Last night in LA, SA Studios and Warner Brothers hosted a VIP Premiere viewing and party for the highly anticipated movie ‘Gangster Squad.’ The evening was hosted by Director Ruben Fleischer and LA’s infamous Mister Cartoon. The event brought out star-studded movie buffs including celebrity jeweler Ben Baller, actress Brooklyn Sudano, DJ Reflex, actors Jason…
Thanksgiving For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, For love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Give. Thanks. ALWAYS. I tend to attract wild animals (ha!). He showed up Thanksgiving Day in my fruitful yard (again ha!). Got the…
In our adolescent years, my friends and I built RC cars to race in fantasy races in my garage. We would scooter around town, from radio shack to radio shack, looking for the newest X-Mod accessories, the coolest plastic wheels, the best body kits and the strongest electric motors. We made our toys based on…
So I’ve been MIA for about a month due to a “work” trip to Korea. This year, I made sure to bring my camera. I visited the Namsan Tower in Seoul, which also has a restaurant atop with a view awesome enough to rival the food.Although the Seoul Fashion Week registration committee did not honor…
Headed to the Paddock to finish the Illest x Transformers production created by Kraze1 (Crown Works Garage) and myself. Kraze is rocking ‘Jaz’ (Porsche Autobot) and it coming out super fly! The character is rendered based of the Illest release of the classic rendering of Jaz in collaboration with Transformers. Stay tuned…
4WD trials has evolved in the last few years to not just be done in a strengthened Hilux with a welded diff crawling through bog holes of mud. Now the sport has bucket loads more horsepower, drivers and co-drivers with balls of steel, and some very serious looking trucks! With different classes of truck, the…
The Universe be funny. Sometimes it’s best to just let it do its thing. Last weekend I had no plans whatsoever to go to The Green show. Apparently the Universe did not agree. And though it was last minute, with tix given to us on the day of…just hours before, why fight the powers that…
This Friday after Thanksgiving is our Black Friday Sale, happening at our Illest retail stores in LA and SF. Stores will be open at noon. On the following Monday, November 26th, we will have our Cyber Monday sale which includes our well known 3 for $20 Tee-Baggin’ Sale. Sale starts at 10 AM PST on…