11.15.2010
Monsoon Jacket
“Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by seasonal changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea. Usually, the term monsoon is used to refer to the rainy phase of a seasonally-changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase.” That definition is a little on the academic side, Monsoons are one of the most powerful forces of nature bring both high winds and heavy rains. Luckily, we here on the west coast don’t have to don’t have to endure a ...
11.15.2010
Terrington Jacket
“It’s a cold world out there. Sometimes I feel like I’m getting a little frosty myself.” So says Meg in Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 classic, The Big Chill. As November ushers in Fall Meg’s quote takes on a more literal meaning as the temperature dips when the sun sets one hour earlier than it did just a few days earlier. While we may not see the leaves change colors and fall in Los Angeles we do have our own version of this autumnal right of passage: the falling of the palm fronds. On those windy nights that shake the fronds from ...
11.8.2010
Seniority Cardigan
Perched on the hill top of Griffith Park just east of the Hollywood sign, sits LA’s gateway to the stars, Griffith Observatory. Opening in 1935, on lands donated by Col. Griffith, the observatory has been an iconic part of Los Angeles’ landscape ever since. Griffith Observatory was made famous by its appearance in Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause. It is at the observatory that the story’s tale of teenage angst and alienation has some of its most violent and memorable sequences, e.g. Jim’s knife fight with Buzz, and Plato’s standoff with the police. After being remodeled in 2003, Griffith ...
11.8.2010
Windwarmer Pullover
Zuma Beach is possibly one of SoCal’s most famous beaches. The subject of both song and story, Zuma is known round the world for both its surf and long, wide sandy beaches. Just southeast of Zuma is the less well known Point Dume. Named after Francisco Dumetz of Mission San Buenaventura by George Vancouver in 1793, Point Dume was misspelled on Vancouver’s map and has never been corrected. Where Zuma has the surf, Dume has the rocks and inlets that make for great beach walking and rock climbing. The tide creates sandy shelves on the beach from which one can ...
11.8.2010
Prize-Winning Graphics
Celebrating the work of 45 award winning designers from art exhibitions from across the nation, Prize-Winning Graphics serves as an excellent reference book for the field of graphic design. While this book won’t teach you how to be an artist, it will help inspire talented individuals to reach greater levels of self expression.
$30, phone orders available. Call the shop at (323) 651-0131.
11.8.2010
Vinyl Meltdown No. 16
Israel “Cachao” Lopez – The Art Of The Cuban Jam Session
Joey Altruda presents a special program of music featuring Israel “Cachao” Lopez. One of Altruda’s favorite musicians, Cachao was an iconic bassist, composer, arranger, and stylist; credited with creating the Mambo, as well as Descarga (Cuban for jam session).
His career spanned over seven decades including a Grammy Award-winning CD and documentary produced and directed by actor Andy Garcia. This episode is sizzlin’ hot!
Tracklist:
Avance Juvenil
Trombon Criollo
Descarga Guajira
Goza Mi Trompeta
Descarga Mexicana
Alomost Like Being In Love
Sopress La Flauta
La Inconclusa
La Floresta
Guajira De Saxos
Leche Con Ron
El Nino Toca El Tres
Descarga Cubana
Las Boinas De Cachao
Papa bajo
Milonga ...
11.1.2010
Big Wet T-Shirt
The inspiration for t-shirt graphics come from a variety of places: album covers, classic brand logos, and in some cases magazines. For Warriors of Radness, WET was one such magazine. Based out of Los Angeles, WET was truly ahead of its time both in its graphic layout and its content. Founded by Leonard Koren in the mid-seventies, WET began as an homage to “gourmet bathing,” but over 34 issues expanded its reach to cover a variety of cultural issues. While the Big Wet t-shirt bares the magazines signature logo, the Warriors of Radness line owes as much to the magazines ...
11.1.2010
Dead Kings T-Shirt
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.” These words were famously penned by the innovator of Gonzo journalism himself, Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas may be his most well-known work, due largely in part to Johnny Deep and Terry Gilliam (and to a lesser extent Bill Murray); Thompson actually had a rather extraordinary life before the madness in the desert that week. While Freshjive’s Dead Kings T bares this memorable passage ...
11.1.2010
My Eyes Have Seen
Traveling across the U.S during the 60’s, Bob Fitch was on the front lines to witness many of the cultural moments that defined the 60’s. Told through a series of black and white shots, My Eyes Have Seen gives readers an unparalleled look into the lives of the people that were at the foundation of the nonviolent movement for peace and justice in America. An incredible body of work, Fitch’s work is something that should be experienced by anyone looking to understand what life was like in the 60’s.
$90, phone orders available. Call the shop at (323) 651-0131.
10.25.2010
Contrast Shirt
Face it, sometimes we all have to wear a button up shirt. Whether it’s for a court date, a prom date, a due date, or just plain a old Friday night date date, we have to man up and throw on something other than a Vicodin t-shirt. Freshjive made the Contrast Shirt for just these occasions. With details such as a collar that defies the standard fair, and it’s two-tone color scheme, the Contrast Shirt is grown up enough to let the judge know he can trust you, but still edgy enough that her parents won’t.
10.25.2010
Bags Pant
Dr. Dre once famously said, “Still rock my khakis with a cuff and a crease.” Well, Warriors of Radness has its little spin on this philosophy shown in the new Bags Pant. Not quite the starched Dickies that Los Angeles is known for, the Bags Pant is still a West Coast classic. Even with the pleated front and crease these ain’t your daddy’s slacks (although he may have a pair Z Cavs back in the day). We’ve even gone ahead and cuffed ‘em for you.
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