Exclusives™

I had to document this part and share the photos with the Franco site. What does this actually mean? Means less skating and more internet reading…only this time you have to flip flop from this site and the Franco site.

*This post will be updated daily*

Day 1:

Matt™ waking up Rachard with a pillow

David Lam, the official housesitter.

My full car. The van was full of the boys, their clothing bag, and their shoe bag.

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Matt™ testing a new product for his doo.

We had enough music to last us a whole cross country trip back and forth, yet the whole trip Matt™ and I™ listened to the new Justin Timberlake album

The front of Magic:

The face of a man who hustled into getting an extra room for us at the Monté Carlo.

For the rest of the photos of this day go here.

Day 2:

Girls LOVE coming to the Franco booth…mostly because of the water guns and lighters that were given out.

Arlo explaining his piece

Sniper shot from across the booth

Two of the illist cats from local Vegas shop Fruition

An exclusive invite

Sniper shot

Lil thug rapper Maxo from across the way

Franco makes colorful preppy gansters

Jeepney girls

Arlo and an old fan

Booooyahhh. So juiced to see this guy.

…and this guy

Mike™ and Chris’™ hotel

Matt™ moonwalking

What a goon (by the way, that’s Pete, the new Ubiq hotboy)

Instant Paris

Chris reading the welcome letter

wwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Day 3

Right as Arlo and I were walking up to the booth, a person stopped him and asked if he was the same rollerblader that touched the heart of millions. This guy was one of those millions skaters.

Mr. Jason Battle working behind the scenes

Girlsy girlsy love uuuuusssss

Planet Asia stopped by the booth. I had to tell him I represent Central Cali

Matt’s reaction to his reel being real blown up

I walked around and I saw Mr. Cartoon in front of the Joker booth

Shepard Fairey was walking to his booth. I came up to him and he remembered me from when I met him days ago. He was now present with his wife Amanda and his little giant a baby.

…he also remembered Arlo and how he was an inspiration to Shepard. See rollerbladers get love.

We got fresh and ate at Little Budda. The place was dark as shit. Here’s Matt™ being a ghost.

The food was amazing, probably one of the best meals I’ve had ever. I got some ahi tuna
thing which was kind of like shashimi.

Matt™’s classy way of smoking

Matt’s™ being Mos Def in the cover of the album everyone hates.

Tui and Yuki getting intimate.

After dinner we saw Too Short, Then Russle Simmons. We took the cab and went to the Empire Ballroom (I think) where there was a party Grey One was hosting with GOOD Records.

Daveee with a Boost Mobile girl

Daveee, Rachard, and Uncle Scrappy

WTF

T.I.’s dad

We went outside to meet up with some other people, but me not really being a party person was over it and went back to the hotel with Matt™. Daveee came later and was pissed drunk.

Day 4

Me with Kristi from Beautiful Decay. Girls mad gangsta.

The boyz!

I don’t know what matt™’s holding here

Hoodridin’ with the OT, So Fresh in Berkeley, and FRSH

Yummers

Black Mandrews™ and the Black Angel

Contender Tryouts

Arlo making the new shit…so exclusives™.

Kelly Rowland with her punkrock baby

Team Ubiq’s kicks for that day.

The dude on the right was the smelliest

matt™ and i™ took a break from the booth and headed out with mike™ and chris™ with their boss’ credit card. First spot we hit up, Niketown. There wasn’t shit there and the cab ride was 30 bucks because he thought we were going “Alamo”, but we ment “Outlets”.

Right when we got in the mall, Chris started dancing and singing to some song that got England the Olympics.

chris™ LOVES icee

After the shitty mall, we took a cabride to the closest In & Out, bought it, and took the cab back to Magic. What was suppose to be a $20.00 meal turned out to be $90.00, but we had to since it was their first time eating it… well not matt™, but it’s been a good while since he’d had the best burgers in the business.

chris™ also bought a shirt.

Chris staring at smut mags.

ummmmm um!

matt™ was done son. He laced a double cheeseburger, animal style fries and a strawberry milkshake.

We went back to the booth and the boys had a ball they were playing with. Then they started throwing the balls on each others crotch. DOINK!

mike™ is ALWAYS on the phone.

That night the crew split up…for a while. Most of us met at the American Apparel party which was at the strip club Crazy Horse Too. It was matt™’s first time there. I usually hate going to strip clubs, but being with the homies made it feel a little more inviting.

The Finalé

This was basically the fuck around day. mike™ and chris™ had left back to Philly. It was all about getting the perfect ACT photo and you can see them on the Franco blog.

Truely Exclusive™

Tui and his new piece. He looks kind of like Rick Ross, which also reminds me. There were so many people there who looked like Rick Ross in the show.

Daveee and dopeville

The painting gallery. Everyday an artist was painting a blank canvas.

Yuki getting attacked with stickers

The item that put us on the map.

Hella cramped in the van

I really haven’t had a chance to experience Vegas until this trip. Before that it was me sitting int he arcade for 4 hours while my parents blow my savings fund. Not only was I was with my California friends, but also with the exclusives™ brothers. This was  a trip I will never forget.