A couple of days ago our brand manager at our factory, MJ, took me to the old capitol of Korea. It was the capitol about 1K years ago. We went to a museum and a beautiful functioning Buddhist Temple. It was really amazing.

I’ve been working in Asia for the past 3 weeks, in visiting a factory I came across the original Burton snowboard boot, it had been produced there. This is significant for me, because when I started snowboarding in Tahoe in 1986 there was no board specific gear. The first season we ever snowboarded there was only two places in Tahoe that you could ride Donner Ski Ranch and Boreal. At Boreal you actually had to go through a certification test to go any higher then the bunny slopes. My best friend skated for Sessions so Joel loaned us a couple of Sims boards and told us to wear wet suits under our clothes to stay dry and duct tape our Sorrel’s. The first day we rode at Donner it was dumping with 2 feet of powder but fun as hell. We rode all season like that. About a year later Pete came over my house excited with a box in his hand containing the first snowboard boots we had ever seen, Burton. It changed our teenaged lives.

About a year ago I got an e-mail from Cameron Silver saying he went to an event with Hamish Bowles wearing a pair of our shoes and that he loved them and wondered if we could connect him with a pair. Seeing Cameron has supported Generic Man since day one and every day since then, I of course obliged. Then Adam from 21arrondissement sent this over today, Hamish Bowles on a Sartorialist post wearing the pair of the Azzurro Tuxmans. He looks great in them and I’m glad he’s putting them to good use.

The Canyon party at The Ace Hotel Palm Springs last weekend was amazing. They’re really great guys and we had special guest appearances by Eugene [SF] and Christine Renee [LA]. Super chill relaxing in the sun type of day. The Ace is such a great place to just hang out at and play music. I recorded some of the day in the DJ booth but ran out of tape and my wife and Christie kept ordering bottles of wine so the last 10 hours or so were not filmed. There was a beautiful outdoor dinner party and disco all night in the Amigo room but it’s all a bit of a blur. It was very very fun. Trust me.

Interview with the Canyons but screaming kids decided to jump in the hot tub so the sound quality is not the greatest.

Kevin getting the day started.

Dancing Baby during Christine Renee’s set.

A melodic groove by Eugene

Canyon video mix

Gotta give Cutty Ranks some respect on this live Sleng Teng riddim chant.

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Michel Vedette in “Sunset Souvenir”

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