BARON, an old gearhead himself, and I headed to the second Anaheim stop of the AMA Supercross this weekend to cheer on Josh Hansen. Josh had a bit of a spill in practice and f'd his back and broke bones in his hand...yet, still Hanny dominated both the qualifier and the finals to take top spot in both. Leading in points in the Lites class West, Josh is poised to take the championship this year and create history. If he does, Josh will be part of the first father/son duo who have won AMA championships (dad Donnie Hansen was part of the seminal Honda squad back in the 80's and won a championship himself).
Love when RPRT clients are put on blast. Kyle Loza on the Jumbotron answering X Games questions. YES...he is returning to go for his fourth gold medal after missing last year due to injury. Yeah Kyle!!!
Hanny is always at home on the podium...getting interviewed after his Qualifiers win. Twitter and Facebook don't work in Angel's Stadium so I didn't take many pics...deal with it.
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Supercross! Anaheim 2 - Josh Hansen Dominates for the Win
Friday, February 4, 2011
For the LA Ladies - Cocktails and Fashion 2/5 at Costella and Donola
Ladies of the City...my friend Luci, wife of client Erik Ellington, has an amazing new store on Melrose and they are doing a little cocktail/shopping event Saturday night to preview some new pieces from designer Tiffany Kunz. The great thing about this shop is that it is curated with some great designers that aren't in every other trendy store in LA.
I suggest you check it out and while you are there say hi to The Mule for me.
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1 Night...2 Parties...2 TOTALLY different scenes - Honda Heritage and Gonz Shoe Release
The beautiful thing about my job and running my own company is that I can pretty much do what I want, with whomever I want. My whole thing is to have fun no matter what I do and sometimes I stray from what my company's "description" is to work on projects with friends. I quit the fashion and events world but once in a while I get roped into something that looks fun and strikes my fancy.
My good friend Jon Guzik recently partnered with Honda Motor Corp. to license some of their vintage art and create a really rad line of tees, jackets and the like. Last night our company helped at the event and it was a total blast. I cheaped out on the photos because so many of my friends, colleagues and clients showed up to support that I wanted to spend time chatting rather than playing photog for the night. They set up an amazing caterer, had live music, a KEG of Sierra Nevada and a tequila bar pouring the best margies (spicy infused with Jalapeno's) I've had in a long time.
The space, Secret Service LA, was set up to the nines with vintage Honda's (even a bright yellow 1970's cherry Civic), vintage Honda relics, a Honda 50 scooter and of course the clothing. Below are a few pics of the set up and the clothes...check them out before I drop a few pics from the next party I had to attend (which was WAY on the other side of the spectrum of parties)...David Gonzalez's shoe release party for Globe.
Some of the tees printed on seriously buttery LA made blanks.
Loved all the Honda relics strewn about the space in a shrine to Honda's great history...Great event Guzik and Honda...thanks for including us! Special thanks to all my friends for coming out including superstylists Angela Fink, + Zoe Battles Moore, BMX god Kelly Bolton, Alfred Hopton and the angel's for running the door, my high school friend (thanks Facebook) Sunny Ravanbach and her cousin visiting from the UK (who happens to be hanging with one of the Flip boys, Ben Nordberg, back home...small world) and everyone else I chatted with...
Next stop was a jaunt down to the LBC for Globe Shoes launch of our boy David Gonzalez's first pro model shoe. As I rolled up I took 30 minutes just to find parking. Scores of people had spilled into the street and filled up the Red Room and an old building across the road that Globe rented out. The space was pretty spooky actually with this weird basement that resembled something you would see in a slasher flick. There had to be bodies down there...which is perfectly appropriate for a Gonz bash.
The boys were in rare form when I arrived and I had a BLAST raging with the man of the hour Gonz and Rowley, Luan, Langi, Caples, Lopez (Jr. and Sr.), Baron, Ewan Bowman, Steve Black and our girl...hard charger Lisa Kidd.
Again I didn't take pics but just shot a few of the space that Globe set up in the abandoned building across the way...lots of weird shrines, candles, darkness, evil...all the good stuff...see below. 
Come pray at the Church of Gonz! Somewhere in a deep dark moldy basement in the LBC evil spirits are released into the world to wreak havoc on mankind.
Wall-o-shoe-doo. Come pray to the Gonzales pro model...this skate shoe is tech and it looks good and if you buy it my client makes some pesos. Get them at Globe.tv.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
For the Ladies - Runningwithheels e-mag
If you have an iPad (hey RWH send an iPad so I can shill for you more...or at least the shoes I promised...cough cough), I suggest downloading the new issue on Feb. 7th. RWH is taking fashion media to new heights and is pretty much placing the last nail in the coffin of print publications.
Check it out:
Manhattan-based set designer Nikole Nelson brought a new meaning to spring creating these flowers out of shoes for RWH iPad magazine spring issue. Deconstructing over 50 pairs of heels, she created four feature flowers that are part of the magazines interactive feature. Photographed by William Brinson, this exclusive is well worth a look.
RWH Spring Issue is due for release February 7, 2011: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rwh-magazine/id398263578?mt=8
Check out EXPOSE NY alum Zoe Twitt on the cover!
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