Throttle Merchants

A couple of weeks ago, Matt & I went over to Jon Fisher's pad to shoot his home/garage for our photo mag, Throttle Merchants Magazine. I'm glad to be apart of this whole thing because throughout the past year or so, I've met a lot of cool people. Jon Fisher is a member of the Burbank Choppers. He's an illustrator/artist and has a bitchin house, awesome cars/bikes, memorabilia, a cool collection of art and is married to a down-to-earth and swell chick.

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Candid Cool

In my opinion, Dita Von Teese has come a very long way. I remember when she came out with her burlesque book- i thought it was the most fascinating thing. I was happy to see her develop a career while making the "pinup" look something to be noticed. Nowadays, she's a style icon. She's in magazines, in the news, has the most popular "striptease" show around. I've been following her (not in a creepy sense) since I was a teenager, browsing through her photos to come up with style ideas. Of course, I obviously don't dress this way anymore, that rockabilly look, but I will always love it. Truthfully, I'm much too lazy nowadays to pull this look off. Anyway, some of my favorite looks of Dita's are when she's somewhat casual- well, in her terms...

@ Coachella

Dressed down in dresses

Favorites in hairstyles

in hats

Dressy Bessy

New York, I Love You

There are just some things that could only happen on the East Coast and I've always had this hankering to live there sometime in my life. It seems that all of the films & books I fell in love with at an early age were never based on the West. The jazz scene was hot in the South first- then the eastern coast and then the West. Popular shows on broadway.... The Palace..."THE" Palace New York meant you were big-time. Then there's my favorite books, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Great Gatsby... the text undeniably basks in the glory and charm of New York... East egg, West egg, Williamsburg, the rich, the poor. Sure, LA has numerous amounts of jazz clubs & somewhere there is a cabaret-like night scene.... I've seen jazz bands live, i've indulged in it... but, there is still something about New York. The historic Governors Island, NY has been holding an outdoor party now for three years. ALL about the Jazz Age- the Charleston, vintage cars, Bathing Beauties, music, clothing, costume, pie-eating, PURE celebration.....et cetera. This June marked its third year and i'm determined to attend this party/picnic in the very, very near future.

Governors Island Jazz Age Lawn Party, a 2 day event.

(images from the past 3 yrs)

& a photo via The Sartorialist: New York Easter Parade 09.

all images via The Sartorialist, Flickr and A Cup of Jo