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Macau

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

While on my vacation in Hong Kong I stopped by the lovely Macao. This is a major tourist attraction for the neighboring Asian countries and is considered their version of Las Vegas. I can say that it compares to the quality of Vegas, but not the amount of hotels that it has. While stopping by there is a lot to do besides gambling, but I did come up in roulette. There is a lot to see including old temples, churches, and a must to stop by the fisherman’s wharf. I’ll post pics later, but thought I would show you a little something from the City of Dreams Macao resort. I saw the amazingly presented slightly repetitive “Dragon’s Treasure Show”. The show is displayed in a circular dome that I would say holds the max of 300 people maybe more and is a nicely presented, but the problem is each dragon they show does the same thing. The dragon comes to life grabs the pearl of wisdom and brings you to his world. It was cool the first two times, but by the fifth dragon I was no longer surprised. Watching this video will save you money so you don’t have to visit the City of Dreams for this.

Thank me later

By Vincent “Baba Booey”

Happy New Year

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Happy New Year everybody. Hope everyone made their resolutions realistic this year. Got back from a lovely day of bumping shoulders non stop using the subway system which I have to say is really clean. Stopped by Mong Kok literally pronounced “Mong *ock”. Worst part of the new year was I thought I lost my Iphone in a mall and the best part was finding it in my satchel. Yes a satchel.

On some music news Jay Z just released his newest video “On to the Next One” which is the direction I feel hip hop artists should use for their videos. Along the lines of having things being creative and interesting to watch not the usual “lets copy a mafia movie and try to act like the main guys with our song in the background” or “lets walk in the club in slow motion, then have different shots of girls dancing, and a close up of exhaling smoke”.

Check it out and if it gets taken down google this bad boy.

By Vincent “Baba Booey”

Ocean Park

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Just got in Hong Kong and boy am I tired. Sitting on a plane for a good 15 hours without getting any sleep is not a good mix. Well after arriving and getting some rest I started my day off by visiting the Chinese version of Sea World. To me the best feature of this park is the pandas. I got to see the red panda or “fire fox” which shares features of a bear and raccoon.

Red Panda

Just like the panda this is what I’ll be doing the rest of the trip.

I love it even half way around the world someone put up a quote from “Tropic Thunder”

Seeing the pandas was probably the best part of the park because the rides here, although the scenery was nice on the roller coaster pretty much doesn’t compare to Disneyland/ Six Flags standard.

By Vincent “Baba Booey”

Upular!

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

This is a random post, but I had to share it. I used to watch anime a lot when I was a kid, and I remember getting AMV(animated music videos) off of napster and irc way before kazaa, limewire, and the masses got a hold of p2p file sharing. Kids were editing anime footage to music and often matched animation and audio timing to give a fun effect. This is slightly different, in that they used the actual audio from the movie. Its just a happy project that fits the good holiday mood that I’m in.
“…composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the Disney Pixar film ‘Up’.”

My favorite parts are at 0:40 and 1:30

-Mikey

Happy Holidays

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Happy Holidays everyone. Hope everyone is enjoying some hot cocoa and watching “A Christmas Story”. Well we will be on break, but will update the blog as much as we can until we get back. Our Spring 2010 collection is coming mark your calendars.

Until then I found someone that can battle Mikey.

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year

By Vincent “Baba Booey”

Orisue Pop Up Shop

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

We headed up to Venice tonight for a Pop Up Shop Party for Orisue. I know what you’re thinking, party on a Tuesday night? Well what can I say we’re sorta like a big deal plus it’s always good to see some familiar faces. My favorite part of tonight was taking pictures and having people ruin it by jumping in the picture. I don’t understand why people do this I’m going to delete it anyways. To me this is kind of like when people add you for no reason on facebook/myspace and then I get to click IGNORE. Back to the real reason why I was there, oh yeah the event went well. It was crowded, good music, and free liquor what more can a guy ask for.

Met an interesting character randomly through just walking around aimlessly taking pictures. This is Matt from RobnSteel clothing. It was nice meeting you and your crew.

For some reason these heads reminded me of T-1000 wearing headphones. If you don’t know who T-1000 is google it.

Brian(Triumvir) and the always classy Mr. Montiel (Orisue)

U.N.I. performance. Thanks for the flash assist fellow photographers.

By Vincent “Baba Booey”

The Matrix

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Going to lunch today with the design team is always a fun trip. There’s always at least one hot girl that we see, something weird, and just watching people trip. Well today as we were eating I noticed a family in their van getting a little too close to the sidewalk and as the mom got out her foot got caught and she looked around to see if anyone saw. Don’t worry we saw it. And the most awkward thing today was “The Matrix” pay phone.

Brian was attempting to use it, but couldn’t get to the other side. Oh well maybe next time.

Also a stain that looked like a smiley face.

By Vincent “Baba Booey”

Favorites Part Uno

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Favorites for volume 8 although I like a lot of the shirts, but my favorite is the Dream tee. Not only is it the classic dare flip, but because this design was made a long time ago and was supposed to be released for Volume 5. I know I know VOLUME 5? It didn’t fit with a lot of the items being released at the time and I kept putting it in the Volumes after until it finally got the green light. Now that it’s finally released I want to thank those for supporting volume 8 and the Dream tee.

By Vincent “Baba Booey”

Slim Boogie

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Today our homie Slim Boogie stopped by to chat it up. He was telling us about the latest project he’s be into. A few dancers including Slim Boogie, have been visiting schools all around the Orange County and LA area, spreading positive Hip Hop with their trade.

Check out this clip from one of his school assemblies.

We’ll have some projects in the works with this guy soon. Stay tuned!

-Mike Awesome

Andrew Sebastian

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Tonight would be the night for one of the most artistic pillow fights in history. That’s what could have happen, but it was the debut of the Andrew Sebastian Collection at e3rd Lounge which can also be the first art pillow event that I have attended. The collection features many artists that I’m sure many of you are familiar with for example Evil Monito and Foreign Family. If anyone missed the show you can also see the pillows here.

My favorite pillow was the simple and clean “pillow talk”

By Vincent “Baba Booey”