Downtown LA

Kurts lease is up at the start of April, just before I bail this fair country into the abyss that is Europe. We went downtown the other day to check out some loft apartments. Basically there are about 4 or 5 blocks of apartments that are brand new. They were stock exchange buildings from the 50's taht have been boarded up for years, now they have been gutted and are being sold as very cool apartments. They all have rooftop pools and most have some of the best views i have ever seen. The one he is going to go for is about 11 stories up and has a gargoyle on the ledge out the front. I fely like Lex Luther being in there looking out over LA. These spots are all cheaper than what i pay in rent back home too. Its nuts.















Downtown is sketchy as shit though, i was really feeling the vibe of the place but its gang central apparently. Went to Estevan Oriols exhibition the other day on Melrose and stood for about an hour as his prints rolled past on this hanging conveyor thing. Nothing short of amazing, but definately makes you realise that you are in one of the most dangerous places in the world. A lot of his stuff is shot downtown, I liken the landscape to a massive version of St Georges Terrace, lots of grey and a lot of tall buildings, really fucking liked the area.



Hit another party in the hills on Friday night. Fucking hilarious. We went out and got margaritas at some mexican joint on sunset, then headed up to a friends house in the hills. The guy has just moved here from NYC and it was like his first day in this house. We drove up into the hills looking for his place, ended up at the top of the hollywood hills, you couldnt go any further. The view of the city from up there is almost 360 degrees. The city just keeps going and going. Annnyway. We get in touch with the dude and realise we are pretty much standing in his front yard. His house was next door to David Beckhams old place in the hills. So we walk in past a couple of BMW's and some expensive looking older car and are met by this Jewish dude. He is an actor and a friend of a friend. I really wish i had a video camera for the whole hour or so we were there. Basically, me, 2 guys and a girl rock up to a party of about 20 people. People are drinking and dancing in the living room. There is a balcony that looks over most of LA. I decide to give myself a tour and realise that this house is 7 stories high. Every level is the same, wooden floors, plasma TV's huge bathrooms etc. And every single level is empty. I recon i could have moved in nd the dude wouldnt have even known.

Anyway, go back up to the party just in time for the host to make a speech. It was like something from a movie. He got up on a bench of some sort and raised his red plastic cup, began talking about how we were all together on this journey and it has just begun. There will be partys and bla bla bla, but he was so into it, i could tell he had practiced his speech. I was tripping out cos i seemed to be the only one that thought this was the lamest thing i had ever seen. Then the dude just starts dancing and really staring at everyone around him. Like dancing like a queer but super seriously and looking at everyone as if they are blown away by his moves. His glances were mostly captured by the huge wall sized mirror that was at the far end of the living room. He was pretty much putting on a show for himself. Awesome. It was sort of like this



Some guy with an australian accent came up and started telling me he was from melbourne, I asked him where abouts in melbourne and how long he had been out for, and he said "just kidding, im an actor, thats my australian accent". Dickhead.

Played drums last night for a friends band at rehearsal. Im not a drummer. My 3 beats got me through the jam though. Now i have blisters cos im a gay. Went outside for a smoke and met a dude called "Crazy Chrome". Dude was off his head, big black guy, kept bumping chests with me and calling me his n**ger. Wanted me to smoke a blunt with him, but i bailed on it cos, well he was insane, and his name was crazy chrome.

Trying to plan europe now, think im gunna have to cut tokyo and melbs off the list due to lack of cashish. Maybe if clients started paying me i could holiday forever.

If your in europe or the uk from April 9 - June 8ish then hit me up.

Oh yeh, ust pulled some images off of my blackjack phone.


New England Clam Chowder... Is it the red or the white? - i found it funny.


I wish i could come up with some witty tagline for this. Preggo? what the fuck.


The finest beverage in America. Addict.


Theres heaps of Australian shit over here that I always get asked about. Do you drink Fosters, Do New Zealanders really hate you, Do you eat at Outback Steakhouse (a chain over here), so I was buying cigarettes this morning and saw this. Boomerang Vodka. Its so legit it even has a kangaroo on it. I bet this is what steve irwin drank before touching Crocodiles.


peace.

Ben Ashley...

Ben Ashley flaked out on Europe. Pretty sure he is one of maybe 6 people that actually read this so this post is dedicated to him, and his lack of ability to come to Europe. This photo isnt modified, he actually got strangely twisted during childbirth, he makes the most of life but.



So I am now going to hit Europe solo. My chances of being accosted and tortured may have gone up by about 600% but now I get to do whatever I want without having to worry about anyone elses feelings. Would have been a party travelling with Ash but i gotta make the most out of the cards that are dealt.

Im sort of bummed that I have to leave LA. Still got another month or so but this place is pretty rad. there are pros and cons but theres so much shit going on here its going to be hard to go back and chill in perth without feeling even boreder than I did before. Will definately be looking into the US visa, even if just to bounce between LA and Aus.

anyway, theres some funny shit that happens here, i have witnessed a bunch of it.

Went to the cinema to see Slumdog Millionare last night. Yep it was rad, just like everyone said. Saw it at the Arclight cinema in hollywood. Shit is crazy, it looks like the domestic terminal at Perth airport. When you go to see a movie a girl comes out before the movie starts and gives you a run down on the director and shit then everyone claps. Rad.

TV over here is almost completely programmed and written whilst on acid. I swear to god the whole random humour thing has been taken to an absolute extreme. I barely understand any of it, but people watch it and just pretend they are so messed up that they get it and I dont because im not as cool as them. Like the Tim and Eric : Awesome show, great job. Sort of funny, mainly shit.

Went to a bar called Sky Bar on Sunset the other night. It was the coolest place i have ever been. Bar around a pimped out pool, little booths and couches and shit. Then i got home and was listening to Nas and he rapped about it. Yeh, thats how cool it was. Didnt see nas there. pretty bummed.

went to the comedy shop or factory or some shit. Its mad famous apparently. The dude in there was shit, there was about 5 people in the crowd and he started trying to pick on me. I bailed. That dude gets paid to make fun of people, I just do it as a hobby, chances are he was way better at it than I, plus he had a mic and amplification. And a stage. You cant compete with that, even if the dude is bald and shit.

My mate Adam is going to be a famous actor. Life is sort of like the first season of entourage for him at the moment. I cant figure out if im Drama or Turtle. Will get back to you. This is him.



Kurt got all his hair cut off and looks like a 12 year old boy.

I started boxing downstairs from the office. Dudes name is Tiger and he was an olympic champion for Nigeria. He is Gwen Stefanis personal trainer. I realised that I probably drop celebrity names on here and sound like a twat. So im just oging to get them all out at once. Its hollywood, celebrities live here, they are totally unentertaining in real life. The evil Madden brothers train downstairs, so does the fat dude from csi miami. Tommy Lee parked outside work the other week and took him and Pamela andersons son out around melrose. All the dudes from Nick Canons Wil'in out are around the place all the time. Everytime you mention that cholo photographer everyone refers to him as their homey, Ari gold was in the sunglasses shop the other day (he didnt say boom, not once) pretty sure I saw TI in vegas, but was pretty drunk and it could have been any swarve black dude with sunnies on. The old dude from entrourage is a drunk and lurks around the place. Kanye and Puffy were in the club near our house the other night, i wasnt. Cobra snake allegedly photographs around the place but i havent seen him or his jewish afro. I was in a club the other week and there was a guy as tall as me so i danced up next to him, joking that he was Kobe, turns out he did play for the lakers but wasnt Kobe. That chick from American Beauty and American Pie was eating in the burger joint 2 seats away from me the other week. I thought about hugging her but bailed on the idea. Kelly Osborne is short and stumpy and I saw her in a bar, The whole cast of the new 90210 were at a party at that other doosh celebrities house. That dude from Van Wilder that is a drunk and says "The radest fucking dude alive" or something was at a house party too the other week, I was eating lunch the other day and that little whiney loser shitbag singer from Yellowcard was sitting at the table next to me. I wanted to say something about his shitty band and their nu metal looking drummer but i couldnt string the words together. The dude that is the voice of the rat from Ratatoulle was drinking at the same bar as me the other night, i cant remember how I have that information. I think thats abotu it to be honest, not all that inspiring. They seem to eat and drink too.

Hollywood is mad dirty and unsafe. Hollywood is a raging party with heaps of super legit people making shit happen. Pretty huge contrast.

Im about to go to the launch party for a high budget Porno. Random.

Doing some work for a lady who worked on the HOPE campaign for Obama with Sheppard Fairy. She gets to meet the president soon, I dont.

Changed my flights today to fly to London on April 9 instead of April 12 so that I can see Poison the Well at the Barfly on April 10. Siiiiiiked.

Meeting up with Fab on my birthday in Amsterdam then going to hang with him in Milan. Now i will be the foreigner that everyone takes the piss out of's accent. Shoe will be firmly on the other foot. Hopefully i dont tell any italians that i will "blow them" as fab did illuding to the fact that he would "blow them up, as in kill them". Fingers Crossed. This is Fab with me when i was made of cardboard.





This is a rant. Probably doesnt make much sense.

Hope everyone at home is livin well.

muchos lovos.

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.