San Diego was given a little sample this weekend. Also, found the biggest promoter of Where’s My Hippo (of all time) in Rancho Bernardo.

A 4-Step Guide to Receiving your Limited Hippo Box (Step 1 of 4)

A 4-Step Guide to Receiving your Limited Hippo Box (Step 2 of 4)

A 4-Step Guide to Receiving your Limited Hippo Box (Step 3 of 4)

A 4-Step Guide to Receiving your Limited Hippo Box (Step 4 of 4)

Will one land at your doorstep?

Next shirt arriving shortly.

Shirts are in production and are about 2 days away from arriving at my doorstep. The first set’s of shirts are NOT for sale. A few select people are receiving a Hippo Care Package for free which will contain a shirt a long with a surprise!

While a few of you have seen the first shirt, many will be able to gather their first looks next weekend.

Shirts #2 and #3 are still in design stage and will most likely be for sale by December 1st. The first tee will be available for sale 2 weeks after the first ‘free’ one’s leave.

Enough business, enjoy this video brought to you by Levi’s. (As a side note, my heart will always be with skateboarding, but having not seen a BMX video in about 12 years, this more or less blew my mind seeing how much progression the sport has made, hopefully you’ll agree).

Well, instead of posting a preview of the next shirt that is going to be released, I went into Los Angeles from about 11 am on Saturday till about 4 or 5 A.M on Sunday.  As always, it was filled with adventures, interesting people and luckily for you, many-o-pictures.

I’m sure everyone heard about this, the new Johnny Cupcakes line release and a bit of a early Halloween celebration to kick it off.  The new line is just another step up from the creativity already exhibited in his earlier lines.  Definitely worth checking, even if you don’t have any time.

This is one of the many people I met while standing in line for Johnny Cupcakes.  I think the picture is enough so I’ll stop with the words and let your head do the rest.

Stop Sign.

If you need a new hat, check out Hall of Fame on Fairfax, near Keep Shoes.

Crosswalk Officers Hippos

That’s it for now.  Enjoy the gravy and check back soon.  Late November is the tentative launch date for the very very very limited run of first shirts.  Only a handful will be available online, if you’re really itching to get one, please plead your case with an email.

Preview this weekend of a t-shirt.  Stay tuned.

After a nice break this weekend spent in Santa Barbara, I found myself, puttering along the 210 freeway heading out of Pasadena.  I’ve probably driven this stretch about 50,000 times in the year that I have called Southern California home.

About a week or two ago, while chopping onions and making Hippo traps, I heard the TV blair out, MOST EXTREME CHASES CAUGHT ON TAPE!

I’m not sure if other people get quite as engaged about these chases as I do, but it’s more or less been a dream of mine to see one.  In my mind, I am driving, the hippo is sitting shotgun, and with a quick maneuvering of the wheel, we are able to stop the chase and thus feel completely fulfilled with our civilan road block.

Well, as luck would have it, i saw a chase.  But it was on the wrong side of the freeway, and I had just passed an exit.  Plus, I still don’t know Where My Hippo is?

Every day, a person finds a business card or follows a link here, to this site, and more or less finds nothing besides poorly written hippo ramblings usually leaving whoever is reading it, confused, annoyed and/or perplexed.

But while you were watching the stock market fall, or our nations presidential hopefuls bicker and argue, hippo heads were being sent to far away places.   Spain, Hawaii, Australia, Antartica, and Lima, Peru probably top the list.  And just as a side note, postage rates are ridiculous.

Back here on the West Coast, a few artist have begun incorporating hippopatumus heads into there works.  Rather than check our Flickr page on your own, here is some of the work by 455ER (or if you prefer Video) :

Dumpster are normally pretty ugly. Most people try not to touch them

This is in Venice Beach I believe.

Where’s My Hippo. This is a project to beautify crosswalk signs. For as long as I can personally remember, the man in the black, with the perfectly round, circle head has sat complacently on his yellow diamond shaped sign, overlooking the streets and crosswalks of cities, communities, and dungeons across the world. It has come time to overthrow this man, whom we can all agree has overstayed his visit and can now offer nothing to the general public anyone.

In order to avoid the confusion of a public election, a replacement has already been found.

Hippo’s are aggressive, yet caring. Soft, yet hard skinned. They are able to appear cuddly, while still pocessing a mouth full of giant chompers that could crush a hummer like a soda can.

Hippo’s in short, are the best.

Unfortunately, Hippo’s are quite large, so in order to avoid the fat jokes that are bound to surface, the Hippo head will be the main point of concentration in this little project.

If you would like to become a part of the project, find someone with stickers, find a crosswalk sign, get the head up and snap a picture. When we receive your picture, well send you boatloads of more stickers.