Mark from Royal Shine working on Robbie’s car as Robbie looks on.
Alain’s horribly sun faded headlights before.
And just as good as new after.
Gleaming.
Time for a cruise to snap some necks!
For more info, visit the full feature on Zen Garage Blog.
Another day another shoot! Jasmine (who was really fun to shoot) rocking our brand new Zen Garage Script Crewneck. No concept this time, just a straight out shoot as it’s always nice to try to get our new gear shot (she’s wearing an XS btw). Find the crewneck in our shop.
That’s my key! My heart skipped a beat when I first saw this piece by George Nova. The detail is AMAZING.
James Hunt by Zoran Nova.
James Jirat x Trent Grubel x Zen Garage.
Last night we hosted our very first Cars Zen Art show at Zen Garage. Was a great night of great conversations, great music, cold beers and great art. Many more photos on Zen Garage.
I shot Bettina today for BLACKHAWX. You can view the full feature on Zen Garage.
Was a fun shoot. Betty’s a good mate and an awesome model. Was a rainy grey day today but I wasn’t at all nervous about shooting in low light. Shooting smoke was challenging but I’m really happy with how the shots came out.
Really proud of this new crewneck we’ve just released. The quality is next level for us. Lettering by Lily Ha, more pics and info here.
James_jirat_short from 25 – xxv.com.au on Vimeo.
Love this punchy little video by 25 and SUNNY. Made my day. It makes me blush! Hehe. It features the amazing James Jirat, and the Zen sponsored Formula Ford race car. Enjoy!
Hosted on the 6th floor of the MCA as part of VIVID Sydney.
Fuck the haters.
Living legends.
Last night I caught a talk by Mike Giant and Joshy D of REBEL8 at the MCA. I’ve been pretty excited about this, like all talks they can go either way, either super inspirational or super boring but I’m glad to say that last night’s talk got me so fired up about Zen and the path I’m on that I talked Jess‘ ear off at dinner, and have been high ever since!
Mike (REBEL8’s head artist) kicked off the talk, the guy swears every third word and just a few minutes in he confessed that he’s moved to Colorado because they’ve legalised weed, which is what he loves to do, that and creating art, riding, skating, practising meditation (he’s quite into Buddhism) and being blessed as he generally gets to do whatever he wants to do in life.
Joshy D took the stage for the 2nd half. He’s the sole owner of REBEL8, which he started with $500 in 2003 and struggled for 3+ years before he started to make it (11 years strong now!). The guy’s a beast, and has worn every single hat in the business (and continues to do much more than just one person’s work).
The talk geed me up so hard as it had everything to do with Zen. Maintaining authenticity within a brand while growing, consistency was a massive topic of discussion, so too credibility and original content.
End of the day these guys hustle, hard and after hearing them out I have an overwhelming sense of confirmation that I’m on the right path. I feel armed and fired up about Zen’s future!
Visit: http://rebel8.com
Skinnie Minnie and Fatty Boomsticks! A couple of 911’s rocked up to Zen today. A fat GT2 replica and a gorgeous 912 shorty.
On Mondays the Zen shop in Leichhardt is shut, on our day off we like to go on adventures. All plans when out the window when Robbie (Zen’s shop manager) rocked up at my place, from there we got a call from a mate who needed help with registering his car. Off we were to Chatswood. Adventure Time!
Miserable weather, but hey, Robbie’s E30 is a lovely place to be.
Spotted a Porters across the road from the RTA. Ducked in looking for a vintage bottle of my fave red. Scored big time!
We spotted these re-release Ninja Turltes at Toys R Us.
Robbie made a bee line right for the Hotwheels section and boom, what a deal!
Nice choices huh? Dave chose a good time to start his first collection.
A small donation got me a balloon (which I forced Dave to carry around for the rest of the day haha).
Gundam poster outside this shop (Hobby Z) said it all.
Rad!
Very cool.
We were super tempted to buy a rocket (and everything else in the store pretty much!).
Spotted up high on top of some shelves.
Z-Tune!
Mini-z track which you can hire.
Z!
Tabi! Traditional Japanese socks! Next door was Daiso Japan, a store where everything on sale is $2.80.
Strange and wonderful.
Ear muffs?
Robbie cleaning up.
Dat Purple Drank!
Feeding the birds at Nick’s place.
Nike.
Those God rays.
Cruising.
Back at the Bra.
Dave stole my lighter at some point, he swore it was his, turns out we both had brown bic lighters haha.
They tell you never to open them, but we pretty much pushed Dave to crack open his Bozo car.
And ooooh daym! These little cars just come to life when you take them out of the box!
SO AWESOME!
YEW!
We took the EF out too, such a fat little thing!
