Poketo Blog

The (slight) reveal…

Poketo — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:00:37 +0000

Poketo. Store. LA. Summer 2012.

Cali… LA… all the way…

Poketo — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:24:53 +0000

Our friend Chris Bettig stopped by the Poketo Store yesterday… we are scheming up some amazingly huge plans once we get these doors open! Stay tuned.

Shoot from the hip…

Poketo — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:00:13 +0000

Stopped in to the Lomography store to drop off our art piece for the Diana World Tour exhibition happening next month, more on that later. It was nice to get a cool little tour with Lomography LA’s HQ manager, Michelle McIlroy. She showed us some new designs and got a little peak in the back end… wall to wall camera land!

Farm Tactics… Field Study

Poketo — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:35:00 +0000

Our friend Kyle Ng of Farm Tactics is running the Field Study: Urban Outdoor Research pop up at Space 15Twenty right now. It’s been blowing up and it’s easy to see why… the space and collection of goods looks incredible. The driving force behind Field Study is nature. What you’ll find are a mix of men’s and women’s contemporary brands that tackle the theme in an urban, tripped out environment… brands like Rogue Territory, Poler, Fjallraven, and of course, Kyle’s own Farm Tactics amongst others. We met up with Kyle last night and the way he describes it is, “think of it as a psychedelic REI”… Dig it.

Scheming… Angie and Kyle going through some future stuff…

Go BIG…

Poketo — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:03:36 +0000

The other day, I decided to put giant POKETO letters in the storefront window of the new Poketo store (soon to be open). Every once in a while I’ve been mixing it up with some fun little dinosaurs and rearranging a bit. Go check it out, 820 E. Third Street, Los Angeles… next to Wurstkuche and Apolis Activism. If you are there, post it on Instagram or Facebook… we’ll be doing some fun giveaways for posts we see!

No big deal…

Poketo — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:27:21 +0000

As you know, we are getting ready to open up the new Poketo brick and mortar store really soon… just getting through some final hurdles, we’ll keep you posted as soon as we get those doors open. In the meantime, we’ve had some friends stop in, check up, and just say hi… No big deal.

The gals at Novak making you look your best… and our very own, Charlie of Poketo… No big deal.

Mr. Baller, Gary Chou, and executive producer of Surrogate Valentine films, winning awards many times over on the indie film circuit… No big deal.

Artist, Jesse LeDoux… his album cover for The Shins was nominated for a Grammy… No big deal.

Artist/photographer Gina Osterloh just ended a show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts… No big deal.

Our friend Greg here giving us a hand… you’ve heard of John Legend? No big deal.

Adam and Jinsoo of up and coming electronic-art-gaming LA Gamespace… there is amazing things in the works here… they will be no big deal.

Portugal. The Man…

Poketo — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:00:45 +0000

I think the LA weather does Portugal. The Man good… Not one person at UCLA’s Royce Hall was sitting… as a matter of fact, as soon as they started, fans rushed the front (including me), and everyone was singing along to John Gourley’s words. They played a mix of a bunch of albums, lots from Censored Colors, Satanic Satanist, and In The Mountain In The Cloud. Every time I see Portugal play, they pretty much put on the best show again and again. Their show for Poketo a couple years back is my gold standard and forever ingrained. This show brought me back. Enjoy the visuals.

I was on stage right… John was on the other end there… I had front row, so, didn’t want to risk it battling my way through the crowd.

I was right in front of the awesome Noah Gersh on guitar and Zach Carothers on bass…

Portugal played with UCLA’s Philharmonia… a mini orchestra…

Who wants to play it safe? Do it. Dream Sessions

Poketo — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:00:36 +0000

Our friend, singer/songwriter, musician, actor Goh Nakamura is giving it all, he’s living the dream. His cards are on the table, he’s got nothing to lose, and everything to gain. After a successful run in the indie film circuit with the film Surrogate Valentine in 2011, he immediately set forth with the film sequel to Surrogate Valentine titled, Daylight Savings. Like the first film, it has screened with rave reviews at SXSW and just last weekend at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival. He’s been on the road for the past couple of years, playing venues, screening the film, road tripping from state to state… living the dream.

Now, Goh’s got a project on Kickstarter called “The Dream Sessions: Musical Travel Show”. He is dubbing it, the music version of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. He’ll be traveling the country, playing with some of the best musicians, recording, making original music, eating, chatting, seeing what is in their neck of the woods. What sounds cool is that you would not only see the process of art being made and documented, but, in the end, a finished product… a documentary and potentially, an album.

Already, he has musicians Kid Koala, Tim Bulkley, Jane Lui, Art Hirahara, Gary Wang, and Grand Hallway lined up. It’s still a work in progress, more musicians will be added, but, I know Goh, and Goh makes things happen. He’s a man of his word and when he does it, he does it with sincerity and awesomeness.

You can check out the video above or read all about the Kickstarter Project here. If you can give, do it… if you can spread the word, do it. Living the dream.