Rukru L.A. Clothing Streetwear T-Shirt Blog

Ink N Iron is always one of my favorite events. When we talk say “Respect the Trade”, Ink N Iron truely incorporates three amazing trades with remarkable examples of each. Tattooing, Custom Car Building and Music. That’s what the scene is at Ink N Iron and there is a bunch of it. You couldn’t image the amount of detail and craft that goes into each and everyone of the cars and tattoos. People from all over the world flock to hang out in a parking lot and a stuffy run down ship for the love of Ink and Iron. If you get the chance to go, I highly recommend it. Just be prepared to stand in line for a few hours. And by be prepared, I mean throw a 12 pack in a back pack and bring a bottle of sunscreen.

Obviously I can’t post all the picks otherwise you’ld be scrolling for days but feast your eyes on a few of my favs from the weekend. If you didn’t know, I’m an El Camino fanatic so I’m like a fat kid in a super fat candy store when I stumbled across Elcos like the killer green and white one you’ll see below. We where also glad to see our neighbors from the Devils Car Club representing Venice. They have got a super sick collection and are simply great guys. Besides all of the eye candy (cars, tats and pin up chicks) it was great hanging out with the girls and my homie D.Tea from VeniceRacket.com

OH… and M-CAT, you owe me a car cleaning for your drunken kettle corn shenanigans. HA!

Just stumbled across this video of Travis Barker and The Cool Kids out on Venice Beach right down the street from us.

I’ve been crazy busy lately and one of my favorite things going on right now is this new shirt series that I am illustrating for Rukru. I’m not going to blow the lid yet but lets just say these tees are going to be killer and really bring it back to our roots. Respect the Trade. The new line is coming soon. Get on the email and follow on twitter and facebook for more updates.

We got a feature in the new 10 year anniversary edition of Prick Magazine that just came out. Head out to your local shop and snag a copy. Might as well pick up some ink while you’re there. Maybe a portrait of my mom? HAAH!! Hope everyone has a great weekend.

It’s true… and although our women’s line hasn’t dropped yet, we highly recommend all our ladies buy smaller mens shirt. Lets be honest, these tees look good on men but better chicks. Shout to Lesley Bea Photography for the killer pics of our Slugger Tee available here in white and here in black.