Champion Cook?

Hi all! As with every post on here, I will start by saying that work has been busy but enjoyable! My highlight has probably been seeing the success of the latest Norse Projects caps. Mikkel found some interesting fabrics on one of his trips to Japan, took it to the factory in America and made a few very special 5 panel caps. This is what they look like:

Crazy, right? Well, the top ones sold out in a few days - pretty impressive. Then we released the second batch on Wednesday and they sold out in under 6 hours. Insane! So... we're going to make more interesting exclusives like this because we know that they are incredibly popular! I will of course share them on here once they are released!

Last night we went down to Streetmachine for a few beers after work. I bumped into American rapper 'The Game' outside the store. Apparently he played a show in Copenhagen last night and fancied a bit of Pre-Christmas shopping before his flight in the evening. Obviously, a photo would have been dope, but he refused. Never mind.

Here's a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago about a very special brand called Mister Freedom. They make clothing with amazing attention to detail, some of the most well-made stuff I've seen this year.

Mister Freedom Blog Post

Today I went down to the skatepark for the annual Streetmachine x HUF skate comp. Me and Nick picked up 500 bottles off the lovely people at 'Vitamin Well' yesterday and delivered it to the park:

Photos from today:

Onto more important stuff... a collection of photos from the past few weeks. 

Tonight's dinner:

Followed by:

Last week I made Angel Delight for my housemates. They liked it! I haven't seen it in Denmark and they have never had it before. Thanks go to Ellie for sending it to me!

My second favourite dog in Denmark (my favourite is Gustav, the office dog!):

 Nice job:

Polaroid:

All taken on my £25 a month alarm clock (also called a BlackBerry).

Anyway, I'm going to go and wrap some presents. (Please note, at this point I would make a really funny joke about 'wrapping' and 'rapping', maybe with a comical reference to 'The Game', but I wouldn't want to disappoint my Father's gifted sense of humour). Hyggelig.

What did you say?

This week was an interesting one. We released the first drop of new caps, which are absolutely flying. I wrote a very short blog post about them here. Next week we're releasing the next batch... they're pretty loud!

Last night was the worldwide premiere of the new Nike SB Chronicles film. Streetmachine were one of two Danish stores taking part in the event - we all crammed into a room with a projector and some free beer, and waited until the release at 1am. The movie was INSANE! Here's the trailer:

The last part (Grant Taylor) was unreal. Definitely worth a watch if skateboarding is your thing. (Note: Skateboarding isn't really my thing, but the culture here revolves around skate lifestyle so I've pretty much been dragged straight into it!). 

Today was rather out of the ordinary. A few months ago someone phoned me asking whether I could do some voice recordings because I am English. Today, I went to a recording studio near Hellerup (north of Copenhagen) to find out what it was all about.

Turns out that the recording was for the English summer exams in Danish schools... nationwide! So, come May or June 2012, every student in the 9th Grade will hear my voice reading out various speaking / listening / comprehension exercises! I always used to hate it in German listening exams, not being able to understand what they were saying (because languages were never my strong point), so it was pretty funny to be on the "other side" today. I'm sure many Danish kids will walk out of their exam next year hating my voice because of it! Good stuff.

And finally... Christmas is coming. Norse Projects Holiday 2011 collection should be arriving any time this week, so things are going to get busy! Then again, they never really stopped getting busy. Fun fun fun!