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Making of Illest x Transformer mural at Paddock

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…

Mudslingers – 4×4 trials

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 Green

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…

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale

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…

Random Shibuya

For some reason I find myself writing about Japan alot more than any other places. Probably cause it’s one of my favorite places to go. I usually stay in Shibuya when Im visiting cause its very familiar. Next year, however, I’ll be staying in different citys just to change it up a bit. Here’s some…

Drifting downunder – Kiwi style

With all the excitement of summer approaching, New Zealand’s own D1NZ kicked off recently and I decided to hit the event up to see what all the fuss was about.  After being immersed in the Japanese D1GP for the past few years, it’s cool to see what my home country was doing in regards to…

@EMMULATE: Instant Gratification

Like everyone else and their hip-iphone-toting mother, I got bit by the Instagram bug. And hard. I love the incredible ease of micro-blogging: it doesn’t require the photo editing process blogging requires (my nemesis in life) and is like Tumblr, but for super dummies with extreme ADD. Thank goodness for the brainiacs in the tech…