Saturday, January 8, 2011

hansel... so hot right now... hansel

Storytime... So I've been living in Berlin for a couple of years now. As I've mentioned in earlier blogs, my brother Naw was staying with me for the summer, and he ended up doing some work for a rad mag, based in Berlin, called Lodown. He got to know the editor, Sven, quite well and they'd been hanging out a bunch. Sven has all manner of projects on the go, one of which is a brand consulting company called Brand New History. They were organising a new catalogue shoot for a Berlin based clothing company called Irie Daily and Sven asked Naw if he'd be interested in doing some modelling for them. Unfortunately, Naw had just booked his flights back to Oz and was going to miss the shoot by a week or so. He then went on to mention... "But, I do have a twin brother..." to which Sven said "Cool, get him to send me some pictures..." So Naw informed me and I set up some self portraits to show my range (in my fetching Unite flanno)... Ha ha... Anyway, Sven was stoked, the shoot went ahead, and a couple of months later, I now find myself the star of a full page Irie Daily ad in Bright and Vice Germany magazines. A new career perhaps? Perhaps not...

 

Friday, January 7, 2011

back to life...

Well, after a good few weeks of festive celebrations and a few too many hours spent in transit, I'm finally set and sorted in Kitzbuhel again for the winter season. Am also in the process of providing submissions from the Canarian surf season to the bodyboarding world, but I'll be trying to get back into a regular blog pattern in the coming days/weeks. 
Kicking off the winter season, I'm stoked to be able to share a couple of ads used in two different UK mags, one for Smith goggles and one for Route One Snowboard Shop, both of British rider and dnb soldier Seb Kern. Good times!