Here are a couple of prints I did in the Spring for the Nike Sportswear street campaign in Vancouver. Live silkscreening is fun but hurts your back! Thank you Age and Brian for helping me burn my films and screens. The print below is an interpretation of the Air Force 1 icon, note the famous concentric circles on the kimono.
This one is probably my favorite of the series:
When I was growing up, glasses were not cool. Now, nearly everyone of our peer companies is making at least one type of clear lens glasses – not sunglasses…what were formerly called “windows.” Unfortunately, I have even seen some local hipsters wearing only frames. That’s right, only frames, sans even clear lenses…and I can’t say I’m feeling that. Anyways, recently some friends approached me because their fancy glasses were adjusted to fit and no longer fit the cases they came in. I’ve also seen beautiful, handmade glasses arriving in the most hideous carrying cases – what is up with that? Made in France frames with lovely made in China fake carbon case? So I got to work and made up these “cigar boxes” for glasses – solid Honduran Mahogany. The glasses modelling the cases were made by my friend Kohei when he was running Motive brand…I likes.
Well, I’m back and going to give the blog another shot. I was finding it tough to find a nice balance between posting some interesting stuff, while not getting too personal. On the other hand, I also find that there are enough blogs out there killing every cool subculture to death, so I don’t need to add to the traffic of things that have been posted here, there, and everywhere. Back in the day, you would be lucky if your friend brought back a cool fanzine or 7″ single, or whatever from their travels. Now any new topic is deaded within a few hours on the interweb…oh well, can’t stop “progress.” Enough of the rant – when everything becomes negative, you gotta just get out into the natureland. Here’s some photos from the latest boat trip out to Nelson Island, a big thank you to the crew, especially to BK and the Zodiac, and Binty for letting us stay on his rock.
Arriving just in time, you can’t tell, but it’s dusk, about 30 minutes left of the fading sunset.
Best Ever “Camping” Dinner!
Moonrise over the point…
I took a longer than usual holiday for X-mas and New Years and headed to eastern Canada for a couple of weeks. The weather has been rough all across the country this holiday season, and I forgot how cold a minus 30 degree windchill feels. Toronto was fun, a different perspective for sure.
The best part of the trip was connecting with friends and family, I didn’t get photos of everyone, but here are a few, Zeb chilling in his office at Nomad, Zebby and Jesar have done an amazing job with the shop, leading the way in TO.
And Nadir at La Carrera brews up the best espresso in town, even though it’s also the best bike shop in town…behind the counter:
Above the counter:
Also a big shout to Sipreano, the man behind so many great Sandinista mixtapes, hope to see you soon at home in Vancouver.
New Years was spent deep in the countryside in Lanark County, Ontario. Many many thanks to Marcin, Anissa, and Maya for hosting us.
The neighbor’s best friend, Nuta…now I know why everyone goes googoo over huskies:
A celebration in the country would not be complete without the obligatory cutting down of the dead spruce tree and building a six foot high bonfire for NYE.
