Earth Day in SB

The Earth is definatley something to be celebrated and last weekend, I did just that at the Santa Barbara Earth Day festival at Alemda Park. I am proud to say that it was founded in Santa Barbara, CA in 1969 so the festival is something very special to the community. This year, I was pretty interested in the car show they had on display as I am looking to upgrade my wheels to something more functional. After Kilian and I munched on a French POrk Bánh mì from the O Street Truck, we went up to the SB Mountains with Courtney and Nick. Perfect way to watch the sunset and appreciate the peace of Earth I am the most grateful for ... SB!

 
The Future!

    

    

 

    

 

  

   

 
Check out Courtney's post here :)

Coachella 2012

Coachella always brings pleasant surprises, speechless musical performances, and memories that will last a lifetime and this year's Cocahella was no different. I was blessed with the means to attend this year's festivities with an amazing group of friends and my boyfriend Kilian. Big thanks to all the guys and gals over at Vestal for hosting an amazing weekend at the Vestal Village and thanks to everyone at Redbull for linking us in. 

Enjoy the pics!

We are almost there! 

 Welcome to the Vestal Village

I love Palm Springs. These fellas were camping right beside our RV, a nice touch to our scenery. 

Stoked to be at Coachella!

The Double Decker Redbull bus. 

Neff Headwear hits of the weekend.

Sahara Tent raging as always.

The boys <3

Ashley and I at the Sahara

Live art at the Vestal Village

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Take me back already!

The gnarliest slip and slide ever!

xoxo

Studio Visit with Mad Steez

Stoked to finally get a post up. I have been so busy with my new job at Neff Headwear that haven't really had time to blog it up so here we go...

As part of my new position at Neff, I was asked to go down South for a studio visit with artist Mad Steez. It was such an honor to hang out with him for a couple hours while my friend Tal and I interviewed him for the viral video that I posted below which highlights his piece in Sesame Street, an art show presented by The Seventh Letter and Neff Headwear benefiting the City of Hope's Pediatrics.  Here are a couple of shots I took in the studio...

Mad Steez is famous for his characters whom he calls Weens... This is a whole wall of Weens.

Paint everywhere

Mad Steez, the man behind the art direction of BL!SSS Mag and much more

His work space

Joey video taping Mad Steez for the vid

SKILLZ

Random findings in his studio

Tal playin' dress up

Getting ready for the interview 

Madsteez for Sesame Street @ Known Gallery from TheSeventhLetter on Vimeo.

Sesame Street:

Presented by The Seventh Letter & Neff Headwear

Benefiting City of Hope’s Department of Pediatrics

Show runs April 28-April 29, 2012

Known Gallery

441 North Fairfax Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90036

knowngallery.com

Hope to see you there! xoxo

WHAT YOUTH

What Youth from What Youth on Vimeo.

Troy and Becca's Visit To Cali

I am truly blessed to have such an amazing family! I can't tell you how long I was waiting for this trip to take place, but when it finally came, I was beyond happy! My first cousin Rebecca and her beau of 8 years Troy Kanuha came to visit me in Cali for a couple of days from the Big Island of Hawaii. We spent the days stay-cationing around SB and going to The Happiest Place on Earth... Disneyland. Here are a couple of pics from their trip to Cali!

A classic photo at the Santa Barbara Mission's Rose Gardens. 

What would a trip to SB be without wine tasting.... Here they are a Kunin in the Funk Zone

Yummy!

Inspiring hike at Inspiration Point

Cousins... double trouble!

The Jungle Boat ride at Disneyland

Look! It's a tiger!

This is pretty much my favorite ride...

Teacups!

Actually, Storybook Land is my favorite ride!

Agrabah!!

Did you know that all the plants on the Storybook ride are real and made to be miniature?! Some of them are one of the oldest things at the park! Amazing if you ask me.

Pure Magic

I was really scared... at The Hollywood Hotel !!

California Land

MWAH!

A night out in SB at The Savoy

So happy to have my family in town! Words cannot express! xoxoxo

Lagging

Sorry about the lack of posts!!! Big changes coming up! Thanks again for being so patient and stopping by my blog. xoxo

The 2012 Rincon Classic

This year in Santa Barbara surfing history, I was blessed to be apart of the amazing Rincon Classic 2012 surf contest staff! I was stoked to donate my time and energy to one of our community's most anticipated winter events and so happy to make some new friends along the way. A big thank you to contest director Chris Keets from Surf Happens and our sponsors including Channel Island Surfboards, Quicksilver, Teva Shoes, and many more! The event was a huge success! Can't wait till next year!

Stoked to have BL!SSS donate some mags to the event! 

Dane's beautiful girl Courtney 

Marcello's from Carpinteria's Pacfic Coast Cafe reppin Brazil's best... Açaí Frooty

Yummy treats all day

Jason Fiest from J7 Surfboards

Dr. Marc Grandle from Alki chiropractic and wellness

Dennis Rizzo and Megan Santanna

Stoked to have Teva be apart of this years event! 

Petey!

Your Longboard Champ Robert Curtis and his buddy Eli

 

 The Keets family, Alma taking some pics, and Frank Curren

Tommy Curren and his beautiful wife Maki

 

Chris Riel and Travers Adler

 Aubrey Falk and her hubbie Loren Luyendyk

World Champ Lisa Anderson

Blake and his buddy at the CI board demo

The amazing ladies of Teva

  Jesse Billauer from Life Rolls On and contest director Chris Keets

Brownie, Dave, and Keets

The Crowd

My beautiful friends! Love these chicas!

Our amazing staff! Jade & Eden:)

 

Watching the final 

Dane about to go out for the final

Dane and Petey Boy pre final

Jay Moriarty stunt double (aka Kilian Garland) and I at the awards ceremony

Demi Bolsteri winning the women's division for the year in a row

Men's pro final awards

Parker Coffin, Pete Mussio, Bobby Martinez, and Dane Reynolds

Your 2012 Rincon Classic winner... Mr Dane Reynolds

Official Results

Wahine:

1. Jesse Ransone

2. Abby Browne

3. Zoe Luna

4. Alanna Moore

5. Olivia Siemens

Women:

1. Demi Boelsterli

2. Aubrey Falk Luyendyk

3. Michelle Perry

4. Meghan Frontino

5. Lisa Wynn Luna

6. Olivia Siemens

Gremlins:

1. Eithan Osborne

2. Tommy McKeown

3. Jake Quittner

4. Ryder Alves

5. Zane Booth

6. Alden Capps

Boys:

1. Mickey Clarke

2. Jason Knell

3. Decker McAllister

4. Henry Hepp

5. Peter Healey

Juniors:

1. Charlie Fawcett

2. Decker McAllister

3. Christopher Imperato

4. Dryden Brown

5. Frank Curren

6. Beau Clark

Men:

1. Nate Winkles

2. Justin Paul

3. Dennis Rizzo

4. Gabe Venturelli

5. Sean Lesh

6. Tiago Portes

Masters:

1. Vince Perry

2. Gabe Venturelli

3. Greg Venable

4. Kas Alves

5. Max Cail

6. Jason Smith

Grand Masters:

1. Brett Jordan

2. Tony de Groot

3. Tony Luna

4. Chuck Graham

5. James McClintock

6. Dave Johnson

Legends:

1. Don Campbell

2. Kit Boise Cossart

3. Dave Johnson

4. Danny Bralver

5. Andy Neuman

6. Frank Morales

Longboard:

1. Robert Curtis

2. JP Garcia

3. Evan Trauntvein

4. Danny Bralver

5. Brad Frohling

6. Dave Johnson

Professional:

1. Dane Reynolds

2. Bobby Martinez

3. Pete Mussio

4. Parker Coffin

xox Kitty Cat

Fine Art Tattoos

Skin from Stamp on Vimeo.

Directed by Ryan Hope, Skin is a dark, stylish examination of tattoo culture as high art, and a film that tests the boundaries of art and the human body.

Featuring contributions from Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Raymond Pettibon, the film is a beautiful visual essay from the frontiers of contemporary British art.

www.stamplondon.com

www.garagemag.com

Bo Stanley on Vogue Italia.com!!

So excited to share this with you! A while back, I styled a shoot with my lovely friend & professional surfer Bo Stanley with Billabong's Designer's Closet. My photographer Rachel Moyer shot the photos and they are featured as part of Bo's profile on Vogue Italia.com for being a sexy surfer with curves as part of her Healthy is The New Skinny campaign! Congrats girl! Check out her whole feature here.

Bad Babes

Wildfox Summer 2012- Sirene:: Makena:: Big Beach

From the Wildfox site-

"We all wish we were part of a fairy tale, some magical creature in some great love story.

A little mermaid with pearls in her long pink hair gliding through the warm salty water, in love with some beautiful sailor who she sees on a ship, handsome brown eyes and a different world. Our lives are more similar to fairy tales than we think, and everywhere around us there is magic. White sand that glitters in the sun and gets stuck like diamonds to your skin, sugarcane fields under the clouds that taste sweet in the rain, running barefoot on the hot pavement to meet a boy in town, long days of summer where the moon comes out along with the sun.

Wildfox Summer collection is to be pulled on over a bikini, drying off from the water on a tropical island, sunkissed shoulders and smelling of sunscreen & coconut oil. It is for little mermaids everywhere who belive in their own fairy tale coming true."

Photos: Mark Hunter (thecobrasnake)

Model: Charlotte Free

Makeup: Karina Moore

Hair: Anna Lee Fiorino

Styling: Cassandra Kellogg, Kimberley Gordon, Emily Faulstich

Photo Edit: Kimberley Gordon

I JUST LOVE THIS SHOOT!! I have been anxiously awaiting it since I saw a photo post on Wildfox a bit ago... my Mom and Aunt live pretty close to Makena aka Big Beach in Kihei Maui and I knew that they had done a shoot there... It is my favorite beach on Maui... the water is just so turquoise & warm! Swooning! Big Ups to the girls at Wilfox for making dreams come true for all of us mermaid lovers.

xoxo Kitty Cat

FIN: A C.R. Stecyk III Film

CR Stecyk III combines forces with Hurley. Check out the trailer of his new short film Fin. Wishing I could go to this event... Check it out if you are in Costa Mesa.

Interview with CR on Surfer Mag here.

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography By Stacy Peralta

This past Thursday was a night I will never forget! It was the second showing, after the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, of the skateboarding documentary The Bones Brigade: An Autobiography by the one and only Stacy Peralta. The Santa Barbara Film Festival welcomed Stacy's new flick into this year event and I am more than happy to say it was well received. Skate One (also known as Powell-Peralta Skateboards) had about 300 guests in town for this event and I was on board to host skateboarding's finest industry representatives and some of the biggest names in professional skateboarding history. Here are some of Kilian and I's pictures of the event and I have listed some more press and their links below. Thank you to everyone who came up to watch the film and helped with this amazing production.

Jon Friedman and the legendary Dogtown member Jay Adams

Kilian getting interviewed by the Film Festival

The One and Only Craig Steyck III and his lovely designer friend!

Aaron Estorga, Jake Lyons, and Jay Adams

Rachel Moyer, Jay Adams, and I

The Bones Brigade on stage for the Q & A after the event

My date and I... the lovely Kilian

My bestie Rachel and I

This guy... Billy Baker!

After party at The Canary Hotel rooftop that I helped organize

Lance Mountain and I

Stacy Peralta and freestyler Kilian Martin

The voice of skateboarding and OG Dagger member- Dave Duncan and I

Mike Taylor, Aaron Estorga, Mike McGill, and Erik Miller

Reggie Barnes, Jim Tesnar, and Mimi Knoop

Stacy Peralta, Jim Gray, Todd Hastings, Rodney Mullen, and Steve Olson

Transworld did a little video- check it out


Here is also a pic I snagged from Transworld ... the Red Carpet

Transworld Skateboarding

Thrasher Magazine
Larry Ransom.com 
Shop Eat Surf

Thanks again!! xox

Come As You Are

LOVING the new lookbook on Style Stalker, featuring the beautiful 4th And Bleeker, photos by the amazing Kimberly Gordon of Wildfox

 

<3 <3 <3 photoshoots at the skatepark! 

xoxo Kitty Cat

8 Things I learned at the Martin Scorsese Santa Barbara Film Festival Event

This year, I have been extraordinary lucky to attend many culturally and creatively deep events at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Perhaps the high light of my experience during this year's Santa Barbara Film Festival has got to be a night with the legendary film director Martin Scorsese for the presentation of the prestigious American Riviera Award. They started off the evening with a montage of his film career that included hand picked clips by Scorsese himself including Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Hugo in 3-D, Street Scenes, & Raging Bull.  If you are not familiar with Scorsese's work, make sure to watch catch up on Casino, The Departed, Gangs of New York, & many more.

I took away many things over the course of the three hour event and I was so inspired that I had to share my new found knowledge and appreciation for the great director here on Mischief.

Here are a couple of things I took away from the event:

1. Martin is a Roman Catholic Italian from New York City. I learned that this why I love a lot of his movies so much and why my family also adores them, as my father's family is from Long Island, NY, Italian, and Catholic- hence the reason I was so culturally inspired, his stories reminded my of my Italian family.

2. Most of his earlier films were inspired by what was occurring around him on the streets and his personal experiences.

3. Robert Dinero and Martin have know each other since childhood, but realized it a litter later on while have Christmas dinner at a mutual friends house.

4. Martin allows his actors to do improvise at times- to be fully creative in their finest moments on screen- and trust them like Robert Dinero in Taxi Driver... I learned that this scene was improv.

5. Hugo is the first film that Martin has made that is appropriate for his daughter to watch- whom is 12.

6. Hugo is about the birth of film- but incorporates the most modern technologies currently available in the motion picture business.

7. Martin made a documnetary about Italian's in America- and based it off a couple sessions with his parents at their home in NY.

8. Martin is up for 11 Academy awards this year including Best Picture and Best Director.

A Clip from the Santa Barbara News

Martin on stage for the event

I also wanted to ad that when he accepted his award he brought the audience into tears! It was truly amazing!!

Happy Movie Watching.