ohhh. califas. back again to work with the freaks at HB tattoo. “good freaks though” burritos that hurt my butt and horchata that sooths the soul. old cars everywhere and a culture that screams “west side!!” orly blake swiper jason meesh are all out of town and orly and jason as hospitable as they always are. letting us pimp the g-ride and stay at there house! thanks guys <3 so manz and i are out here guest spotting for a few weeks. its always good to get away from the norm/comfort zone, see and learn new things, talk and share with friends. i feel that these trips away from hawaii are so necessary to me in bettering myself and my craft. i need to feed the brain i need critiques and constructive criticism. i like when people tell me im doing something wrong even when i dont want to hear it at all. i need that. (thanks jeff and toby)
produce more, dont sleep (literally and figuratively , excel, instead of opening your mouth open your eyes and ears, listen and learn. dont half step. to be the best you need to be totally nutz or kind of a nazi. (these thing are more for me than you, but try it it might work for you.?) one of the coolest graff references to me.
“WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING”….
thats right walking on water. david blane eat your heart out.
this ones for the bboys
from the archives
i cant figure out what this shit isnt posting. fuckkkkkk just check it out any ways
watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4
So this past friday was the “Ground Up” agency and the Elephant Armada cd release party all in one. It was at the design center/amuse wine bar, pretty fancy shmancy “my style”. So of coarse being the diva that i am i showed up late right as the fashion show ended… but better late than never.
me mana “elephant armada” mandy nicole kaeo koak aka superstars
creed chameleon
the sauce
i dont think he needs a intro. have you ever met a person that was just good at every thing. well hes that guy to me. “kaweeks”
acting like he dont need his glasses. blue steal bebe
“we dont get out much”
UBC in the house
The headed to the Vlounge to ruin our 21 year old friend nicoles life by drowning her with alcohol. i dont have any pics cause i was to busy drinking… ill find some
Tattooed the Virus again (mutant boy)
Had some dinner with the family, always a nice thing. We went to mini garden chinese restaurant. (not the best in my opinion). but whatevs …
Then we went to another dinner @ the Cheese Cake factory of course with Mike E, Jen, and Magic. All friends visiting from Australia. they love that shit!
heres a few flicks from the past couple a days. ill post more flicks from from the weekend tomorrow. im tired
Suluape Aisea tattooing Magic (Rotuman style pe’a)
cant ever have enough protection in the shop.
hope you had a good mothers day!
Names are important to us all. We all want to stand out and have our own identity. Even if we share the same one as someone else we still don’t give a f@!k. Weather you’re rockin your wifes name hard like Mana aka ELEPHANT ARMADA who just so happens to be in town, spinning tonight at the wine bar/exhibition room? in the design center. (shameless plug for the homie. Or you just got a cool last name like Garcia. It doesn’t matter really. I just think we as people just like to represent period.
so i say do it. dogs name moms name grammas kids dad gang school whatevers, DO IT
If you haven’t checkd it out or are a complete T-shirt nerd. Either way you should check out Orly’s blog at cukui.com fresh gear and other fun shit.
The 5th of May! I got the ultimate downtown block party parking. along with the shenanigans there was also a lowrider/car show. supremacy imaginations outsiders and a few others participated. it was pretty cool, no one got harassed. The streets were filled with randomness andall kinds of characters. The business people meet the winos and the drugies meets the party kids meet the families! awesome. I guess thats the draw of down town, you never know what the hell is gonna happen. Good food good times.
the band was killin em
as the night went on people were loving the cars and Bill (bill’s chop shop-above) sang janis joplin song all night.
if all those bastards in front of 7 11 only knew. they would be so pissed at me for not giving them shit. its one thing to be a hungry bum or a boozed out wino but some of these fuckers dressed like me. Telling me hey nice shirt man and when i come out they hit me up for some loot WTF
so boooyah!
lets just hope they dont have the internet
Just know that i have the craziest customer/friend you’ll ever meet. We just call him Virus. With that said.
step 1. come in acting all crazy.
2. tell me you have an idea but dont tell it to me.
3. tell it to me but say you just thought of it while listening to kanye on he radio.
4. have me draw it out. and tell me im the BOSS
5. stamp it on and get murdaaaahhhed
6. come back for your 2nd sitting
7. when its done tell me that your a genius an that all the chicks will love it
