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Project 002: Samurai. A sneak peek at the second Project Industries line

Well for those of you anxious to know more about the second Project Industries line, which apparently has some thing to do with samurai warriors, your wait is sort of over.  I've added a new photo gallery to the site featuring the preliminary design illustrations for Project 002: Samurai.  I say preliminary because as I found out with Project 001: The Vans, things can change right up to the time I go to screens.

I'm hoping to launch this line in time for autumn (how well the first line sells is a determining factor here -- I'm no Obey over here ok?) so I've gone with some colours that work with my favourite season.

Head on over to the gallery to have a look at the design and let me know what you think on the Facebook fan page wall.

Thanks for being interested.  Hell, thanks for being...
Jamie

The first sign(s) of Spring

The bright sun on my deck on Sunday made me aware that the first signs of Spring are becoming recognizable.  Each of you probably have your own visual, aural or aromatic cues that Spring is here correct?  Even if it's subconscious, there must be some sort of Spring-trigger.

Is it all the pretty people emerging from their caves?
Is it the first noisy Harley making it's way down the street, farting and belching and setting off car alarms the whole way?
Is it the blossoming...libido?

I'll tell you what I regard as the first sign of Spring for me and perhaps if you're inspired, you can use the link at the bottom of this Nog entry to share your Spring-trigger.

I live on an intersection with a roundabout in the west end of Vancouver.  Every year at this time, an older fella from across the street puts on his bright orange vest, city-worker style, and gets out there with his weeding implements and his hose to give the roundabout a good rootin'.  I rejoice when I see that guy dodging too-fast moving cars and surly teenagers (or adults acting as teens) on cruiser bikes.

One year I was on my way somewhere and he came trudging out of his place, hose in tow, vest brilliant in the sun, and I told him that he was my sure sign that Spring had arrived.  He mumbled something unintelligible and kept moving.  I think he may have tried to spit on me.

Ahhhh Spring!

I also like the smell of dirt.  One smells a lot of that this time of year with the gardens being ripped up and replanted.

What tells you Spring is here?

Say yes to sun,
Jamie

What have you been listening to?

Everyone's listening to music everyday.
Right now some of the stuff I can't get enough of varies from moody late 70s/early 80s rockish stuff to electro-rockish stuff to straight up electronic stuff.  Music is the stuff people.  Music is the stuff...

• A Place to Bury Strangers (album and artist name).  This album makes me think Bauhaus meets Joy Division meets Jesus and Mary Chain.  And when all of that meets my ears, I quiver a little inside.
  
• M83 - pretty much anything except their super-mellow shit.
  
• A dope track by Heights of Abraham called Sportif. It's not new, but I can't stop listening just the same.
• There's a great track by Dan le Sac VS Scroobius Pip called Letter From God to Man out there.  It's built on a Radiohead remix for some aural sex you won't soon forget.

I'll add to that list over time I suppose.  Tell me what you're listening to on Facebook?  Maybe I'll just add to the list I have going there...

Mucho Musico,
Jamie