Best commercial ever..

I love the NBA and whenever Nike drops a bball commercial they do it right. The "Like Mike" campaign with Mars is legendary. "Whodunit?" had the G's of the league in it. "The Lebrons" was Klump-esque. More recently "Hyperizing" with DJ Quick on the beats brought the funk. But I have to say this commercial is the best one yet. The commercial features KRS One (who ironically preaches against commercialism and establishment) as Santa and the MVP's (most valuable puppets) Kobe and Lebron. The second part has snippets of KRS's classic "The Bridge" and has great comedy as well. Enjoy

Recent Haps..

Been pretty busy lately. I got a refund check in the mail for the Servco b.s. cheehoo. Dropped a design that just hit the Pipe Dreams store, ill have the pics up soon for that. Got orientation to a new job courtesy of Newkon. Me and my old lady went out to the Aikau which was pretty unreal. We slept over at a friends beach house so we skipped the crazy traffic. The crowd was amazing but it was pretty trippy that like 80% of the fans were haole. Nothing against haoles but there was not as many hawaiians as there shouldve been especially with Eddie's cultural legendary status. To me the Eddie and Buffalo classics should be the platform for Hawaiian's to showcase their culture to the world. My thought is that surfing can be expensive and time consuming. Gotta buy the board which can cost some scrills (or hawaiian borrow haha) and then gotta buy the rack for your car, bike or moped. Then you gotta take the time to go to the beach, park, walk, paddle, catch a wave and paddle some more. I dont know but maybe its just me. Any way heres the flix.

Before the sun came up, surfers hitting the wave for warmups before the contest.


People lined up along the cliff. Early risers with the tent setup.


Party wave!! First heat with the 3 man drop in.


Headed out about noon. Traffic was backed up for miles, people were moving faster than the cars. Some people parked as far as Haleiwa and rode bike all the way to the bay.



In addition to doing work for others, im finally building a new site, this one should last for a while. Hoping to drop this 1/1/10, crossing the fingers.

Servco Waipahu Followup

Just got back from picking up my car and looked at my bill and i got charged for a safety check inspection!!!! WTF they already knew i wouldnt pass but they charged me anyway. Bullshit all around.

Navy Who?

I got to go to the UH vs. Navy game last night and if you know me you would know im a pretty big football fan. If you know me mo betta than you would know im a Notre Dame fan and I was hoping to get some satisfaction with a Navy loss since they beat Notre Dame earlier in the season. It was a good game and the UH defense finally came through! Thanks to Jason Sakamoto from Oakley once again for the field passes. Got to hang out with my old friend Mike from Cool Fans Hawaii down on the field. Funny moment of the night was when my little cousin Lukey Boy got scared by Vili the Warrior and almost cried as we walked by, good stuff.


Over a month later, Jason finally gets his custom UH x TSG backpack





Halftime show honoring the troops


Me and my pops looking on. It was his first time on the field during a game. His only complaint was that he was too short to see anything.


The last series of the game, it was suuuuper loud.

The second design is now here, its inspired by Roman Meal bread which is one of my pop's favorite breads. Ive been seeing it in his kitchen for as far back as I can remember. The front print is a little over 12" in diameter and features the centurian with his champagne glass labeled shield guarding your Champagne Dreams. The back print is the oldschool centurian logo throwing up the shaka (gotta keep it local) with the CD on the shield. Online sales will go up soon but until then you can hit me up on my email for the meetup action. Aloha

Culture Shock goodies

The entry. I ran away to Borders for a little bit to draw in peace. I had no idea what I was doing!


The goods: 2 cans from Too Gruvz, Pancho painting and Ckaweeks painting

Latest shizzle

I've been busy looking for a new shop setup for tshirt printing and artist get downs. Painting canvases and mingling with the peeps as well. Its been pretty crazy and i finally washed my car after almost 2 months.

2 weeks ago the people we stayed with in Seattle were here for the Oakley golf tournament. We hung out with them at the Hyatt penthouse style for there last night. After waiting in the lobby for the longest for somebody i wont name JASON who never showed up we finally made it to the 40th floor of the building after having to walk from the 35th floor and it was the wrong tower. So we had to go back down 40 stories walk back to the tower we were originally waiting at and head back up another 40 floors. But we made it and it was good times.

Homey Zachary Shimizu zoning out


Getting the birthday shots ready


Joey aka Joe Girl aka Joe Bones aka F-a-b-o posin


Me and my baby won beer pong that night coming back from 5 down!
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Joeys bro is in town for the week so we got to hang out last friday. First hit up the old Magoos then went back to the hotel for good times
K Bone crackin up, tracey thinking "what did i get my self into"


J Bear taking it back to the roots


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Got to help out Prime of 808 Urban this week with his Washington Intermediate project. I went there for one semester, its the only time i ever got a 4.0 in school. I only had one class though haha. The them of this wall is the mesh of culture and hip hop
Panorama of the wall

Helped out by painting this Peace

Young bucks painting leaves on the tree

Uncle Prime showing the youngins whats up

Finished off that day at Cross Fit. Its a new gym behind the courthouse across from Restaurant Row. They specialize in high intensity workouts with alot of full muscle extensions.

Blank wall before the action

After (Me, Skarz, That Humu Humu Guy and Prime)

After we were pau I snuck off and painted this guy. I dont know if it was ok...oh well.

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Culture Clash with Newkon, Ckaweeks, and Pancho at Prototype Pearl Ridge. Pretty good show turnout for last minute advertising and another hip hop show was going on the same night. I won second for the character battle, ill have the pictures posted up for that in the morning.

Shot of the shop

Prototype is now selling CraCk!

Shot with the boys

Headed to Anna Millers with Newkon after for some chit chat and grinds. He payed for me too! Lofa you missed out! My tummy says thank you to everybody that buys stuff from him.

Oakley Poke Wrapup..

On the way out to Turtle Bay for the Oakley golf tournament.


Tent setup before the crowd came through. 51 teams of 5


Custom bag for Makua Rothman



The rest..

Oakley Poke

Got commissioned by Oakley to do a run of custom backpacks for a golf tournament this week friday. Very interesting backpack, there's plastic panels on each side of the bag, for what I dont know. Supposedly there's the load of different colors, even carbon fiber. Ill post pics of the other 6 and the tournament action at the end of the week, stay posted folks.