December 08 Archive

This year traveling for the holidays was a lot of the same. Gingerbread hangovers, bar fights with southern locals, and 11am drinking curfews. We're back.

Introducing the Muggd'. Smoothed rubber vulcanized wrap, leather toe cap, canvas upper, gum rubber sole, lined with leather. Take a picture.

The good friends at Warp Magazine just featured a few of us in the Los Angeles section of the world snap shot. Check out Cottrell, Brian, Jerry, Rico and I haha.. Also, the Stampd' LA's Cottrell and I are rockin, stay tuned for releases..

Life has some amazing pictures. Here are 9 of 10 million.

You might have seen our good friend Yari on a few previous posts like Gardend' or Smurkey Day but he just made the trip home to Osaka for the Holidays. Before he left I made sure to get him some of our stickers, little did I know he would set the standards extremely high for our street team.. Here's a glimpse into some of Yari's doings, be sure to check back for more post our new site launch.

Inspired from a late 80's Duffle bag this shoe features a smoothed rubber vulcanized wrap, leather toe cap, canvas upper, gum rubber sole and is lined with leather. Get in line.

The homies at Lova just relaunched their site, go check it here. These pics of their new collection are dope, I posted some here and intertwined em' with a few behind the scenes shots of Giuseppe, Dan and Nik doing the Stampd' LA shoot. They wear the Numberd'.

It rains, get's so cold in your office that you can't feel your legs, and then you wake up the next day, it's 70 degrees out and there's more traffic than when Critical Mass holds up your intersection for 45 minutes. But hey, it's December and it's 70 degrees out.

This guy makes it look colder than it really is..

In New Yo I think it's 35 degrees out, uh yea 35.

But I mean, when you go to the post office it's like going to a liquor store in South Central. I don't even think the banks around here are this protected.

Mailing samples to China isn't exactly a walk in the park..

But hey, it's December and it's 70 Degrees out.

Yesterday I stopped by my homie Gabes spot to rap it up about the new Stampd' LA Corner Man project and slowly got sucked into the amount of art paraphernalia lingering around his pad. From one off Shepard Fairey pieces to super dusty Kid Robot toys, it made me realize the amount of art i don't have..

While working with Gabe a few years back doing in-store painting events for Toms shoes, I stole one of his 6 x 10 canvases, then he stole my digital camera, then we became friends. It's really the only way to get in with super angry graffiti artists.

Gabe in one of his pre anger laugh spasms

Every fridge has a stor, you could say this one has a bit more than that..

Some of the guests have helped draw self portraits and the such. I think that's Gabe bottoms left, looks identical. fail.

It rained dust on all these poor dudes.

One of eleven. Three of thirteen. Who said anything about doing a series of twelve ?

Hamburger, Check. Dust, Check.

Fork, Check.

I love this book.

One of the more amazing stickers I've seen lately, something that only a Californian would appreciate..

Just in, 3 thousand of these things.

With deadlines encroaching and 09' right around the corner, our intern Nico has been able to help lend a hand the past few weeks. From starting our street team globally and staying up to date with our facebook and myspace accounts he has his hands full. Yesterday I put him in front of the camera to show off his new purchase.. He wears the Duffld'.

Going through your hard drive after a month of taking pictures, drinking soda, and designing shoes you find a few pics that you might have past the first time around.

Also, photography gets us going. Get stoked, stay inspired.

Videos of this caliber do it too.. It's cold in the D.

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With Spring 09 right around the corner, we've been leaking pictures of our entire collection.. Here we show a glimpse into the latest look book, featuring our six styles and 10 of LA's up and coming.. Stay on the look for a more detailed look into the shoes, and the people behind them..

Our good friend Take ( founder of Flight Club Tokyo ) recently made his trip across Europe with a few Stampd' LA's in hand. I grabbed a couple pics from Take's Blog druing his meeting with the Patta guys in Amsterdam. Lookout for us in western Europe come mid 09'.

The initial stages of our magazine are coming to fruition.. Some of the inspiration comes from varying sources.. Stay tuned for a in depth look into the Stampd' LA lifestyle..

We're doing a party this Saturday in Osaka Japan. We're sponsoring it along with Joyrich, WESC, Dim Mak, and one of our new accounts Dog. Mooshi Mooshi

Yari was cruizin around downtown LA today in the Gardend'. What traffic.. ?

Uffie in one of the latest issues of NO Magazine

Sometimes your just in the mood to take pictures of food. Noa was able to help make today,? just one of those days.

Sometimes it's better to get the point across sideways.

Yesterday hung with a few familiar faces for the shooting of the next Elle Girl Japan, in and around the Melrose area.. I helped dial Chris, Cory, and Cody in with their pretty. Stay tuned for the sister in the next issue, and for Chris and Cody's debut in the new Stampd' LA Spring 09' campaign..

Miko Lim