so yesterday I got this email on my day off…..
I decided to respond to actually see how fucking retarded a person could possibly be?
I mean for real?

what a piece of shit…. smh

anyways, got in a funky mood probably because of pops, so I walked down to Rodeo Dr and got some lunch at il Pastaio….. while I was eating, I saw this

lunch was real tasty…. again, a vegetarian meal….
got real bored, weather was so so…. so when I get in a funky mood or really bored, I buy gifts…
and
while I was shopping, I saw Joan Rivers filming a show and creating a scene and all I can think about is how Sam Ronson destroyed with the collagen joke on twitter a few weeks ago…. smh

anyways,
ran into my step brother on rodeo drive too and it was so random….
but all I can think about is this deep in the back of my head;

okay y’all… don’t wanna bum anyone out.
I got a shit load of work to do.
gotta head into the store right now, but stop by Apolo’s commercial shoot to pick up something, then run errands…

I was supposed to leave town sunday to this morning, but I was waiting on some uncertain things to clear up…. fuckin sucks cuz I woulda loved a few days out of town.

anyways,
got a tattoo appt with my brother Mister Cartoon tonight to almost finish this back piece…. I got maybe 2 sessions left!

peace

so I said I’d be on my diet…. so for lunch friday me and my boo walked over to Vegan Glory…
MAN! shit gets better and better!
no joke, the food there is amazing and what’s best is that my girl is so fucking unselfish it drives me insane because everytime we go out to eat, she orders something I can eat or I’d like over what she really wants. pisses me off because I sometimes want to order a chicken or beef dish…. but I’d stalled out on red meat for while… in fact, it’s pretty much chicken and fish for now… but Vegan Glory has a great menu and my girl can have anything on it.

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the steamed veggie dumplings were very good… but the Vegan Beef Burrito was insane amazing! tasted as good as kogi truck, but without the BG’s! and the steak sandwich? jesus…. shit was so flavorful! damn! and they deliver! I’ll be coming back for 3rds and 100ths!

also just opened down the street from me is the famous New York Bakery; Magnolia!
man I have driven past it for a week, but didn’t know what the deal was… I know the one in NYC is no joke and there’s always lines, but we had to peek in and check it out
THANK GOD FOR THE HOMEY ADAM(STUSSY) WHO WAS THERE 3RD IN LINE! BECAUSE IT WAS A 20+ MINUTE WAIT… WAIT? I’m on a diet! hahaaha… fuck that, gotta cheat! just a lil bit!(no lykke le)







the cupcakes are better than Joans on 3rd…. as good as Sprinkles and better in someways… but they have much more to offer with the cakes, pies, brownies, etc… overall it gets 4 thumbs up from me and nic.

so later that night, had a pescatarian meal at Mishima… ran into the Crooks fam there….
and then we decided to stay in and watch 2 horrible movies back to back…
“Remember Me” and “Cop Out” shaking my fucking head.
let’s not even go into reviews! just wow! both get a legit 1 out of 10 (why did I watch Remember Me? fuck outta here, why do you think? because I’m on team edward?)

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SATURDAY aka Caturday lol jk

so we woke up, ate home made veggie breakfast and then got ready to hit the LBC to hit my homey Slep’s Baby Shower….. amazing, this is my guy for 15+ years…. but as we get older, you just keep in touch with some of your close friends only facebook or at family events and the last time I seen Slep was at AM’s funeral…. we all were pretty tight fam. WELL CONGRATS BRO! you’re gonna be a dad and damn! it’s a boy! smh at all the jokes going on at this thing… 1st off the party was at 1pm…. we left the crib at 12 and got there on time…. shit didn’t start til like 2:40! and btw, Slep in the general manger of Spearmint Rhino, so you already know hahhaahahahaha jesus!
1 table was all strippers…. 20+ deep lol & smh….
it was interesting, but I don’t give 2 shits really about what was going on in the background, our table was the fam fam… it’s cool that babies r us have an online registry because it saves time from having to stop there and wanting to buy 10 cases of flush-able baby wipes lol
anyways, wokcano started up down the street from my crib… shout out to my homey Teanna who used to work there back 5+ years ago…. this one in Long Beach is real real nice!

I’m gonna sound real fucked up…. BUT WOW SLEP YOU HAD AN ASSIGNED MENU???? hahahahahaa god damn! I’m impressed bro! I was expecting colt 45 tall cans and bbq at your crib for this shit! APPLAUDS!
BUT YO! the food was crazy good! the sea bass was ignorant!

I REMEMBER SEEING THIS THE DAY BEFORE AM’S FUNERAL…. RIP

now you already know homicide ain’t stopping at no babies r us or even target to get his brother a gift smh… he literally walked up and said “awww yeahhh” go buy your son some shit lolololol. (yes that’s really the gift)

was good to see Slep and his homey’s…. haven’t seen them since Homicide’s pops funeral.

speaking of parents…. homicides sister ASH is a mom! congrats again, so good to see you sis

so after Homicide had to shake to las vegas to do his residency at JET…. I had to shake to do not a damn thing!
we went did some lightweight shopping at the beverly center… shit was boring
went back to the crib and peeped out this movie called “RELIGULOUS” by Bill Maher mocking religion and the so called science behind it…. and WOW this shit was interesting, it was really funny too…. some people, I mean MOST people are very very sensitive when it comes to religion…. I mean they get way the fuck bent out of shape if you test their religious beliefs… Bill Maher didn’t just test fools, but he went there repeatedly… but in a smart way.
We appreciated the film, but you gotta watch it for yourself…. I mean, I believe in god and I believe ALL and EVERY religion are under 1 god… anyways, it’ll open your eyes if you’re open minded enough. who wrote the bible anyways? WHO? don’t be dumb….
also, I got a book as a gift a while ago called “God is Not Great” and when I get a chance to take some ADD medicine, then I’ll focus on that, but I’m sure it’ll be crazy….

so we had a little bit of cabin fever and haven’t been out in LA to a bar in a few months easy…. so we decided to get out of the house and hit up Cecconi’s…. when I saw the Bugatti Veyron in front I already knew it was gonna be a thirst fest lol…. we had a vegetarian meal again….. chopped salad, mushroom risotto, buffalo mozzarella pizza and the shit was delicious! THANK YOU CHRIS KIM FOR THE VIP TREATMENT ALWAYS!
we had some Rose’…. it was nice and we caught laughs at the countless amount of cougars with fake boobs inside trying to catch a paycheck… oh well….

so after Cecconi’s… we headed over to Boudoir (the old coco deville) and wanted to meet up with my homegirl Allison and see how she’s dealing with her partner Lindsay being locked up…. anyways, the music was good, chilled out and threw down some patron and belve….. didn’t stay til the end of the night, but I was on 1, matter of fact, I was on 2…. so we had to head home

SUNDAY….

went to dupars for breakfast…. decided to finally have meat and got the chicken sausage and it was terrible…. BUT, the flap jacks there are the best on the planet (and if you go there, you’ll see they got their food channel episode on where they’re voted the best pancakes in the USA on repeat)

then we hit the Americana and Glendale Galleria so I could find some Tank Tops and get ready for a few trips and shit coming up….. spent literally 4 hours shopping to only come out with some basic shit, but a few pairs of dope shorts…. I’m off the baggy, long shorts (and I can’t believe it!)…. headed over to pasadena and copped some more shit from American Apparel and then we hit Noodle World for some dinner….. shit was great, headed over to Trader Joes to get some Trek Mix and then shot over to Homicide’s crib to watch TRUE BLOOD on his huge 3-D LED TV…. what a great episode….

I drove back to the trap and did some work and finally got my place in order….
gotta find a handy man to install my shelves in the auxiliary room and might add some more recessed lighting…. the bathroom is done! 1 more, well 1/2 a bathroom left!
anyone know a good handy man? it’s a very easy job, I have all the materials, not the tools….. and I need a good steam carpet cleaner! holler

BTW, ICEE FRESH IS CLOSED TODAY and TOMORROW!
we will be back open on wednesday and back to our normal times of 10am to 7pm, 7 days a week….

peace

naw not talking bout my big homey/ex boss Dr. Dre…. I mean ME!
enough is enough!
back around late 2006 to late 2008 I got up to 200 lbs.
said fuck this shit… I need to get right!
before my bday in Jan 2009, I lost 48 lbs! thanks to Adam aka GOAT Goldston….

so now starting today I need to lose like 10 or 12 lbs…
I’m around 173 and want to get close to 160 for my boracay, philippines/asia trip diet!

I got the magical supplements (all natural vitamins, no extra shit) that I used back a year ago….
and I’m not eating red meat this time around….

so to kick off my diet?
my girlfriend decided to show her cousins a good time (since we missed the OC fair this week) with some deep fried snacks…. the old school way! now we got a deep fryer, but that shit is a nightmare to clean….

smh….

SMFH!!!!! I can’t even front… the deep fried twinkie was crazy good! we attempted to deep fry ice cream, but we would need the actual deep fryer to do that… fux it

now speaking of deep frying shit and frying pans and skillets….
my boy E-Dazzle thought I didn’t know what time it was? he don’t know I’m back to the future, all time zones covered…. no watch on! GOOD SHIT BRO BRO! haha

youngsters won’t know what the fuck this is… in fact 99.9% of the readers of this blog won’t know what this is.

anyways, hit up Runyon and got a great hike in… ran into the homey Dennis from Crooks and was shocked to death to see him! haha. good shit D! damn you was dolo too! wow, my girl has to wake me up and kick my ass to get in shape!

got a few more orders this week, the Gucci watch with white diamonds flew off our shelves… thanks everyone.
I got a piece I’m making for a 18 month old boy! smh hahahahaha

just booked my trip to Vegas for Magic and I’m headed to the Bay next month for sure…. along with Houston next month…. still haven’t got my conf. for Caribana in Toronto yet…. meanwhile, I need to get out of town again…. but still waiting on pops condition to stabilize.

p.s. I just ordered my Fall 2010 L-R-G gear and WOW! in 5 years, I haven’t seen a line this ill! shit is all what I love and loved about this brand! all the clean basics and nothing extra-ISH! so much clean shit.. they introduced a skinnier jean, a true skinny instead of the slim straights and mad henley’s and just clean button ups! they also introduced a Skinny Fit woven shirt now, so you don’t have the wide shirt syndrome!

thank you jonas, jesse & gully

FINALLY FINISHED REMODELING MY MASTER BATHROOM!
fuck man! re-tiled the floor, replaced the vanity, all types of shit…
also moved around a lot of shit in the crib…
gonna have another small private garage sale very soon… and best of all;
I got my 3-D flat screens coming!

everyone have a great weekend…
I want a new car btw

so the homey Proh from Far East Movement hooked me and my girl up with tickets to see La Roux last weekend in downtown LA…. FM is on the same label as La Roux, so he hooked it up VIP styles…
the show was dope, short and sweet but ole girl got the hipster shuffle down crazy! it was also the 1st time I’ve seen an artist bring a cup of tea onto stage and drink it in the middle of a show smh lol…

thank Proh!
had a good time, then headed over to BCD for some spicy soon tofu








MAD LOVE TO PROH, FAR EAST MOVEMENT…. CHERRYTREE RECORDS + INTERSCOPE RECORDS

so we saw papparazzi chasing after that girl from Eclipse…. I gave about less than finger fuck…
walked to Valet…..


after as said… headed west to k-town to get some grub

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had some friends from out of town come visit and where do they wanna go? the grove/farmers market (NO WAY? smh) it was stupid hot!

I complained about the weekend… but I think Apolo’s complaining more lol

anyways….
had a photoshoot yesterday in the outskirts of koreatown… at MacArthur Park; yes the home of notorious gang MS13 and my running grounds as a child/teen…. I haven’t physically been in that park for almost 23 years or so.
I miss the days of the Mean Streaks, uni and ultra wides…. RTD, real hip hop and of course the Radio Tron which was right across the street!


this is such a dope monument of what really this area means to a lot of people…. shit it’s been a long time since 1982 when they shot Breakin’ here and stuff.

After bumping Rakaa’s Crown of Thorns track “Mean Streak” where he shouts me out with all the OG old school hip hop shit, It put me in a rude mood…. reminiscing of the good old golden days (RIP SINE ONE, RIP ROB ONE, RIP GEO)

after the photoshoot was done…. had the photog from Norway shoot a quick pic with his fancy camera

so anyways…. my girls family had family come into town too, so we hit some sight seeing shit; hit the americana and Venice Beach…. It’s been a while since I walked down Venice Beach… Venice Beach has meant so many different things to me, from body builders to hard core street basketball (white men can’t jump) to pit bulls and of course my days of working with NIKE and the nike blue house (thanks Bee, fuck the swoosh though)

right before we all linked up…
I stopped by my old barber who I haven’t seen in over 25 years in koreatown

so we strolled down the boardwalk for a lil bit (pics are on my personal facebook, but here’s a few joints)


man…. when I was a freshman in high school, me and my cousin went to see an early screening of Child’s Play and shit was no joke and scared the hell out of us…. Actually Nic’s cousin is lightweight traumatized from Chucky and when I called homey over, she got shook…. and I felt bad, but she later took a pic with him too lol

I was supposed to go to the OC Fair today, but my fat ass has gained a nice belly, so I need to chill the fuck out and the last thing I need to do is see Deep Fried Twinkies and Oreos and a long list of other shit I can’t eat.

two fingers!
(I hate motherfuckers who say Deuces if it ain’t related to drive by shootings or gangster shit!… Oh I also can’t stand people who use the term “whatevs” THROAT CHOP TO YOU MONKEY MOUTHS!)

I’M PROUD OF YOU HOMEY! I FUX WITH THIS TYPE OF SHIT… NOT SOME HOCUS POCUS

sometimes, twitter does get the best of me and I get to express myself with 140 characters or less several times a day…..

I will get to what I did this weekend (not exciting at all) briefly here, or maybe tonight? lol…
don’t trip, it wasn’t a fun filled weekend…. pops is still doing real bad in the hospital and that’s all I’ll say

basically finished remodeling my master bathroom…. now just needs grout to complete the new tiling and shit… (yawn)

I will post pics of random shit….
I had a Vegan dinner finally on sat night and it was fucking delicious….

oh yeh…

Finally saw Inception last night(was sold out every night) and I thought Memento was a mindfuck? whoa(keanu matrix voice)

shout out to my homey Mark who copped custom made 18k jewels!

keep it funky… when’s the last time you seen a 150 gram 18k gold franco??? NEVER!
and the bead chain is stupid heavy!

that’s the best I could get with my cam…. but we laser’d our IF and Co. logo on the end bead of the chain… in person with a loupe, it’s perfect!

and while I was checking out some molds being made… I seen that we always have a crush on Jesus

so anyways…. i’ll post some stuff up later and updates and things going on this week….
pretty much continuing my boring ass life

but speaking of Jesus and Crowns with thorns (not diamonds ones in this case…)

SHOUT OUT TO MY HOMEY RAKAA IRISCIENCE FROM DILATED PEOPLES! WHO DROPPED HIS NEW ALBUM TODAY! CROWN OF THORNS!!! From Fairfax High School to the Pro’s homey! mad love for the huge shout out on the track “Mean Streak” AWWW YEAAAHHHH!
EVERYONE GO COP/DOWNLOAD THAT ALBUM!

shout out to my homey IZ who I will be dropping the trailer to his new HD video very soon…

shout out to Soul Assassins… they have a huge collab event with Robert Rodriguez and his new film Machete!
(the og homey Danny Trejo stars in the film)
peep game:

This is a great project for SA to be involved in. Robert Rodriguez’s
MACHETE starring Danny Trejo, Robert DeNiro, Michelle Rodriguez and more
will be out in theaters September 3rd.

MUST BE 21 AND OLDER TO ATTEND THE PARTY
(click here for more info)

aite y’all…
I gotta try to sell some jewelry or sell my seoul

btw, why k-town jersey shore? that’s the dumbest fucking name or comparison anyone could ever use…. how does koreatown in the slightest way compare to new jersey shore? How does the cast even compare? (I don’t know any of the members, but saw a brief pic and was like smh) but what does Tyrese know about my neighborhood anyways? I won’t speak on the other producers because they’re tied in to family…..
and they wonder why me or far-east movement won’t make an appearance ever? call it the k-town real world or anything else, but not jersey shore…. soooooo super forced, such a bad look for koreans. more importantly a gigantic misrepresentation of koreans in Los Angeles because the ones I kick it like in koreatown don’t act like actors or want to be famous…. there is a reason why MTV declined picking up this show and many other networks. remember I’m all about asians getting pub or pushing the bar forward…. not putting us back 30 years

peasss

So ain’t shit changed….
to be honest, I haven’t been very personal lately because my personal life consists of worrying about a lotta shit and one thing that most worry about is this economy, but for some reason, that’s the only thing I’m NOT worried about….

trying to drown myself into work and emails, helps me about 20% max…. but if I didn’t grind, then it’d be worse….

anyways, no matter what’s going on, there’s always work rollin in and out of our shop…. Icee Fresh stays busy….
My cousin decided to make some universal/unisex smaller type jewelry and diamond pendants for men that were classy and clean…. so here’s a couple things:
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stupid clean…

and then…. we just made this rosary for a customer and it’s a remix of our last fully flooded out 50 carat diamond rosary in all white diamonds, but this one has better stones in it and a better center/divider piece




yep…. POW!

and this next piece is a watch we sent out to get PVD plated a long time ago and remember, I’ve said this before; it takes a long time to send anything overseas to get pvd’d….





this used to be plain stainless steel breitling super avenger…. now it’s a triple black joint! we could always change the dial to a white or black face… but I kinda like the contrast on this, the white wouldn’t have worked as well. I’ll see if the black/charcoal face looks better…. but for now, this shit is clowning.

and we got more watches for sale this week….







we been clowning with these gucci digital joints…. but now we’re just disrespectful with the big donut style bezel…. you can have it either way, just holla. white diamonds with the white and green/red/green official gucci steez band? whatever you want.

and then….





we got a new style gshock in…. pink and grey with the mirror face…. decided to ice that thing out… but remember, we can change any gshock 6900 shell to whatever you want. if you got an all black watch with white diamonds, but want it on a blue gshock? a red one? takes us 30 minutes to swap out your white gold/white diamond or black gold/black diamond shell out! that’s what makes it fun! that’s why we’ve sold over 500 of these things officially with genuine diamonds WITHOUT THE FUGAZI CZ OPTION LIKE ZZZZZZZ nevermind….

the Fly Boys ain’t trippin….


Nova came through to get right this past week!

this is how we’re stamping the back of all our bigger diamond pieces now… the laser is cool, but we make this hater certified!

see your favorite MLB team logo somewhere? yup…. we’re making these all the time, so cop one!

and as I was running to the car wash the other day… I ran into an old buddy of mine….

I’ve known my dude Faizon for 17 years now… He’s been in mad movies and used to roll around with Chris Tucker tight when Chris was funny…. but he’s always been on his own thing, he’s constantly had me dying…. Faizon is a certified fool! I told him he’s getting on my blog. lol…. he tried to steal my watch smh

yesterday, I headed over to the W hotel to kick it with Apolo Ohno and check out some ESPY post events and stuff…



EA Sports gifted Apolo with this cool ass custom PS3….

professional THROAT CHOPPERS!

and a better shot of AAO rockin the olympic tags…
thanks again homey

went to see La Roux last night and I’ll post some pics later tonight or tomorrow…
gonna go see pops now as his condition isn’t great, but I know he can get better…. being in ICU this long is pissy

everyone have a great weekend, I’ll be staying in LA and not leaving due to the issues at hand.

peace!

Not to judge a book by it’s cover, but you can already tell, Apolo’s not the type to rock any big jewelry, it’s hard for some to probably even see him wear anything with diamonds…

well, he likes clean simple classic designed jewels that he can break out every so often and not look crazed. me and my cousin Steve already knew the deal. so we executed what he wanted…. and we’re still making a few things (these were finished last week, but I had stopped everything once I got the news about my pops)

we remixed 2 david yurman bracelets which were #basic…. but we freaked it adding a white gold franco and cutting the weird end caps on them(crazy affliction style ends) and changing them to lobster clasps….
1 in tiger eye beads…. the other in buddha beads

we also made him a custom black gold pvd bracelet, very simple and clean for everyday wear if he wanted as all bracelets are made for everyday wear

we also made a fully invisible set cross for him… approx 9 carats of princess cut diamonds (VS/G)
we kept the design straight and with very little bow/bend in the body of the cross….
solid 14k gold and he has a 14k franco(non existent pretty much these days with gold prices now)

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BLACK GOLD PVD BRACELET….

BUDDHA BEADS REMIXED…. WITH A WHITE GOLD FRANCO INSIDE HOLDING IT DOWN

TIGER EYE BRACELET REMIXED… AGAIN WITH A WHITE GOLD FRANCO INSIDE HOLDING IT TOGETHER!

the team…

and now for 1 clean ass cross!

“AAO” for obviously… Apolo Anton Ohno and the japanese kanji brush script “8″ lucky # 8 (asians know the deal)

Franco is 26″ long, but heavy and solid and best of all 14k! not some thin franco either…. it’s beefy.

thanks again Apolo,
OH and we’re not done… we got some more work coming and more projects with Apolo please believe

p.s. don’t forget about the VAN

Now we made a few things for Apolo Ohno recently, but as for Olympic related jewelry, this is what we made him as sort of a gift to himself. If you remember in my blog as previously mentioned, we just met barely a month ago and I didn’t know much about the guy, but now I think of him as a Chingoo (friend in korean) and he’s a really well rounded guy. I don’t know how the hell we get along so well because this guy’s actually a very decent gentleman…

anyways we got it IN!
we’ll get to the other custom jewelry we made for Apolo later, for now I want to focus on the Dog Tags…
with the Tags, he wanted a black and white theme (I think Apolo may want to make a new set of dog tags in 14k yellow gold; 1 white, 1 yellow like fabolous chains steez too) and we did the custom bails; the custom # bails are “8″s for the asian lucky #8 and his company as well 8zone
and we iced out these tags completely with all VS diamonds and everything in 14k white gold (1 tag in black gold rhodium). the dog tags weigh almost 55 grams each!!!! (110 grams total = heavy as shit!) and very thick! the total diamond weight on these things are almost 9 carats each! we even iced out the sides of these tags; that’s how thick they are!

out of over thousands of custom pieces we’ve made, this particular job was something I took dear to heart on the level of respect I have for this man now and how much love he has for “our” korean culture, etc…. (fuck the rumors that blind ignorant koreans tried to make a controversy during the winter games…. AO is a straight cat)
I mean I take close look at almost anything custom that we make, but even though Apolo wasn’t a picky guy, I think that’s only because he knew how much of a picky person I am with even the slightest detail etc and I know he notices the same type of blemishes I would notice on anything….. so on to the pics. I’m very proud of this. Our 1st OLYMPIC GOLD champion/medalist ever.

Thank you Apolo, I appreciate your business, we appreciate your business!
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Apolo’s dad is the most important person in his life and his biggest inspiration so he wanted an image of his dad lasered onto the back of the dog tags…. the image came out pretty ill!

THANK YOU AGAIN APOLO.
btw, I can out dance you homey, I don’t play that dancing with the stars shit, come to the hood! haha
you a real dude to walk into the slauson fam!

I will post the rest of Apolo’s jewels soon.

peace

well, I apologize after a while, it took some editing and a long time for me and mark to finish this video of our battle…

the final video is finally here!
check it out….

SF VS. LA
THE FINAL BATTLE:

thanks and shout outs to everyone involved: Marco, trousdale bar/lounge, thank you platinum motorsport, mark aka FATLACE, to the homey Jimmy Boi for being in the 1st one and helping me out and thank you to just everyone. OH and how can I forget Willie T for shooting and editing all the dope footage!

for those who missed the 3 part video series…
part 1.

part 2.