Will be back to rep

[Mixture]

On Wednesday i went to my cousins graduation. i couldnt get a good shot because it was so crowded. Luckily i found a spot all the way in the top.

side shot

the next day i went to one of my friends graduation.

congrats to my cousin and friend for graduating!

that night i decided to go out and eat! i got the honey mustard chicken sandwich. Soo gooddd.

yuummmmmmm

[Alex3000]

Finally upgraded my camera, of course my pup isn't camera shy and showed off his many faces.

[Paul T]

Finally upgraded my camera, of course my pup isn't camera shy and showed off his many faces.

Excellent photo!

Hmmm...

[tg76]

yesterday my mr freedoms and i got up at 5 and went to school early to make sure all our work was done so we could take the international students out for a tourist ride.

we always love driving the bus, so much that we forget to take photos

we were greeted by a happy little fulla

then we got to sight seeing