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!

The homie Lontastic has been crazy busy lately dropping his newest mixtape LAXTL, this video for “Let ‘em Know” and a little something special for Rukru, The Crew and all of you. You’re gonna have to check back for that. Hit the mailing list, follow us on facebook or twitter to know what’s up. Big shout out and props to Lontastic who’s always on the grind and been supporting Rukru since the beginning. Respect the Trade.

The core message of Rukru is to “Respect the Trade”. This simply means to respect the people who have built an established the cultures that we love. Creators, thinkers, builders, dreamers, etc. Another side to this idea is the drive to Support local trade. It’s a push to live self sufficiently and respect & better the community you inhabit on both a small and large scale. It’s just a little something that I think is important and I think plenty of people out there might feel the same way. In the shop soon.

It’s taking me a bit longer to get the tees up in the shop so i’ve decided to continue with the tease pics. I know it’s wrong to have favorites, but these are two of the shirts that I personaly have been dying  to get my hands on. They are finally in, and they look great. Peep a little Pen Slingers action showing respect for all the writers, poets, artists, etc. and one of my super old designs. Brains! A little cartoon zombie double stripe business. I originally printed this design about three years ago and always had people asking me where they could get one so the time has come. These will be in the shop soon so stay on the look out. Fan the facebook page for easy updates.