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
Friday, December 25, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, November 30, 2009
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.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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
Sunday, November 22, 2009
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
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
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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.
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