I went to Joshua tree with the girl from perth back in January. This has to be my 3rd or 4th post about this place but do desert photos with pretty girls ever get old? usually i would add some sort of commentary about the girl in the photos but she hates blogs and would kill me if i got too sentimental.

Almost 2 years after the last site launched today we see the birth of mikepiscitelli.com  3.0. Thanks to all that helped especially Todd @ Hollow Trees for building it and Tracey for putting up with me while we edited it.

all this technology and we still edited on paper first.

its way harder than it seems to do this.

Spent a week in Kingston Jamaica having the most fun on a shoot I have ever had. Pretty sure it’s the first ad campaign to have a shoot day on an illegal weed plantation… I can’t wait till I can share the ads but until then, here are some snaps from the trip.

Kingston can be a little sketchy, luckily we had Billy Wilmot to keep us out of trouble. Besides playing “CC” for the last 16 years on the longest running soap opera in Jamaica, Billy is a local surf legend and the lead singer of The Mystic Revealers…

I skipped lunch.

The crop.

The city is stuffed with the best locations.

Rockers International was another dream Location. It was started by Augustus Pablo to go along with the record label. Augustus produced  “King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown” if you didn’t bother to click the link to learn more. The place is a landmark.

The art of hand painted signage is still in full effect.

Shot mary-louise parker at my baby momma lysa cooper’s house in venice. thank you lysa!

Back in April I was in Australia shooting Ksubi’s 10 Year Anniversary for Nylon Magazine. Here are some of my favorites and few of the interviews that accompanied a few of the photos.

DAMION KENNETH WILLEM DOWNEY

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

Ksubi Heavy Metal tracksuit.

WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION TO KSUBI?

I have my own art studio and I also put on exhibitions to help other artists sell their work.  I dont do anything on Mondays.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH KSUBI?

We have been friends since their jeans were baggy- really baggy.

WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE KSUBI MOMENT?

The 2005 show full of our friends dressed as faux celebrities.  And the first big warehouse sale where we all got drunk in Lycra monkey suites and the rats, the rats, the rats.  I will never forget how these guys just went for it.

KSUBI IS 10! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?

Fuck, thats a lot of weekends.

WHAT MAKES KSUBI SPECIAL?

I put it down to the baggy jeans.

OZZIE WRONG

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

Ksubi vintage eagle jacket, Ksubi Modular Unfair Funfair tee and Volcom jeans.

WHAT DO YOU DO?

Sit around all day with my ukelele.

WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION TO KSUBI?

I put the ‘T’ in Tsubi, but since it turned into a ‘K’ my connections are fading.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH KSUBI?

Eating magic mushrooms chocolates in my garage, stapling each other to the walls.

WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE KSUBI MOMENT?

Stealing and awesome eagle studded jacket worth a million dollars.

KSUBI IS 10! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?

Juvenile delinquents never grow up.

WHAT MAKES KSUBI SPECIAL?

Free love grows on trees these days.

VAUGHAN DEAD

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

Ksubi patch jeans.

WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION TO KSUBI?

Way back in the day George Garrow, Steve Garrow, Cowboy, and I shared a house together on the golden sands of Souh Narrabeen. We ate a lot of chocolate-coated mushrooms and surfed a lot of the outer reefs in monstrous 50-year storm swells. We drank chilled rosé and engaged in a lot of philosophical debate. I subscribed to Jungian belief that “the creative mind plays with the object it loves.”  George was a fan of Frued’s: “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.” As far as I can tell, both theories were foundation stones in the eventual birth of Ksubi.

WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE KSUBI MOMENT?

We were in a yellow shed with broken windows in Ozzie’s backyard and George and Dan and Ozzie were creating the first collection. On the door was a painting of a palm tree with the words ITS A STRANGER IN PARADISE scrawled underneath. Inside, a Czech girl with pigtails was dancing to some song that I cant remember in her underpants.  You could smell the burning weed.  It felt innocent and dangerous, like a bunch of kids playing with matches and flammable shit, like it could all explode at any second.  And it did, about a week later, when the line launched. It was a sick night.

KSUBI IS 10! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?

Like most 10-year-olds, Ksubi is sporting grazed knees and black eyes– and loving it. It’s got a sick new bike and it can do a hell skids and monos.  It’s tried its first cigarette and coughed all over the place, but can’t wait to try it again.  It’s got dirty feet and doesn’t want to shower or bath. It kissed a girl at the bus stop and it dreamed about it every night for two weeks afterwards.  It’s thinking about shaving its head. It’s a fucking little badass.

DION ANTHONY:

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

Ksubi boardies, a gray cotton tunic hippie shirt and a Ksubi archive Victorian Highlands Shiraz jacket.

WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION TO KSUBI?

Ten fun years of blood, sweat, and tears.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH KSUBI?

I met Dan Single in the late -’99.

WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE KSUBI MOMENT?

If you know the boys well enough, you know that all the memorable moments are pretty hard to remember once the birds start chirping.

KSUBI IS 10! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?

Its only just begun…

WHAT MAKES KSUBI SPECIAL?

Their ability to connect like-minded people from all over the world and build strong relationships with creative, influential people of all ages.  They are loyal, loving, and committed to believing in themselves and their art.

HOLLYWOOD

COWBOY

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

Ksubi archive Oscar blazer, Crack white jeans and Ksubi charcoal T-shirt.

WHAT DO YOU DO?

Play rock ‘n’ roll in the Goons and Doom, and build crafty pieces of furniture.

WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION TO KSUBI?

I grew up with the boys round the beaches surfing and eating BBQ King.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH KSUBI?

A booth at fashion week with loads of straight vodka… that’s all i remember.

WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE KSUBI MOMENT?

The Goons played at the Bentley Bar back in the day. It was one of our first ever gigs.

KSUBI IS 10! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?

Almost vintage.

WHAT MAKES KSUBI SPECIAL?

Don’t cry, but friends and family… Did everyone say that?

Paul Wilson

Kiku Ohe

There is a work new site coming very soon… www.mikepiscitelli.com

Updating books is a never ending cycle that when not rushed is almost as fun as shooting the photos. That said, when I have 2 weeks to update 6 books it fucking sucks…

Request a book from my peeps!

Just watched the cut of a behind the scenes video that Tyler Kindred made of my Monster Children shoot. Should be online soon. UPDATE…

Last month I was lucky enough to spend a week in Wilmington North Carolina shooting the greatest dude on Television, Danny McBride as Kenny Fucking Powers for the new K-SWISS campaign. It was a really fun job and this is just a fraction of the stuff we shot. Thank you Matt Murphy and everyone at 72andSunny .

Times Square.

Trying to out crazy Jeremy Shockey is no easy task…

never not working.

hand painted on the boardwalk in Venice.

Oliver Stone shot in Santa Monica at the Casa Del Mar Ballroom. Dude was really cool and easy to work with. At the end of the shoot he told me that “it was a pleasure to work with you and I appreciate you shooting so fast but I think its in your best interest to change your name, Its way too fucking long.”