Sampler Platter

Samples are in from china! check out some of the colorways i did for willys upcoming shoes. With a few tweaks here and there from the designer at Power Skate, these are almost the final products! it went from coloring on templates in adobe illustrator with willy to a sample product as shown here…

Scribble Scrabble

in the near future, carpe diem will be on the press again.

last night during my gym sess, i got very creative in my head and decided to put the pen on the pad and doodle and see what i can come up with. i tried to come up with my own script logo. so i put my writing into a alphabet…

and when you convert it into adobe illustrator, things get cleaned up and actually look like a type of font…

and with a little shuffling of letters, you can sometimes can get something you are happy with. maybe a new logo & script font?

after doing that, decided to see if i can come up with some tee designs that i can put on the press in the near future. things that have been on my mind put on tee shirts…

ive had this one on my mind for a long time…

carpe diem.

Sunken Titan-ic

Woke up bright and early for sundays charger game. decided to watch the game with alvin at oggies. Reserved a table for me, alvin, leo, VG, christine, april, and this dude we named ted. the raider fans (leo, ted, VG) sat on the opposite side of the table. me and al split the breakfast burrito wich was super bomb and each had our own stuff-stix, if you are an OG, youd know what they are.

This game was super crazy and i couldnt stand it. close games are fun, but not when we are on the losing side of it.

this place got crazy when dallas came back at the same time as the chargers tied it. all the dallas and charger fans were going crazy!

VGs shirt doesnt say raiders, it says, Bakers.

then it was go home and watch sportscenter all day and all night.

Carpe Fucking Friday

friday nights are strictly reserved for chillin out and visiting new spots around SD. you know, getting out of the norm, no club heat, no prospect, shit like that. but i almost called it a call of duty night at home. but was dragged out of the house and rolled up to this spot in old town called the “Wine Cabana”. it was snice despite the freezing weather, however we were spiced up with wine and heaters.

kicked it at the yard house and sapped up some beer. choice of beer: stella artious and racer 5 ipa. chicken nachos were bomb.

after closing time at yard house, we went to an undisclosed place and somebody had a little extra fun with the copier machine.

if you look closely, you can see the butt hair.

fun and enjoyable night. however woke up with a crappy throat.

Thursday Night Downtown

edwin gave me a ring and we headed out to TNT (Thursday Night Things) at the Museum of Contemporary Arts of San Diego (MCASD) in little italy downtown. it was a long night downtown and ended up meeting with friends. let me sumarize my night with photos in order…

went to eds house and picked up VG up the street. Snowmen in san diego are unheard of!

went to extraordinary deserts for a beer

headed out to MCASD. couldnt take photo of the galleries.

met with old friends! ms nikki kimble-manalo (freds ex) & diana mason (chris’ homecoming date)

out in the back they had music and beer.

this bike gang posted up and played some song with their bells

bounced and went to igloo to meet with a friend.

next to igloo is a bookstore called subtext. looks dope from the outside. but it was closed and our friend bounced from igloo. so we sat and waited for the wildboyz posse #1 (tk, kimtan, leo)

portillo rockin the carpe diem. watch out for carpe diem soon… new shit coming

so we went to a dead visions  bar and had more beer and sushi. we then bounced and headed toSin, right below martini ranch. we hit it up with some more drinks courtesy of tk. and then we ran into Wildboyz posse #2 (tj, jr, neil, rose, josie, cile) and rolled into Onyx/thin to some gay music. definately a WAY different croud. in the picture below, tj was pretending to rave or some shit and this dude and some girl bounced in and were all serious.

went to heat again for more shots. and bounced back to sin… for more shots. then after that we grubbed at ciros pizza, at this point i dont really remember anything.

thursday night was so dead but at least we can go anywhere free cover and shots courtesy of tk. it wouldnt be as fun without the friends. but seriously, im done partying this weekend. this equaled a friday and sat night.

Virgin Airlines X DIGGnation

the other day i was browsing my bloggin friends sites and ceciles blog noted that virgin airlines was having a promo. Fly Virgin Airlines and bring a friend for free! flights from san diego start feb 12th and the last day of the promo is the 7th of dec, so we planned an emergency meeting at the pad.

we booked a flight to new york for a week in feb for 12 people. it ended up being $180 roundtrip with taxes per person! since virgin flys to SF also, we just thought “hey, lets go to SF”. so we did. booked 10 tickets to SF 2 weeks after we get back from NY! it ended up being like $60 round trip with taxes to SF per person. TK fronted all the money on his cards for ALL the tickets. thanks tk.

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tk’s email with all the ticket confirmations. crazy.

welcome to WBZ Travel Agency Inc.

list of names going.

one of our travel agents making sure you get the flight you want, and wehn you want at an affordable price.

Are You Kidding Me!

15 foot waves in la jolla? are you kidding me! what is this world coming to!? just like al gore, i blame this on global warming. only if i knew how you surf brah.

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Carpe Fucking Friday

Sorry for the lack of updates. ive been busy busy. but dont worry i got posts lined up, i just gotta upload fotos.

working all week is tough and sometimes some weekend outings help relieve the stress. so last friday, me and chris rolled out to the hoey inc mansion in santa luz for a couple of beers and brushetta pizza. shit was bomb. girls were bomb. thanks mr. hoey for the hospitality. after, we met up at gordon bierch (sp?) brewery in mission valley for some happy hour! we got there to a live band playing and millions flat screen tv’s with espn. mans greatest friend. and we grubbed over garlic fries. we then played catch phrase til 4am at the pad with beers. over all was a nice rainy fri night.

chris’ personal escort via beach umbrella ella eh.

we played tag. guess who lost.

on the way home, after a good deep sleep in the back of georges benz, i woke up to a flat tire. how to get over a flat tire?, play catch phrase with a fat tire beer. and thats what george exactly did.