The Retrospective

Let me start out by giving a big thank you to Mega (HUF) for inviting David and I out to this shin dig. On Sunday brands from LA, Las Vegas, and SF came together at The Phoenix Hotel to showcase their latest apparel but also, just to kick back. Being from the East Coast this […]

While I was in San Diego, Pat(My American Heart) took me out to San Marcos to check out The Fizix. Owned and operated by three friends Conrad “Rick” Alberto, Mike “Slim” McDonnough, and Nelson Duong the Fizix has been around since 2005 online, and opened it’s first brick and mortar store June of 2007.

It was a long road toward As Cities Burn’s sophomore release, “Come Now Sleep”. The band, who signed to Solid State and Imprint of Tooth and Nail in 2004, spent the following year on the road relentlessly touring with the likes of UnderOath, Emery, and Gym Class Heroes. At the end of their summer tour last year the band decided to head into the studio which then lead to major changes within the band’s structure. Visceral front man TJ Bonnette left the band for personal reasons and at that point it seemed as though As Cities Burn had to decided to call it quits.

My friend from high school Niraj and his college roommate came up with a pretty slick idea. They both have decided for one, to move to the west coast (San Francisco to be exact), but more remarkably Niraj built Consensual Treks. The site allowed friends, family, and complete strangers to suggest cool destinations that the […]

So yeah, hello everyone! I’m writing this from the library on campus ugh…I haven’t received my new notebook. If you don’t already know, I am now residing on the west coast in San Francisco where I am finishing up my last few years of academia at The Academy of Art University. The school, the city, […]