donderdag 31 januari 2008

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?

dinsdag 29 januari 2008

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... 

vrijdag 25 januari 2008

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'.

donderdag 24 januari 2008

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.