June 2009
1 post
summertime
Summer is here. This blog hasn’t been touched in months but that doesn’t mean we’ve all dropped dead. Upkeep has been a little lax but we’ve still got product on our hands for those of you who want it.
Regardless of how much we’ve been (or haven’t been) publishing work on this site, the important thing is that we all keep creating. Rest assured that that is...
March 2009
3 posts
SSSSSAAAAALLLLLEEEEEE!!!!
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF OUR STOCK IS CURRENTLY ON SALE!
get it before it all runs out and we move on to the next line!
Tees - $20 >$12!
Sweatshirts - $40>$30!
Hats - $20>$15!
go go go buy buy buy
MILK
have you seen it?
because i have. and you should.
and may god strike me down down where i sit if slumdog millionaire was worth best picture against that.
and an interesting tidbit; one of passé’s very own founding fathers, mr. jake mendales, is a semi (though not very) distant relative of the late harvey milk. he was like his grandma’s cousin or something. so sitting next to him as...
woooow
it would seem as though we here at passé have been very neglectful in our site upkeep duties. it seems that way because it is that way. we’ve all been mad busy with school and other shit and whatever, but we have good news for any of you who still stumble our way every once in a while on your travels through the internet…
we are going to have a massive sale to try to move the...
February 2009
1 post
apologies
sorry for the recent lack of activity within passé empire. we’ve been encountering some technical difficulties within the website, so i don’t even know if you can see this post right now. if you still check out the site, and the front page isn’t popping up, you can enter the site here.
for some passé news… be prepared for some possible blow-out sales come march. once...
January 2009
2 posts
bruiser cruisers
official passé spoke cards. prototypes are floating around on some official bruiser cruiser’s bicycles… watch for their release and mash in style. as if there were any other way to do it…
GET EM BEFORE FIXIES STOP BEING SO HIP!!!!!!!
cam!!
get CREATIVE
now that passé has been fully up for about a month, we have traversed the country spreading the word. this word is usually in the form of a 4x4 inch sticker. here are a few more creative tags to inspire you to get weird with your advertisement.
shoot us an email if you want a sticker pack. (they come for free with purchase of some fresh threads)
-jake!!
December 2008
9 posts
hibernation
needless to say we’ve been a little out of touch over the past weeks. holidays and all that… hope all of yours were as good as ours. the new year is right around the corner, and we are working on a new line to put in your hands and on your backs. be on the lookout and continue to support. we love it and we love you.
boston
you’re about to be hit. hard. and i’m not talking about the 6-12 inches of snow. be on the lookout.
-jake of your boston passé sector.
on the road...kind of
so matt and i have been driving up the west coast, terrorizing jacuzzis in the woods and public parking lots along the way. things were grand and the drive was incredible until we got to around santa cruz. the turbo started to sound like crash bandicoot and in turn our transmission is now almost SHOTIFIED! needless to say, we will not be braving Shasta in the worst snowstorm since whenever, and...
my apologies
the lapse in time since the last blog update has been far too great. for this i apologize. we’ve been super busy with many things other than passé, (namely finals, which can totally “s” a “d”.) but we still have lots of shit happening with our different artists and a few things happening ourselves.
both tyler phillips and taylor higginbotham are dangerously close to...
web fix/tyler phillips
so we’ve got the site up and running and we’re all really excited. the bugs should be fixed with all the different browsers by now, so you should all be enjoying it, no matter what your viewing with. don’t hesitate to shoot us an email or comment these blog posts with any comments or feedback or just to tell us you dig it cuz that is all music to our ears.
in other news, one of...
site stuff
so, if you haven’t already visited, our new site is up, but chances are most of you are reading this embedded into the home page. there are a few minor bugs with browsers other than safari, but we are working all of them out today and we should be fully operational on all browsers by the end of the day. take a look around, take in the different art. dig it. don’t dig it. do whatever...
the site is up!
forget reading the rest of this post. just go to http://www.passeisanempire.com. it’s been a pretty intense past couple of days, with late nights and a whole lot of kick-ass-ness from joe ball. everything is now up: all the info on all our artists in film, design, photography, literature and music. and now you can check out the clothes on the site, and then wear it a few days later by...
workeatsleep
so we’ve been going absolutely apeshit over our new website, pouring in so much time and energy into the creation of something that we hope some of you will think is kinda cool. its really been consuming us, so we hope you guys will appreciate it. massive ups to joe ball, who has been bending over backwards to meet our every perfectionist need in the building of this site, not to mention the...
Chem Sucks
Studying does not help. Staying up for several nights and believing you know the material does not help. Chemistry is a mystery that apparently will not reveal her secrets to me. Right now I should be watching deaf poetry in class… sound interesting to you? Its not. So ill write real poetry instead.
The truths of man held self evident/do not make a man heaven bent/but the taxes and the...
November 2008
27 posts
WWF
so i always see those wwf, (world wildlife fund), bumper stickers with those pictures of the panda, and i never knew what they were. i only thought “world wrestling federation”. i found this on the internet and it is hilarious.
far more hilarious than michael moore talking about elementary school shootings in “bowling for columbine”. almost anything is more hilarious...
happy thanksgiving
from all of us to you. go give your grandmother a kiss for me and prepare yourself for delicious little cold turkey sandwiches on tiny bread rolls for the next three weeks.
-cam
sunday afternoons...
…are great for sitting at your mother and father’s house, listening to your dad take your spot in your band out in the music room, sitting at your computer and blogging about how great the two most important things in your life are coming along: #1) the website. joe ball is designing it and it is looking so effing sick. i have no idea when it will be done, but he is working fast as...
orders and inspiration
been a few days since we’ve tended to this, but there isn’t a shit ton that we’ve been doing. just expanding our family and makin’ sales. if you know any of us that run the clothing line personally, (cameron, nick, james, or jake), and you want some goods, let us know and we can arrange to bring some pieces back to our respective birthplaces over thanksgiving. or if you...
new artist
we are super happy to introduce another new artist into the passé empire, Tyler Giordano. he does really incredible work with paint and illustration, and we will definitely try to get some of his stuff into a few lines in the near future. check it out here.
i don’t have the technological wherewithal to figure out how to post pictures in that format directly onto this blog, so you are just...
Watchthis is one of joe ball’s short films entitled “car crash”. part of a series he did called sound solutions. the whole collection can be found here! check all of them out because they are insane!
artist's collective
soooo…when people tell me they visited this blog, the first thing they say is that they were confused. i tell them to go here to check us out and see what we’re all about, but seeing as to how this is a blog, and not yet a legit website (soon to come, though), there is no mission statement anywhere to let you guys know exactly what it is we’re doing.
basically, this is an...
i love facebook...
…and facebook loves me.
these are people’s profile pictures on their facebooks. take a pic with some goods and we’ll jag to it.
keep reppin. we love it and we love you.
check it
so we’ve posted a grip of pictures of the line here and there, from all kinds of weird angles and in all kinds of stacks and shit, but we have yet to provide you with a straightforward, no nonsense look at what we just released, in its entirety…until now. we just did another photo-shoot with our go to photographer hana lee, and these are just some simple edits of the photos that i...
Look
Guys and Biddies. I throw spears and make tears dribble down your face like its a race to see who is the biggest baby. Your gonna pay me one day to buy my rhymes off a shelf and thank me for the time i spent on yourself. Here’s an excerpt of a poem about you (you know who you are [or you dont… thats awkward]).
Look accross the room/ and stand transfixed./You wish the horrid wound/...
times are tough
only two things on my mind. the incarceration of two of our very good friends, tom and sharif, and, of course, shredding. hard. so i figured i would map out my brain onto this blog with a few telling photos.
^t-shirts someday?? would you rock em?
so hard to focus on my academics when there is so much going on, but don’t worry mom, your money is well spent.
-cam
updates
now that the line is out, you would think that our workload would greatly decrease as we just sit back and count money…this is not the case AT ALL. we’ve been doing some really cool work with the line, namely spending hours and hours attaching numbered tags on the clothes BY HAND! that was not very sick but it was cool to see the idea of hand numbering the items materialize. so now if...
printing the line
as promised, we took like a million pictures of our epic work day yesterday, and now is the time that we share them with all of you. i hope this makes you even half as excited as it makes us, because we are pretty flipping excited. check it.
matt guerrero. his car doors don’t work so he hops through the sunroof to enter his vehicle. the sunroof doesn’t close either. matt is heavy...
the line is done!
massive celebrations are in order. we have all the shirts and sweatshirts printed for the fall 08 line. we are picking the hats up on tuesday, and you should all be very excited.
we took plenty of photographs from the incredible weekend, and we will collect them throughout the day, and should have a huge post containing all of them later today. so check back!
one love, cam.
computers!!
ok so last night, my internet went down, so i asked matt to take care of some really basic text editing on here. manageable enough. when i woke up this morning, i noticed he had taken it upon himself to go ahead and just delete allllll the html coding, so that when you went to this page, it was literally just a plain white screen… so matt, i don’t know where you went wrong last night...
progression
matt is an extremely un- successful porn star who designed the majority of our fall line, which comes out early next week. here’s an update on some of his work. get to know it.
I spend alot of my time reading poetry at the library, driving around San Diego by myself, drawing, and watching pornography. Just kidding. I only read poetry at home. Recently, I have developed a pretty gay sleeping...
comments enabled
hey so i just added the function of commenting on every post we throw up here. so utilize it pleeeease. this is really gonna run off your feedback, so like, let us know what you dig/ don’t dig. and if you have any ideas for any type of work you’d like to do with us or that you’d just like to see us do, shoot us an email at passeempire@gmail.com. just feel free to make yourself a...
Sur5 the H8
More intensity from Nick Howe
The changes are coming/ and the wind will blow/ reason away to another/season astray of the common/ walls of peace./ Lead me/ to resin8/ in your 42d/ of soft desire/ and 1/ may make me able 2/ see the h8tred in your I’s/ the pain in your lies.
-Nicholas Sterling Howe
I heard Obama is gonna give a Cadillac to every...
its gonna be a great four years in america
the most interesting man in the world
have you ever seen those dos equis commercials for the most interesting man in the world? well we met him tonight. in the form of a 17 year old korean girl named hana lee. pretty fascinating. the stories kept going long after they got too ridiculous to be true. so whatever, thats one thing. but she’s also bomb at photography and i’m crazy excited to maybe do some work with her if...
The Shattered Prince
This is a poem by Nick Howe, a partner of Passé and a genius with words. real archaic kind of medieval flow, so vibe on it. hard.
“In the midst of nowhere lies the broken, shattered prince. No beacons to the rescue, No crying nun to fuss and sigh, “Oh what have you done dear boy?” Lost, scared, and alone, The nobleman stands to wince Away the shamed shackles of impending...
the empire strikes back
PASSÉ is a collective of artists in all mediums, with an emphasis in design as of right now. once we get our toes wet though and a little money in our pockets, we’re branching off to launch a full campaign in support of all the arts. we’ll be producing records for artists we dig, we’ll be printing photographic and literary work in self published zines, funding film production,...