Steve and I met up with Jason and Laren, two of the three who started Invisible Children, for some breakfast and hang-out time.  By the simple act of telling a story that gripped them they have transformed the youth of America into a fund-raising, world-changing force.

They stopped by the [city of others] HQ out in LA and left rockin’ a pair of jeans each. Here we are, best buds in a classic jump shot:

Check out the screening schedule here because IC is probably going through your city and your school.

We just shipped our lovely jeans to our friends at RevolveClothing.com and they’re selling fast.

Check out the great fall photo they shot for us, and buy a pair before they’re gone!

Our good friend, speaker, and all-around brilliant human being Erwin McManus just wrote a new book called “Wide Awake” all about following your dreams and realizing that “it’s time to live, to create, to imagine, to dream…”

Erwin was a big part of our story (he actually fed us steak and let us sleep in his kids room one night because we were homeless when we first moved to LA) and he wanted to feature our story that led to the creation of [city of others]

Click these images to read our portion of the book and click here to buy it!

Daniel Corrigan, friend, savant, COOvangelist, and general art-man strikes again in leading the COO revolution.

He got out the ‘ol finger paints to rock the [city] colours on the walls of CalArt in Valencia, CA

What do you do for COO?

We love what Invisible Children is doing to stop the war in Northern Uganda and in educating the youth of our country. IC just sent out 60 “Roadies” whose job is to drive around the country showing the newest film that documents the awful conflict in Uganda. [city of others] made a custom black jean just for the Roadies because we believe in what they are doing and the power of sparking a movement through our young and creative generation.

Here’s some of the Roadies the day they left with their new jeans

Watch this video to see what being a roadie is all about:

The Roadies have a blog that you can check out here to see what they’re up to.

Steve and i just got back from a trip to NYC, we met our new friend James at a roof-top Yeasayer show. He is a rad kid from Williamsburg who makes shirts under the name Jawmaker and sells them Thursday’s and Sunday’s in Union Square.

Watch the doc…meet our new friend….buy a shirt (i bought two!)

Why hire people to build brackets in your NY showroom when you can hire Steve’s?

What have you built in the past week?

Yes it’s true….Steve Opperman recently turned 25 and to celebrate we had a theme party for him at our friend Winston’s loft in downtown LA. The theme was dress up as the many looks of Steve through the years.

Watch the video and look for the following:

-canada flag
-Steve Dubbeldam looking like he’s in Grade 6 (i even shaved just to complete my vintage Steve outfit)
-a real live gypsy band “The Blasting Co.”


*we will post the costume photos once we get our hands on them

We are really into camping….when you live in a city where you never even see grass it’s nice to get out to the wild (”wild” meaning a SoCal campground that has WiFi and paved roads….)

Anyways this is as close to Canada as you can get for LA so we’re not complainin

Where did you go camping this summer?

We had lunch with our good friend Brad from Grammy nominee Steriogram (you’ve heard their song in that iPod commercial) He was telling us all about his latest project Pistol Youth. It’s a rock n roll experiment crossing four bands and three countries… Brad from Steriogram, Michael from The Academy Is, Gavin from Wash, and Anders from The First Class Hitmen…

Here’s Bradley rockin his new [city of others

Watch this music video to can get a taste of Pistol Youth