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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Business as usual

Continuing on from where I last left off in my last post regarding hats, Sharon and I are back from the short trip down to LA. Visiting various locations seemed to be on our priority list once again before pleasure. On our journey down to the home land of the Los Angeles Lakers, Sharon and I had interesting discussions pertaining to the launch of Series2. Being our normal and crazy selves as usual, we're going to take a little bit of a different approach in terms of how are animations/films will be affiliated with our 'scenario' based shirts. I can't even begin to tell you how creative and "out-of-the-box" we are going to get with the upcoming release in a few months.

Aside from the many topics that were talked about during the whole trip, we managed to get a lot of things done. And, Yes I'll talk about the hats in a just a sec. I'll start off by saying we encountered some of the coolest people and places once again. On our first night, we had a pretty lengthy conversation with our waiter over at the Omni Hotel (Thank you, Fatima!) in downtown LA by the name of "Tim" whom by the way is currently seeking a position with the California Highway Patrol. Of all things, we talked about "Trance" music and how much we still loved it. I can't recall how we got on this topic, but once it came about, that was it. We talked about how we loved to hear the sounds produced by DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold as well as Paul van Dyk and every time we hear something from these guys, it just puts us in a zone and in a world of our own. While still in downtown, we managed to pass by the "Museum of Contemporary Art." One of the most intriguing things that was here was a sculpture of various plane pieces/parts (image below). Very Cool!

OK, so back to the hats. we took a trip over to to the Flexfit corporate office (images below) down in "Fullerton" to meet up with our rep "Sandra." We went over the details of the hat design as well as amongst other things. The design of the prototype wasn't too bad, but after seeing it, I had other intentions/ideas (as usual). So, being a very AWESOME and understanding person that Sandra is, she and her team will look into the considerations and revise it. "THANK YOU, Sandra!" She gave me our first prototype that's associated with the 6210 style and I must say this hat is N I C E! It's well fitted and comfortable just like the NewEra 5950, but it's stretchable. So, stay tuned...hats are on the way!

Back on the road to meet up with a few video bloggers for purposes that are beneficial to us and hopefully advantageous to them, we dreadfully were confronted by the worst LA traffic that we've ever experienced during the many times we've visited. Armed yet again with mouthfulls of Sprinkles Cupcakes and listening to Linkin Park, Fort Minor, Sublime, Bob Marley, Black Moon, Black Star as well as the 90's era Hip Hop tracks and of course DJ Tiesto, we sat in hours and hours of traffic (images below). I think I drove across every highway within Los Angeles County with the exception of the 610. From downtown LA to Fullerton to Beverly Hills, all the way down to Anaheim to Paramount and Long Beach back across to Pasadena and Burbank then back to LA was a freakin' mess! Looking on the brighter side, however, one of the video bloggers/internet entertainers I wanted to address is by the name of "Timothy Delaghetto." A young and interesting fellow from Paramount, CA. who has is own YouTube Channel. With over 24,000 subscribers and over thousands of views for every video he's ever put out to the public, Timothy is definitely a creator and innovator of his own kind. Keep doing what your doing, Timothy! Plug Bastard & Friends whenever means necessary.

MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art)

The plane sculpture at MOCA

Flexfit Corporation

Flexfit front desk

Inside Flexfit

You have got to be kidding me...traffic at 1pm!

Horrendous LA traffic


Jonathan (Bastard & Friends)