Music Video Premiere

A couple Saturdays ago...Bobby and I woke up very very early and headed to the skate ramp with our gear, 100 tennis balls and 4 really awesome dudes. A couple hours of fun and THIS fucking masterpiece was created!!

Love of Everything from Kyle Obriot

ALSO....

Our records finally came!!!

So you can buy the real thing HERE or if you prefer go get it off iTunes by clicking THIS

NEW LOVE OF EVERYTHING ALBUM!!

TIME TO CELEBRATE

Here's pretty much the best song ever - Fear of Missing Out
off of Best In Tensions, hopefully out sometime soon..

This song was the most fun ever to record - I played with tennis balls instead of drumsticks and we had soooo many friends come sing with us.
Mega thanks again to Tim Kinsella, Jeanine O'Toole, Eric Block, Seth Bohn, Jeremy Bolen, Chris Hansen, Matt Holland, and Caitlin Kerr :)

Day Off - Berlin Day 2

Yay - Day off in Berlin. Very stoked because we didn't get to see anything at all yet. Also a little bummed to learn a little too late that The Mae Shi were in Berlin that night too. Love those dudes.

Chris Hansen "Paletazo" he has his own driver and likes pizza

Björn's beautiful house that he let us stay at

who get's to sleep on the couch?

/Dima points to Hansen

"Old Man"

Berlin (or at least this part of the eastside we were in) is full of amazing flower shops, children's toy stores, hip-hop apparel/spray paint and punk squats

nice breakfast in a nice place - shame it took over an hour to get our food. the only thing that needed to be cooked was 3 fried eggs and one scrambled egg - my croissant had better be made to order

we are here

Berlin Wall - for realz. This was Chris and I's first time in Berlin so we had to see at least one thing historic

this is some heavy shit

minds blown - need a break at a tropical beach?

sooooo there was this random like oasis beer garden kinda place along the wall so we stopped to hang out in the sand and look at the river

drinking and riding INTO THE FUTURE - totally allowed

Berlin at dusk

Uncle Hansen made a group salad - apparently the large salad is assemble yourself

fucking delicious punk rock pizza

BFFs

"can we have our check?"

"ok, what kind of shots do you want?"

WTF Germany!

Hanging out at KPTN

Never have I see someone sooooo good at foozeball - Björn you are some kind of table soccer god

Group Tour photo - Bands, Driver, Booking Agent :)

I would like to see you in the morning - Bobby Burg

Toby and Conrad - Ciao Choosey

If you are a friend of mine you'll understand
a) that I drew this
b) what it means

2am stumble back to the house - ran into our friend the Dildo King. Putting Big and Hunky to shame, he needs this kind of publicity

Really wish we had more time in Berlin, we barely scratched the surface on everything that is cool about it - plus I didn't buy one thing for myself and there was about 100 stores I walked into and loved but there was just not enough time to make good decisions. Thanks soooo much to Björn for this whole tour - it's fucking rad. Super stoked to finally meet you and it's awesome that we all got along so well, I can't wait to come back to Berlin!!!!!!

Freiburg, Germany

Guten tag!

So day one of our million day tour was so perfect that everything else is just going to be a disappointment. Well, hopefully not, but seriously major fun and awesome times. Here are some of the highlights of Day 1.

the international terminal at O'Hare is a joke

SARS

Bird Flu

H1N1

we beat the system by taping our sleeping bags together and thus only checking 2 pieces each which, by the way, were FREE! Air India rules - don't let that 1985 bombing fool you.

parkour

hanging out at the Frankfurt airport

Schiltach - prettiest town in the Black Forest

home of Hänsel und Gretel, Rumpelstilzchen, and Witches to be burned

Bobby stoked to be here

The Black Forest - beautiful photo taken by Chris Hansen. Totally looks like a Robert Bateman painting.

Punk Slumber Party

seriously 3 ingredients but the best snack ever

we were spoiled, 5 different kinds of vegan cakes

Paletazo

Fun Bobby

Serious Bobby

lockpick pornography

actually it explains how to lock yourselves together when protesting, but I like to imagine it's about how to pick a lock

romantic candlelight vegan dinner - thanks Arne for the most delicious food ever

Paletazo fan - Gerald

Bobby and Arne pretending to be 15 and drinking in the backseat

but it's allowed here!

Hilariously Awesome!!!!

3am hallway - everyone's sleeping and I'm in the office uploading photos.

SXSW SNAPSHOTS

It's been 4 days since we've left Texas and yet I'm still in SXSW mode.
We went to see Ratatat on Monday night, Bobby DJ'd on Tuesday and last night was Mannequin Men at the Bottle.
Tonight is no different, Lichens (Rob Lowe), BARR (Brendan Fowler), and Tom Greenwood with Ron Burns and Chris Johanson at Heaven.
When will this madness end?


At least I managed to sit in front of my computer for hours on end somewhere in between shows and make all these fantastic photos.
I had the idea whilst in Austin looking around at all the dusty, dirty, hippy-esque kids to make all my boring, pristine digital photos look like polaroids!
I've never owned a polaroid camera, and now it looks like I will never have the chance (at least to be able to afford the film).
Thank you photoshop.
Enjoi!