Karl New York City, United States of America.

I’m a little concerned about how much luggage I’m going to have, and I’ve been investigating the size & durability of my bike in this Tardis Bike Bag. It’s looking good, and I’m looking forward to rolling through Tokyo in about 3 weeks!

Yes, the No Comply Festival is about to unleash it’s fury across Melbourne & Sydney, and to celebrate, NiceProduce.com has worked with some of the biggest influences in street wear to produce a limited edition range of T’s.

NiceProduce got in touch with legendary skateboard influence and photographer Steve “Stevie G” Gourlay to develop this classic box look.

Definitely something I’m proud of. Nice work, Alex.

Not the most amount of fun I’ve ever had. Urgh.

Thanks to Andy Fyxomatosis I now have a lovely new 47t polished metal chainring that was made right here in Australia. Time to represent AU in the EU.

This weeks Drink of the week is something I’m very fond of. I’ve been investigating the Australian selection of stouts and was happy with what I was drinking, however it wasn’t until I took the plunge into Coopers Best Extra Stout that I realised that my journey was complete.

True to stout flavour with the aromas of spicy fruit and a slightly creamy, slightly bubbly texture, this little bugger weighs in at a lovely 6.3%, which means one long neck is almost 4 standard drinks. It’s seem me stuck to the couch many a night this past few months.

For the lads who like their beer with a kick… get on this baby.

(Michael Rasmussen, Manuele Mori, Florent Brard, Michael Boogerd)

Allow me to draw your attention to Timm Kölln.

I don’t need to say much more than just visit his site and admire some most excellent portraiture.

(Stolen via Fyxomatosis)

So wandering through my Flickr Statistics this morning, I noticed quite a steady amount of traffic coming from Hivemind.

From the website:

Flickr photo searching of Interestingness, Tags, Users, Groups (discussion) Courtesy of Fiveprime.org and MalcolmMacdonald.org. Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: metadata tags; Flickr photography groups; Flickr users and their contacts and favorites; text annotation; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness

Apparently my Yashica photos (based on Hivemind) are amongst the World’s Best.

I’m a little dubious about this claim, however it’s a pretty rad idea!

This week I had the lovely people from Projecto Gallery contact me and request to license some of my photos for their gallery in Yorkshire, UK. They have a similar business model as Red Bubble, however what got me over the line was the fact that they have a real gallery in Yorkshire and will be exhibiting my work there.

From their website:

Not only are we a website, we are soon to be a brick and mortar store too! From the end of October, we will have a brand spanking new gallery in the village of Silsden which is just a stones through away from the Yorkshire Dales. On top of our fantastic print collection, we will stock jewellery from up and coming designers such as Katherine Cooper and Julie Eden alongside a vast range of beads and findings to help the budding jewellery designer.

I’ll keep you updated with the goings on.

The new Visvim Fall/Winter line is slowly dropping in Japan.

I’m a big fan of the E-Cat Messenger series. I currently use a Spring/Summer 08 30L bag to help me get from A to B and it’s perfect. Has been known to carry 6 packs, bottles of wine, a Nintendo Wii + extra controllers, loads of NiceProduce and more. The 18L will be better for my daily commute, but the 30 seems to do fine for those unexpected days of carrying booze.

I just wish the dollar was still strong against the yen seeing as I’ll be at FIL / Visvim in about 4 weeks from now.

I wonder what else I can sell.

Today I took one final visit to Shifter Bikes. The main reason I went in was to give my bike a quick check up and to get some friendly advice on how to look after it when riding in the snow. Last time I did that, we replaced the bottom bracket and water came out. Always pays to have a professional sniff about your bike.

I take my hat off to Dan (pictured) for being patient with us needy bike lovers, for providing professional and for the most TLC for bikes you’ll EVER get in this country.

See you on the 31st. Beers for you, Dan!