A New Hope. Expect the unexpected.

All you sneaker buffs should head over to the Nike Sportswear website to check out their new feature about the Air Max lineage. There are great downloadable OG posters, videos explaining the evolution of the Air Max 1 to the newly released/redesigned Air Maxim, and this sweet design-centric timeline.

Photo by Joe Martinez

Name:
Jamie

Aka:  
J-hop, James, Jamie-jo

Website:
jamiehopper.com

Where are you from?
I was a military kid so not exactly anywhere, but Louisiana was the first place that I chose to live so it’s kinda homebase.

Who do you work for? 
A few great photographers here and there, and myself.

What are your Current Project(s)? 
Working on some collaborative things with Ellie Mae, and then the girls from Asian Cajuns. I am also way into road trip planning.  

Who would you love to work with?
Skye Parrott, she’s one of my favorite photographers as well as the Creative Director for Dossier, an arts and culture journal that I adore.  

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
A pair of old hightops.

What’s on your iPod right now?
 animal collective, jens lekman, beirut, and everything on here: http://blip.fm/teenagepants

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
Soul Vegetarian or Thumbs Up, I can’t decide 

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
Wouldn’t it be blasphemy for me to say anything other than El Bar? 

What are your Pet Peeves?
Phone troubles, rudeness to servers, excessive honking in traffic.

Shout outs?
Marie, Stephanie, Honeycutt, Alex, Julie, Leah, Meg, Vycki, Justin, Witt, Ross & Joe, Smif & Rabun, Catherine & Lauren,  Ray & Jose, Jess, Char, Phil, Ellie, Carly James, Ivy, Matt, Katherine, Rhiannon, Megan, CJ, T-boi, Teeth, Cash, and Superrock.

Yesterday, I was asked to freak a type treatment for Levi Maestro’s new mixtape (mixed by DJ Sourmilk) featuring songs from his Maestro Knows web series that has gotten hugely popular over the past months.

I decided to go with one of my favorite “display/headline” fonts, Trade Gothic Bold No. 20 Condensed, that I’ve been rockin’ since my design school days. Also, I’m hyped to finally throw down on one of Zach Wolfe’s shots. He’s been holding it down for ATL for years!

Download (via Sendspace): Maestro Knows & DJ Sourmilk Present… Season One Mixtape

Resident Epidemik Coalition / PROCESS photographer, Jorge Menes, was in town over the weekend and snapped this photo of @DecaturDan while shooting some test frames for our new lookbook. Although we won’t officially use this shot in our book, I thought it was a perfect to tease at what we’ve been up to…

Thank you to everyone who placed an order this month and received complimentary FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING. We’ve packed more orders than we ever thought! There’s still one more day to take advantage of the sweet deal at http://wearetheprocess.com/store.php

A few weeks back, I spent some time in Hong Kong made a point to “look-under-the-hood” of the inner workings of Hypebeast as I spent the afternoon with Managing Editor, Eugene Kan. This was a great chance to put a face to a name on someone I’ve only had contact through the internet and also an opportunity to “take things in” as a curious contributor to the EC/PROCESS brands. We spent the afternoon discussing the current state of streetwear and the global economy’s effect on all of us as consumers. Eugene also agreed to this exclusive interview with me based on our conversations of that day.

Check it out after the jump.

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This week I was fortunate enough to work with celebrity photographer Lionel Deluy. I worked on a job for an upcoming hip hop star and it was a fun filled day of Lambos, crack houses and getting yelled at by neighborhood vigilantes. Lionel is the first big LA celebrity photographer that I have worked for and it was a really interesting experience. After watching videos on YouTube of Lionel as a guest star on America’s Next Top Model a couple of years ago and shooting for Kat Von D’s new book I was expecting the worst. Much to my surprise Lionel and his assistant Odyssey turned out to be really awesome dudes, making our 12 hour day a breeze. It seems like Lionel has shot just about everyone there is to shoot as far as celebrities and musicians are concerned so this is only a small portion of his work. Check out more work after the jump or on his website here.

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Due to your requests, we added some straight-up logo stickers and tees into the 2nd collection this summer. For our first season, we decided that we didn’t want to start a brand centered on a logotype but our supporters have ruled otherwise! Thanks for the feedback guys!

While supplies last, we’ll include a stack of stickers with your online orders and we’ve also left a stack at Standard on Peachtree Road in ATL. Check out the new collection (goes on sale Friday the 26th) and snag a complimentary sticker while they last!

David Stern’s pocketbook has been hurting ever since MJ decided to call it quits. Which explains why the NBA has been full of undeserving players being put on pedestals for years since. That explains the moronic foul calls and the reason why 20-somethings worldwide long for “back in the day”. MJ is the greatest. Hands down. Lebron, take notes… btw, having Shaq on your team isn’t gonna help either.

Heads up to Dr. Jones for the link!

Charlotte peeps, head over to Black Sheep and holler at Josh and Chase for us! Our summer delivery just arrived in their shop. Sorry about the crappy photo, but I left the trusty Canon Rebel at home last weekend!

Name:
Danielle Glasky

Aka:  
deegee

Website:
chuggable.wordpress.com

Where are you from?
Originally Vallejo, California but now it’s looking like I’m from Atlanta. Been here longer, anyway. Can’t deny your roots, tho.

Who do you work for? 
Octane Coffee, for the next 3 weeks anyway. Then I’ll be working for Stumptown Coffee NYC!!

What are your Current Project(s)? 
Making things taste amazing!!! We’re working on this single origin espresso from Ethiopia that has been rocking lately. It’s like purple and green skittles. I’m also working on my moped. Does that count? It’s a project. And moving. 

Who would you love to work with?
Luckily I work with the coolest effing people at Octane, but I do have my coffee crushes I would love to collaborate with. Like Aida Battle from Santa Ana, El Salvador. This woman has three farms in El Salvador and does some ridiculously amazing coffee. Kentaro Maruyama is also a badass and I would love to learn his zen ways of cupping coffees.

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
I have these old green vans slip ons that I CANNOT get rid of because I wore them on my first trip to Japan. I will probably move them around forever and grab them quickly if my house begins to burn down.

What’s on your iPod right now?
I’ve been marching backwards in time and revisiting a bunch of shit I used to listen to like Dismemberment Plan, Tristeza, Tortoise… then there’s Broadcast, the Field, Yo la Tengo, Lilys, and Stereolab.

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
arvers- god I’m going to miss this place, specifically the pulled pork. And the BBQ Tofu taco at El Myr. And the deviled eggs at H&F rock my world.

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
When I’m not at work I’m at Method Coffee Bar during the day and at Leon’s Full Service or the Brickstore Pub at night. 

What are your Pet Peeves?
People on their cell phones at the register or iced espressos or gender related comments regarding coffee.  i drink my coffee black thank you very much because it tastes DELICIOUS this way.

Shout outs?
I guess this is where I get to say goodbye? Sara- so pumped we’ve become so tight; AlyShel, Crystal, the other half of Team Coffee - Ben Helfen (you’re gonna kill in Cologne!), Tiny Rifle and the whole Octane crew,  the sleepy creepies, the Cabbagetown posse, Liz BFF Clayton, EKIII <3, Lamont and Byron, the LEON’s and BSP crew, the blogfam, and my southeast coffee fam love you always.

NYC’s Da Hardy Boyz are visiting Atlanta this Friday thanks to Chris Black aka Done to Death Projects. They’ll be at Standard 1841 for an after work Keg Party followed by a night of mayhem at El Bar.

We have their single, Hardy Time, streaming on the audio player of our redesigned PROCESS site. Click on Summer Jams.

Download their Turntable Lab Mixtape (via zshare): Da Hardy Boyz Mixtape

Photo by Myk Pate

Whenever we visit Charlotte, we know we’re in for a weekend of good eats and good friends. This past weekend, we brought Cristo Disco from ATL to play at the monthly SWARM event on the Camden block. Also, we dropped off the new season of PROCESS gear at Black Sheep, Charlotte’s definitive Skate Shop. Myk from DMN posted some photos of our weekend. Check them out here.

Last Friday marked a pretty major moment in world history with the 10th Iranian presidential election. While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reported as winning the election supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi believed there was foul play. Thousands of Mousavi supporters began protesting thru-out the country with massive demonstrations taking place in Tehran.

The images that have come out have been incredible but since the first batch of pictures came out the Iranian government has banned all foreign media.

The most interesting part of all of it is how the U.S. State Department is using Twitter as a means to keep in touch with what is going on. The State Department asked Twitter to delay their scheduled maintenance so that people in Iran could still update their accounts while protesting continued to go on. I’ve never heard of a country blocking off all foreign media while such major demonstrations are going on but Im really glad that these images made it out before that.

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The infallible Joe Martinez, who I will be accompanying to American Idol auditions today, recently took these great outdoor photos of Chris after work. I can’t say enough about how much Chris has helped the cause and I’m glad to have him on the team. It doesn’t matter how old you are, or how much experience you have. It really comes down to your drive, your word, and your determination to make an impact. So far, Chris has left an indelible impression on us at EC/PROCESS. Leave a nice comment for your boy!

Peep Bun B’s fitted game right here! Shot last night at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts before his performance celebrating Tupac’s birthday.

Name:
Chris Lee

Aka:  
C to the JL

Website:
ctothejl.com

Where are you from?
Holding it down for the NY/NJ area.

Who do you work for? 
Myself, I play for my own team.

What are your Current Project(s)? 
CtotheJL.com of course, and some other secrets I cannot speak about… ha.

Who would you love to work with?
I’d like to work with Nick Tershay, he’s the current owner and designer of Diamond Supply Co. his design are great, and he runs a very successful skateboarding company.

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
Nike SB Diamond Supply Co. SB’s.

What’s on your iPod right now?
Right now, J.A.M.E.S. WATTS, KiD CuDi, Drake, and Wale.

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
Fried Chicken, Mac and cheese, and the uptown drink.

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
Standard ATL of course!

What are your Pet Peeves?
People who act like they know what’s up, but are complete jerk offs.

Shout outs?
All the supporters of CtotheJL.com, the CJL Crew, Lars, Matt, Kazar, Lisa. Big homey JLP, Nicky Diamonds, everyone whos been down since day one. ‘09 is going to be one hell of a year.

Check out this crazy pic I caught of Dax being rowdy in front of his mural at El Bar. And when you’re done with that, head over to his newly redesigned blog, SnortThis.com.

All weekend long, folks have been updating their twitter statuses letting us know they’ve picked up their LA x ATL fitted. We’re both flattered and encouraged by the support in our hometown! Thanks Tweeps! Thanks so much for making this release a success. We’re going to give that love back by releasing more heat in the future. Stay tuned… you won’t want to miss out.

I’m not sure when I’ll get another chance to jam on chicken wings this good, so I had to take a pic. This past weekend, Rosa allowed Sumner and a few others to try some of these legendary wings that only a hand full of guys have ever eaten. Apparently, Lan Ngo only makes these wings for Girls Night Out or Girls Night In and if you’re a dude, then you’re usually not welcome.

Ted’s headed back to Borneo to continue the work from when he went overseas earlier this year and the complimentary Estate LA 5-Panel cap that he’s wearing in this photo is going with him. It’s pretty cool to realize that in a matter of 5 days, that cap will have traveled from Los Angeles > Atlanta > Brooklyn > Borneo.

I just went by Standard on Peachtree to see how things were going and I caught @RyanAcker pushing their last two PROCESS x Estate LA caps on the phone, drinking a Whynatte, and wearing a Streetlocal tee. I had to snap a pic. Good things happen when you keep it local. Everything in this pic was created right here in the good ole U.S.A.

Here’s a cool pic of our latest collaboration with Estate LA which is on sale now. The Estate crew has the caps behind a glass case, next to what appears to be a signed pair of Zoom Kobe IV’s. Fresh!

We woke up this morning to an overwhelming amount of online orders and I even saw a few people picking theirs up at Standard today. We only have 50 caps in Atlanta and 50 caps in Los Angeles. Make sure you grab yours before they’re gone.

Visit the PROCESS Online Boutique and get FREE SHIPPING (Domestic) for the month of June. You can’t beat that guys!

What up world? This is Joe, filling in for Ross for this week’s Photo Friday. I came across this article a while back analyzing a photograph taken by Madonna’s publicity team as she goes through the process of adopting yet another Malawian baby. In a bid to make her attempted adoption look more romanticized, Madonna has created a bit of propaganda with the above photo. Martin Parr explains the motives behind converting the photo to sepia after the jump:

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