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Illest X HNL Night Market X Slammed Society Hawaii

Illest pop-up shop @HNLNIGHTMARKET this Saturday from 6-11pm. We’ll have a preview of our Kaka’ako store opening products & be releasing a special i&i collaboration with In4mation. @in4mation_ @illestbrand #illest …

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Springfest 2013 – Virginia Beach

Hi everyone! It has been way too long since I...

40th Season of the Drew Basketball League

Tomorrow marks the opening day of the 40th season of...

Radii Footwear Releases “Axel” Ballistic Nylon Pack with Cloud9 Technology

Radii Footwear has dropped their new collection of the popular...

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40th Season of the Drew Basketball League

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Mad Mike drifting Crown Range in New Zealand

Mad Mike’s FD is definitely one of my top 10...

Hermes X Equus

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    Yeah this one right here goes out to all the baby’s mamas, mamas, mama’s mamas, baby mama’s mamas… HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY and DUBS ALL DAMN DAY! Spent mine dipped in …

  • TGIFF

    It’s that time of the month… First Fridays and you know where I be. Recently named The Most Exciting City in the COUNTRY, dem some big words and big shoes …

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  • Springfest 2013 – Virginia Beach

    Hi everyone! It has been way too long since I wrote last and I wanted to kick this year off with a good, yet not overwhelming post. I went down …

  • First Class Fitment by 4MATIONMEDIA

    I thought the best way to wrap up our coverage for the event was with a video! And who else to go to but Daniel Phan, of 4MATIONMEDIA! Some people …

  • First Class Fitment V.3 by Canibeat

    Finally! I finished editing all the shots from over 2 weeks ago! This event has proven to be amongst the best shows on the East coast, if not of the …

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  • Tee Baggin’ Sale: Transformer Edition

    The Tee Baggin’ Sale is back, and this time it’s all about the Transformer Tees. Just as always, there you just choose your size, choose the quantity, and get 3 …

  • Jenn Q For Illest: Summer 2013

    Our Summer 13 Tees and Tanks are now available online and at our retail locations. Check it out after the link.

  • Dubs All Day Tee Now Available

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    The Hyundai Genesis making its appearance in late 2008 has become the literal definition of “Genesis,” meaning origin. It is the origin of success for Hyundai Motors for creating a …

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    This is something that hits more close to home with me. Being apart of MazdaFitment.com has allowed me to connect with a variety of different Mazda enthusiasts. One such Mazda …

  • Ewin’s Myvi

    Something we do not see posted around here are Kei cars. What are Kei cars, you might ask? Kei cars are a category of small vehicles that are very popular …

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  • Illest X HNL Night Market X Slammed Society Hawaii

    Illest pop-up shop @HNLNIGHTMARKET this Saturday from 6-11pm. We’ll have a preview of our Kaka’ako store opening products & be releasing a special i&i collaboration with In4mation. @in4mation_ @illestbrand #illest …

  • Manila Fitted

    Visited Manila a few weeks ago and took some photos from a Manila Fitted / Stance Philippines meet. LOTS of good cars & people came out. One car that really …

  • Mad Mike drifting Crown Range in New Zealand

    Mad Mike’s FD is definitely one of my top 10 drift cars cause of how much style the car has. Here he’s seen drifting Crown Range in New Zealand. Great …

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  • FTLC Motorsports: Team Fatlace // ILLEST

    A few weeks ago, we kicked off the 2013 Formula Drift season. With a lot going on in the off season, it was great to see our sponsored drivers tearing …

  • From The Bay to LA

    A few weeks ago, the FTLC crew packed up and caravanned from the Paddock in San Mateo to FD Long Beach. We met up bright and early and made our …

  • Tandem of Die: Meant to Be Driven

    If you follow drifting, you should be familiar with the awesome videography of Justin Shreeve and Joe Ayala otherwise known as Tandem of Die. When they are not making amazing …

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  • Nas in Hawaii

    Since photos are my medium of choice, I will borrow some words from local wordsmith Sonny Ganaden, special to the Star-Advertiser.  Read the rest of his article titled “Nas Returns …

  • Hellaflush Approved: Adrian Herrera’s Infiniti G35

    One word to describe Adrian Herrera’s Infiniti G35…GOLDEN!  There is no doubt that Adrian added a touch of class with custom 24k gold staggered Leon Hardiritt Orden wheels.  But what …

  • Blackstar in Hawaii

    Blackstar…awesome in 1998 when they released “Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star”, awesome in 2007 when we saw them at Rock the Bells, and mos def (punny, huh?) …

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  • DURAG DYNASTY INTERVIEW

    EAST3:  Mahalo for taking the time to do this interview and respect to you and the entire Gold Chain Military fam! Breakdown what and whom are a part of GCM …

  • JESKILZ INTERVIEW

    East3: Always good to interview the fam, I knew Jeskilz since our RSC days, mad cool peoples. Jes, Break down a little about your self and what you represent?   …

  • Trysen “Tkay” Kaneshige Interview

    East3: I’d like to introduce you to Tkay from the beautiful island Kauai. Mahalo for taking the time during a very busy schedule to do this interview. Tell us what …

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  • Gee Es Double U

    I am still here. Just shooting with a little more care then usual. Enjoy.

  • Progress Is My Middle Name

    A little photo dump from the past couple of weeks. I guess putting in a little bit of effort goes a long way. Landscape style was never my true forte …

  • A New Day…A New Beginning

    Believe it or not, I took the least amount of photos in 2012 then any other year prior. It bums me out that photo blogs are becoming the dinosaur of …

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  • DAVID KO’S ACURA TSX

    “Friday evening…? No? Well what about Thursday evening? That doesn’t work either? Well I guess we’re stuck with Friday morning at sun rise. We’ll meet at the galleria Starbucks and …

  • Import Reactor 2013 – Houston, TX

    Import Reactor in Houston, TX is by far the most anticipated event every year for locals. There are only two bigger events that will roll by in Texas and that’s …

  • Matt’s Lexus IS250

    While visiting Auto Tech Collision to check up on my car, I noticed a Lexus IS250 in the corner of the shop completely torn apart with bondo around the car. …

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  • GT5 Dori: Just Like A New Game

    Ever since I started playing GT5 again (after a two year break) it’s pretty much like a new game. It came with drift mode, but sliding was almost impossible for …

  • Photos of the daily and GT5 Drift

    Time with loved ones makes the holiday season exciting. My whole family was hit by the flu bug, when we were supposed to be on vacation. Flights were cancelled, but …

  • Urban Outlaw

    Mangus Walker builds and drives one off Porsches. Has a nice collection in his garage. Really inspiring. via Josh Hooks

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  • Hot Import Nights 2013

    This year, I am trying to hit up all the shows in my area to force myself to use my camera more often. I normally don’t go to the main …

  • A little something something..

    I don’t usually like to post about my own car, but Anthony encouraged me to post this photo shoot that my friend Jeff did of my car. I love Jeff’s …

  • Childhood Dreams

    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, …

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  • A few minutes of his time

           I personally met Nick Jimenez last year at a Fatlace event. He is the epitome of a “Storyteller”, not a bullshitter or salesman, just an entertaining automotive O.G. As …

  • Waterwerks 2012 Coverage

    To be honest, I found out about Water Werks last minute from my friend. Mr. Matt Crooke of Fifteen52 helped me out and got me a Media Pass, so here …

  • A Generation On It’s Way Out

      As the m3′s evolve through each generation, we cant seem to forget the old one. The E30 M3 generation is already extinct while the E36 M3 is slowly working …

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  • Hellaflush Jakarta, After Sunset

    As we Announced the Hellaflush Top 10 winners the clouds came in and poured down, I started to dread the show being washed out, literally. Luckily it came down just …

  • Hellaflush Jakarta, Day

    After a year of false starts, venues falling through and dealing with the floods here in Jakarta we finally had the show… It was worth the wait. The morning started …

  • Hellaflush Jakarta Flood Relief meet-up

    On the 26th we had the Love for Jakarta meet-up to donate event for the flood victims. It was a great success! It was really nice to see all the …

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  • Straya Day Drift Festival

    For our friends outside of Australia, we Aussies have a habit of truncating words, hence ‘good day’ became ‘G’day’, ‘how are you going’ became ‘ha-ya-garn’ and on our day of …

  • 2012: The Year of Drift Cars, Supercars and Hypercars…

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  • Kyoto Garage Summer Slam

    The final event at Archerfield for 2012 was always going to be a massive event. With multiple Australian Drift Champion, JDM All Stars Champion and former World BMX Champion Luke …

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  • BLACK ROSES NYC

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  • “Parallel Lives” by James Jean

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  • NAPA, CA

    Immediately following the U.S. Grand Prix, I headed west to Northern California for some much needed R&R. Mama Shen’s birthday aside, the last time I requested two days off was …

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  • Queens Holiday 2012 Lookbook

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  • Queens is back, New collection for Fall 12′

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  • BOTB Fall 12′ – “Anti-Heroine” Collection

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  • A Visit To The Treasury

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  • Cake Face Z

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  • KAWS Partners

    The most recent work from KAWS, a brand new collectible that sees himself standing alongside his “Companion” creation. The scene depicted is reminiscent of the statue of Walt Disney and …

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  • Fatlace Shop

    Check out the new Fatlace Shop here.

  • Illest x Transformers LA Release Recap

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  • Fatlace Portrero Bike Frame now for sale

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  • STAY LURKN Fall 12'

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  • LOWBALLERS.Japan × NeuFlava WTFSaturdays

    The Lowballers Japan has teamed up with local crew NeuFlava to throw down weekly meets. It’s great to see the JDM scene super into the USDM scene and sometimes you …

  • Tailored Fam

    Slammed Society brought many groups of people from all over. One group that stuck out was Tailored Fam from Utah. These guys reminded me of how it used to be …

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  • IN4MATION x MELLOW ORANGE

    Our collaboration tee with in4mation crew for their 2012 Fall/Winter catalog.  Tee design by our dude, unknown document.  Go cop this shit! “Rooted in skate and surf culture, lifestyle brand …

  • Mellow Orange Summer Giveaway Contest

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  • Joey Bada$$ “1999″ Mixtape

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  • Limitless | Dale’s FC RX-7 drifter

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  • D1NZ Grand Final at Hampton Downs

    Saturday saw the 2011/2012 D1NZ National Drifting championship come to a close with a nail biting finale at Hampton Downs raceway. With Mad Mike Whiddett in the Redbull/Speedhunters RX-7 MADBUL …

  • Auckland’s finest: Dayle’s A6

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  • Slammed Society FD Las Vegas 2k12

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  • GRID 2 Trailer

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  • Played Out Show ‘n Shine by Rotiform

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  • Fatlace magazine is here

    You may have been lucky enough to find Fatlace’s first printed magazine named FTLC in Japan. A collector’s item for sure! Now, we’ve made a digital version for the iPad. …

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  • Aaron Rose’s Fire Sale @ Known Gallery

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  • Support Your Homies: MLCS Co. x PNC INTL, Suede Head

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  • Augustine Kofie/LAGO @ Known Gallery

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  • Music on NES controllers.

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  • Stones Throw.

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  • SCOOTER ONE : RWB

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  • VIP’d M45

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  • IS250xTruffle Mica

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  • SFxWekfest 2012

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  • Where in the World is BBoy Wicket?

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  • LA CLIPPERS bboy squad (Fast Break Crew)

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  • meatyflush WRX

    I think this WRX pretty much sums up my personal style for Subaru’s. I love a well rounded car that shows that fitment can perform too. There is all different …

  • pickin up and intro

    I kind of wanted to re-intro myself to everyone real quick. My name is Josh Hooks (known as grippymonkey or jhooks on the net). I grew up in the SF …

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  • The Weeknd – Gone (Sango Remix)

    <iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/34693074?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=8c8c8c” width=”1001″ height=”563″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/34693074″>The Weeknd – Gone (Sango Remix)</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/jmartinez”>jmartinez</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> Just updated to Final Cut Pro X and I …

  • Occupy Wall St – NYC

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  • Camera Stickers via PetaPixel

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