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Dear Fixie Bike Community,

As seen in today's Urban Outfitters' morning mailer, now every Tom, Dick, and Harry can be just like you:

Built by us & you. Urban Outfitters has teamed up with Republic Bike to bring you a personalized experience in bike design. We offer more than 100,000 component and color combinations for the fixed / single gear Aristotle bike. You just need to pick and choose. Republic Bike will build it, box it and ship it directly to you.

I don't know what all the fuss is about anyway, but I'll keep on enjoying my own single gear (and slow ass) Schwinn Sting-Ray!

Sincerely,
Souris

LA - Dwell on Design (06.26.09 - 06.28.09)

Hey LA posse -

Dwell on Design at the Los Angeles Convention Center is this weekend, June 26-28! And it's going to be a jam-packed weekend of design, architecture, green activities, fun, and food! Following are some of this weekend's highlights:

Saturday, June 27
Movie Night - Featuring a screening of the Julius Shulman documentary Visual Acoustics and a  Q&A with director, Eric Bricker.

There will be a Mobile Restaurant Row with tacos, BBQ, hot dogs, shaved ice, and architectural ice cream sandwiches by Coolhaus. Are you good with sweet treats and tasty names? If so, enter the contest to invent their next flavor!

Sunday, June 28
Square Meal Sunday - Event devoted to design and food.

If you are interested in attending Saturday night's Movie Night, I have one pair of tickets to give away to a lucky reader. The tickets will get you into the movie and gain you entrance to dinner, but you'll still have to pay for your own food. Enter by leaving a comment telling us what neighborhood you live in. Remember to enter your email address. A randomly selected winner will be notified by Thursday at 6:00 p.m. PST. If you want to guarantee entrance, purchase a ticket with a special discount code for HOC readers:

Hustler of Culture
Exhibition Plus (Weekend Pass) only $10 with this special code: DWELL25C
Conference Plus (3 Day Pass) from $49 with this special code: DWELL976Y

Other links worth paying attention to:
Schedule-At-A-Glance
Conference Schedule
Mike Mills' Architecture of Reassurance
Alissa Walker's Q&A with Dan Pink, the DoD Keynote Speaker
Modern Family
Dwell on Design Twitter Feed

Intelligentsia Westside Opening

May 22, 2009 - 9:56 p.m. -Venice, CA

Intelligentsia opened a coffee annex on Abbot Kinney so that Sean Bonner wouldn't have to trek eastward for his daily coffee fix. Check out how many peeps turned up to welcome them to the westside! All this for coffee, hah!

Walrus TV Artist Feature: Estevan Oriol from "The Run UP"

Ventura - The Land of Plenty Fundraiser (04.11.09)

LA - The Graduation of Benny Fairfax (04.11.09)

LA - "Ciego al Color" (04.09.09 - 04.30.09)

Video Meditations Volume Three

video meditations volume three from single ape on Vimeo.

Nebmobile

March 26, 2009 - 12:17 p.m. - San Francisco, CA

"enjoi just another skateboard art show"

March 7, 2009 - 8:22 p.m. - Los Angeles, CA

We dropped in to support our friends at the "enjoi just another skateboard art show" featuring skate art by Winston Tseng, Matt Eversole, Todd Bratud and Jerry Hsu. Packed with boys and boards, there was plenty to gawk at. On view from March 8th to April 1st, visit the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery and don't miss shopping at the temporary enjoi pop up shop!

Erin Wasson x RVCA: Fall 09 Collection

Erin Wasson x RVCA • Fall 09 Collection from RVCA on Vimeo.

Lots of action going on across the street. My old photographer pal, Kenneth Cappello shot model and neighbor, Erin Wasson for RVCA.

Santa Monica

March 1, 2009 - 3:07 p.m. - Santa Monica, CA

LV - Pase Rock & SMOKE L.E.S. (02.18.09)

Ching Chong Juno

February 13, 2009 - 10:19 p.m. - Santa Monica, CA

Sinden took this photo of me because she thought my outfit was ridiculous. I'm too frugal to buy maternity clothes. So I wear what I can still squeeze into. In this case, vintage X-Girl tee, American Apparel undershirt, Four Star skate shorts (hijacked from Silvio -- cause they were gifted to him and he never wears), WESC socks, and cinnamon slippers from Viet Nam. It should be noted that the only thing I've paid for in this outfit is the American Apparel tee. If you run a clothing company and you want to send me some wares, I'll wear them and document on Flickr!

I actually don't have a lot of photos of me with Spawn. So, enjoy!

Matthew's Bar Mitzvah Party

February 7, 2009 - 8:21 p.m. - Los Angeles, CA

Charlie's Birthday Soccer Game Picnic

February 1, 2009 - 2:25 p.m. - Eagle Rock, CA

We celebrated artist and soccer lover, Charlie Becker's birthday at Glassell Park. All the cool kids turned up for some fried chicken and kicks and we had a blast. Happy Birthday, Chuck!

BB Video: Glen E. Friedman, Skate + Hardcore Punk Photo-History

Santa Monica Shake

A minor earthquake occurred at 7:42:44 PM (PST) on Friday, January 23, 2009.
The magnitude 3.4 event occurred 2 km (1 miles) WNW of Marina del Rey, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 7 km ( 5 miles).

Magnitude 3.4 - local magnitude (ML)

Time Friday, January 23, 2009 at 7:42:44 PM (PST), Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 3:42:44 (UTC)

Distance from Marina del Rey, CA - 2 km (1 miles) WNW (288 degrees) Santa Monica, CA - 4 km (3 miles) SSE (166 degrees) Culver City, CA - 7 km (4 miles) WSW (248 degrees) Inglewood, CA - 12 km (7 miles) WNW (285 degrees) Los Angeles Civic Center, CA - 22 km (14 miles) WSW (249 degrees)

Coordinates 33 deg. 59.0 min. N (33.984N), 118 deg. 28.2 min. W (118.470W)

Depth 7.4 km (4.6 miles)

Location Quality Fair

Location Quality Parameters Nst=113, Nph=113, Dmin=4 km, Rmss=0.5 sec, Erho=0.5 km, Erzz=0.9 km, Gp=46.8 degrees

Event ID# ci10373093

Match

January 19, 2009 - 8:35 p.m. - Venice, CA

I thought these two pairs of shoes were a perfect match for one another.

LA - "Martha Cooper Street Shots" (01.16.09 - 02.13.09)