Tuesday, November 30, 2010


"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me"
Hunter S. Thompson 


That happens to be one of my favorite quotes by Gonzo the shame in that is he didn't really mean it.. he never life that lifestyle, Sure his writing technique was good and kept you at the edge of your seat. He experimented a lot with acid and several other drugs but didn't advocate everything he spoke of .. he was a fake a never really live "the lifestyle" in my eyes. 

check em out !



    
BornLoserMc

Born Loser




check out Born Loser Mc on blogspot one of the blogs i follow religiously .. great post and rad bikes. check out this shovelhead they got for sale 

The Highwaymen


Heres what i been listening to al week long .. couldn't get any better than this 

Grateful Dead - St Stephen

Probably my favorite Grateful Dead song

Monday, November 29, 2010

Crime Pays


Butch Cassidy, 
 His Biggest bank heist,was on June 24, 1889 at the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride. Arriving with three armed cowboys, Cassidy and co. made off with $20,000 in stolen loot.

John Dillinger

The quintessential Depression-era bank robber, John Dillinger swiped several hundred thousand dollars from banks from 1933-1934. He is perhaps best known for his elaborate social engineering schemes, which ranged from posing as a salesman of bank alarm systems and pretending to be filming a “bank robbery scene” for a movie in order to stake out future heist locations


The FBI once said about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow “violent crime spree across the Midwest that included auto theft, bank robbery, theft from the federal government, and the murder of more than a dozen people, including many law enforcement officers.” 
Arguably the most famous (and infamous) bank robbers in history, there is no definitive tally of exactly how much Bonnie and Clyde  stole.

For sixteen years, Jesse James and his gang robbed and murdered people in a half-dozen states. They held a chilling grip on Missouri. Fear of the James gang prevented many homesteaders from coming to Missouri and new businesses from investing in her economy. 

American outlaw, gang leader, bank and train robber  and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.

the amount that he might have stolen is still unknown.

                

La Santísima Muerte



  



                                      
 
      Haras que venza todas las 
      dificultades y que para mi no
      halla nada imposible, ni
      obstaculos, infranqueables, ni 
      tenga enemigos, ni que nadie
      quiera hacerme dano, que
      todos sean mis amigos y que yo
      salga vencedor en todas las
      empresas o cosas que haga;
      Mi casa se llenara de bienes
      con las virtudes de tu proteccion.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

The Legend




I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”
 Willie Nelson

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

that other day ...


So today is one of those days I can go out and try and skate whatever is possible with the people in know. The Viking vegetable in the left is Anders Nordlow  and on the right is Ian Pruet another good friend of mine. If you're ever in the Koreatown mid-city area get a hold of Anders for a good laugh... dudes ridiculous and it's not the things he say but the things he does. I rarely ever get to see these dudes now so every time we chill its pretty rad just skate around get a few beers and chill.

Anders peer pressuring you to drink its triple shot latte

that ground sucks 

hidden manny spot.


new flat bar we found around the city.

The top of the kyoto hotel in la has a pretty rad rooftop.

Friday, November 19, 2010

lurking

The Wall    
FANTOMATIK
                                           © Paul Schutzer
                                                © Léon Herschtritt
                                                                                  © James Nachtwey
                                                                                 © Raymond Depardon


Again i find myself lurking this blog.... so many good photographs that i always with the intention stealing more of these pics . 

La Sirena


Wes Lang "Starting at empty Pages"








I'm out in California, otherwise I would have done whatever possible to make out to this show. Check out his blog he's got some rad up there posted from this show along with older shows.

"With it and for it"


Betty Broadbent was born in 1909 and during her childhood she was rather innocent.  At the age of fourteen she was employed as a nanny in Atlantic City, New Jersey and took to wandering the boardwalk. It was there that she had a chance encounter with tattooist Jack Red Cloud and fell in love with the art form that would forevermore shape her life and future.
By 1927 Betty was well on her way to completing a tattoo body suit. Over 350 designs adorned her pinup model-like body, designs created and applied by notorious and revolutionary tattooists like Charlie Wagner, Joe Van Hart, Tony Rhineager and Red Gibbons.


 "Cindy Ray (Real name Bev Robinson) was Australia's first homegrown tattooed (and tattooist) pin-up girl, but until 1959, Ray was just your average model. She had no tattoos and no interest in tattooing, until Harry Bartram, a photographer, offered to pay for her coverage.

By the end of her career, she was considered to be a confident tattooist and colleague. She tirelessly corresponded with her fan base and posed for hundreds of pictures, many more than she would have before she was tattooed. Her name was on books, tattoo machines, and jewelry kits. Sadly, Cindy had little to no input in the endorsement of these products, and even the promotion of her image"

Thursday, November 18, 2010

check out 

FANTOMATIK

GENTLEMAN CAMBRIOLEUR D'IMAGES


via @ WEE GEE

Veterans day

But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
"These for their country fought and bled."
~Philip Freneau


So veterans day fell on a Thursday this november 11th, I  was unable to update my blog due to my dad spending most week in the VA and having his open heart surgery and work along with family issues, But along the way i actually spoke to every veteran i knew and strangers alike in the street to tell em how grateful I was of their accomplishments. Also I couldn't help but take a picture of the what some random  kid in kindergartner wrote to him and how stoked he was about it. He also received a letter from this kid that referred to em as "MR. Veteran", made my dads day along with mine.


along the way i remember  writing this maybe a few days prior to it 




" I don't believe any one is truly free of oppression due to their religious and political views but I do believe that this country does offer you more freedom than any other. Even as I believe that capitalism is a breed of enslavement I'm glad to be in a country were I have the freedom to feel that way and speak of it without any sort of persecution. Wether I decide to wake up and go to work or get drunk all day and sleep on the side of the road, I have the freedom to do as I please. After all it is the land of the free."




just as Elmer Davis said  "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."  

Grateful Dead - St. Stephen

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Helmut Newton 31 October 1920, 23 January 2004


Your favorite "Fashion Photographer" is my favorite pervert! He took amazing pictures of women in from the 50's and on I personally favor his 60's 70's work. I personally don't know much about fashion but I do know I love the pictures this man takes, great angles and majestic lighting.

loteria

When I was a kid my great grandmother used to have this little get together every sunday were her and her friends would play loteria. Most of these women she talked trash about and how horrible wives they might have been but on sunday they shared a common interest to tequila and cigars. These have always been to of my favorite cards even as a child I was intrigued and now as an adult I still am.