SWIMMING WITH SHARKS

SATURDAY JULY 4TH
THE STANDARD DOWNTOWN LA
550 SOUTH FLOWER
LOS ANGELES, CA 90071
1PM-SUNDOWN


If only I were in town. I love the downtown Standard and I love rooftop pool parties. My beautiful girls Kim (KIM ANH) and Anna (ANON) of Boobytrap will be there spinning those feel-good, get down, feel like you're in Saturday Night Fever tunes.


Fun fact about the downtown Standard:
Pool workers poured large amounts of chlorine and acid down a rooftop drain, prosecutors say, causing a gas cloud in a nearby Metro station. Officials initially suspected terrorism.

Rachel, San Luis Obispo

I was red-faced and matching my red short-sleeved vintage Dior shirt with the sleeves rolled up when I took this. Just imagine the Gushers commercials. The guy with his face about to pop asking the pretty girl for a photograph while apologizing that it might not come out because he's drunk.





By the way, don't google Gushers with SafeSearch turned off.

Sa Sa Sa Sa Sales

The Orthodox sample sale is tomorrow.

Riders In The Sky

Eugene Kim Some man was taking up the bike lane on Sunset Blvd today on his horse. He was on his cell phone and wearing spurs.
June 8 at 11:27pm



I chose the title "Riders In The Sky" because my sister was on that Saturday morning children's television show in the early 90s with these guys, the Riders In The Sky:

Light Leaks

Occasionally, my camera emits a glowing bar due to light leaking in. For this one time, I have taken a liking towards it.




Taken at the Beverly Center

Jimmy Choo for H&M

Peek at the shoes.
Peek at Choos.
Pikachus.



From cisionwire.com:

JIMMY CHOO BRINGS GLAMOUR TO H&M THIS AUTUMN
This autumn, British accessory brand Jimmy Choo will bring its international glamour and covetable shoes and bags to selected H&M stores. The collection will be available from November 14 in around 200 stores across the world. It is the first time that H&M is collaborating with an accessories brand, and to celebrate Jimmy Choo will extend its design vision for this collection to women’s clothing to complement the accessories. Further exciting news is that this collaboration includes a men’s collection of shoes, bags and accessories.
“We are privileged to be among the fashion greats who have been affiliated with H&M so far, and to be designing a collection appealing to fashion savvy, street smart women, and to be including some great pieces for men, too. Jimmy Choo will bring to H&M a sophisticated, fashion forward, accessible and glamorous collection – the perfect party pieces to buy now and then wear out that night!” Tamara Mellon, Founder and President, Jimmy Choo.

“We adore Jimmy Choo’s shoes and bags. They are glamorous and sexy, and they add instant style to the simplest of outfits. I like the way we have worked with clothes to accessorize the shoes and bags rather than the other way around. This collaboration is particularly exciting because it’s our first shoe designer collection. It’s a joy to be able to offer top end designer shoes and bags of excellent quality to our customers.” Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor, H&M.

Since its launch in 1996, Jimmy Choo has been such a phenomenal success that the brand name has become part of popular culture – say the words “Jimmy Choo”, and you know you mean shoes. In Hollywood, Jimmy Choo shoes have become a red-carpet essential, and have been worn at the Oscars by winners such as Cate Blanchett, Halle Berry and Hilary Swank among many other actresses. The famous Jimmy Choo shoes will be at the heart of the exclusive collection for H&M, but there’s more. Jimmy Choo has also become well known for its bags, and for H&M there will be a whole range of accessories to complete the look.

I just wanna say one thing...

Big ups to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for cleaning up his image.




THE ROCK OBAMA

THIS CITY

self-portaits

self-portraits
vogue italy march 2000
photographer: paolo roversi

DAMN H&M

YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE H&M.











THE REST OF THE H&M AUTUMN 2009 PREVIEW CAN BE SEEN HERE ON SELECTISM.

Paolo y Shalom

YEAH SHE FINE.


















GIORGIO ARMANI
PHOTOGRAPHER: PAOLO ROVERSI
MODEL: SHALOM HARLOW

Spontaneity

I was climbing the hallway in my apartment building like Spiderman this weekend and noticed a knife stashed on top of my door. It's still there. Another oddity to add to The List.

The List:

-Sketchy neighbor down the hall drunk, shirtless and shoeless outside with a foot long knife in his hand looking for someone to kill.
-Broken glass and blood everywhere (walls, stairs, little puddle here/there) in my apartment building accompanied by two men bleeding from the head.
-4PM muggings outside my window accompanied by a later 9PM mugging only 10 feet away from the original.
-Neighbors across the alley are crack dealers.
-The pigeons attracted to the chicken bones my crack dealing neighbors throw out their doors and windows.


BAY TO BREAKERS... Is anyone running it? It might be my first running event in more than 5 years. It will taste so delicious if... Fuck it. I'm going to sign up right now. No more might or ifs.

Update:
I just registered.

101 and 1962 in film

The text to this story is below in the previous blog entry.

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This is me looking like a squatter.



The same two photographs but this one is horizontal. Concentrate on the stripes.

101 and 1962

Cory and I needed out of the city. Traveling is taking the invisible weights off your body. Decongesting everything, it is the Vick's Vapor Rub for the soul. We ventured north on the 101 gliding with the up and down and side to side curvatures of highway in his bug while admiring the smells and sights it offered. I stuck my head out the window many times with my eyes shut with only the sensation of the crisp wind pushing against my face and the delicious smell of the Earth filling my nostrils to feed my experience. Another smell experienced was that of dog breath which resembled the scent of a fish market. Roxy, Cory's dog, was most comfortable stationed right behind me breathing heavily on my neck. The stench, skillful, agile and aimed at my nose, slingshotted around my neck and struck with great accuracy. It was like Luke Skywalker's navigating to destroy the Death Star in episode IV of Star Wars. For the most part of the three days, Roxy breathed behind me, I breathed out the window, and Cory drove.

No tent means you're sleeping out in the open, and that's what I did for the first night. We arrived delirious at our campsite at around maybe 3 in the morning after stingily passing up "other" campgrounds. I slept on the forest floor with only a thin one inch air cushion separating me from the Earth. It was Earthy? My mummy bag rated to 0 degrees Farenheit left me comfortably snoozing below the stars with only trees to shadow my view. The second night, it rained. Cory and I were miserable, so was Roxy. Why? We compressed and contorted ourselves to sleep inside a Volkswagen Bug. But the morning was rather spectacular, to wake up surrounded by thousands year old and hundreds feet tall Redwood trees.

What drove Cory, was a search for mud. Fitted with off-roading tires, his 1962 Volkswagen Bug can climb and descend off-road trails, slide through mud and crawl slowly and annoyingly up highway grades. The rewarding and Berlin's "Take my breath away" moment came when we followed through with Hippy Tim's advice and veered right at mile marker 90.88 on the road out to the 1 from the 101. What we encountered and navigated was an off-roader's fantasy mountain that led to a private beach, accessible only by off-roading your way there.

These are the digital photographs. I will post the film photographs tomorrow.







Which version do you like best?


Oregon Coast



Off-roading in Oregon

fun in the sun

COACHELLA 2009

The photographs are large so click on them.





Yvan of Face Hunter




Rana taught Rick Ross how to hustle.












Jimmy's first jump into the pool landed on the pool steps.





























Rony of Rony's Photobooth







This is Michael. He is Vietnamese and a lot of times I can't understand him. The only words and phrases I ever hear him say are: okay, WASSUP HOMEBOY and heyyy. He was involved in a hit-and-run accident which left him in a wheelchair with a partially amputated leg. In a few months, doctors will be able to give him a prosthetic leg which will allow him to walk again.


Shot on my Canon AE-1

QUICK UPDATE

I HAVE A LOT TO SAY, A LOT TO BRING AND A LOT OF RIDICULOUSNESS TO NEEDLESSLY SHARE. FIRST, IN ALL THIS EXCITEMENT I AM PLUNGED IN, CAPS IS THE ONLY WAY I COULD EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE IT. SECOND, ABBREVIATIONS ARE COMING WITH AN ADDED Y AT THE END.

ANYWAY, BEFORE I GO OFF TO WALLY'S (WALGREEN'S) TO PICK UP PICTURES THEY FUCKED UP AND HAD TO REDO... I FORGOT WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY. DAMN. WELL, I HAVE TONS OF PICTURES TO SHARE BEING THAT IT HAS BEEN OVER A MONTH SINCE I HAVE UPDATED THIS RAMBLE TOOL I CALL A BLOG.

COACHELLA, CAMPING TRIP AND SHIH. TICK TOCK TICK TOCK.

OKAY, SO I JUST REMEMBERED WHAT I WAS GOING TO SHARE.

I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE DERMATOLOGIST. HOW DID I FIND THIS DERMATOLOGIST? BACK IN AUGUST WHEN LOGAN WAS IN TOWN AFTER WE FINISHED BIKING FROM VANCOUVER, CANADA TO HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO, WE WENT OUT ONE NIGHT. NATURALLY, HUNGER TOOK CONTROL AND I WAS ON TO EATING SUPER CARNE ASADA BURRITO #57 AT TAQUERIA CANCUN, BUT BEFORE I COULD ORDER MY BURRITO, I WAS HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH SOME FINE OLDER WOMEN THANG. I HAD ATTRACTED HER DRUNKEN ASS WITH MY FAKE FLOWER I HAD PINNED ONTO MY SWEATER. LOGAN WAS EITHER ON MY RIGHT AND SHE WAS ON MY LEFT OR LOGAN WAS ON MY LEFT AND SHE WAS ON MY RIGHT. LOGAN WHISPERED, "GOOD JOB MAN" THINKING I WAS ON MY NON-EXISTING GAME. I CHUCKLED. LITTLE DID HE KNOW, WE WERE CONVERSING ABOUT MY ACNE AND THAT I SHOULD VISIT THE DERMATOLOGY OFFICE SHE WORKS AT. I ENDED UP GOING TO MY FIRST YOGA CLASS WITH HER 35 YEAR OLD FRIEND I MET THAT NIGHT. CLEARING UP THE SKIN AND GETTING INTO YOGA EXCHANGED FOR A LITTLE SELF-ESTEEM WITH THE BENEFIT OF ADDING SELF-ESTEEM.

HI

This is me enjoying myself.

Daft Punk to score 'Tron' sequel

Yes, it is happening. Read up on it here.




Jimmy told me, so I'm telling you.

La clé des songes

La clé des songes
Numero #92 April 2008
Photographers: Luciana Val & Fraco Musso
Model: Elsa Sylvan

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Spring Goods

Just thought I'd share some goodies I've seen recently on the pages of Selectism.com.

Crochet Carnation from 3.1 Philip Lim


Contrast Oxford Shoes from Dries Van Noten


Utility Belt from Jil Sander


Metal Framed Aviator Sunglasses by Linda Farrow X Raf Simons


Quinny Umbrella by Henrik Vibskov



Sometimes, delicious design excites the hunger mechanism inside my brain.

H8

I shot these today in front of the California Supreme Court.

The moment of the day was when I rode my bicycle on the street which separated the two crowds of people backed by barricades and policemen. Not everyday do you get to ride your bike between to giant masses of competing people. I felt like I was Moses crossing the Red Sea or I was walking through the DMZ which separates North and South Korea.

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What this image will mean in years to come...


His sign should say everyone because I think everyone is a pervert.


Debates Debates




Yes, I rode my bike alongside to get this shot.





Regarding some of these images, I really wanted to capture what hate looks like to me on the 5th of March, 2009 for documentary purposes.


And if you don't know, now you know:

California justices weigh gay marriage

It's Almost Unfair

How pretty it is up here.

Really!?! Tuesday

I never planned for this, but I HAD to add to the previous Tuesday post.

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29498350/from/ET/?gt1=43001

Let me pull up this quote: "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money".

... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

WTF? TUESDAY

I can only hope that you will enjoy this random information as much as I have.



A young Nebraskan man placed his 6 month old kitten named Shadow inside a 6x12 inch homemade bong in an attempt to calm the kitten down.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2009/03/omg-man-puts-ki.html





Yes, claustrophobia calms people and kittens down. By the way, try to appreciate the "ghetto-rigging" this man went through. He MacGyver'd his way to get high with a garden hose, a box and extensive use of duct tape. Good luck with the animal cruelty charge.

Former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan and former close to four year resident of Guatanamo Bay Detention Camp, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, loves his iPhone. "It's easy and it's modern and I love it" he said as he was pinching and pulling his fingers across the screen.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29495327



I wonder if he still gets mad when he sees a woman driving a car.

"My mom licked me - that was her punishment ... If I didn't listen ... she'd lick the side of my face or under my armpit ... She'd say, 'You came out of my vagina and I own every part of you'." -- Rosario Dawson in an interview to the New York Times



Ikea donates $48 million to UNICEF to help children in India.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29353836/




While they're at it, they should donate their tasty foods from their cafeteria cuz you know I be cravin' them right now.


New research reveals women can identify a man's intention by the scent of his sweat. Using MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), researchers found that women's brains responded differently to the different types of sweat smelled: regular sweat and sweat while watching porno films. The sexual sweat activated a region in the brain that help recognize emotions and perceive things.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28579292/



To conclude this entry, I will provide entertainment from a music video from Familjen. Jimmy turned me on to this Swedish artist back last year right before Coachella. This video won a Grammy award for best video in Sweden in 2007. Definitely one of my favorite music videos of all time.