Another place in the bay area for the hypebeasts to cop stuff, I’m not really into allover print stuff but I’ll definitely go check it out when I’m in the area…

We are pleased to announce the start of “Premier Boutique”, the Bay Area’s newest sneaker/streetwear store. Premier is located in San Jose, California. The address is 700 S. Winchester Blvd. Suite 50. Our phone number is 408-423-9022. The store is located around 2-3 blocks from Valley Fair Mall and the Santana Row shops. The nearest freeway access is off 280 South-Winchester Blvd exit or 880 -Stevens Creek Exit. Please click on the STORE INFO section for better directions from different sections of the Bay Area.

The grand opening is Friday, Nov 24th at 12 Noon. This is Black Friday…the day after Thanksgiving. Join us for food, live dj, giveaways, and more. It should be a great event.The store will carry major footwear brands such as Reebok, Alife, New Balance, Bathing Ape (yes real ones), Adidas, Puma (coming in late 2006), Asics/Onitsuka Tiger (coming in 2007), Undr-Crwn, + more.

In addition to specializing in these fine footwear brands, we also have many great clothing lines such as: 10 Deep, Crooks & Castles, Addict, No Mas, Undr-Crwn, J Money, Mama, One Hit Wonder, Triumvir, Fresh Jive, Acapulco Gold, Instant Winner, + tons more. Premier will also carry a nice assortment of books, dvd’s, toys, and accesories. We hope to set a great standard for stores in the South Bay Area.

Link

technorati tags:premier boutique, hypebeast, sneakers, streetwear, sk8, skateboarding

Blogged with Flock

When you’re in Guangzhou, China it doesn’t take very long to get the feeling that Monokuro Boo, a character brand consisting of a pair of minimalist cartoon pigs (one black, one white), has just usurped Hello Kitty as the pop icon of choice for the locals. Monokuro Boo has taken over Chinese fashion accessories, umbrellas, shower caps, windshields, pillows and any other thing with a fairly flat or round surface. Three main reasons for this:

1. the pigs are quite cute,
2. they’re simple to draw and can therefore be drawn on anything,
3. they’re simple to replicate and can therefore be pirated by anybody.

The case of Monokuro Boo in China brings up some interesting issues for minimalism in China. The art and challenge in minimalism is the representation of an object with the least amount of detail as possible. Minimalism is all about stripping something down to its fundamental core. In real world practice this usually means that while this is very difficult creative work, the physical manifestation of it is both beautiful and very easy to copy.Monokuro Boo’s tagline is “simple is best.” But… will piracy change this sentiment?

PSFK: Pirates Love Sanrio Pigs

technorati tags:pig, pigs

Blogged with Flock

TNPI – Do it Yourself .mac

This is pretty cool, I’ve wanted to get mod_dav installed on my server for a while now but never got to it, this prompted me to install it and now I just need to configure it…

technorati tags:.mac, apache, mod_dav, webdav

Blogged with Flock