This video features the HEX patented PadPort technology for rapid on-the-go iPad use. The PadPort can be found in a variety of our bags including our Messengers and Cross Body. Available in Canada soon!

Launched in 2010, HEX is a division of August Accessories, a 21 year old company known for its design,
development and execution of innovative fashion accessories products. August Accessories products can be found in major store chains around the world under its own labels and private label for other world-renowned brands.  By utilizing this extensive experience in street wear and modern fashion, HEX draws on the strength of August Accessories’ history and channels it in an innovative new direction.

Founders Dan Maravilla and Trent Valladares met in their high-school years in Southern California. Both musicians, they cut their teeth in the performance and marketing of musical groups in Los Angeles. After years in the music and art scene, they decided to work together in a small, start-up, family business that grew into August Accessories. Over time spent designing and marketing for various brands under license their interest in defining their own brand and statement grew. In 2010, that brand was born, and that brand is HEX.

“HEX’S goal is to connect technology with fashion by pairing gadgets with unique and attractive solutions” says Maravilla.  “Products are designed with equal parts fashion and tech-readiness in their DNA.” Take the HEX watchbands for example; available in plastic, leather and metal variations and are designed to hold an iPod Nano that can be worn just like a watch.

The HEX line, which also includes an extensive selection of computer-ready backpacks, tote’s, messenger bags and sleeves, is perfect for the connected generation. HEX also offers iPhone wallets, case protectors and the popular ‘Solo Wallet’ iPhone/cardholder.

Valladares adds, “It’s a new time.” “One where our lives and our electronics are intertwined.” “We live in a world where our electronics are not novelties, but necessities as much a part of our style and personality as our clothing or our taste in music.”

HEX already has some exciting collaborations with The Hundreds, Far East Movement and skateboarder Mike Mo Capaldi.  Look for more colabs in the future!

COMUNE will present their first skateboard video offering since compiling their New team of skateboard contributors towards the end of last year. The short video project titled OFFSET will include separate video treatments for each contributor including JORDAN SANCHEZ, AL PARTANEN, NIAL FREDERICKSON, JOSH MURPHY and JOSEPH LOPEZ. If your down in LA May 19th, swing by and check it out and be sure to tell them the crew at Wick Winder sent you, might be good for a free beer!

MAY // 19 // 2012
KUNG PAO KITTY // 8:00 PM – 12:00
6445 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

News on Canadian premiere dates to follow shortly!

Click the image above to head on over to BITCHSLAPMAG.COM for some New images and a short interview with COMUNE Drop City contributor and regular Color Magazine photo contributor Alana Paterson.

Alana’s images can be seen on T-shirt prints from the COMUNE Spring & Fall 2012 lines, nice work Alana!

Eswic is proud to announce the launch of our much anticipated Spring 2012 printables program of tee shirts and hats.

This launch marks eswic’s initial injection into the retail market and features artwork by Ed Templeton as well as designs inspired by team riders Leo Romero, Cairo Foster and James Hardy.
The essential elements of style are put in motion with eswic’s Spring Collection while paving the way for an expanded offering beyond tees and hats that will continue to showcase our synergy between skaters and artists.

Free entry, tons of prizes , NOW WITH CA$H PRIZE, signup at 10am in the sunrise lounge , open to all ages and skill levels, free bbq provided by NARROWS pub, tons of prizes from Stepchild snowboards, 32 boots, Ashbury, Neff, Etnies, Gnarly Clothing. This is Seymour’s last weekend too, lets go out with a bang again this season, Saturday jam, then shaker at narrows, then we’ll be back at narrows for hangover brunch Sunday, and then last day shred at the hill, followed by last run tailgate, see you there.

HOWL 2012 TEAM INTRO from HOWL on Vimeo.

Next up in Ashbury’s video web-series is Ashbury/Howl rider Jake OE.

The crew at Thrasher Magazine just posted a sweet grip of photos on their site of the Eswic team-trip to a desert somewhere??

When it’s not really snowing anywhere else in North America, you typically can’t lose by heading to the Northwest to seek out the massive storms that pound Washington state. The Arbor crew including rider, Mark Reininga filmer, Matt Devino and TM, Brad Farmer meet up with the Hot Lava crew including Arbor regional rider, Rayn Mclaughlin, Ian Wright and friend, Max Mcindoe at Stevens Pass. And it snowed…a lot. Powder days are here again in this the third episode of Arbor’s Somewhat Uncertain Journey of 2012.

Check out Kobe Bryant of the LA Lakers wearing a Vestal ZR-3 watch in the new Vitamin Water Campaign.

Get your bones down to Inglewood, California this coming Saturday for Born Free 4 where they will be presenting and giving away Two 69 Shovels, yeeoow!

COMUNE/Drop City contributor and twin sister Ashlie Chavez has a new website. All personal work and commissioned projects are officially updated as well as her blog so check it out! www.ashliechavez.com

Ashlie Chavez is a photographer for hire who lives near Los Angeles with her family. She has a BFA in Creative Analogue Photography and does collaborative work with her twin sister, Amber. Ashlie believes in a theocratic hope for the future. Ashlie encourages the use of film.

See Ashlie’s new site here: http://www.ashliechavez.com/
See Amber’s site here: www.amberchavez.com

In a winter of what if’s, I wish’s and all around WTF’s, sometimes you just have to roll the dice and give’er a go. Arbor rider’s Ian Sams and Scotty Vine set out on a trek from Salt Lake City to Aspen and then on to Denver just trying to get involved and make some snowboarding happen in a wildly uncertain season. Along the way they drop in on a SLC urban mission, a Nike Chosen event, the Bonezone, Brighton, the X Games, Snowmass and SIA among all parts in-between and at various times they meet up with teammates, Sean Black, Brandon Hammid, Blake Axelson, Sammy Spiteri and Nick Visconti. Arbor Snowboards presents an Uncertain Journey Episode 2 of 2

From Nick Visconti — This season I have been working on an exclusive TransWorld SNOWboarding web-series and video project with intent to fuse web, video and print media. However, due to some unexpected events and the limited snow season, this project has been reinvented and we decided to release now in season. Here is my full rail video part Nick Visconti’s “ReCreation,” hosted by TransWorld, and proudly presented by Arbor Snowboards and Arnette Eyewear. Enjoy!

In a winter of what if’s, I wish’s and all around WTF’s, sometimes you just have to roll the dice and give’er a go. Arbor rider’s Ian Sams and Scotty Vine set out on a trek from Salt Lake City to Aspen and then on to Denver just trying to get involved and make some snowboarding happen in a wildly uncertain season. Along the way they drop in on a SLC urban mission, a Nike Chosen event, the Bonezone, Brighton, the X Games, Snowmass and SIA among all parts in-between and at various times they meet up with teammates, Sean Black, Brandon Hammid, Blake Axelson, Sammy Spiteri and Nick Visconti. Arbor Snowboards presents an Uncertain Journey Episode 1 of 2.

From Nick Visconti — If my time in this industry has taught me anything, it is to “expect the unexpected.” In the world of action sports, extreme progression quickly devalues what was once regarded as exceptional. What does this process look like? The exceptional becomes the expected, the expected becomes the standard, and the standard becomes monotonous and mundane. How then does a media platform, endemic brand, or professional snowboarder assault this vicious cycle? Do what is unexpected.

This season I have been working on an exclusive TransWorld SNOWboarding web-series and video project with intent to fuse web, video and print media. However, due to some unexpected events and the limited snow season, this project has been reinvented. My full rail video part Nick Visconti’s “ReCreation,” hosted by TransWorld, and proudly presented by Arbor Snowboards and Arnette Eyewear will be released at the pinnacle of snowboard web traffic, March 7th. The release will shock and startle those viewers whose minds are limited by tradition.