New site!! I have now moved to a DOT COM with an all new look, and will no longer be using my WordPress account.

Go visit!!

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Links to my online ETSY store where you can purchase some Rice Society goods! Finally!!

UP AGAINST THE WALL MF PRESENTS:

Art Exhibit / Music from Taiwan’s best…

“No photography – free hand sketching only. Celebrate a night without cameras – come and sketch what you see and experience.”

Dr.Sketchy’s Drawing Group is gonna be joining us!

Rice Society will be showcasing some NEW leggings and some collab pieces with Steven Vigar! Ahhhh but YOU don’t get to see unless you go there and check it out in the flesh, as there will be NO PHOTOS taken!!

That’s not even the coolest part!! There’s gonna be prizes for drawings, a MASSIVE art exhibit, and some really fucking rad music to listen/dance/draw to!

For more info check out the Facebook Event

Also preparing some Felt Badges for y’all…

See ya June 11th!!

Photographer: Yi Chen

Model: Helen

Studio: First Zoom

Multi-fabric tights, spandex shirt, RICE SOCIETY.

Get ready!

Peaches in Rice Society leggings + me!

Special thanks to her Tranimals, Alita and Marika, for taking me back stage to meet her. EPIC! She was super down to earth and chilled out, despite just finishing one of the raddest live shows ever!

Took initiative and just made her a pair of leggings and gave them to her when we met backstage. They matched her sneakers (what a fluke!) so she put them on right away and came to party at Underworld. Fun times!

Costume change idea was great. Peel back layers to revel multiple new outfits underneath.

I love the fact that you can jump into the front photographer area without getting your head smashed in. And that you can actually get to the front without some big tough girl sticking her elbow in your face saying, “Move back, white bitch, before I knock your teeth out!” (That happened to me at N.E.R.D. in San Fran, couldn’t get anywhere near the stage.) Ah, but Taipei, I love you!

The wig hair on the arm bands is original. The material on her jumpsuit looked kinda cheap in real life, but great on film. Opened my eyes to what happens in costume design.

Michael Jackson tribute:

This part was epic. In a towel, then opened it and had a projection of herself singing to her. Great idea!

This fabric – suuuuper cheap but looks cool on stage and blows nicely in the fan.

Then we are all like, whoa! What’s that?!?!? Then she turned around wearing this:

The massive-est name plate I ever did see. I want one. Fucking sweet!

Then my fucking camera ran out of battery. Had to resort to my iPhone to get dressing room pics. iPhone camera = fail.

Last pic is a candid of Peaches backstage with Mar and Alita. The leggings really do match her shoes:

Good lesson: EVERYONE loves free stuff. <3

Creative Director/Stylist: Rice Society

Models: Maxime Savage & Cresencio Victoria

Amazing Assistant: Jeremy Gordon

Special Thanks to Max & Justin Robinette for providing additional wardrobe, and for Emily & Mel for lending their rooftop! Also thanks to the Isis for letting us all come in and trash the place!

New Rice Society leggings!

TopMan briefs

Rabbit – Model’s own

Headphones – WESC X Bloody Beatroots

Rice Society leggings

What time is it? NOW!

Go check out her new blog!

We’re gonna miss that boy! He also managed to score Taiwan Photo of the Day, from the shoot we did with Steven Vigar. (The photos from that will be up soon, so stay tuned!)

He shined golden everywhere he went. Here’s a candid from his Last Chance for Romance Dance at The Loft:

Love Love Love Love!!!

In his final hours, here with Steve-O and Rodrigo in the basement of Roxy Jr.:

See you in NYC!!!!!

LAPSAP!

Amanda is gonna hella miss this place. Some reasons why you might not know Taiwan is awesome.

-holding her breath for a block to not smell stinky tofu

-lion dog hair cuts

-old people doing exercises in the park

-beers from 711 at any hour

-never getting carded

-big huge beautiful apt for no money – cheap rent

-Taiwanese babies

-People who don’t travel for crazy times, but travel becuase they are crazy, cuz they all live in Taiwan

Taiwan peeps, not Taiwanese people

-people farting on the mrt and it doesn’t bother ppl

-cover their nose to pick it in public

-miss wearing a tank top next to ppl wearing a parka

-bbqs with the girls

-squat toliets cuz it’s so much cleaner

-shoe prints on toliet seats

-vomiting into cups and having the bar staff laugh and offer limes to clean out your mouth and cheering you on

-tea eggs

-seaseme noodles

-playing pictionary and charades (it’s called communicating) everywhere you go

-walk out the door and every day is an adventure

-getting lost

-milk tea zhen zhu nai cha

-cheap teppanyaki in the night market

-night markets!

miscellanous tuesday afternoon fireworks that scares the shit out of you

-free food on the side of the road that is actually for the world

-random whafts of incense mixed with sewage

-random parades with deities coming door to door for change

-flagging cheap cabs that are available without phone call within 5 min. anywhere in taipei

-old men plauing chinese chess in the park and getting really animated about it and crowding around the table

-7 year old with giant marajuana leaves on it. super inappropriate clothing for elementary students. (and high school – fuzzy pooh bear on a 14 year old)

-all the different culture stir-fry that exsists here

-10 degrees (Celcius) being cold!

-scooter aventures and helmet hair

-711 stickers as currency

-Hello Kitty, cuz it’s funny

-Taiwanese boyfriends carrying their girlfriend’s purses

–Hello Kitty cuz it’s funny

-Taiwanese couples dressing in matching shirts, or matching ladybug helmets, same same but opposite in handcuffs

I am gonna miss Amanda SOOOOOO much!

Season Finale of Season One with Amanda! Stayed tuned for Season Two in the fall with an all new location!

Best of luck in Cambodia, Thailand and Borneo!

He just got a new website! www.mattmat.ca

Here he is!! Doing what he does best:

Currently, he’s in Vancouver. So– if you are lucky enough to be there, you should totally send him an email or join his Facebook group (search healthy hair by Matthew May). My favorite thing about getting my hair done by him is that he always educates me on my hair. Matt teaches his clients how to take care of your hair to make it grow faster, be healthier, look better, and how to style it different ways and even what products and techniques would work best on your hair. He is full service!

After a cut or color, you always leave glowingly happy and stoked about your new life you will have with your new hair. He’s also really good about cutting it so that when it grows out, it still looks good, and you don’t need to go back for a new cut right away. This is especially good if you’re from outta town (like me) and need it to look good as long as possible.

Matt May is truely inspirational and talented at hair. He’s been doing it forever! He’s really good at inventing new styles that work for you. (He’s really, really good at dye jobs! Extensive training paid off!)

Here’s a cut and dye job he did for me ages ago:

Go look him up. He has experience in fashion shows (he’s the head stylist for Eco Fashion Week Vancouver 2010!), weddings, photo shoots, editorial, and various salons, not to mention all the work he does from his (or your) home.

He can do avant guarde if you want him too! Here’s a shot of Tash:

MATT MAY IS AMAZING!!! I love him so much! Visit his website to check out the rest! www.mattmay.ca