It's been a while... Where do the wild time go?

Been around a month since I last blogged... In that time I took on a full time contract job with a world leader in athletic apparel, did political design, finally finished all the TA apparel designs for the first half of the season, and totally flaked on updating my website.

Still painting and drawing... It's definitely slowed down as I anticipated. Though I can't complain because the days are just packed with activities, entertainment and projects.

Big boy dream projects are being whispered about in the TA merch crew... I am contemplating apparel construction right now limited lines of custom Jackets, Cagoules, and Polos (at least that's the dream). Still mocking things up and then when that's done, we still have to see if it's feasible, constructable and replicable. This is still a long way off, just like everything else on our wishlist, but man is it something fun and challenging to work on. I know I make part of my living doing apparel production art, but to do every aspect of it on your own is a totally different beast. It is addictive because you want it to be perfect and have all the cool aspects of design you have always wanted on gear like this.

I am also going to start blogging on the TA website... This was talked about before, I wanted to start a F&L style column with blog titles like "Zen and the Art of Fitting 9 people in 4 seats" and do running diaries of awaydays and shit. That got busted up before I even got to type one word. Now I'm setting up to do blog spots concerning merch and stuff. The merch team is starting to feel like we need to explain ourselves more often and also give people a heads up on whats on the horizon. Though I don't know if I'm the best candidate since I can barely write my own blog once a month. Someones gotta do it though, so I'll take the hit.

Continuing with TA merch, we almost have all the gear for the first half of the season made, the last of it, the new hats, come in next week and guess what... New lookbook coming! Every year we have tacked on a new look book, started with 1 in 2009/2010 to two in 2010/2011 and now we are going to have three in 2011/2012 (first half, second half of the season and winter). It's amazing see this whole thing grow to more and more products. So look for the new lookbook on the No Pity Originals tumblr. Here's a peek at one of the new scarves;

We are going buck on bar scarves this year... This is the beginning, but we're gonna do some new takes on old USL styles and we found someone who can do embroidery on scarves too... Gonna be SICK!

Somehow in all the business, my Ball Hockey league just started back up again. We went from 4 to 6 teams this year which is really exciting. I'm still captain of the Bill McCreary AllStars, who are technically undefeated right now (1-0-0). Also since the expansion of the league and it's 2nd year, the league can afford to help pay for team jerseys... Freaken sweet. Here is a look at the BMac jerseys we are having made right now.

Kickballs started up again too... It's so hipster that it's not hipster, but I love playing in shit that's not competitive and fun. Here's our runner up team from last summer. I think this is going to be my last year, and will probably retire. The fields are so beat up, I keep bleeding up my knees and I want my Sundays back.

The days are going to be just packed this summer, I love it... So very Portland, as soon as it stops raining you have no downtime. Anyways I gotta get back to the grind.

Listening to;
MGK- "Cleveland" - off of Lace up... I can't stop listening to this album... It's not my style rap, but i love the album and MGK for a couple reasons; He represents Cleveland (Shout out Sixth City), the albums super catchy, the rymes are surprisingly good and tell his inspirational story... Also you gotta love a goofy ass guy having fun being good at what he does, even if it's unconventional.


Looking forward to;
Flatliners at the Backspace on Saturday after the Timbers game... that's a fun night right there.