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I got an email asking who this gentleman in the trekie uniform is…Well its non other then the director of NASA. Great guy!

These are the Black Keys for you information. They are going to be the next HUGE band! just them two and an awesome sense for vintage crafted clothing.

P always kills it!

Chad Murders it too!

Had to stop this girl that was wearing HomeRoom. She was so awesome. I love running into people like her.

Tis that time of the year for us to clean out the shelves, dust the racks and clean the floors. While we are prepping for our next line to arrive, we want to extend an offer to YOU! 30% off sale until sunday. No coupon code needed, the saving will be added during check out. Get those last few jackets and rings to hold you over until our line drop next week.

I was listening to “Hurt” & “I hung my head” for the 8th time today when I got really inspired by the songs. Maybe its my personality type that draws me to these dark, cynical songs. I love it. Dark, grimy, yet sophisticated in a crazy way. What a rare combo. The one and only.

“You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.” - Johnny Cash

I have a feeling that its a Japanese Borat.

Either way, its inspiring. I have a new method for selecting cameras.

If you’ve newly discovered HomeRoom than you might not know that we got our start making one of a kind hoodies and goods for our beloved customers.  Even though its been 3 years since we stopped doing custom hoodies i still get  a handful of requests every month. One of our long time customers had ordered emailed me about one and  couldn;t say no.

We stick by our commitment to making sure that its a perfect fit. Once he recieved his hoodie he made comments on what he needs adjusted and we are more than happy to make sure that its tailor fitted on him..even if its via air mail.

Quick snap before we shipped it off

you might remember the first time you saw this hoodie…i found the fabric for the hoodie above a few months ago when i was doing some cleaning.

and this got made for a friend who just had a baby. That kid is going to love the big red button.

This new photoshop cs5 re-sized my pics all wrong and clipped my water mark. It shall be fixed by the next blog post. Sorry for the visual annoyance.

Some say rise and shine, some say rise and fly…

Its nice when people send limo’s to pick you up. What a nice bunch of gals!

I had only a few hours to check out the scene at the trade show.

Mr. Bendicto is one of the unsung heroes of fashion. Behind every brand that you love there’s someone like Mr. Bendicto keeping it all together behind the scenes.

There’s always a new trade show every season. They usually don’t make it past a 2nd season. This one looks like it has some legs to it.

While this one is on its way out. Magic is becoming too much like a college party than a trade show.

The only good thing about Magic was running into former intern K. YEE!

I shot over to Capsule Show for an hour before I jolted down the hallway and cut 10 people in the taxi line, to barely make my flight.

Maybe you do…maybe you don’t remember our former East Coast sales rep and all around great guy; Alex James. Well he has his own footwear line now and he is killing it! I just got my pairs in the mail today.

Hanni and Nao of HUF..some of the few SF people that are in the industry.

yea..I’m a country boy.

One foggy morning i woke up to a big amount of nothing to do. Ever since we stopped doing wholesale to retailers (and focused on direct), i’ve had more time to focus on design.  I decided to take an inspiration trip down California to see whats going on.

Beautiful and sad at the same time

co-pilot

i always stop and get some real jerky at the road shacks. Its a must when u have 5 hours to drive

made it to a few of my fav boutiques before the shut down for the day.

Pete from Union is now running his own store called Craft.  Check it out, its a few doors down from Opening Ceremony

The Hype Truck.

4 years ago i emailed this legendary designer. Ever since he’s been one of the coolest guys around; Alyasha Moore

I geeked out on this RRL patch… Someone sits there, with a smoldering branding iron and applies it to the raw suede. That’s rare and expensive.  It adds about $12 to the pants retail cost.

My Good friend Kiya from SelfEdge and Johan (photoshop went hay-wire and stuck a HMRM logo on Kiya’s flathead shirt).

I partied with Tom from Sugarcane a year back in vegas , good to keep that party going with him in LA….and Mrs. SelfEdge.

Haraki-san is the owner of Iron Heart denim, based out of Japan. He makes the toughest and heaviest  jeans widely known to man.

I shot down to silver lake for dinner with my old office neighbor Brian Heslop. He is the west coast sales rep for the original sneaker company (keds, pro keds and some of your other favorite companies). Good to catch up with homies and famiy.

Food coma and time to call it a night…

Woke up at the crack of dawn to get my fingers on the goods at Rosebowl, before all the Japanese guys from the night before beat me to the punch.

Ran into my man Ouigi from BKC. He was going to roll back with me to SF, but  i had to call the trip early and shoot back home for some fabric selecting.

25% of my closet is Blue shirts and that is not a lie. After i saw this rack my stock ratio went up tp 30%I’m fueled by cured meats..i needed to stock up for the long late night drive.

I’ve been under a rock….I just heard some bad new about 5 mins ago.

I’m sure every single person has seen hip hop influence our culture in the last 25 years. No other movement to date has spread as fast. In the midst of hip hop’s morphogenesis of the golden mid to late 90’s, the true heads lost hope. In early 2000’s a man named Jun Seba aka Nujabes came on the International Hip Hop scene and gave the true hip hop heads something to nod their domes to. I regretfully just found out that He had passed away from a car accident in Japan.

Known for his pure signature sound, Nujabes spread quickly in the USA with no marketing or push. The crisp sound of his music created a word of mouth buzz. Within 5 years of starting his career every hip hop geek respected and appreciated what the Japanese hip hop scene was putting out. RIP Jun Seba.

In the blance of power between, good and evil, or evil vs evil, or good vs good . There is a fight of strategy between the oppositions. Most people are comfortable and never see them selves as the sheep that are being hearded.  Most don’t ever think they are a part of what is called “the blind leading the blind”.  In order for one side to win, they must have thee ultimate influence over the majority. They can fool everyone else, but they won’t fool me.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory..this is the fashion industry.

There are tons of ways to describe Jean Michel Basquiat. I’ve always looked at him as the person that bridged street art -and high society. What he did for  street style, is bigger than his art. I was just a pup when he died, wish i got to meet him.

Enjoy

As we are in preparation for moving into our 4th office space in 4 years I had to go through and sort out what to keep and what to throw away/donate. In the process I found my old college notes books with these words written on almost every note book. “Trust the process not the product”. I guess even at an early age I was obsessed with how things are made.