(word bk) james brandon king

Hip Hop Hipster stores in Kanazawa

I had a little mission to hit up as many of the SB Dunk/Crooks and Castle/any other streetwear stores with exclusive accounts that i could find. I like to look at theses clothes but i’m not feeling most of them for myself. I think it is kinda ridiculouse for some of these lines to charge […]

Kanazawa Municipal Technical High School

Shiriko (the nickname for her school)
A bunch of photos from the morning.

Saying Hello

My bad for the slight delay. Just think of it as being an over-dub from an old japanese movie.

muji muji muji

I love Muji. I’ve been using muji notebooks exclusivly for the past few years. For a while you could only get them at the MoMa store in NYC. Now I can the notebooks and a ton of other things at their new SoHo store. I checked it out just before I left so i could […]

Any other black folks here?

Mom sent me an email asking. Instead of just replying back to her I’ll just answer it here.
No.
In fact there are very few people of any ethnicity other than Japanese here. Even the tourist all seem to be Japanese. I’ve seen a few non asian folks touring around but i haven’t seen one…wait, i did […]

Not all shrines and old things…

Before i get carried away with the age old photos of shrines, temples, giesha and seafood, let me briefly show you why i can’t wait to get to Tokyo.
I didn’t get to do any window shopping in Kyoto but today I was in full “bk must find some fresh shops” mode. happen to run into […]

Omi-Cho Market. Kanazawa

The retail experience

I just want to quickly say thank you to the brand managers at Starbucks and McDonalds. You are awesome. How you can make each and everyone of your billion Starbucks look, feel, smell and taste the exact same is nothing short of amazing and I love you for it. Yeah, i could go to the […]