Its like a jungle sometimes...

Went to this shitty bar on Cuenga the other night, just to chill with some good LA crew i have met. The dude on the door was funny as shit. Wouldnt stop mentioning his brother, like every 2 seconds. Then he asked me if i knew grinspoon. Dudes coolness quickly lapsed. Swear to god every rocker dude i meet out here thinks that people actually like that band. Rad..

Got drunk, met a giant girl out the front on a cigarette break. She was annoying and told me she was from Philidelphia. I told her that i thought it was discusting the way that her people treated Tom Hanks. She didnt get it.



Sponsored a fashion show last night and sort of the grand opening of a hair salon that is underneath the office. Heaps of chicken, heaps of mac and cheese. Pretty rad. Did a couple of canvas prints up for auction, the event was a charity thing for the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Made me think of that song from little shop of horrors.

















ended up hanging out in the Sneaktip offices after the show, they are just down the hall. Checked out the new range samples, Marlon has his shit on lockdown. Good dude, good hustle. Ended up hitting the HUF and DVS party down next door to canters on Fairfax. Drinks were a lot cheaper than most places. Got suitably drunk. Ended up raging with dudes from the Hundreds and a bunch of other good labels. A black girl out the front of the bar told us we had no respect cos we were drinking on the street. Kurt wrote her off. ate pizza. cabbed home.

Need to get a snapper so i can get general party photos. 350d isnt too travel friendly. My Blackjack takes shitty snaps too.

Walked down melrose the other day and came across a bunch of flyers pasted to street posts. I love how this guy really tries to sell his whole pitch by writing pizza and movies on the top and bottom of the flyer. Latino asian and white girls were cuing up to call this dude. Smooooth.



The exchange rate is kicking my ass so hard here. Plus the fact that ANZ the nazi bank are giving me an exchange rate on my credit card that is around the 62c mark, when the rest of the world seems to be bouncing around the 72c mark. Gunna have to sort something out.

My cousin in Manchester just hooked me up with tickets to Utd vs Tottenham at Old Trafford. Siiiiked.

Ben Ashley is becoming less and less contactable. Possible bail out on europe. Hoping not because solo european travellers often end up at that place from the Hostel movies, or even worse on Contiki. Rough.

Had a great piss on hollywood and highland. thought it was worth photographing.



Just saw the lineup for bamboozle. Think i might hit it up before i bail LA. Bronx, Parkway, Have Heart, Thrice and a bunch of shit across 2 days. Really wanna see bronx in LA, even if it is at an emo festival (that is headlined by 50 cent....)

gang death

Decided to go for a walk and take some snaps last night. Bout 930pm I walked from the office, down Melrose, up Fairfax then took a right on Sunset. Didnt know that sunset was sketchy as shit. Walked straight into about 5 latino gangsters. Shit was real. Thought it was a wrap for me. They stalked me for about 20 minutes then i ducked into a few stores and came out and they would be waiting and shit. Ended up at Burger King getting a feed and they came in and tried to hustle me. Not siked. Bailed to starbucks. International house of safety. Wont be doing that walk again. damn.

Anyway heres some shots.

Oh i went out last night and kelly osborne was sitting next to us in some dive bar. Then i bought a hat this morning and jeremy piven (ari gold) was checking out glasses in the same store. Viva los angeles.









Just planned eurotrip. Going to be in London / Manchester/ Coventry from April 12 - May 2 then meet up with the notorious ben ashley to hit the following

amsterdam
berlin
prague
munich
venice
rome
milan
lauterbrennan
nice
barcelona
madrid
ibiza
paris
tokyo
melbourne

then back to good old perth to get my US visa sussed and juggle a few other things. Should be home around June 10 i think

If united make the european cup final i will definately be heading to Rome for late may too.

Trying to hook up old trafford tickets at the moment for while im in Manchester.

peace out homies.

life and crimes

where to fucking start.



LA is crazy, i say this shit all the time but the pace of things here is ridiculous. Not even in a lame way, just in the fact that everyone is doing somehting interesting, everyone is super nice and everyone is keen to get you involved in cool shit.

I cant even remember what I have posted on here so im just going to blurt out shit.

Went out to the echoplex and met a bunch of super cool people. Ended up hanging out with Isis and Graem from thunderheist. They killed it at the show and me and kurt just pretty much walked back stage, i started putting masking tape on everyone, ended up hanging at their hotel talking shit and getting high. Check em out, they make good songs and stuff. This photo popped up on the net, the dude in the front was good value, he runs a lot of shit here as far as partys go, we didnt know this, so kurt kept putting his finger over the tattoo on the dudes chest so that it said ROUBLE instead of TROUBLE. Everyone was calling him roubles. He wasnt siked, everyone else was. Tough break. Ended up hanging out with the futurecop dudes too. They played music that sounded like the soundtrack to old atari games. Good dudes, from manchester. One looked like he was a doctor.



First three weeks here i went out every single night. Theres always something going on. Met some good crew, ate a lot of shit, drank a lot of jack daniels. I cant drink vodka in this country, its too strong. Call me a pussy but vomiting on people at the bar isnt cool anywhere. Went pretty nuts with the holga, but i think the flash is out of sync so its now being used strictly as a day cam.
Been drinking at a bar called Birds. Its pretty cool, the chic that owns it is old and mental and ets on the bar with a hula hoop all the time. Ended up playing some fucked up drinking game with a couple of friends and the door man there, ended badly. It was a monday. Didnt quite get back on track till thurs.



went to a gallery show that sheppard fairey had shit at. Think hes pretty over rated. maybe not hm, but his style is everywhere now. Like evvvverywhere. So u see one of his originals and it looks tired as shit. Sucks to be him.

Pretty keen to get an apartment near hollywood blvd. Theres heaps of old loft style places with like fire escape balconys and shit. Good place. Took these shots from that area
Henney wasnt mine, some G must have left it there. Pity i missed it.







Went to vegas on tuesday for Magic and Project, made heaps of good hookups. Vegas is fucking nuts, didnt really take many photos. Its like a theme park, heaps of cheap shit and good partys.
So heres how it went down, the dude from Sneaktip works in the office block here, came over and said come down to vegas, we got a stall etc. So we busted out some work and left the next day. The whole idea was to go see Kid Cudi play the Famous DCMA party on tues night. Anyway, we dont get in till like 2am on wed morning, drove through the desert. Looked like the set from These hills Have Eyes. It was creepy as shit. Missed the party. Anyyyway. The next night i meet this bad ass gangster looking vatos out the front of the Bellagio. One of them has a mr cartoon piece on his arm. These guys were fucking bad ass looking, but i ended up chatting to them about mr cartoon, australia, magic etc etc. They were cool as shit. Annnyway, one of them tells me that he was at the Kid Cudi party the night before. Said that dude killed it and it was the best night in vegas. Then he tells me that Michael Jordan was there just chillin like it was no thing. Michael Jordan. Shit. Worst missed party ever.

Anyway, made heaps of contacts at project. Hit some crazy partys. Scammed into the Undefeated party and saw Atrak killing it. No one gave a shit, was super lame. Dude was on it.

Hit the Wesc party at the venitian. it was shit.

Ended up at the Hudson jeans party and creative republic or something. Was fucking huge. massive massive pool, huge club, like 4000 people. Hangin out by the pool and 2 kids from perth just walk up. Crazy. Ended up raging with them into the whee hours. Got hustled into a strip club. Ripped off. Fuck vegas.











My good friend and bullshit designer Callum arrived in LA a couple of days later. Hes heading off on tour with Ceremony next week but we are gunna rage LA for sure. Was good to hang out with a good dude on the other side of the world. check him out here. www.callumpreston.com

Went to a party at this guys house cos one of kurts friends knows him



was right up in the hills, the sort of place where you look out over LA and know how rich you are. He's on ER or something.

Met some girls, they were cool, turned out they were the cast of the new 90210 series. Then found out that the girl we actually went with is one of the Bratz. Crazy shit. Didnt know either of the shows but people were jocking the shit out of them. I stole some face moisturiser from the house. Sort of feel bad about it. But needed some momento. you can take the guy out of perth but....

Running out of money. Doin heaps of aus work though Should be sweet. may sell crack. Will watch 50 cent movie to suss out the logistics of it all. Will make the turn on to crenshaw



Smoking way too much. Parlaiments are the one.

Drank some grape drink. Was rad.



Redbull comes in half litre cans.


The above post is totally out of chronological order.

queens get money.

peas out

Hmmm

So there is MS13 graffiti on my street. Pretty keen not to get killed.

Just saw the old dude from entourage that hates ari and wanted to make that ramones movie. He looked drunk, but im pretty sure thats just the way he rolls.

Chris Brown, Police Chases and party life

This place is pretty fucking crazy. Everything rages every night like its a weekend. Even to the point that the weekend is quieter than the average night. Bars shut at 2am and then everyone just rages on to an afterparty, usually in the hills at some mansion with a valet and shit. Im tripping balls.

Cigarettes are mad cheap here too, i just bought a carton of 15 packs of marlboro lights for $30US. Cheers america, siked on cancer. I saw a car chase on the tele last night and everyone thought it was Chris Brown. The dude ended up topping himself which was pretty sad. It was about 3 blocks from my office.



Been working like a demon, 12 hour days minimum really. Just knocked out a catalogue and range for a company in Aus called Valyside. Delby took the photos, came up dope. Cant wait to see it printed.


Its my brothers birthday today, hes pretty rad. Bummed i dont get to rage with him at Dorcia this week. Sorta missing that shit. And being able to go for a run, or walk around at night without the fear of murder. Heres a photo of danny eating a kebab. he hell likes kebabs.




Melrose is pretty tame as far as gangs and shit go, but someone got held at gunpoint last week at the bottom of my stairs at like 930am. Dont rob me motherfuckers. Please.

I recon if someone pulled a gun on me i would be pretty scared. Standard.

Kurt smokes heaps of weed. And is going to be hell dark on me for saying that.

Thinking about getting an apartment on hwood bvd. Its awesome. Not siked on floor sleeps. Crashed on many couches lately.

Been snapping like a demon with the lomo ash got me.







Pasteups start this week

Its fucking cold. No shit.

California never rains. who told me that. lier!

peas.

aiit so im finding my feet over here.

I just won an international design award from idesign for the Haidace Catalogue i did back in early 2008. The awards are in LA while im here. So... party all the time.

I just bought a plant for my office. Its nice.

shit is freaking me out a bit here. In a good way mostly.

99c store is like as big as bunnings. And sells pretty much everything. They lie though cos we found a pez despenser that was marked at 1.49. liars.

Homeless people are actually pretty funny. Not in a "laugh at the homeless guy" way, more in their general outlook on life and their banter. I had a cigarette with a guy with 3 teeth and face tattoos today, he was cool as shit. I have started photographing homeless people and hookers with the Lomo ash gave me. May die.

My pasteups start next week, we are going to buy a single colour print machine real cheap tomorrow. siked. this guy is killing it here, but he is a bit shit.




Theres a whole bunch of jock dudes here. worst. Saw the biggest cock block of all time at Best Buy. There was a small jewish guy trying to pull this amazing brazillian chick, helping her with digital tv receivers or something. He was overachieving like a motherfucker, and the girl was actually responding pretty well, then just as he is about to go for the number this Jock dude from like 5 metres away strikes up this big conversation with her and steals her away. Jewish man was so off it. I was just watching it like it was reality tv.


Fast food. Everywhere, 24 hours, $1 menu at macdonalds, In n Out burger.

Its impossible to stay fit: Dont run at night or ull die.
Just stay home and eat ur $1 menu

The smell of weed is in the air constantly. Its legalised here if u have a medicinal card. U can get one from any doctor in california if you claim to have insomnia. Then u can go to stores and buy weed.




The people across the hall from us have directed pretty much every video on MTV, beyonce, britney, kings of leon. im doing work for them now. They are like 25. Its ridiculous.


Nick Cannon is in the same office block as our office. He is married to Mariah Carey and wears suits that are too big for him.


Parlaiment cigarettes are amazing



I went to the opening party of some new apartment building last night. Drank organic vodka. It was all free. Prices for he apartments start at $2m. I was in vans and a flanno. Everyone elses hair was slicked back. Me and the bar guy hit it off. Everyone else thoguht i had snuck in. Got rowdy, told some girls that no one in america has real names. they were called Telesha and something or other.

Going to see justice tonight and heading to fucked up and trash talk tomorrow night.

Went to hermosa beach last week. It was so good. sort of what scarborough should be but isnt.




The woman kurt is friends with is some major PR chick and was talking to Katy Perry on AOL yesterday. She passed on a "wassup" message to her for me.

Im trying to scam my way into the grammys on sat night.


fun times

peace out

i started a blog...

Alright so Im pretty against blogs. You know when one of your friends gets on and spills his emo thoughts about the world like he is typing in a diary. Im pretty off it. Me and most of the people I know laugh at those people, even talk about killing them. And yet here I am, setting up a blogspot and talking to it like its the closing scenes of Doogie Howser MD. Fuck that show was cool.

Anyways, I have been posting myspace bulletins etc and making various facebook updates on my status about what I am up to at the moment, so heres another way i can publicise my mediocre existance to you, my friends or whoever has a boring enough life to read about mine.

But hey, im travelling, i have a couple of cameras and people are interested in this shit. So fuck you and your judgements man. My dad told me yesterday that I should stop swearing on facebook so im going to tone it down a little, however this is my life blog so i can say whatever without parental pressure.