Piled up with projects/work. Will update you, my fellow zeebs, soon.
A limited tee coming soon as well as a few other collaborations.
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Soon
Saturday, May 30, 2009
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Obey-Supply and Demand
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Maybe I should have another category of "money sucking goodies." I couldn't turn away when I saw this 20th anniversary Obey art book. Shepard Fairey has been my inspiration since day one, so was Chandler from Friends. He's a guy who started bombing the city streets with stickers of the overseeing Andre the Giant to a guy that designed the Obama presidential campaign poster...
He def earned some respect for the graffiti artists out there.
The book's got most, if not all, the amazing propaganda-style art works from the past.
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Just a side note: Even Consider the legality issue when Shepard took the photo and turn it into a poster?The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Obama Poster Debate - David Ross and Ed Colbert Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Keyboard Cat
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Back on track
Even came with a poster. +1.
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A Phi O Collaboration
TIZ's gotten a chance to collaborate with the Davis chapter of Alpha Phi Omega for their upcoming rush event.
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P.O.D-Jedi Master
Picture of the Day - Jedi Master Origami. Took my brother about 4-5 hours, even following a detailed tutorial, for this. I've done tutorials in the past, but I'm sorry, you're on your own for this one.
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TIZ x My Broskies
Monday, May 25, 2009
Courtesy of Billy, who's been helping out with musical performances, video productions, and now comics!
His website's under construction, but be ready to see this guy A LOT.
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Adidas
Adidas' always been pushing out new inspirational projects. Just the other day when I swung by Berkeley, the Adidas store there handed me a couple of flyers about their recent interactive "customize your life" project....
I was curious enough to step into the store to find out(got me with their marketing tactics). There it was, two,about 8 x 8 feet, murals with outlines of various Adidas shoe models stood across from each other on different ends of the room. I was handed a pen to do whatever I like with the canvas.
It was a massive collaboration project with Adidas and everyone's invited. Super dope.
The flyers.
Here's what I've done. Of all the colors, I chose black. and only black.
..I violated the border, too. my bad.
This guy's work was awesome.
There were alot of other amazing ones, but I was too busy drawing my "black" kicks.
My dad even got into. (Doodling runs in our blood)
His work.
Their campaign seem to be working because everyone would like to be a part of something great.
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Organization
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."- Marcus Aurelius.
Starting from entries few days ago, I've been categorizing them in a more obvious manner. Now you can also click on the right panel to narrow down the posts of specific nature that you'd like to see.
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Winchester Mystery House
Sunday, May 24, 2009
The plan was really to enjoy sea breeze at Santa Cruz, but unfortunately, our skin wasn't thick enough to bare the 58 degree cold. So instead, we hit up the place that I always planned on going - The Winchester Mystery House. It's a $70 million history landmark #868, so despite the bad reviews(from quite a lot of sources) and the pricey ticket($26 for a 65-minutes mansion tour), I gave it a go. It turned out....
to be pretty good, actually. Maybe my subconscious told me to squeeze the most out of it and be excited the second I pull out my wallet or maybe it was just a genuinely cool place to check out.
Enough of the intro, here's some interesting part of the tour. I don't want to give it all away( but mostly), it's the parts that I could still remember:
Located in San Jose, the mansion was built in the 1880's.
Humongous estate, used to cover Santana Row and the region around it. The touring spot we see now is only a fraction of its original size.
The mansion, at one point, used to go up to 7 stories high, until SF earthquake hit. Today it stands at 4 stories.
There's never been a guest to house. Rumor has it, our 26th President Theodore Roosevelt was a good fan of the Winchester Firearms, but even he was turned down(owned) when he tried visiting Mrs. Winchester.
Speaking of Mrs. Winchester, here's the family tree.
She stood at 4'11", meaning she could easily walk through this door next to Michelle.
Her favorite number was 13. (I did not make this one up.)
The wealth was gained by the business that Mr. Winchester was doing -Firearms. Mrs. Winchester inherited about 20.5 million(back in 1880's) upon her husband's death. Making her the sugar mama of the time.
She wasn't happy, though, both her daughter and husband died at a young age. Through psychics, she was told that the deaths were caused upon by a curse of the firearms they made- Many were killed by their weapons and the spirits now came to seek vengeance. The only solution was to continuously building a house for it can never be completed for her and the spirits. Then there it was, the beginning of the Winchester Mystery house. The mansion was a continuous work in progress for 38 years, hence the weird window on the floor and stairway that leads to nowhere..etc.
In her later years, she developed arthritis and it was painful to lift her legs, so she changed all the steps to no more than couple inches above each other.
Her room and where she past.
Spooky.
Door with the 8 feet drop.
Window on the floor.
The most expensive window out there.
Custom made by Tiffany from New York. It's original to the house. It cost $1,500 at the time and it's now priceless.
Oriental Room.
We had to do it. I missed taking a picture of the wall paper, but it was all hand drawn and imported from Japan.
This one's the crystal room.
The white spots are small little crystals embedded in the wall paper. (Baller status.)
I wasn't joking when I said her favorite number's 13. She purchased the chandiliar for her grand ball room($9,000 at the time), but it only had 12 gas lights, so she added the 13th one in the center.
If you haven't already know, she's quite superstitious. It was said that an upside down pole could bring you good luck, so she changed every-single-pole in the house upside down.
And that was it, for now.
The crib was truely amazing. We were exhausted from checking out the couple of the 160 rooms in the mansion. But yea, it was must go, I'd say, atleast for a life time.
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Santana Row was right next door, so we went around and put my tripod in use.
It says 523. Don't be hatin'.
Good day, good trip.
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Green flavored eye candy for the road
Isn't that a beautiful 100%-electric-powered mobile? It's called the Aptera 2e. The slick aerodynamic body and 3-wheel whip is destine to capture everyone's eyes. Ok, maybe it's not everyone's cup of tea(you 4 wheelers), but it sure is mine. Jay Leno's, too. So he's a car fanatic and he has...
done an interview with Paul Wilbur, the president and CEO of Aptera, for some detailed specs of the vehicle. The basic info comes down to this:
The solar panels you see on the roof can actually gather enough power to vent out the hot air from the interior and cool down the car while you park it outdoor(Ownage to all the vehicles out there).
The car is 1,500 pounds and a coefficient of drag of just 0.15(A.K.A. breaks wind like no other, literally).
The electric motor offers up 60 lb-ft of torque.
The lithium ion phosphate battery pack has a capacity of 10-13 kWh.
Rear back up camera available. DVD navigation system. Interior made from recycled material(Just green all the way). iPod/Phone capable, of course.
Coming right at cha.
I might miss a few things, feel free to hear what Jay Leno has to say about it:
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