Spent the weekend on Catalina Island. It’s nice to get away every once in awhile and do absolutely nothing. 
Check out the traffic.
Drinking Buddies!
If ever in Avalon, I recommend eating at the Country Club. The bar there is great and so is the food.
We took a trip to the bay to visit The Hundreds SF to install the new PhotoBooth. We also took this opportunity to meet up with Benny Gold. While we have been big fans of his work and followed his brand we had never met up with him. Benny is a stand up guy, and a great designer. We hope to get the opportunity to do something with Benny down the road.
… Montreal.
Tuesday brought a visit from Jeremy Wirth and his gf Jess. We have been talking to Jeremy for a while, he an amazing Art Director and recently worked with us on a print piece you will see very soon. Jeremy also co-runs a brand called Rated Rookies who we will be doing a collaboration with soon.
In typical 530 style we treated our guests to a fine lunch at 5 Cinco de Mayo. To our knowledge they don’t have good Mexican food in Montreal, so we needed to share with our new friends. While most follow our lead with Carne Asada tacos, or the Polla a la Plancha a few decide to stray onto the inside pages of the menu. Jess moved on this dish that we have nick named the “Sal”, as the only other person we have seen get this was Sal Barbier. Jess opted to not cover the eyes with tortilla chips like Sal, but she did do damage on this fish.
Jeremy and Jess finished their visit with us, then headed to Proper and the Long Beach Aquarium to pet sharks.
Enjoyed our visit with you guys, looking forward to seeing you in March?
Based on recent blog postings, you would think The Hundreds was our only client, not the case. Recently we started became the digital AOR for Globe, including Globe Surf, and Globe Skate, along with Dwindle, Speed Demons, Enjoi, Almost, Darkstar, Blind, and Tensor. Right now we are in the process of getting the hosting for all of the sites under control with our friends at (mt) Media Temple. Once the server transition is final and we have everything running, we will start the development of many new sites. Stay tuned for more.
In this picture; Christy (530), Ryan Afdahl (mt), Paul (530), Bart (530), David (530), and Scott Desmet (mt). Photo taken and courtesy of Jason McVeary(mt)
Yesterday we ventured out to a city called Huntington Beach, just 3 cities south of Long Beach yet it seemed like another world. I think I grew up in that city, but it has changed since then, and by change I mean it is nothing like anything I remember. We were there to take in the Agenda show, see the sites, and say hello to our friends (Obey, The Hundreds, Mosley Tribes, Vestal, Proper, Hall of Fame). The show seemed like a huge success, this is the first time the show has been at this venue and judging by the amount of people at exhibitors there were I think they will be back.
A man with a plan, Scott Turner aka Switch. Hopefully HBPD let you get home without an escort.
Erik and I headed down to to Santa Ana to meet up with Triumvir/Caked Out crew for a lunch, discussion, and general mocking of Brian for not paying attention to any of the previous. The guys took us to a noodle spot in a strip mall across from Kitsch bar, I would tell you the name but I don’t know it. The best part of having friends that speak fluent Chinese is the access we get to restaurants that we could not normally go to, and if we did we would be greeted with silverware and a Coke. Good call on this spot guys, we look forward to going back. As for our discussions, they went very well and sometime in November you will be able to see the result of those talks.
@triumvir (Brandon) and @triumvirbrian (Brian, when he was actually alert)
Vincent and @triumvirlerche (Brian)
Yummy goodness that Erik did not share.
This HUGE knife mysteriously appeared outside of our hotel room while we were sleeping- Good times!
