We Have Moved

We had moved. Just go to www.freshcotton.com and find the blog on the homepage of our brand new site. Direct link here

Pi'ette

I found this Parra booklet in a bookstore here in NYC. It's real nice. Apparently this guy's from Amsterdam...

Guess where I'm going tonight?

Skylife

Supreme round 1

Don't believe the hype, but Supreme always makes really nice stuff.

Almost perfect...

Today we went to the Met (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). When you think of a museum, you think of this. Rembrandts, van Goghs, mummies, Greek statues, the whole shebang. Except for dinosaurs, nope no dinosaurs.

 

If you are annoyed by people with little those little gay dogs, it's not a new trend it's been done forever.

They even had a Wemoto print up there.

Like in streetwear they had an overkill of the ancient Egyptian arts.

They also had an Arms and Armour section, which was fucking cool. Guns, knifes, swords, axes and of course armour.

cuisine a la Ben-G # 3

Chilli and cheese hot-dog straight from the street.

Start Spreading the News...

Emmelie from FUCT gave me the tip to visit Blue Ribbon Sushi. Well she knows her food, thanks.

This is for my roommate Harry:

Loads of good records stores.

Kate Hhhhhmmmoss

I didn't sleep with my girlfriend before and she had a 'little' surprise for me.

Cuisine a la Ben-G # 2

It's no Aunt Emma's, but still we had a good breakfast.

Eline: Pancakes with bacon.

Me: Spanish omelette with potatoes and toast.

And off course big mug of good ol' American coffee.

Benny, you know I'm not showing you all the healthy food I'm eating. Because I know that would disappoint you.

Chinky Town

New York meets China.

A lot of ducks in Chinky Town.

Howling wolfs are cool everywhere.

This is a high-end Chinese store, filled with high-end Chinese junk.

This guy was really creepy. He wanted me to take a picture of his bald spot, he looked at it and then wanted me to touch it. Just learn English and tell me what's wrong, alright?

Paaaaaaaaaaaaarty!

Cuisine a la Ben-G # 1

This is specially for Benny, if you follow his blog a little you might know he's addicted to American food.

Benny this was great, me and Eline shared a home-made cheeseburger and a Mexican Chicken Diabolo sandwich served with home-made fries.

This was just lunch and it was great, fucking A!

New York, New York, Big City of Dreams

So me and my girl flew in to NYC yesterday. And luckily the Big Apple had a nice birthday present waiting for me; a whole lot of rain.

But wet streets give a nice effect in pictures.

Today was a pretty amazing day though, about 28 degrees Celsius and a perfect blue sky.

My girl got me this car for my birthday, but it already got stolen. Damn you New York City!

We passed by the Church of Sixpack in the Lower East-side. Didn't know they had such a big following out here.

Check back daily for more NY updates.

Streetlab

Are you going to Streetlab? I'm already in the subway.

Freshcotton Collection Fall 08

We have always made our own T-shirts with different artists, but from now on we're going to drop 4 serious collections a year. Put togehter by none other than my buddy Friso (Freshco).  The first one contains 26 T-shirts and has been online for a couple weeks now. Featured artist Kayeko made this ad for his own Tee. 

Also check out our feature on SlamXHype.

Bombs Away!

If you haven't noticed already The Hundreds bomb just dropped online. Better be fast, shit's moving! 

New FUCT Homepage

FUCT always has the best homepages. they run loops of crazy clips. And they just put a new one up, check it: www.fuct.com Before this one they had an original security video of women robbing a bank in the 70's and one with some soldiers in Vietnam smoking dope out of their gun. 

The Fat Guy is coming

More info on this soon...

Summer Session

Benny Lava

Check it out, now you can finally see what they are singing about in those crazy Bollywood movies:

OBEY Scoop

Keep your eye open next Wednesday for these two beauties and a whole lot of other OBEY stuff. Hot, hot, hot.

Hotness

I don't know if you've already noticed but this week we have the hottest model we ever had on the site. I hear she already has a boyfriend, that's one lucky motherfucker nailing her every night. 

Pisang Ambon Boy

This our new best friend; Pisang Ambon Boy. He hangs around our house (The Party Palace) a lot. He's some sort of genius and a great source of inspiration to me in the way he lives his life. Please check out his myspace and the video posted below.

*picture by the world famous Harley Brieffies

Village People

We got offered a free booth (thanks Leon) at the Modefabriek, the only real 'fashion' tradeshow in Holland. Well not on the show itself but outside in 'The Village'. I don't know if you've been outside Sunday or Monday, but we've been burning in the hot sun for two days. Besides that drinking beers and talking to people. Life's tough.

Barcelona day 1

So fuck it's been a while, but here I finally am again. 

With my laptop crashing, tradeshow season and Jesse going on vacation in one of the busiest periods of the season I didn't have enough time or opportunities to blog I am very sorry, alright?

Well let start of with the Bread & Butter in Barcelona. Me and Jesse were sharing an apartment in the prostitute area with fat Peter (Frisco) Remco (Ontour) and G-G-Gio (Re-Issue). Which equals fun and a high level of streetwear knowledge (YAWN!). 

First night me and Jesse had to go to the Sixpack sales meetig, which they held on the roof-terrace of their penthouse, nice! Fucking nice collection, you'll see it in half a year haha. Utopia!

When we were supposed to meet up with Peter and Gio for diner, we ran in to your favourite Fin; Timothy (CTRL). Jesus Christ I can't believe how cool he was looking. Was he always like this or did he turn into a hipster overnight? 

We decided to join him and the rest of the the CTRL crew (Freeman, Esa and their Barcelona hostess) for diner. Bam "the Goth" Margera was sitting next to us and even got up so Gio and Peter could sit. Peter was all starstruck, he even took a picture with him (check his blog). He's now thinking of getting a HIM tattoo. 

When we were doing serious business on the sales meeting, Peter and Gio went to the Stussy X Boneyard X Neighborhood shop opening and blew all their money on overpriced sneakers and T-shirts. Guess who were paying for beer the rest of the week?

Gio ran into his ex in the middle of the street. For some reason he didn't wanna talk to him and pretended he was passed out.

Skate Bums

CTRL team rider Allard pictured here, is also on the cover of Tagsters online magazine. He is really ripping it up lately and as talent manager of the Revert team (which he is also on) I am very proud. Also Tagsters is really worthy of checking out.

*Picture taken by Timo Leo. Timo also has a photostream on Tagsters, go check it.

Dutch Reggae

My main man Biff aka Ian McGriff aka Potenshal Lover aka Jon Bon is true rastafari and very conscious. He just started a blog, go check it out if you are a true believer of the almighty Jah.
http://dutchreggae.blogspot.com/

The Barcelona Take Over

We (Frisco, Freshcotton, Ontour & Re-Issue) decided it was enough of digital life already and teamed up to throw a little party together next week in real life. Since we are all in Barcelona next week, why not do it there right? So if you are also there next week drop by on Thursday night. You can see how fat Peter really is, hear Gio's hyena laugh, see that I look even better than on pictures and if you are really luck Jesse and Remco show their dancing skills.

Pimpin'

Pieter Pimp aka Ceizer (pimpalicioius) is having an exposition. Supposed to be crazy, go check it out.

MacCrash

Now I wanted to do an awesome update today on the amazing weekend we had with Will & Rufus (www.freshcotton.co.uk), but unfortunately my macbook crashed and all my pictures are on there. Hopefully tomorrow or friday. I feel crippled...

Bachelor Bird

With Jesse marrying in Vegas he thought he was safe from a bachelor's party. Well au contraire my friend. So we went off and bought a chicken suit and went pretty crazy. Here are some highlights of the night. We also did all sorts of extreme water-sports and a BBQ in the afternoon, but who really wants to see those pictures right?  

*most pictures by manonthemoon

Swing by

This wednesday Les Amateurs de Vinyl are playing at Katapult at Studio 80. Also my fellow vinyl amateur; Gosse de Skater is celebrating his birthday. So swing by. And if you're too cheap to pay 5 euros and have my number, give me a call I'll put you on the guest-list.

We're out...

The Russians gave us a beating. And yes it hurts.

Beatch Party!

Attack of the Jews

Freshjive's Rick Klotz is under attack. I've dedicated a blog entry to him already last week, and now he's the talk of LA. The JDL (Jewish Defense League) were protesting outside his door claiming he is an antisemitist. Pretty strange as Rick is a jew himself. The reason he would hate jews is some Freshjive shirts that came out (over 3 months ago) on the the whole middle-east issue. The shirts are on Palestines instead of Israeli's which is quite unusual in the US. But does that make you a hate jews? The Hundreds did a whole item about it, they documented it all since they are just around the corner. Check it out. By the way we still sell the relevant T-shirts online.

OBEY Summer '08

The Summer collection for OBEY is now online.  Loads of tees, some caps and some hot shit for the ladies. Go check it out! You know, like us, people love it. So better be fast or you'll be too late.

Coming around the corner soon

Although the staff is arrogant, not as hot as you hoped and you can only get overpriced basics there, I love American Apparel. And they are opening up a new store on the Utrechtsestraat, right around the corner.

Vincent Alvarez

There's this new kid on Chocolate, one of the best skateboarding brands out there. His name is Vincent Alvarez. Check out his new video part. This is the only footage I saw of him and already I'm thinking of putting him in my top 10 list.

I know fat Peter also blogged it, but that's because I told him yesterday I was gonna blog it.

FRESHJIVE

We just did a Freshjive week on Freshcotton, not for marketing purposes or anything, just because we really love the brand. And so should you. Rick Klotz, the guy behind the brand, is sort of a fucking genius. Go check out the website, it has a great blog, another great blog and be sure to check out the sections on the right site especially 3 weeks in mexico and happy sausage happy life. 

Money for Nothing and Chicks for Free

Already a while ago (sorry for the lousy blogging) our favorite germans came out; the Wemotions. And we sponsored the sponsored to death party from Habbekrats that night. Over-sponsored so everything for free you'd say. Well everything except for the main element in partying; the booze.

No party is complete without the Freshcotton DJ Team; Pelle and myself. Here announced by Habbekrats' own Jim Aasgier.

Darnell got pretty scared by the chaos created by our DJ-ing and the free T-shirts we were handing out.

 
We make the girls go crazy.

Later on my young Beesmunt boys were playing and Olaf approved of the music.

Here we go again.

2 flyers, 1 party!

Old school airtime

After we had a blast and were ready to go home, the senior squad decided to have a classic aerial session.

Jesse going sky high right here!

Rubby going sad.

Danny going balls out with this killer airwalk.

Old school skating

Yesterday I went skating with Danny (manonthemoon) and his brother Rubby at the Yellow Tit, Amsterdam's coolest spot. I tagged along Bats Freshcotton's hottest intern. We called Jesse and give him shit about not ever skating anymore, as Danny does every time he goes skating. He said he might come, and we thought there was no chance in hell he would come out. All of a sudden old Papa came skating around the corner, which instantly made the session legendary. 

Two old fucks and young talent Bats.

For someone who hasn't really skated in 5 years or more this backside lip is pretty sick. Jesse's street cred 1 up.

Danny shredding it up.

It's Time to Move!

24/7 in Nijmegen, which is Frisco's big brother, is moving. They finally decided to get a bigger, nicer place. The grand opening is onthe 1st of July and they gots to celebrate so there's a party on the 5th. Check the flyer!

Frisco's Crapper

Yesterday me and Jesse made a trip way east, all the way to Arnhem. And of course we stopped by our big buddy Peter at Frisco. While Jesse was talking some serious business, I made myself at home and took a huge crap there. And look what I found on the toilet there. Apparently Peter likes 'his own kind'.

Flamboyance, Baby!

Tomorrow night in Bitterzoet my good friends from Flamboyance are having a launch party for their first production jacket. They have their own DJ-Team, but they've asked me (again) to back them up to really get the party started. Rumor goes it's gonna sell out. Starts at 23:00h so better be in time. If you are so lucky to have my phone number, you can text me for the guestlist. See you tomorrow.
Oh yeah, the other Sebas (Ben-G) is one sexy motherfucker and single. So ladies tomorrow's your chance.

Weight Watching

You know I'm always making fun of Peter Frisco about being as fat as he is. But his brother sent me a picture from back in the day. So looking at a very young Peter right here, you gotta hand it to him; he is looking very sharp these days.

Obey Pasting pt.1

My main man Romeo from Obey was in town for some business, some partying and we sorted out four lucky shops that we pasted full of posters Shepard-style.

We started our pasting adventure at TOMS in Amsterdam. Vos (one of the best employees ever) was really enjoying the show. His job is hard, man. Smoking cigarettes, taking personal phone calls and being a prick to customers all day.

This is what we have done so far. Hans wants us to finish the whole wall. Well we got some more posters in, Romeo will probably be back soon and he thought me a little pasting, so no worries.

Next it was off to Revert in Haarlem. They actually let us do  the whole outside of the shop. Here I'm pasting over Freshco's art, sorry partner.

It took a lot of work, but in the end it looked fucking sick. Swing by there if you're in Haarlem; Kleine Houtstraat 30.

Back in Business!

Finally my new camera arrived last week. And last week was a crazy one, so I took a lot of pictures. I'm back in full effect.

Queens, Queens!

What are you doing on Queensnight? Come to the crazy city of Haarlem of course. My boy Roams from OBEY is over from L.A. and we're having a party with Revert and A.K.A. at the infamous Club Stalker. Roams is gonna play, I'm gonna play with the other Sebas covering for Flamboyance, Beesmunt Soundsystem will break down the house, 100% Vooraan guarantees going wild, OBEY give-aways and much more. Now think of a reason not to come.
Click the flyer for details.

Active Blogging Again Soon!

If you didn't already my camera broke down, I'm not blaming the bitches that took pictures with it that night, honestly... Anyways it was broke and I was broke as fuck, so I was double fucked. But on Monday I ordered myself a brand new and improved Camera (Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX55). I should be here within the week, so expect lots of Fat Peter jokes, party pics, bullshit, old-school hating and just random classicness. But with improved pictures, more mega-pixels and everything.

  

Bacardi B-live Bus 1

Already a while go there was this Bacardi B-Live party way out in Rotterdam, Freshcotton was part of it. Canon-balling T-shirts into the audience. It was cool you should have been there, I wasn't either. See the video and experience it a little. But this entry is about the bus ride from Amsterdam to there and back, organized by our nice friends Nalden and Habbekrats. Thanks guys.

I don't know where they got this fucking bus, but apparently it is crazy. It has lounge chairs on the side so you're facing each other, room for a DJ, black lights, a cocktailbar, the whole shebang.

The DJ was none other than, the self claimed, best DJ in the world; The Flexican. The palest Mexican I've ever seen.

When there's a party going our own 'slick boy' Darnell can't stay behind.

Don Jessioni came along to make up for his shameful behaviour at Nope is Dope in Eindhoven.

Put Pelle in a tiny space and all of a sudden he isn't afraid to dance. Because everyone looks ridiculous dancing in a small room, right?

Muxtape, bitch!

Remember making mixtapes on cassette tapes for friends? Cassette tapes are dead, muxtape.com is the newest thing on the world wide web. Check mine!

Ain't no half cabbin'

Fat Peter from Frisco swung by, he brought be me these super nice Syndicate Half Cabs. Thanks chubby. Half Cab is the best model Vans ever made, but for some reason you numb nuts don't understand. They are not sold out yet, go check them online! 

Me, Young Limpsta and Peter went out to diner. Peter was the only one who took 3 courses and said; ,,They shouldn't put stuff on the plate you can't eat, man." Classic.

Read the adlines

Check out the new Vice and find out which finer shops sell CTRL. Thanks Armand, thanks Freeman.

Starstruck

I've had a little crush on Birgit Schuurman ever since I first saw her in that shitty Abel video. So seeing her wearing our brands brings a smile to this pretty face of mine. You are welcome to get free samples here any time.

Highway Hangover

I owed you guys this one. Remember I told you there was one more day-after picture from the Nope is Dope party in Eindhoven? Well Jesse was feeling pretty bad. I guess that's what you'll get when you get yourself a Dodge Globalwarmer.

Louie, Louie, Louie!

Fuck some bitches broke my camera, well maybe it was me. I was pretty wasted and I can't remember, but I like to believe it wasn't me. So now I have to use other peoples or 'slightly older' pictures. Well here's another ex-intern that dropped by a couple a weeks ago; Luigi! Apparently his DJ career is going downhill, I'm getting more gigs than he does. He really is missed around here, well... by me anyways. He now works as intern at Vice magazine, and see how cool he looks since he's there. You can find us at our local bowling alley every friday night. 

Remember Krush Groove?

Remember that movie Krush Groove? Well that's not what this entry is about. It's about a party this Saturday in Rotterdam. If you don't have ticket for the Too Much Fun Club or are too damn lazy to come to Eindhoven you should definitely go here. It's gonna be crazy as well, of course Freshcotton took part in this one (even did a T-shirt). The dresscode is; dress as if you were going to Harlem block party 20 years ago, so don't show up wearing just a Kangol hat. Go full out on this one. 

Click picture for all the dirty little details.

Till death do us part

It seems everyone is getting married nowadays. Well I have to be honest, Sjoerd was planning it way earlier than Jesse. Sjoerd is an ex-intern and an ex-part time employee here at Freshcotton. I know he already got married on February 22nd and I have been feeling shitty that no one from the Fresh attended the wedding. It takes some balls in this day and age, at the age of 21 to make the girl of your dreams your wife.

From everybody here; Congratulations young lovers! All the best homeboy.

Too Much Amateurs

If you wanna go to Eindhoven's party of the year, you better come out this Saturday (April 5th). If you haven't been to the first edition of Too Much Fun Club let me tell you, it was nuts. This time Vice joined in and off course my boys from Ontour are supporting again. They sorted out a bigger and better location; Plan 2. Again an incredible line-up and I'm very proud to announce me and my DJ crew (Les Amateurs de Vinyl) are playing there. Ontour took care of a crazy S.O.S. cocktail bar. So let party boy extrordinaire Remco serve you a Bermuda Breezer, before he's had too much himself and is doing 'The Remco' on the dancefloor. If you don't come, well too bad for you it's gonna be fucking awesome.
For more info check: http://www.myspace.com/too_much_fun_club

Elvis & Priscilla

Looky here, Jesse and Karin took there baby girl and went on a trip to New York. But what they forgot to tell everybody was they swung by Vegas to get married. And believe me they are leaving a lot of guys (and girls) in Amsterdam heartbroken and jealous. They could have gone Elvis or Star Trek style, but they went for Little Church... Isn't that the most stupid decision ever made? Seeing as Karin was saving herself until marriage, Jesse I told you those 12 years would pay off.

Congratulations you guys, you're two of my favorite people. I feel a bit gay feeling so happy for you guys, but fuck it.

Getting old

I drove to Austria with Jeroen, King of the Haarlem triangle empire; A.K.A., Revert & Revert Ladies. You haven't been here? Seriously? You suck.

But unfortunately he went a little to wild for his old body on the second day and tweaked his ankle. He drove home this morning. Luckily another old Haarlem rocker; Rutger is here and I can drive home with him on Saturday. It's not the same without him though. Jeroen and Jesse taught me how to snowboard on the infamous Crookie Trips, when I was just an (even more) annoying young little fucker. Not only snowboarding, oh no, so much more. 

We miss you already, buddy.

Attenion all cheap bastards!

Yes it's here, the moment you scrooges have been waiting a long 6 months for. Sunday at the jolly old Flexbar. And I will leave this perfect snow covered peace of paradise to help you guys and even spin some tunes for you. I don't know if you have been to this crazy circus before, but if you have you know you should come early. It's gonna be busy.

Lucky Fucker

This is Pascal, the lucky fuck that won the Ontour trip to Copenhagen. He's going to the Fox Hotel. And on this romantic little trip he's taking his buddy Christiaan. Now I'm thinking if he would take a honey it's guaranteed he'll get laid. Anyways congratulations you bastards.

I'm out

Listen up, I'm sorry it has been a bit quite around the blog. But I had to work my ass off these last two weeks to go snowboarding for a week. I haven't gone snowboarding this winter yet and now it's already spring. And let me tell you for someone like me that is pretty f*cking frustrating.
But thank god for global warming, because it's snowing like crazy right now in the Alps (yesterday 100cm fresh!). For all the hot girls out there come find me in St. Anton this upcoming week. No worries I will be back for the infamous Garage Sale next sunday. I'll try my best to keep updating this week and after that the 24 hour blogging is on again (watch out for that Fat Peter beef) . Well I'm being picked up any minute now.
I'll miss you guys, but not half as much as you'll miss me. Ta ta.

Eastern Easter!

Usually I don't do this but hey, but hey I don't want to keep you guys from missing this. Amsterdam's hottest shop is having a sale! Ben-G is crazy and he's eastern so why not have a Crazy Easter Sale? Go check it out.

Now that's what I call representing.

Check it out, our boy Dj Rockid was playing at this Foktop! party in the Panama last week. Him and his whole posse were hardcore representing a certain online store. Can't seem to remember which one. Respect guys, respect.

De Generaal's lost CTRL

Sorry for being lousy on the blog updates lately, but here's a great one. Winne is my boy and he is one of Holland's finest rappers. He hangs out here a lot. Now the new CTRL came in (online and in stores soon) and Winne, along with us here at the FC, is loving it. Check out the plaid button hood right here. Who's rocking it the toughest, honestly?

Buitenswesten Doc

Last wednesday in Paradiso was finally the premiere of the documentary Habbekrats made on the crazy Buitenwesten tour, that sweeped  the nation already a couple a years ago. Isn't it a bit late? Yes it is and things have changed a lot since then all true, but still a very nice piece of history from those 'easier' times.

Taking credit.

My personal favorite dutch MC; Duvel. And yes indeed, he is wearing a manonthemoon shirt.

And the east was in the house, oh my god. From left to right; Young Limpsta, Defill, Fat Peter and the legendary Andor. Sorry guys on that whole Cool Kids situation, I felt shit. Thank Jim.

Two fat fucks in one room, it was getting crowded. Peter's blog is good and he calls me fat then I call him fat, all good. But now this overweight farmer is stealing titles for blog entries, remember 'When the East is in the House...'? It was even about him! You're walking on thin ice, son. 

The oh so talented Mr.

I was in a bookstore in Eindhoven and found this wonderful book there on how to dress properly. And guess who was on the cover? That's right, Amsterdam's own Mr. Wix. He is so talented.

Save Ontour's Soul

All your waiting has finally been rewarded! The new Ontour collection is now online. Order quick and you might find this gold fucker along with your order. If so you win a weekend to the beautiful Copenhagen, where the girls are hot and the drinks crazy expensive. You will stay in the Fox Hotel, which is one of the coolest hotels I have ever seen. So go order that shit! I'll give a little hint; I put the Gold Triangle in with one of the coolest items of this collection.

Huiskamerhits Hits Hard!

Benny and Barend finally gathered enough courage to ask me and the other Sebas to join them on Huiskamerhits in the Bitterzoet tomorrow. Better be there, or else people will go behind your back and call you the guy that wasn't there. And everyone will laugh at you.

Nope, Dope, Pope, Schmope...3

Yes! Around four Remco and his girls finally decided to show up. This guarantees even more good times. It's not what it seems though, they're not drunk. Why would you think that?

Jesse is not drunk, but that's not Karin you filthy old fucker.

Also Sebas numero 2 from Ben-G tagged along. This group of four right here had an apetite for destruction.

Back at the hotel we were being dicks and tipping over beds. Psycho Ninja right here didn't really mind, but Floor went berzerk and tried to whoop my ass. But then again he hit his nose on a chair. Sorry pal.

When we came back from bed tipping we found Jesse sleeping against our door, with his phone in his hand. He woke up and said: ,, She's not opening the door." talking about Karin. You can bang on the door all you want, she was already in your room idiot, not ours. Later on I'll drop some next day pictures, specially for Jesse.

Nope, Dope, Pope, Schmope...2

I know this picture is sorta gay, but it was one of the only ones Pelle was in. But notice the detail; Brian is slipping the finger down there. Classy.

You know how Surinam guys get all dressy when they go out? I just smoke cigarettes. It's both just syle. Check out Jesse looking all jealous in the back there.

Two slick motherfuckers and Tino.

Our FC favourites; The Opposites gave the best show, we went nuts. Afterwards Willy was showing some groupie love. Bitches willen met hem chillen want die kil komt op teevee.

Opposites DJ Fanny West was pretty disgusted by all the attention Willy was getting from the ladies.

Nope, Dope, Pope, Schmope...1

This saturday all of us from Freshcotton traveled down south, way south to Eindhoven better known as Eindjegramma. Of course when visiting Ontour's hometown, you first have diner with the fuckers. Then we entered the world of mass parties. There were four halls which each had a different style of music. Accept for some Hip Hop acts in one hall I couldn't really tell the difference, but hey we had a blast.

Playing here was Felix da Housecat, old school classicness. My favourite DJ that night.

Sjors & Sjimmie. Is that marihuana in your hand? I really don't support this guys. I'm not mad, just disappointed.

Interns ain't nothing but trouble.

Floor is on to me. Well I'm on to you, you little whiner. You're wearing that shirt to make your own face look better.

More drugs guys? Really? What are you a bunch of hippies? I must say, for the record, I really dont approve this sort of behaviour.

100% Gayblade

I sais I'd go easy on the party pics, but fuck it life's a party right? Tomorrow a whole lot more party pics are coming from our night out in Eindhoven on saturday. But this was friday, again in Paradiso.

The one and only Benny was playing in the basment with the wonderful Barend. Together they are Gayblade Action Team (no homo). This thursday me and the other Sebas join them and play on Huiskamerhits at Bitterzoet, better come out.

Hoofddorp Murderers.

Vice's Armand, is that a do or a don't?

Harry, almost as stunning as his brother Barend, really wanted me to blog this one. Because it shows the most beatiful girl in Amsterdam (according to him); Samira looking at him like she's in love. You're welcome, buddy.

If you want to bump in to me with friends and have a nice bite. You should come to this place on the Rozengracht on friday or saturday between 5am and 6am. We'll be there.

His name was Herman

Yesterday I went to the Melkweg where Black Francis (also known as Frank Black), the singer of The Pixies, played his ode to our own Herman Brood. Check out the album and take little lesson in Rock 'n Roll. The show was pretty darn awesome. But looking at the crowd I felt very young. You know those people who turn 18 and start complaining at parties that the crowd is sooo young? They should visit more shows like this.





Thank you old rocker billies for letting me take your picture.

Watch it!

This is Sumina our office babe. She might look sweet and all but if you don't watch your mouth around her, she will whoop your ass. Believe me, I know.

When the East is in the House...

Business is fun when friends come over, have some diner and drink a couple brews.

A Freshcotton blog favourite, Peter. Doing what he does best, eating. He doesn't like spicy food, so I ordered him a Spaghetti Carbonara "extra vet", just the way he likes it.

That's Andor (24 Seven) he's the big chief. Not to forget a skateboard legend. Are you old enough to remember the time when him and Kees Draaisma ruled the dutch skateboard scene?

Watch the skin, boys.

Yesterday was a nice day. Ruby and Sven had enough of carpeting and chilled out in the sun a little, while Jesse still tries hard on his skateboard.

Biggest Bang!

Alright, sorry enough bullshit already. I had a few beers. But seriously though keep your eyes open  for the Biggest Bang in Freshcotton history...

Willy No-Son!

I hooked up with the super foxy lady this weekend, before we went to my place she already told me she was a real big Willy Nelson fan. ,,Sure..." I thought, ,, Whatever, right?". But when we got home me and my Willy weren't to big a fan of her tattoo.

Collar Status

Ex-intern Albert (Psycho Ninja) believes the more collars you rock the more style you got. He's probably jerking of to this guy every night. 

FUCT X MEDICOM Pillow

Is your girlfriend also the type that wants tons of shitty pillows on the couch, to make it 'nice and cosy'?  Well (my personal favourite) FUCT teamed up with Medicom Toys from Tokyo, to bring you the perfect solution. 45cm High cotton pillow with flock-print Ape and classic FUCT-Ford logo. It even comes in pink for those out there with the extra whiney girlfriends.

Available at the finer FUCT dealers in may.

Nope ain't Dope

If you wanna see the Freshcotton crew (16 of them!) go nuts you should come here this saturday.

*Click to enlarge

2 Nights of Beesmunt 2

I promise, after this one I'll try and go easier on the party pics.
The second night of beesmunt was at Club Stalker in Haarlem. A couple of years ago this was my local hang out. I still play tunes there every second thursday of the month.


Perfect match.

These are my two friends that come closest to being as hot as I am; Sebas (the other one) aka Jim from Ben- G and Pots.

Axl showed up.

Although they were playing better, I left a bit early because I was fucked from the night before when everything that shouldn't happen happened. So another picture from that night. Remco's not sure what to do with Sebas's love. Sebas and I grew up together in the slums of Uithorny, man. Show him sum love.

2 Nights of Beesmunt 1

My buddy Luigi who used to be intern here (he loved it) is together with his friend David; Beesmunt Soundsystem. They're young but they're sooo hot right now. He's the only dude I know who was spinning at +21 clubs at the age of 17. Friday they were playing at Paradiso.

The boy you heard about; Luigi. Don't let it go to your head, pal.

Ontout was present. Remco came out all the way from Eindjegramma, pictured here with his lovely ladyfriend Hilde. Don't let the cute face fool you, it's a she-devil.

Some pictures just make you feel happy right?

They almost didn't let Ben-G in, because he cut his hair and now he looks 15 again.

The wonderful miss Eline and his royal dudeness Bob from Ben-G.This guy's got style.

I Spit On Your Grave

I know my man Roams from OBEY has been working hard on this project, now it's finally done. OBEY records's mixtape series volume 5: The OBEY Gaslamp Killer 7” Box Set. Which contains; “I Spit On Your Grave” Mixtape & The Killer Robots Split 7". OBEY takes a step further into the deeper, darker world of sound, educating those that pop isn’t the only thing to listen to and that life can’t be appreciated without a bit of murder and death.


The Gaslamp Killer, L.A. based DJ/Producer, Dublab Radio resident, is not your conventional artist. What separates him from the rest of the herd is his extensive knowledge in psychedelic rock, demonic bass-heavy Hip-Hop, Middle-Eastern/ Indian rare grooves, and ear-piercing helicopter breaks. The energy during his live sets resonates through crowds, taking you to the filthiest psyche/freak-out you’ve ever been on.


For the lucky ones out there, OBEY will also release a limited screen-printed poster and T-shirt.


Find it online and at your local OBEY dealer soon.

Thanks...

Already a while ago Peter from Frisco sent me this T-shirt. He thought he and I probably wore the same size, guess again pal.

Sacré bleu, c'est Sixpack!

This morning we received a whole pallet of Sixpack, straight out of France. The line looks super nice, with pieces from many different artists like; Cody Hudson, Gasface and our own Parra. Collection in shops and online very soon!

Rollin' with The Hundreds

For everybody who didn't know, my main man Benny hooked us up with Rosewood's finest; The Hundreds. We already met in LA last september, these guys know what's up out there. Now we rep the Benelux for them. Also online very, very soon.

Babe Magnet

I have been walking around with a camera around my neck all day, because apparently what I said about Limpy (check One night in Arnhem pt.1) is not true. His camera trick worked and he did take a girl home, by train! Sorry Limps and thanks for the advice.

Cosmic Crack

Ever since first introduced to his work I'm a really big fan of Cosmic Crack, the dutch Erik Brunetti in my eyes. He's a true originator in the dutch 'streetart' scene (another awful word).

He has been part of the best projects over the years like; the Shoarma Crew, Betamaxxx and the Powerblast Movement. Check out his fotolog and myspace. My boys from Ontourke are also pretty close to him lately. Better keep an eye open for their next collections. 

*pics from Remco and stolen from fotolog.com/freebase911

One night in Arnhem pt.2

Although her girlfriend was trying, this girl wouldn't get away from me. She recognized me and said I was hot. That right there deserved her a place on the blog. Enjoy.

This was my posse that came out with me, they're two of my closest buddies. The tall geek is Gossé de Skater, member of the infamous Les Amateurs de Vinyl. The tiny jock is Biff aka Ian McGriff, true Rastafari and half of Wazari Sound. Thanks guys.

Sure. Take another one, why don't ya?

If Peter wants to take you to this afterparty where they have really steep stairways don't go, you'll be leaving there with a limp worse than Limpy's.

When the proud owner of this set right here saw this picture she said; ,,They actually look really nice." so I'm sure she doesn't mind me putting this picture up.

One night in Arnhem pt.1

Frisco and Brainwash organized this Static III premiere and party all the way out in Arnhem. After Peter from Frisco repeatingly begged me to come out there, me and a mini-posse decided to show our faces in farmerland.

This is my boy Peter, he's pretty much the king out there in Arnhem. He runs Frisco and is one of the most active bloggers I know (check it). I love this guy and his blog is nice and all, but the only thing is he keeps calling me fat on his blog... Can someone get this fatso a mirror?

Job Willemsen Soundsystem.

The good thing about small town parties is that everyone is so stoked that there finally is a party, they don't give a fuck and go absolutely nuts.

That's Limpy, if Peter is the mayor in Arnhem he's the sherrif. He was walking around with this camera around his neck all night with no more battery. He said the girls really liked it. He went home by train, alone. Good job, buddy!

The too cool to dance crew.

Guitar Hero rocks, dude!

Perfect...

Guess who were here on this beautiful night?

Excuse to party pt.2

What do you do on a party? You drink. Drinking leads to dancing. The combination leads to good times!

Excuse to party pt.1

We have been doing a lot of tearing down, re-building and painting at our office lately. A new photostudio, new office for the logistic guys and a brand new showroom. I have been wanting to do some before, construction and after updates, but I can't seem to get all the pics together (call it lazy). Maybe later. Last week when it was (almost) finished we had a good excuse to throw a little party, so we could fuck up everything we had been working on so hard the last couple of weeks.

Fresh Meat!

Just take your pick! These are our new interns. The testosterone level was already pretty high around here, so we decided to get some gals on board. Sounds like a good idea right? Except when you put women in the same place they instantly relate to each other by whining and complaining. It hasn't been that bad up to now, but there were some moments when I worried about them forming a pact leaving the rest of us chanceless like little boys.

Darnell our new photography and graphical dude. Welcome buddy. I really would like to talk trash about him, but I just met the guy and he's been nothing but super friendly. Oh yeah he got fucking drunk last week at the opening of our new showroom/photostudio/office. Pelle hired the right person to follow in his footsteps, he was so proud.

Copy Cat!

I know that out of her friends I am the one most likely to look up to, so I don't blame Karin that when she saw that I started a blog she went off and started one herself. It's really nice for all you dutchies out there who consider them selves at least slightly intellectual. So go check it out: amatmoekrim.com
Being the narcissist that I am, I'm blogging this because I'm on there. Wearing a butt-ugly hat.

Barack Obeyma

Guess who Shepard Fairey and the Obey Posse is supporting for the ellections? Just take a wild guess.







*pictures stolen from obeyclothing.com

The man who souled the world

There also was an expo on Steve Rocco at Bright, one of the coolest expositions I've seen in a long while. Steve Rocco is the founder of brands like World Industries and Blind. When you think of those brands you probably think of gay-ass flameboy or that lame little reaper, but in the early 90's they changed the entire skateboard industry. Rocco also started Big Brother magazine from which Jackass was formed. Getting the picture? So go out and buy yourself the documentary about Rocco and his empire; The man who souled the world.

http://www.themanwhosouledtheworld.com/

This is one of the boards they put out back then, they had to wrap it in black foil to be able to sell it in the shops. Rocco made sure everyone of them came with this 'warning' sticker on the outside.

Bright Frankfurt Teil 2

One of the coolest thing there is this build-in pool they have. I once brought my board, but it's crazy busy. In summer time they have this crazy park, only suitable for crazy rippers. Crazy huh?

You must know I'm a bit of a health-food kinda guy. But every once and a while I can enjoy a big chunk a beef on a bun. Especially when it's grilled by, which I believe, one of the best looking women in Germany.

For diner Ontour's German guy Tim took us to Wagner, a zypical Frankfurter restaurant. So more meat, bratkartoffeln and Grüne Soße. For us dutchies it wasn't too hard to fit right in there, being loud and all.

Also typically Frankfurt; Apfelwein. One of us didn't handle it that well. Find out who, in the Vice party Frankfurt updates. Coming soon, real soon.

Bright Frankfurt Teil 1

I got home from Barcelona friday at 21.45u and took the train to Eindhoven at 22.45u to hook up with the Ontourkes to drive up to Frankfurt the next morning at 7.30u. Bright tradeshow is a small show, which is based in an old police station. It started out as a skateboard minded show, but it's getting bigger and bigger and it's going more towards 'streetwear' now (god, I hate that word).

Discovered at this very place a year and a half ago, our very good friends; Wemoto!

That's picture number 2 for you Gregor. Stunning...

Not to forget the one and only Stefan, The Golz! Wemoto mastermind. Whenever in Amsterdam he loves... Beer and gigantic women.

I told you he'd be back. Remco holding guard in front of their German distributor's booth. Looking healthy as ever, snapte?

Etienne aka 'de directeur'; the other creative half of Ontour. It was 13.00u and that's the time to pop open the first beers. Lekkerrr.

Barcelona part 3

Trippin' out right here is Remco from Ontour. If you check his blog on High Snobiety, you might find out he stole some of my pictures. And I let him, you know why? Because he's my number 1 party buddy and homie for life. Get used to this face, I promise you this is not the last time you'll see it here.

http://www.highsnobiety.com/the_columns/ontour/index.htm

Pim from Nike, Gio from Re-Issue and Walid from Patta all rocking the Kangol hat. I tried to rock it backwards like in the 90's, but people aren't ready for that shit yet.

Aaaanton (WESC, Gravis), my favourite Belgian dude. You never know what you gonna get when you go out with this veteran. Amai!

Happy couple Tuna and Gio enjoying the beautiful Spanish afternoon. What do you eat for lunch when in Spain? That's right; burgers 'n fries.

Rufus and Will (Second Son) our English connection, from London. Fish 'n chips, cup a tea, Mary fucking Poppins, London! I heard rumors about www.freshcotton.co.uk...

Barcelona part 2

Romeo or Roams from Obey. He hooked us up with Obey and is our main dude over there. A 24 hour party machine and showed us that in LA. If you were at the Obey x Freshcotton x Ben-G x Patta party you've heard his DJ-skills. Also check out Free the Robots http://www.myspace.com/freetherobots

These two lookers are Mikey and Erin, designers of the beautiful Obey clothing line.

Chilling with Timothy and Freeman from CTRL. I never met them before, but I instantly loved these guys. Of course also Esa pictured below. He was just mature enough to not get fucked up on a working night, like the three scumbags pictured here. Timothy officially left CTRL to work for Vice, but nothing has changed since he did. He can never leave his mates.

Esa has really nice blue eyes, like a real Finnish guy should. (Does that sound gay?)

Barcelona part 1

We went to Barcelona to visit the Bread & Butter tradeshow and to have meetings with our friends from Obey and Sixpack France (no, not the crap telivision show, the cool brand). I don't have too many pictures of the actual show, you know it's more fun to take pictures at the parties. I can tell you how tradeshows are though; everyone is there, trying to wear their flyest outfit. And everybody is complaining about how fucked up they feel from the party the night before.

As soon as we landed in Barcelona Jesse hooked up with his posse.

That's one of my new colleagues, he reps Obey and Sixpack out in Scandinavia . Sorry bud, I'm very bad at names.
Half of my favorite German guys; Gregor Wemoto from Wemoto. Dutch people he's trying to send out a message here, it's over 60 years ago.

Qui, qui c'est Simon from Sixpack. I thought we were going to meet for the first time in sunny Spain, but apparently we met years ago on skatetrip in Lyon. Weird... He is super friendly and french, pretty strange combination right?

Sebas

Well then there's me. What do you write about yourself? I do sales for the distribution and buying. I'm a bit chubby, but still the most used model for the website. I also pretty much think I know everything better, which I do.

That's it for the introduction, boring enough right. New updates tomorrow.

Floor

His acting career pretty much blew up in his face, because no one could forget his role as Sherman in American Pie when they saw him (we call this 'The Swiebertje-effect'). After that Floor decided to move to Amsterdam. And now he's Freshcotton's bitch, which basically means we just call him when we need him.

Albert

Albert, our marketing intern. Usually I wouldn't do interns, but this guy's a real nut case. For instance he believes I should treat him with more respect because he's a ninja protecting the world from all kinds of misery. He's leaving after this week and then it's straight back to the mental home in Urk. I'll miss you, you fucking pscycho.

Karin

Can you believe we have an actual writer, Karin Amatmoekrim, writing our newsletters and product descriptions. I know what you're thinking, no worries, the funniest descriptions came from my hand. She is intelligent as she is beautiful and also very real (well for the most part). Now go buy her books!

Brian

This old sweet talker right here is Brian, he does marketing or better said PR. He talks his way in to the greatest marketing deals. He thinks he is a boxer, no wait, he thinks is Muhammad freaking Ali. He also says he was quite the playboy in his day, when was that the 1970's?

Tuna

Aah Tuna, she does buying for the ladies and production. She hated this picture (but hey what girl doesn't hate every picture ever taken of them), she also hates being one of the boys. Girls hate a lot, or do you call that complaining? She does not hate yelling. And luckily for us she cold turkey stopped loving neon just a few weeks ago.

Tino

Tino, the self claimed biggest player at Freshcotton. Every once and a while he suggests some brands to us like Ed Hardy, Prada or Von Dutch. Nice... Or as he would say; Smoov... 

Sergio

Our 1 hit wonder Sergio. He is one of the first Freshcotton employees. He also had a number 1 hit Surinam (for real), that means about 17 singles sold. But he gave up his MC-career and came to Holland to become an architect. The ladies seem to love him, I'm doing my best to see why... 

Dienjo

That's Dienjo aka 'The Viking'. He loves eating, not food no, eating. This girl he was living with disappeared, out of the blue. Rumor goes, he was just hungry. He works logistics here. He also claims to have seen every band on earth. Festival junkie and Metalhead number 1!

Olaf

That's Olaf or Ollie, also sort of a boss. Boss of logistics and customer service. He actually is a very good painter, but the Fresh is making him work his ass off. If he does make some art now a days, it takes about a year at least. If you see the chilled out sober version, it's hard to believe they call him 'the drunk preacher'.

John

Boss #3; John. Or as I would like to call him Sjon (don't try it). He likes to believe he is THE boss around here. Don't let him scare you, when he starts yelling or orders you to do stuff. He's our financial wonderboy and when he sucked enough money out of this company he's gonna start his own spa in Surinam. Oh yeah, he loves dogs.

Pelle

Boss #2; Pelle. He's the graphic designer, also half of design duo Shape Squad. Next to doing a not too convincingly job as a boss, he's professional smoker, beer drinker and meat eater. When you're in a fight don't count on this guy. But all and all together you gotta love him.

Jesse

That's Boss #1; Jesse. I know he looks much better in real life, but for some reason the camera does not love him. Half the time he's on vacation, but when he's here he does buying and together with me tries to protect Freshcotton's style. And off course lots of other bossy stuff.

Finally!

Finally! It's here; the Freshcotton Blog! I know, I know we're a bit late, but hey we're a bunch of busy guys. Now I know people are gonna give me shit for doing the blog in english, but we'd like to believe that we are (or some day will be) an international company. I'll start of with a little introduction round, so you know who you're dealing with.