Thanks!

with love,

~ just ali

GoodInk Skater Marsel Gareyev gets down.

So appreciative to have found such a hungry kid like Marsel who’s willing to go out and represent Good Ink hard as he does when he’s not working at Shelter Streetwear.  We’re glad to have him and look forward to huge things from this pro-am wonder.

I love skaters… & Jamal Smith makes me lol

And at the top of inane catchy videos…
“Interior Crocodile Alligator”
featuring pro skater
Jamal Smith

Quick Review: New Melrose and it’s Shops

I was in L.A for what I’m normally in L.A for, to pick up printing supplies and screens. In this case I was picking up screens for Good Ink’s series 2 line of shirts when my buddy Jimmy over at Rheetech Print Supply told me I had to come back in an hour to pick up my stuff.

So with time to kill I headed over to Melrose to look at some gear in a few of my favorite shops.

The “New” Melrose<NM> (Melrose West of Fairfax) is chock full of trendy stores, kinda like how old Melrose<OM> (East of Fairfax) used to be.  I only focused on the first few blocks of it which contained shops like DC, Adidas, Crooks&Castles, Johnny Cupcakes, Kid Robot, Paul Frank, GStar, Loyal Army and some others…like Bape, Toki Doki (coming December 2009) and I hear the Hundreds wasn’t too far away down Fairfax though I didn’t search for that one.  I wonder what the draw to this part of Melrose is, it lacks the character of the old section, everything feels kinda sanitized and hidden.  Honestly even in it’s dissolute state I like the feel of OM with shops like de la Barracuda vs. the vibe in NM.

There isn’t much for food , didn’t see any homeless people, barely anything resembling street art save for some stickers wheatpastes and stencils (especially liked the stencil of Banksy’s stencil…sarcasm?), I guess in other words it had no character.

Kid Robot is for sure a favorite of mine and I jumped in to grab a couple Dunnys from the new series.  Though I really wanted that McDonald’s supersized chalkboard Dunny up front…

And then I raced past Loyal Army, Paul Frank and G Star crossed the street and jumped into Johnny Cupcakes to see what new stuff they were cooking up…I mean baking …yeah yeah…

After that I headed over into the Adidas store to see what I might want for Xmas…Both of these would do…

I moved on past Bape (never really dug them, but I can respect what they do, ya know?)

And finally jumped into the Crooks Store which you could easily miss or might be intimidated to walk into if you aren’t looking for it or been there before…

Crooks had the usual suspects lined up against the wall with some girls stuff in the upstairs area, talking to one of the shop guys they were getting ready for a shipment and the store should be packed tight pretty soon if not already.

Altogether NM is what it is, a row of shops for people to shop at.  It’s not really a spot to kick it or at least not in the sense that OM was.  It serves it’s function and has some really cool gear for people who’ve got fat wallets.  Being the sentimental type, I just don’t feel the love like I used to…times change, lines evolve, and people move on.

And you think you’ve got it bad…

Click on the video link below with caution. Shown in the linked video is a young girl dying on camera named Neda who was murdered during a protest in Tehran, Iran during the bullshit presidential elections. The screaming voices are both swearing at the bastards who killed her and also telling Neda not to be afraid, over and over and over again…

Girl protestor in Iran shot during presidential protests.

I’ll tell you what’s on my mind. It’s being Persian for the last 31 years and dealing with the ignorant opinion of the majority of people I’ve come across who think the country of my homeland is a country devoid of feeling, devoid of compassion and devoid of intelligent free thought.The average American (that i’ve come across, and that’s not in the mid-west but out here in good ‘ol Southern California) sees Iran as a country mirroring the opinions of a crazed, irrational, and extremist government. This is not my people, and it’s not me.What our American media doesn’t show you is what happens when Iranians stand up for what they believe in and how difficult they have it, and how much more they have at stake than  you can imagine. Sure let’s bomb them…because they’re just towel headed camel jockeys…

 

At least we can bitch in peace about how bad we hate our government or aspects of it, we can freely speak about how corrupt it is if we think so.   We can mock our presidents on national television and paste up posters about our anti-government opinions facing the terrible risk of being fined.

So if I don’t indulge in long conversations about how bad it is here in America, you’ll excuse me, because these days, America is a very good place to live…

Shallow freedom hating savages right?with love,

~just ali

Already working on Good Ink Series 3

So I’ve got ideas flowing with the streetwear and I thought I’d release a little bit of the direction i’m taking for Good Ink’s series 3 with the Good Ink series 2 shirts barely released…

GOOD INK SERIES 2 RELEASED

Good Ink Clothing Series 2 Men’s Shirts Released!

Good Ink Clothing ONE LOVE SHIRT

Been burning the candle on both ends and making some headway with Good Ink.  Been a long road, almost a year now since Good Ink came out of hibernation, with this second series of mens (will be applied to women’s as well) shirts, its getting there.  One step at a time.

with love,

~ just ali

New Slideshow for Good Ink Clothing

So I had to do some quick learning and by 2:15 a.m I figured it out and now the site has a flash based slideshow on the homepage.  Finally the site has some movement, series 2 should have been released a minute ago but I need it to be perfect.  About to take the next step, stay up!  (But for now Imma go to sleep!)

with love,

~ just ali

Good Ink Clothing 2009 Sneak Peeks

GOOD INK CLOTHING sneak peek at some of the shirts for 2009’s next season.  Check it out.  More to come!

GOOD INK @ WORLD OF DANCE – SAN DIEGO AUG.29th

LOOK OUT FOR US!
Good Ink Clothing will have a 10×10 at the World Of Dance event this Saturday the 29th of August!