OTDOD - 072002010 Style Edition

1)I have an anchor with a dolphin wrapped around it on my shoulder, renaissance era woodcut style. It was Aldus Manutius’ printer’s mark. Have a plan for another.

2)I hate the idea of brand loyalty. However, funny story: Diesel currently has this ‘Be Stupid’ ad campaign where they have pictures of blazing hot hipsters doing dumb shit and text urging consumers to be ‘stupid’. The subway stop at W 4th has a long underground passageway lined with these print ads all the way, and someone took the trouble of making stickers that look just like Diesel price tags, complete with absurd prices on them, which they pasted right below the ‘be stupid’ slogan. Awesome

3)passport

4)I try not to attach sentimental value to objects. Probably I have some of my daughter’s baby things which are worthless.

1. Nope. Like Faux, I just haven’t found the right thing yet, but when I do I’ve got no problem with getting a tattoo.
2. My style is to always wear clothes. Beyond that, nothin’.
3. Eyes, ears, fingers, toes. And a wallet.
4. Nope. I’m not a keeper of things, really.

1. I love tattoos, but don’t have any myself. I still haven’t found the thing I want to have on my body for the rest of eternity. My wife has seven, and I love the way they look on her.
2. I dress however I feel. Most of the time you’ll find me in jeans and t-shirts. However since I lost 35 pounds, I’ve found that dressing up is more fun when I don’t feel fat and disgusting.
3. Unless I’m wearing pajamas, I can always find my keys, wallet, and cell phone on my person.
4. Nope. I’m not much of a sentimental person.

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1) No tats for me
2) I don’t have a classified style. I just wear whatever I think looks good. I would classify it as normal, but what do I know?
3) Phone, keys, wallet. And to a lesser extent a computer. I take it everywhere.
4) My 3 Mariners hats.

1. I have none. I always say I am going to get an R Rainier style on my back, but I have never done it. I am not sure if it is because my last name begins with R, or because Rainer is my choice when I have a feeling that I must get drunk for $5.00.
2. Whenever possible, I wear adidas warm up pants. So I look like a South Beach Jew/ late 80s drug dealer/ junior high gym teacher on my spare time. However, my self imposed work uniform is polo shirt and kakhis. So I got that going for me.
3. Phone, Keys, Wallet, Gum.
4. I have my grandfather’s watch. It is a cheap piece of shit, but it belonged to my grandfather, so I keep it.

1) I am not a very big tattoo fan and thus don’t have any but I’ve toyed with the idea of getting ECS’s motto “No Equal” tattooed into my upper left shoulder.
2) I don’t really have a style but I like wearing stuff from American Eagle
3) Cellphone, Wallet, Keys, Sunglasses
4) I keep the ticket stubs for the first Mariners, Seahawks, Huskies and Sounders games that I ever saw.

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1) Getting mine this summer after I get back from Hawaii. Wife and I are getting semi matching tattoos but I’m getting the Hawaiian word for “Unity” tattooed on the inside of my wrist.

2) Generally Quicksilver, Volcom, Billabong type stuff.

3) Phone, Wallet, Camera

4) I have a ton of little things.

1. I have two tattoos. The first one I got last summer, 5 of us got “Be True” tattooed on us on a drunken day at Venice Beach. It’s more of a jokey thing from college than actual life lesson to “Be True” The other tattoo says WAZZU with the Cougar logo in place of the A. I love tattoos and if given the money and opportunity would probably have a lot more. Be True is on my shoulder blade, Wazzu runs down the side of my calf.
2. Don’t try to go for any style, but since moving to LA I do try to dress nice – button up shirts, polo’s, nice jeans.
3. Nothing on my person outside of the usual stuff.
4. Can’t think of anything that jumps out right away. Probably some of my DVD’s that make no sense at all other than I loved that movie when I was a kid and it really wasn’t very good. (Popcorn, Dolls, Slumber Party Massacre.. really, really, bad horror.)

1.No tattoos yet. I’m not adverse to getting one, I just have no idea what it would be and where.
2.75% of the time, I look like a cleaned up typical metal head.
3.Typical stuff. Wallet, keys, phone, ipod touch.
4. A rubberband ball, about the size of a softball. My grandpa started making it about 10 years ago, and when he died in 2003, I got it. I still add to it every once in a while.

1) No. To me, they’re like permanent bumper stickers for your body. People can see them and read them and judge you, but you aren’t going to get any sort of positive message across with them. They can have special meaning for some people, and that’s cool, but I don’t feel the need to permanently brand myself with anything, even if I like it a lot.

2) I just go for looking good and decently fashionable but not quite to the point where someone may mistake me for a gay. My Skull Jeans (5507xx 6×6) are a mainstay, and I love Adidas sneakers. I like 3/4 length sleeve and short sleeve hoodies. For formal situations, my H&M jacket is a mainstay, and I love Express for shirts and pants.

3) Aside from the usual wallet/keys/phone, a coin purse and a 4GB usb drive that I keep tucked in my fifth pocket.

4) Not all that much, and nothing I want to talk about here haha.

1) Do you have any tattoos? If so where and what? If not, any reasons (or lack thereof)?
    I have 6 and am always looking for my next one.

2) What’s your style? Do you associate yourself by a brand, type of clothing, or class of people when you dress?
    I try refuse to wear anything with a brand or designer’s name blazened across it. I keep it simple, I pretty much wear a white button down shirt and jeans for everything. You can pretty much never go wrong with this combo. Need to dress it up just a bit? Add a sport coat! Need to dress it down? Untuck it! Too hot? Trade jeans for khaki shorts and sandals!

3) What things can you find on your person at all times, regardless of situation?
    I have extremely light sensitive eyes so I live in fear of not having a pair of sunglasses with me.

4) Do you have something that you own for sentimental reasons that nobody would think has value?
    I have a 12-string guitar that my dad gave me that he bought it before I was born. While it has normal guitar value to other folks, it has way more awesome-times-with-my-dad value to me. If my apartment was burning down, it’s the one thing I would risk saving. Well, that and a pair of sunglasses

1. Just one, the Croatian coat of arms on my right upper arm. My dad moved to USA when he was 6… we got matching tattoos 2 years ago.

2. Don’t think I really have a style. Jeans, t-shirt. Sometimes a polo. Sometimes shorts. Sometimes a hoodie. Whatever’s comfortable and fits the weather.

3. Can’t live without my wallet, phone, camera, iPod, and change in my pocket. My pants get really heavy.

4. Not particularly… no kids or deaths in the immediate family, so nothing really sentimental.

1) No tattoos. Never had any interest, and now they would just start to sag. The only one in the family belongs to my 18 year old niece; on her wrist, replicating in script the quote she used to write there in pen when her Grandmother was going through chemo
2) The only attention I pay to brands is if I find a pair of jeans that actually fit.
3) Wallet, walkman and phone? mostly?
4) My entire over-full apartment?

1) Nope. Nothing ever seemed appropriate, which bypass the whole trouble of my mom saying she never wanted me to get one.
2) Band t-shirts or odd humorous arty shirt, Lee jeans, usually a denim jacket.
3) Usually a jacket, but not so much in the summer. I almost always have my keys with me and when I don’t it’s bad because the door autolocks behind me. Usually my wallet because money and IDs. I also keep a pen in the left front pocket of my pants.
4) I have a broken Japanese style tea cup that I got when my usual sushi bar was celebrating its 20th anniversary. I was really sick one day and knocked it off the table with the a/c cable for my laptop. It can’t be patched back together again, but I still haven’t thrown it out.

1. I have three. First one I got at the age of 17, on New Years Eve, at the only place open. I picked the design off the wall. It’s ugly and I hate it, but it could have been worse. It’s a little tribal squiggly thing on my hip. Second one I got at the age of 20, when I was going through a genealogy phase. It’s a small Celtic knot on my back. Then I waited 18 years before I got another one. My dad got a tattoo when he was 18 and freshly enlisted in the Army. A guy was practicing being a tattoo artist, and my dad’s was the first one he did. It said “Joe” (dad’s nickname). Kind of scribbly and crappy, but I loved that tattoo growing up. On the one year anniversary of my dad’s death recently I had his tattoo replicated on my arm.

2. It changes. I used to be way more concerned with style and clothing than I am now – I think working at home with kids for 7 years will do that to you. When I give a crap though, I’ve always been partial to 40’s dresses, t strap heels and minimal jewelry. (I don’t, as a rule, really wear jewelry)

3. I always have my phone and debit card. Always.

4. Quite a few things. A drawer full, I’d say. Things ranging from ticket stubs to a rock from the cliff where dad crashed.

Such cheerful answers!

1) No, because I don’t really like the look of most tattoos and if you come near my with a needle I go on a rampage and destroy things. Kids, don’t have millions of surgeries before you’re a year old, and you won’t become psychotic around needles either!
2) I wear a lot of Ben Sherman. I just like the English preppy look I suppose.
3) Nothing unusual. Wallet and phone most of the time.
4) I have a small fragment of icthyosaur rib/stomach that I found on my first expedition with the Natural History museum when I was a kid. It’s a great fossil but I can’t imagine it’d be worth much to anyone by me. All of my really good stuff was left in England because rocks are expensive to move.

Which discount stores do you prefer? I almost always buy my clothes at Ross or Marshall’s. Nordstrom Rack is great. If I had money, I would definitely shop at Nordstrom’s a lot more, its my favorite department store, but in the meantime, the Rack works out well.

1) Do you have any tattoos? If so where and what? If not, any reasons (or lack thereof)?
No tattoos here, and no desire to get one. I can’t think of any message or design that I would want to have on my body for the rest of my life; most tattoos I see seem awfully banal. I don’t want to assume that the tattoos are as meaningless to the person who got them as I would assume, but my thinking is that something that looks cool for a few years might be completely asinine in the context of the rest of your life. I can’t imagine being 60 years old in the 2030s and looking at a badly faded, sagging tribal arm band tattoo that looked totally bitchin’ back in 1998.

2) What’s your style? Do you associate yourself by a brand, type of clothing, or class of people when you dress?
If my style was a vehicle it would be a minivan – much more about function than form. I look for clothes that are functional and comfortable and that don’t require a whole lot of thought or expense. I would certainly like to be more stylish than I am, but it seems like an awful lot of work and expense to try to maintain that style, and it all could be out the window in a year or so when the styles change.

If I had the money and the time I’d probably wear more outdoor-type clothing – it’s the combination of style, comfort, and function that’s closest to my heart, but performance clothing is expensive enough that it’s hard to justify using them for just casual wear.

3) What things can you find on your person at all times, regardless of situation?
Keys, wallet, cell phone. That’s my holy trinity.

4) Do you have something that you own for sentimental reasons that nobody would think has value?
I have four bookshelves worth of old car magazines; included in that is AutoWeek running consistently from 1986-1998 (52 issue/year) and Car and Driver running consistently from 1968-2010. The collection is not completely without worth, but it’s awfully close to it. But it’s sentimental since it’s from both my childhood and something about which both my dad and I could bond.

1. No tattoos. Not opposed to them, just haven’t thought of something worth doing

2. I wear jeans and T-shirts and my M’s hat in my off time, and jeans and a short sleeve button up shirt when working. Pretty simple.

3. Aside from the oft-mentioned Keys/Wallet/Cell phone, I also always have a pen and pocket knife, and something else I probably won’t mention because it would likely cause an STC prompt or two

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