If you were wondering what to get Uncle Chris for Christmas this year, let me help you out.

Start saving, youre gonna need $170k.

Range Rover + A year's worth of liquor + Custom, built-in gun cabinet = WIN!











From the Press Release:

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch is Launched

• The most luxurious and exclusive off-roader ever – only one hundred will be produced each year for the global market

• Based on 2010 MY 503 bhp Supercharged or TDV8 Range Rover

• Completely bespoke interior and exterior, featuring:

• 31 piece gunstock walnut or special wood veneers for dashboard, consoles and door inserts

• Individually numbered build plaque hand-made by Holland & Holland's own gun engravers

• Holland & Holland style engraving to steering wheel spokes with option of bespoke engraving to match client's gun

• Complete interior in unique colour, extra fine hides, with recessed Holland & Holland signature line in contrast colour

• Unique four-seater layout featuring hand-veneered rear console with integrated refrigerator and Holland & Holland crystal ware

• Self-replenishing drinks cabinet featuring Pol Roger champagne, The Balvenie single malt whisky, Hendrick's small-batch gin, Ivan the Terrible luxury vodka and Willow Spring Water from the Lake District.

• Hand crafted gun cabinet to luggage compartment with fitted drawers for guns, cartridges etc.

• Four unique exterior colours – with optional Duo Tone paintwork

• Priced from £120,894 for export, from £139,650 OTR in the UK

I think this pretty much sums up who im rooting for on November 14th.




Get yours here.... Nikestore.com . Dont say i never did anything for you.

Sometimes you gotta wear something other than a white T. And there are very few brands out there that make t-shirts id actually wear. So i said F it, im gettin back into the t-shirt game.

These are not for sale. Down the line, ill probably make something to sell, but for now, these are all me.

Some crazy-ass Chinese dude is growing pears shaped like Buddha. o_0

Discuss.

Hao Xianzhang, a local famer, spent six years to perfect the process by growing the pears inside moulds, local media reported. The pears cost around 50 yuan (7.32 USD) each.

From Yahoo News

So a while back (about a year ago) i was approached by Nate, a guy ive done quite a bit of work for in the past. He had this idea for a new jewelry piece that he wanted made. He wanted the classic hip hop staple, the Jesus piece, but with his own twist on it. He wanted HIS jesus to be portrayed as a black man, not the typical white version. So i said "no problem" and got started sketching.

This was the first rough sketch, to show Nate what i was thinking. It ended up being pretty damn close to what he wanted. So we proceeded to finish up a tight, final, digital mockup.


This was the final artwork, that we sent to Ben Baller over at If&Co, in LA.

(IMAGE HAS BEEN REMOVED)

They got to work on the wax mold, and after a whole bunch of slight, subtle revisions, this was the final mold.




From there they go ahead and cast it in 14k white gold. This is the rough stage, directly after the casting.


From there, they polish it up, and start setting the stones. After 900 or so diamonds are set, this is what you end up with.

These are the final pics.


(The yellow jesus in this pic is the one made famous by Jacob the Jeweler. Its the most coveted and famous piece for hip hop heads that want a jesus piece. As you can see, ours is quite a bit bigger and much more detailed)








These are the final specs of the piece, taken from Bens Blog, where its also posted.

jewelry specs:
TOTAL WEIGHT IN GOLD: 200 GRAMS 14K
TOTAL DIAMOND WEIGHT: 20.9 CARATS OF ALL VS1 DIAMONDS (APPROX 900+ DIAMONDS)
HEIGHT OF PIECE: 4.5"

Also, this past weekend i was in Southern California for business, but decided to stay a couple of extra days to hang out with a couple of buddies (ill post about that later). So we went down to the Slauson, checked out the If&Co store and spoke with Steve a little bit. He pulled the piece out of the safe in the back, so i could see it in person.

So this is a candid pic my man Yong snapped when we were checking it out.


Yeah, so anyway, thats about it i think. This project started a long while ago, and its nice to see it through to completion. I mentioned how i was working on a big project way back then, but im sure most of you probably thought i was talking out my ass. Regardless, this was it. Now its done.

On to the next piece.

via my man Ben's blog. Go here to peep the usual nonsense and immaculate jewelry work he posts about.

Heres the original sketch i was provided. I was asked to "clean it up".


So after a few small changes to please the client, this is what i sent off. Let me reiterate btw, i didnt design this piece. Its exactly what the client wanted, so even though its not my cup of tea, everyone was happy in the end.



Final pics:






Specs via the blog:

thanks to warfare chris for cleaning up the artwork!
this piece is 2.5", 3" with the "IF" bail and weighs over 100 grams...
but peep game.... OVER 21 CARATS IN TOTAL DIAMOND WEIGHT!

http://www.theclinkroom.com/

The Clink Room is a blog that i follow. Its run by a couple of designers from Plan B branding. They do mostly sports franchise identities, which i find to be pretty interesting.

So anyway they decided to have a little contest.

Basically its an imaginary baseball league comprised of Taco shops/stands. The point of it is to come up with a concept for a team and then design a logo/hat. The winner gets his hat made BY NEW ERA and $250. Plus i think 10 of the hats. And every time they do another run of the hats (if theyre big sellers) you get another $250. So i figured it was worth takin a stab at it.



So i had a question about the PDF format of the template they provided, so i emailed them. As an afterthought i attached this ROUGH version of what i was working on. Figuring maybe theyd have a critique or something.

These jerks (just kidding guys, if you're reading this) posted it and made it sound like i was a degenerate who was unfortunately using CorelDraw. Then suggested some other designers who have the appropriate software, team up with me to do an entry.

At first i was insulted, on some "F the Clink Room!" steez, but then i realized its just another case of prejudice against Corel, or any other non-adobe design software out there. They assumed that since i didnt have Adobe Illustrator, i must be some kinda chump who was just taking a shot at it. Its a common misconception, in all reality (not about ME necessarily, im just sayin...), that if you dont use Adobe products, you must not be a real designer. Which is hardly the case in my humble opinion.

*End of Rant*

Anyway, i got a couple of ideas up my sleeve for another entry or two, so i feel like i need to really come correct and represent for all those lame Corel users out there. (kidding)

I havent really had much to blog about.

So heres a picture of my fridge...i have no idea why.



(ps - dont worry, the healthy stuff like the yogurt isnt mine, its the little lady's. But the ziplock bag of bacon and the Tillamook cheese, thats all me.)

Im heading to California in a week, for 5 days, and a birthday party this weekend, so maybe ill have some blogging material after that.

I got a couple projects ill be posting about too, so dont lose complete hope in me, im trying...

EDIT: My favorite reader from Ireland sent in a pic of his fridge too. It could be kinda funny and interesting actually, if some other blog readers sent in pics too. So feel free, ill post em up, screw it.


EDIT: Heres Jason from Sacramento....